Hubble Captures Extraordinarily Bright Interacting Galaxies

This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows interacting galaxies known as AM 1214-255.

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Neutron Stars Collide

Two neutron stars begin to merge in this illustration, blasting a jet of high-speed particles and producing a cloud of debris.

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Hubble Captures an Elusive Galaxy Cluster

A menagerie of interesting astronomical finds are visible in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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The Cygnus space freighter is released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm

The Cygnus space freighter is pictured moments after its release from the Canadarm2 robotic arm.

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Celebrating Earth Day

Former NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden speaks with local students during an Earth Day event, Thursday, April 20, 2023, at Union Station in Washingto...

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SuperBIT Sees Colliding Antennae Galaxies

This view of the Antennae Galaxies, two large galaxies colliding 60 million light-years away, is one of the first research images from the Super Press...

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NASA's New 3D-Printed Superalloy Can Take the Heat

NASA has demonstrated a breakthrough in 3D printable high-temperature materials that could lead to stronger, more durable parts for airplanes and spac...

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Martian Milestone for Ingenuity

This April 16, 2023, enhanced color image of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is the clearest view of the rotorcraft since its first flight.

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Katmai National Park

The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, located in Katmai National Park, forms a unique and ashen landscape. Encircled by volcanoes – both active and inact...

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Astronaut Jessica Watkins

"Operating the International Space Station requires an entire team of people all coming together with one goal in pursuit of that one mission." — Jess...

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Astronaut Kjell Lindgren

"I think that getting to be a crewmember on the International Space Station, and getting to serve there over the course of two long-duration stays, we...

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The Himalayas and Mount Everest in Nepal

Clouds gather on Nepal's sub-tropical side of the Himalayas with Mount Everest at the center of this photograph taken by an external high-definition c...

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Bald Eagle Lands at Kennedy Space Center

An American bald eagle swoops down to land on a pole at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 10, 2023.

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Hubble Spots a Galaxy with Tendrils

This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows JO204, a ‘jellyfish galaxy’ so named for the bright tendrils of gas that appear in thi...

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Heavy Rain, Snow Revive Tulare Lake

Floodwater (dark blue) stands out against the vegetation in agricultural fields around Tulare Lake near Corcoran, California, in this enhanced color i...

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Celebrating Science at the White House Easter Egg Roll

Former NASA astronaut Alvin Drew shakes hands with a guest during the White House Easter Egg Roll in this photo from Monday, April 10, 2023.

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X-59 Gets Its Tail

NASA’s X-59 sits in support framing while undergoing the installation of its lower empennage, or tail section, at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmd...

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Schulz, Snoopy Visit NASA Headquarters

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson (left), Jeannie Schulz, widow of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, and Snoopy are all smiles during a Wednesday, April...

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Battling Bots

Industrial-size robots built by high school teams compete against each other in a game at Rocket City Regional, Alabama’s annual FIRST Robotics Compet...

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Artemis II Crew Appears on "The Late Show"

The Artemis II crew appeared on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on April 5, 2023.

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Artemis II Crew Revealed

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen (from left) and NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch greet the crowd at Ellin...

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Patagonian Plankton Swirls

Phytoplankton create rich blooms of color in the Atlantic Ocean near South America in this enhanced color image from Dec. 2, 2014.

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NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 Sets Record

Guinness World Records officially designated NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 as the heaviest self-powered vehicle, weighing approximately 6.65 million po...

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Crew-4’s Museum Field Trip

NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, left, Jessica Watkins, center, and Bob Hines, right, take in the view from the interactive recreation of the Internati...

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Earth’s Radiant Atmosphere

The last rays of an orbital sunset illuminate the Earth's atmosphere in this Feb. 17, 2023, photograph from the International Space Station as it orbi...

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Working on Artemis II

A technician works on part of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s core stage for Artemis II in this March 11, 2023, image.

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Celebrating Women in STEM

Deputy director for technology and research investments at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Christyl Johnson, speaks during a panel discussion ...

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Space Station Star Trail

Stars leave streaks of light in concentric circles in this Mar 16, 2012, view from the International Space Station.

