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Bullseye!
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-leda1313424-stsci-01jjadtmj80r1r4w6kk563rw2c/
Published: February 4, 2025 20:03
LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirmed eight rings, and data from the W.…
Stacking Artemis II
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-972/
Published: February 3, 2025 20:58
Engineers and technicians with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program prepare to lift the left center center booster segment shown with the iconic NASA “worm” insignia for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to the Vehicle Assembly Building at…
Building an Antenna
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia26454orig/
Published: January 31, 2025 17:16
A crane lowers the 112-foot-wide (34-meter-wide) steel framework for the Deep Space Station 23 (DSS-23) reflector dish into position on Dec. 18, 2024, at the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California. A…
SPHEREx’s Concentric Cones
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia26542orig/
Published: January 30, 2025 20:37
NASA's SPHEREx observatory is oriented in a horizontal position, revealing all three layers of photon shields as well as the telescope. This photo was taken at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in April 2024.
Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History…
Geyser Season on Mars
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia22881orig/
Published: January 29, 2025 20:15
Springtime in the South Polar region of Mars is a season of exciting activity. The thick coating of carbon dioxide ice that accumulated over the winter begins to sublimate (turn to vapor) as the sun rises higher in the sky and warms the ice. Sunlight…
Wolf Moon in Washington
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/full-wolf-moon-rise/
Published: January 28, 2025 19:53
The full Moon, also known in January as the Wolf Moon, rises above the Lincoln Memorial and the Memorial Bridge, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, as seen from Arlington, Virginia.
Get My Good Side
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-971/
Published: January 27, 2025 19:34
An inquisitive sandhill crane approaches the photographer near the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 24, 2021. Kennedy shares space with the Merritt Island National Wildlife refuge, which is home to more than…
Hubble Studies the Tarantula Nebula’s Outskirts
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/a-tarantulas-outskirts/
Published: January 24, 2025 18:10
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy situated about 160,000 light-years away in the…
Artist’s Concept of Gemini Spacecraft
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/s65-14257orig/
Published: January 22, 2025 22:20
This is an artist's concept of a two-person Gemini spacecraft in flight, showing a cutaway view. The Gemini program was designed as a bridge between the Mercury and Apollo programs.
Suni Williams Conducts Spacewalk
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/iss072e487421/
Published: January 21, 2025 16:27
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 commander Suni Williams is pictured during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station where she replaced a rate gyro assembly that helps maintain the orientation of the orbital outpost.