Posted on June 20, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Deployment of the Space Station’s Roll Out Solar Array Experiment
Over the weekend of June 17-18, engineers on the ground remotely operated the International Space Station’s Canadarm2 to extract the Roll Out Solar Array experiment from the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship. The experiment will remain attached to the… Read More
Posted on June 19, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Webb Telescope Set for Testing in Space Simulation Chamber
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope sits in front of the door to Chamber A, a giant thermal vacuum chamber located at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The telescope will soon be moved into the chamber, where it will spend… Read More
Posted on June 16, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Jupiter’s Clouds of Many Colors
NASA’s Juno spacecraft was racing away from Jupiter following its seventh close pass of the planet when JunoCam snapped this image on May 19, 2017, from about 29,100 miles (46,900 kilometers) above the cloud tops. June 16, 2017… Read More
Posted on June 15, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Northern Summer on Titan
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sees bright methane clouds drifting in the summer skies of Saturn’s moon Titan, along with dark hydrocarbon lakes and seas clustered around the north pole. June 15, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2sw5OYV
Posted on June 14, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Celebrating Flag Day
NASA astronaut Jack Fischer took this photograph of an American flag in one of the windows of the International Space Station’s cupola, a dome-shaped module through which operations on the outside of the station can be observed and… Read More
Posted on June 13, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Illustration of Cool Dust Around an Active Black Hole
This artist illustration shows the thick ring of dust that can obscure the energetic processes that occur near the supermassive black hole of an active galactic nuclei. Researchers have found that the dust surrounding active, ravenous black holes… Read More
Posted on June 12, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Turquoise Swirls in the Black Sea
On May 29, 2017, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured the data for this image of an ongoing phytoplankton bloom in the Black Sea. The image is a mosaic, composed from multiple satellite… Read More
Posted on June 9, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Pongal Catena on Ceres
This image from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows the northeastern rim of Urvara Crater on Ceres. June 09, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2s50Q4c
Posted on June 8, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Watching a Volatile Stellar Relationship
In biology, “symbiosis” refers to two organisms that live close to and interact with one another. Astronomers have long studied a class of stars – called symbiotic stars – that co-exist in a similar way. Astronomers are gaining… Read More
Posted on June 7, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: NASA’s 2017 Astronaut Candidates
NASA’s 2017 astronaut candidates take a group photo at Ellington Field near Johnson Space Center. Pictured are, front row, left to right, Zena Cardman, Jasmin Moghbeli, Robb Kulin, Jessica Watkins, Loral O’Hara; back row, left to right, Jonny… Read More