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Photo Archivist and Photographer Aubrey Gemignani

“I think I’m always seeking out projects that help people feel seen. And maybe that’s why I got so into photography initially. I struggle with that my...

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Louisiana’s Rice Fields

This Feb 3, 2023, enhanced-color image from Landsat 9 highlights a green and blue patchwork pattern in flooded rice fields in southwestern Louisiana.

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Galactic Giants Titan and Saturn

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, looks quite small in comparison to the giant planet behind it in this natural color view from the Cassini-Huygens spacec...

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Venus' Volcano

Maat Mons, a volcano on Venus that has shown signs of a recent eruption, is in the black square near the planet’s equator in this annotated, computer-...

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Sunrise Over the Pacific

An orbital sunrise reveals cloud tops above the Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand as the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above on F...

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Diana Trujillo Sparks Students' Curiosity

Elementary school students eagerly raise their hands as Diana Trujillo, technical group supervisor for sequence planning and execution and tactical mi...

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Crew-5’s Nighttime Splashdown

The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with Crew-5 mission members aboard on Saturday, March 11, 2023.

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Hubble Spots a Star-Forming Spiral

The irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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A Sliver of the Sun

The Moon is seen passing in front of the Sun during a solar eclipse from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park, Washington on Aug. 21, 2017.

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Digital Lead Tahira Allen

"…You cannot grow without approaching the fear, embracing the fear, and then pushing past it." — Tahira Allen, Digital Lead, NASA's Planetary Science ...

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Eileen Collins, Discovery Pilot

Former astronaut Eileen Collins sits at the pilot’s station aboard space shuttle Discovery during a hotfiring procedure on Feb. 2, 1995.

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Dumbbell Nebula Pumps Out Light Show

Infrared light surges out from the Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 27, in this Aug. 10, 2011, image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

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Deputy Associate Administrator for STEM Engagement Kris Brown

"…Yes, you must be good at math and do the academic work to prepare you to do the kind of work we do. But in the end, it really comes down to unleashi...

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NASA's ER-2 Flying High

A NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft soars upward at the L.A. county airshow in this image from Mar. 25, 2023.

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Pre-Dawn Launch for Crew-6

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries the company's Dragon spacecraft with NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission members aboard in this five-minute long exposure ta...

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Cyclone Freddy is pictured from the space station

Cyclone Freddy is pictured northeast of the island nation of Mauritius from the International Space Station.

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Venus, Jupiter, Moon Shine from Space Station

Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly snapped this photo of the Earth’s crescent, the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter (from top to bottom) on Aug. 6, 2015, while...

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Crew-6 Preparations Continue

The sun rises on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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John Glenn Goes Into Orbit

Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) on Feb. 20, 1962.

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A Blue Farewell

A blue halo glows around Pluto’s receding crescent in this parting image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015.

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Social Media Lead Courtney Lee

“I wanted to create a game because right now, a lot of what we [at NASA] make is geared toward people who already know science...But there are huge au...

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NASA Celebrates National Engineers Week: Perspectives from Jamesa Stokes

As NASA celebrates National Engineers Week, NASA Glenn gets perspectives from materials research engineer Jamesa Stokes.

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Let’s Roll, Crew-6!

Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev, Pilot Warren "Woody" Hoburg, Commander Stephen Bowen, and Mission Specialist Sultan Alnedayi, the SpaceX Crew-6 mis...

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Practicing Our Moonwalk

Two Joint Extravehicular Activity Test Team Field Test #3 (JETT3) mission members work on sample collection on the remote, rocky, high-desert terrain ...

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The Himalayan Peaks

The Himalayan peaks are pictured in this oblique photograph from the International Space Station.

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Space Station Visits South Padre Island

While the International Space Station orbited over the Gulf of Mexico on Sept. 19, 2022, NASA astronaut Bob Hines captured this image of South Padre I...

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Eagle's Nest

An American bald eagle occupies a nest near Kennedy Parkway North at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 8, 2023.

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Bringing More Power to Space Station

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata is pictured in his Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or spacesuit, during his second spacewalk ...

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NASA’s Modern History Makers: Jarred Wilhite

Jarred Wilhite is a NASA Glenn aerospace engineer who has been instrumental to Artemis and the X-57 Maxwell all-electric aircraft.

