{"collection":{"version":"1.1","href":"https://images-api.nasa.gov/asset/?orderby=popular","items":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/art001m1203451716/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2022-12-11T00:00:00Z","description":"Dec. 11, 2022, NASA’s Orion spacecraft reenters the atmosphere after completing a 1.4 million-mile, 25.5 day Artemis I  mission to the Moon. ","description_508":"Video of Orion reentering the atmosphere on December 11, 2022.","keywords":["Orion","Artemis I","Reentry","Atmosphere","Plasma","Plume"],"media_type":"video","nasa_id":"art001m1203451716","photographer":"Orion Spacecraft","secondary_creator":"Orion Spacecraft","title":"Reentry video as Orion returns from Artemis I"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/art001m1203451716/art001m1203451716~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":17000,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/art001m1203451716/art001m1203451716~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":7800,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/art001m1203451716/art001m1203451716~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":2900,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/art001m1203451716/art001m1203451716~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":5100,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/art001m1203451716/art001m1203451716.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/carina_nebula/collection.json","data":[{"album":["James_Webb_First_Images"],"center":"STScI (Webb)","date_created":"2022-07-12T11:00:00Z","description":"What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth.  Called the Cosmic Cliffs, the region is actually the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, roughly 7,600 light-years away. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image. The high-energy radiation from these stars is sculpting the nebula’s wall by slowly eroding it away.    NIRCam – with its crisp resolution and unparalleled sensitivity – unveils hundreds of previously hidden stars, and even numerous background galaxies. Several prominent features in this image are described below.  • The “steam” that appears to rise from the celestial “mountains” is actually hot, ionized gas and hot dust streaming away from the nebula due to intense, ultraviolet radiation.   • Dramatic pillars rise above the glowing wall of gas, resisting the blistering ultraviolet radiation from the young stars.  • Bubbles and cavities are being blown by the intense radiation and stellar winds of newborn stars.  • Protostellar jets and outflows, which appear in gold, shoot from dust-enshrouded, nascent stars.  • A “blow-out” erupts at the top-center of the ridge, spewing gas and dust into the interstellar medium.   • An unusual “arch” appears, looking like a bent-over cylinder.  This period of very early star formation is difficult to capture because, for an individual star, it lasts only about 50,000 to 100,000 years – but Webb’s extreme sensitivity and exquisite spatial resolution have chronicled this rare event.  Located roughly 7,600 light-years away, NGC 3324 was first catalogued by James Dunlop in 1826. Visible from the Southern Hemisphere, it is located at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), which resides in the constellation Carina. The Carina Nebula is home to the Keyhole Nebula and the active, unstable supergiant star called Eta Carinae.   NIRCam was built by a team at the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center.","keywords":["NGC 3324","Carina Nebula"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"carina_nebula","photographer":"NASA ESA CSA STScI","title":"James Webb Space Telescope NIRCam Image of the “Cosmic Cliffs” in Carina Nebula"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/carina_nebula/carina_nebula~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":197000,"height":741},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/carina_nebula/carina_nebula~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":53000,"height":370},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/carina_nebula/carina_nebula~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":53000,"height":370},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/carina_nebula/carina_nebula~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":389000,"height":1111},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/carina_nebula/carina_nebula~orig.png","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":1158,"width":2000,"size":3460300}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/behemoth-black-hole-found-in-an-unlikely-place_26209716511_o/collection.json","data":[{"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2016-04-06T00:00:00Z","description":"This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the center represents the black hole’s event horizon, where no light can escape the massive object’s gravitational grip. The black hole’s powerful gravity distorts space around it like a funhouse mirror. Light from background stars is stretched and smeared as the stars skim by the black hole.  Credits: NASA, ESA, and D. Coe, J. Anderson, and R. van der Marel (STScI)  More info: Astronomers have uncovered a near-record breaking supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in an unlikely place: in the center of a galaxy in a sparsely populated area of the universe. The observations, made by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Telescope in Hawaii, may indicate that these monster objects may be more common than once thought.  Until now, the biggest supermassive black holes – those roughly 10 billion times the mass of our sun – have been found at the cores of very large galaxies in regions of the universe packed with other large galaxies. In fact, the current record holder tips the scale at 21 billion suns and resides in the crowded Coma galaxy cluster that consists of over 1,000 galaxies.","keywords":["Hubble","HST","black hole","black","hole","Hubble Space Telescope"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"behemoth-black-hole-found-in-an-unlikely-place_26209716511_o","title":"Behemoth Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/behemoth-black-hole-found-in-an-unlikely-place_26209716511_o/behemoth-black-hole-found-in-an-unlikely-place_26209716511_o~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":598000,"height":1266},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/behemoth-black-hole-found-in-an-unlikely-place_26209716511_o/behemoth-black-hole-found-in-an-unlikely-place_26209716511_o~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":181000,"height":633},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/behemoth-black-hole-found-in-an-unlikely-place_26209716511_o/behemoth-black-hole-found-in-an-unlikely-place_26209716511_o~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":181000,"height":633},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/behemoth-black-hole-found-in-an-unlikely-place_26209716511_o/behemoth-black-hole-found-in-an-unlikely-place_26209716511_o~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":1150000,"height":1899},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/behemoth-black-hole-found-in-an-unlikely-place_26209716511_o/behemoth-black-hole-found-in-an-unlikely-place_26209716511_o~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":2219,"width":2243,"size":8000000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA18033/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2012-01-30T23:52:16Z","description":"Behold one of the more detailed images of the Earth yet created. This Blue Marble Earth montage shown above -- created from photographs taken by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on board the new Suomi NPP satellite -- shows many stunning details of our home planet. The Suomi NPP satellite was launched last October and renamed last week after Verner Suomi, commonly deemed the father of satellite meteorology. The composite was created from the data collected during four orbits of the robotic satellite taken earlier this month and digitally projected onto the globe. Many features of North America and the Western Hemisphere are particularly visible on a high resolution version of the image.  http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18033","description_508":"Behold one of the more stunningly detailed images of the Earth yet created. This Blue Marble Earth montage, created from photographs taken by the VIIRS instrument on board the Suomi NPP satellite, shows many stunning details of our home planet.","keywords":["Earth","Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership","blue marble"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA18033","secondary_creator":"NASA","title":"Earth"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA18033/PIA18033~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":245000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA18033/PIA18033~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":68000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA18033/PIA18033~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":68000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA18033/PIA18033~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":519000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA18033/PIA18033~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":8000,"width":8000,"size":6900000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_moonwalk_montage_720p/collection.json","data":[{"center":"HQ","date_created":"2017-08-03T00:00:00Z","description":"This two-minute video montage shows highlights of the Apollo 11 moonwalk.","description_508":"This two-minute video montage shows highlights of the Apollo 11 moonwalk.","keywords":["Apollo 11","Neil Armstrong","Buzz Aldrin","moonwalk","EVA","lunar landing"],"location":"Earth's Moon","media_type":"video","nasa_id":"Apollo_11_moonwalk_montage_720p","photographer":"NASA","title":"Apollo_11_moonwalk_montage_720p"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_moonwalk_montage_720p/Apollo_11_moonwalk_montage_720p~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":9800,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_moonwalk_montage_720p/Apollo_11_moonwalk_montage_720p~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":4500,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_moonwalk_montage_720p/Apollo_11_moonwalk_montage_720p~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":2000,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_moonwalk_montage_720p/Apollo_11_moonwalk_montage_720p~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":3200,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_moonwalk_montage_720p/Apollo_11_moonwalk_montage_720p.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/JPL-20231222-SOLSYSf-0001-NASA Telescopes Reveal Hidden Universe/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2023-12-22T00:00:00Z","description":"For 40 years, NASA has expanded our view of the universe with space telescopes that detect infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye. Observing the infrared realm helps us study the origins of planets, stars, galaxies, and even the universe itself.   NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the agency’s latest infrared space telescope, adding new insights to targets first discovered and studied by infrared missions that came before it.    Infrared space telescope missions have built upon one another to reveal stars, galaxies, and all manner of cosmic objects with ever-increasing clarity. Here you will see images from the pioneering Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), launched in 1983, the Spitzer Space Telescope, launched in 2003, and the James Webb Space Telescope, which launched in 2021 and is sending back extremely detailed images today.   