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This all-sky image shows the distribution of carbon monoxide CO, a molecule used by astronomers to trace molecular...
The Cloud Physics Lidar, or CPL, is a remote sensing, laser-based instrument used to measure the cloud and aerosol...
A rich collection of colorful astronomical objects is revealed in this picturesque image of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A successful controlled burn near KSC’s Launch Complex 39 area creates clouds of smoke...
Wonders in the Antarctic Sea and Sky NASA aircraft and scientists have returned to the United States after a short...
This image shows two side-by-side streaks of wispy, white clouds against a dark gray sky moving from the middle of...
This stellar object is called Spitzer 073425.3-465409, as seen by NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer; the...
The SeaWinds scatterometer on NASA QuikScat satellite makes global radar measurements day and night, in clear sky...
Between the claws of the dreaded scorpion imagined by the ancient Greeks lies this giant dust cloud, imaged by the...
Best known as a swan winging its way across the night, the constellation Cygnus is easily seen in the northern...
Plosky Tolbachik volcano, in Russia far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, erupted on Nov. 27, 2012 for the first time in...
This color thumbnail image was obtained by NASA Curiosity rover. A dust cloud was generated when the Curiosity rover...
Rising from a sea of dust and gas like a giant seahorse, the Horsehead nebula is one of the most photographed...
Studied by astronomers, Serpens Cloud Core is one of the youngest collections of stars ever seen in our galaxy. This...
Sea oats frame the night sky, bisected by the Milky Way, in this view from the Atlantic shoreline at NASA’s Kennedy...
Lights from Launch Complexes 39A and B, left, glow against the night sky in this view from the Atlantic shoreline at...
Sea oats are backdropped by the night sky and the Milky Way in this view from the Atlantic shoreline at NASA’s...
Clouds move inland from the Atlantic Ocean, backdropped by a nighttime vista of stars, in this view from the beach...
Lights from Launch Complexes 39A and B, left, glow against the night sky in this view from the Atlantic shoreline at...
Sea oats are backdropped by the night sky and the Milky Way in this view from the Atlantic shoreline at NASA’s...
Wispy clouds float across the Martian sky in this accelerated sequence of images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover....
iss069e031362 (July 13, 2023) -- As the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above North Africa, clouds...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Gathering clouds filter the painted sky over the turn basin in the Launch Complex 39 Area at...
iss067e270867 (Aug. 26, 2022) --- This tranquil orbital pass above a cloud-covered Atlantic Ocean reveals Earth's...