NASA Image of the Day

TROPICS Prepped to Track Storms (Di, 30 Mai 2023)
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket stands on Pad B, Launch Complex 1, in Māhia, New Zealand, just ahead of a successful launch on Friday, May 26, with NASA’s Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) CubeSats payload.
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Hubble Captures a Drifting Galaxy (Fri, 26 May 2023)
The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
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Strategic Partnerships Manager Anita Dey (Wed, 24 May 2023)
"If I can advocate for all the groups that need equity, I'm glad to do it." – Anita Dey, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Outreach and Engagement, NASA Headquarters
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Whistling Through the Wildflowers (Wed, 24 May 2023)
Two black-bellied whistling ducks walk through a field of wildflowers at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 19, 2023.
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SpaceX Dragon Crew Ship Approaches the International Space Station (Tue, 23 May 2023)
The SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft, named Freedom, is seen as it approaches the International Space Station with four Axiom Mission 2 private astronauts aboard on Monday, May 22, 2023.
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Baby Stars in the Orion Constellation (Mon, 22 May 2023)
Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in this infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174.
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Hubble Peers into a Glistening Star Cluster (Fri, 19 May 2023)
The densely packed globular cluster NGC 6325 glistens in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
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U.S. Senate Members Meet the Crew of Artemis II (Thu, 18 May 2023)
The four astronauts who will fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II visited Washington on Wednesday, May 17, to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others.
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Laguna San Rafael National Park Viewed from the Space Station (Wed, 17 May 2023)
Laguna San Rafael National Park, photographed on May 9, 2023 as the space station orbited 268 miles above Chile.
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Moon Over the Southern Atlantic (Tue, 16 May 2023)
The waxing gibbous Moon stands out against the stark darkness of space on May 3, 2023.
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Hearing and Seeing the Music of the Spheres (Mon, 15 May 2023)
Maestro Piotr Gajewski conducts the National Philharmonic in the world premiere performance of Henry Dehlinger’s “Cosmic Cycles,” in this photo from Thursday, May 11, 2023, as an enhanced color image of Jupiter is displayed above.
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50th Anniversary of the Skylab 1 Launch (Fri, 12 May 2023)
Clouds of smoke billow out over the surrounding area as the uncrewed Skylab 1/Saturn V space vehicle launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on May 14, 1973.
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Stabilizing Shorelines with Mangroves (Thu, 11 May 2023)
A team member from the Environmental Management Branch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center works to remove a mangrove seedling deposited by tropical winds on the shoreline of KARS Park at Kennedy in this image from April 12, 2023.
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Vance Oyama, Searching for Life in Our Solar System (Wed, 10 May 2023)
Vance I. Oyama holds a readout from the gas chromatograph in the life detection laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in this picture from April 22, 1965.
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Spacewalkers Stephen Bowen and Sultan Alneyadi Exit the Quest Airlock (Tue, 09 May 2023)
Spacewalkers Stephen Bowen and Sultan Alneyadi are pictured in their Extravehicular Mobility Units, or spacesuits, exiting the International Space Station's Quest airlock and beginning a spacewalk.
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Plumes from Popocatépetl Volcano (Mon, 08 May 2023)
Popocatépetl, one of Mexico’s most active volcanoes, has been erupting since 2005.
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Eyes on Ice (Fri, 05 May 2023)
Curtis Flack (left) and Paul von Hardenberg inspect the ice formation on the spinner of an Advanced Air Mobility proprotor model tested in the Icing Research Tunnel at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
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Exploring the Cosmos Together (Thu, 04 May 2023)
Miloslav Stašek, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States (left), Foreign Affairs Minister for the Czech Republic, Jan Lipavský (second from left), NASA Administrator Bill Nelson (second from right), and Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Jennifer R. Littlejohn (right),
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Hubble Captures Extraordinarily Bright Interacting Galaxies (Wed, 03 May 2023)
This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows interacting galaxies known as AM 1214-255.
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Neutron Stars Collide (Tue, 02 May 2023)
Two neutron stars begin to merge in this illustration, blasting a jet of high-speed particles and producing a cloud of debris.
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Astronaut Kjell Lindgren (Mon, 01 May 2023)
"I think that getting to be a crewmember on the International Space Station, and getting to serve there over the course of two long-duration stays, we really feel like we are bridge-builders." — Kjell Lindgren, Astronaut, NASA's Johnson Space Center
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Hubble Captures an Elusive Galaxy Cluster (Fri, 28 Apr 2023)
A menagerie of interesting astronomical finds are visible in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
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The Cygnus space freighter is released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm (Thu, 27 Apr 2023)
The Cygnus space freighter is pictured moments after its release from the Canadarm2 robotic arm.
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Celebrating Earth Day (Mon, 24 Apr 2023)
Former NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden speaks with local students during an Earth Day event, Thursday, April 20, 2023, at Union Station in Washington.
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SuperBIT Sees Colliding Antennae Galaxies (Thu, 20 Apr 2023)
This view of the Antennae Galaxies, two large galaxies colliding 60 million light-years away, is one of the first research images from the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) that launched on a scientific super pressure balloon April 16, 2023 (local time New Zealand).
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NASA's New 3D-Printed Superalloy Can Take the Heat (Thu, 20 Apr 2023)
NASA has demonstrated a breakthrough in 3D printable high-temperature materials that could lead to stronger, more durable parts for airplanes and spacecraft.
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Martian Milestone for Ingenuity (Wed, 19 Apr 2023)
This April 16, 2023, enhanced color image of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is the clearest view of the rotorcraft since its first flight.
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Katmai National Park (Tue, 18 Apr 2023)
The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, located in Katmai National Park, forms a unique and ashen landscape. Encircled by volcanoes – both active and inactive – it has served as a perfect collection area for huge amounts of volcanic ash.
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Astronaut Jessica Watkins (Tue, 18 Apr 2023)
"Operating the International Space Station requires an entire team of people all coming together with one goal in pursuit of that one mission." — Jessica Watkins, Astronaut, NASA's Johnson Space Center
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The Himalayas and Mount Everest in Nepal (Tue, 18 Apr 2023)
Clouds gather over Nepal near Mount Everest (center) in this April 13, 2023, photograph from the International Space Station.
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Bald Eagle Lands at Kennedy Space Center (Mon, 17 Apr 2023)
An American bald eagle swoops down to land on a pole at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 10, 2023.
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Hubble Spots a Galaxy with Tendrils (Fri, 14 Apr 2023)
This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows JO204, a ‘jellyfish galaxy’ so named for the bright tendrils of gas that appear in this image as drifting lazily below JO204’s bright central bulk. The galaxy lies almost 600 million light-years away in the constellation Sextans.
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Heavy Rain, Snow Revive Tulare Lake (Thu, 13 Apr 2023)
Floodwater (dark blue) stands out against the vegetation in agricultural fields around Tulare Lake near Corcoran, California, in this enhanced color image taken by Landsat 8 on March 29, 2023.
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Celebrating Science at the White House Easter Egg Roll (Wed, 12 Apr 2023)
Former NASA astronaut Alvin Drew shakes hands with a guest during the White House Easter Egg Roll in this photo from Monday, April 10, 2023.
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X-59 Gets Its Tail (Tue, 11 Apr 2023)
NASA’s X-59 sits in support framing while undergoing the installation of its lower empennage, or tail section, at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, in this image from late March 2023.
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