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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 image from NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a celestial object called the Ant Nebula may shed new light on...
Sputnik Planum is the informal name of the smooth, light-bulb shaped region on the left of this composite of several...
This graph shows the temperature differences in the oldest light in the universe, called the cosmic microwave...
NASA Cassini spacecraft examines the characteristics of Titan atmosphere as it peers at Saturn largest moon using a...
NASA Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a...
NASA NuSTAR has captured these first, focused views of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way...
The Sculptor galaxy is seen in a new light, in this composite image from NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array...
This anaglyph from NASA Mars Global Surveyor shows eroded, pitted, light-toned layer outcrops in Iani Chaos. 3D...
Astronomers think there are roughly as many brown dwarfs as regular stars like our sun, but brown dwarfs are often...
A region of the sky called the Lockman Hole, located in the constellation of Ursa Major, is one of the areas...
Observations from NASA Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment, or CIBER, have shown a surprising surplus of infrared...
In this image, NASA Cassini spacecraft has captured some of the structure of the tenuous D ring, appearing here as...
This composite of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 is 522,000 light-years across, making it about five times...
The oldest light in the universe, called the cosmic microwave background, as observed by the Planck space telescope...
This frame from a simulation shows the merging of two massive galaxies. The merging galaxies are split into two...
This observation from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows light-toned layered deposits at the contact between the...
This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows he Peony nebula star, a blazing ball of gas shines with the...
Two Martian southern mid-latitude craters have new light-toned deposit that formed in gully settings during the...
This graphic illuminates the process by which astronomers using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first...
This graphic from NASA Curiosity mission shows close-ups of light-toned veins in rocks in the Yellowknife Bay area...
The rings of Saturn glow softly as sunlight from below wends its way through. Some of the Sun light bounces off the...
Cassini whizzed past Dione on Aug. 16, 2006, capturing this slightly motion-blurred view of the moon fractured and...
NASA Cassini spacecraft camera looks in near-infrared light at a dramatic view of Saturn, its ringplane and the...
NASA Cassini spacecraft takes a look through the atmosphere of Saturn largest moon to spy light and dark in the area...