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ER-2 Departs Southern California for Science Mission
ER-2 Departs Southern California for Science Mission

NASA environmental science ER-2 aircraft No. 806 took off from Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, CA, for a mission…

ER-2 #806 LIfts Off from Plant 42
ER-2 #806 LIfts Off from Plant 42

NASA’s high-altitude ER-2 aircraft No. 806 lifted off the runway at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, CA. NASA operates…

Flaps and Speed Brakes Deployed for Landing
Flaps and Speed Brakes Deployed for Landing

With full flaps and speed brakes deployed, one of NASA’s high-altitude ER-2 environmental science aircraft descended on final approach to…

The Triangulum Galaxy
The Triangulum Galaxy

The Triangulum Galaxy is located nearly 3 million light years from Earth. And, in a study that pushes the limits…

Hole in the Sun’s Corona
Hole in the Sun’s Corona

This Solar Dynamics Observatory image of the Sun taken on Jan. 10, 2011, in extreme ultraviolet light captures a dark…

SOFIA Opens New Window on Star Formation in Orion
SOFIA Opens New Window on Star Formation in Orion

SOFIA mid-infrared mosaic image of the Messier 42 region from the Short Science 1 observing program, December 2010.

SOFIA Opens New Window on Star Formation in Orion
SOFIA Opens New Window on Star Formation in Orion

SOFIA’s mid-infrared image of Messier 42 (right) with comparison images of the same region made at other wavelengths by the…

Space Oddity
Space Oddity

In this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, an unusual, ghostly green blob of gas appears to float near…

Kepler-10b: A Scorched World
Kepler-10b: A Scorched World

Kepler-10b is a scorched world, orbiting at a distance that’s more than 20 times closer to its star than Mercury…

First Appearance of the Space Shuttle
First Appearance of the Space Shuttle

Space shuttle Enterprise made its first appearance mated to supportive propellant containers/boosters cluster, as it was rolled from the Vehicle…