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Light-toned Rocks First, Columbia Hills Later
Webb is set to look at the first light after the Big Bang.
This infrared snapshot of a region in the constellation Carina near the Milky Way was taken shortly after NASA...
A Martian rock in the Yellowknife Bay area of Mars Gale Crater is illuminated by white-light light emitting diodes...
On March 10, the Core Observatory passed over an extra-tropical cyclone about 1055 miles (1700 kilometers) due east...
An imaging spectrometer designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory captured its first data over Karachi, Pakistan,...
This image shows the first measurements taken by NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) from...
This image of a Martian rock dubbed Sayunei is illuminated by ultraviolet LEDs light emitting diodes is part of the...
April 21, 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Light press conference,...
The mineral map shows an area of southwestern Libya in the Sahara Desert observed by NASA's Earth Surface Mineral...
Technicians fill SOFIA’s instrument with liquid nitrogen and helium to keep the detectors cold. The now retired...
Extratropical cyclone in the Northwest Pacific observed by the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) on board the...
NASA Dryden project engineer Dave Bushman carefully aims the optics of a laser device at a solar cell panel on a...
Full resolution detail from one of the first LROC NAC images. At this scale and lighting, impact craters dominate...
One of Planck first images is shown as a strip superimposed over a two dimensional projection of the whole sky as...
Astronomers have uncovered patterns of light that appear to be from the first stars and galaxies that formed in the...
This visualization shows water features on New York's Long Island – shown as bright pink splotches nestled within...
ECOSTRESS acquired this image the night of July 9, 2018, over Egypt. Yellow and red indicate generally higher...
This image from NASA Cassini spacecraft, the first of its kind, shows lightning on Saturn night side flashing in a...
This image shows the Andromeda galaxy, first as seen in visible light by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory,...
NASA NuSTAR has captured these first, focused views of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way...
This graphic illuminates the process by which astronomers using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first...
April 21, 2012 marks the two-year anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Light press conference,...
This graphic, released on Dec. 10, 2020, shows the basic radar measurements, called waveforms, collected by the...