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Saying 'Farewell' to InSight Mars Lander

The lander's journey of discovery into the interior structure and composition of Mars has come to a close. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Webb Uncovers Young Stars’ Outbursts in Carina Nebula

By taking a closer look at one of Webb’s first images, the iconic Cosmic Cliffs, scientists have found dozens of energetic jets and outflows from young stars previously hidden by dust clouds. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Space Station Snaps Hawaii’s Volcanoes

Hawaii's big island and its two major volcanoes Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa rest under a partly cloudy sky on Feb. 8, 2022, in this view from the International Space Station. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Apollo 8 Astronaut Bill Anders Captures Earthrise

On Dec. 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon, and the first to witness the magnificent sight called "Earthrise." (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Starry Wreath in Pegasus

The James Webb Space Telescope spies the spiral galaxy NGC 7469, located 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, in this image released on Dec. 21, 2022. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Spacewalker Josh Cassada prepares to deploy a roll-out solar array

NASA spacewalker Josh Cassada prepares a roll-out solar array for its deployment on the International Space Station. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Spacewalker Josh Cassada Prepares to Deploy Roll-out Solar Array

NASA spacewalker Josh Cassada prepares a roll-out solar array for its deployment on the International Space Station. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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HIRISE Spots Martian Crater Deposits

This image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft’s HIRISE instrument on Oct. 23, 2022, of the northern plains of Arabia Terra shows craters that contain curious deposits with mysterious shapes and distribution. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Bird, Rocket Prepare for Flight at Kennedy Space Center

An osprey is seen in front of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as launch preparations continued Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Crew Recovers SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance

Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft shortly after it landed on Friday, May 6, 2022 with Crew-3 NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, Tom Marshburn, and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer aboard. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Space Station Swings by Kennedy

On April 8, 2022, this 30-second exposure captured the International Space Station as it passed over the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Prepping to Study the World’s Water

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft is in this early morning photo from Dec. 14, 2022, as preparations for launch continued. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Hubble Gazes at Colorful Cluster of Scattered Stars

The scattered stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355 are strewn across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Space Station Peek

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann peers through one of the seven windows in the cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world" on Jan. 2, 2023. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Inspecting Orion

The Artemis I Orion capsule is secured on a platform inside the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this image from Jan. 6, 2023. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Fun with Fluid Physics

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio is all smiles as he observes the behavior of a free-flying water bubble inside the International Space Station's (ISS) Kibo laboratory module on Oct. 10, 2022. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Atlanta Shines at Night

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. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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A Well-traveled Beagle

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. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Snowy Celestial Mountains

Snow and ice cover mountains of the Tien Shan range in this photograph taken from the International Space Station (ISS) on Feb. 9, 2022. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Hubble Visits Galactic Neighbors

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy LEDA 48062 in the constellation Perseus. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)