NASA Pic Of The Day

10 Mar 2023 15:24

The irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_ngc5486_potw2310a.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

08 Mar 2023 19:24

Former astronaut Eileen Collins sits at the pilot’s station aboard space shuttle Discovery during a hotfiring procedure on Feb. 2, 1995. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/sts063-312-020-orig.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

03 Mar 2023 19:25

A NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft soars upward at the L.A. county airshow in this image from Mar. 25, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/afrc2017-0068-123_1.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

01 Mar 2023 19:24

Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly snapped this photo of the Earth’s crescent, the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter (from top to bottom) on Aug. 6, 2015, while he was aboard the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/757_iss044e020824.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

23 Feb 2023 19:24

Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) on Feb. 20, 1962. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/friendship_7_8_glenn_ingressing_spacecraft_314095main_image_1288_full.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

21 Feb 2023 18:24

As NASA celebrates National Engineers Week, NASA Glenn gets perspectives from materials research engineer Jamesa Stokes. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jamesa_stokes.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

15 Feb 2023 19:24

Two Joint Extravehicular Activity Test Team Field Test #3 (JETT3) mission members work on sample collection on the remote, rocky, high-desert terrain of the S P Crater near Flagstaff, Arizona on Oct. 5, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/wjs_2270_orig.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

10 Feb 2023 19:24

An American bald eagle occupies a nest near Kennedy Parkway North at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 8, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230208-ph-jbs01_0049_orig.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

06 Feb 2023 21:24

Officials from NASA, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and the Indian Embassy visit a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Feb. 3, 2023, to view the scientific instrument payload for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/e1a-pia25599-1041.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

02 Feb 2023 19:24

The waxing gibbous Moon stands out in this Jan. 2, 2023, image from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above the southern Indian Ocean. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e036313_orig.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

30 Jan 2023 19:26

Chile’s Villarrica volcano emits steam and other volcanic gases in this photo taken from the International Space Station on Jan. 17, 2023. The gases come from a series of minor explosions—called Strombolian eruptions—that have been ongoing at Villarrica since October 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068-e-40596_lrg.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

27 Jan 2023 23:30

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson lays a wreath at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52651369605_4555503bb1_k.jpeg

NASA Pic Of The Day

24 Jan 2023 17:28

Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk installing a modification kit on the International Space Station's starboard truss structure. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e041215.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

20 Jan 2023 19:30

Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are pictured on Jan. 12, 2023, during a fit check of their spacesuits inside the Quest airlock ahead of a planned spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station's power generation system. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e040058_orig.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

17 Jan 2023 19:25

Snoopy, the zero gravity indicator that flew aboard Orion during the Artemis I mission, wears a smile after being unpacked from his transport case on Jan. 5, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230105-ph-ilw01_0023_orig.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

09 Mar 2023 20:24

The Moon is seen passing in front of the Sun during a solar eclipse from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park, Washington on Aug. 21, 2017. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq201708210303_orig.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

07 Mar 2023 18:24

Infrared light surges out from the Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 27, in this Aug. 10, 2011, image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/579054main_pia14417_full.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

02 Mar 2023 19:24

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries the company's Dragon spacecraft with NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission members aboard in this five-minute long exposure taken on Thursday, March 2, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52720913251_40e93d81b5_o.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

24 Feb 2023 19:24

The sun rises on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52706618165_0fff7e8f3b_k.jpeg

NASA Pic Of The Day

22 Feb 2023 18:24

A blue halo glows around Pluto’s receding crescent in this parting image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21590_orig.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

17 Feb 2023 22:24

Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev, Pilot Warren

NASA Pic Of The Day

13 Feb 2023 20:24

While the International Space Station orbited over the Gulf of Mexico on Sept. 19, 2022, NASA astronaut Bob Hines captured this image of South Padre Island, a barrier island along the coast of Texas. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss067e373246_lrg.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

08 Feb 2023 20:24

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata is pictured in his Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or spacesuit, during his second spacewalk on Feb. 2, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e045124_orig.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

03 Feb 2023 19:24

This Jan. 10, 2013, composite image of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 combines visible light images from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope with far-ultraviolet data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and infrared data acquired by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia16613_orig.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

31 Jan 2023 17:27

In this photo from Oct. 14, 2008, a great blue heron stands watch among a pond of water lilies on NASA's Kennedy Space Center. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-08pd3162_orig.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

27 Jan 2023 23:30

The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_v372ori_potw2304a.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

25 Jan 2023 23:27

On January 25, 1984, President Ronald Reagan used his State of the Union address to call for NASA to build a permanent manned space station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/naid75853211.jpeg

NASA Pic Of The Day

23 Jan 2023 23:25

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has obtained an in-depth inventory of the deepest, coldest ices measured to date in a molecular cloud. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-01gq5chesabwmhrf5na60a6mpf_0.png

NASA Pic Of The Day

18 Jan 2023 21:25

Snow and ice cover mountains of the Tien Shan range in this photograph taken from the International Space Station (ISS) on Feb. 9, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss066e149154_lrg.jpg

NASA Pic Of The Day

13 Jan 2023 17:28

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthplace, Atlanta, Georgia, is seen on January 20, 2013, in this image from the International Space Station as it flew approximately 240 miles above the city. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/730353main_iss034e032466_full.jpg