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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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In 1900, astronomer Joseph Lunt made a discovery: Peering through a telescope at Cape Town Observatory, the...
NASA image acquired December 4, 2010 After a respite of less than a month, Klyuchevskaya Volcano resumed erupting in...
During a flight over the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, the DC-8 banks over the Amundsen Sea and the clean edge of...
A "river of grass" extending south of Lake Okeechobee shows how the area was modified by man with visible...
An active region just about squarely facing Earth erupted with an X 1.6 flare (largest class) as well as a coronal...
Sen. Barbara Mikulski participated in a ribbon cutting at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center on January 6th, 2016,...
NASA image captured March 27, 2012 NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its...
This image captures the stunning NGC 6535, a globular cluster 22,000 light-years away in the constellation of...
A NICER team member measures the focused optical power of each X-ray concentrator in a clean tent at NASA’s Goddard...
Environmental chemist Cleo Davie-Martin’s quiet lab will soon be filled by a team of multi-disciplinary scientists...
Caption: Composite shot of all four rockets for the M-TeX and MIST experiments is made up of 30 second exposures....
The C130 Hercules sports an unusually large windshield. The view it affords is typically spectacular. --- The North...
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of Earth and the moon transiting the sun together on Sept. 13,...
Great Scott, This is Heavy! You might see a DeLorean zipping around Greenbelt, Maryland, on Oct. 21, 2015, the day...
NASA image acquired May 30, 2011 On May 30, 2011, the STEREO Behind spacecraft caught a prominence in the process of...
NASA successfully launched a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket carrying student experiments...
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured this false-colored night-time image of Cyclone Felleng during the night on...
A filament (which at one point had an eerie similarity to a snake) broke away from the sun and out into space (Nov....
NASA image captured December 25, 2011 A NASA scientific balloon awaits launch in McMurdo, Antarctica. The balloon,...
One of the control rooms at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., prepares for the GPM mission’s...
Caption: President Park Geun-hye of South Korea and Center Director Christopher Scolese are greeted by Frank...
As part of the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), NASA scientists are flying over Alaska and Canada,...
NOAA's GOES-15 satellite captured the southern California "June Gloom" on June 10, 2013. That's a weather...
It is known today that merging galaxies play a large role in the evolution of galaxies and the formation of...