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Current moon as viewed on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 19:00 UT (Phase 100%) This marks the first time that accurate...
This illustration shows a cool star, called W1906+40, marked by a raging storm near one of its poles. The storm is...
Full Moon. Rises at sunset, high in the sky around midnight. Visible all night. This marks the first time that...
Waxing crescent. Visible toward the southwest in early evening. This marks the first time that accurate shadows at...
Waning crescent. Low to the east before sunrise. This marks the first time that accurate shadows at this level of...
New Moon. By the modern definition, New Moon occurs when the Moon and Sun are at the same geocentric ecliptic...
Third quarter. Rises around midnight, visible to the south after sunrise. This marks the first time that accurate...
Waning gibbous. Rises after sunset, high in the sky after midnight, visible to the southwest after sunrise. This...
First quarter. Visible high in the southern sky in early evening. This marks the first time that accurate shadows at...
Waxing gibbous. Visible to the southeast in early evening, up for most of the night. This marks the first time that...
The veils of Saturn's most mysterious moon have begun to lift in Cassini's eagerly awaited first glimpse of the...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) is in view...
A close-up view of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing containing the National Oceanic and...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2), stacked atop...
A close-up view of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing containing the National Oceanic and...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) is in view...
This image, captured Feb. 1, 2014, shows a colorized view of Earth from the moon-based perspective of NASA's Lunar...
This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter...
NASA file image acquired September 11, 2005 To view a video of this event go here:...
Caption: MAVEN's Imaging UltraViolet Spectrograph obtained this image of Mars on July 13, 2016, when the planet...
As Cassini nears its rendezvous with Saturn, new detail in the banded clouds of the planet's atmosphere are becoming...
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing containing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s...
New composite images made from NASA's Cassini spacecraft data are the most detailed global infrared views ever...
Technicians check the United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing containing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...