This dramatic image from January 2006 offers a peek inside a cavern of roiling dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-01evt7y2q7jz2hg3fxtptnbmre.jpeg
On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on another celestial body. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/s69-46481.jpeg
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is secured atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51317308386_eac29deb01_o.jpeg
Ingenuity, the helicopter that arrived on the Red Planet on the Mars Perseverance rover, has made nine flights on Mars. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/mars_perseverance_blog1.jpeg
This image from May 11, 1971, is a high angle view showing the Apollo 15 spacecraft on the way from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Pad A, Launch Complex 39. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/9359170922_ac5d3eb11a_o.jpeg
The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is secured atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51337745140_f19555a924_o_0.jpeg
From 156 million light-years away the heart of active galaxy IC 5063 reveals a mixture of bright rays and dark shadows coming from the blazing core, home of a supermassive black hole. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-01evsstnpe19vmag1wgve19b2h.png
On April 29, 2015, NuSTAR, Hinode, and SDO all stared at our Sun. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia19821-nustar_xrt_sun.jpg
Apollo 15 Commander David Scott drives the lunar roving vehicle on the surface of the Moon, the first time the rover was used. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/apollo15lunarrover2.jpeg
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility on Monday, Aug. 2, 2021. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51351712377_a30259b8d7_o.jpeg
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Starliner spacecraft aboard is illuminated by spotlights on Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, as it sits on the launch pad. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51354847980_bedd09ea70_o.jpeg
An army marches on its stomach, the saying goes, and astronauts fly on theirs. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/02_iss060e006123.jpg
In this self-portrait from 2018, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover sits atop Vera Rubin Ridge, which the rover had been investigating. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia22207-16.jpg
This infrared view of Jupiter’s icy moon Ganymede was obtained by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its July 20, 2021, flyby. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/1-pia24791-jiram-ganymede-1041.jpg
Northrop Grumman’s 16th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station is slated to launch Aug. 10, 2021. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/wff-2021-054-005.jpg
In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, in Spruce Knob, West Virginia. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51371961714_97a3fd9923_o.jpeg
Known as NGC 6523 or the Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8 is a giant cloud of gas and dust where stars are born. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/archives_m8_0.jpg
This image, taken from aboard the International Space Station, shows the aurora australis as it streams across the Earth's atmosphere. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss065e214281.jpg
Nestled among the vast clouds of star-forming regions like this one lie potential clues about the formation of our own solar system. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw2110a_0_0.jpeg