The teeming stars of the globular cluster NGC 6544 glisten in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_ngc6544_potw2325a.jpg
Local students take in the sights—and data—at an Earth Information Center student engagement event, Friday, June 23, 2023, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52996510071_c5abce524b_o.jpg
A young alligator rests on a concrete structure at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 25, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52862884106_250dbfd475_o.jpg
Students from 20 middle and high schools watched as their experiments launched aboard a high-altitude balloon on June 14 as part of NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/top_image_0.jpg
Teams install the heat shield on the Artemis II Orion spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 22, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230622-ph-csh01_0012orig.jpg
The highly irregular galaxy ESO 174-1, which resembles a lonely, hazy cloud against a backdrop of bright stars, dominates this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_eso174-1_potw2326a.jpg
A full moon was visible behind the Artemis I SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft at Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 14, 2022. The first in an increasingly complex series of missions, Artemis I tested SLS and Orion as an integrated system prior to crewed flights to the Moon. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20220614-ph-jbs01_0332orig.jpg
NASA’s X-59 research aircraft moves from its construction site to the flight line – or the space between the hangar and the runway – at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, on June 16, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/p23-092-09.jpg
The last rays of an orbital sunset begin fading in Earth's atmosphere silhouetting the cloud tops. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss069e025337.jpg
NASA's Psyche spacecraft is nearly complete as it rests in a clean room on June 26, 2023, at Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230626-ph-fmx01_0015orig.jpg
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia19968orig.jpg
A bobcat surveys the landscape at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California in this March 11, 2021, image. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/afrc2021-0029-10orig.jpg
President Joe Biden unveiled this image of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 during a White House event on July 11, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/main_image_deep_field_smacs0723-1280.jpg
Former NASA astronaut Jack Fischer captured this photograph of Lagoa dos Barros and crescent-shaped barchan dunes on the Atlantic coastline of southern Brazil on July 9, 2017, while aboard the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss052-e-14188_lrg.jpg
Work is being done on the Orion spacecraft for NASAs crewed Artemis II, Artemis III, and Artemis IV missions at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/3_orions.jpg
One of three specially designed, fully electric, environmentally friendly crew transportation vehicles for Artemis missions sits at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 11, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230711-ph-kls01_0013orig.jpg
As the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above North Africa, clouds covered the sky. To the bottom right of the image, one of the station's roll-out solar arrays peeks through. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/53045825893_872a3861ea_o.jpg
On July 17, 2023, NASA’s four Starling CubeSats successfully deployed after having launched aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket, shown in this image. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/53054363868_e1b80fb25f_o.jpg
AS11-40-5875 (20 July 1969) -- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during an Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. The Lunar Module (LM) is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/589552main_as11-40-5875_full.jpg
In preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, recovery teams tour the projected landing ellipse in the Utah desert on July 17, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202307170007orig.jpg