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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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The Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) has made a sturning, high-energy panorama of the central regions of our Milky...
This colourful bubble is a planetary nebula called NGC 6818, also known as the Little Gem Nebula. It is located in...
ISS024-E-014233 (11 Sept. 2010) --- A smoke plume near the northern Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan is featured in this...
This enhanced-color mosaic of Saturn's icy moon Tethys shows a range of features on the moon's trailing hemisphere....
ISS014-E-18844 (2 April 2007) --- A plume at Mt. Bagana, Bougainville Island is featured in this image photographed...
ISS033-E-014186 (16 Oct. 2012) --- A nighttime view of Baltimore, Maryland is featured in this image photographed by...
ISS017-E-019616 (16 Oct. 2008) --- A dust storm in Turkmenistan, Central Asia is featured in this image photographed...
P-21756 BW only Range: 120,000 km (right) 169,000 km (left) Right: In the foreground of this picture taken by...
This pair of images from space shows a portion of the southern Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula in the country...
NASA's Voyager 2 high resolution color image, taken 2 hours before closest approach, provides obvious evidence of...
This image of the Triangulum galaxy, or M33, includes data from the ESA (European Space Agency) Herschel mission,...
Range: 72.3 million km. ( 44.9 million miles ) P-29314B/W This Voyager 2 photograph of Uranus shows the planets...
STS099-355-024 (11-22 February 2000) -- Two separate atmospheric optical phenomena appear in this 35mm photograph...
This enhanced-color mosaic of Saturn's icy moon Tethys shows a range of features on the moon's trailing hemisphere....
A Centaur second-stage rocket in the Space Propulsion Research Facility, better known as B‒2, operating at NASA’s...
ISS025-E-005504 (30 Sept. 2010) --- Syr Dar’ya River floodplain in Kazakhstan, central Asia is featured in this...
STS054-S-001 (July 1992) --- Designed by the crew members, the STS-54 crew patch depicts our national symbol, the...
Two galaxies in a cosmic dance defy conventions. 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo, the more...
A NASA sounding rocket experiment has detected a surprising surplus of infrared light in the dark space between...
This composite NASA Hubble Space Telescope Image captures the positions of comet Siding Spring and Mars in a...
SL4-139-3971 (8 Jan. 1974) --- An oblique view of Japan as seen from the Skylab space station in Earth orbit. The...
Remarkable new details of Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range...
Technicians prepare the Space Electric Research Test (SERT-I) payload for a test in Tank Number 5 of the Electric...
ISS028-E-037978 (6 Sept. 2011) --- Wildfire smoke plumes in Texas are featured in this image photographed by an...