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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.
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Morphologies, masses, and structures - oh, my! This beautiful clump of glowing gas, dark dust and glittering stars...
Observations from NASA Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment, or CIBER, have shown a surprising surplus of infrared...
Here we see the spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 — more commonly known as WR 124 — and the nebula...
Maestro Piotr Gajewski conducts the National Philharmonic in the performance of Henry Dehlinger’s “Return to the...
Scott Wiessinger, multimedia producer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, left, Wade Sisler, executive producer...
Composer Henry Dehlinger, right, answers a question alongside Scott Wiessinger, multimedia producer at NASA’s...
jsc2024e041793 (12/16/2020) --- JAXA Confocal Space Microscopy (COSMIC) is seen on the International Space Station....
This new Hubble image shows a peculiar galaxy known as NGC 660, located around 45 million light-years away from us....
From objects as small as Newton's apple to those as large as a galaxy, no physical body is free from the stern bonds...
The oldest light in the universe, called the cosmic microwave background, as observed by the Planck space telescope...
New observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the intricate structure of the galaxy NGC...
This picture, taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, shows NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus...
Our sky is filled with a diffuse background glow, known as the cosmic infrared background. Much of the light is from...
This stellar object is called Spitzer 073425.3-465409, as seen by NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer; the...
This light-year-long knot of interstellar gas and dust resembles a caterpillar on its way to a feast. But the meat...
By pushing NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the...
'Tis the season for holiday decorating and tree-trimming. Not to be left out, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space...
NASA image release September 16, 2010 Enjoying a frozen treat on a hot summer day can leave a sticky mess as it...
The primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope consisting of 18 hexagonal mirrors looks like a giant puzzle...
AS16-107-17442 (22 April 1972) --- A close-up view of the Apollo 16 Cosmic Ray Detector (CRD) experiment deployed at...
Astronomers using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have greatly improved the cosmic distance ladder used to measure the...
Spacewalkers work on a cosmic particle detector, more potential partners to transport payloads to the Moon, and a...
NASA image release July 13, 2010 To view a video of this image go to: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4790394066/ and...
The W44 supernova remnant is nestled within and interacting with the molecular cloud that formed its parent star....