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APOD: 2013 January 25 – Matijevic Hill Panorama
APOD: 2013 January 25 – Matijevic Hill Panorama

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2013 January 25 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss  …

F-1 Engine Gas Generator Test at Marshall
F-1 Engine Gas Generator Test at Marshall

The gas generator from an F-1 engine is test-fired at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., on Jan.…

Moons at Work
Moons at Work

The ring-region Saturnian moons Prometheus and Pan are both caught "herding" their respective rings in this image. Through their gravitational…

Spacecraft Checkout
Spacecraft Checkout

Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-K,…

APOD: 2013 January 24 – ISS and the Summer Milky Way
APOD: 2013 January 24 – ISS and the Summer Milky Way

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2013 January 24 – ISS… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss…

Large Magellanic Cloud
Large Magellanic Cloud

Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in…

Solar Conveyor Belt
Solar Conveyor Belt

The Sun has a conveyor belt, called the meridional plasma flow, in which plasma flows along the surface toward the…

Terrestrial Atmosphere ITM Processes
Terrestrial Atmosphere ITM Processes

This model is an indication of the complexity of the ionosphere-thermosphere-mesosphere (ITM) system of planet Earth and the range of…

Anatomy of the Sun
Anatomy of the Sun

Image of the Sun with cut-away portion showing the solar interior with text descriptions of the regions.

Solar Rotation Varies by Latitude
Solar Rotation Varies by Latitude

The Sun rotates on its axis once in about 27 days. This rotation was first detected by observing the motion…