In this photo from Oct. 14, 2008, a great blue heron stands watch among a pond of water lilies on NASA's Kennedy Space Center. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-08pd3162_orig.jpg
The waxing gibbous Moon stands out in this Jan. 2, 2023, image from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above the southern Indian Ocean. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e036313_orig.jpg
This Jan. 10, 2013, composite image of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 combines visible light images from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope with far-ultraviolet data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and infrared data acquired by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia16613_orig.jpg
Officials from NASA, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and the Indian Embassy visit a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Feb. 3, 2023, to view the scientific instrument payload for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/e1a-pia25599-1041.jpg
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata is pictured in his Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or spacesuit, during his second spacewalk on Feb. 2, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e045124_orig.jpg
An American bald eagle occupies a nest near Kennedy Parkway North at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 8, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230208-ph-jbs01_0049_orig.jpg
While the International Space Station orbited over the Gulf of Mexico on Sept. 19, 2022, NASA astronaut Bob Hines captured this image of South Padre Island, a barrier island along the coast of Texas. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss067e373246_lrg.jpg
Two Joint Extravehicular Activity Test Team Field Test #3 (JETT3) mission members work on sample collection on the remote, rocky, high-desert terrain of the S P Crater near Flagstaff, Arizona on Oct. 5, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/wjs_2270_orig.jpg
As NASA celebrates National Engineers Week, NASA Glenn gets perspectives from materials research engineer Jamesa Stokes. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jamesa_stokes.jpg
A blue halo glows around Pluto’s receding crescent in this parting image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21590_orig.jpg
Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) on Feb. 20, 1962. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/friendship_7_8_glenn_ingressing_spacecraft_314095main_image_1288_full.jpg
The sun rises on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52706618165_0fff7e8f3b_k.jpeg
Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly snapped this photo of the Earth’s crescent, the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter (from top to bottom) on Aug. 6, 2015, while he was aboard the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/757_iss044e020824.jpg
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries the company's Dragon spacecraft with NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission members aboard in this five-minute long exposure taken on Thursday, March 2, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52720913251_40e93d81b5_o.jpg
A NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft soars upward at the L.A. county airshow in this image from Mar. 25, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/afrc2017-0068-123_1.jpg
Infrared light surges out from the Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 27, in this Aug. 10, 2011, image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/579054main_pia14417_full.jpg
Former astronaut Eileen Collins sits at the pilot’s station aboard space shuttle Discovery during a hotfiring procedure on Feb. 2, 1995. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/sts063-312-020-orig.jpg
The Moon is seen passing in front of the Sun during a solar eclipse from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park, Washington on Aug. 21, 2017. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq201708210303_orig.jpg
The irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_ngc5486_potw2310a.jpg