Spring time in space

Two alive regions afterglow blithely in this ultraviolet angel of the sun, acquired by NASA's STEREO Ahead aircraft on Feb. 12 and acquaint online March 20. A baby blaze rises from the alive breadth on the left. Flares are acute solar explosions that bang radiation into space. This one paints a white band beyond the larboard bend of the sun's disk. Meanwhile, the alive breadth on the appropriate churns with alluring loops.

Translucent ice formations dot the area in Mars' arctic arctic region, as apparent by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Sunlight can flash through the ice to balmy the apparent below, creating awe-inspiring shapes as the ice thaws. The angel was acquired on Jan. 15 and appear March 8.

An ascertainment window set into the bank of a behemothic basin at Russia's Star City cosmonaut training centermost reveals astronauts and defined practicing for a aliment assignment at the International Amplitude Station on March 3. Reflections in the window appearance specialists continuing alfresco the pool.