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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.
Use the search bar above to find specific subjects — try queries like "Apollo 11," "Hubble Deep Field," "Mars surface," or "astronaut EVA." You can also filter by media type (image, video, or audio). For a daily curated experience, visit the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
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A supermassive black hole is depicted in this artist's concept, surrounded by a swirling disk of material falling...
Image release June 22, 2010 A spectacular new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image — one of the largest ever...
Supernova Supernovae can occur one of two ways. The first occurs when a white dwarf—the vestigial ember of a dead...
Nearly all black holes come in one of two sizes: stellar mass black holes that weigh up to a few dozen times the...
Hidden behind a shroud of dust in the constellation Cygnus is a stellar nursery called DR21, which is giving birth...
Hubble sees an unusal global cluster that is enriching the interstellar medium with metals Globular clusters offer...
nside the world's largest clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, has captured in stunning...
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are...
Of all the varieties of exploding stars, the ones called Type Ia are perhaps the most intriguing. Their predictable...
The powerful primary mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to detect the light from distant...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers at NASA's Space Launch Complex 2 (SLC-2) at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF), a part of payload flight...
An expanded view of comet C/2006 W3 (Christensen) is shown here. The WISE spacecraft observed this comet on April...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, members of the STS-103 crew get instructions on use of rib clamps for...
Preparations for a shroud jettison test for the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-1 (OAO-1) satellite in the Space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, technicians...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The orbiter Discovery rolls along the tow-way to the Vehicle Assembly Building where...
A brief and unusual flash spotted in the night sky on June 16, 2018, puzzled astronomers and astrophysicists across...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - With the transporter moved from below, the first stage of the Delta II rocket is...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – A U.S. Air Force C-5 Galaxy cargo aircraft, foreground, sits on the tarmac at...
This cartoon shows how magnetic waves, called Alfvén S-waves, propagate outward from the base of black hole jets....
In the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) bay 1, STS-103 Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr. sits in the command seat of...
Taking a break during emergency egress training at Launch Pad 39B are (left to right) STS-103 Mission Specialists...