Best Space Pictures: Saturn's Lights, a Rocket's Arc, and Canary Nights
The graceful arc of a rocket trail etches the sky, auroras dance around Saturn's north pole, and the Milky Way graces the night sky.
A Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on May 29.
The ship carried a new crew bound for the International Space Station, including NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, and German astronaut Alexander Gerst.
Stars in the constellation Pavo (Latin for "peacock") flock together in a "globular cluster" in an image released May 25.
Located 13,000 light-years from Earth, the cluster harbors more than 100,000 stars and is about a hundred light-years across.
NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite captured an image of the city of Vidovice in Bosnia and Herzegovina covered by floodwaters on May 23.
The region, including the Sava River (light green ribbon at center), was overwhelmed by three month's worth of rain in just three days.
