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Voyager 1 Sees the Great Red Spot

Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager probes are NASA’s longest-operating mission and the only spacecraft ever to explore interstellar space. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Moon Over New Orleans

A paddlewheeler makes its way up the Mississippi River as the moon rises over New Orleans on Sunday evening, Aug. 22, 2021. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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NASA's Europa Clipper in High Bay 1

The core of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has taken center stage in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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The Historic X-1E Looks Forward

The supersonic X-1E research aircraft was the last of NASA's experimental X-1 series of aircraft. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Milky Way Time Lapse

This time lapse of the Milky Way Galaxy taken from the International Space Station (ISS) also captured a lightning strike on Earth so bright that it lights up the space station’s solar panels. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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NASA T-38s Soar Over Artemis I

T-38 planes are a fixture of astronaut training, making pilots and mission specialists think quicky in changing situations. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Apollo 15 Catches Earth on the Horizon

This view of the crescent Earth over the Moon's horizon was taken during the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Early Morning Artemis I

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, as the Artemis I launch teams loaded more than 700,000 gallons of cryogenic propellants including liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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A Peek Into Jupiter’s Inner Life

Auroras and hazes glow in this composite image of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Lacerta’s Star Outshines a Galaxy

A little-studied star, TYC 3203-450-1, upstages a galaxy in this Hubble Telescope image from December 2017. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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The Crater Farm

Three impact craters are displayed in this three-dimensional perspective view of the surface of Venus taken NASA's Magellan, the first deep space probe launched by a space shuttle. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Voyager 1’s Mission to the Outer Planet Begins

The Voyager mission was designed to take advantage of a rare geometric arrangement of the outer planets in the late 1970s and the 1980s which allowed for a four-planet tour for a minimum of propellant and trip time. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Mediterranean Cities Light Up the Night

This nighttime photograph from the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbited 261 miles above looks across the Mediterranean Sea from north Africa to southern Europe. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Reflecting on President Kennedy's Moonshot Speech

On Sept. 12, 1962, President Kennedy speaks before a crowd of 35,000 people at Rice University in Houston. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Snowcapped Mountains in Western China

The International Space Station captured a portion of the Tanggula Mountains near Hala Lake from 260 miles above the Earth on Sept. 5th, 2022. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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A Bird's-Eye View of the Vehicle Assembly Base

A little blue heron is seen in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building as preparations for launch continue, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Michael E. López-Alegría Poses During Spacewalk

Astronaut Michael E. López-Alegría, mission specialist, is photographed in this close-up view during one of the STS-92 sessions of extravehicular activity on Oct. 18, 2000. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Hubble Studies a Spectacular Spiral

The galaxy NGC 1961 unfurls its gorgeous spiral arms in this newly released image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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A Stormy Stellar Nursery

This cloudy, turbulent scene shows a stellar nursery within the Large Magellanic Cloud known as N159. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Setting the Clock on a Stellar Explosion

A new image of SNR 0519-69.0 shows the debris of a star that exploded several hundred years ago in Earth’s timeframe. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)