Explore NASA's vast collection of space images, videos, and audio from missions past and present.
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.
Showing results for "tidal disruption event"
6 results found
An image of the galaxy Arp299B, which is undergoing a merging process with Arp299A (the galaxy to the left),...
An artist's concept of a tidal disruption event (TDE) that happens when a star passes fatally close to a...
This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star as it is being devoured by a supermassive black...
A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. Some of the gas came from a star that was pulled...
This illustration of the Comet-Shoemaker/Levy collision shows the first piece of the remains of the comet crashing...
Tidal disruption event Every galaxy has a black hole at its center. Usually they are quiet, without gas accretions,...