For more information about Webb, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/webb  For more information about Spitzer, visit:  https://www.nasa.gov/spitzer  For more information about IRAS, visit: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/infrared-astronomical-satellite-iras   Credits: IRAS images: NASA/Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programmes/UK Science and Engineering Research Council/JPL-Caltech; Spitzer images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC; Webb images: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI ","description_508":"For 40 years, NASA has expanded our view of the universe with space telescopes that detect infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye. Observing the infrared realm helps us study the origins of planets, stars, galaxies, and even the universe itself.   NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the agency’s latest infrared space telescope, adding new insights to targets first discovered and studied by infrared missions that came before it.    Infrared space telescope missions have built upon one another to reveal stars, galaxies, and all manner of cosmic objects with ever-increasing clarity. Here you will see images from the pioneering Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), launched in 1983, the Spitzer Space Telescope, launched in 2003, and the James Webb Space Telescope, which launched in 2021 and is sending back extremely detailed images today.   For more information about Webb, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/webb  For more information about Spitzer, visit:  https://www.nasa.gov/spitzer  For more information about IRAS, visit: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/infrared-astronomical-satellite-iras   Credits: IRAS images: NASA/Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programmes/UK Science and Engineering Research Council/JPL-Caltech; Spitzer images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC; Webb images: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI","keywords":["NASA","JPL","Jet Propulsion Laboratory","Spitzer Space Telescope","IRAS","Infrared","Astronomical Satellite","James Webb","Caltech","Universe","Exoplanets","astrophysics","space science","news","science","astronomy","stars","galaxies","IR","invisible","Carina nebula","southern ring nebula","ring nebula","rho ophiuchi","eagle nebula","M81 galaxy","zeta ophiuchi","NGC 1097","pleiades","WR 124","innovation","pillars of creation"],"media_type":"video","nasa_id":"JPL-20231222-SOLSYSf-0001-NASA Telescopes Reveal Hidden Universe","title":"NASA Telescopes Reveal an Invisible Infrared Universe"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/JPL-20231222-SOLSYSf-0001-NASA Telescopes Reveal Hidden Universe/JPL-20231222-SOLSYSf-0001-NASA Telescopes Reveal Hidden Universe~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":43000,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/JPL-20231222-SOLSYSf-0001-NASA Telescopes Reveal Hidden Universe/JPL-20231222-SOLSYSf-0001-NASA Telescopes Reveal Hidden Universe~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":18000,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/JPL-20231222-SOLSYSf-0001-NASA Telescopes Reveal Hidden Universe/JPL-20231222-SOLSYSf-0001-NASA Telescopes Reveal Hidden Universe~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":6800,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/JPL-20231222-SOLSYSf-0001-NASA Telescopes Reveal Hidden Universe/JPL-20231222-SOLSYSf-0001-NASA Telescopes Reveal Hidden Universe~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":14000,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/JPL-20231222-SOLSYSf-0001-NASA Telescopes Reveal Hidden Universe/JPL-20231222-SOLSYSf-0001-NASA Telescopes Reveal Hidden Universe.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04921/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2003-12-10T22:41:32Z","description":"This image is from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer is an observation of the large galaxy in Andromeda, Messier 31. The Andromeda galaxy is the most massive in the local group of galaxies that includes our Milky Way.","description_508":"This image is from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer is an observation of the large galaxy in Andromeda, Messier 31. The Andromeda galaxy is the most massive in the local group of galaxies that includes our Milky Way.","keywords":["Galaxy Evolution Explorer GALEX"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA04921","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL/California Institute of Technology","title":"Andromeda Galaxy"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04921/PIA04921~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":193000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04921/PIA04921~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":50000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04921/PIA04921~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":50000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04921/PIA04921~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":415000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04921/PIA04921~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":6200,"width":6200,"size":4099999}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/jsc2025e034457/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2025-03-18T00:00:00Z","description":"jsc2025e034457 (March 18, 2025) -- The official Artemis II mission crew patch. The Artemis II test flight begins when a mighty team launches the first crew of the Artemis generation. This patch designates the mission as “AII,” signifying not only the second major flight of the Artemis campaign, but also an endeavor of discovery that seeks to explore for all and by all. Framed in Apollo 8’s famous Earthrise photo, the scene of the Earth and the Moon represents the dual nature of human spaceflight, both equally compelling: The Moon represents our exploration destination, focused on discovery of the unknown. The Earth represents home, focused on the perspective we gain when we look back at our shared planet and learn what it is to be uniquely human. The orbit around Earth highlights the ongoing exploration missions that have enabled Artemis to set sights on a long-term presence on the Moon and soon, Mars. Credit: NASA ","description_508":"The official Artemis II mission crew patch. The Artemis II test flight begins when a mighty team launches the first crew of the Artemis generation. This patch designates the mission as “AII,” signifying not only the second major flight of the Artemis campaign, but also an endeavor of discovery that seeks to explore for all and by all. Framed in Apollo 8’s famous Earthrise photo, the scene of the Earth and the Moon represents the dual nature of human spaceflight, both equally compelling: The Moon represents our exploration destination, focused on discovery of the unknown. The Earth represents home, focused on the perspective we gain when we look back at our shared planet and learn what it is to be uniquely human. The orbit around Earth highlights the ongoing exploration missions that have enabled Artemis to set sights on a long-term presence on the Moon and soon, Mars. Credit: NASA ","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"jsc2025e034457","title":"The official Artemis II mission crew patch","album":["Artemis_II"]}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/jsc2025e034457/jsc2025e034457~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":89088,"height":1024},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/jsc2025e034457/jsc2025e034457~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":30720,"height":512},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/jsc2025e034457/jsc2025e034457~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":30720,"height":512},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/jsc2025e034457/jsc2025e034457~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":160768,"height":1536},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/jsc2025e034457/jsc2025e034457~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":6140,"width":7675,"size":2022400}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002076/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Test"],"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2017-12-08T00:00:00Z","description":"NASA image release April 22, 2010  NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this billowing cloud of cold interstellar gas and dust rising from a tempestuous stellar nursery located in the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. This pillar of dust and gas serves as an incubator for new stars and is teeming with new star-forming activity. Hot, young stars erode and sculpt the clouds into this fantasy landscape by sending out thick stellar winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation. The low-density regions of the nebula are shredded while the denser parts resist erosion and remain as thick pillars. In the dark, cold interiors of these columns new stars continue to form. In the process of star formation, a disk around the proto-star slowly accretes onto the star's surface. Part of the material is ejected along jets perpendicular to the accretion disk. The jets have speeds of several hundreds of miles per second. As these jets plow into the surround nebula, they create small, glowing patches of nebulosity, called Herbig-Haro (HH) objects.  Long streamers of gas can be seen shooting in opposite directions off the pedestal on the upper right-hand side of the image. Another pair of jets is visible in a peak near the top-center of the image. These jets (known as HH 901 and HH 902, respectively) are common signatures of the births of new stars. This image celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into an orbit around Earth. Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 observed the pillar on Feb. 1-2, 2010. The colors in this composite image correspond to the glow of oxygen (blue), hydrogen and nitrogen (green), and sulfur (red). Object Names: HH 901, HH 902 Image Type: Astronomical  Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)  To read learn more about this image go to:  <a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/hubble20th-img.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/hubble20th-img....</a>  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b>  is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.","keywords":["Hubble Captures Spectacular \"Landscape\" in the Carina Nebula","space","nasa","hubble","hubblespacetelescope","goddardspaceflightcenter","hubble20thanniversary","hubble20years"],"location":"Greenbelt, MD","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002076","title":"Hubble Captures Spectacular \"Landscape\" in the Carina Nebula"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002076/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002076~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":130000,"height":869},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002076/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002076~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":41000,"height":434},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002076/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002076~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":41000,"height":434},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002076/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002076~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":271000,"height":1304},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002076/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002076~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e008487/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2026-04-02T00:00:00Z","description":"art002e008487 (April 4, 2026) - NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon.","description_508":"IMG_0173.DNG","keywords":["NASA","Artemis II","Orion","Christina Koch"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"art002e008487","photographer":"NASA","title":"Spaceship Earth","album":["Artemis_II"]}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e008487/art002e008487~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":168960,"height":1440},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e008487/art002e008487~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":82944,"height":959},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e008487/art002e008487~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":25600,"height":479},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e008487/art002e008487~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":25600,"height":479},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e008487/art002e008487~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":2316,"width":3088,"size":482304}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009301/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Artemis_II"],"center":"JSC","date_created":"2026-04-06T00:00:00Z","description":"art002e009301 (April 6, 2026) – Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth.   