In the cold vacuum of space, radiation from massive stars carves away at cold molecular clouds, creating bizarre, fantasy-like structures.…
A last quarter crescent moon above Earth’s horizon is featured in this image photographed by the Expedition 24 crew on…
A technician examines the instrument mounting structure and bulkhead of the German-built infrared telescope installed in NASA’s SOFIA airborne observatory.
Technicians carefully fill the FORCAST camera’s dewers with liquid helium to cool the instrument during pre-installation checkout.
A sharp eye can pick out faint specks of stars reflected by the 100-inch (2.5 meter) primary mirror on NASA’s…
