Image of the DayThe Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located...In Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour's left orbital maneuvering system OMS pod...NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured this image of an M7.9 class flare on March 13, 2012 at 1:29 p.m....Looking like a spider's web swirled into a spiral, Galaxy IC 342 presents its delicate pattern of dust in this...While Robonaut 2 has been busy testing its technology in microgravity aboard the International Space Station, NASA and General Motors...Below a darkened Enceladus, a plume of water ice is backlit in this view of one of Saturn's most dramatic...This artist's concept depicts a planetary system so compact that it's more like Jupiter and its moons than a star...Gemini VI astronauts Walter Schirra (seated), command pilot, and Thomas Stafford, pilot, go through suiting up exercises in preparation for...This new view of the Orion Nebula highlights fledgling stars hidden in the gas and clouds. It shows infrared observations...NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the galaxy NGC 1483. NGC 1483 is a barred spiral...This massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus...Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble's...This image, taken on March 6, 1969, shows the Apollo 9 Command and Service Modules docked with the Lunar Module....This image of Jupiter and its moons Io and Ganymede was acquired by amateur astronomer Damian Peach on Sept. 12,...This composite image shows the distribution of dark matter, galaxies, and hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy...NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope took this image of a baby star sprouting two identical jets (green lines emanating from fuzzy...The senior International Space Station leadership during the Heads of Agency meeting in Quebec, Canada, Thursday, March 1, 2012.Ron Colantonio (left), manager of the Atmospheric Environment Safety Technologies Project at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, discussed with...Saturn's largest moon, Titan, looks small here, pictured to the right of the gas giant in this Cassini spacecraft view....An Expedition 30 crew member aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime photograph of much of the Atlantic coast...NASA's Hubble Telescope captured an image of Eta Carinae. This image consists of ultraviolet and visible light images from the...Students from Texas A&M University visited the Orion Medium Fidelity Mockup as part of the SSANS, or Students Shaping America's...This image of Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Anton Shkaplerov, both Expedition 30 flight engineers, was taken during a spacewalk...This artist's impression shows a binary system containing a stellar-mass black hole called IGR J17091-3624. The strong gravity of the...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, seated right, and Sen. John Glenn address questions from the press during a briefing at Ohio...Sen. John Glenn and Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana reminisce inside the flight deck of space shuttle Discovery in...John Glenn and his wife Annie are seen at a Senior Manager luncheon, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, inside the Operations...John Glenn, standing next to his Friendship 7 capsule in which he made his historic orbital flight, meets with President...In this image taken on Jan. 25, 2012, the Aurora Borealis steals the scene in this nighttime photograph shot from...Craters appear well defined on icy Rhea in front of the hazy orb of the much larger moon Titan in...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden responds to a reporter's question during an overview briefing on NASA's fiscal year 2013 budget, Monday,...This image combines data from four space telescopes to create a multi-wavelength view of all that remains of RCW 86,...A new study provides a possible explanation of mysterious X-ray flares in the region of Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*.In this image from late 2010, software engineers worked in the background as Glenn Research Center technician, Joe Kerka, rotated...A United States Marine Corps helicopter is seen flying through this scene of the full moon and the U.S. Capitol...On Jan. 27, 2012, a large X-class flare erupted from an active region near the solar west limb. X-class flares...Vital clues about the devastating ends to the lives of massive stars can be found by studying the aftermath of...This Jan. 29 panorama of much of the East Coast, photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard...Saturn and Dione appear askew in this Cassini spacecraft view, with the north poles rotated to the right, as if...On the craft's maiden voyage, the crew of space shuttle Columbia took this image that showcases the blackness of space...
