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Nighttime, ground-level view of the Apollo 10 space vehicle on Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center. This photograph...
The Apollo 10 spacecraft towers over the launch pad spotlights that light it. It is white, with an American flag and "USA" on the lower portion. It is nighttime.
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a triple-star star system.
Three bright stars with diffraction spikes shine near the center-right of the image, illuminating nearby clouds that glow in pale blue. The clouds darken at the edges of the image, and are dotted with smaller stars, some also with diffraction spikes.
"For the girls or women in science — or in any profession or job — opportunities are more abundant than...
Space Physics and Space Weather Scientist Dr. Yihua Zheng, poses for a portrait, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Photo Credit: (NASA/Thalia Patrinos)
An illuminated waning gibbous moon contrasts the deep black of space as the International Space Station soared 270 miles over...
The silvery waning gibbous moon against the darkness of space, as seen from the International Space Station.
The aurora turns the sky near Malad City, Idaho, red, purple, and green in this 8-second exposure taken on May...
A tree (bottom right) and its branches are silhouetted against the dramatic night sky, which is red, purple, and green. Streaks of light shimmer, making the aurora look like the folds in a curtain (middle left). A road winds toward the mountainous horizon (bottom middle), and the back of a car appears (bottom right). There is a white streak in the sky (middle top). This is likely the International Space Station, which passed over the area at the time the image was taken.
An American Flamingo takes a sip of water in the Indian River at Haulover Canal on Merritt Island on Thursday,...
A flamingo lowers its neck to drink from the water it is standing in. Its neck bends like a backwards letter S and its legs are slightly spread apart. The flamingo's body is a rosy pink, with darker pink legs, and a more coral pink color on its neck and wings.
This image of the Andromeda galaxy uses data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope. Multiple wavelengths are shown, revealing stars...
This image of the Andromeda galaxy uses data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope. Multiple wavelengths are shown, revealing stars (in blue and cyan), dust (red), and areas of star formation. Dust swirls around like water going down a drain, as the black hole at the heart of the Andromeda consumes it.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this oblique photograph of the Sulaiman Mountains in central Pakistan. The range...
A wall of gray haze meets the brown Sulaiman Mountains, looking almost like waves crashing on a beach.
This image of Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot and surrounding turbulent zones was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The color-enhanced...
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is at top left of this image taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft. Many smaller storms are visible as well.
During a mission dress rehearsal, NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronaut Suni Williams flashes a thumbs up in her Boeing...
Astronaut Suni Williams (left), an Indian- and Slovene-American woman, smiles and gives a thumbs up to the camera. She wears a blue Boeing spacesuit.
The Moon, left, Jupiter, right, and Saturn, above and to the left of Jupiter, are seen after sunset with the...
The Washington Monument - a tall, white rectangular monument with a pyramid at the top - is in the center of this image. The Moon (left), Saturn (upper right), and Jupiter (lower right) are in the night sky.
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer was launched on April 28, 2003. Its mission was to study the shape, brightness, size and...
An illustration of the space telescope Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The telescope is in the foreground. Its main body is wrapped in gold foil and solar panels are attached on either side.
In a historic first, all six radio frequency antennas at the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex – part of NASA's...
In a nighttime landscape of rolling grasses and trees, 6 large off-white satellites face to the right. Each satellite has bright spotlights near it, but the surrounding area remains mostly dark.
"What you eventually realize is that your success as a leader is not really yours, it’s the team’s. You’re not...
Dana Weigel stands and smiles in front of a large wall mural of the International Space Station. She has wavy blond hair and is wearing a dark blue jacket over a pink blouse with a circular necklace around her neck.
Rising from turbulent waves of dust and gas is the Horsehead Nebula, otherwise known as Barnard 33, which resides roughly...
A clumpy dome of blueish-gray clouds rises about a third of the way from the bottom. Above it, streaky, translucent red wisps brush upward to about halfway up the image. The top half of the image is the black background of space with one prominent, bright white star with Webb’s 8-point diffraction spikes. Additional stars and galaxies are scattered throughout the image, although very few are seen through the thick clouds at bottom, and all are significantly smaller than the largest star.
