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iss072e843309 (March 15, 2025) --- City lights dot the northeastern landscape of China with a wispy aurora above...
ISS006-E-18372 (January 2003) --- The Aurora Borealis or “northern lights” and the Manicouagan Impact...
iss073e0041283 (April 23, 2025) --- Moonlight casts a blue light on a set of the International Space Station's main...
Chris Rogers, Min-Yee Deng, and Ronald Sicker discuss the Light Microscopy Module Interface GUI (LMMING). This...
Fran Chiaramonte, Program Executive for Physical Sciences at NASA Headquarters, talks about the colloidal systems...
This image of the Andromeda galaxy, or M31, includes data from the ESA (European Space Agency) Herschel mission,...
This image of the Triangulum galaxy, or M33, includes data from the ESA (European Space Agency) Herschel mission,...
NASA Dryden project engineer Dave Bushman carefully aims the optics of a laser device at a solar cell panel on a...
This image shows galaxy Arp 148, captured by NASA's Spitzer and Hubble telescopes. Inside the white circle is...
A test of a small-scale starshade model in a dry lake bed in central Nevada's Smith Creek by Northrup Grumman in...
The shepherd moon Prometheus is lit partly by reflected light from Saturn as it lurks near the heavily perturbed F ring
Full resolution detail from one of the first LROC NAC images. At this scale and lighting, impact craters dominate...
Taken in 1997, NASA Hubble Space Telescope, using visible light, detected clouds in the northern hemisphere of Uranus.
This image shows dark sand dunes and relatively small, light-toned, windblown ripples on the floor of a crater in...
This artist concept demonstrates that an invisible galaxy shrouded in dust can become glaringly bright when viewed...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope imaged the mysterious ring around magnetar SGR 1900+14 in infrared light.
This detailed map of the oldest light in our universe allowed scientists to take the most precise inventory of the...
This MOC image shows layered, light-toned exposures of probable sedimentary rock in Iani Chaos
Light and dark terrain covers the surface of Saturn moon Iapetus in this view from NASA Cassini spacecraft.
This MOC image shows a light-toned wind streak created in the -- the downwind side -- of an impact crater in the...
This MOC image shows a flow knob of light-toned, layered rock exposed by erosion in the Iani Chaos region of Mars
Two sources of light illuminate the textured surface of the moon Enceladus in this image taken by NASA Cassini...
These images from NASA Mars Odyssey spacecraft show the Becquerel crater in different lights -- visible, daytime...
Light-toned nodules and veins of a patch of sedimentary rock called Knorr are visible in this image from NASA Mars...