Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 7331 is often touted as an analog to our own Milky Way. About 50 million...
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In this March 7, 2022, image, astronaut Frank Rubio gets help putting on a spacesuit at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory...
While drifting through the cosmos, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud became sculpted by stellar winds and radiation to assume a...
What's happening in the Statue of Liberty nebula? Bright stars and interesting molecules are forming and being liberated. The complex...
This cloudy, turbulent scene shows a stellar nursery within the Large Magellanic Cloud known as N159. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/a-stormy-stellar-nursery
The beauty in this image comes in layers. On the bottom layer is the picturesque village of Manlleu in Barcelona,...
If you went outside at the same time every day and took a picture that included the Sun, how would...
The Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z captured images to create this mosaic on August 4, 2022. The car-sized robot was continuing its...
The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star forming...
Astronaut Michael E. López-Alegría, mission specialist, is photographed in this close-up view during one of the STS-92 sessions of extravehicular...
For northern hemisphere dwellers, September's Full Moon was the Harvest Moon. Reflecting warm hues at sunset it rises over the...
A little blue heron is seen in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building as preparations for launch continue, Friday, Sept....
It is one of the largest nebulas on the sky -- why isn't it better known? Roughly the same angular...
The International Space Station captured a portion of the Tanggula Mountains near Hala Lake from 260 miles above the Earth...
Earlier this month, the Sun exhibited one of the longer filaments on record. Visible as the bright curving streak around...
On Sept. 12, 1962, President Kennedy speaks before a crowd of 35,000 people at Rice University in Houston. via NASA...
What are those red filaments in the sky? They are a rarely seen form of lightning confirmed only about 35...
How does your favorite planet spin? Does it spin rapidly around a nearly vertical axis, or horizontally, or backwards? The...