The best photo Nov on the space theme

We present to your attention a selection of pictures on the space theme, done in the last month.

(Just 20 photos)

1. The laser beam emitted by the large telescope of the European southern Observatory. Beam affects the sodium atoms in the upper layers of earth's atmosphere and it creates a bright dot, which from Earth looks like a star. This artificial star serves as a reference for the optical system of the telescope. (ESO)

2. Atmosphere refracted the light of the Sun and the Moon. The photo was taken from the ISS on July 31 and published on November 26. (NASA)

3. Start of the carrier rocket Atlas 5 with the Mars Rover "Curiosity" on Board, FL, November 26, 2011. The aim of the new mission on Mars is to determine the presence of microorganisms. (Terry Renna / AP)

4. Cars approaching the place of landing of the Russian spaceship "Soyuz" in Northern Kazakhstan, November 22. In a capsule to Earth with the ISS arrived NASA astronaut Michael Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa. (Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters)

5. Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, after the landing of the Russian spaceship "Soyuz" in Northern Kazakhstan, November 22. (Sergei Remizov / AP)

6. Zvezdoobrazovaniya cloud NGC 281 in the constellation of Cassiopeia resembles a toothy jaw. Astronomers called it "Tumannost PAC-man" in honor of the hero of computer games 1980s Pac-Man. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA)

7. Partial solar Eclipse visible from New Zealand, November 25, 2011. The last Eclipse of 2011 was observed only in the southern latitudes: in New Zealand, Tasmania, South Africa and Antarctica. (Jay Pasachoff / Williams College)

8. In the picture with a slow shutter speed is visible flying in the sky of the Russian interplanetary probe "Phobos-grunt", November 28, Hungary. The probe was launched on 9 November and was supposed to go to Phobos, satellite of Mars, but due to technical problems, stuck in Earth orbit. (Peter Komka / EPA)

9. In this photo, published by the Institute of biomedical problems of RAS, six of the volunteers waving at the camera after completion of the simulation 520-day flight to Mars and back. The crew of three Russians, a Frenchman, an Italian and a Chinese successfully completed the experiment that recreated the conditions of long-term isolation in a spaceship. Pale but smiling, on Friday 4 November, researchers for the first time in 520 days left module simulation. (Oleg Voloshin / AP)

10. Four moons of Saturn near the planet, a picture of the Orbiter "Cassini", on October 24. Bright dione is in the foreground, and Titanium on the back. Point to the right of the rings is Pandora, and pan – a small spark on the background of the rings, to the left of Titan and dione. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI)

11. Hillary Livingston adds the finishing touches to a model of a lunar base at the exhibition "Beyond Earth" at the American Museum of natural history in new York, November 10. The exhibition shows the perspectives Comiskey industry in the next 50-100 years and brings to life the dream of colonizing the moon and Mars. (Piotr Redlinski / New York Times via Redux)

12. The flooded Bangkok with satellite, 24 Oct. The locals hid the most valuable in cars, and left them on the viaducts , where lacks water. Bangkok airport remains under water, while Prime Minister warns that some parts of the city might remain flooded into next year. (DigitalGlobe)

13. The Tarantula nebula in the Large Magellanic cloud x-ray Observatory NASA. In the centre of the nebula is more than 2,400 stars that emit radiation and cosmic wind. Heated to a temperature of several million degree gas from supernova explosions in the photo marked in blue. This hot gas creates bubbles in the cooler gas and dust around (orange in the picture). (Chandra X-ray Observatory Center / X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L. Townsley e)

14. Russian Soyuz rocket on the launch pad of the Baikonur cosmodrome, November 14. The rocket, carrying three astronauts to the ISS took off , when there raged a Blizzard. (Mikhail Metzel / AFP - Getty Images)

15. The galaxy NGC 3621 at the European southern Observatory. Like other spiral galaxies, it consists of a Central disk and spiral arms. But, unlike other spiral galaxies, the NGC 3621 has no clearly defined centre.

16. The astronauts involved in the space Shuttle mission STS-1 and the last STS-135 at the Johnson space center, November 2, Houston. From left to right: pilot STS-135 Doug Hurley, pilot of STS-1 Robert Crippen, commander of STS-1 John young, of Comair STS-135 Chris Ferguson and specialists of STS-135 sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim. The astronauts who flew on the first and last Shuttle of NASA was found on 2 November in Houston for a series of photos for the story. (Smiley N. Pool / Houston Chronicle/NASA)

17. Combined with the Orbiter "Cassini" shows a storm in the Northern hemisphere of Saturn. The storm lasted 200 days, and thus became the longest of all observed on Saturn. (NASA/JPL/SSI)

18. The inscription "Welcome" near the airport in Oakland, New Zealand. It did for the Rugby world Cup 2011. 19th of September, the Ikonos satellite, flying at an altitude of 680 km at a speed of 27000 km/h took a picture of her. (GeoEye)

19. The last eruption of Kilauea began in 1983 and prodoljaetsa so far. Gray and brown lava flows radiate from the crater, and the shades gradually as it cools. This picture was taken from the NASA satellite EO-1 on October 29.

20. The smoke after launch, the Delta 2 from Vandenberg air force base in California, 28 Oct. The rocket put into the orbit of the NPP satellite, which will monitor long-term climatic changes and weather conditions. The program of NPP, a $1.5 is the first step in creating a new generation of systems for Earth observation from satellites. (Gene Blevins / Reuters)