The newly revealed infant stars appear as pink and red specks toward the center and appear to have formed in regularly spaced intervals along linear structures. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/139975main_image_feature_476_ys_full.jpg
This iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/apollo08_earthrise.jpg
The Moon, left, Saturn, upper right, and Jupiter, lower right, are seen after sunset with the Washington Monument, Thurs. Dec. 17, 2020, in Washington. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/50730722653_6916f473ff_o.jpg
Magnetic fields in NGC 1068, or M77, are shown as streamlines over a visible light and X-ray composite image of the galaxy. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ngc1068-lp-nustar-2_0.png
Dr. George Carruthers, right, and William Conway, a project manager at the Naval Research Institute, examine the gold-plated ultraviolet camera/spectrograph, the first Moon-based observatory that Carruthers developed for the Apollo 16 mission. Apollo 16 astronauts placed the observatory on the moon in April 1972. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hrs_720125-n-zz999-001.jpg
Retrofuturistic NASA Space Art http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/toroidal_colony.jpg
Chaos at the Heart of the Orion Nebula http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia01322.jpg
NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins tends to radish plants growing for the Plant Habitat-02 experiment. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/1_50750671133_187d4b303e_o.jpg
What is pareidolia? It is the psychological phenomenon where we see recognizable shapes in clouds, rock formations, or otherwise unrelated objects or data. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/pia18848-wisefacepalm.jpg
Slated to launch in October 2021, NASA's Lucy mission will be the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/697015main_pia16211_full.jpg
The lights of the city of Boston seemingly spread from a central point in this image taken by the crew of the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss064e016786.jpg
Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter departs the International Space Station moments after being released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss064e020569_0.jpg
In this black and white infrared image, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202005300065.jpg
The HUNCH – High school students United with NASA to Create Hardware – Program has expanded its partnership opportunities to the Dade County, Georgia, school system in Trenton. Students will increase their advanced manufacturing capabilities by producing super-strength carbon fiber elements for NASA, the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/dade_ms_students_with_flight_ultem.jpg
Astronomers have no evidence that a distant black hole estimated to weigh between 3 billion and 100 billion times the mass of the Sun is anywhere to be found. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/a2261.jpg
Inside star cluster NGC 602, a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud, bright, blue, newly formed stars are blowing a cavity in this nebula. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/440676main_STScI-2007-04a-full_full.jpg
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964, as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others, look on. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/best_lyndon_johnson_signing_civil_rights_act.jpg
The core stage for the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket is seen in the B-2 Test Stand during a scheduled 8-minute duration hot fire test, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202101160007_0.jpg
Located in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin), around 50 million light-years from Earth, the galaxy NGC 4535 is truly a stunning sight to behold. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw2103a.jpg
A powerful new antenna has been added to the NASA Space Communications and Navigation’s Deep Space Network. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia24163.jpg