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This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the spiral galaxy NGC 2841, located about 46 million...
Test subjects performing subjective assessment of underwater lamp source during NBL Preliminary Lunar Lighting...
Test subjects performing subjective assessment of underwater lamp source during NBL Preliminary Lunar Lighting...
Test subjects performing subjective assessment of underwater lamp source during NBL Preliminary Lunar Lighting...
Test subjects performing mission-relevant tasks and evaluating shadow quality during NBL Preliminary Lunar Lighting...
New light has been shed on the invisible forces shaping our near-Earth environment, unveiling a fundamental physical...
N-260 Fluid Mechanics Laboratory in afternoon light
Unbrazed and Brazed Tensile Sample, photography in the lighting studio
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Hyeon-Hye Kim, a plant physiologist with the National Research Council at the Space...
3-2-1 Liftoff_ THEMIS heads for space to study the Northern Lights. The THEMIS mission aims to unravel the mystery...
Inside the Spectrum prototype unit, organisms in a Petri plate are exposed to blue excitation lighting. The device...
Inside the Spectrum prototype unit, organisms in a Petri plate are exposed to different colors of lighting. The...
iss071e604388 (Aug. 15, 2024) --- The city lights of southern Thailand and Malaysia sit in between the Malacca...
Inside the Spectrum prototype unit, organisms in a Petri plate are exposed to different colors of lighting. The...
This image of the Egg Nebula, also known as CRL-2688 and located roughly 3,000 light-years from us, was taken in red...
GEDI is a full-waveform lidar instrument that makes detailed measurements of the 3D structure of the Earth’s...
Inside the Spectrum prototype unit, organisms in a Petri plate are exposed to blue excitation lighting. The device...
iss072e435710 (Dec. 28, 2024) --- The Taiwan Strait separates China's southeast coast from Taiwan in this photograph...
iss073e1047210 (Nov. 2, 2025) --- Thessaloniki, Greece—a 2,300-year-old port city on the Thermaic Gulf with a...
iss026e032517 (3/8/2011) --- European Space Agency (ESA) Paolo Nespoli works with the Light Microscopy Module (LMM)...
Inside the Spectrum prototype unit, organisms in a Petri plate are exposed to blue excitation lighting. The device...
About the Northern Lights -- a video overview of what the THEMIS mission will reveal. The THEMIS mission aims to...
This image composite compares the well-known visible-light picture of the glowing Trifid Nebula (left panel) with...
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured a new high-energy X-ray view (magenta, Figure...