Photo of the universe beautifully pressed last week

The International Space Station flew above the aurora, three bodies in the solar system lined up as beautiful astronomical scenes for the week.

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The International Space Station's robot arm appears above an area covered by aurora on July 15. (Photo: NASA)

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The moon almost obscures Jupiter when these two bodies together with Venus form a straight line on July 15. The small round dot on the far side is Venus. (Photo: TWAN)

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The aurora is above Concordia station of Italy and France in Antarctica on the evening of July 18. (Photo: ESA)

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Carbon dioxide ice forms a brown layer on the surface of an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars. (Photo: NASA)

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The position of Mars between October 2011 and July 2012 in a collage of 40 photos that a photographer took in Turkey. (Photo: TWAN)

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A data collage of the US Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft shows a prepared solar wind flaring from the upper reaches of the only star in Solar System. (Photo: NASA)