Zinnia plants from the Veggie ground control experiment at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida were…
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Hubble Watches the Icy Blue Wings of Hen 2-437
In this cosmic snapshot, the spectacularly symmetrical wings of planetary nebula Hen 2-437 show up in…
Astronaut Peggy Whitson Trains For a Spacewalk
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson trains underwater for a spacewalk at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) at…
Sea Ice and Cloud Streets in the Sea of Okhotsk
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of cloud…
Feb. 9, 1995, Bernard Harris and Michael Foale Ready For a Spacewalk
STS-63 astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr., payload commander (right), and C. Michael Foale, mission specialist (left),…
Space Station Flyover of Super Bowl 50
On the evening of Feb. 7, 2016, Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly snapped this photo of…
Hubble Views Merging Galaxies in Eridanus
This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a peculiar galaxy known as NGC…
Floating Hills on Pluto’s Sputnik Planum
The nitrogen ice glaciers on Pluto appear to carry an intriguing cargo: numerous, isolated hills that…
Feb. 3, 1995, Astronaut Eileen Collins at the Pilot’s Station on Shuttle Discovery
In this Feb. 3, 1995, image taken onboard space shuttle Discovery on flight day one of…
Successful Deployment of University Satellites From Space Station
Expedition 46 flight engineer Tim Peake of ESA captured this photo on Jan. 29, 2016 from…