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The March 29, 2014, X-class flare appears as a bright light on the upper right in this image from SDO, showing light...
BARREL team members run under the payload as the balloon first takes flight at the SANAE IV research station in...
This light-year-long knot of interstellar gas and dust resembles a caterpillar on its way to a feast. But the meat...
Several thousand years ago, a star some 160,000 light-years away from us exploded, scattering stellar shrapnel...
Caption: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured this image of an M5.7 class flare on May 3, 2013 at 1:30...
Like almost all solar observatories, NASA's IRIS can provide images of different layers of the sun's atmosphere,...
Some of the BARREL balloon launches took place at the South African National Antarctic Expedition Research base,...
This colorful bubble is a planetary nebula called NGC 6818, also known as the Little Gem Nebula. It is located in...
While it often seems unvarying from our viewpoint on Earth, the sun is constantly changing. Material courses through...
Watching a BARREL balloon – and the instruments dangling below – float up over the SANAE IV research base in...
An iceberg as viewed from the bow of the RRS Ernest Shackleton a few days before the BARREL team reached Halley...
This composite image, made from four taken by the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on August 8,...
Liftoff! A balloon begins to rise over the brand new Halley VI Research Station, which had its grand opening in...
This enhanced-color image mosaic shows Daphnis, one of the moons embedded in Saturn's rings, in the Keeler gap on...
This shining disk of a spiral galaxy sits approximately 25 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation...
This image, taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the...
**This image was taken at 3:38 a.m. EDT on July 13, one day before New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto.** New...
Along with the visible light and warmth constantly emitted by our sun comes a whole spectrum of X-ray and...
Inside a laboratory at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in...
Phil Neudeck- Can Take the Heat When it comes to the heat of extreme environments like Venus, electronics can get...
Angel M. Otero, Deputy Director of Space Life and Physical Sciences Research and Applications (SLPSRA) Division...
This 2015 diagram shows components of the investigations payload for NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission. Mars 2020 will...
NASA image release April 22, 2010 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this billowing cloud of cold interstellar...
NASA image release April 22, 2010 This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre...