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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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This is the video compliment to a presentation about the engineering history of the Webb Telescope's Optical...
This CME image from Oct. 7, 2012, captured by two instruments on STEREO, shows the eruption from its base out into...
OHO captured this image of a CME from the side – but the structure looks much different from the classic light bulb...
This low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle above the "Buckskin" rock target,...
Caption: This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on July 18,...
This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colorful "last hurrah" of a star like...
Watching a particularly beautiful movie of the sun helps show how the lines between science and art can sometimes...
'Tis the season for holiday decorating and tree-trimming. Not to be left out, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space...
When Deep Impact strikes comet Tempel 1, it will unleash a storm of dust and debris never before seen by...
The first United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-1) flew in orbit inside the Spacelab science module for...
This image shows the first measurements taken by NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) from...
The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO...
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught this image of an eruption on the side of the sun on June 18, 2015. The...
Spectacular eruption: On June 7, 2011, SDO captured this image as a massive eruption lifted an enormous amount of...
A pair of giant filaments on the face of the sun have formed what appears to be an enormous arrow. If straightened...
It may look like something from "The Lord of the Rings," but this fiery swirl is actually a planetary...
On Nov. 1, 2016, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance...
The STS-78 patch links past with present to tell the story of its mission and science through a design imbued with...
The Cat's Eye Nebula, one of the first planetary nebulae discovered, also has one of the most complex forms known to...
This colorful view of Mercury was produced by using images from the color base map imaging campaign during...
STEREO witnessed the March 5, 2013, CME from the side of the sun – Earth is far to the left of this picture. While...
A solar flare associated with the coronal mass ejection seen in this image generated a flurry of fast-moving solar...
There's no way to tell from this SOHO image whether the halo CME on March 5, 2013, originated from the front or far...
A giant cloud appears to expand outward from the sun in all directions in this image from Sept. 28, 2012, which is...