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NASA: Image of Day

Newly Found Organics in Enceladus’ Plumes
Fri Nov 28 1:13 pm
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed 'tiger stripes' near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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Artemis II Orion Spacecraft Stacked
Wed Nov 26 12:42 pm
NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft with its launch abort system is stacked atop the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. The spacecraft will carry NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a 10-day mission around the Moon and back in early 2026.
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Red Spider Nebula
Tue Nov 25 1:10 pm
Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed never-before-seen details in the picturesque Red Spider Nebula with a rich backdrop of thousands of stars.
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City Lights and Atmospheric Glow
Mon Nov 24 12:13 pm
The atmospheric glow blankets southern Europe and the northwestern Mediterranean coast, outlined by city lights. At left, the Po Valley urban corridor in Italy shines with the metropolitan areas of Milan and Turin and their surrounding suburbs.
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Hubble Captures Puzzling Galaxy
Fri Nov 21 12:29 pm
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy, NGC 2775, that’s hard to categorize.
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NASA’s Quesst Mission Marks X-59’s Historic First Flight
Thu Nov 20 5:13 pm
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft lifts off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The aircraft’s first flight marks the start of flight testing for NASA’s Quesst mission, the result of years of design, integration, and ground testing and begins a new chapter in NASA’s aeronautics research legacy.
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NASA Telescopes View Spiral Galaxy
Tue Nov 18 12:46 pm
NGC 1068, a relatively nearby spiral galaxy, appears in this image released on July 23, 2025.
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Suited Up for Science: NASA ER-2 Pilot Prepares for GEMx Flight
Mon Nov 17 3:35 pm
NASA ER-2 pilot Kirt Stallings waits inside the transport vehicle at Edwards, California, on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, moments before boarding NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center’s ER-2 aircraft for a high-altitude mission supporting the Geological Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx). Through the vehicle window, the aircraft can be seen being readied for flight.
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Mapping Dark Matter
Fri Nov 14 12:48 pm
This image shows two massive galaxy clusters. The vast number of galaxies and foreground stars in the image were captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in near-infrared light. Glowing, hot X-rays captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory appear in pink. The blue represents the dark matter, which was precisely mapped by researchers with Webb’s detailed imaging.
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A Robotic Helping Hand
Thu Nov 13 4:09 pm
The 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm extends from a data grapple fixture on the International Space Station’s Harmony module in this July 23, 2025, image.
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Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io
Tue Sep 30 12:26 pm
During its close flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io on December 30, 2023, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured some of the most detailed imagery ever of Io’s volcanic surface. This image is the NASA Science Image of the Month for October 2025.
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Hubble Surveys Cloudy Cluster
Mon Sep 29 12:00 pm
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the nebula LMC N44C.
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