Ever wondered what auroras look like from space? http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/42151120000_84f4bdc18a_k.jpg

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) scientists used their computer models to generate a view of the Sun's magnetic field on August 10, 2018. The bright active region right at the central area of the Sun clearly shows a concentration of field lines, as well as the small active region at the Sun's right edge. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia22662.jpeg

Wishing legendary NASA flight director Gene Kranz the happiest of birthdays! http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/s26-s-113_large.jpg

Our cloud-covered planet is seen from aboard the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/43367342334_1159c4f1f6_k.jpg

One year ago on August 21, 2017, the continental United States experienced the first total solar eclipse in 99 years. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jsc2017e110803_0.jpg

The world is on fire. Or so it appears in this image from NASA's Worldview. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/worldfires-08232018.jpg

Even if the air looks clear, it is nearly certain that you will inhale millions of solid particles and liquid droplets. These ubiquitous specks of matter are known as aerosols, and they can be found in the air over oceans, deserts, mountains, forests, ice and every ecosystem in between. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/atmosphere_geo5_2018235_eq.jpg

Striking atmospheric features in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere are captured in this series of color-enhanced images from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia22686-16.jpg

Astronauts get to observe the Earth in all her beauty from aboard the International Space Station. A member of the Expedition 56 crew currently onboard the station took this nighttime image of Java, Indonesia's largest island. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss056e006994_lrg.jpg

An expedition that will help NASA search for life in deep space launched today – not with a rocket’s roar, but with a gentle splash into the deep Pacific Ocean. The project will use underwater robots to explore the environment around a deep-sea volcano off the coast of Hawaii that has similar conditions to what may exist on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nautilus_deckops_rov_hercules_oncrane_med.jpg

Guy Bluford, the first African-American astronaut, launched into space on shuttle Challenger's STS-8 mission thirty-five years ago, on August 30, 1983. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/guy.jpeg

The little-known nebula IRAS 05437+2502 billows out among the bright stars and dark dust clouds that surround it. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw1008a.jpg

Long, narrow clouds, known as ship tracks, stood out against the backdrop of marine clouds blanketing much of the North Pacific Ocean. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/clouds_amo_2018238_lrg.jpg

A truck sprays water to reduce the dust as NASA's crawler-transporter 2 with the mobile launcher atop moves slowly along, on its trek to Launch Pad 39B. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/44343884472_899f141b0e_k.jpg

Over a mere four days this summer, snow from the previous winter melted into a pond of slush a glaciologist called a “snow swamp.” http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/lowell_oli_2018207_lrg.jpg

Bright surface features on the dwarf planet Ceres known as faculae were first discovered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in 2015. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia22480.jpg

Astronaut Ricky Arnold, from aboard the International Space Station, shared this image of Hurricane Florence on Sept. 10, taken as the orbiting laboratory flew over the massive storm. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/florence.jpeg

Ever stared down the gaping eye of a category 4 hurricane? It's chilling, even from space. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/churning.jpeg

NASA completed the final test to qualify Orion’s parachute system for flights with astronauts, an important milestone on the path to send humans on missions to deep space. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/43736204525_ca280961ee_k.jpg

A Delta II rocket launches with NASA's ICESat-2 onboard, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/29759342597_1acc62974d_o.jpg