JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide speaks with students during a visit to Arlington Science Focus Elementary School http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52136727833_e4c62ae77c_o.jpeg

Flag Day is celebrated on June 14 each year and commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/apollo_11_flag_on_the_moon_w_aldrin_as11-40-5874.jpg

The brilliant cascade of stars through the middle of this image is the galaxy ESO 318-13. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw1249a.jpeg

The Progress Pride flag is seen flying at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52148226607_4b386cc977_o.jpeg

General Order No. 3 by Union troops on June 19, 1865, marked the official end of slavery in Texas and the U.S. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss060e054125.jpg

Attendees try on Oculus headsets and experience the space station using virtual reality prior to the screening of “The Color of Space”. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52156600646_b659692869_o.jpeg

Near the center of the Milky Way lies this star-studded globular cluster, called Terzan 9 in the constellation Sagittarius. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_terzan_9_potw2224a.jpg

We're counting down to the release of the Webb Telescope’s first full-color images! http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51942282534_19d5470826_o_0.jpeg

CAPSTONE, the pathfinder for NASA’s lunar outpost, will test an orbit around the Moon that has never been flown before. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/capstone_image.jpg

The CAPSTONE mission launched at 5:55 a.m. EDT (09:55 UTC) on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from New Zealand. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg

Brightly glowing plumes of the Large Magellanic Cloud appear almost like an ocean current. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw1441a.jpg

Most of Greenland's glaciers that empty into the ocean are at greater risk of rapid ice loss than previously understood. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia24983.jpeg

An adult osprey, carrying a fish in its talons, prepares to land in its nest atop a speaker platform in the parking lot at Kennedy Space Center. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/osprey-vab_0.jpg

The last rays of an orbital sunset burst through Earth's horizon as the International Space Station flew 258 miles above Brazil. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss067e124176.jpg

NASA citizen science project, Jovian Vortex Hunter, seeks your help spotting vortices – spiral wind patterns – and other on Jupiter. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia23440-1600.jpg

Webb’s Fine Guidance Sensor Provides a Serendipitous Preview http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52196657049_03ed807621_o.jpeg

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observation has captured the galaxy CGCG 396-2, an unusual multi-armed galaxy merger which lies around 520 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_cgcg396-2_potw2227a.jpg

Within the tempestuous Carina Nebula lies “Mystic Mountain.” This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by Hubble in 2010. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/c92-2.jpg

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson describes the first full-color image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52210250181_4c1bda0b9f_o.jpeg

Senior Project Scientist John Mather speaks with the media after the release of the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope . http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52210743097_6e6fabdb5b_o.jpeg