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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.
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This illustration shows the object known as SS 433, located in the Milky Way galaxy and only about 20,000...
Managed by the Marshall Space Flight Center and built by TRW, the third High Energy Astronomy Observatory was...
These graphs compare data from identical instruments onboard NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft as they each...
In the last century, humans realized that space is filled with types of light we can’t see – from infrared signals...
This set of graphs illustrates how data from two key instruments point to NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft entering...
NASA's Fermi Closes on Source of Cosmic Rays New images from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope show where...
jsc2024e062111 (9/13/2024) --- The monitor displays the ion beam profile of Galactic Cosmic Ray Simulation (GCRSim)...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft is seen on the launch...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft is seen on the launch...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft is seen on the launch...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from...
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – Technicians roll the Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket with its NuSTAR spacecraft to the...
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – The Orbital Sciences L-1011 known as "Stargazer" awaits the Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL...
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – Technicians roll the Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket with its NuSTAR spacecraft to the...
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – The Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket with its NuSTAR spacecraft after attachment to the...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft is seen on the launch...
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – The Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket with its NuSTAR spacecraft after attachment to the...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from...
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – Technicians connect the Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket with its NuSTAR spacecraft to...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...