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Space Station Star Trail

Stars leave streaks of light in concentric circles in this Mar 16, 2012, view from the International Space Station. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Celebrating Women in STEM

Deputy director for technology and research investments at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Christyl Johnson, speaks during a panel discussion as part of a Women’s History Month program, “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories,” Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Working on Artemis II

A technician works on part of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s core stage for Artemis II in this March 11, 2023, image. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Earth’s Radiant Atmosphere

The last rays of an orbital sunset illuminate the Earth's atmosphere in this Feb. 17, 2023, photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Photo Archivist and Photographer Aubrey Gemignani

“I think I’m always seeking out projects that help people feel seen. And maybe that’s why I got so into photography initially. I struggle with that myself — feeling seen. And so to help other people feel seen is definitely an interest of mine that I keep coming back to." — Aubrey Gemignani, Photo Archivist/Photographer, Mori Associates (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Crew-4’s Museum Field Trip

NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, left, Jessica Watkins, center, and Bob Hines, right, take in the view from the interactive recreation of the International Space Station’s cupola in the One World Connected gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on March 28, 2023. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 Sets Record

Guinness World Records officially designated NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 as the heaviest self-powered vehicle, weighing approximately 6.65 million pounds—equivalent to about 15 Statues of Liberty or 1,000 pickup trucks. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Patagonian Plankton Swirls

Phytoplankton create rich blooms of color in the Atlantic Ocean near South America in this enhanced color image from Dec. 2, 2014. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Artemis II Crew Revealed

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen (from left) and NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch greet the crowd at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Monday, April 3, 2023. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Artemis II Crew Appears on "The Late Show"

The Artemis II crew appeared on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on April 5, 2023. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Battling Bots

Industrial-size robots built by high school teams compete against each other in a game at Rocket City Regional, Alabama’s annual FIRST Robotics Competition, in this March 16, 2018, image. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Schulz, Snoopy Visit NASA Headquarters

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson (left), Jeannie Schulz, widow of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, and Snoopy are all smiles during a Wednesday, April 5, 2023, visit to NASA Headquarters in Washington (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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X-59 Gets Its Tail

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. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Celebrating Science at the White House Easter Egg Roll

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. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Heavy Rain, Snow Revive Tulare Lake

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. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Hubble Spots a Galaxy with Tendrils

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. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Bald Eagle Lands at Kennedy Space Center

An American bald eagle swoops down to land on a pole at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 10, 2023. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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The Himalayas and Mount Everest in Nepal

Clouds gather over Nepal near Mount Everest (center) in this April 13, 2023, photograph from the International Space Station. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Martian Milestone for Ingenuity

This April 16, 2023, enhanced color image of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is the clearest view of the rotorcraft since its first flight. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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SuperBIT Sees Colliding Antennae Galaxies

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). (More at NASA Picture of The Day)