We see a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk. The science community is investigating whether this effect is due to the corona, zodiacal light, or a combination of the two. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document their observations during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth. ","description_508":"019A0860.NEF","keywords":["Artemis II","Artemis II mission","Artemis 2 mission","Lunar Flyby","Solar Eclipse"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"art002e009301","photographer":"NASA","title":"Artemis II in Eclipse"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009301/art002e009301~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":75776,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009301/art002e009301~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":33792,"height":853},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009301/art002e009301~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":10035,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009301/art002e009301~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":10035,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009301/art002e009301~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":5504,"width":8256,"size":3460300}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00342/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"1998-06-04T18:10:28Z","description":"During its flight, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft returned images of the Earth and Moon. Separate images of the Earth and Moon were combined to generate this view.  http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00342","description_508":"During its flight, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft returned images of the Earth and Moon. Separate images of the Earth and Moon were combined to generate this view. ","keywords":["Earth","Galileo"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA00342","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL/USGS","title":"The Earth & Moon"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00342/PIA00342~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1005,"size":123000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00342/PIA00342~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":502,"size":42000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00342/PIA00342~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":502,"size":42000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00342/PIA00342~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":2164,"width":1700,"size":261000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA08653/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2006-08-15T15:54:30Z","description":"This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Orion nebula, our closest massive star-making factory, 1,450 light-years from Earth. The nebula is close enough to appear to the naked eye as a fuzzy star in the sword of the constellation.","description_508":"This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Orion nebula, our closest massive star-making factory, 1,450 light-years from Earth. The nebula is close enough to appear to the naked eye as a fuzzy star in the sword of the constellation.","keywords":["Orion","Spitzer Space Telescope"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA08653","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Toledo","title":"The Sword of Orion"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA08653/PIA08653~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":686,"size":69000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA08653/PIA08653~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":343,"size":22000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA08653/PIA08653~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":343,"size":22000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA08653/PIA08653~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1030,"size":133000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA08653/PIA08653~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":6000,"width":3220,"size":726000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/ArtemisIICrewPoster/collection.json","data":[{"center":"HQ","date_created":"2024-07-25T00:00:00Z","description":"Artemis II Crew Poster","description_508":"A poster showing the four Artemis II crew members in their spacesuits and helmets, with the visors up against a black backdrop with the Moon above them. ","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"ArtemisIICrewPoster","secondary_creator":"NASA/Daniel O'Neal","title":"Artemis II Crew Poster"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/ArtemisIICrewPoster/ArtemisIICrewPoster~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":828,"size":111000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/ArtemisIICrewPoster/ArtemisIICrewPoster~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":414,"size":35000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/ArtemisIICrewPoster/ArtemisIICrewPoster~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":414,"size":35000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/ArtemisIICrewPoster/ArtemisIICrewPoster~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1242,"size":222000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/ArtemisIICrewPoster/ArtemisIICrewPoster~orig.png","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":10200,"width":6600,"size":12582912}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5903/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"1969-07-20T00:00:00Z","description":"AS11-40-5903 (20 July 1969) --- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the moon near the leg of the Lunar Module (LM) \"Eagle\" during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module (LM) \"Eagle\" to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) \"Columbia\" in lunar orbit.","keywords":["ACTIVITY","APOLLO 11","APOLLO PROJECT","ASTRONAUTS","EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY","EXTRAVEHICULAR MOBILITY UNITS","LUNAR MODULE","LUNAR PHOTOGRAPHY","LUNAR SOIL LUNAR SURFACE","MOON","PHOTOGRAPHY"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"as11-40-5903","title":"Astronaut Edwin Aldrin walks on lunar surface near leg of Lunar Module"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5903/as11-40-5903~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":262000,"height":1249},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5903/as11-40-5903~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":83000,"height":624},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5903/as11-40-5903~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":83000,"height":624},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5903/as11-40-5903~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":496000,"height":1874},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5903/as11-40-5903~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000282/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Test"],"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2017-12-08T00:00:00Z","description":"Hubble rocks out with heavy metal stars!  This 10.5-billion-year-old globular cluster, NGC 6496, is home to heavy-metal stars of a celestial kind! The stars comprising this spectacular spherical cluster are enriched with much higher proportions of metals — elements heavier than hydrogen and helium are curiously known as metals in astronomy — than stars found in similar clusters.  A handful of these high-metallicity stars are also variable stars, meaning that their brightness fluctuates over time. NGC 6496 hosts a selection of long-period variables — giant pulsating stars whose brightness can take up to, and even over, a thousand days to change — and short-period eclipsing binaries, which dim when eclipsed by a stellar companion.  The nature of the variability of these stars can reveal important information about their mass, radius, luminosity, temperature, composition, and evolution, providing astronomers with measurements that would be difficult or even impossible to obtain through other methods.  NGC 6496 was discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. The cluster resides at about 35,000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion).  Image credit: ESA/Hubble &amp; NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt Text credit: European Space Agency  Read more: <a href=\"http://go.nasa.gov/1U2wqGW\" rel=\"nofollow\">go.nasa.gov/1U2wqGW</a>","keywords":["Hubble Friday - Heavy Metal Stars","metal","star","cluster","hubble","ngc6496"],"location":"Greenbelt, MD","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000282","title":"Hubble Friday - Heavy Metal Stars"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000282/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000282~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":141000,"height":606},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000282/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000282~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":141000,"height":606},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000282/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000282~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Earth Views from the International Space Station/collection.json","data":[{"center":"HQ","date_created":"2019-04-30T00:00:00Z","description":"The International Space Station’s High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment is an external camera platform located on the Columbus module of the space station. In addition to providing beautiful views of Earth, one of the goals of HDEV is to monitor the longevity and quality of its image sensors in the space environment. HDEV operations began April 30, 2014 and only a single bad pixel has been identified.","keywords":["Earth Views","International Space Station","HDEV"],"media_type":"video","nasa_id":"Earth Views from the International Space Station","title":"Earth Views from the International Space Station"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Earth Views from the International Space Station/Earth Views from the International Space Station~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":23000,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Earth Views from the International Space Station/Earth Views from the International Space Station~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":8600,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Earth Views from the International Space Station/Earth Views from the International Space Station~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":3300,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Earth Views from the International Space Station/Earth Views from the International Space Station~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":6400,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Earth Views from the International Space Station/Earth Views from the International Space Station.