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  • Parker Solar Probe Looks Back at Earth

    On Sept. 25, 2018, Parker Solar Probe captured a view of Earth as it sped toward the first Venus gravity assist of the mission. Earth is the bright, round object visible in the right side of this image. from NASA Image of the Day https://ift.tt/2CCiZeQ

  • Newborn Stars Blow Bubbles in the Cat’s Paw Nebula

    Newborn Stars Blow Bubbles in the Cat’s Paw Nebula from NASA Image of the Day https://ift.tt/2q6Jwti

  • Splashdown! Apollo 7 Returns Home

    On October 22, 1968, 50 years ago, the Apollo 7 crew splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico. from NASA Image of the Day https://ift.tt/2PO9Mnu

  • 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…