The best photos taken from space

Time magazine has just published the best photos taken from the space in 2013, in which there is a brilliant north aurora in Alaska, the image of Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft, Orion nebula .

A shot of a mountain peak is located in the central Hebes Chasma on Mars

The whirlpool of a hurricane on Saturn is captured by the Cassini spacecraft

North Aurora is brilliant in North Slope, Alaska on August 28, 2013

Witch Head Nebula was taken by NASA's WISE probe

A satellite galaxy in the Milky Way lies nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth

Dasht-e Lut salt desert in southeastern Iran, which is dubbed "the hottest place in the Earth" with temperatures up to 70.7 degrees Celsius

Star streaks from the Perseid meteor shower were seen near Aberdeen, Scotland on August 12, 2013

Huge cloud of smoke and dust on Eta Carinae "super star" captured by NASA's Hubble telescope

Pavlof volcano looked from the International Space Station (ISS) on May 18, 2013 - when it sprayed a column of ash higher than 6,000m.

Orion nebula central region

The Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft was launched from Baikonur Satellite Center in Kazakhstan on September 26, 2013, bringing astronauts Mike Hopkins (USA), Sergey Ryazanskiy and Oleg Kotov (Russia) to the International Space Station ( ISS)