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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a peculiar spiral galaxy called Arp 184 or NGC 1961.
A spiral galaxy seen at a skewed angle. Its center is a bright spot radiating light. A thick, stormy disk of material surrounds this bright center, with swirling strands of dark dust and bright spots of star formation strewn through the disk. A large spiral arm extends from the disk toward the viewer. Some foreground stars are visible atop the galaxy.
The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is pictured backing away from the International Space Station shortly after undocking from the Rassvet module...
The Soyuz spacecraft looks like a cylinder with two lines stretching outward from it. It is oriented toward Earth, which is covered with white clouds.
Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is a supernova remnant located about 11,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. It spans...
A circular-shaped pink and orange cloud of gas and dust with filaments. Stars are visible all around the cloud, and can be seen through it as well.
Astronaut Ronald E. McNair, STS-41B mission specialist, used some of his off-duty time aboard the space shuttle Challenger to play...
A Black man plays a saxophone while floating. He wears a black short sleeve shirt with patches on it, blue pants, and gray shoes. He is inside the space shuttle Challenger.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy.
A close-up, face-on view of a spiral galaxy. Its center glows brightly. Spiral arms emerge from the galaxy’s core and wind through the round disk of the galaxy. You can spot these arms by their dark-red dust lanes and dots of brightly-shining, pink spots where stars are forming. Some faint stars are visible around the galaxy, as well as a particularly bright foreground star near the lower-left corner of the image.
The Cygnus Loop (also known as the Veil Nebula) is a supernova remnant, the remains of the explosive death of...
The remnant resembles a wispy cloud in oranges, blues, purples, and whites, shaped like a backwards letter C. The remnant is set against a backdrop of scattered stars.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster Messier 72 (M72).
Thousands of bright stars fill a spherically shaped globular cluster. In the center, most of the stars appear blue. The globular cluster’s bright blue-white core is surrounded by a thick shell of yellower stars, seen in differing sizes according to their position in the spherical star cluster. They spread out beyond the edges of the image, appearing smaller and sparser at the corners of the image. A distant spiral galaxy is also visible in the lower-left corner of the image.
A NASA spacesuit glove designed for use during spacewalks on the International Space Station is prepared for thermal vacuum testing...
A bulky white spacesuit glove with gray fingertips sits inside a small chamber lined with silvery material. Multiple wires wrap around the fingers of the glove and loop around the floor of the chamber beneath the glove.
The asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI). This is one of the most detailed images...
Asteroid Donaldjohanson, as seen by the Lucy spacecraft during its close flyby. The asteroid looks like two lobes, attached by a thinner cylinder, like a barbell with very large weights. One lobe is smaller than the other. Although they are both about the same circumference, the smaller lobe is less wide than the other. The asteroid is a smooth, light gray surface, with smooth-edged craters dimpling its surface. The larger lobe has many more craters.
The sun's glint beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263...
A view of Earth from the International Space Station. The Atlantic Ocean spreads out in front of us, with Earth's atmosphere appearing as a thin, hazy, light blue line bordering Earth. Sunlight shines off of the middle of the ocean, highlighting the edges of clouds over the water.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to...
What looks like a single large, bright star (but is two) shines with bright purple diffraction spikes at the center of a large, diffuse cylinder of gas and dust that is tipped to the right. At the center is a bright pink clumpy cloud that takes up about 25% of the view. The pink region has some holes and diffuse areas. Beyond that are two large rings seen at a roughly 60-degree angle that appear joined at top left and bottom right. The edges are denser, and form shallow V-shapes that go inward. The rings appear orange at top left and bottom right, and are blue at bottom and center right. There is diffuse orange material around the body. The black background of space is speckled with tiny stars and galaxies mostly in blues and yellows. A bigger blue star with spikes is just below and to the left of the central stars, but it is slightly smaller. Areas Webb did not observe are along the top edges, a thin vertical near the nebula at top left, and at the bottom left and right corners.
This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion of the Eagle Nebula,...
A tall, thin structure of dark gas clouds. This pillar is darker and broader at its base, thins toward the middle, and broadens out again at the top, with spikes, fingers, and wisps of gas protruding in all directions from its head. Some parts of the pillar are illuminated, but most are dark and silhouetted at the edges and lit from behind. A wall of colorful gas lies behind the pillar, bluish at the top and redder toward the bottom, with several blue and gold stars scattered across it.
The space shuttle Discovery launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading through Atlantic skies toward its 51-D mission....
A space shuttle takes off into a gray-blue sky, leaving a bright column of white vapor behind it. The view is from below.
