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2010's Most Insane Space Pictures (Yep, That's a Moonbow)

Dec 5, 2010 06:30 PM

Some of these look like illustrations done by adolescent sci-fi/anime nerds. Totally unreal. A selection from National Geographic's best space pictures of 2010:

Silhouette of an aircraft flying in front of a solar eclipse.

An airplane is silhouetted against the first solar eclipse of the decade, seen over Bangkok, Thailand, in January.

Colorful cosmic nebula with vibrant clouds and stars.

A colorful, craggy column of dust and gas dubbed the Mystic Mountain taken from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Vibrant rainbow arching over a foggy landscape under a starry blue sky.

Mars shines like a bright red star over a "moonbow" in fog surrounding Hawaii's Haleakala volcano in January.

Satellite view of a colorful landscape with turquoise water and land formations.

Patches of southern Australia's shallow Lake Eyre seem to form a grimacing face in an August 2006 satellite picture.

Asteroid surface detail in black and white.

Asteroid 21 Lutetia is exposed, craters and all, in a picture captured in July by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft.

An aurora hovering over the southern Indian Ocean.

Previously, 2009's Most Amazing Hubble Space Telescope Images.

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