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Russell Croman took this detailed photo of the waxing Moon. Credit: Russell Croman TUM image id: 1621874487 Licence:	The foothills of the Andes Mountains near the southern coast of Peru were captured by the Kompsat-2 satellite. The Andes stretch from Venezuela down South America’s west coast to the top of Argentina. The mountain rage is the result of the Nazca and Antarctic tectonic plates moving under the South American plate—a geological process called subduction. This process is also responsible for the Andes range’s volcanic activity. Credit: KARI TUM image id: 1621890979 Licence:	Star Dunes in Algeria. The image was acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite on October 27, 2012. It was made from a combination of near-infrared and visible light. In this type of false-color image, sand is tan and shadows are black or gray. The blue-tinted areas are likely mineral-rich evaporites. The image is centered at 29.8°north latitude, 7.9°east longitude, near the town of Gadamis. As is common with star dunes, some of the dunes have long interlacing arms connecting to nearby dunes. Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS/ASTER Science Team TUM image id: 1621679144 Licence:	Manor Park, SE13 TUM image id: 1567937144 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone created 40 million years ago when the Indian subcontinent began a slow-motion collision with Asia. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data TUM image id: 1621873745 Licence:
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched into orbit on 24 April 1990. Viewed from the HST, the Horsehead Nebula is located just next to Orion’s belt. This cloud of dust and gas is a region where stars are forming. When viewed in visible light the Horsehead appears dark, a cosmic chess piece silhouetted against pink and red glowing gas. In infrared light, as in this image, the dust becomes visible, delicate billows of clouds surrounding baby stars just getting their start in the Universe. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) TUM image id: 1621889002 Licence:	The aurora borealis, or northern lights, fill the sky behind a caribou in Norway on 19 February 2014 Credit: Ole Salomonsen / Arctic Light TUM image id: 1621872360 Licence:	Mars and Phobos Credit: NASA TUM image id: 1621875039 Licence:	Our Solar System to scale Credit: Robert Zicher TUM image id: 1621893457 Licence:	Milky Way - long exposure Credit: Dave Marrow TUM image id: 1621874239 Licence:
On 9 April 1959, NASA introduced its first astronaut class, the Mercury 7. Front row, left to right: Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and M. Scott Carpenter; back row, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. Credit: NASA TUM image id: 1621871305 Licence:	Stargazing mixed with long exposure photography while orbiting the Earth at about 30 000 km per hour. These star trails from space were captured by astronaut photographer Don Pettit. This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/ESA/JAXA TUM image id: 1621889532 Licence:	A sand dune field in the Rub’ al Kahli region in Saudi Arabia, as imaged from above from the International Space Station. Credit: Canadian Space Agency TUM image id: 1621889767 Licence:	Image from the UN Women in Space exhibition. Credit: United Nations TUM image id: 1621891170 Licence:	Stunning mix of a volcanic eruption and aurorae in Iceland. The red glow on the horizon originates from a volcanic eruption, not a sunset.The red line is the eruption’s reflection from fluttering atmospheric ice crystals. The featured scene looks north from Jökulsárlón toward the erupting volcano Bárðarbunga in the Holuhraun lava field. Credit: Stéphane Vetterless TUM image id: 1620490810 Licence: