Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor installs samples for the Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification (MICS) experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in this image from Nov. 27, 2018. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/serena_iss057e106264.jpg

In this 20-second exposure from Oct. 5, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52407278959_8de80e972e_o.jpg

The Sun released an X1 solar flare, captured by our Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on Oct. 2, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/oct-2-2022-x1-flare-131-171-1024x1024.jpeg

Expedition 67 flight engineers Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins are all smiles in this Sept. 12, 2022, image from the International Space Station cupola. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss067e359846_orig.jpg

After 170 days in orbit, NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti safely splashed down Friday, October 14, 2022, off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, completing the agency’s fourth commercial crew mission to the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52429227274_b42274e099_o.jpg

Our Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 acquired this vibrant image of deciduous trees and conifers in the Adirondack Mountains in northeast New York on Oct. 8, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nyvt_oli2_2022281_lrg.jpg

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 members Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Samantha Cristoforetti link arms for a portrait on Oct. 14, 2022, just before boarding the Dragon Freedom crew ship, undocking from the International Space Station, and returning to Earth, completing a 170-day space research mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e017175_orig.jpg

When a massive star collapsed in the Cassiopeia constellation, it generated a supernova explosion with some of the fastest shockwaves in the Milky Way. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/casa_streams_lg.jpeg

During its 40th close pass by Jupiter, our Juno spacecraft saw Ganymede cast a large, dark spot on the planet on Feb. 25, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia25015.jpg

This mosaic is composed of images covering the entire sky, taken by the ​Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) as part of WISE’s 2012 All-Sky Data Release. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/630303main_pia15481c-full_full.jpg

On Oct. 13, 2022, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and the Moon from 890,000 miles (1.4 million km) away. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/tt1_0718931263_ega1_earth_moon.png

Our James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new image of the famous Pillars of Creation—first imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995—that reveals new details about the region. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-01gfnn3pwjmy4rqxkz585bc4qh.png

While observing the outer region of the Milky Way galaxy, our Spitzer Telescope captured this infrared image of a cloud of gas and dust that looks like the hollowed-out pumpkins we see every Halloween. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jpegpia23403.jpg

Teams at the NASA Armstrong Research Center recently completed stress testing on the Navy’s F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft, seen here in a top view while in a wing loading test configuration at the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Patuxent River, Maryland. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/afrc2022-0025-003large.jpg

Since 2015, scientists participating in NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) have been studying the impacts of climate change on Earth’s far northern regions and how those changes are intertwined. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/img_9868.jpeg

Selected as an astronaut candidate in June 2013, Nicole A. Mann is the first Native American woman from NASA in space. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/43825570281_3f9794b07a_o.jpg

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard was seen lit by spotlights atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continued Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52481756807_f1d16d6418_o.jpg

This composite made from ten images shows the progression of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse above the Vehicle Assembly Building, Nov. 8, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52486072251_b8254d9621_o.jpg

In this image from June 24, 2022, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Bob Hines work on the XROOTS space botany investigation, which used the International Space Station’s (ISS) Veggie facility to test soilless hydroponic and aeroponic methods to grow plants. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/10_iss067e149651_watkins-hines.jpg

Jerry Elliott, a former NASA physicist and one of the first Native Americans hired at NASA's Johnson Space Center, speaks during Native American Heritage Month event in 2017 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/msfc-1701440_orig.jpg