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A January 6, 2002 ASTER nighttime thermal infrared image of Chiliques volcano in Chile shows a hot spot in the...
ISS033-E-012648 (18 Oct. 2012) --- Isla Santiago is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 33 crew...
We tend to think of Earth's landmasses as being fixed in place, but in reality they are attached to moving tectonic...
These color composite frames of the mid-section of Jupiter were of narrow angle images acquired on December 31,...
NASA's AVIRIS-3 sensor, an airborne imaging spectrometer built and operated by the agency's Jet Propulsion...
This Chandra image of Jupiter shows concentrations of aurora x-rays near the north and south poles due to a single...
ISS021-E-011833 (22 Oct. 2009) --- The southern Savage Islands in the Atlantic Ocean are featured in this image...
ISS021-E-011832 (22 Oct. 2009) --- The northern Savage Islands in the Atlantic Ocean are featured in this image...
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter captured this view on Nov. 3, 2023, of its parking spot during Mars solar conjunction –...
STS077-711-012 (19-29 May 1996) --- One of several volcanic-laden photo targets for the crew members was the...
Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
A huge area of Io's volcanic plains is shown in this Voyager 1 image mosaic. Numerous volcanic calderas and lava...
This image from NASA's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's...
ISS016-E-010894 (17 Nov. 2007) --- Cosiguina Volcano, Nicaragua is featured in this image photographed by an...
IC 342 is a challenging cosmic target. Although it is bright, the galaxy sits near the equator of the Milky Way’s...
Image release September 2, 2010 ABOUT THIS IMAGE: This image shows the entire region around supernova 1987A. The...
ISS013-E-23272 (8 June 2006) --- Tenerife Island, Spain is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 13...
Lying more than 110 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Antlia (The Air Pump) is the spiral...
This illustration shows a cool star, called W1906+40, marked by a raging storm near one of its poles. The storm is...
Cygnus X hosts many young stellar groupings. The combined outflows and ultraviolet radiation from the region's...
These four panels show the Whirlpool galaxy — which is actually a pair of galaxies also known as Messier 51 and NGC...
On Dec. 7, 1968, an Atlas-Centaur rocket carrying NASA’s heaviest and most ambitious uncrewed satellite to date...
This image zooms into a small portion of NASA Kepler full field of view -- an expansive, 100-square-degree patch of...
Caption: These SDO images from 7:25 p.m. EST on Feb. 24, 2014, show the first moments of an X-class flare in...