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  • Hubble Spies Glittering Star Cluster in Nearby Galaxy

    This glittering ball of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1898, which lies toward the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud. from NASA Image of the Day https://ift.tt/2Akg2yl

  • Launching the Galileo Mission

    On Oct. 18, 1989, space shuttle Atlantis deployed NASA’s Galileo spacecraft six hours, 30 minutes into the STS-34 mission. Galileo arrived at Jupiter in December, 1995 and spent eight years in orbit around the gas giant, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit an outer planet. from NASA Image of the Day https://ift.tt/2CQtRXt

  • Magnetic Fields May Be the Key to Black Hole Activity

    This artist’s conception of the core of Cygnus A shows the dusty donut-shaped surroundings, called a torus, and jets launching from its center. from NASA Image of the Day https://ift.tt/2P0z3hl

  • Uncrewed Japanese Vehicle Delivers Supplies to the Space Station

    Viewed from a window inside the cupola, the International Space Station’s “window to the world,” is the Japanese Exploration Agency’s H-II Transfer Vehicle-7. from NASA Image of the Day https://ift.tt/2CNoDvQ

  • Ellen Ochoa at Work on the Shuttle

    During National Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re celebrating the achievements of astronaut Ellen Ochoa and other Hispanic astronauts and professionals at NASA. Floating upside down and reading a checklist may not be how most of us perform the day’s work, but it was for Ochoa on Space Shuttle Discovery’s STS-96 mission. from NASA Image of the…

  • Southern California as Seen From Apollo 7

    This view of southern California was taken by the Apollo 7 crew during their 18th revolution of the Earth on Oct. 12, 1968. from NASA Image of the Day https://ift.tt/2Ceksbp

  • Expedition 57 Crew Returns to Baikonur

    Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, left, and astronaut Nick Hague of NASA, right. embrace their families after landing at the Krayniy Airport. from NASA Image of the Day https://ift.tt/2yvfrYb

  • Aeronautics: NASA’s First ‘A’

    Aeronautics, the first A of the NASA acronym, has always been a part of the agency. from NASA Image of the Day https://ift.tt/2P0fbHK