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One of the STS-51 astronauts used a "fish-eye" lens on a 35mm cmaera to photograph this view of Hurricane Kenneth in...
NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission celebrates its sixth anniversary studying galaxies beyond our Milky Way...
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught this image of an eruption on the side of the sun over June 18, 2015. The...
This chart describes the Skylab student experiment Ultraviolet (UV) From Pulsars, proposed by Neal W. Sharnon of...
On April 2, 2014, the sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 10:05 a.m. EDT, and NASA's Solar Dynamics...
STS035-35-007 (2-10 Dec 1990) --- During the STS-35 mission, the Astronomy Laboratory 1 (ASTRO-1) payload, in its...
A group of six streaking objects, the identities of which remain unknown, can be seen here flying across the...
This three-color image of galaxy M101 was taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer on June 20, 2003. The far...
This ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer left and visual image right of the face on barred and...
This image taken by the ultraviolet-light monitoring camera on the European Space Agency ESA XMM-Newton telescope...
This ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer is of NGC 5128 Centaurus-A. This unusual galaxy is...
This image highlights the hidden spiral arms blue that were discovered around the nearby galaxy NGC 4625 by the...
Ultraviolet and infrared images from NASA Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope show active and quiet...
This image taken by NASAS Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows one of the largest flares, or star eruptions, ever...
This graphic depicts what Mars atmosphere would have looked like to a viewer with ultraviolet-seeing eyes after a...
This single orbit exposure, ultraviolet color image of Messier 101 was taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer on...
Astronauts Frank L. Culbertson Jr., STS-51 mission commander, and Daniel W. Bursch, mission specialist, are seen on...
Solar material repeatedly bursts from the sun in this close-up captured on July 9-10, 2016, by NASA’s Solar Dynamics...
Solar material twists above the sun’s surface in this close-up captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on June...
NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission celebrates its sixth anniversary studying galaxies beyond our Milky Way...
NASA's unique mission Swift, developed to study gamma-ray bursts, is a study in successful international...
These three images of Jupiter, taken through the narrow angle camera of NASA Cassini spacecraft from a distance of...
This image was taken on May 21 and 22, 2003, by NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The image was made from data...
Wavy bands of clouds near Saturn's south pole dominate this ultraviolet image from the Cassini spacecraft. A bright...