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NASA release July 19, 2011 Click here to learn about the James Webb Space Telescope The secondary mirror (shown...
NASA release July 19, 2011 Click here to learn about the James Webb Space Telescope The secondary mirror (shown...
This image shows data from NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), launched in 2009...
This false-color image composite from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals hidden populations of newborn stars at...
Caption: Artist's view of night sky from a hypothetical planet within a young Milky Way-like galaxy 10 billion years...
Shown here is an identical copy of the Deep Space Optical Communications, or DSOC, superconducting nanowire...
NASA image release August 5, 2010 A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great...
The SOFIA telescope team collected baseline operational measurements during several nights of characterization...
Technicians at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., loaded the German-built primary...
The SOFIA telescope team collected baseline operational measurements during several nights of characterization...
The SOFIA telescope team collected baseline operational measurements during several nights of characterization...
Technicians at the NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., removed the German-built primary...
Technicians at the NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., removed the German-built primary...
Technicians at the NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., removed the German-built primary...
Technicians at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., loaded the German-built primary...
The SOFIA telescope team collected baseline operational measurements during several nights of characterization...
Technicians at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., loaded the German-built primary...
Technicians at the NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., removed the German-built primary...
The SOFIA telescope team collected baseline operational measurements during several nights of characterization...
Technicians at the NASA Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., removed the German-built primary...
Academy Award®- winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight...
Academy Award®- winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight...
Academy Award®- winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight...
NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory is shadowed by a NASA F/A-18 safety chase aircraft during its second checkout...