Image of the DayAn active volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io was captured in this false color image taken on February 22, 2000...The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. A blanket of icy...This composite image of the Crab Nebula shows x-ray (blue) and optical (red) superimposed.This view of Uranus was recorded by Voyager 2 on Jan 25, 1986, as the spacecraft left the planet behind...In December 2004, a neutron star flared up so brightly, it temporarily blinded all the x-ray satellites in space, and...The Spirit rover had to dig a little deeper to find out more about this martian rock, dubbed "Wishstone." Spirit...In visible light images, more than a thousand galaxies are seen to lie within a volume about 20 million light-years...A violent and chaotic-looking mass of gas and dust is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a nearby...NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit moved its robotic arm during the rover's 1,277th Martian day (Aug. 6) for the first...The Space Shuttle Atlantis crew spread a second set of wings for the International Space Station. The new solar arrays...Astronaut Steve Robinson turns the camera on himself during his historic repair job "underneath" Discovery on August 3. The Shuttle's...Saturn's icy moon Enceladus hovers above Saturn's exquisite rings in this color view from Cassini. The rings, made of nearly...This March 27, 2007, image is one of many taken by NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellites, which have...Westerlund 2, a young star cluster with an estimated age of about one or two million years, is the subject...The STS-114 crew captured this view of Earth from the Shuttle-Station complex on day nine of the mission. Numerous well-known landmarks appear in this detailed view of London taken from the International Space Station on April 5, 2005....What do auroras look like from space? From the ground, auroras dance high above clouds, frequently causing spectacular displays. The...This 1964 photograph shows a full scale model of the HL-10 lifting body mounted in the Full Scale Tunnel at...Astronaut Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, STS-115 mission specialist, took this self-portrait . The mission specialist had just unstowed the forward Solar...This artist's rendering is of the Stardust capsule returning to Earth. The Stardust spacecraft is slated to return on January...What kind of cloud is that? It's the drifting smoke plume that resulted from the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis....It was "Installation Day" on the International Space Station. The Atlantis and Expedition 13 crews worked on attaching the P3/P4...The recently active volcano Mt. Manaro is the dominant feature in this shaded relief image of Ambae Island, part of...NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed a fledgling solar system, like the one depicted in this artist's concept, and discovered deep...Astronaut Rick Mastracchio, STS-118 mission specialist, participates in the mission's third planned spacewalk or extravehicular activity (EVA) on Aug. 15,...This overhead image of the Space Shuttle Atlantis gives an excellent view of the top of the crew cabin and...In this computer-generated representation, a space shuttle is docked to a completed and fully operational International Space Station (ISS). The...Dry conditions and high winds have lead to numerous recent fire outbreaks throughout much of the southwestern and south-central USA....As Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter in 1979, it captured this photo of the Great Red Spot. The Great Red...The sun flares above the Space Shuttle Endeavour's payload bay in this view from the STS-68 mission in October 1994....April 26, 2003, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Astronaut Edward T. Lu, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer for Expedition Seven...Astronaut Michael E. Fossum, an STS-121 mission specialist, participates in the mission's second extravehicular activity. During the more than six-hour...Two NASA employees stand in front of Intelsat IV in its sound-absorbing, or anechoic, chamber in this 1972 photo. Intelsat,...NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has snapped its 200,000th image of the red planet since entering orbit in September 1997....Researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center conduct studies in 1964 to determine the types of difficulties astronauts might encounter on...This computer generated image depicts a view of Earth as seen from the surface of the asteroid Toutatis on Nov....This view of Tibet's Brahmaputra River was taken on Oct. 13, 2000, by the Expedition 3 crew. This Asian river...The Cassini spacecraft captured this spectacular view of a landslide on Saturn's moon, Iapetus. Landslides are common geological phenomena on...These are some of the first pictures returned by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its successful descent and...STS-121 mission specialist Piers J. Sellers, wearing a training version of the space suit used for extravehicular activity (EVA), participates...
