A view of the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray Timing Instrument without its protective…
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Frosted Dunes on Mars
Sand dunes cover much of this terrain, which has large boulders lying on flat areas between…
Frosted Dunes on Mars
Sand dunes cover much of this terrain, which has large boulders lying on flat areas between…
Space Station View of Noctilucent Clouds
Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency photographed rare, high-altitude noctilucent or…
Space Station View of Noctilucent Clouds
Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency photographed rare, high-altitude noctilucent or…
Hubble Rocks with a Heavy-Metal Home
This 10.5-billion-year-old globular cluster, NGC 6496, is home to heavy-metal stars of a celestial kind! The…
Hubble Rocks with a Heavy-Metal Home
This 10.5-billion-year-old globular cluster, NGC 6496, is home to heavy-metal stars of a celestial kind! The…
The Dark Side of Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took this stunning image of Pluto only a few minutes after closest…
The Dark Side of Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took this stunning image of Pluto only a few minutes after closest…
The Little Fox and the Giant Stars
New stars are the lifeblood of our galaxy, and there is enough material revealed by this…