Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli peeks through a window of the Cupola observation deck on the International Space Station, as seen in a picture captured by a remotely operated camera on the station's exterior.The Cupola is the station's prime location for observing Earth below.
Satellite images from DigitalGlobe show Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant on Nov. 21, 2004 (at left), and on March 14, 2011 (at right), after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the plant. In the more recent picture, the plant's No. 3 nuclear reactor is burning after an explosion.
A massive solar prominence looks like a delicate cloud as it pulls away from the sun's surface, on the left side of this image from astrophotographer Alan Friedman. But the "cloud" is actually a blast of hot plasma that is larger than the entire planet Earth. This picture was taken in a special wavelength known as hydrogen-alpha, which accounts for the unusual color scheme.
The full moon rises red near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on March 19. This full moon was known as the "Super-moon," since it occurred while the moon was at its closest proximity to Earth. The last time that the moon was so big and close during its full phase was in 1993.
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