This still from an April 12-13 video recorded by NASA's new Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows an eruptive prominence blasting away from the sun. The prominence appears to stretch almost halfway across the sun, about 500,000 miles
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope image captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being assaulted from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming from towering peaks. This turbulent cosmic pinnacle lies within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. The image celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into an orbit around Earth. Hubble was launched April 24, 1990
The vast Cat's Paw Nebula in Scorpius. At 5,500 light years distant, Cat's Paw is an emission nebula with a red colour that originates from an abundance of ionised hydrogen atoms. Alternatively known as the Bear Claw Nebula or NGC 6334, stars nearly ten times the mass of our Sun have been born there in only the past few million years
Lightning streaks across the sky as lava flows from a volcano in Eyjafjallajokul, Iceland
Lighting is seen amid the lava and ash erupting from the vent of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in central Iceland
The Northern Lights are seen above the ash plume of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano
A two-headed bobtail lizard, a type of skink, is seen at its new home at a reptile park in Henley Brook, Perth, Australia. The two-headed reptile was rescued from Coogee by the park and appears to be doing well. It also has a healthy sibling without any mutation. Bobtails give birth to live offspring, rather than laying eggs...
...An X-ray of the two-headed bobtail. It eats from both heads but the larger head has tried to attack the smaller one, and its movement is difficult as both heads control its back legs
A series of images showing the procedures undertaken on a young male at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, Spain giving him the world's first full-face transplant. The man was given a new nose, skin, jaws, cheekbones, teeth and other features
An aerial photo shows oil in the Gulf of Mexico, as the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns. The oil platform that burned for more than day after a massive explosion sank into the Gulf of Mexico, turning a deadly blast into a likely environmental emergency
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