This striking image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases Arp 298, a stunning pair of interacting galaxies. Arp 298 – which comprises the two galaxies NGC 7469 and IC 5283 – lies roughly 200 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_arp298_potw2208a.jpg
Rosemary Dobbins was an artist at the Marshall Space Flight Center. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/0101138_orig.jpeg
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket, carrying NOAA's GOES-T, soars upward after lifting off from Space Launch Complex 41 on March 1, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51911610842_af34b62eae_o.jpeg
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped this view of a hill in Mars' Jezero Crater called
In this undated image form the 1960s, Nancy Grace Roman sits in her office in NASA Headquarters. Roman was the first chief astronomer for NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nancy_grace_roman_in_the_1960s_41304995814.jpeg
The LAMP mission hopes to understand an often overlooked kind of aurora, called a pulsating aurora, and to test a theory on what causes them. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/36351_rocket_launch.jpg
These engineers developed and tested Space Launch System software that will tell the rocket how to operate for the first 8 minutes of Artemis during launch and ascent. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ceb_2369.jpg
The Pilbara in northwestern Australia exposes some of the oldest rocks on Earth, over 3.6 billion years old. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia25122.jpeg
This February 2022 image of Northrop Grummans's Cygnus cargo craft is pictured attached to the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss066e153515.jpg
An energetic outburst from an infant star streaks across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_hh34_potw2210a_0.png
In this image from August 2021, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei sits and reads while on the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51213605479_0cc634e7b5_o.jpeg
Dr. Eugene N. Parker, visionary of heliophysics and namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, has passed away. He was 94. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/17-03445-61853.jpg
NASA’s Space Launch Syste rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51942501426_c5a1be38dd_o.jpeg
Earth's Moon is seen rising behind NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202203170041.jpg
This colorful image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and published in 2018, celebrated the observatory’s 28th anniversary of viewing the heavens. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-h-p1821a-m-1699x20001a.png
A new raft of discoveries marks a scientific high point: More than 5,000 planets are now confirmed to exist beyond our solar system. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jupiter-mass_planet_orbiting_the_nearby_star_epsilon_eridani.jpeg
Astronaut John Young, the pilot of the Gemini III mission, inspects his helmet in the ready room in preparation for the launch. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/john_young_s65-23488orig.jpg
One of the last unopened Apollo-era lunar samples collected during Apollo 17 has been opened under the careful direction of lunar sample processors and curators. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jsc2022e017003.jpg
Wally Funk delivers remarks after accepting the 2022 Michael Collins Trophy for Lifetime Achievement. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51959521353_17667db8e7_o.jpeg
Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are around other stars. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia25161_-_spitzer_collision_cloud.jpg