A New Look – and Sound – for Messier 94
Messier 94 is a spiral galaxy with a bright inner ring around it, called a starburst ring, where new stars are forming.
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Psyche Approaches Mars
This composite of images taken by NASA’s Psyche mission shows the crescent of Mars grow as the spacecraft approached…
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Our First View of the Surface of Mars
On the morning of July 20, 1976, roughly 40 minutes after mission controllers received word that the Viking 1 lander…
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NASA's Chandra and IXPE Study Pulsar in Lighthouse Nebula
Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) directly measured the magnetic fields of PSR…
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Young Galaxy Cluster
In the Picture of the Month from the James Webb Space Telescope, we are taken on a visit to a building site of…
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Anil Menon Launches to Space Station
NASA astronaut candidate Anna Menon and her children watch as a Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space…
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Hubble Sees Crimson Cloud and Stars
A glowing landscape of gas and dust is heated and illuminated by a thriving population of young stars in the LH 95…
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NASA Astronaut Anil Menon
NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA's Johnson Space…
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Waxing Gibbous Moon
The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured above Earth from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles above a…
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Curiosity Sees Martian Sulfur Up Close
These sulfur crystals were found inside a rock after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over it and crush it…
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Hubble Captures Star-Studded Cluster
This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows Messier 3, a densely packed cluster of stars whose origins may be a…
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Artemis II Crew and Apollo 14 Moon Tree
The Artemis II crew participates in the dedication of the Apollo 14 Moon tree at the Lunar Receiving Park at NASA's…
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NASA Takes Flight For America's 250th
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman leads a flyover featuring his personally owned F-5 Tiger during the Great American…
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Good Morning, Earth!
A bright orange sunburst illuminates Earth's atmosphere during an orbital sunrise in this photograph from the…
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LINK Spacecraft Set for Mission to Boost NASA's Swift Observatory
A Katalyst engineer runs tests on LINK while the satellite is inside the Pegasus XL rocket attached to the Stargazer…
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Starry Chandelier Cluster
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster NGC 6723, sometimes called the Chandelier…
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NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Preps for Spacewalk
Flight engineer Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) assists flight engineer Chris Williams of NASA as he tries…
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Euclid Sees Heart of Milky Way
This image by ESA’s (European Space Agency) Euclid (with color added using ground-based images) provides an earlier…
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Millions of Stars in Cigar Galaxy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently observed edge-on starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82), nicknamed the Cigar…
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Roman Telescope Comes to Kennedy
NASA’s Pegasus barge arrives at the Launch Complex 39 turn basin at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida…
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Hanging in the Balance
The Moon's rocky, uneven, and otherworldly surface features are highlighted by the terminator – the difference between…
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NASA's Chandra Finds Possible Supernova Remnant
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant in an intriguing…
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Stages of Star Formation
This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month shows the giant molecular cloud Orion A, an area of…
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Hubble Sees Swarm of Galaxies
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211.
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Aurora Australis
The aurora australis arcs over Earth during an active solar event in this photograph taken at approximately 11:32 p.m.…
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San Francisco's Patchwork Streets
A period of unsettled weather brought scattered showers and thunderstorms to California’s Bay Area on May 27, 2026.…
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Black Eye Galaxy
Easily identified by the spectacular band of dark dust that partially obscures its bright core, Messier 64, or the…
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Soccer Meets Space Science
Researchers tested soccer balls aboard the International Space Station to study how internal mass affects motion and…
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Train Ride to NASA Kennedy for Artemis III Booster Segments
A train transports eight booster motor segments for the SLS (Space Launch System rocket) that will power NASA’s Artemis…
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Artemis III Crew Announced
NASA announced the Artemis III crew on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, mission specialist; ESA…
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Supersonic!
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft completed its first supersonic flight Friday, June 5, 2026, marking the…
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First Steps: America’s Grueling Second Spacewalk
A year after America’s first spacewalk, Gemini IX-A Eugene Cernan stepped outside his spacecraft for an ambitious…
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Colorful, Chaotic Jupiter
During its 61st close flyby of Jupiter on May 12, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of the…
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Journey to the Center of the Virgo Cluster
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 88 (M88).
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Look Up!
Astronauts Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) and Jack Hathaway of NASA, both Expedition 74 flight engineers,…
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Pretty in Pink
This image of Westerlund 2 features Chandra X-ray Observatory data (pink) and James Webb infrared data (red, orange,…
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