The constellation Vulpecula is a veritable entire assembly line of newborn stars. The diffuse glow reveals…
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Freedom 7
On May 5, 1961, at 9:34am EST NASA astronaut Alan Shepard launched about his Mercury Redstone…
Eyjafjallajökull Volcano in Infrared
On Sat., April 17, 2010, the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) instrument aboard NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1)…
Visions of Future Past
The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is the subject of this long exposure, and is seen as it…
Stellar Nursery in the Rosette Nebula
This image from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory shows the cloud associated with the…
Guenter Wendt and the Apollo 11 Crew
Within the White Room atop the gantry on Launch Complex 39 Pad A, the Apollo 11…
Double Trouble in Twin Black Holes
This image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the central region of the starburst galaxy M82…
Building Planets
This artist's animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age…
Solar Prominence
This new image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) shows in great detail…
Oil Slick Spreads off Gulf Coast
NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of the Gulf of Mexico on April 25, 2010 using…