Posted on April 25, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: James Webb Space Telescope Mirror Seen in Full Bloom
It’s springtime and the deployed primary mirror of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope looks like a spring flower in full bloom. Once launched into space, the Webb telescope’s 18-segmented gold mirror is specially designed to capture infrared light… Read More
Posted on April 24, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Sets Spaceflight Record
534 days, 2 hours, 49 minutes and counting. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson flew through the standing record for cumulative time spent in space by a U.S. astronaut at 1:27 a.m. EDT on April 24, 2017, and with the… Read More
Posted on April 21, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: NASA’s Fleet of Satellites Keep an Eye on Earth
NASA’s fleet of 18 Earth science missions in space, supported by aircraft, ships and ground observations, measure aspects of the environment that touch the lives of every person around the world. This visualization shows the NASA fleet in… Read More
Posted on April 20, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Expedition 51 Launch to the International Space Station
The Soyuz MS-04 rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 1:13 p.m. Baikonur time carrying NASA astronaut Jack Fischer and cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos into orbit… Read More
Posted on April 19, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: The Arrhythmic Beating of a Black Hole Heart
At the center of the Centaurus galaxy cluster, there is a large elliptical galaxy called NGC 4696. Deeper still, there is a supermassive black hole buried within the core of this galaxy. New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray… Read More
Posted on April 18, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Liftoff of Orbital ATK Cargo Mission to International Space Station
The Orbital ATK Cygnus pressurized cargo module is carried atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Orbital ATK’s seventh commercial resupply services mission will deliver 7,600… Read More
Posted on April 17, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Watercolor World
When imaged at infrared wavelengths that pierce the planet’s upper haze layer, the high-speed winds of Saturn’s atmosphere produce watercolor-like patterns. April 17, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2pa9Owi
Posted on April 14, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Hubble Sees Starbursts in Virgo
Starburst galaxies contain regions where stars are forming at such a breakneck rate that the galaxy is eating up its gas supply faster than it can be replenished. April 14, 2017 from NASA http://ift.tt/2oc4cxm
Posted on April 13, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: Illustration of Cassini Spacecraft Diving Through Plume of ‘Ocean World’ Enceladus
This illustration shows NASA’s Cassini spacecraft diving through the plume of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, in 2015. Two veteran NASA missions are providing new details about icy, ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn, further heightening the scientific interest of… Read More
Posted on April 12, 2017
NASA Image of the Day: New Full-hemisphere Views of Earth at Night
NASA scientists are releasing new global maps of Earth at night, providing the clearest yet composite view of the patterns of human settlement across our planet. This composite image, one of three new full-hemisphere views, provides a view… Read More