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A Visit to NISAR

Officials from NASA, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and the Indian Embassy visit a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on F...

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Spiral Galaxy Spans Space

This Jan. 10, 2013, composite image of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 combines visible light images from the European Southern Observatory's ...

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Hubble’s New View of the Tarantula Nebula

A snapshot of the Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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Astronauts' View of the Moon

The waxing gibbous Moon stands out in this Jan. 2, 2023, image from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above the southern Indian ...

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Flora, Fauna at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

In this photo from Oct. 14, 2008, a great blue heron stands watch among a pond of water lilies on NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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Senior Communications Manager Dewayne Washington

"If you tell an artist what to paint, they will paint it. But, if you tell them what you’re looking for, they’ll paint that – and there’s a difference...

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Volcanic Plumes in Chile

Chile’s Villarrica volcano emits steam and other volcanic gases in this photo taken from the International Space Station on Jan. 17, 2023. The gases c...

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Hubble Views a Stellar Duo in Orion Nebula

The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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Day of Remembrance

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson lays a wreath at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial.

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President Reagan Calls for Space Station

On January 25, 1984, President Ronald Reagan used his State of the Union address to call for NASA to build a permanent manned space station.

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Public Affairs Officer Tiffany Fairley

"My big takeaway is: it's okay to take chances. Sometimes we step in our own way and we need to accept help." — Tiffany Fairley, Public Affairs Office...

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Astronaut Nicole Mann Makes Her First Spacewalk

Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk installing a modification kit on the International Space Station's starboard truss struct...

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Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk

Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk installing a modification kit on the International Space Station's starboard truss struct...

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Webb Unveils Dark Side

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has obtained an in-depth inventory of the deepest, coldest ices measured ...

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Suiting Up for Their First Spacewalk

Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are pictured on Jan. 12, 2023, during a...

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Snowy Celestial Mountains

Snow and ice cover mountains of the Tien Shan range in this photograph taken from the International Space Station (ISS) on Feb. 9, 2022.

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A Well-traveled Beagle

Snoopy, the zero gravity indicator that flew aboard Orion during the Artemis I mission, wears a smile after being unpacked from his transport case on ...

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Atlanta Shines at Night

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthplace, Atlanta, Georgia, is seen on January 20, 2013, in this image from the International Space Station as it flew app...

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Hubble Visits Galactic Neighbors

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy LEDA 48062 in the constellation Perseus.

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Fun with Fluid Physics

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio is all smiles as he observes the behavior of a free-flying water bubble inside the Intern...

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Inspecting Orion

The Artemis I Orion capsule is secured on a platform inside the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPFF) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this im...

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Space Station Peek

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann peers through one of the seven windows in the cupola, the International Space Station's "...

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Prepping to Study the World’s Water

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft is in this early morning photo from Dec. 14, 2022, as preparations for launch continued.

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Hubble Gazes at Colorful Cluster of Scattered Stars

The scattered stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355 are strewn across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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Space Station Swings by Kennedy

On April 8, 2022, this 30-second exposure captured the International Space Station as it passed over the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spac...

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Crew Recovers SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance

Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft shortly after it landed on Friday, May 6, 2022 with Crew-3 NASA astronauts Raja ...

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Bird, Rocket Prepare for Flight at Kennedy Space Center

An osprey is seen in front of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as l...

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HIRISE Spots Martian Crater Deposits

This image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft’s HIRISE instrument on Oct. 23, 2022, of the northern plains of Arabia Terra show...

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Starry Wreath in Pegasus

The James Webb Space Telescope spies the spiral galaxy NGC 7469, located 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, in this imag...

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Apollo 8 Astronaut Bill Anders Captures Earthrise

On Dec. 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon, and the first to witness th...

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Spacewalker Josh Cassada prepares to deploy a roll-out solar array

NASA spacewalker Josh Cassada prepares a roll-out solar array for its deployment on the International Space Station.

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Spacewalker Josh Cassada Prepares to Deploy Roll-out Solar Array

NASA spacewalker Josh Cassada prepares a roll-out solar array for its deployment on the International Space Station.

