Monday, October 31, 2022
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Friday, October 28, 2022
Webb Reveals New Details in Pillars of Creation
Our James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new image of the famous Pillars of Creation—first imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995—that reveals new details about the region. https://ift.tt/s1Upx3K
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Lucy Spots Earth and Moon
On Oct. 13, 2022, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and the Moon from 890,000 miles (1.4 million km) away. https://ift.tt/2vZJSQd
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Mapping the Entire Night Sky
This mosaic is composed of images covering the entire sky, taken by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) as part of WISE’s 2012 All-Sky Data Release. https://ift.tt/J5jauN9
Monday, October 24, 2022
Jupiter in Ganymede’s Shadow
During its 40th close pass by Jupiter, our Juno spacecraft saw Ganymede cast a large, dark spot on the planet on Feb. 25, 2022. https://ift.tt/WhTgtRE
Sunday, October 23, 2022
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Friday, October 21, 2022
IXPE Measures Exploded Star Remains
When a massive star collapsed in the Cassiopeia constellation, it generated a supernova explosion with some of the fastest shockwaves in the Milky Way. https://ift.tt/L2dr4XR
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Crew-4 Members Pose for Pre-Return Photo
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 members Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Samantha Cristoforetti link arms for a portrait on Oct. 14, 2022, just before boarding the Dragon Freedom crew ship, undocking from the International Space Station, and returning to Earth, completing a 170-day space research mission. https://ift.tt/EyLtAir
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Aerial Leaf Peeping in Adirondack Park
Our Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 acquired this vibrant image of deciduous trees and conifers in the Adirondack Mountains in northeast New York on Oct. 8, 2022. https://ift.tt/fRObzwY
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Monday, October 17, 2022
Safe Return for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 Astronauts
After 170 days in orbit, NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti safely splashed down Friday, October 14, 2022, off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, completing the agency’s fourth commercial crew mission to the International Space Station. https://ift.tt/WEe4RsI
Sunday, October 16, 2022
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Friday, October 14, 2022
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Greetings from the Cupola
Expedition 67 flight engineers Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins are all smiles in this Sept. 12, 2022, image from the International Space Station cupola. https://ift.tt/E3jhTMq
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Sun Rings in New Month with Strong Flare
The Sun released an X1 solar flare, captured by our Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on Oct. 2, 2022. https://ift.tt/7v2eMTm
Monday, October 10, 2022
Sunday, October 9, 2022
Saturday, October 8, 2022
Friday, October 7, 2022
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Mission Casts Long Exposure Light Beam
In this 20-second exposure from Oct. 5, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). https://ift.tt/UwbT0ly
Solid Science from Serena Auñón-Chancellor
Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor installs samples for the Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification (MICS) experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in this image from Nov. 27, 2018. https://ift.tt/VQRZT1v
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Astronaut Nicole Mann Trains in T-38
Astronaut Nicole Mann sits inside a T-38 trainer jet at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas in this image from Nov. 15, 2018. https://ift.tt/PcOyYUv
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Staring Into the Hurricane's Eye
On September 28, the Landsat 8 satellite passed directly over Ian’s eye as the storm approached southwest Florida. The natural-color image above was acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) at 11:57 a.m. local time (15:57 Universal Time), three hours before the storm made landfall in Caya Costa. https://ift.tt/80Wq9f4
Monday, October 3, 2022
DART’s Penultimate View
This is the last complete image of the asteroid Dimorphos, as seen by our Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) 2 seconds before impact. https://ift.tt/ZNrfepI
Sunday, October 2, 2022
Saturday, October 1, 2022
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