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The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 captured an image of Kachemak Bay’s turbid, cloudy waters on September 20,...
A view of Alaska's Kachemak Bay from the Landsat 8 satellite. The deep turquoise water is cloudy, thanks to plumes of sediment.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a supernova remnant called the Veil Nebula. This nebula is the remnant of...
A colorful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. This translucent cloud of gas holds wispy and thin filaments with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red, and yellow colors mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Scattered across the colorful nebula are bright and point-like foreground and background stars. The background is black.
Carrying a suite of NASA science and technology, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed at 3:34 a.m. EST...
Earth is a small pale circle in the sky in this image taken on the Moon by a camera on @Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander. The Moon’s gray surface sharply contrasts with the blackness of space. The lander’s shadow can be seen on the ground.
In this 1957 photo, George Cooper, a test pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA, stands next...
George Cooper, a test pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics stands next to a North American F-100 airplane at what is now NASA’s Ames Research Center. Cooper wears a helmet and a tight jumpsuit with a harness. "NACA" is visible on the underside of the plane.
An apprentice at Langley Laboratory (now NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia) inspects wind tunnel components in this image...
A woman looks through a metal tube that she is holding up. Her elbows rest on the table in front of her. The photo is in black and white. There is text at the bottom that reads "LMAL 33037."
Creating a golden streak in the night sky, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander (IM-2)...
Leaving a golden streak in the sky, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the evening. The light from the rocket flames illuminates the misty night sky. NASA Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building, a massive rectangular building, is visible at left.
The Milky Way appears beyond Earth's horizon in this celestial photograph captured on Jan. 29, 2025, by NASA astronaut Don...
The Milky Way galaxy, filled with stars, is on the left side of the image. On the right side, Earth looks like a giant green marble with a bright curved outline (Earth's atmosphere).
NASA’s X-59 lights up the night sky with its unique Mach diamonds, also known as shock diamonds, during maximum afterburner...
The tail of NASA's supersonic X-59 aircraft sticks out from a hangar (at left). A bright, fiery exhaust extends from the tail. Visible in the superhot plume, which features vibrant hues of blue, purple, and orange, are distinct Mach diamonds—also known as shock diamonds.
Tall plumes of white vapor rise from the rocky Venusian surface in this April 19, 1977, artist’s concept.
In this artist's illustration, the surface of Venus has many peaks. White steam rises from the rocky, jagged surface. What looks like a large caldera is at the center of the image. The background is obscured in a red haze.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic...
A portion of the Tarantula Nebula, made of variously colored layers of dust clouds. One upper layer is dark reddish dust which is dense and obscures light, in places so dense that it appears black. A middle layer holds pale clouds that are thick like curling wisps of smoke. They form a broad bow across the center of the image. Many small, bright stars lie throughout the nebula. They appear as blue, purple or red depending on depth.
Engineers with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems complete stacking operations on the twin SLS (Space Launch System) solid rocket boosters for...
Two massive white rocket boosters stand inside the Vehicle Assembly Building. There are balconies and stairs around the boosters, reaching all the way up to the recently integrated nose cones.
This updated version of "the Pale Blue Dot," made for the photo's 30th anniversary in 2020, uses modern image-processing software...
Earth is a single, bright blue pixel in the vastness of space. Rays of sunlight scattered within the camera optics stretch across the scene, one of which happens to have intersected dramatically with Earth. The original image was taken on Feb. 14, 1990. What you see here is an updated version from 2020 using modern image-processing software and techniques.⁣⁣
This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the spectacular star forming region called 30 Doradus. By...
An image of 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula, looks like a bouquet of purple flowers with orange stamens. Types of data are represented in different colors: X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is blue and green, optical data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is yellow, and radio data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is orange. There is a purple and green bubble-like shape at bottom right. This is a superbubble.
One of three small lunar rovers that are part of a NASA technology demonstration called CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic...
Four people in white lab coats, face masks, and hair nets hold up a small, upside-down robotic rover by red handles inside a room with industrial equipment in the background.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this feather-shaped iridescent cloud just after sunset on Jan. 27, 2023, the 3,724th Martian day,...
A shining, feather-shaped cloud in the dark gray Martian sky. The cloud is white, with a faint rainbow tint.
The brilliant exhaust from the solid rocket boosters (center) and blue mach diamonds from the main engine nozzles mark the...
Exhaust from the solid rocket boosters lights up the bottom of this image showing the space shuttle Endeavour launching into space. Blue mach diamonds can be seen to the right of the exhaust, emerging from the main engine nozzles.
This view from space shuttle Columbia shows Mount Everest, which reaches 29,028 feet in elevation (8,848 meters), along with many...
A view of Mount Everest and the surrounding area from space. White snow can be seen on mountains; valleys and shadows appear blue-gray.
The full moon rises over the Superdome and the city of New Orleans, Louisiana on Monday evening, January 13, 2025....
The full moon (top right) rises over buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana, including the Superdome. The Superdome has a white rounded top. Billboards and ads can be seen around and on some of the buildings.
The blue tentacle-like arms containing gecko-like adhesive pads, attached to an Astrobee robotic free-flyer, reach out and grapple a "capture...
Blue tentacle-like arms grip onto a black cube with gold foil patches on it.
An excellent view of the Apollo 14 lunar module on the Moon, as photographed during the first Apollo 14 moonwalk...
The Apollo 14 lunar module sits on the dusty and rocky gray surface of the Moon. The lunar module has a wide lower portion that is mostly covered in gold foil. Three of its legs are visible. The U.S. flag is next to the lunar module, at left. It is much shorter than the lunar module.
LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has...