The magnificent central bar of NGC 2217 (also known as AM 0619-271) shines bright in the constellation of Canis Major...
A bright, white galactic core shines near the center of the image with a faint bar of stars extending from it, diagonally to the right. Faint, hazy spiral arms encircle the core, with several distant stars and bright blue foreground stars with diffraction spikes scattered throughout the image, all against black space.
Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models comprising the LOLA simulator....
In this black-and-white photo, a man in a white shirt and dark tie uses an airbrush to paint on a large model that looks like the surface of the Moon. A crater is in the foreground, emphasizing the large size of the Moon model.
Rivers swelled in southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan in April 2024 following heavy rain and rapid snowmelt. This image shows...
An enhanced color image of Orenburg, Russia when the Ural River water levels peaked. Vegetation is a deep red, while water is blue green.
In celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers took a snapshot of the...
Taking up most of the image, is a multi-colored nebula in shades of blue, pink, yellow, orange, purple, and white. It appears as two translucent orbs attached by a white band.
Behold one of the more detailed images of Earth. This Blue Marble Earth montage—created from photographs taken by the Visible/Infrared...
North America is visible in this image of Earth. Clouds swirl all over the globe, and much of Earth's water is visible.
This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) of star-forming region NGC 604 shows how stellar winds...
At the center of the image is a nebula on the black background of space. The nebula is comprised of clumpy, red, filamentary clouds. At the center-right of the red clouds is a large cavernous bubble, and at the center of the bubble there is an opaque blueish glow with speckles of stars. At the edges of the bubble, the dust is white. There are several other smaller cavernous bubbles at the top of the nebula, including two tiny cavities at the top center of the image. There are thousands of stars that fill the surrounding area outside the nebula, most of them are yellow or white. At 11 o’clock and 6 o’clock there are extremely bright stars with 8 diffraction spikes. There are also some smaller, red stars and a few disk-shaped galaxies scattered across the image.
The ocean holds about 97 percent of Earth's water and covers 70 percent of our planet's surface. According to the...
This 2024 Earth Day poster is an ocean themed vertical 15x30 illustration created from NASA satellite cloud imagery overlaid on ocean data. The white cloud imagery wraps around shapes, defining three whales and a school of fish. Swirly cloud patterns, called Von Kármán Vortices, create the feeling of movement in the composition. The focal point is a cyclone in the upper third of the poster. At the center flies the recently launched PACE satellite. The ocean imagery – composed of blues, aquas, and greens – is filled with subtle color changes and undulating patterns created by churning sediment, organic matter and phytoplankton.
NASA Engineer Cindy Fuentes Rosal waves goodbye to a Black Brant IX sounding rocket launching from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility...
Cindy Fuentes Rosal, wearing a light-blue jacket with the words "Rocket Scientist" in white on the back, faces away from the camera with her hand in the air. In the background is a sounding rocket launching from a launch pad with a thick white trail of smoke underneath.
A team of engineers lifts the mast into place atop of NASA’s VIPER robotic Moon rover in a clean room...
Four engineers in white lab coats, yellow hard hats, and blue gloves and shoe covers surround a metal rover. Two engineers stand on stepladders as they fit a mast with attached instruments onto the rover.
This spectacular image showing the Moon’s shadow on Earth’s surface was acquired during a 20-second period starting at 2:59 p.m....
Black and white image of Earth with swirling white clouds and a dark shadow over North America from the Moon eclipsing the Sun.
The new era in space flight began on April 12, 1981. That is when the first Space Shuttle mission (STS-1)...
The first space shuttle takes off from a launch pad. White clouds billow upward, obscuring the rightmost third of the image. Bright flames pour out from the rockets; in contrast, the rest of the image is dim.
A total solar eclipse is seen in Dallas, Texas on Monday, April 8, 2024. A total solar eclipse swept across...
The Moon totally obscures the Sun in this image. The Moon is a black circle and light from the Sun surrounds the Moon's border.
NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen, left, Frank Rubio, Warren Hoburg, and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, right, pose for...
Four men wearing red, rectangular eclipse glasses and blue jumpsuits look up at the Sun. They are on the rooftop of a building. The U.S. Capitol dome is visible behind them.
“… I've just seen such tremendous things happen since I've been part of the Astrobiology Program, and that's why I'm...
A woman with shoulder-length flowing brown hair smiles gently at the camera. She is wearing earrings, a gold necklace, and a white blouse with blue patterned spots. The blue sky, green trees and grass, and a building are blurred but visible behind her.
What looks like highways going through a metropolitan area are actually a series of glaciers carving their way through the...
A view of mountains from the International Space Station. There are lines in various shades of gray that look like highways - these are paths carved by glaciers moving through the mountain range. Several peaks around the lines are untouched. A few clouds dot the sky at middle left and bottom left.
The primary structure of the Gateway space station's HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) module is one step closer to launch...
A large circular structure stands in a facility. The camera looks straight through the structure. At this angle, the interior looks like concentric circles.
Safety is important, no matter where you're viewing the eclipse. NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station show off their...
Five NASA astronauts, three women and two men, pose for a photo together while wearing eclipse glasses. The eclipse glasses are rectangular and have two dark lenses.
“One of my cornerstone pinnacles [is], ‘Show up to work [and] life with integrity and intent.’ So, accomplish your goals...
Meghan Everett, wearing dark dress pants and a light-colored blouse with buttons and a ruffled collar, smiles at the camera as she sits at the edge of one of the International Space Station modules inside the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. The edges of the module mockup are blue, with a yellow and black striped warning strip present on the step where Meghan is sitting. Blue handrails are present on both sides of the module mockup, and a wide variety of labels are visible on all of the module mockup surfaces within.
An Atlas-Centaur launched at 5:22 p.m. EST on March 27, 1969, to send Mariner 7 on its way to Mars....
A black-and-white photo of the Mariner 7 launch. An Atlas-Centaur rocket takes off, flames pouring out underneath it and smoke billowing off to the left. The words "United States" are written on the rocket. A few wispy clouds are visible in the sky.
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will carry a special message when it launches in October 2024 and heads toward Jupiter's moon...
A triangle-shaped metal plate with rounded edges against a black background. The silver-colored plate has waveforms, visual representation of sound waves, radiating out from a circular symbol toward the edges of the plate.
Two full-scale development model rovers that are part of NASA's CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) technology demonstration drive in...
Two small rovers in a sandy yard. The rover in the back has solar panels fitted to it and white wheels. The one in the front has orange wheels and no solar panels.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows LEDA 42160, a galaxy about 52 million light-years from Earth in the constellation...
A distorted dwarf galaxy, obscured by dust and by bright outbursts caused by star formation, floats roughly in the center. Tendrils of gas stretch up from the plane of the galaxy. A few distant galaxies are visible in the background around it, many as little spirals, and also including a prominent elliptical galaxy. A bright star hangs above the galaxy in the foreground, marked by cross-shaped diffraction spikes. The galaxy appears in shades of white and blue, while the distant galaxies are spots of orange.
A fast boat is seen at sunrise after the landing of SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft a few hours earlier in...
The sky and water take up equal parts of this image. At the horizon, the Sun colors the sky orange, with its light reflecting off a few distant clouds. A fast boat in the distance cuts a line across the water as it moves from left to right. The boat and the person aboard are in silhouette.
"I've come a long way from thinking, 'Well, I did this whole dissertation on geysers, what it would take for...
A woman that's standing in the woods wearing a red blouse and red suit jacket smiles widely at the camera.
Gemini VI astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (left), pilot, and Walter M. Schirra Jr., command pilot, are shown during suiting up...
Two male astronauts, Thomas P. Stafford (left) and Walter M. Schirra Jr., look directly into the camera. They are wearing white spacesuits with multiple patches including their names, mission, NASA, and the American flag. Behind them is a deep blue backdrop.