Watch the stars and from them learn. To the Master's honor all must turn, Each in its track, without a sound, Forever tracing Newton's ground

— Albert Einstein

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25th Anniversary Cupola Photo

Fri, 07/25/2025 - 3:55pm
The 25th anniversary logo is visible in the cupola of the space station in this July 17, 2025, image. The central astronaut figure is representative of all those who have lived and worked aboard the station during the 25 years of continuous human presence. In the dark sky of space surrounding the astronaut are 15 stars, which symbolize the 15 partner nations that support the orbiting laboratory.
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First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral

Thu, 07/24/2025 - 12:07pm
The Bumper V-2 launches from Cape Canaveral in this July 24, 1950, photo.
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NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim, Axiom Mission 4 Commander Peggy Whitson Conduct Research in Space

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 12:04pm
Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim from NASA and Axiom Mission 4 Commander Peggy Whitson work together inside the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory module setting up research hardware to culture patient-derived cancer cells, model their growth in microgravity, and test a state-of-the-art fluorescence microscope.
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NASA’s X-59 Makes a Move

Tue, 07/22/2025 - 11:38am
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft taxis across the runway during a low-speed taxi test at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, on July 10, 2025. The test marks the start of taxi tests and the last series of ground tests before first flight.
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The Day Earth Smiled

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 12:22pm
On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA's Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn's shadow and turned to image the planet, seven of its moons, its inner rings, and, in the background, our home planet, Earth.
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Hubble Snaps Galaxy Cluster’s Portrait

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 1:24pm
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy cluster Abell 209.
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Space Station Crew Celebrates Milestone

Thu, 07/17/2025 - 1:35pm
NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Anne McClain shows off a hamburger-shaped cake to celebrate 200 cumulative days in space for JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi (out of frame) since his first spaceflight as an Expedition 48-49 Flight Engineer in 2016.
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Aurora Australis

Wed, 07/16/2025 - 11:57am
The aurora australis arcs above a partly cloudy Indian Ocean in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above in between Australia and Antarctica on June 12, 2025.
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Hubble Observations Give “Missing” Globular Cluster Time to Shine

Tue, 07/15/2025 - 3:35pm
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dense and dazzling array of blazing stars that form globular cluster ESO 591-12.
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10 Years Ago: NASA’s New Horizons Captures Pluto’s Heart

Mon, 07/14/2025 - 12:01pm
This is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.
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Putting the X-59 to the Test

Fri, 07/11/2025 - 1:46pm
Researchers from NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently tested a scale model of the X-59 experimental aircraft in a supersonic wind tunnel located in Chofu, Japan, to assess the noise audible underneath the aircraft. The test was an important milestone for NASA’s one-of-a-kind X-59, which is designed to fly faster than the speed of sound without causing a loud sonic boom.
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Inspects Cat’s Paw

Thu, 07/10/2025 - 4:10pm
To celebrate its third year of revealing stunning scenes of the cosmos in infrared light, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has “clawed” back the thick, dusty layers of a section within the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334).
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Anatomy of a Space Shuttle

Wed, 07/09/2025 - 2:43pm
This illustration shows the parts of a space shuttle orbiter. About the same size and weight as a DC-9 aircraft, the orbiter contains the pressurized crew compartment (which can normally carry up to seven crew members), the cargo bay, and the three main engines mounted on its aft end.
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Stellar Duo

Tue, 07/08/2025 - 11:32am
The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which has also captured a smaller companion star in the upper left of this image. Both stars lie in the Orion Nebula, a colossal region of star formation roughly 1450 light years from Earth.
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Working in Space

Mon, 07/07/2025 - 3:03pm
NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim works inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft completing cargo operations before it undocked from the International Space Station's Harmony module several hours later.
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Old Glory on the Red Planet

Thu, 07/03/2025 - 1:08pm
This close-up view of the United States flag plate on NASA's Perseverance was acquired on June 28, 2025 (the 1,548th day, or sol, of its mission to Mars), by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) imager on the turret at the end of the rover's Mars robotic arm.
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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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