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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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S93-33257 (15 Mar 1993) --- This close-up view features tiny articulating fold mirrors that will go into a...
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Tarantula Nebula in two wavelengths of infrared light, each...
Astronomers have found unexpected rings and arcs of ultraviolet light around a selection of galaxies, four of which...
This image composite compares visible-light and infrared views from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of the glowing...
STS061-86-030 (4 Dec 1993) --- The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is pictured in the Space Shuttle Endeavour's cargo...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope and ESA Herschel mission combined to show this view of the Orion nebula, found below...
This shiny silver "waterfall" is actually the five layers of the full-scale engineering model of NASA's...
The NEOWISE mission, NASA’s asteroid-hunting space telescope, retired in August 2024 after over a decade of...
This plot of infrared data, called a spectrum, shows the strong signature of water vapor deep within the core of an...
A cluster brimming with millions of stars glistens like an iridescent opal in this image from NASA Spitzer Space...
This graph of data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope demonstrates that the dust around a nearby star called HD 69830...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope observed a fledgling solar system like the one depicted in this artist concept, and...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope set its infrared eyes on an extraordinarily low-mass brown dwarf called OTS 44 and...
Resembling the hair in Botticelli famous portrait of the birth of Venus, an image from NASA Hubble Space Telescope...
This infrared image, from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, of M100 is a classic example of a grand design spiral...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope captured this infrared image of a giant halo of very fine dust around the young star HR...
A team of astronomers has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized...
Looking like a spider web swirled into a spiral, galaxy IC 342 presents its delicate pattern of dust in this...
Astronomers using NASA Hubble Space Telescope stumbled upon a mysterious object that grudgingly yielded clues to its...
Looking like a spider web swirled into a spiral, galaxy IC 342 presents its delicate pattern of dust in this...
The Crab Nebula is one of the most intricately structured and highly dynamical objects ever observed. The new Hubble...
Observations from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope show that filamentary galaxies form stars at twice the rate of their...
This infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Helix nebula, a cosmic starlet often photographed by...
This infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows three baby stars in the bustling center of our Milky Way...