--- description: From Martian vistas to NASA's #GlobalSelfie, here are the month's best photographs from space title: Window on Infinity: The Month's Best Photos From Space image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0047f61df730ecb7/698695f6cd804db034ccb4ac/russian-soyuz-rocket-launch-2014-nasa.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Science](/section/science/) ## Science Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Space](/tag/space/) ## Space Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Window on Infinity: Pictures from Space by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 3, 2014 3:19 PM CUT  The Russian Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-13M space ship carrying the Expedition 40 crew to the International Space Station launches from the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on May 29, 2014. The Russian Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-13M space ship carrying the Expedition 40 crew to the International Space Station launches from the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on May 29, 2014.Dmitry Lovetsky—AP by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 3, 2014 3:19 PM CUT  Scientist Lucie Poulet (right) from the DLR German Aerospace Center takes part in a simulated mission to Mars run by the University of Hawaii at Manoa in an image released on May 14, 2014. R. Lockwood/NASA  This vista of the Endeavour Crater rim taken by Opportunity Rover combines several exposures taken by the rover's panoramic camera (Pancam) on the 3,637th Martian day, or sol, of the mission on April 18, 2014 and was released on May 19, 2014. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.  NGC 2024, found in the center of the Flame Nebula which is about 1,400 light years from Earth is shown in this composite image released on May 7, 2014. X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/K.Getman, E.Feigelson, M.Kuhn & the MYStIX team; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech  A star formation region which was discovered by one of Spitzer's Twitter followers searching through the GLIMPSE360 panorama of the Milky Way galaxy. This image, released on May 15, 2014, is a tiny portion of the vast 20 gigapixel GLIMPSE360 panorama. NASA/JPL-Caltech  The Eagle Nebula, also known as as Messier 16 or M16, and the 'Pillars of Creation' in the constellation Serpens in May 2014. Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona  NASA's Morpheus prototype lander and Autonomous Landing Hazard Avoidance Technology, or ALHAT, successfully completes a test landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 28, 2014. Mike Chambers—NASA/EPA  An Orthodox priest blesses the Russian Soyuz TMA-13M rocket booster on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on May 27, 2014. Sergei Ilnitsky—EPA  The Russian Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-13M space ship carrying the Expedition 40 crew to the International Space Station launches from the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on May 29, 2014. Dmitry Lovetsky—AP  An optical image of a large field centered on the Flame Nebula released on May 7, 2014. Digitized Sky Survey/Chandra Telescope/NASA  NASA's #GlobalSelfie Earth mosaic, released on May 22, 2014 is made up of more than 36,000 'selfies' posted around the world on Earth Day, April 22, 2014\. NASA invited people around the world to step outside to take a "selfie" and share it on social media. See if you can find yourself in NASA's #GlobalSelfie using this interactive viewer. NASA/AFP/Getty Images  NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson looks out from ESA's Cupola observatory on the International Space Station on May 8, 2014. ESA/NASA  Increasing solar illumination brings increased phytoplankton growth to the Gulf of Alaska every spring, as shown in this image which was collected on May 2, 2014 from several orbits of Aqua-MODIS. NASA/Goddard/OceanColor/MODIS  Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and Kirobo, a talking humanoid robot, talk at each other on board the International Space Station in this still from a video released on May 13, 2014. AP  SpaceX's Dragon unmanned space capsule disconnects from the International Space Station to return to Earth on May 19, 2014\. The Dragon is bringing back nearly 2 tons of science experiments and equipment for NASA after carrying supplies to the station. Alamy Live News  The star cluster Westerlund 1, which appears as a dense orange clump at center, in the constellation of Ara (The Altar) is shown in this image released on May 13, 2014. ESO/Digitized SKy Survey/AFP/Getty Images  A huge cosmic cloud of gas and dust which will likely evolve into one of the most massive young clusters of stars in our galaxy is shown in an image obtained on May 22, 2014\. The densest clumps will blossom into the cluster's biggest, most powerful stars, called O-type stars, the formation of which have long puzzled scientists. NASA/AFP/Getty Images  NGC 7000, also known as the North America Nebula - The Gulf of Mexico region, in the Cygnus Constellation, captured on May 21, 2014. Dennis Roscoe, Ph. D.  The freshwater Lake Constance in Central Europe captured by the Sentinel-1A satellite on May 10, 2014\. Formed by the Rhine Glacier during the last Ice Age, it covers an area of about 540 sq km and is an important source of drinking water for southwestern Germany. ESA  Imaged during summertime in the Moon’s southern hemisphere by the Advanced Moon Imaging Experiment on ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, this mosaic shows a crater-riddled region spanning the lunar south pole. It is made up of around 40 individual images taken between December 2005 and March 2006, and was released on May 26, 2014. ESA/SMART-1/AMIE camera team; image mosaic: M. Ellouzi/B. 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