The massive cluster Abell 3322 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in which the galaxy 2MASX J05101744-4519179 basks in the center. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_abell3322_potw2332a.jpg

The crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission spoke at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 20, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/53129326002_795029a83d_o.jpg

Gateway's International Habitat module, provided by ESA, is the focus of this rendered image from Aug. 18, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/gateway_summer_req_images_rev2_11orig.png

In this image from July 18, 2023, a NASA team helps attach solar arrays for the agency’s Psyche spacecraft onto a stand inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230718-ph-ilw01_0234orig.jpg

A Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle awaits test-firing in the Redstone Test Stand at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama in this photo from the late 1950s. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/9306795orig.jpg

The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_eso300-16_potw2334a.jpg

At 3:27 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 26, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 crew members launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230826-ph-kls03_0119orig.jpg

Rocky Garcia and Wesley James prepare a weather balloon to collect wind data at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on July 20, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/afrc2023-0119-17orig.jpg

In this image from Sept. 5, 1983, Guion “Guy” Bluford checks out the sample pump on the continuous flow electrophoresis system experiment in the middeck of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Challenger. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/83hc597.jpg

Hurricane Idalia is pictured in the Gulf of Mexico from the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss069e084548.jpg

Voyager 1 Lifts Off Toward an Interstellar Journey http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia17464orig.jpg

A recovery team member takes part in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission in this image from Aug. 29, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202308290009orig.jpg

Hubble's colorful image of the globular star cluster Terzan 12 is a spectacular example of how dust in space affects starlight coming from background objects. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_terzan12_stsci-01h7tesnnsx9ch4eq29c919c4m.jpg

Support teams onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN work to open the hatch of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shortly after it landed in the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 4, 2023, with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, United Arab Emirates (UAE) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/53167092730_590273feff_o.jpg

A snowy egret, identifiable by its slender black bill, black legs and yellow feet, marches through a pond near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, looking for food in this image from March 29, 2007. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-07pd0726orig.jpg

In this image from July 24, 2023, astronaut Frank Rubio completes a session on the Surface Avatar Remote Control Terminal, which investigates how haptic controls, user interfaces, and virtual reality could command and control surface-bound robots from long distances. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss069e036163orig.jpg

Justin Hall lands the Dryden Remotely Operated Integrated Drone 2 (DROID 2) aircraft at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Aug. 22, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/afrc2023-0135-32orig.jpg

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the NOAA-20 satellite captured this image of fragmented ice in Hudson Bay on June 28, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jamesbaypolarbears_vir2_2023179_lrg.jpg

The Artemis II crew and teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program successfully completed on Sept. 20, the first in a series of integrated ground system tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the upcoming mission around the Moon. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230920-ph-kls01_0135orig.jpg