Image of the DayThis image, captured by the Landsat-8 satellite, shows the view over Western Australia on May 12, 2013.Our Milky Way's central black hole has a leak.Legendary actor and diplomat, Sidney Poitier, visited JPL in 1979.This image shows the James Webb Space Telescope atop its launch vehicle, but before it was encapsulated in the rocket...This image shows knots of cold, dense interstellar gas where new stars are forming.NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft (QueSST) is pictured here at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in California, wrapped up in...A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard is seen at Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday,...NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, launched aboard Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021.This composite image made from seven frames shows the International Space Station, with a crew of seven onboard, in silhouette...Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is rolled out to the launch pad, Thursday, Dec....In this image, the COWVR and TEMPEST instruments are shown in the trunk of the cargo craft.The Earth's solstices come twice a year. For the Northern Hemisphere, this year's winter solstice happens on Dec. 21.These blueprints of the James Webb Space Telescope were created as a prop for a video series.In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a side-on view of NGC 3568, a barred spiral galaxy roughly...This Hubble Space Telescope image captures a portion of the reflection nebula IC 2631, which contains a protostar, the hot,...Dr. Eugene Parker (seated), a pioneer in heliophysics, watches the liftoff of the mission named in his honor.IIn this image, a Hayabusa2 sample canister containing sample fragments of the asteroid Ryugu is transferred from JAXA, the Japan...Each December the Geminids meteor showers appear in the night sky.Snoopy, the Zero G Indicator for the Artemis I mission, was delivered to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 2...A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Thursday,...This stunning image captures a small region on the edge of the inky Coalsack Nebula, or Caldwell 99.NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, or LCRD, launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Tuesday, Dec. 7,...This image of our home planet shows how Earth looked from more than 950,000 miles, or 1.5 million kilometers, away...Christopher Kraft, flight director during Project Mercury, works at his console inside the Flight Control area at Mercury Mission Control.NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas of this scene at two times of day...These four nebulae are known for their breathtaking beauty: the Eagle Nebula (which contains the Pillars of Creation), the Omega...As the Crew-2 mission departed the International Space Station aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour, the crew snapped this image of...NGC 6891 is a bright, asymmetrical planetary nebula in the constellation Delphinus, the Dolphin.This artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of gas.Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust glow in this Hubble image of a Herbig-Haro object known as HH 45.The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will help determine if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective...The Flame Nebula, also called NGC 2024, is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400...NASA astronaut Victor Glover speaks with students about his time aboard the International Space Station, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, at...A pair of U.S. spacesuits are pictured inside the International Space Station's Quest airlock ready for an upcoming spacewalk.This Hubble infrared image captures a protostar designated J1672835.29-763111.64 in the reflection nebula IC 2631, part of the Chamaeleon star-forming...This image taken from the space station shows the blue-green waters around the Bahamas.On the final day of the event, the group visited Plum Brook Station and heard about the upcoming Orion environmental...A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the...During its 36th low pass over Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of striking cloud bands and swirls in...The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft is lifted onto the GO Navigator recovery ship after it landed off the coast...
