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A light in the darkness. 💡
This time of year, most of the Southern Hemisphere is bathed in hours of winter darkness, but last week the aurora aust...
“We’ve got galaxies at home.”
Reminiscent of distant galaxies amid clouds of interstellar dust, this image taken 20 years ago today by the Landsat...
✨ This August, spot two planets in the morning sky, gawk at the Perseids meteor shower, and get down with the Cygnus (constellation). There's a lot t...
More like An-Drama-da 🌌
Seven years ago, @NASAHubble captured its largest-ever image assembled of the Andromeda galaxy in brilliant clarity,...
Thanks, it’s vintage!
@NASAHubble captured this ultraviolet image of Venus taken on Jan. 24, 1995, when Venus was at 70.6 million miles (113.6...
Time to reinvent the wheel.
Here’s a brand new image of the Cartwheel Galaxy as seen by the @NASAWebb telescope. Webb offers not just a sna...
POV: You're standing in an elevator inside the Vehicle Assembly Building.
The rocket and spacecraft that will kick off humanity's return to the M...
We feel the need…the need for speed. ✈
You’re looking at one of the first-ever images of shockwaves interacting from two supersonic aircraft in fl...
We feel the need…the need for speed. ✈
You’re looking at one of the first-ever images of shockwaves interacting from two supersonic aircraft in fl...
Little Miss Star with a Complicated Past
Located about 440 light-years from Earth, Zeta Ophiuchi is a star 20 times more massive than the Sun, c...
Sunday in the way you move ☀️
X-rays swirl off our Sun in this composite image captured by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) ove...
If you’re like us - you can gaze at the swirls on Jupiter’s surface for hours 🌀
Join the forces of our NASA citizen science project, Jovian Vor...
"The Eagle has landed."
On this day, 53 years ago, the three astronauts of #Apollo11, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin, cemented the...
Where does the rainbow end?
Pluto isn’t really a psychedelic riot of colors—this translated color image was created by New Horizons scientists to h...
If you weren't convinced yet – we’re here to confirm: space ROCKS! 🪨🤘
Layered, flaky Martian rocks are captured here by @NASAJPL ’s Curiosit...
(Measuring) Dust in the Wind 🎵
Soon, scientists will have a more definite answer to whether mineral dust heats or cools our planet. @NASAEarth 's ...
Over 5,000 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system—and we're inviting you on a guided tour.
Though we can't see these planets up cl...
See you later, Martian alligator. 🐊
From a distance, the floor of this crater looks like alligator scales or a spider web. The intersecting shapes...
Over 5,000 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system—and we're inviting you on a guided tour.
Though we can't see these planets up cl...
Cool cosmic waves 🏄♀️
What at first sight may appear to be a cosmic current with turquoise-tinted streams and nebulous strands reaching throu...
