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At the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, NASA astronomers have linked the two 10-meter 33-foot telescopes at the W. M....
The collection of red dots seen here show one of several very distant galaxy clusters discovered by combining...
At the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, NASA astronomers have linked the two 10-meter 33-foot telescopes at the W. M....
This image shows the HR 8799 planets with starlight optically suppressed and data processing conducted to remove...
This composite image of the star cluster NGC 28 contains X-ray data from Chandra, in purple, with infrared...
On April 25, 2005 NASA Deep Impact spacecraft obtained its first optical navigation Op-Nav image of comet Tempel 1....
An ocean color senor, a passive microwave vertical sounder and an electro-optical sensor were mounted on the Altair...
jsc2024e061950 (9/12/2024) --- The COronal Diagnostic EXperiment (CODEX) coronagraph during optical alignment and...
Graphics (McAlister) Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate 3D Laser Velocimeter for Rotor Flow Studies: Fringe Model...
Autonomous Perception Vision project - Intelligent Systems - Machine Vision, Fusing Photonics and A.I. - Fiber-Optic...
Crew Station Research and Developement Facility (CSRDF) A NASA Army simulator to design and evaluate advanced...
SIX OF THE EIGHTEEN JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE PRIMARY MIRROR SEGMENTS BEING LIFTED INTO POSITION FOR...
Crew Station Research and Developement Facility (CSRDF) A NASA Army simulator to design and evaluate advanced...
Crew Station Research and Developement Facility (CSRDF) A NASA Army simulator to design and evaluate advanced...
A satellite antenna, electro-optical/infrared and ocean color sensors (front) were among payloads installed on the...
BALL AEROSPACE AND NASA ENGINEERS & TECHNICIANS INSTALL MIRRORS ON THE ROTATABLE CRYOGENIC OPTICAL TEST STAND IN...
Patrick Chan, electronics engineer, and NASA Armstrong’s FOSS portfolio project manager, closely examines an optic...
iss073e0981212 (Oct. 16, 2025) --- Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov (left) and Alexey Zubritsky (bottom right)...
art001e002647 (Dec. 5, 2022): The optical navigation camera mounted on the Orion spacecraft captured these views of...
jsc2021e029985 (3/18/20210 --- A preflight view of the Lumina imvestigation. Fiber-optic Active Dosimeter (Lumina)...
Inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in...
art001e002604 (Dec. 5, 2022): The optical navigation camera mounted on the Orion spacecraft captured these views of...
iss073e0981126 (Oct. 16, 2025) --- Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov is pictured attached to the end effector of...
art001e001813 (Nov. 30, 2022) On flight day 15, Orion’s optical navigation camera captured this black-and-white...