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iss060e002056 (June 29, 2019) --- Flying 268 miles above New Zealand, the International Space Station's docked...
This image is of the Crab Nebula in visible light photographed by the Hale Observatory optical telescope in 1959....
jsc2025e067423 (8/5/20250 --- Germicidal UV light is emitted by an optical fiber running through the center of an...
STS-133 Discovery Rollout - first motion to out of lights
STS-133 Discovery Rollout - first motion to out of lights
Fluids Integrated Rack, FIR, Light Microscopy Module, LMM
ARMY CONTRACTOR HONGROK CHANG IN THE FAST LIGHT OPTICAL GYROSCOPE LAB
STS-133 Discovery Rollout - first motion to out of lights
N-260 Fluid Mechanics Laboratory aerial in morning light
STS-133 Discovery Rollout - first motion to out of lights
Moon over Hangar One (with holiday star lighted on roof)
STS-133 Discovery Rollout - first motion to out of lights
Telescopes help distant objects appear bigger, but this is only one of their advantages. Telescopes can also collect...
Dr. Julie Robinson, Chief Scientist for the International Space Station (ISS) and Dr. Matthew Lynch, Procter &...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Astrotech Space Operations, technicians conduct white light inspection of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Astrotech Space Operations, technicians conduct white light inspection of the...
At Astrotech Space Operations, technicians conduct white light inspection of the THEMIS probes. They will also...
Galaxy NGC 5866 lies 44 million light-years from Earth and has a diameter of roughly 60,000 light-years — a little...
At Astrotech Space Operations, technicians conduct white light inspection of the THEMIS probes. They will also...
This artist's concept shows an unusual celestial object called CX330 was first detected as a source of X-ray light...
Astronomers have discovered one of the most distant planets known, a gas giant about 13,000 light-years from Earth,...
The south pole of Jupiter is seen in this annotated image of data from the ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS) instrument...
This mosaic taken by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover looks uphill at Mount Sharp, which Curiosity has been climbing....
Images depicting NASA’s Saturn V Rocket are projected onto the Washington Monument as part of an event to kick off...