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA26077/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2023-11-09T00:00:00Z","description":"NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter during the mission's 54th close flyby of the giant planet on Sept. 7, 2023. The colorful zones and belts in Jupiter's atmosphere run from the cloud tops down to approximately 1,860 miles (3,000 kilometers).  Citizen scientist Tanya Oleksuik made this image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument, processing the data to enhance details in cloud features and colors. At the time the raw image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was about 52,400 miles (about 84,400 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops.  https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA26077","description_508":"NASA's Juno captured this view of Jupiter during the mission's 54th close flyby of the giant planet on Sept. 7, 2023. The image was made with raw data from the JunoCam instrument that was processed to enhance details in cloud features and colors.","keywords":["Juno","Jupiter"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA26077","secondary_creator":"Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing by Tanya Oleksuik CC BY NC SA 3.0","title":"NASA's Juno Mission Images Jupiter's Belts and Zones"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA26077/PIA26077~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":72000,"height":720},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA26077/PIA26077~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":25000,"height":360},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA26077/PIA26077~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":25000,"height":360},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA26077/PIA26077~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":132000,"height":1080},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA26077/PIA26077~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":1421,"width":2525,"size":195584}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2026-04-03T00:00:00Z","description":"art002e000192 (April 3, 2026) - This nighttime picture of Earth was taken on April 2, 2026, by an Artemis II crew member aiming a camera through a window of the Orion spacecraft. The image was captured after Orion completed its translunar injection burn, the critical maneuver that sent the spacecraft on its path toward the Moon and back. The visible hemisphere appears awash in sunlight, but it is actually lit by moonlight — sunlight reflected from the lunar surface. Along the upper left (south) and lower right (north) edges of Earth’s disk, green auroras glow against the dark sky, showing charged particles from the Sun interacting with gases in Earth’s atmosphere.  Africa is visible on the left, while a translucent cone of light capped by a bright Venus extends into space from Earth’s lower right edge. This zodiacal light is caused by sunlight reflecting off interplanetary dust.  A thin white crescent along the lower right edge of Earth marks the planet’s daytime atmosphere illuminated by the Sun, which lies on the opposite side of Earth from Orion’s perspective. City lights are also visible, especially along coastlines. Credits: NASA","description_508":"017A5565.NEF","keywords":["NASA","Artemis II","Orion","Reid Wiseman","Translunar Injection"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"art002e000192","photographer":"NASA","title":"Earth From the Perspective of Artemis II"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e000192~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":392192,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e000192~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":149504,"height":853},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e000192~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":33792,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e000192~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":33792,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e000192~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3712,"width":5568,"size":6186598}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001738/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Test"],"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2017-12-08T00:00:00Z","description":"NASA image release Thursday, May 31, 2012  <b>To view a video from this Hubble release go to: <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/7309212940\">www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/7309212940</a> </b>  Caption: This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. In this image, representing Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years, Andromeda (left) fills the field of view and begins to distort the Milky Way with tidal pull.   Credit: NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger  To read more go to: <a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/milky-way-collide.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/milky-way-colli...</a>  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA image use policy.</a></b>  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b> enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.  <b>Follow us on <a href=\"http://twitter.com/NASA_GoddardPix\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter</a></b>  <b>Like us on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897?ref=tsd\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook</a></b>  <b>Find us on <a href=\"http://instagrid.me/nasagoddard/?vm=grid\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instagram</a></b>","keywords":["NASA's Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-On Collision","sky","earth","nasa","galaxy","hubble","milkyway","hst","andromedagalaxy"],"location":"Greenbelt, MD","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001738","title":"NASA's Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-On Collision"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001738/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001738~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":47000,"height":360},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001738/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001738~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":47000,"height":360},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001738/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001738~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/ArtemisII_Poster_11x17_300ppi_CMYK/collection.json","data":[{"center":"HQ","date_created":"2023-04-06T00:00:00Z","description":"Stylized poster for NASA's Artemis II mission","description_508":"Stylized poster for NASA's Artemis II mission","keywords":["Artemis II","Artemis"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"ArtemisII_Poster_11x17_300ppi_CMYK","title":"Artemis II Poster - 11 x 17"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/ArtemisII_Poster_11x17_300ppi_CMYK/ArtemisII_Poster_11x17_300ppi_CMYK~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":828,"size":85000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/ArtemisII_Poster_11x17_300ppi_CMYK/ArtemisII_Poster_11x17_300ppi_CMYK~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":414,"size":23000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/ArtemisII_Poster_11x17_300ppi_CMYK/ArtemisII_Poster_11x17_300ppi_CMYK~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":414,"size":23000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/ArtemisII_Poster_11x17_300ppi_CMYK/ArtemisII_Poster_11x17_300ppi_CMYK~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1242,"size":228000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/ArtemisII_Poster_11x17_300ppi_CMYK/ArtemisII_Poster_11x17_300ppi_CMYK~orig.png","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":5100,"width":3300,"size":27262976}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009288/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2026-04-06T00:00:00Z","description":"art002e009288 (April 6, 2026) – Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks—formed when the surface rebounded upward during the impact that created the crater.","description_508":"015B0546.NEF","keywords":["Artemis","Artemis II","Moon","Earth","Orion","Orion Spacecraft"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"art002e009288","photographer":"NASA","title":"Earthset"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009288/art002e009288~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":126976,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009288/art002e009288~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":63488,"height":853},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009288/art002e009288~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":19456,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009288/art002e009288~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":19456,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009288/art002e009288~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3712,"width":5568,"size":883712}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/JPL-20231227-M2020f-0001-Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2023-12-27T00:00:00Z","description":"After 1,000 Martian days of exploration, NASA’s Perseverance rover is studying rocks that show several eras in the history of a river delta billions of years old. Scientists are investigating this region of Mars, known as Jezero Crater, to see if they can find evidence of ancient life recorded in the rocks. Perseverance project scientist Ken Farley provides a guided tour of a richly detailed panorama of the rover’s location in November 2023, taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument.  Composed of 993 individual images and 2.38 billion pixels, this 360-degree mosaic looks in all directions from a location the rover science team calls “Airey Hill.” Portions of the rover itself are visible in the scene, appearing more distorted toward the edges as a result of the image processing.   A color enhancement applied to the image increases contrast and accentuates color differences. By approximating what the scene would look like under Earth-like lighting conditions, the adjustment allows mission scientists to use their everyday experience to interpret the landscape. The view on Mars would be darker and more reddish. The panorama can be explored and downloaded at: https://go.nasa.gov/3tmJnGB.  Learn more about Perseverance: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020.  Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS; ESA/DLR/FU-Berlin ","description_508":"After 1,000 Martian days of exploration, NASA’s Perseverance rover is studying rocks that show several eras in the history of a river delta billions of years old. Scientists are investigating this region of Mars, known as Jezero Crater, to see if they can find evidence of ancient life recorded in the rocks. Perseverance project scientist Ken Farley provides a guided tour of a richly detailed panorama of the rover’s location in November 2023, taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument.  Composed of 993 individual images and 2.38 billion pixels, this 360-degree mosaic looks in all directions from a location the rover science team calls “Airey Hill.” Portions of the rover itself are visible in the scene, appearing more distorted toward the edges as a result of the image processing.   