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Utilizing 14 spectral bands from the visible to the thermal infrared, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Re...
☄️ A visitor from the Stone Age? Possibly!
Using our @NASAHubble Space Telescope, a new study reports the comet in this image – ATLAS – is a br...
Here comes the Sun ☀️
The sunrise begins to peak in the distance as the International Space Station (@ISS ) orbits 263 miles (about 423 km) above t...
No shades necessary 😎
While staring directly at the Sun is never recommended, observatories let researchers get a better look. Active regions acro...
Beautiful ends make new beginnings ✨
A glowing horseshoe-shaped cloud of gas is against a backdrop of thousands of stars in the Large Magellanic Clo...
No shades necessary 😎
While staring directly at the Sun is never recommended, observatories let researchers get a better look. Active regions acro...
☄️ Watch the skies for Perseid meteors!
The best-known meteor shower of the year, the Perseids, is happening now. Most of the meteors are grai...
FLAME ON 🔥
Humans have been playing with fire since the beginning of time – but fire takes a different form in microgravity. For one, in reduced ...
👁👄👁 < — Our faces when we saw this image.
Roughly 4,000 light-years from Earth, the Lagoon Nebula gives astronomers an excellent opport...
Baby (stars) on board! ✨ 🍼 ✨
In this image, @NASAHubble peeks into a dusty stellar nursery where massive stars are born, nestled in the const...
👁👄👁 < — Our faces when we saw this image.
Roughly 4,000 light-years from Earth, the Lagoon Nebula gives astronomers an excellent opport...
Signed, sealed, and on track for delivery 🚀
On Aug. 10, 2021 from our @NASAWallops Flight facility in Virginia, @NorthropGrumman successfully la...
A great week to catch a peek 👀
One of the biggest meteor showers of the year is coming up. The Perseid meteor shower happens every year as the Ea...
All of the lights 🌌
A captivating display of light is captured from the International Space Station (@ISS ) as it orbits 271 miles above the south...
A great week to catch a peek 👀
One of the biggest meteor showers of the year is coming up. The Perseid meteor shower happens every year as the Ea...
Too hot to handle 🌡️
You might be surprised to find this is in fact not a picture of our neighboring Red Planet – it’s the Sahara Desert. In th...
Ganymede: both a moon and a mood.
Looking dark and mysterious in this infrared view, Jupiter’s icy moon was captured by @NASASolarSystem ’s Juno sp...
You’re about to enter another dimension 🌀
Our @NASAChandraXray space telescope captured a spectacular set of rings around a black hole, revealin...
✨ Remember: you are made of star-stuff and nobody can take that away. 🙅♀️
So shine bright today, and enjoy this glittering image of the south...
🎵 Galileo! (Galileo!) Galile--! You finish the rest.
Our Galileo spacecraft took this false-color mosaic, constructed from a series of 53 images, ...
