Photos related with the space taken by the astronauts.  You can find out some of the most interesting pictures of the space and photos taken from the space.  The best one is the shadow of Al Bruj Khalifa tower Dubai.  Check out these photos of galaxies, planets and the discovery shuttle and many more.

1. Discovery Shuttle At Sunset

Space Shuttle Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle comes in to land on Feb. 9, 2010 This picture was taken on board the International Space Station. The orange stripe on the black disk of the Earth – is the bottom layer of our atmosphere, the troposphere

2. Spiral Galaxy

This image of the galaxy away from Earth at a distance 68 million light-years, was made on October 19 with Hubble Space Telescope ” . Pink color in this photograph marked the places where stars are emerging.

3. Sun

This picture was taken by astro photographer Alan Friedman in the yard of his home town of Buffalo, New York. It took use a special hydrogen-alpha filter and a 3.5-inch telescope.

4. Sunspot

One of the clearest ever images of sunspots was made on August 24 in California observatory.

5. Martian “Forest”

6. Earth View From Space

7. The Longest Shadow Of the Tallest Tower

Earth’s tallest skyscraper Burj Khalifa (height 828 m) and its gigantic shadow clearly visible even from space.

8. Spacewalk

February 17 astronaut Nicholas Patrick is working with “Dome” – a module of the American segment of the International Space Station.

9. Saturn

Total of 62 satellites of Saturn. Here we see how Dion’s April 10 against the backdrop of the Titan (the largest satellite of Saturn). While certain that apart from the Earth, liquid water exists in the solar system only on Titan.

10. Space Shuttle On The Background Of The Earth

In this photo you can just consider the bottom of the shuttle, the ISS flies, as well as the robot arm, which has not yet laid in the cargo compartment.

11. Telescope Hubble

This picture taken by orbiting Hubble telescope, was published April 22 in honor of 20 anniversary of the telescope.

12. Penultimate Flight Of Space Shuttle Atlantis

This photo was taken on May 17 at the time of docking the shuttle with the ISS. Penultimate (32 th in a row) flight of Atlantis took place from 14 th to 26 th May.

13. Comet McNaught

This comet photographed Michael Jager of Stiksendorfa, Austria, June 6 in the morning. It is the brightest comet in 40 years, in January and February 2007 in the southern hemisphere, it could be considered just the naked eye, and the inhabitants of the northern hemisphere

14. Manam Volcano Islands

This island is a huge volcano with a diameter of 10 km almost proper conical shape. Its steep slopes are composed of many layers of hardened lava left from previous eruptions.

15. The Total Solar Eclipse

This is a total eclipse can be observed July 11, 2010 Mr. Easter Island, southern Chile and Argentina, and in French Polynesia.

16. Beautiful Coma Berenices

Orbital telescope Hubble photographed on August 10 cluster of galaxies, which bears a beautiful name Coma Berenices. This cluster is separated from the Earth at a distance of 320 light years.

17. Space Nebula

A snapshot from Hubble Space Telescope “nebula IRAS 05437 2502. This unusual nebula in the constellation Taurus. Its main feature is the bright arc, outlining the upper edge of interstellar dust.

18. Shadows From Saturn’s Rings

Clearly visible shadows cast by Saturn’s rings dense clouds of ammonia to the atmosphere. The diameter of Saturn’s rings almost 250 000 km, while the thickness of the rings is less than one kilometer.

19. Spiral Galaxies

These two galaxies, NGC 5426 and NGC 5427 have nearly the same size and are located in the constellation Virgo. Galaxies are very close to each other, but still not close enough to their stars began to collide with each other.

20. Space Spiral

September 7 orbital telescope Hubble in the infrared has photographed an amazing spiral nebula, almost regular shape.

21. Flight Of The Ship – Space Ship Two

Private manned suborbital space shuttle «SpaceShipTwo» together with its carrier «White Knight Two» preparing to land on the runway of the American spaceport near Las Cruces on October 22.

22. Flying Space Station

The International Space Station flying against the moon. The picture was taken in the Hungarian city Guergufalu 75 km from Budapest on October 21.

23. City Lights

This orbital picture was taken from the observation of the ISS module called “dome” on October 28. The island of Sicily and the peninsula are shining lights of the city nightlife.

