Image of the DayThe sun begins to rise in the east overlooking Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with...On Jan. 31, 2011, NASA's Cassini spacecraft passed by several of Saturn's intriguing moons, snapping images along the way. Cassini...The world's largest vacuum chamber resides at the NASA Glenn Research Center's Space Power Facility, located at Plum Brook Station...This view of Antares, the Apollo 14 Lunar Module as it sat on the moon's Fra Mauro Highlands, reflects a...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden participates in a wreath-laying ceremony as part of NASA's Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011,...Astronauts Story Musgrave, left, and Don Peterson float in the cargo bay of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Challenger during their...An image taken from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's PanCam at the spacecraft's landing site shows the nearby hills named...NASA Administrator Bolden, Deputy Administrator Garver, White House OSTP Associate Director Wieman and students pose for a group photo, Tuesday,...This image taken by the panoramic camera aboard the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rover's empty lander, the Challenger...Stars are forming in dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 at a prodigious rate, giving the star clusters in this galaxy...In a single exposure, astronomers were able to confirm the existence of a supermassive black hole in the center of...This image from 1996 shows space shuttle Atlantis as it began the slow journey to Launch Pad 39A from the...In October 2010, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and White Sands Test Facility worked with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne to...This image by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a dramatic view of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy....While searching the skies for black holes using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers discovered a giant supernova that was smothered...The Triangulum Galaxy is located nearly 3 million light years from Earth. And, in a study that pushes the limits...In this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, an unusual, ghostly green blob of gas appears to float near...Space shuttle Enterprise made its first appearance mated to supportive propellant containers/boosters cluster, as it was rolled from the Vehicle...This mosaic of the Andromeda spiral galaxy highlights explosive stars in its interior, and cooler, dusty stars forming in its...Off the coast of Argentina, two strong ocean currents recently stirred up a colorful brew of floating nutrients and microscopic...Two European Space Agency observatories combined forces to show the Andromeda Galaxy in a new light. Herschel sees rings of...This hemispheric view of Venus was created using more than a decade of radar investigations culminating in the 1990-1994 Magellan...This mosaic of images shows the soil in front of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit after a series of short...On Jan. 4, 2004, Spirit-the first of two NASA Mars Exploration Rovers-landed on the Red Planet for what was to...This Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy NGC 1275 reveals the fine, thread-like filamentary structures in the gas surrounding the...A southerly looking night view of the upper two-thirds of the Florida peninsula was recorded by the Expedition 26 crew...This striking photograph features two of China's most populous cities-Beijing and Tianjin-both located in the northern part of the country...This mosaic image taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, features three nebulae that are part of the...This mosaic image is the sharpest wide-angle view ever obtained of the starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (M82). The galaxy is...In this image from Friday, Dec. 17, space shuttle Discovery sat on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...Space shuttle Discovery waits to roll back from Launch Pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy...A total lunar eclipse is seen as the full moon is shadowed by the Earth on the arrival of the...Based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, this image shows an area of Saturn's moon Titan, known as Sotra Facula....On Dec. 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers made the first powered flight and, in March 1999, a full-scale replica of...NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to record this view of Santa Maria Crater at the end...The Soyuz TMA-20 rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010 (Dec. 16 in Kazakhstan),...The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, 747SP sat on the tarmac during nighttime telescope operations at NASA's Dryden...The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft is seen shortly after arrival to the launch pad Monday, Dec. 13, 2010, at the Baikonur...The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft is rolled out by train on its way to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome,...The small open star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the NGC 6357 nebula in Scorpius, about 8,000...
