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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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This image shows an array of the 512 superconducting detectors used on the BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole. The...
In 2017, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope played a pivotal role in two important breakthroughs occurring just...
The Encke gap displays gentle waves in its inner and outer edges that are caused by gravitational tugs from the...
This artist's concept shows ESA's LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, which launched on Dec. 3, 2015, from Kourou, French...
This image shows one of the NASA detectors from the BICEP2 project, developed in collaboration with the NSF. The...
The biggest merger yet between two black holes produced gravity waves that were detected by gravitational wave...
When two black holes collide, they release massive amounts of energy in the form of gravitational waves that last a...
Stars which are 8 times or more massive than our Sun end their lives in a most spectacular way; they go supernova. A...
In reality, Janus and the rings both orbit Saturn and are only weakly connected to each other through their mutual...
Many of the features seen in Saturn's rings are shaped by the planet's moons. This view from NASA's Cassini...
This x-ray photograph of the Supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, taken with the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)...
Two masters of their craft are caught at work shaping Saturn's rings. Pandora (upper right) sculpts the F ring, as...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has provisionally detected the faint afterglow of the explosive merger of two neutron...
Before NASA's Cassini entered its Grand Finale orbits, it acquired unprecedented views of the outer edges of the...
It may look as though Saturn's moon Mimas is crashing through the rings in this image taken by NASA's Cassini...
As Swift begins its investigation of gamma-ray bursts, NASA scientists are anxious to see if their origins lie in...
The constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) is especially rich in galaxies, due in part to the presence of a massive and...
Astronomers have made the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster using three of NASA's...
This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, shows the wispy filamentary structure of Henize 206, is a four-color...
NASA image release July 3, 2012 Caption: Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot...