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NASA's Image and Video Library is one of the most comprehensive public archives of space imagery in the world, containing over 140,000 images, videos, and audio recordings spanning more than six decades of space exploration. From the earliest Mercury and Gemini missions through the Apollo Moon landings, the Space Shuttle era, and today's cutting-edge observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, this collection documents humanity's journey into the cosmos.
The library includes imagery from diverse sources: telescopes like Hubble and Webb that capture deep-space nebulae, galaxies, and exoplanets; planetary missions like the Mars rovers ( browse Mars photos) and Cassini at Saturn; Earth observation satellites ( see EPIC imagery); astronaut photography from the ISS; and documentation of rocket launches, spacecraft assembly, and ground testing. Most NASA images are in the public domain and free to download at full resolution for educational, editorial, and personal use.
Use the search bar above to find specific subjects — try queries like "Apollo 11," "Hubble Deep Field," "Mars surface," or "astronaut EVA." You can also filter by media type (image, video, or audio). For a daily curated experience, visit the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
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ESA (European Space Agency) Director-General Dr. Josef Aschbacher, left, and NASA Associate Administrator for the...
Four hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, best known as the discoverer...
This image of supernova remnant G54.1+0.3 includes radio, infrared and X-ray light. The saturated yellow point at...
In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, NASA's Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space...
This artist's concept illustrates how the brightness of outbursting star FU Orionis has been slowly fading since its...
The galaxy cluster called MOO J1142+1527 can be seen here as it existed when light left it 8.5 billion years ago....
NASA's SPHEREx observatory is oriented in a horizontal position, revealing all three layers of photon shields as...
These four panels show the Whirlpool galaxy — which is actually a pair of galaxies also known as Messier 51 and NGC...
Astronomers have made the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster using three of NASA's...
NASA's three Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the SpitzerSpace Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray...
This image of galaxy cluster Abell 2744, also called Pandora's Cluster, was taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope....
This artist's concept depicts NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor) in deep space. After launch, the...
This artist's concept shows an unusual celestial object called CX330 was first detected as a source of X-ray light...
Pictured is the chosen artist's rendering of NASA's next generation space telescope, a successor to the Hubble Space...
The Sunshield on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the largest part of the observatory—five layers of thin...
This false-color image of Jupiter was taken on May 18, 2017, with a mid-infrared filter centered at a wavelength of...
A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D. Now,...
Technicians installing the tertiary mirror onto the SOFIA telescope.
SOFIA’s telescope mirror is seen as it appears during a science mission.
In the summer of the year 1054 AD, Chinese astronomers saw a new "guest star," that appeared six times brighter than...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was placed in Johnson Space Center’s historic Chamber A on June 20, 2017, to...
The NEOWISE mission, NASA’s asteroid-hunting space telescope, is retiring in summer 2024 after over a decade of...
Enjoy a moment of Zen with this fly-through of the Orion Nebula, based on images captured by NASA and ESA (European...
The instrument enclosure for NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor on May 22, 2025, is seen in a clean room at the...