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Space Station Snaps Hawaii’s Volcanoes

Hawaii's big island and its two major volcanoes Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa rest under a partly cloudy sky on Feb. 8, 2022, in this view from the Internat...

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Webb Uncovers Young Stars’ Outbursts in Carina Nebula

By taking a closer look at one of Webb’s first images, the iconic Cosmic Cliffs, scientists have found dozens of energetic jets and outflows from youn...

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Saying 'Farewell' to InSight Mars Lander

The lander's journey of discovery into the interior structure and composition of Mars has come to a close.

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NASA, Moog SureFly Test Aircraft Noise

The Moog Surefly vehicle hovers above Cincinnati Municipal Airport in this photo from summer 2022.

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Hubble Views a Star-Studded Cosmic Cloud

A portion of the open cluster NGC 6530 appears as a roiling wall of smoke studded with stars in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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Hubble Captures Majestic Barred Spiral

Against an inky black backdrop, the blue swirls of barred spiral galaxy NGC 6956 stand out radiantly.

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SWOT Satellite, Falcon 9 Rocket Approach Pad

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft onboard is seen as it rolls out to the pad, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2...

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Gemini-VII and Gemini-VI-A Meet at Last

In this photo from Dec. 15, 1965, the Gemini-VII spacecraft is seen from the Gemini-VI-A spacecraft during their rendezvous mission in space.

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Orion Comes Home to Earth

At 12:40 p.m. EST, Dec. 11, 2022, the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a 25.5-day mission to the Mo...

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Orion Gazes at Moon Before Return to Earth

On flight day 20 of the Artemis I mission, Dec. 5, 2022, Orion captured the Moon on the day of return powered flyby, the final major engine maneuver o...

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Pioneer 10 Flies by Jupiter

In this illustration by Rick Giudice from August 1973, the Pioneer 10 spacecraft passes by the gas giant planet Jupiter.

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Apollo 17 Astronauts Capture Iconic Blue Marble 50 Years Ago

This classic photograph of the Earth was taken on Dec. 7, 1972, by the crew of the final Apollo mission, Apollo 17, as they traveled toward the moon o...

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Endeavour Crew Make Repairs to Hubble

In this Dec. 1993, onboard view from Space Shuttle mission STS-61 shows astronauts Story Musgrave and Jeffrey Hoffman's Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA)...

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Orion Approaches Moon Before Return Flyby

On the 19th day of the Artemis I mission, Dec. 4, 2022, a camera mounted on the Orion spacecraft captured the Moon just in frame as Orion prepared for...

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Hubble Spies Emission Nebula-Star Cluster Duo

This whole collection is NGC 1858, an open star cluster in the northwest region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way tha...

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Orion’s Moon Crater Close-up

On the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, Nov. 21, 2022, the Orion spacecraft’s optical navigation camera captured black-and-white images of craters ...

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Kamala Harris and French President Macron Meet at NASA Headquarters

Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks prior to meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson for an Earth S...

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Orion, Earth, and the Moon

In this image, Orion captures a unique view of Earth and the Moon, seen from a camera mounted on one of the spacecraft's solar arrays.

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Orion Approaches Moon for Outbound Powered Flyby

A portion of the far side of the Moon looms large just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this image taken Nov. 21, the sixth day of the Artemis I mission...

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Astronaut Snoopy 'Lands' in New York

The annual Thanksgiving event was held Nov. 24, 2022.

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Snoopy Hitches Ride to Space Aboard Artemis I

Snoopy, the zero-gravity indicator for NASA’s Artemis I flight test, floating in space Nov. 20, 2022, while attached to his tether in the Orion spacec...

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Orion’s Optical Navigation Camera Captures Earth

NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft snapped this black and white photo of Earth on Nov. 17, 2022, the second day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission.

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Orion Approaches Moon

On Nov. 20, the fifth day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, a camera mounted on the tip of one of Orion’s solar array wings captured this footage of ...

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Hubble Views a Billowing Cosmic Cloud

A small, dense cloud of gas and dust called CB 130-3 blots out the center of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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First Nations Launch Teams Build Rockets

Stephanie Yazzie, Northern Arizona University student and NAU Space Jacks team member, poses with her team’s rocket in this photo from the 2019 NASA F...

