Artist’s concept of eight facts about NASA’s Deep Space Network. Image credit: NASA/JPL Get to know the Deep Space Network (DSN)-NASA’s worldwide radio telescope array that communicates with spacecraft throughout the solar system. As the World Turns: The DSN i... More »
Beam Wave Guide antennas at Goldstone, known as the “Beam Waveguide Cluster.” Each antenna is 111.5-feet (34-m) in diameter. They’re located in an area at Goldstone called “Apollo Valley.” This photograph was taken on Jan. 11, 2012. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NA... More »
Beam Wave Guide antennas at Goldstone, known as the “Beam Waveguide Cluster.” Each antenna is 111.5-feet (34-m) in diameter. They’re located in an area at Goldstone called “Apollo Valley.” This photograph was taken on Jan. 11, 2012. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech J... More »
The collection of red dots seen near the center of this image show one of several very distant galaxy clusters discovered by combining ground-based optical data from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory’s Kitt Peak National Observatory with infrared data... More »
A 100-foot diameter packed-parachute, bridles and lines are readied into position for a Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test that occurred at the U.S. Naval Air Weapons Station at China Lake earlier this year. A similar packed parachute in both size ... More »
This colorful composite image from NASA’s Dawn mission shows the flow of material inside and outside a crater called Aelia on the giant asteroid Vesta. The area is around 14 degrees south latitude. The images that went into this composite were obtained by Dawn... More »
A screen shot from the Milky Way Project illustrates how users are asked to catalog objects in our galaxy. Image credit: Zooniverse Since 2010, about 50,000 volunteers have taken to their computers to help astronomers catalog star-blown bubbles captured in ima... More »
A dying star, called the Helix nebula, is shown surrounded by the tracks of asteroids in an image captured by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA In an unexpected juxtaposition of cosmic objects that are act... More »
This image shows a composite view of the Crab nebula, an iconic supernova remnant in our Milky Way galaxy, as viewed by the Herschel Space Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/MESS Key Programme Supernova Remnant Team; NA... More »
This colorized mosaic from NASA’s Cassini mission shows the most complete view yet of Titan’s northern land of lakes and seas. Saturn’s moon Titan is the only world in our solar system other than Earth that has stable liquid on its surface. The liquid in Titan... More »
This is an artist’s concept of a plume of water vapor thought to be ejected off the frigid, icy surface of the Jovian moon Europa, located about 500 million miles (800 million kilometers) from the sun. Image credit: NASA/ESA/K. Retherford/SWRI NASA’s Hubble Sp... More »
This image, using data from NASA’s Galileo mission, shows the first detection of clay-like minerals on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI A new analysis of data from NASA’s Galileo mission has revealed clay-type minerals ... More »
