Universe photo: Dance galaxy

Invite you to admire the most beautiful cosmic images last week posted in National Geographic magazine.

North aurora in the town of Yellowknife (Canada) was taken with 360 degree photo art plus in February 2011 and published in National Geographic magazine in the past week.

Low-altitude clouds on the Tien Son mountain peak - located between China, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan borders - covered with snow. This beautiful image was taken from the International Space Station (ISS) on March 16th


The Gemini telescope located in Hawaii (USA) recorded the images of two galaxies NGC 6872 and IC 4970 moving close together that looked like a couple dancing tango.


Through the image data of the Kepler telescope of the US Space Agency (NASA), scientists discovered 1,235 planets orbiting the sun on their own. Representing these planets are dark spots.


A cloud of hydrogen gas surrounding the galaxy NGC 371. This galaxy is located in a dwarf galaxy called Small Magellanic Cloud - a galaxy of our galaxy.


This image is a combination of 200 different satellite images of Tassili n'Ajjer National Reserve in southeastern Algeria. The yellow parts are sandy desert, the red is granite, the blue is the salt mine and the brown is the sandstone.


The bright orange parts are molten lava flows from Kilauea volcano on the island of Hawaii.This image was recorded by NASA's No. 1 Earth Observation Satellite on January 16.