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We Are Going: Artemis I Launches

Our Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, ...

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Moonlit Launch Preparations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

The Moon is seen rising above NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch co...

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Liftoff! Successful Launch for JPSS-2, LOFTID

The Moon makes a stunning backdrop for the successful launch of the third in a series of polar-orbiting weather satellites for the National Oceanic an...

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Celebrating Native American Heritage Month with Jerry C. Elliott

Jerry Elliott, a former NASA physicist and one of the first Native Americans hired at NASA's Johnson Space Center, speaks during Native American Herit...

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Astronauts Jessica Watkins and Bob Hines Study Farming in Space

In this image from June 24, 2022, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Bob Hines work on the XROOTS space botany investigation, which used the Internat...

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Blood Moon Total Eclipse at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

This composite made from ten images shows the progression of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse above the Vehicle Assembly Building, Nov. 8, 2022, ...

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Artemis I Glows After Sunset

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard was seen lit by spotlights atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as prep...

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Thumbs Up from NASA Astronaut Nicole A. Mann

Selected as an astronaut candidate in June 2013, Nicole A. Mann is the first Native American woman from NASA in space.

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NASA ABoVE Team Studies Thawing Permafrost, Lakes

Since 2015, scientists participating in NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) have been studying the impacts of climate change on Eart...

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Stress Testing Super Hornet’s Wings

Teams at the NASA Armstrong Research Center recently completed stress testing on the Navy’s F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft, seen here in a top view whi...

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Grinning Gourd Decorates Milky Way

While observing the outer region of the Milky Way galaxy, our Spitzer Telescope captured this infrared image of a cloud of gas and dust that looks lik...

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Webb Reveals New Details in Pillars of Creation

Our James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new image of the famous Pillars of Creation—first imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995—that reve...

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Hubble Peers at Mysterious Cosmic ‘Keyhole’

This peculiar portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases NGC 1999, a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion.

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Lucy Spots Earth and Moon

On Oct. 13, 2022, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and the Moon from 890,000 miles (1.4 million km) away.

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Mapping the Entire Night Sky

This mosaic is composed of images covering the entire sky, taken by the ​Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) as part of WISE’s 2012 All-Sky Dat...

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Jupiter in Ganymede’s Shadow

During its 40th close pass by Jupiter, our Juno spacecraft saw Ganymede cast a large, dark spot on the planet on Feb. 25, 2022.

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IXPE Measures Exploded Star Remains

When a massive star collapsed in the Cassiopeia constellation, it generated a supernova explosion with some of the fastest shockwaves in the Milky Way...

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Hubble Views a Turbulent Stellar Nursery

The lives of newborn stars are tempestuous, as this image of the Herbig-Haro objects HH 1 and HH 2 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts.

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Crew-4 Members Pose for Pre-Return Photo

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 members Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Samantha Cristoforetti link arms for a portrait on Oct. 14, 2022, just be...

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Aerial Leaf Peeping in Adirondack Park

Our Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 acquired this vibrant image of deciduous trees and conifers in the Adirondack Mountains in northeast New Yo...

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Safe Return for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 Astronauts

After 170 days in orbit, NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti saf...

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JPSS-2 Stacked Atop LOFTID Spacecraft

JPSS-2 Stacked Atop LOFTID Spacecraft.

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Systems Engineer Andres Rivera

“A lot of people in similar positions as myself, we struggle a lot with confidence and imposter syndrome – I try to help people see that there’s an op...

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Greetings from the Cupola

Expedition 67 flight engineers Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins are all smiles in this Sept. 12, 2022, image from the International Space Station cupola.

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Sun Rings in New Month with Strong Flare

The Sun released an X1 solar flare, captured by our Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on Oct. 2, 2022.

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Hubble Snaps a Pair of Interacting Galaxies

The two interacting galaxies making up the pair known as Arp-Madore 608-333 seem to float side by side in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Te...

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Mission Casts Long Exposure Light Beam

In this 20-second exposure from Oct. 5, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew...

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Solid Science from Serena Auñón-Chancellor

Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor installs samples for the Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification (MICS) experiment aboard the Internatio...

