Nasa's best Instagrams - in pictures

Hubble catches 'a spiral in the air pump' more than 110m light years away from Earth in the constellation of Antlia (also known as The Air Pump) Photograph: Hubble/European Space Agency/NASA

The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) heads for the moon after launching on a Minataur V rocket Friday night from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Photograph: NASA

Nasa's black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has 'bagged' its first 10 supermassive black holes Photograph: JPL-Caltech/NASA

Earth, as seen on 7 September 2013 by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) satellite Photograph: NOAA GOES Project /NASA

The Earth as seen from the moon Photograph: NASA

The lunar farside as never seen before, photographed by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter wide-angle camera Photograph: Goddard/Arizona State University/NASA

An evening view of LADEE's gantry at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, at Nasa's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia on 4 September 2013 Photograph: NASA

The moon as seen from the space station Photograph: NASA

Scientists remotely detected magmatic water, or water that originates from deep within the moon’s interior, on the surface of the moon Photograph: NASA

This image of sea surface heights in the Pacific Ocean from Nasa's Jason-2 satellite shows that the equatorial Pacific Ocean is now in its 16th month of being locked in what some call a neutral, or 'La Nada' state. 'La Nadas' make long-range climate forecasting more difficult due to their greater unpredictability Photograph: JPL/Caltech/NASA