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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this photo of peak fall colors around Ottawa, the capital of Canada....
Orange tree leaves cover the left side of the aerial image of Ottawa, Canada. To the right, streets, buildings, and other city infrastructure is visible. A waterway splits the image horizontally through the middle; another river also travels from top to bottom slightly right of center.
The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 265 miles above the U.S. state...
The waxing gibbous Moon looks nearly full in the darkness of space.
NASA's Europa Clipper is seen here on Aug. 21, 2024, in a clean room at the agency's Kennedy Space Center...
Large black rectangular solar arrays stretch out from the foreground to the back.
Chile pepper plants growing in the Advanced Plant Habitat aboard the International Space Station bore fruit in the late summer...
A small flower's white petals stretch outward in the center of the image. The petals are slightly curly at the edges. There are bright and dark green leaves of varying sizes as well as flower buds around the flower. Other plants are out of focus in the background at left.
NGC 1333 is a nearby star-forming region in the Perseus constellation. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope surveyed a large portion...
A nebula made up of cloudy gas and dust in the form of soft and wispy clouds and, in the center, thin and highly detailed layers pressed close together. Large, bright stars surrounded by six long points of light are dotted over the image, as well as some small, point-like stars embedded in the clouds. The clouds are lit up in blue close to the stars; orange colors show clouds that glow in infrared light.
iss071e522460 (Aug. 20, 2024) --- The dome-shaped Brandburg Massif, near the Atlantic coast of central Namibia, containing Brandberg Mountain, the...
The dome-shaped Brandburg Massif, near the Atlantic coast of central Namibia, containing Brandberg Mountain, the African nation's highest peak and ancient rock paintings going back at least 2,000 years, is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above.
Tiny satellites, also known as CubeSats, are pictured after being deployed into Earth orbit from a small satellite orbital deployer...
Tiny satellites, also known as CubeSats, are pictured after being deployed into Earth orbit from a small satellite orbital deployer on the outside of the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module.
Construction of the world’s largest wind tunnel and its original 40- by 80-foot test section.
Black and white photo of a wind tunnel at Ames under construction. A Navy blimp is flying in the background.
In this image, PPE engineers successfully tested the integration of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s thruster with Maxar’s power procession unit and Xenon...
In this image, PPE engineers successfully tested the integration of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s thruster with Maxar’s power procession unit and Xenon Flow Controller.
A vivid aurora streams over the Earth as the International Space Station orbited 273 miles above the southern Indian Ocean...
Aurora Over the Earth
NASA T-38s fly in formation above the Space Launch System rocket on Launch Pad 39B.
NASA T-38s fly in formation above the Space Launch System rocket on Launch Pad 39B.
Dense bands of dust streamed offshore from southern Morocco in summer 2024. The VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on...
At center, light brown sand wafts over the dark blue ocean. Some white clouds are over the ocean at left and a brown land mass is on the right.
Backdropped against the blue and white Earth 130 nautical miles below, astronaut Mark C. Lee tests the new Simplified Aid...
An astronaut in a white spacesuit floats untethered in space, next to a spacecraft. White clouds on Earth form a backdrop to this image.
The Pegasus Dwarf spheroidal galaxy, also known as Andromeda VI, is one of at least 13 dwarf galaxies that orbit...
Several stars shine against black space. A few foreground stars with diffraction spikes throughout.
When this picture was taken in July 1994, Dr. Irene Duhart Long was director of the Biomedical Operations and Research...
Dr. Long, an African American woman with curly hair, poses for a picture while leaning over a white microscope. She wears large aviator-shaped glasses and a black and white patterned top and pants.
The Dash 7 that will be modified into a hybrid electric research vehicle under NASA’s Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD)...
A four engine turboprop aircraft wrapped in a red and white livery with logos and names of each partner on the project sits under the lights inside an aircraft hangar. On the ground in front of the plane is an electric powertrain with an electric motor and battery pack that will soon be swapped out with one of the aircraft’s traditional engines to form a hybrid electric system.
