Space photos of the week: Mars has spiders in the spring

Did you know that Mars has spiders? Well, somehow. This region is part of the southern polar ice cap of Martian and, in the spring, frozen carbon dioxide sublimates from a solid into a gas and gets trapped beneath the surface, thus creating black spider characteristics called "areaniform terrains". 19659002] Our moon is beautiful on this picture taken from the International Space Station. Seen from the Earth, a full moon looks beautiful and big in the night sky, but when you are closer, she is really tall. Oh, and this blue to the right of the photo? This is a photobomb of the Earth.

The European Southern Observatory captured this image of a star cluster at 5,500 light-years from Earth. Among the astral objects of the bunch, known as RCW 38, are many massive stars that must end their days in the great death of a supernova. Fortunately, we are somewhat removed from this collapse of another world.

But wait, do not write yet the death notice of RCW 38! The Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory zoomed in to take this superb picture of the Star Cluster. Much closer, the dust clouds are more detailed, and we can properly assess any activity in this region.

A photographer in Europe captured the moon that passes behind the Earth in this lunar eclipse time lapse of January 2018. The result is a kind of lunar yoga – our moon pioneering itself in this image groovy. The reddish hue is created when sunlight passes through the atmosphere of the Earth and is reflected, giving it the nickname "blood moon".

According to analyzes of clays that remain in this region, scientists who studied the Eridania basin on Mars theorize that it is an ancient bed lake that was once filled with water. This lake would have existed about 2 billion years ago, eventually draining to the north.

If you need a cosmic perspective on our little world, Hubble images are the way to go. Here is a cluster of galaxies, one of the greatest features that humanity has ever discovered in the universe. Some of these groups are 1 million billion times the mass of our Sun! In this image, stars from our own Milky Way shine in the foreground while entire spiral galaxies are painted throughout the photo.