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W44 is located around 10,000 light-years away, within a forest of dense star-forming clouds in the constellation of...
Astronomers have found unexpected rings and arcs of ultraviolet light around a selection of galaxies, four of which...
An outcrop visible as light-toned streaks in the lower center of this image has been chosen as a place for NASA Mars...
This image shows one of the NASA detectors from the BICEP2 project, developed in collaboration with the NSF. The...
This MOC image shows dark sand dunes superposed on layered, light-toned outcrops -- interpreted to be sedimentary...
This visible-light view from from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope highlights the bright M17 nebula, as well as the...
This image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy in infrared light as seen by ESA Herschel Space Observatory and...
NASA Cassini spacecraft has spotted a glowing patch of ultraviolet light near Saturn north pole that marks the...
This image of supernova remnant G54.1+0.3 includes radio, infrared and X-ray light. The saturated yellow point at...
jsc2021e059255 (11/19/2021) --- The flight model of the Light-1 satellite in the clean room at the Yahsat Space Lab....
SPACE SHUTTLE ORBITER ENTERPRISE STANDS ON KSC'S PAD 39A HIGHLIGHTED AGAINST THE DARKENED FLORIDA SKY DURING TESTING...
iss062e104685 (March 21, 2020) --- The International Space Station was orbiting 262 miles above the Bay of Bengal...
Earth observation taken by the Expedition 39 crew aboard the ISS. Night view of airglow, aurora, and city lights....
Earth observation taken by the Expedition 39 crew aboard the ISS. Night view of airglow, aurora, and city lights....
The Space Shuttle 'Enterprise' stands on Kenndey Space Center Pad 39A highlighted against the darkened Florida sky...
This profile perspective of an active region revealed above it (June 24-25, 2018). Charged particles spinning along...
Bright green sources of high-energy X-ray light captured by NASA's NuSTAR mission are overlaid on an optical-light...
A deployed half-scale starshade with four petals at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, in 2014....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - One of many vendors displaying their products during the Spaceport Super Safety and...
The galaxy cluster called MOO J1142+1527 can be seen here as it existed when light left it 8.5 billion years ago....
Astroculture is a suite of technologies used to produce and maintain a closed controlled environment for plant...
New images of huge filamentary structures of gas and dust from ESA's Herschel space observatory reveal how matter is...
ISS031-E-143143 (19 June 2012) --- Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia at night is featured in this image photographed by an...
NASA's SPHEREx mission will operate in low Earth orbit, detecting hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies and...