A color enhancement applied to the image increases contrast and accentuates color differences. By approximating what the scene would look like under Earth-like lighting conditions, the adjustment allows mission scientists to use their everyday experience to interpret the landscape. The view on Mars would be darker and more reddish. The panorama can be explored and downloaded at: https://go.nasa.gov/3tmJnGB.  Learn more about Perseverance: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020.  Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS; ESA/DLR/FU-Berlin","keywords":["NASA","Jet Propulsion Laboratory","JPL","Mars 2020","Mars","Rover","Perseverance","River","Lake","Delta","Jezero Crater","Samples","Rock Samples","Mars Sample Return","Red Planet","Robot","Robotic Exploration","Ken Farley","Airey Hill","panorama","Martian landscape","Mars guided tour"],"media_type":"video","nasa_id":"JPL-20231227-M2020f-0001-Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River","title":"Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/JPL-20231227-M2020f-0001-Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River/JPL-20231227-M2020f-0001-Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":43000,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/JPL-20231227-M2020f-0001-Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River/JPL-20231227-M2020f-0001-Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":13000,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/JPL-20231227-M2020f-0001-Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River/JPL-20231227-M2020f-0001-Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":4900,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/JPL-20231227-M2020f-0001-Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River/JPL-20231227-M2020f-0001-Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":10000,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/JPL-20231227-M2020f-0001-Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River/JPL-20231227-M2020f-0001-Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_Intro_720p/collection.json","data":[{"center":"HQ","date_created":"2017-08-03T00:00:00Z","description":"This montage video shows highlights from the Apollo 11 mission, from liftoff in Florida to departure from the moon.","description_508":"This montage video shows highlights from the Apollo 11 mission, from liftoff in Florida to departure from the moon.","keywords":["Apollo 11","Neil Armstron","Buzz Aldrin","Moon","Earth's Moon","lunar landing"],"media_type":"video","nasa_id":"Apollo_11_Intro_720p","photographer":"NASA","title":"Apollo_11_Intro_720p"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_Intro_720p/Apollo_11_Intro_720p~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":14000,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_Intro_720p/Apollo_11_Intro_720p~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":5600,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_Intro_720p/Apollo_11_Intro_720p~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":3000,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_Intro_720p/Apollo_11_Intro_720p~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":3900,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_Intro_720p/Apollo_11_Intro_720p.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Mars Sample Return Media Reel/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Mars_2020_Perseverance"],"center":"JPL","date_created":"2020-04-21T00:00:00Z","description":"Compilation of b-roll for media. Collecting samples from Mars and bringing them back to Earth will be a historic undertaking that starts with the launch of NASA's Perseverance rover, part of the Mars 2020 mission. Perseverance will collect samples and leave them on Mars for a future mission to retrieve and return to Earth. NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are solidifying concepts for this Mars sample return campaign. The current concept includes a lander, a fetch rover, an ascent vehicle to launch the sample container to Martian orbit, and a retrieval spacecraft with a payload for capturing and containing the samples and then sending them back to Earth.    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech, ESA, NASA/GSFC and NASA/GRC  For more information,  visit https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-sample-return-msr/","description_508":"Mars Sample Return Media Reel","keywords":["NASA","JPL","Jet Propulsion Laboratory","Mars Sample Return","ESA","space science","news","science","astronomy","rocket launch","red planet","mars","mars 2020","mars lander","fetch rover","mars orbiter","NASA Langley Research Center","mars samples","Goddard Space Flight Center","Ames Research Center","Glenn Research Center","MAV","Mars Ascent Vehicle","Mars exporation","space exploration"],"media_type":"video","nasa_id":"Mars Sample Return Media Reel","title":"Mars Sample Return Media Reel"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Mars Sample Return Media Reel/Mars Sample Return Media Reel~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":45000,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Mars Sample Return Media Reel/Mars Sample Return Media Reel~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":15000,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Mars Sample Return Media Reel/Mars Sample Return Media Reel~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":5200,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Mars Sample Return Media Reel/Mars Sample Return Media Reel~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":11000,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Mars Sample Return Media Reel/Mars Sample Return Media Reel.vtt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000383/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Test","AVAIL2-127"],"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2017-12-08T00:00:00Z","description":"For the 26th birthday of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers are highlighting a Hubble image of an enormous bubble being blown into space by a super-hot, massive star. The Hubble image of the Bubble Nebula, or NGC 7635, was chosen to mark the 26th anniversary of the launch of Hubble into Earth orbit by the STS-31 space shuttle crew on April 24, 1990  “As Hubble makes its 26th revolution around our home star, the sun, we celebrate the event with a spectacular image of a dynamic and exciting interaction of a young star with its environment. The view of the Bubble Nebula, crafted from WFC-3 images, reminds us that Hubble gives us a front row seat to the awe inspiring universe we live in,” said John Grunsfeld, Hubble astronaut and associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, in Washington, D.C.    The Bubble Nebula is seven light-years across—about one-and-a-half times the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, and resides 7,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia.  The seething star forming this nebula is 45 times more massive than our sun. Gas on the star gets so hot that it escapes away into space as a “stellar wind” moving at over four million miles per hour. This outflow sweeps up the cold, interstellar gas in front of it, forming the outer edge of the bubble much like a snowplow piles up snow in front of it as it moves forward.  As the surface of the bubble's shell expands outward, it slams into dense regions of cold gas on one side of the bubble. This asymmetry makes the star appear dramatically off-center from the bubble, with its location in the 10 o’clock position in the Hubble view.  Dense pillars of cool hydrogen gas laced with dust appear at the upper left of the picture, and more “fingers” can be seen nearly face-on, behind the translucent bubble.  The gases heated to varying temperatures emit different colors: oxygen is hot enough to emit blue light in the bubble near the star, while the cooler pillars are yellow from the combined light of hydrogen and nitrogen. The pillars are similar to the iconic columns in the “Pillars of Creation” Eagle Nebula. As seen with the structures in the Eagle Nebula, the Bubble Nebula pillars are being illuminated by the strong ultraviolet radiation from the brilliant star inside the bubble.  The Bubble Nebula was discovered in 1787 by William Herschel, a prominent British astronomer. It is being formed by a proto-typical Wolf-Rayet star, BD +60º2522, an extremely bright, massive, and short-lived star that has lost most of its outer hydrogen and is now fusing helium into heavier elements. The star is about four million years old, and in 10 million to 20 million years, it will likely detonate as a supernova.  Hubble’s Wide Field Camera-3 imaged the nebula in visible light with unprecedented clarity in February 2016. The colors correspond to blue for oxygen, green for hydrogen, and red for nitrogen. This information will help astronomers understand the geometry and dynamics of this complex system.  The Bubble Nebula is one of only a handful of astronomical objects that have been observed with several different instruments onboard Hubble. Hubble also imaged it with the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC) in September 1992, and with Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC2) in April 1999.  The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C.  Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)","keywords":["Hubble Sees a Star ‘Inflating’ a Giant Bubble","star","space","nasa","hubble","nasagoddard"],"location":"Greenbelt, MD","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000383","title":"Hubble Sees a Star ‘Inflating’ a Giant Bubble"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000383/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000383~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":125000,"height":1215},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000383/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000383~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":33000,"height":607},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000383/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000383~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":33000,"height":607},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000383/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000383~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":309000,"height":1823},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000383/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000383~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001925/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Test"],"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2017-12-08T00:00:00Z","description":"NASA image release January 13, 2011  <b><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5352962836\">These images</a></b> by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show off two dramatically different face-on views of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy.  <b>The image above,</b> taken in visible light, highlights the attributes of a typical spiral galaxy, including graceful, curving arms, pink star-forming regions, and brilliant blue strands of star clusters.  <b><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5352344517\">In the image here,</a></b> most of the starlight has been removed, revealing the Whirlpool's skeletal dust structure, as seen in near-infrared light. This new image is the sharpest view of the dense dust in M51. The narrow lanes of dust revealed by Hubble reflect the galaxy's moniker, the Whirlpool Galaxy, as if they were swirling toward the galaxy's core.  