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To the Spacemobile!

Wed, 07/02/2025 - 12:26pm
Three members of NASA's Lewis Research Center’s (now NASA’s Glenn Research Center) Educational Services Office pose with one of the center’s Spacemobile space science demonstration units on Nov. 1, 1964.
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Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center

Mon, 06/30/2025 - 10:59am
This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy UGC 11397, which resides in the constellation Lyra (The Lyre).
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Astronaut Joe Engle Flies X-15

Fri, 06/27/2025 - 1:51pm
In 1963, Captain Engle was assigned as one of two Air Force test pilots to fly the X-15 Research Rocket aircraft. In 1965, he flew the X-15 to an altitude of 280,600 feet, and became the youngest pilot ever to qualify as an astronaut. Three of his sixteen flights in the X-15 exceeded the 50-mile (264,000 feet) altitude required for astronaut rating.
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Sparkling Andromeda

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 2:30pm
The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. This new composite image contains data of M31 taken by some of the world’s most powerful telescopes in different kinds of light. This image is released in tribute to the groundbreaking legacy of Dr. Vera Rubin, whose observations transformed our understanding of the universe.
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Waning Crescent Moon

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 2:32pm
NASA astronaut Bob Hines took this picture of the waning crescent moon on May 8, 2022, as the International Space Station flew into an orbital sunrise 260 miles above the Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of the United States.
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NASA Astronaut Zena Cardman

Tue, 06/24/2025 - 2:37pm
NASA astronaut Zena Cardman inspects her spacesuit’s wrist mirror at the NASA Johnson Space Center photo studio on March 22, 2024.
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A Martian Volcano in the Mist

Mon, 06/23/2025 - 12:55pm
Arsia Mons, one of the Red Planet’s largest volcanoes, peeks through a blanket of water ice clouds in this image captured by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter on May 2, 2025.
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Summer Begins in Northern Hemisphere

Fri, 06/20/2025 - 12:18pm
This full-disk image from NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite shows the Americas at the start of astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere on June 21, 2012.
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NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge

Wed, 06/18/2025 - 2:08pm
More than 500 students with 75 teams from around the world participated in the 31st year of NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) on April 11 and April 12, 2025, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Participating teams represented 35 colleges and universities, 38 high schools, and two middle schools from 20 states, Puerto Rico, and 16 other nations.
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Training for the Moo(n)

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 1:42pm
A curious cow watches as NASA astronauts Andre Douglas and Kate Rubins perform a simulated moonwalk in the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Northern Arizona on May 14, 2024.
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Hubble Studies a Spiral’s Supernova Scene

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 2:45pm
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the barred spiral galaxy IC 758.
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“Cosmic Dawn” Screening at Greenbelt Cinema

Fri, 06/13/2025 - 1:50pm
Attendees line up to enter the theater for a screening of the new NASA+ documentary “Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space Telescope,” Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at the Greenbelt Cinema in Greenbelt, Maryland. Featuring never-before-seen footage, Cosmic Dawn offers an unprecedented glimpse into the assembly, testing, and launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
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Far Out

Thu, 06/12/2025 - 2:42pm
The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The gas below the stars glows through ionization caused by intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive young stars within the cluster.
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Portrait of a Bobcat

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 3:26pm
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a bobcat wades through one of the waterways near Launch Pad 39B.
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High Above the World

Tue, 06/10/2025 - 2:24pm
Astronaut Franklin R. Chang-Diaz works with a grapple fixture during a June 2002 spacewalk – the first spacewalk of the STS-111 mission.
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Central Brazil Cerrado

Mon, 06/09/2025 - 1:34pm
Amid a patchwork of fields, towns, and winding rivers and roads in central Brazil stands a monolithic oval-shaped plateau. This conspicuous feature, the Serra de Caldas (also known as the Caldas Novas dome and Caldas Ridge), is perched about 300 meters (1,000 feet) above the surrounding landscape in the state of Goiás.
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Webb Sees Sombrero Galaxy in Near-Infrared

Fri, 06/06/2025 - 2:04pm
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), which shows dust from the galaxy’s outer ring blocking stellar light from stars within the galaxy. In the central region of the galaxy, the roughly 2,000 globular clusters, or collections of hundreds of thousands of old stars held together by gravity, glow in the near-infrared. The Sombrero Galaxy is around 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. From Earth, we see this galaxy nearly “edge-on,” or from the side.
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Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds

Thu, 06/05/2025 - 11:23am
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a cloudscape in the Large Magellanic Cloud., a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
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