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Earth observation taken by the Expedition 35 crew aboard the ISS. Night view of city lights.
Earth observation taken by the Expedition 35 crew aboard the ISS. Night view of city lights.
This composite image of the Sun includes high-energy X-ray data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array...
This image composite shows a giant galactic blob (red) and the three merging galaxies NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope...
The immense Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31, is captured in full in this image from NASA Wide-field...
This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Orion nebula, our closest massive star-making factory, 1,450...
Arp 148 is nicknamed Mayall object and is located in the constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear, about 500...
Hot stars burn brightly in this new image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer, showing the ultraviolet side of a...
This image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer takes in several interesting objects in the constellation...
This artist concept depicts 55 Cancri e as it orbits its star. NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has, for the first time,...
This artist concept, based on data from NASA Herschel telescope, illustrates an icy planet-forming disk around a...
This observation from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Becquerel Crater, one of several impact craters in...
A star-forming region shines from the considerable distance of more than 30,000 light-years away in the upper left...
Tipped toward Earth and illuminated by the star, these rings look like ellipses in images taken with NASA Spitzer...
NASA Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn shadow cutting sharply across its rings as the orbits of ring particles carry...
April 21, 2012 marks the two-year anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Light press conference,...
A new day dawns on Saturn as the part of the planet is seen emerging once more into the Sun light by NASA Cassini...
The tri-county Riley Road wildfire burning in Texas north of Houston was 85 percent contained when NASA Terra...
How many rings do you see in this new image of galaxy Messier 94, also known as NGC 4736? At first glance one might...
In the Perseus spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy, opposite the galactic center, lies the nebula SH 2-235. As seen...
This mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows surroundings of...
This mosaic of images from NASA WISE Telescope is in the constellation of Cassiopeia. This region contains a large...
The image on the left shows a portion of our sky, called the Boötes field, in infrared light, while the image...
This image from NASA Hubble telescope shows one of the most distant galaxies known, called GN-108036, dating back to...