The International Space Station was orbiting on a northeast track 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean when this photograph captured...
The beginning rays of an orbital sunrise illuminate Earth's atmosphere, a slight, blue arc across the center of the image. Earth is below, totally dark, matching the blackness of space above.
A supermoon rises over Huntsville, Alabama, home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Aug. 19. Visible through Wednesday, Aug. 21,...
A super blue moon is to the left of the replica Saturn V at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Slow and steady wins the race for this gopher tortoise, ambling along the Launch Pad 39B beach road on NASA's...
A gopher tortoise walks toward the camera along a gravelly road with one front leg and one hind leg in the air. The scales on its legs are in sharp detail, while the immediate foreground and background are blurry.
A training model of the sample return capsule is seen is seen during a drop test in preparation for the...
An orange and white parachute is visible at top right. It is attached to a training model of a capsule. The black and white cone-like capsule is quite small in this image. The pale ground below makes up the background of the image.
The subject of this week’s circular Hubble Picture of the Week is situated in the Perseus Cluster, also known as...
An almost circular galaxy is at the center of the image. It has a glowing bar stretching across its core; from the ends of the bar, thin spiral arms wrap around the galaxy to form a closed disk. The arms are fuzzy from the dust and stars they contain. The galaxy is on a black, mostly empty background. A few foreground stars with cross-shaped diffraction spikes can be seen, as well as some distant galaxies in the background.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station snapped this photo while in orbit over southeast Brazil. The image focuses on...
A multi-colored area of land is split horizontally by a cloudy blue river. The river cuts into the land at many points. The land is various shades of green, red, and yellow. Clumps of white clouds dot the top part and a little bit of the bottom land.
Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida practice the Artemis mission emergency escape, or egress, procedures on Friday, Aug....
Four people dressed in orange astronaut suits and white helmets with black visors begin to get out of a large white metal basket that is lifted some inches above the ground.
This view of the Earth's crest over the lunar horizon was taken during the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission. Apollo...
The Earth appears in the blackness of space as a slim white crescent. In the foreground is the rough, rocky gray surface of the Moon.
In this image of the Serpens Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found a grouping of aligned protostellar...
A rectangular image with black vertical rectangles at the bottle left and top right to indicate missing data. A young star-forming region is filled with wispy orange, red, and blue layers of gas and dust. The upper left corner of the image is filled with mostly orange dust, and within that orange dust, there are several small red plumes of gas that extend from the top left to the bottom right, at the same angle. The center of the image is filled with mostly blue gas. At the center, there is one particularly bright star, that has an hourglass shadow above and below it. To the right of that is what looks a vertical eye-shaped crevice with a bright star at the center. The gas to the right of the crevice is a darker orange. Small points of light are sprinkled across the field, brightest sources in the field have extensive eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of the Webb Telescope.
The International Space Station's "window to the world" is pictured from the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module.
The International Space Station's "window to the world" is pictured from the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module.
Interior of the 20-foot diameter vacuum tank at the NASA Lewis Research Center’s Electric Propulsion Laboratory.
Two workers in a large vacuum tank.
Erosion, tectonic uplift, and a human-built dam have all helped shape the Upper Lake Powell area in Utah.
Erosion, tectonic uplift, and a human-built dam have all helped shape the Upper Lake Powell area in Utah.
Technicians move NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to accommodate installation of its five-panel solar array...
Technicians move NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to accommodate installation of its five-panel solar array at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Employees from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida watch as teams with Exploration Ground Systems transport the agency’s powerful SLS...
The Artemis II rocket core stage, a long orange cylinder with four red boosters) is on its side as it rolls into the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center while employees watch. The VAB is a tall rectangular building with the American flag and NASA "meatball" logo painted on its left and right side, respectively. There is also an Artemis logo on a lower portion of the building.
