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Solar System in the Making
Solar System in the Making

This artist’s concept shows a brown dwarf surrounded by a swirling disk of planet-building dust. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope spotted…

Shells in the Egg Nebula
Shells in the Egg Nebula

The Egg Nebula is taking a beating. Like a baby chick pecking its way out of an egg, the star…

Wildfires Seen From Station
Wildfires Seen From Station

NASA Station Science Officer Ed Lu snapped this stunning image of the wildfires ravaging Southern California’s San Bernardino National Forest…

Martian Surface at an Angle
Martian Surface at an Angle

This latest color “postcard from Mars,” taken on Sol 5 by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit,…

Jau National Park, Brazil
Jau National Park, Brazil

Fed by multiple waterways, Brazil’s Negro River is the Amazon River’s largest tributary. The river courses through the country’s Jau…

Candy-colored Mountains
Candy-colored Mountains

This image of the mountainous Shenandoah National Park was acquired by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission aboard the Space Shuttle…

Galactic Dust Bunnies
Galactic Dust Bunnies

The yearly ritual of spring cleaning clears a house of dust as well as dust “bunnies,” those pesky balls that…

Galactic Building Blocks
Galactic Building Blocks

A satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a wonder of the southern sky, a…

Rocketing to Orbit
Rocketing to Orbit

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, April 14, en route to the…

The Scientist and the Lady
The Scientist and the Lady

Marshall Space Flight Center Director Dr. Wernher von Braun presents Lady Bird Johnson with an inscribed hard hat during the…