The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), located 210,000 light-years away, is one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in space. At the center of the region is a brilliant star cluster called NGC 346. A dramatic structure of arched, ragged filaments with a distinct ridge surrou […]
Contamination control engineers in a clean room at the Goddard Space Flight Center evaluate a propellant tank before it is installed in our Europa Clipper spacecraft. The tank is one of two that will be used to hold the spacecraft’s propellant. It will be inserted into the cylinder seen at lef
On Women’s Equality Day, NASA celebrates the women who are breaking barriers and paving the way for future generations. In this image, Dr. Nancy Grace Roman (1925-2018), NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy and “the Mother of Hubble,” visits the Space Telescope Operations Control Center
The SpaceX Crew-3 team, consisting of NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, and Tom Marshburn, and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer, and support personnel participate in water survival training at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in this image from April 2021. Th
Who is Bill Ingalls? He’s a senior contract photographer at NASA Headquarters in Washington, with more than three decades of documenting America’s space and aeronautics programs. For his efforts, he received the 2021 Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award on Aug. 23, 2021 at the 36th annual S
On Aug. 17, 2021, Space Station Commander Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency checked the fit of his U.S. spacesuit in preparation for a spacewalk on Aug. 24, during which he and fellow spacewalker Mark Vande Hei will install the International Space Station’s third Roll-O
The International Space Station was orbiting 263 miles above the southeast coast of Brazil on the Atlantic Ocean into an orbital sunrise when this photograph was taken. The orbital platform has been continuously occupied for more than 20 years and hosts a variety of research and experiments that ben
Gene Roddenberry would have been 100 years old on Aug. 19, 2021, and we at NASA celebrate his legacy. As creator of the legendary Star Trek saga, Roddenberry’s vision continues to resonate. In the documentary “NASA on the Edge of Forever: Science in Space,” host NASA astronaut Victor Glover st
Galaxies and dark matter go together like peanut butter and jelly. Rarely is one without the other, but a recently discovered galaxy called NGC 1052-DF2 is nearly entirely lacking in dark matter. In November 2019, researchers were astonished when they viewed its image captured by the Hubble Space Te
In this image, a NASA Black Brant XII suborbital sounding rocket was launched at 8:44 p.m. EDT, Sunday, May 16, 2021, from the Wallops Flight Facility. The four stage rocket carried the KiNETic-scale energy and momentum transport eXperiment, or KiNet-X, designed to study a very fundamental problem i
