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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In a blinding flash, space shuttle Endeavour races to orbit from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- After arrival at the dock, the Delta IV first stage that will be used to launch the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Delta IV first stage that will be used to launch the GOES-O satellite moves away...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured these images of a solar flare on Oct. 2, 2014. The solar flare is the...
An ion thruster is removed from a vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The...
A swirling Eastern Pacific Ocean storm system headed for California was spotted by NOAA's GOES-West satellite on...
On July 24, 2016, NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, captured a mid-level solar flare: a sudden...
NICER’s X-ray concentrator optics are inspected under a black light for dust and foreign object debris that could...
NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured this stunning view of the Americas on 12.13.14, December 13, 2014 at 17:45 UTC....
A "backdoor cold front" is bringing April temperatures to the U.S. northeast and Mid-Atlantic today, May...
In this photograph, Dr. Gerald Fishman of the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), a principal investigator of the...
NICER engineer Steven Kenyon prepares seven of the 56 X-ray concentrators for installation in the NICER instrument....
ISS032-E-006129 (10 July 2012) --- Flooding in Krymsk in the Krasnodar region of southern Russia is featured in this...
Optics Lead Takashi Okajima prepares to align NICER’s X-ray optics. The payload’s 56 mirror assemblies concentrate...
Mysterious and fleeting, gamma-ray bursts come from galaxies so far away that they take billions of years to reach...
This image depicts a full view of the Earth, taken by the Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite (GOES-8)....
NICER Optics Lead Takashi Okajima installs one of NICER’s 56 X-ray “concentrators,” each consisting of 24 concentric...
Two beams flash across a starry sky toward the Moon at Optical Site. Goddard's Laser Ranging Facility directs a...
The sun emitted a trio of mid-level solar flares on April 2-3, 2017. The first peaked at 4:02 a.m. EDT on April 2,...
Caption: An X-class solar flare erupted on the left side of the sun on the evening of Feb. 24, 2014. This composite...
Many of NICER’s 56 X-ray “concentrators” seen from within the instrument optical bench. Light reflected from the...
Read more from: go.nasa.gov/2duxEeZ On October 4, 2016, Hurricane Matthew made landfall on southwestern Haiti as a...
Caption: These SDO images from 7:25 p.m. EST on Feb. 24, 2014, show the first moments of an X-class flare in...
Caption: These SDO images from 7:25 p.m. EST on Feb. 24, 2014, show the first moments of an X-class flare in...