24. Space Medusa

Beautiful object in the center of the image, like a colorful jellyfish – these are two are very close to each other dying stars, depleting their supplies of hydrogen. Stars themselves are indicated in white, their discarded shells – in green and the dust rings are colored orange.

25. Gas Bubble In The Depths Of Space

Amazingly beautiful gas sphere photographed orbital telescope Hubble. This giant gas bubble is formed as a result of a supernova.

Ben Canales a male photographer from Jersey.  Currently staying at Portland, OR.  He is curious to take the photographs of stars. Check out his complete collection at his flickr profile by following this link http://www.flickr.com/people/bencanales/.  You can also visit his website Star Trail.

Author : Ben Canales

How do you feel when you think that you can play with the moon.  In these photos amateur photographer Laurent Lavedera who is a astronomer, has shown how people can play with the moon.  Combining a love for astronomy and photography, a graduate of the Faculty of Physics, Laurent created this collection of photographs titled “Moon game.”

Author : Laurent Lavedera

Douglas H Wheelock a Astronaut of NASA has taken these fabulous photographs of our beautiful planet from the space.  He has taken this photographs using his 400-gauged lens.  He has covered the sunset and sunrise and taken many photos of the pacific ocean, Atlantic ocean and the eastern Mediterranean. Check out his collection after the jump …

Space shuttle «Discovery».  The last flight of Douglas Wheelock.

Earthly radiance. Space station in Blue Earth radiance, which occurs when the rising sun penetrates the thin atmosphere of our planet

NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock

Juan de Nova Island in the Mozambique Channel between Madagascar and Africa

Northern lights in the distance in one of the finest nights over Europe

The moon

8 kilometers per second we rotate the Earth’s orbit, making one revolution every 90 minutes, and watching sunsets and sunrises every 45 minutes

Another spectacular sunset

Beautiful atoll in the Pacific Ocean, photographed using 400-gauged lens

Perfect reflection of sunlight in the eastern Mediterranean

Above the center of the Atlantic Ocean, before another stunning sunset

Morning over the Andes in South America

Over the Sahara desert, approaching the ancient lands and thousand-year history

Night view of the River Nile, stretching the snake through Egypt to the Mediterranean, and Cairo, located in the Delta

The flash of color, movement and life on the canvas of our amazing world

All the beauty of Italy, a clear summer night. You can see many beautiful islands that adorn the coast

At the southern end of South America lies the pearl of Patagonia. The amazing beauty of rugged mountains, massive glaciers

“Dome” on the side of nadir station gives a panoramic view of our beautiful planet.

Greek islands a clear night during our flight over Europe.

Florida and southeastern U.S. in the evening. A clear autumn evening, the moonlight over the water and sky, dotted with millions of stars.

Clear starry night over the eastern Mediterranean.

In this time of year you can enjoy the beauty of the polar mesospheric clouds.

The astronaut with his team members.

Here are the High Resolution Photographs of the space taken by the U.S Geological survey.  This images are recently released from them.  To find out all the details of each image please visit the gallery at www.wired.com.

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The winners of the Best Amateur Satellite Photographs was named by Greenwich Observatory. The title of the best astrophotography got Tom Lowe and the USA. Have been following the nomination – Earth and Space, Our Solar System, Deep Space, Junior Astro, People and space, Rookie of the Year.  Under the cut winners. The photo works by Tom Lowe called ‘ Burning pine’.

Earth and Space – 1st Award

Whispering wind

In the environment of space

The main miracle

Full moon over Sounion

Siberian total eclipse

Jupiter

Green Alien

Crescent Venus

Sinus Iridum

Orion

Veil Nebula in the constellation Cygnus

The Sword and the Rose

Trifid Nebula

Andromeda Galaxy ( M31)

A perfect circle

Solar halo

Terminator

Here are the few photos taken by NASA, which includes Space photographs also.  Space photography has come a long way since the Mercury missions of the early 1960s. The only photo equipment in Colonel John Glenn’s cramped Friendship 7 capsule was a point-and-shoot camera loaded with Kodak 35mm film.

The best and beautiful images of the space for the month of April 2010 from NASA. This month was rich in various events on a cosmic scale. First, perhaps it is worth mentioning that the solar laboratory SDO came into operation and NASA announced its first very, very beautiful pictures.

Here are the collection of best photos of the space for the month of March 2010 taken from the NASA.  These images are very beautiful to look at. All the images are of space and few collection is of the earth from the sky.  Check out this collection after the jump …