In the arid outback of Western Australia, miners have excavated rust-colored soil to reach the precious minerals below. The open...
An overhead view of a mine in the dry outback of Australia. Most of the image is dominated by rusty red soil. Miners have excavated the soil in places, revealing an off-white color in these open pits. Some water is visible as well, in ponds.
Ranger 7 took this image, the first picture of the Moon by a U.S. spacecraft, on July 31, 1964, about...
A black and white image of the Moon's surface. Many craters of different sizes can be seen. There is a grid of marks overlaid on the photo.
"And don't be intimidated or influenced by an emblem or your perception of what kind of people are behind that...
Transportation Officer Melissa Coleman stands in front of a white van with the NASA emblem on it.
A rabbit sits in the underbrush at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The center shares a border with the...
A brown rabbit's back and head are just visible between blades of green grass.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a wonderfully detailed snapshot of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430 that lies 100...
A spiral galaxy with three prominent arms wrapping around it. The galaxy holds plenty of extra gas and dark dust between the arms. There are shining blue points throughout the arms and some patches of gas out beyond the galaxy’s edge, where stars are forming. The center of the galaxy also shines brightly. It is on a dark background where some small orange dots mark distant galaxies.
From left to right, NASA astronaut candidates Anil Menon, Deniz Burnham, and Marcos Berrios pose for a photograph in front...
Three astronauts have their arms over each other's shoulders as they smile for the camera. From left to right, they are Anil Menon, a Ukrainian and Indian American man, Deniz Burnham, a white woman, and Marcos Berríos, a Latino man. All three wear blue jumpsuits with various patches sewn on, including a NASA patch, a patch with their name, and an American flag patch. The picture shows them from the knees up. In the distance behind them, beyond a grassy area, are the Artemis I rocket and spacecraft. The launch pad is out of focus, but the SLS's distinctive butterscotch orange color can be made out.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Saturn on July 4, 2020. Two of Saturn's icy moons are clearly...
Saturn and its rings appear to glow against the darkness of space. At right and at middle bottom, two small dots can be seen: they are two of Saturn's moons - Mimas and Enceladus, respectively. Saturn itself takes on a reddish tint in its northern hemisphere and blue at its bottom. The planet's concentric rings are an icy white.
Astronauts Eileen M. Collins, STS-93 mission commander, and Jeffrey S. Ashby, pilot, peruse checklists on Columbia's middeck.
Two astronauts, one male (back) and one female (front) float inside the space shuttle. The woman in the front smiles at the camera while holding a spiral bound notebook in her right hand. She is wearing a blue polo shirt and blue pants with utility pockets on the thigh, as well as a gold watch on her left wrist. Her short brown hair floats upward.
The barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 is interacting with a smaller galaxy to the upper left. The smaller galaxy has...
In this composite image, a large spiral galaxy has some of its superheated gas stolen by a smaller, nearby neighbor. Centered in the frame, NGC 6872 is a large spiral galaxy with two elongated arms that stretch toward our upper right and lower left. Near the white dot at the heart of the galaxy, a cloud of neon purple tints the arms, which appear steel blue at the tips. The purple represents hot gas detected by Chandra. Just to the upper left of NGC 6872 is a second spiral galaxy. Its spiraling arms are much smaller, but the bright white dot at its core is quite large, suggesting a supermassive black hole. Some of the steel blue matter and gas from NGC 6872’s lower arm appears to be floating toward the smaller galaxy, likely pulled toward the supermassive black hole.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, poses for a photo beside the U.S. flag that has been placed on the...
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin looks at a United States flag as he stands to the right of it. He is wearing a white spacesuit. The lunar module is on the left side of the flag. Bootprints in the gray lunar soil trail from the right in the foreground to the gold lunar module in the back. The darkness of space provides a contrasting backdrop to the image. The faint crosses on the image are markings that are used to calibrate distance and heights in photos taken on the lunar surface.