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The center of the Milky Way is a crowded neighborhood and not always a calm one, as seen in this…
NASA’s NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) Shoemaker spacecraft landed on the surface of the 21-mile long asteroid Eros on February…
Backdropped by Earth’s horizon and the blackness of space, the International Space Station appears small as it moves away from…
This is a cropped view of the first Navcam stereo mosaic from Spirit at Gusev crater. To see the image…
NASA’s Chandra observatory captured this false-color, x-ray image of the young star cluster NGC 346. The heart-shaped cloud sits in…
Expedition 11 Flight Engineer John Phillips smiles after a successful landing in Kazakhstan on Monday, October 10. Phillips and his…
St. Thomas, St. John, Tortola and Virgin Gorda are the four main islands (front to back) of this east-looking view…
Astronaut Daniel Tani, Expedition 16 flight engineer, participates in the second of five scheduled spacewalks as construction continues on the…
Astronauts Patrick Forrester (left) and Steven Swanson participate in the STS-117 mission’s fourth and final spacewalk. Among other tasks, Forrester…
