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In this February 1944 publicity photo, men stand in front of turning vanes inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) at...
Two men wearing hats and long coats stand at the bottom of a massive circular tunnel. At the end of the tunnel is four rows of stacked panels: this are the turning vanes. In the middle of the rows, there is a dark, cylindrical shaft that connects to the tunnel walls. This image is in black and white.
The instrument enclosure of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor is prepared for critical environmental tests inside the historic Chamber A at...
A picture of a massive, silver, statuesque piece of hardware inside a cavernous testing chamber. The image is mostly dark, with an illuminated section in the lower center half of the picture. The hardware has two large, vertical silver metal posts on either side of it, and two silver metal posts that cross horizontally between them. In the center of those posts is a large portion of silver thermal blanketing that is gathered toward the middle. White lights shine upward from the base of either side of the hardware. A line of six, small, white lights with a blueish starburst effect crown the hardware.
Astronauts John Young and Gus Grissom are suited for the first flight of the Gemini program in March 1965. NASA...
A painting by Norman Rockwell shows technicians in white jumpsuits (far left and far right) helping two astronauts (middle) in their spacesuits. Behind them is a large rectangular machine with wires, dials, and switches. The wall behind them and the floor are both shades of yellow. Norman Rockwell's signature is at bottom right.
This plaque commemorating the STS-107 space shuttle Columbia crew looks over the Mars landscape after the Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit,...
Technicians in white jumpsuits that cover everything but their eyes and nose work on the Spirit rover. The rover has four visible wheels, covered by a rectangular platform. There are many yellow and white cords all over the rover. There is a circular plaque attached to a white antenna.
Shimmering ejections emitted by two actively forming stars make up Lynds 483 (L483). High-resolution near-infrared light captured by NASA’s James...
At the center is a thin vertical cloud known as Lynds 483 that is shaped like an hourglass with irregular edges. At lower center are two discrete bright white, tiny blobs of light that have raced away from the hidden central stars. The top lobe shows a more prominent orange U-shape. Orange bleeds into light purple, and brighter pink at its edges. Some background stars are visible through sections of this lobe. Higher up, there is an orange arc. Some brighter pink material extends to the top edges near the center. In the lower lobe, less orange is visible. More opaque light purple is in its top third, rippling out into semi-transparent blues and pinks. The lower lobe has more texture. V-shapes left and right of the lobes are darkest, and the background stars in these areas appear orange. Elsewhere, the black background of space is clearer, speckled with tiny white stars and faint orange galaxies.
A dolphin's dorsal fin cuts through the water in the Launch Complex 39 Area turn basin at NASA's Kennedy Space...
A dark gray dolphin's fin breaks through the water, making ripples of various sizes. The water is blue-gray, so the image is almost monochromatic.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both...
A spiral galaxy sparkles in the darkness of space. A bright star with four diffraction spikes appears to overlap it.
NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, second from left, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague, second from right,...
Four people in white spacesuits, white helmets, and black boots give a thumbs up from inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 members pose together for a portrait inside the vestibule between the International Space Station and the SpaceX...
Four people are in a circular opening, smiling at the camera. They are wearing polo shirts in different colors. Suni Williams' (far right) hair spills outward toward a display of patches.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov onboard, Friday, March 14, 2025, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission is the tenth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov launched at 7:03 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy to begin a six-month mission aboard the orbital outpost.
A NASA photographer captured a time-lapse image of the lunar eclipse and blood moon above the Space Environments Complex at...
A time-lapse image shows the phases of the lunar eclipse, including the blood moon, on March 14, 2025. The Moon travels through the sky above a large building with the NASA meatball logo on it. There are a few spotlights on the building, and lights illuminate the large rectangular windows along the length of the building on several floors. The image is otherwise dark.
Uranus was the first planet found with the aid of a telescope. It was discovered on March 13, 1781, by...
The planet Uranus is round and light blue, like the color of a robin's egg, against the blackness of space.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Dragon spacecraft on top is seen during sunrise on the launch pad...
The upper portion of a rocket with a spacecraft on top are visible in this picture. Both NASA logos are visible - the "worm" and the "meatball." A white bridge with several rectangular windows connects to the Dragon spacecraft. The Sun is rising in the background, brightening the sky slightly with an orange glow. The ground below is dark.
NASA Artemis II Crew Public Affairs Officer Courtney Beasley, left, moderates a panel discussion with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut...
Two women and two men sit in teal velvet chairs on a stage. The SXSW logo is behind them on a screen. Three of the people on stage are wearing blue flight suits; they are astronauts.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017, from an altitude of about...
Ceres, a dwarf planet, appears as a gray, cratered crescent, as the spacecraft that took this image was on the planet's night side. Only the bottom of the planet is visible, with the rest indistinguishable from the darkness of space.
NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson points to the Expedition 71 patch on her flight suit as she answers a question from...
Astronaut Tracy Dyson points to the Expedition 71 patch on her right sleeve. The round patch has an orange border with a large, stylized "71" on the right side. She is wearing a blue flight suit with multiple patches.
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.