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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 Goddard Space Flight Center Webb Optical Telescope Element Manager, Lee Feinberg, provides remarks at the...
This image illustrates the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's) Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA). One of the three major...
NASA's Space Optics Manufacturing Center has been working to expand our view of the universe via sophisticated new...
In this photograph, engineers and technicians prepare the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's) Wide Field and Planetary...
This drawing illustrates the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's) High Speed Photometer (HSP). The HSP measures the...
Testing is crucial part of NASA's success on Earth and in space. So, as the actual flight components of NASA's James...
This artist's concept depicts the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) being positioned for release from the Space Shuttle...
This artist's concept depicts the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) being raised to a vertical position in the cargo bay...
This illustration shows the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's) major configuration elements. The spacecraft has three...
This is a photograph of a 1/15 scale model of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The HST is the product of a...
This drawing illustrates Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's), Faint Object Camera (FOC). The FOC reflects light down...
Engineers and technicians working on the James Webb Space Telescope successfully completed the first important...
A crane in a clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., lowers a test mass simulator...
Engineer Erin Wilson adds aluminum tape to electrical cables to protect them from the cold during environmental...
After five days of service and upgrade work on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the STS-109 crew photographed the...
After five days of service and upgrade work on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the STS-109 crew photographed the...
After five days of service and upgrade work on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the STS-109 crew photographed the...
Inside NASA's giant thermal vacuum chamber, called Chamber A, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the James...
This illustration is a diagram of the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's), Wide Field Planetary Camera (WF/PC), one of...
Inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's giant clean room in Greenbelt, Md., JWST Optical Engineer Larkin Carey...
This is an onboard photo of Astronaut John M. Grunsfield, STS-109 payload commander, participating in the third of...
This drawing illustrates the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's), Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS). The HST's two...
This drawing illustrates the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's), Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS). The...
Release date: July 1, 2008 This image is a composite of visible (or optical), radio, and X-ray data of the full...