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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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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured two festive-looking nebulas, situated so as to appear as one. They reside in...
This red plane is a DHC-3 Otter, the plane flown in NASA's Operation IceBridge-Alaska surveys of mountain glaciers...
Some of the most breathtaking views in the Universe are created by nebulae — hot, glowing clouds of gas. This new...
This Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar color composite shows a portion of the Weddell Sea,...
ISS013-E-74843 (2 Sept. 2006) --- Rio Negro in Amazonia, Brazil is featured in this image photographed by an...
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite detected volcanic sulfur dioxide...
NASA image release April 22, 2010 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this billowing cloud of cold interstellar...
NASA image release June 16, 2011 Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the...
Caption: Glowing a dark magenta, the newly discovered exoplanet GJ 504b weighs in with about four times Jupiter's...
Taken by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), this image of MyCn18, a...
JunoCam imaged numerous storms in Jupiter's atmosphere on Juno's 25th close pass, in the region just north of...
Lava formations The science and journalism teams make their way across the ropey, twisted, broken crust of the 1978...
This image displays a galaxy known as ESO 486-21 (with several other background galaxies and foreground stars...
ISS037-E-005089 (30 Sept. 2013) --- Ruapehu volcano and Tongariro volcanic complex in New Zealand are featured in...
A new era in stellar astronomy began five years ago when the Chandra X-ray Observatory first opened its sunshade to...
Showcased at the center of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an emission-line star known as IRAS...
With its helical appearance resembling a snail’s shell, this reflection nebula seems to spiral out from a luminous...
This false-color image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals hidden populations of newborn stars at the heart...
Date: 8 Nov 2013 - Comet ISON shines in this five-minute exposure taken at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on...
Taken on 19 Nov. 2013, this image shows a composite "stacked" image of comet ISON. These five stacked...
NASA image release August 10, 2010 A long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image shows a majestic face-on spiral...
In this modeled image of ISON, the coma has been subtracted, leaving behind the nucleus. Credit: NASA, ESA, the...
As of mid-November, ISON is officially upon us. Using Hubble, we've taken our closest look yet at the innermost...
Look at the bright star in the middle of this image. It appears as if it just sneezed. This sight will only last for...