Zeta Ophiuchi is a star with a complicated past, having likely been ejected from its birthplace by a powerful stellar explosion. A new look by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory helps tell more of the story of this runaway star. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/zetaoph.jpg

NASA celebrates the life of Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek actor, trailblazer, and role model, who symbolized to so many what was possible. She partnered with us to recruit some of the first women and minority astronauts, and inspired generations to reach for the stars. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/6942002721_9de930e118_3k.jpg

With wildflowers surrounding the view, NASA’s Space Launch System Moon rocket – carried atop the crawler-transporter 2 – arrives at Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 6, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52127203801_0ce3bc8eb6_6k.jpg

Like distant galaxies amid clouds of interstellar dust, chunks of sea ice drift through graceful swirls of grease ice in the frigid waters of Foxe Basin near Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/gsfc_20171208_archive_e001932_orig.jpg

Since August 2012, Curiosity has been exploring 3-mile-high Mt. Sharp in Gale Crater. The rover has climbed more than 2,000 feet (612 meters), reaching progressively younger rocks that serve as a record on how Mars has evolved from a wet, habitable planet to a cold desert environment. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia22486_orig.png

This Moon-mosaic is comprised of 1,231 images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's (LRO) Narrow-Angle Camera (NAC) in the summer of 2018. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/moon_mosaic.png

In this picture from 2016, our Super Guppy, a specialized aircraft with a unique hinged nose, lands at Moffett Field at NASA Ames. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/super_guppy_acd16-0002-009_orig.jpg

Artemis I Moonikin Campos Inspection and Install http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20211109-ph-jbs01_0151_orig.jpg

This celestial cloudscape from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful region in the Orion Nebula surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_hh505_potw2232a.jpg

A team of roboticists from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have applied their expertise in making robots for deep space to designing a fully electric shape-changing submersible robot that will cut costs for maritime industries. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nauticus_4.jpg

The Perseid meteors are an annual event many skywatchers look forward to, as they often produce lots of shooting stars to enjoy. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202108100009_orig.jpg

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher as it is rolled up the ramp at Launch Pad 39B, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52292004124_d0c8bd35c6_o.jpg

Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager probes are NASA’s longest-operating mission and the only spacecraft ever to explore interstellar space. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/p50142.jpg

A paddlewheeler makes its way up the Mississippi River as the moon rises over New Orleans on Sunday evening, Aug. 22, 2021. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/maf_20210822_moonovernola_orig.jpeg

The core of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has taken center stage in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/1-main-europa-clipper-module.jpg

The supersonic X-1E research aircraft was the last of NASA's experimental X-1 series of aircraft. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/afrc2021-0149-02_orig.jpg

This time lapse of the Milky Way Galaxy taken from the International Space Station (ISS) also captured a lightning strike on Earth so bright that it lights up the space station’s solar panels. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss044e045215.jpg

​T-38 planes are a fixture of astronaut training, making pilots and mission specialists think quicky in changing situations. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jsc2022e066539_alt.jpg

This view of the crescent Earth over the Moon's horizon was taken during the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/5052744416_353f737db7_o.jpg

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, as the Artemis I launch teams loaded more than 700,000 gallons of cryogenic propellants including liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52319135048_b2acddc60e_o.jpg