A little-studied star, TYC 3203-450-1, upstages a galaxy in this Hubble Telescope image from December 2017. https://ift.tt/6EzklwO
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
A Peek Into Jupiter’s Inner Life
Auroras and hazes glow in this composite image of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). https://ift.tt/uRMfmkZ
Monday, August 29, 2022
Early Morning Artemis I
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, as the Artemis I launch teams loaded more than 700,000 gallons of cryogenic propellants including liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. https://ift.tt/a6ES73y
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Friday, August 26, 2022
Apollo 15 Catches Earth on the Horizon
This view of the crescent Earth over the Moon's horizon was taken during the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission. https://ift.tt/ZxIvszy
Thursday, August 25, 2022
NASA T-38s Soar Over Artemis I
T-38 planes are a fixture of astronaut training, making pilots and mission specialists think quicky in changing situations. https://ift.tt/gLKEozf
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Milky Way Time Lapse
This time lapse of the Milky Way Galaxy taken from the International Space Station (ISS) also captured a lightning strike on Earth so bright that it lights up the space station’s solar panels. https://ift.tt/Tdt2rbj
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
The Historic X-1E Looks Forward
The supersonic X-1E research aircraft was the last of NASA's experimental X-1 series of aircraft. https://ift.tt/FBnQvsg
Monday, August 22, 2022
NASA's Europa Clipper in High Bay 1
The core of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has taken center stage in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. https://ift.tt/xyW42DI
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Saturday, August 20, 2022
Friday, August 19, 2022
Moon Over New Orleans
A paddlewheeler makes its way up the Mississippi River as the moon rises over New Orleans on Sunday evening, Aug. 22, 2021. https://ift.tt/fSdGXnA
Thursday, August 18, 2022
Voyager 1 Sees the Great Red Spot
Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager probes are NASA’s longest-operating mission and the only spacecraft ever to explore interstellar space. https://ift.tt/fa4OsA6
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
We Are Going: Artemis I on Launch Pad
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher as it is rolled up the ramp at Launch Pad 39B, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. https://ift.tt/TdIb5pW
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Perennial Perseids
The Perseid meteors are an annual event many skywatchers look forward to, as they often produce lots of shooting stars to enjoy. https://ift.tt/t7Cx03j
Monday, August 15, 2022
Aquanaut Gets to Work Underwater
A team of roboticists from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have applied their expertise in making robots for deep space to designing a fully electric shape-changing submersible robot that will cut costs for maritime industries. https://ift.tt/GYujQMb
Sunday, August 14, 2022
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Friday, August 12, 2022
Hubble Peers at Celestial Cloudscape
This celestial cloudscape from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful region in the Orion Nebula surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505. https://ift.tt/h20uFmU
Thursday, August 11, 2022
Artemis I Moonikin Campos Inspection and Install
Artemis I Moonikin Campos Inspection and Install https://ift.tt/i4NGj3r
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
NASA’s B377SGT Super Guppy Turbine Cargo Airplane lands at Moffett Field at NASA Ames
In this picture from 2016, our Super Guppy, a specialized aircraft with a unique hinged nose, lands at Moffett Field at NASA Ames. https://ift.tt/V6eQWTx
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Monday, August 8, 2022
Moon Mosaic
This Moon-mosaic is comprised of 1,231 images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's (LRO) Narrow-Angle Camera (NAC) in the summer of 2018. https://ift.tt/YmOZ8vg
Sunday, August 7, 2022
Saturday, August 6, 2022
Friday, August 5, 2022
Curiosity's Dusty Selfie
Since August 2012, Curiosity has been exploring 3-mile-high Mt. Sharp in Gale Crater. The rover has climbed more than 2,000 feet (612 meters), reaching progressively younger rocks that serve as a record on how Mars has evolved from a wet, habitable planet to a cold desert environment. https://ift.tt/mXvPSNH
Thursday, August 4, 2022
Ice Stars
Like distant galaxies amid clouds of interstellar dust, chunks of sea ice drift through graceful swirls of grease ice in the frigid waters of Foxe Basin near Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. https://ift.tt/1YqQEtx
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Wildflowers in Bloom at Kennedy Space Center
With wildflowers surrounding the view, NASA’s Space Launch System Moon rocket – carried atop the crawler-transporter 2 – arrives at Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 6, 2022. https://ift.tt/KuNTvUl
Webb Captures Stellar Gymnastics in The Cartwheel Galaxy
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