The impressive astronomical images 2013

Huge space telescope, meteorite with tail, rare solar eclipse sweeping across three continents are impressive astronomical images recorded in 2013.

The giant space telescope Magellan is being built in Chile's Atacama Desert.It is expected that when completed in 2020, this type of glass will display 10 times the resolution of NASA's Hubble space telescope.

Rare astronomical phenomenon on November 3 appeared in North America, Africa and Europe, allowing people to observe a partial and total eclipse.

American scientists first discovered a tail meteorite, formed into matter and dust, within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Using two sets of data from the VISTA telescope of the European Space Observatory, scientists can construct accurate 3D maps of the Milky Way bulge.

For the first time astronomers discovered a planet with a pink color.The planet GJ 504 b is the newly discovered planet, located about 57 light-years from Earth.

Photograph of the Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russia's Olympic torch when returning to Earth.Earlier, two Russian astronauts paraded the Olympic torch in the universe, opening many events to celebrate the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

The first complete map of Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, was announced by NASA in March.

Images of Earth and Moon were taken from NASA's Cassini spacecraft from Saturn.

The map shows the oldest light in the universe with high accuracy recorded by the Planck telescope .

Aurora phenomenon in Sweden in April.