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ESA Planck has imaged the most distant light we can observe, called the cosmic microwave background, with...
This MOC image shows light-toned ripples covering the floors of troughs in the Adamas Labyrinthus region of northern...
Stars trail across the background during this exposure, timed to capture the faint light from these D ring features
A quartet of false-color, composite images show the dance of Saturn southern lights in data obtained by NASA Cassini...
The Fly’s Eye Geostationary Lightning Mapper Simulator will map lightning strikes using 30 photometers, instruments...
This MOC image shows the contact between an area of light-toned rock and an expanse of darker-toned materials on the...
Several sequences were acquired by NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter looking across the illuminated limb to quantify...
This artist concept shows the planetary system called HD 189733, located 63 light-years away in the constellation...
With its thick, distended atmosphere, Titan orange globe shines softly, encircled by a thin halo of purple...
NASA Cassini spacecraft looks toward a crescent of Saturn dark and light moon, Iapetus.
NASA Cassini spacecraft peers through the hazy atmosphere of Titan for a close view of light and dark terrain on...
View of Miranda showing light and dark banded scarps near the boundary of the banded ovoid and a deep graben that...
One of Planck first images is shown as a strip superimposed over a two dimensional projection of the whole sky as...
Soft light from Saturn lifts the veil of night from the moons Dione lower left and Rhea upper right
In this artist's rendering of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in space, the background is shown in infrared light....
NASA Contamination and control engineers perform a blacklight inspection on the OSAM-1 Spacecraft Bus at Goddard...
NASA Hubble Space Telescope captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that...
This image shows NASA Cassini spacecraft imaging science subsystem visible-light mosaic of Mimas from previous...
This false-color image shows paper-thin layers of light-toned, jagged-edged rocks; a light gray rock with smooth,...
This approximately true-color image shows paper-thin layers of light-toned, jagged-edged rocks; a light gray rock...
NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows the inner region of Abell 1689, an immense cluster of galaxies located 2.2 billion...
NASA Glenn Research Center and Advancement of Science In Space (CASIS) video presentation highlighting work with Dr....
The moon Iapetus, like the "force" in Star Wars, has both a light side and a dark side. Scientists think that...
Since its launch five years ago, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer has photographed hundreds of millions of galaxies in...