To map the galaxy's dust structure, researchers collected the galaxy's starlight by combining images taken in visible and near-infrared light. The visible-light image captured only some of the light; the rest was obscured by dust. The near-infrared view, however, revealed more starlight because near-infrared light penetrates dust. The researchers then subtracted the total amount of starlight from both images to see the galaxy's dust structure.  The red color in the near-infrared image traces the dust, which is punctuated by hundreds of tiny clumps of stars, each about 65 light-years wide. These stars have never been seen before. The star clusters cannot be seen in visible light because dense dust enshrouds them. The image reveals details as small as 35 light-years across.  Astronomers expected to see large dust clouds, ranging from about 100 light-years to more than 300 light-years wide. Instead, most of the dust is tied up in smooth and diffuse dust lanes. An encounter with another galaxy may have prevented giant clouds from forming.  Probing a galaxy's dust structure serves as an important diagnostic tool for astronomers, providing invaluable information on how the gas and dust collapse to form stars. Although Hubble is providing incisive views of the internal structure of galaxies such as M51, the planned James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is expected to produce even crisper images.  Researchers constructed the image by combining visible-light exposures from Jan. 18 to 22, 2005, with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), and near-infrared light pictures taken in December 2005 with the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS).   Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)  The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., in Washington, D.C.  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b> enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.  <b>Follow us on <a href=\"http://twitter.com/NASA_GoddardPix\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter</a></b>  <b>Join us on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897?ref=tsd\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook</a></b>","keywords":["The Two-faced Whirlpool Galaxy","heritage","nasa","hubble","twofacedwhirlpoolgalaxy"],"location":"Greenbelt, MD","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001925","title":"The Two-faced Whirlpool Galaxy"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001925/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001925~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":950,"size":255000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001925/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001925~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":475,"size":66000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001925/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001925~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":475,"size":66000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001925/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001925~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1425,"size":549000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001925/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001925~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000191/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2026-04-02T00:00:00Z","description":"art002e000191 (April 3, 2026) - A view of Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman from one of the Orion spacecraft's four main windows after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2, 2026.","description_508":"017A5427.NEF","keywords":["Artemis II","NASA","Orion","Reid Wiseman","Translunar Injection Burn"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"art002e000191","photographer":"NASA","title":"Artemis II Looking Back at Earth"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000191/art002e000191~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":130048,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000191/art002e000191~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":70656,"height":853},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000191/art002e000191~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":24576,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000191/art002e000191~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":24576,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000191/art002e000191~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3712,"width":5568,"size":974848}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA01120/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"1997-12-12T11:34:30Z","description":"Pathfinder on Mars","description_508":"Pathfinder on Mars","keywords":["Mars","Mars Pathfinder MPF"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA01120","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL","title":"Pathfinder on Mars"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA01120/PIA01120~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":994,"size":195000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA01120/PIA01120~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":497,"size":65000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA01120/PIA01120~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":497,"size":65000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA01120/PIA01120~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1491,"size":355000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA01120/PIA01120~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3282,"width":2550,"size":852000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-44-6551/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"1969-07-20T00:00:00Z","description":"AS11-44-6551 (July 1969) --- This view from the Apollo 11 spacecraft shows the Earth rising above the moon's horizon. The lunar terrain pictured is in the area of Smyth's Sea on the nearside. Coordinates of the center of the terrain are 85 degrees east longitude and 3 degrees north latitude. While astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, descended in the Lunar Module (LM) \"Eagle\" to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) \"Columbia\" in lunar orbit.","keywords":["APOLLO 11 FLIGHT","MOON","CRATERS","EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE)"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"as11-44-6551","title":"Apollo 11 Mission image - View of moon limb, with Earth on the horizon"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-44-6551/as11-44-6551~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":93000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-44-6551/as11-44-6551~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":27000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-44-6551/as11-44-6551~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":27000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-44-6551/as11-44-6551~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":194000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-44-6551/as11-44-6551~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":4152,"width":4152,"size":4000000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere_28000029525_o/collection.json","data":[{"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2016-06-30T00:00:00Z","description":"Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet’s atmosphere — on the poles of the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter. This observation program is supported by measurements made by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, currently on its way to Jupiter.  Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is best known for its colorful storms, the most famous being the Great Red Spot. Now astronomers have focused on another beautiful feature of the planet, using Hubble's ultraviolet capabilities.  The extraordinary vivid glows shown in the new observations are known as auroras. They are created when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms of gas. As well as producing beautiful images, this program aims to determine how various components of Jupiter’s auroras respond to different conditions in the solar wind, a stream of charged particles ejected from the sun.  This observation program is perfectly timed as NASA’s Juno spacecraft is currently in the solar wind near Jupiter and will enter the orbit of the planet in early July 2016. While Hubble is observing and measuring the auroras on Jupiter, Juno is measuring the properties of the solar wind itself; a perfect collaboration between a telescope and a space probe.  “These auroras are very dramatic and among the most active I have ever seen”, said Jonathan Nichols from the University of Leicester, U.K., and principal investigator of the study. “It almost seems as if Jupiter is throwing a firework party for the imminent arrival of Juno.”   Credits: NASA, ESA, and J. Nichols (University of Leicester)","keywords":["Hubble","Jupiter","Aurora","Auroras"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere_28000029525_o","title":"Hubble Captures Vivid Auroras in Jupiter’s Atmosphere"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere_28000029525_o/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere_28000029525_o~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":103000,"height":1275},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere_28000029525_o/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere_28000029525_o~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":37000,"height":637},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere_28000029525_o/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere_28000029525_o~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":37000,"height":637},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere_28000029525_o/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere_28000029525_o~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":187000,"height":1913},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere_28000029525_o/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere_28000029525_o~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":2216,"width":2224,"size":1174000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA09579/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2007-06-01T22:03:44Z","description":"The perfectly picturesque spiral galaxy known as Messier 81, or M81, looks sharp in this new composite from NASA Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes and NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer. ","description_508":"The perfectly picturesque spiral galaxy known as Messier 81, or M81, looks sharp in this new composite from NASA Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes and NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer. ","keywords":["Messier 81","Galaxy Evolution Explorer GALEX,Hubble Space Telescope,Spitzer"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA09579","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA","title":"M81 Galaxy is Pretty in Pink"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA09579/PIA09579~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":142000,"height":988},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA09579/PIA09579~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":36000,"height":494},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA09579/PIA09579~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":36000,"height":494},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA09579/PIA09579~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":348000,"height":1482},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA09579/PIA09579~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":2456,"width":3180,"size":1041000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000842/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Test"],"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2017-12-08T00:00:00Z","description":"This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, taken in near-infrared light, transforms the pillars into eerie, wispy silhouettes, which are seen against a background of myriad stars.  