From futuristic spaceships to bubbles in space, it's been a remarkable week for space photography. <br><br>Take a look at the most stunning space photos of the week here.
The moon glows a brilliant red in this skywatching photo taken by astrophotographer, Amir H. Abolfath of The World at Night (TWAN), during the Dec. 10 total lunar eclipse in the Zagros Mountains . The event marked the last of five eclipses to occur in 2011. [<a href="http://www.space.com/14105-red-moon-lunar-eclipse-amir-abolfath-photo.html">Full Story</a>]<br><br>NEXT: Photographer Catches Dazzling View of Nighttime Rocket Launch
Illustrations from space artist Adrian Mann show the possible future of starship technology. [<a href="http://www.space.com/14291-photos-future-interstellar-starship-visions-spaceflight.html">Full Story</a>]<br><br>NEXT: Oozing Super-Earth: Images of Alien Planet 55 Cancri e
- A launch photographer in Florida captured a photo Thursday (Jan. 19) of the gorgeous arc of a rocket liftoff reaching over a model of the space shuttle in the foreground. [<a href="http://www.space.com/14307-rocket-launch-photo-delta4-shuttle-model.html">Full Story</a>]<br><br>NEXT: Gallery: Visions of Interstellar Starship Travel
The alien planet 55 Cancri e is a rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star. [<a href="http://www.space.com/14303-images-oozing-alien-planet-55-cancri-photos.html">Full Story</a>]<br><br>NEXT: Solar Flare May Spark Weekend Northern Lights Show
A powerful flare erupted from the sun Thursday (Jan. 19), unleashing a plasma wave that may supercharge the northern lights for skywatchers in high latitudes this weekend. [<a href="http://www.space.com/14300-solar-flare-weekend-northern-lights-show.html">Full Story</a>]<br><br>NEXT: Air Force Launches New Military Communications Satellite Into Orbit
The U.S. military's new WGS-4 communications satellite launched into space atop a Delta 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida at 7:38 p.m. [<a href="http://www.space.com/14308-photos-air-force-rocket-launch-wgs-4-satellite.html">More Photos</a>]<br><br>NEXT: Sisters in a Circle: Pleiades Cluster Shines Bright in Skywatcher Photo
This image of a stunning star cluster seems to resemble old friends sitting in a circle. The photo is of M45 open star cluster often called Pleiades. [<a href="http://www.space.com/14185-pleiades-star-cluster-skywatcher-photo.html">Full Story</a>]<br><br>NEXT: Figure Eight: Skywatcher Captures Sun's Graceful Curve
The dots forming a curved figure-8 pattern in this skywatching image mark where the sun appeared in the sky every day at exactly 9 a.m. local time in the small town of Veszprem, Hungary. [<a href="http://www.space.com/14145-skywatching-photo-figure-8-sun-pattern.html">Full Story</a>]<br><br>NEXT: Iconic Eagle Nebula Soars in Eye-Popping New Images
A pair of European space telescopes has snapped a stunning new view of one of the most iconic deep-space objects ever seen: the Eagle nebula. [<a href="http://www.space.com/14272-eagle-nebula-eye-popping-space-photos.html">Full Story</a>]<br><br>NEXT: Space Bubbles Offer Glimpse at Our Sun's Evolution
Bubbles full of stars are now shedding light on how our sun and its siblings might have formed, a new study reveals. [<a href="http://www.space.com/14272-eagle-nebula-eye-popping-space-photos.html">Full Story</a>]
An Earth-watching satellite has snapped a stark view of the Costa Concordia shipwreck from space, showing the huge ocean liner on its side just days after it tragically ran aground off Italy's Tuscany coast. <br><Br>The new satellite photo was taken Tuesday (Jan. 17) by an Earth-observation satellite operated by DigitalGlobe, a Colorado-based company that uses a constellation of spacecraft to take high-resolution images of Earth. [<a href="http://www.space.com/14273-satellite-photo-costa-concordia-cruise-shipwreck.html">Full Story</a>]