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Astronaut Nicole Mann Trains in T-38

Astronaut Nicole Mann sits inside a T-38 trainer jet at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas in this image from Nov. 15, 2018.

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Staring Into the Hurricane's Eye

On September 28, the Landsat 8 satellite passed directly over Ian’s eye as the storm approached southwest Florida. The natural-color image above was a...

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DART’s Penultimate View

This is the last complete image of the asteroid Dimorphos, as seen by our Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) 2 seconds before impact.

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Neptune Shows Off Its Rings in Near-Infrared Light

On Sept. 21, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope delivered the clearest view of Neptune’s rings in more than 30 years.

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Ellen Ochoa Suits Up

Astronaut Ellen Ochoa, STS-110 flight engineer, wears a launch and entry suit as part of water survival training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in...

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DART Team Celebrates Successful Collision

In this image from Sept. 26, 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) team, Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, and guests at Johns Hopkins University Appl...

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Golden DART’s Galactic Unboxing

Technicians prepare to move NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft from a shipping container onto a work stand inside the Astrotech...

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John W. Young’s Lunar Salute

Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the United States flag at the De...

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Endeavour Gets a Piggyback Ride

Our Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ferries the Space Shuttle Endeavour over the Johnson Space Center in Houston in this Sept. 20, 2012, image.

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Frank Rubio Trains for Spacewalk

In this March 7, 2022, image, astronaut Frank Rubio gets help putting on a spacesuit at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center...

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A Stormy Stellar Nursery

This cloudy, turbulent scene shows a stellar nursery within the Large Magellanic Cloud known as N159.

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Michael E. López-Alegría Poses During Spacewalk

Astronaut Michael E. López-Alegría, mission specialist, is photographed in this close-up view during one of the STS-92 sessions of extravehicular acti...

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A Bird's-Eye View of the Vehicle Assembly Base

A little blue heron is seen in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building as preparations for launch continue, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Sp...

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Hubble Studies a Spectacular Spiral

The galaxy NGC 1961 unfurls its gorgeous spiral arms in this newly released image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

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Snowcapped Mountains in Western China

The International Space Station captured a portion of the Tanggula Mountains near Hala Lake from 260 miles above the Earth on Sept. 5th, 2022.

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Setting the Clock on a Stellar Explosion

A new image of SNR 0519-69.0 shows the debris of a star that exploded several hundred years ago in Earth’s timeframe.

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Reflecting on President Kennedy's Moonshot Speech

On Sept. 12, 1962, President Kennedy speaks before a crowd of 35,000 people at Rice University in Houston.

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Mediterranean Cities Light Up the Night

This nighttime photograph from the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbited 261 miles above looks across the Mediterranean Sea from north Afric...

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NASA's Hubble Finds Spiraling Stars, Providing Window into Early Universe

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Voyager 1’s Mission to the Outer Planet Begins

The Voyager mission was designed to take advantage of a rare geometric arrangement of the outer planets in the late 1970s and the 1980s which allowed ...

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A Cosmic Tarantula, Caught by NASA’s Webb

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The Crater Farm

Three impact craters are displayed in this three-dimensional perspective view of the surface of Venus taken NASA's Magellan, the first deep space prob...

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Lacerta’s Star Outshines a Galaxy

A little-studied star, TYC 3203-450-1, upstages a galaxy in this Hubble Telescope image from December 2017.

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A Peek Into Jupiter’s Inner Life

Auroras and hazes glow in this composite image of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam).

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Early Morning Artemis I

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, as...

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Apollo 15 Catches Earth on the Horizon

This view of the crescent Earth over the Moon's horizon was taken during the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission.

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NASA T-38s Soar Over Artemis I

​T-38 planes are a fixture of astronaut training, making pilots and mission specialists think quicky in changing situations.

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Milky Way Time Lapse

This time lapse of the Milky Way Galaxy taken from the International Space Station (ISS) also captured a lightning strike on Earth so bright that it l...

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The Historic X-1E Looks Forward

The supersonic X-1E research aircraft was the last of NASA's experimental X-1 series of aircraft.

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NASA's Europa Clipper in High Bay 1

The core of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has taken center stage in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in S...