The near-infrared light can penetrate much of the gas and dust, revealing stars behind the nebula as well as hidden away inside the pillars. Some of the gas and dust clouds are so dense that even the near-infrared light cannot penetrate them. New stars embedded in the tops of the pillars, however, are apparent as bright sources that are unseen in the visible image.  The ghostly bluish haze around the dense edges of the pillars is material getting heated up by the intense ultraviolet radiation from a cluster of young, massive stars and evaporating away into space. The stellar grouping is above the pillars and cannot be seen in the image. At the top edge of the left-hand pillar, a gaseous fragment has been heated up and is flying away from the structure, underscoring the violent nature of star-forming regions.  Astronomers used filters that isolate the light from newly formed stars, which are invisible in the visible-light image. At these wavelengths, astronomers are seeing through the pillars and even through the back wall of the nebula cavity and can see the next generations of stars just as they're starting to emerge from their formative nursery.  Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)  Read more: <a href=\"http://1.usa.gov/1HGfkqr\" rel=\"nofollow\">1.usa.gov/1HGfkqr</a>  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA image use policy.</a></b>  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b> enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.  <b>Follow us on <a href=\"http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter</a></b>  <b>Like us on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897?ref=tsd\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook</a></b>  <b>Find us on <a href=\"http://instagrid.me/nasagoddard/?vm=grid\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instagram</a></b>","keywords":["Hubble Goes High Def to Revisit the Iconic 'Pillars of Creation'","nasa","creation","pillars","hubble","nasagoddard"],"location":"Greenbelt, MD","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000842","title":"Hubble Goes High Def to Revisit the Iconic 'Pillars of Creation'"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000842/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000842~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":509000,"height":1199},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000842/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000842~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":150000,"height":599},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000842/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000842~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":150000,"height":599},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000842/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000842~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":963000,"height":1799},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000842/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000842~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA12110/collection.json","data":[{"center":"STScI (Hubble)","date_created":"1996-01-15T18:46:16Z","description":"Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this deepest-ever view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field, made with NASA Hubble Space Telescope. ","keywords":["Hubble Space Telescope"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA12110","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL/STScI Hubble Deep Field Team","title":"Hubble Deep Field Image Unveils Myriad Galaxies Back to the Beginning of Time"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA12110/PIA12110~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1246,"size":460000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA12110/PIA12110~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":623,"size":90000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA12110/PIA12110~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":623,"size":90000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA12110/PIA12110~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":1819,"width":1771,"size":1203000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009287/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2026-04-06T00:00:00Z","description":"art002e009287 (April 6, 2026) – Earth sets at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, over the Moon’s curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the far side of the Moon. Orientale basin is perched on the edge of the visible lunar surface. Hertzsprung Basin appears as two subtle concentric rings, which are interrupted by Vavilov, a younger crater superimposed over the older structure. The lines of indentations are secondary crater chains formed by ejecta from the massive impact that created Orientale.  The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region.","description_508":"015B0524.NEF","keywords":["Artemis","Artemis II","Moon","Earth","Lunar Flyby","Earthset"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"art002e009287","photographer":"NASA","title":"A New View of the Moon"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009287/art002e009287~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":163840,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009287/art002e009287~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":76800,"height":853},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009287/art002e009287~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":20480,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009287/art002e009287~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":20480,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009287/art002e009287~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3712,"width":5568,"size":1180672}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Raising_The_American_Flag_Comparison_720p/collection.json","data":[{"center":"HQ","date_created":"2017-08-03T00:00:00Z","description":"Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin raise the American flag on the moon. The video compares existing footage with the partially restored video. The thumbnail image shows the new footage on the left and the old on the right.","description_508":"Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin raise the American flag on the moon. The video compares existing footage with the partially restored video. The thumbnail image shows the new footage on the left and the old on the right.","keywords":["Neil Armstrong","Buzz Aldrin","Moon","Apollo 11","lunar landing","Earth's Moon","Apollo","Apollo Program"],"location":"Earth's Moon","media_type":"video","nasa_id":"Raising_The_American_Flag_Comparison_720p","photographer":"NASA","title":"Raising_The_American_Flag_Comparison_720p"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Raising_The_American_Flag_Comparison_720p/Raising_The_American_Flag_Comparison_720p~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":30000,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Raising_The_American_Flag_Comparison_720p/Raising_The_American_Flag_Comparison_720p~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":13000,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Raising_The_American_Flag_Comparison_720p/Raising_The_American_Flag_Comparison_720p~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":4400,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Raising_The_American_Flag_Comparison_720p/Raising_The_American_Flag_Comparison_720p~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":7500,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Raising_The_American_Flag_Comparison_720p/Raising_The_American_Flag_Comparison_720p.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA13005/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2010-04-01T21:00:00Z","description":"A colony of hot, young stars is stirring up the cosmic scene in this new picture from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. The image shows the Orion nebula, a happening place where stars are born.","description_508":"A colony of hot, young stars is stirring up the cosmic scene in this new picture from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. The image shows the Orion nebula, a happening place where stars are born.","keywords":["Spitzer Space Telescope"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA13005","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL-Caltech","title":"Orion Dreamy Stars"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA13005/PIA13005~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":546,"size":82000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA13005/PIA13005~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":273,"size":26000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA13005/PIA13005~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":273,"size":26000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA13005/PIA13005~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":819,"size":152000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA13005/PIA13005~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":5085,"width":2171,"size":594000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/One_Small_Step_Comparison_720p/collection.json","data":[{"center":"HQ","date_created":"2017-08-03T00:00:00Z","description":"This video shows Neil Armstrong climbing down the lunar module ladder to the lunar surface. The video compares existing footage with the partially restored video. The thumbnail image shows the new footage on the left and the old on the right.","description_508":"This video shows Neil Armstrong climbing down the lunar module ladder to the lunar surface. The video compares existing footage with the partially restored video. The thumbnail image shows the new footage on the left and the old on the right.","location":"Earth's Moon","media_type":"video","nasa_id":"One_Small_Step_Comparison_720p","photographer":"NASA","title":"One_Small_Step_Comparison_720p"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/One_Small_Step_Comparison_720p/One_Small_Step_Comparison_720p~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":20000,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/One_Small_Step_Comparison_720p/One_Small_Step_Comparison_720p~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":8400,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/One_Small_Step_Comparison_720p/One_Small_Step_Comparison_720p~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":3800,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/One_Small_Step_Comparison_720p/One_Small_Step_Comparison_720p~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":6000,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/One_Small_Step_Comparison_720p/One_Small_Step_Comparison_720p.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/301_BlackHoles/collection.json","data":[{"center":"HQ","date_created":"2019-08-13T00:00:00Z","description":"\"Black Holes\" is one of the most highly searched terms about our universe. How much of what we think we know about black holes is actually true?","keywords":["astrophysics","universe","ScienceCasts","SMD","black holes","event horizon","Stephen Hawking"],"location":"NASA ScienceCasts","media_type":"video","nasa_id":"301_BlackHoles","title":"NASA ScienceCasts: Shedding Light on Black Holes"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/301_BlackHoles/301_BlackHoles~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":61000,"height":448},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/301_BlackHoles/301_BlackHoles~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":19000,"height":224},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/301_BlackHoles/301_BlackHoles~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":4300,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/301_BlackHoles/301_BlackHoles~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":10000,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/301_BlackHoles/301_BlackHoles.