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Saturn’s Strange Hexagon
Saturn’s Strange Hexagon

This nighttime view of Saturn’s north pole by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard Cassini clearly shows a bizarre…

Atlantis Crew Heads to the Pad
Atlantis Crew Heads to the Pad

At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the STS-122 mission crew members stride out of the Operations and Checkout Building, eager to…

Iridescent Glory of Nearby Planetary Nebula
Iridescent Glory of Nearby Planetary Nebula

This photograph of the coil-shaped Helix Nebula is one of the largest and most detailed celestial images ever made. The…

A Merger of Mighty Rivers
A Merger of Mighty Rivers

The Ohio River becomes a tributary of the Mississippi River directly south of Cairo, Illinois, a small city on the…

Baby Picture of Our Solar System
Baby Picture of Our Solar System

A rare, infrared view of a developing star and its flaring jets taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows us…

Chaotic Beauty
Chaotic Beauty

Located 1,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Perseus, a reflection nebula called NGC 1333 epitomizes the beautiful chaos…

Cluster of Galaxies
Cluster of Galaxies

Stunningly detailed, this picture is a computer-simulated view of a cluster of galaxies in the distant cosmos. A large, elliptical…

Sweeping View
Sweeping View

A grandiose gesture of gravity, Saturn’s icy rings fan out across many thousands of kilometers of space. The moon Pan…

Mars Exploration Rover-2 (MER-2)
Mars Exploration Rover-2 (MER-2)

In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Mars Exploration Rover-2 (MER-2) rests in the proper position on the base petal…

Ghost Head Nebula
Ghost Head Nebula

The Ghost Head Nebula, or NGC 2080, is a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of…