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Solar Filament Eruption Creates ‘Canyon of Fire’
Solar Filament Eruption Creates ‘Canyon of Fire’

A magnetic filament of solar material erupted on the sun in late September, breaking the quiet conditions in a spectacular…

Jewel of the Solar System
Jewel of the Solar System

A swing high above Saturn by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft revealed this stately view of the golden-hued planet and its main…

MABEL on Proteus
MABEL on Proteus

The Proteus designed by aviation innovator Burt Rutan recently visited NASA’s Langley Research Center

Ghostly ‘Boomerang’
Ghostly ‘Boomerang’

The Boomerang nebula, called the “coldest place in the universe,” reveals its true shape to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…

Closing Hatches Between Cygnus and Station
Closing Hatches Between Cygnus and Station

European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, Expedition 37 flight engineer, closes the hatch between the International Space Station’s Harmony node…

Cygnus Gets Thumbs Up From Station Astronaut Luca Parmitano
Cygnus Gets Thumbs Up From Station Astronaut Luca Parmitano

European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, Expedition 37 flight engineer, gives a thumbs up signal after closing the hatch between…

Pathfinding Operations for Orion Spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center
Pathfinding Operations for Orion Spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center

At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Orion ground test vehicle, or GTA, has been lifted high in the…

Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph
Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph

The Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) is a part of the Remote Sensing (RS) Package and measures global characteristics of the…

X-ray Images of Sagittarius A*
X-ray Images of Sagittarius A*

Chandra has found evidence of luminous outbursts in a normally dim region close to the supermassive black hole at the…

Solar Filament Eruption Creates Canyon of FIre
Solar Filament Eruption Creates Canyon of FIre

A filament of solar material burst off the sun September 29-30, 2013, leaving a vast expanse of gases over 200,000…