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BARREL team members run under the payload as the balloon first takes flight at the SANAE IV research station in...
Caption: In this composite image, visible-light observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are combined with...
NASA image release April 13, 2011 An engineer examines the Webb telescope primary mirror Engineering Design Unit...
NASA image captured January 4, 2012 Most of us prefer our winter roads free of ice, but one kind of road depends on...
GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The Core Observatory will...
NASA release July 27, 2011 These jets, known as spicules, were captured in an SDO image on April 25, 2010. Combined...
Caption: This image from June 20, 2013, at 11:15 p.m. EDT shows the bright light of a solar flare on the left side...
This light-year-long knot of interstellar gas and dust resembles a caterpillar on its way to a feast. But the meat...
GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The Core Observatory will...
The BARREL instrument in Antarctica– prior to being encased in its protective box – destined to float beneath a...
This picture, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), shows a galaxy...
NASA image acquired September 6, 2010 The Matusevich Glacier flows toward the coast of East Antarctica, pushing...
NASA Sees Severe Weather from Central to Eastern US A vigorous weather system has generated severe weather over the...
NASA image acquired January 24, 2011 What do you get when you mix below-freezing air temperatures, frigid northwest...
Most galaxies possess a majestic spiral or elliptical structure. About a quarter of galaxies, though, defy such...
This striking NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the galaxy UGC 477, located just over 110 million...
Several thousand years ago, a star some 160,000 light-years away from us exploded, scattering stellar shrapnel...
Composite image of category 5 Hurricane Patricia, off the Pacific coast of Mexico, from 06:00 UTC on Friday, 23...
This stunning image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), shows part...
This movie from NASA’s STEREO spacecraft's Heliospheric Imager shows Comet ISON, Mercury, Comet Encke and Earth over...
NASA image captured April 12, 2011 at 1731 UTC (1:31 p.m. EDT) A giant swirl of clouds that form an apostrophe-like...
The BARREL team inflates the balloon to launch their fifth scientific payload from Esrange Space Center near Kiruna,...
The Sunshield on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the largest part of the observatory—five layers of thin...
Caption: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured this image of an M5.7 class flare on May 3, 2013 at 1:30...