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NASA Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory satellites have provided the first 3-dimensional images of the Sun....
A composite image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4258 showing X-ray emission observed with NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory...
The young galaxy SDSS090122.37+181432.3, also known as S0901, is seen here by the Herschel Space Observatory and the...
This image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy in infrared light as seen by ESA Herschel Space Observatory and...
Annmarie Eldering, OCO-2 deputy project scientist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena,...
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden answers social media attendees questions from just outside the launch pad where...
Lt. Joseph Round, launch weather officer, USAF 30th Space Wing Weather Squadron, discusses the weather forecast for...
Ken Jucks, OCO-2 program scientist, NASA Headquarters, left, Dave Crisp, OCO-2 science team leader, JPL, and...
Ken Jucks, OCO-2 program scientist, NASA Headquarters, left, Dave Crisp, OCO-2 science team leader, JPL, and...
The Delta II second stage for NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission, or OCO-2, is positioned atop the rocket...
Artist impression of Herschel is set against an image captured by the observatory, showing baby stars forming in the...
The Delta II second stage for NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission, or OCO-2, makes contact with the rocket...
An eruption from the surface of the sun is conspicuous in the lower left portion of this July 6, 2015, image from...
This image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows spiral galaxy NGC 7331, center, in a three-color X-ray image....
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) saw both the Moon (upper right) and the Earth (upper left) partially block...
Strands of plasma at the sun edge shifted and twisted back and forth over a 22-hour period, May 2-3, 2017. In this...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) zoomed in to watch close-up the dynamics of this single active region on the...
This image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a broad coronal hole was the dominant feature this week on...
NASA Airborne Snow Observatory is two instruments combined that provides information on every patch of snow,...
In just about seven hours, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft saw the moon transit the Sun two times...
The flight crew of NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory includes (from left), flight engineer Marty Trout and pilots...
An aircraft tug tows NASA's SOFIA infrared observatory 747SP into Hangar 703 upon arrival at its base, the Dryden...
NASA's SOFIA flying infrared observatory banks over the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility upon arrival at its new...
NGC 3603 is a bustling region of star birth in the Carina spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy, about 20,000...