What does this Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Spirograph have in common with Women's Equality Day? http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/730451main_8512394775_7777461351_o-full_full.jpg
In this large celestial mosaic taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and published in 2019, there's a lot to see, including multiple clusters of stars born from the same dense clumps of gas and dust. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia23126-1041.jpg
As the International Space Station orbited more than 200 miles above our home planet, the crew caught this glimpse of the sunrise casting long shadows over a cloudy Philippine Sea. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss063e076166.jpg
NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission landed on the Red Planet on July 4, 1997. It's tiny rover, named Sojourner after abolitionist Sojourner Truth, spent 83 days of a planned seven-day mission exploring the Martian terrain. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia02406.jpg
The first solid rocket booster test for Space Launch System (SLS) missions beyond Artemis III seen here during a two-minute hot fire test, Wednesday, September 2, 2020, at the T-97 Northrop Grumman test facility in Promontory, Utah. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/sls_booster_test_horizontal.jpg
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s primary mirror, which will collect and focus light from cosmic objects near and far, has been completed. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pm10.jpg
Star Trek debuted 54 years ago on Sept. 8, 1966. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ec76-5806.jpg
Not every flight director is a legend, but some are. Take Eugene Kranz, for example. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/589229main_s65-22203_full.jpg
Globular cluster NGC 1805, a tight grouping of thousands of stars is, located near the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. In the dense center of one of these clusters, stars are 100 to 1,000 times closer together than the nearest stars are to our Sun. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw2036a.jpg
During her first mission to space and to the International Space Station, Kate Rubins became the first person to sequence DNA in space. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss049e050595.jpg
Dr. Frank Rubio was selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class. He reported for duty in August 2017 and having completed the initial astronaut candidate training is now eligible for a mission assignment. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/48466987012_c8581e9061_6k.jpg
NASA's Aqua satellite captured this true-color image of the United States on Sep. 15, 2020, showing the fires in the West, the smoke from those fires drifting over the country, several hurricanes converging from different angles. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/fires-smoke-hurricanes.jpg
A unique and exciting detail of Hubble’s snapshot appears at mid-northern latitudes as a bright, white, stretched-out storm traveling around the planet at 350 miles per hour. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-h-p2042a-f-1663x1663.png
Then-NASA Johnson Space Center deputy director Ellen Ochoa poses for a photo with Robonaut 2 (R2) during media day in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility on Aug. 4, 2010. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ellen_ochoa_with_robonaut2.jpg
Cyclones at the north pole of Jupiter appear as swirls of striking colors in this extreme false color rendering of an image from NASA’s Juno mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pj25_26_27_28_poln_avrg_enh_denoise_cropdisc_sharp10.png
This image from 1991 shows Earth's Moon, with its dark basaltic mare, clearly visible in great detail. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/opo9914d.jpg
Pictured is the Soyuz MS-16 crew ship, currently docked to the International Space Station's Poisk module. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss063e094249.jpg
Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor examines her eye with a Fundoscope aboard the International Space Station with remote support from doctors on the ground. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss056e096896.jpg
When Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, the crew brought devices with them called retroreflectors, which are essentially small arrays of mirrors. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/apollo-astronaut-1041.jpg
Our Aqua satellite captured this composite visible and infrared image on Sep. 29, 2020, which shows that fires and smoke continue to dominate the landscape of the western U.S. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/calif-0930_0.jpg