A scrub jay perches on a branch near the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on...
A small, gray bird perches on a thin, leafless branch. Its head is turned to the left. There are leaves on the other branches in view at the bottom of the photo. The NASA meatball logo is in the background, out of focus.
On March 18, 2025, NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville,...
A tunnel dramatically lit in violet light dominates the photo. In front of it, a small spacecraft is on a track.
This new image showcases the dazzling young star cluster NGC 346. Although both the James Webb Space Telescope and the...
Bright blue stars curve gently toward the center of the image. Nestled around, in front of, and behind the clustered stars are large arcs of dense, reddish-brown dust. Thin, pale-blue wisps of clouds fill the background while denser areas of pinkish clouds appear stacked upon the wispier clouds. Thousands of orange stars are visible in the background behind the clouds of the nebula.
NASA astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert launch aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...
Apollo 13 launches upward, leaving a column of flames and light brown vapor behind it. Trees and vegetation frame the water at the bottom of the photo. Outlines of small animals can be see in the water. At bottom left is written "Apollo 13, launch" in capital letters. At bottom right is a series of letters and numbers labeling the photo.
In northwest Australia, the Great Sandy Desert holds great geological interest as a zone of active sand dune movement. While...
A view of linear dunes in the Great Sandy Desert in Australia from the International Space Station. The sand is mostly orange, with some red spots and some dark brown spots. There is a thick white line that cuts through the middle of the dunes; this is a lake with sediment and salts from evaporated flood waters.
A Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 73 crew members aboard, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at...
A light gray rocket lifts off, leaving flames and light brown vapor in its wake. Green supports lie perpendicular to the rocket.
This March 4, 2020, image shows Deep Space Station 43, a 70-meter-wide (230-feet-wide) radio antenna at NASA’s Deep Space Network...
A massive white radio antenna's dish points up and to the right in this photo. There is grass and many trees all around it. Hilly terrain is in the background, rising up to meet the blue sky.
From the mountains of Turin to the deserts of Arizona, a core element of Gateway, humanity’s first lunar space station,...
A large, boxy container is lowered onto a flatbed by a crane at right. The container has an Artemis logo on the back and a Northrop Grumman logo on the left side. There are more logos on it, but they are difficult to see. There are several people in orange or yellow high-visibility vests near the container. The night sky makes up the background of the image. The sky darkens as you look upward; the last of a sunset tints the very bottom a rosy pink. You can see a sliver of the Moon toward the top.
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim poses for a portrait while wearing a spacesuit on July 17, 2024. In his first mission,...
A Korean-American man wearing a spacesuit looks at the camera. His body is turned slightly to the side. He is holding a space helmet in his left hand. A prominent U.S. flag is on the left shoulder of the spacesuit. The background of the image is all white.
The four astronauts who will be the first to fly to the Moon under NASA's Artemis campaign – NASA astronauts...
Four hands hold onto a corner of the Artemis II mission patch. The patch is five-sided, with a black background. The last names of the crew – Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen – are written along the patch’s bottom left corner. The Earth and Moon are visible on the patch, reminiscent of the famous “Earthrise” photo. A red line curves through the lines of a letter “A,” then around the Moon and Earth. Next to the “A” are two lines that look like the Roman numeral “I”: this represents Artemis II.
In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of fuel and expand, possibly engulfing Earth. These end stages...
The Helix Nebula is a cloud of gas ejected by a dying star, known as a white dwarf. In the composite image, the cloud of gas strongly resembles a creature’s eye. Here, a hazy blue cloud is surrounded by misty, concentric rings of pale yellow, rose pink, and blood orange. Each ring appears dusted with flecks of gold, particularly the outer edges of the eye-shape. The entire image is speckled with glowing dots in blues, whites, yellows, and purples. At the center of the hazy blue gas cloud, is a bright white dot with a pink outer ring, and a smaller white dot.
Thomas Ozoroski, a researcher at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, takes icing accretion measurements in October 2024 as part...
A man looks at white ice built up on a section of scale-model transonic truss-braced wing. The model wing stands vertically in NASA Glenn’s Icing Research Tunnel.
Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and primary contractor Amentum integrate the SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket with the...
The Artemis II core stage (a butterscotch orange cylinder in the middle) and solid rocket boosters (the white cylinders, branded with the NASA "worm" logo on each side of the core stage) are joined together by teams inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). The view is from the ground, looking far upward, to show the full height of the core stage - 212 feet. The inside of the VAB has many platforms and catwalks around the center of the building, which is open.
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.
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