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Moon Over New Orleans

A paddlewheeler makes its way up the Mississippi River as the moon rises over New Orleans on Sunday evening, Aug. 22, 2021.

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Voyager 1 Sees the Great Red Spot

Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager probes are NASA’s longest-operating mission and the only spacecraft ever to explore interstellar space.

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We Are Going: Artemis I on Launch Pad

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher as it is rolled up the ramp at Launch Pad 39...

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Perennial Perseids

The Perseid meteors are an annual event many skywatchers look forward to, as they often produce lots of shooting stars to enjoy.

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Aquanaut Gets to Work Underwater

A team of roboticists from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have applied their expertise in making robots for deep space to designing a fully el...

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Hubble Peers at Celestial Cloudscape

This celestial cloudscape from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful region in the Orion Nebula surrounding the Herbig-Haro object...

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Artemis I Moonikin Campos Inspection and Install

Artemis I Moonikin Campos Inspection and Install

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NASA’s B377SGT Super Guppy Turbine Cargo Airplane lands at Moffett Field at NASA Ames

In this picture from 2016, our Super Guppy, a specialized aircraft with a unique hinged nose, lands at Moffett Field at NASA Ames.

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Moon Mosaic

This Moon-mosaic is comprised of 1,231 images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's (LRO) Narrow-Angle Camera (NAC) in the summer of 2018.

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Curiosity's Dusty Selfie

Since August 2012, Curiosity has been exploring 3-mile-high Mt. Sharp in Gale Crater. The rover has climbed more than 2,000 feet (612 meters), reachin...

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Hubble Gazes at a Star-Studded Skyfield

This star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6638 in the constellation Sagittarius.

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Ice Stars

Like distant galaxies amid clouds of interstellar dust, chunks of sea ice drift through graceful swirls of grease ice in the frigid waters of Foxe Bas...

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Wildflowers in Bloom at Kennedy Space Center

With wildflowers surrounding the view, NASA’s Space Launch System Moon rocket – carried atop the crawler-transporter 2 – arrives at Launch Pad 39B at ...

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Webb Captures Stellar Gymnastics in The Cartwheel Galaxy

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NASA Pays Tribute to Nichelle Nichols

NASA celebrates the life of Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek actor, trailblazer, and role model, who symbolized to so many what was possible. She partnered...

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Zeta Ophiuchi: A Star With a Complicated Past

Zeta Ophiuchi is a star with a complicated past, having likely been ejected from its birthplace by a powerful stellar explosion. A new look by NASA's ...

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Vortices Near Jupiter’s North Pole

As NASA’s Juno mission completed its 43rd close flyby of Jupiter on July 5, 2022, its JunoCam instrument captured this striking view of vortices — hur...

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Preparing for the Next Generation of Flight

Before NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft takes to the skies, plenty of testing happens to ensure a safe first flight.

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Heading into (Orbital) Sunrise

The crew doesn't just snap pretty pictures; the research aboard the station benefits humanity in numerous ways.

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Blue Ripples on a Red Planet

This image shows a variety of wind-related features on the Red Planet near the center of Gamboa Crater.

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50 Years of Landsat

We're celebrating 50 years of Landsat.

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It's CERTAIN

HDV is developing the necessary systems to enable urban drone flights that travel beyond visual sight.

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Apollo 11 Crew Trains for Excursion on the Sea of Tranquility

The Apollo 11 crew simulates deploying and using lunar tools on the surface of the Moon during a training exercise on April 22, 1969.

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A Supernova's Shockwaves

Supernovas are the explosive deaths of the universe's most massive stars.

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A View from Above: Zero Gravity Facility Circa 1966

This tunnel view looking up from level 5 is of the Zero Gravity Facility at Lewis Research Center, now known as the Glenn Research Center.

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SpaceX Dragon Heads to Station on 25th Resupply Mission

A SpaceX Falcon 9 soars upward after lifting off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 14, 2022.

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James Webb Space Telescope Senior Project Scientist John Mather

Senior Project Scientist John Mather speaks with the media after the release of the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope .

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President Biden and the World Preview Webb Telescope's First Image

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson describes the first full-color image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

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