A large galaxy is at center, and a significantly smaller galaxy is to its left. The large galaxy, nicknamed the Bullseye, is mostly face-on, but the top appears slightly tilted away. It has several rings. Its circular core is bright white at the very center, but light yellow overall. Going outward, there are gaps between the rings. The core is surrounded by two slightly lighter yellow rings, which also appear to be overlapping. The next ring is slightly more transparent and yellow. The two or three rings that are farther out are bluer, sometimes with blue clumps. The widest ring is also blue, but also the most transparent. At 9 o’clock is a small dwarf galaxy. It is about the same size as the yellow core of the Bullseye. The dwarf galaxy is blue, with many dots. It looks like the edge of the Bullseye might touch the dwarf galaxy. Both galaxies are set on the black background of space, which is dotted with a range of galaxies in different shapes, colors, and sizes, along with one foreground star at left.
Engineers and technicians with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program prepare to lift the left center center booster segment shown with...
A booster segment - a massive white cylindrical object with the red NASA "worm" insignia on it - is attached to a yellow lifting beam inside a large building. There is a large United States flag on the wall to the right of the booster segment. A few people in blue jumpsuits and hard hats stand at the base of the yellow platform at center.
A crane lowers the 112-foot-wide (34-meter-wide) steel framework for the Deep Space Station 23 (DSS-23) reflector dish into position on...
A large red crane lowers a cone-shaped frame. There is a large white metal structure behind it that has stairs running around it, all the way to the top. In the background at left, a completed antenna faces away from us. Farther away in the background are brown mountains.
NASA's SPHEREx observatory is oriented in a horizontal position, revealing all three layers of photon shields as well as the...
A spacecraft with a distinct cone shape sits in a clean room. A person in a white suit that covers them from head to toe shines a penlight on the observatory. The walls of the clean room are lit with blue and red lights.
Springtime in the South Polar region of Mars is a season of exciting activity. The thick coating of carbon dioxide...
Gas geysers on Mars blow out dark, triangle-shaped fans of dust and sand onto the red Martian surface.
The full Moon, also known in January as the Wolf Moon, rises above the Lincoln Memorial and the Memorial Bridge,...
A golden full moon rises over the Lincoln Memorial, a stone building with columns. In the foreground is a gray stone bridge, as well as some water and trees.
An inquisitive sandhill crane approaches the photographer near the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on...
A bird looks directly into the camera. The bird's head is red on top and white on the bottom. Its eyes are orange-brown. The blue sky makes up the backdrop of this photo. Part of the Vehicle Assembly Building, a rectangular building with a NASA meatball and a US flag on it, can be seen behind the bird.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies,...
Shades of white, orange, and blue sweep across this view of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Blue and red stars peek through the clouds of gas and dust.
This is an artist's concept of a two-person Gemini spacecraft in flight, showing a cutaway view. The Gemini program was...
An illustration of a Gemini spacecraft with a cutout showing two astronauts inside. The spacecraft is white and conical in shape. There are stars and clouds of gas and dust in the dark background.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 commander Suni Williams is pictured during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station where she...
Astronaut Suni Williams (just left of center) wears a white spacesuit while she conducts a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is seen in the foreground with the Washington Monument in the background, Sunday, Jan....
A close-up image of a light gray stone statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Washington. The Washington Monument is visible in the background, behind the leafless branches of a tree.
Released on Nov. 3, 2023, in honor of Jupiter reaching opposition, which occurs when the planet and the Sun are...
Jupiter looks iridescent in this ultraviolet image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The poles are a muted orange color, while swirls and stripes of pink, orange, blue, and purple cover the rest of the planet. Jupiter's "Great Red Spot" appears a deep blue here.
Chief of aerodynamics Elton W. Miller ponders the future of the Sperry M-1 Messenger, the first full-scale airplane tested in...
A man stands inside the entrance of a tunnel, looking up at a small propeller plane. The tunnel, viewed from the side, is like a cylinder with sides curving inward. The photo is in black and white.
A visitor takes a picture of a sculpture of an adult Alamosaurus wearing solar glasses outside of The Children’s Museum...
A large model dinosaur bursts out of a beige and gray building. The Alamosaurus wears a pair of eclipse glasses. In the foreground, a child lifts their phone to take a picture of the dinosaur.
A color enhancement of a far-ultraviolet photo of Earth taken by astronaut John W. Young, commander, with the ultraviolet camera...
In this enhanced-color photo, Earth is represented in shades of aqua blue, red, and yellow. Earth's atmosphere is a bright blue haze, while the planet itself is red with a yellow outline on the sunlit side. Nearby stars are visible as blobs with similar colors to Earth.
On Jan. 10, 2025, NASA astronaut Don Pettit posted two images of the Los Angeles fires from the International Space...
A view of Los Angeles, California from the International Space Station. The fires appear as orange lights just above center, in between two areas brightly lit by city lights.
"As a young college student, it was the first time I ever faced [this situation], and it buckled me. It...
Tawnya Laughinghouse is standing in a high-tech industrial facility, smiling and crossing her arms. She is wearing a textured black jacket and a gold bracelet. Behind her are large pieces of machinery and industrial equipment, with bright lighting highlighting the space.
The New York-based artist team Geraluz, left, and WERC, right, and their son Amaru Alvarez, 5, pose for picture with...
Two adults and a child pose for a photo in front of a colorful space-themed mural. The child wears an astronaut costume.
A test subject being suited up for studies on the Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator located in the hangar at Langley...
In this black and white photo, two people adjust a 1960s-era spacesuit on a person who is suspended by wires. This third person is parallel to the floor, with his feet on the wall on the right.
From left, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jenni Gibbons, NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts...
Six astronauts, all in blue jumpsuits, pose together for a photo.