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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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The magnetic field lines between a pair of active regions formed a beautiful set of swaying arches rising up above...
As an active region rotated into view, NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory was able to observe well-defined magnetic...
ESA Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The...
W3 is an enormous stellar nursery about 6,200 light-years away in the Perseus Arm, one of the Milky Way galaxy main...
New data from the Herschel Space Observatory suggest comets are constantly smashing together around the star...
This image from the Herschel Observatory, a European Space Agency mission, reveals some of the coldest and darkest...
Dense filaments of gas in the IC5146 interstellar cloud can be seen clearly in this image taken in infrared light by...
This image from ESA Herschel Space Observatory shows of a portion of the Rosette nebula, a stellar nursery about...
ESA Herschel Space Observatory first spotted the colliding duo in images taken with longer-wavelength infrared light...
NASA Airborne Snow Observatory measurements of snow water equivalent top image and snow albedo, or reflectivity...
This set of images from the La Sagra Sky Survey, operated by the Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca in Spain,...
In this infrared view from the Herschel Observatory, a European Space Agency mission, blue shows the warmest dust,...
This image composite shows a warped and magnified view of a galaxy discovered by the Herschel Space Observatory, one...
This artist illustration shows a planetary disk left that weighs the equivalent of 50 Jupiter-mass planets. It...
Astronomers have discovered some of the youngest stars ever seen thanks to the Herschel space observatory; dense...
This mosaic of the Andromeda spiral galaxy highlights explosive stars in its interior, and cooler, dusty stars...
Herschel Space Observatory has shown that galaxies with the most powerful, active, supermassive black holes at their...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory observes the Sun in ten different wavelengths because each wavelength reveals...
Astronomers have used an x-ray image to make the first detailed study of the behavior of high-energy particles...
This Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) image is a spectrum of a black hole, which is similar to the colorful spectrum...
Chandra X-Ray Observatory took this first x-ray picture of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) on October 13, 1999. The blue...
NASA Aquarius Principal Investigator Gary Lagerloef photographed in front of the Aquarius/SAC-D satellite...
Scientists presented the first images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory [SDO] during a special "first...
Scientists presented the first images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory [SDO] during a special "first...