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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.
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This image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows the galaxy NGC 1316, located about 62 million light-years away...
A colorful creature in a starry sea stands out in this image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Explorer; infrared light...
A kingly crescent Saturn rests on the right of this NASA Cassini spacecraft portrait while the moon Mimas appears...
This nighttime view of Saturn north pole reveals a dynamic, active planet at least 75 kilometers 47 miles below the...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer highlights the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy about 200,000...
A new project using sonification turns astronomical images from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other...
This NAC image from MESSENGER’s second Mercury flyby shows a crater with a set of light-colored rays radiating...
Our Milky Way is a dusty place. So dusty that we cannot see the center of the galaxy in visible light. Thanks to...
After passing Mercury the first time and making a trip around the Sun, NASA Mariner 10 again flew by Mercury on...
This chart based on data from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer illustrates how infrared is used to more...
RCW 108 is a region where stars are actively forming within the Milky Way galaxy about 4,000 light years from Earth....
In this image of PSR B1509-58 about 170,000 light-years from Earth, X-rays from NASA Chandra in gold are seen along...
This new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, includes data from NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic...
The spiral galaxy NGC 3627, located about 30 million light years from Earth as seen by four NASA telescopes; inset...
This infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows N103B -- all that remains from a supernova that exploded...
This image shows our own back yard, astronomically speaking, from a vantage point about 30 light-years away from the...
NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a long coronal hole has rotated so that was temporarily facing right towards...
Flying over the Brazilian Amazon with an instrument firing 300,000 laser pulses per second, NASA scientists have...
The tiny red spot in this image is one of the most efficient star-making galaxies ever observed, converting gas into...
Here we see two different views of the spiral galaxy, Messier 81. On the left is an image taken in blue light, while...
This artist concept illustrates a star flying through our galaxy at supersonic speeds, leaving a 13-light-year-long...
NASA Hubble peers into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074. The region is a firestorm of...
In this new view of the Andromeda, also known as M31, galaxy from the Herschel space observatory, cool lanes of...
During its one-year mission, NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, mapped the entire sky in infrared light....