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001435/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Test"],"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2017-12-08T00:00:00Z","description":"Caption: This image from June 20, 2013, at 11:15 p.m. EDT shows the bright light of a solar flare on the left side of the sun and an eruption of solar material shooting through the sun’s atmosphere, called a prominence eruption. Shortly thereafter, this same region of the sun sent a coronal mass ejection out into space.  ---  On June 20, 2013, at 11:24 p.m., the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later. These particles cannot travel through the atmosphere to harm humans on Earth, but they can affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground.  Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory and ESA/NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory show that the CME left the sun at speeds of around 1350 miles per second, which is a fast speed for CMEs.  Earth-directed CMEs can cause a space weather phenomenon called a geomagnetic storm, which occurs when they funnel energy into Earth's magnetic envelope, the magnetosphere, for an extended period of time. The CME’s magnetic fields peel back the outermost layers of Earth's fields changing their very shape. Magnetic storms can degrade communication signals and cause unexpected electrical surges in power grids. They also can cause aurora. Storms are rare during solar minimum, but as the sun’s activity ramps up every 11 years toward solar maximum – currently expected in late 2013 -- large storms occur several times per year.  In the past, geomagnetic storms caused by CMEs of this strength and direction have usually been mild.  Read more: <a href=\"http://1.usa.gov/14OxuEe\" rel=\"nofollow\">1.usa.gov/14OxuEe</a>  Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA image use policy.</a></b>  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b> enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.  <b>Follow us on <a href=\"http://twitter.com/NASA_GoddardPix\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter</a></b>  <b>Like us on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897?ref=tsd\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook</a></b>  <b>Find us on <a href=\"http://instagram.com/nasagoddard?vm=grid\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instagram</a></b>","keywords":["Sun Emits a Solstice CME","sun","nasa","solstice","cme"],"location":"Greenbelt, MD","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001435","title":"Sun Emits a Solstice CME"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001435/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001435~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":194000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001435/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001435~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":60000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001435/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001435~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":60000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001435/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001435~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":386000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001435/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001435~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009286/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2026-04-06T00:00:00Z","description":"art002e009286 (April 6, 2026) – As the Artemis II crew came close to passing behind the Moon and experiencing a planned loss of signal, they captured this image of a crescent Earth setting on the Moon’s limb. The edge of the visible surface of the Moon is called the “lunar limb.” Seen from afar, it almost looks like a circular arc – except when backlit, as in other images captured by the Artemis II crew. In this photo, the dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime, while Australia and Oceania are in the daylight. In the foreground, the Ohm crater is visible, with terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks—formed when the surface rebounded upward during the impact that created the crater.","description_508":"015B0489.NEF","keywords":["Artemis","Artemis II","Moon","Lunar Flyby","Earth","Crescent"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"art002e009286","photographer":"NASA","title":"Peeking at the Earth"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009286/art002e009286~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":237568,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009286/art002e009286~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":123904,"height":853},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009286/art002e009286~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":38912,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009286/art002e009286~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":38912,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009286/art002e009286~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3712,"width":5568,"size":1516544}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5874/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"1969-07-21T00:00:00Z","description":"AS11-40-5874 (20 July 1969) --- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. The Lunar Module (LM) is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil of the moon. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this picture with a 70mm Hasselblad lunar surface camera. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the LM the \"Eagle\" to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) \"Columbia\" in lunar orbit.","keywords":["APOLLO 11 FLIGHT","MOON","LUNAR SURFACE","LUNAR BASES","LUNAR MODULE","ASTRONAUTS","EXTRAVEHICULAR ACIVITY"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"as11-40-5874","title":"Apollo 11 Mission image - Astronaut Edwin Aldrin poses beside th"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5874/as11-40-5874~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":252000,"height":1266},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5874/as11-40-5874~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":74000,"height":633},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5874/as11-40-5874~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":74000,"height":633},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5874/as11-40-5874~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":513000,"height":1900},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5874/as11-40-5874~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3882,"width":3922,"size":2000000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e008486/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2026-04-02T00:00:00Z","description":"art002e008486 (April 4, 2026) - NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon.","description_508":"IMG_0160.DNG","keywords":["NASA","Artemis II","Reid Wiseman","Orion"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"art002e008486","photographer":"NASA","title":"Thinking of You, Earth","album":["Artemis_II"]}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e008486/art002e008486~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":180224,"height":1440},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e008486/art002e008486~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":87040,"height":959},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e008486/art002e008486~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":25600,"height":479},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e008486/art002e008486~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":25600,"height":479},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e008486/art002e008486~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":2316,"width":3088,"size":513024}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e034731/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2023-11-30T00:00:00Z","description":"iss070e034731 (Nov. 30, 2023) --- The waning gibbous Moon is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above the Swiss Alps.","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"iss070e034731","title":"iss070e034731"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e034731/iss070e034731~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":853,"size":65000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e034731/iss070e034731~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":426,"size":19000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e034731/iss070e034731~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":426,"size":19000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e034731/iss070e034731~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":139000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e034731/iss070e034731~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":5568,"width":3712,"size":1944576}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009289/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2026-04-06T00:00:00Z","description":"art002e009289 (April 6, 2026) – The lunar surface fills the frame in sharp detail, as seen during the Artemis II lunar flyby, while a distant Earth sets in the background. This image was captured at 6:41 p.m. EDT, on April 6, 2026, just three minutes before the Orion spacecraft and its crew went behind the Moon and lost contact with Earth for 40 minutes before emerging on the other side.  In this image, the dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime, while on its day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater shows terraced edges and a relatively flat floor marked by central peaks — formed when the surface rebounded upward during the impact that created the crater.","description_508":"015B0569.NEF","keywords":["Artemis","Artemis II","Moon","Earth","Earthset","Lunar Flyby","Orion","Orion Spacecraft"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"art002e009289","photographer":"NASA","title":"A Setting Earth"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009289/art002e009289~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":373760,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009289/art002e009289~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":183296,"height":853},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009289/art002e009289~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":51200,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009289/art002e009289~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":51200,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009289/art002e009289~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3712,"width":5568,"size":2306867}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as17-148-22727/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"1972-12-07T00:00:00Z","description":"AS17-148-22727 (7 Dec. 1972) --- This view of Earth was seen by the Apollo 17 crew as they traveled toward the moon on their NASA lunar landing mission. This outstanding trans-lunar coast photograph extends from the Mediterranean Sea area to the Antarctica south polar ice cap. This is the first time the Apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap. Note the heavy cloud cover in the Southern Hemisphere. Almost the entire coastline of Africa is clearly visible. The Arabian Peninsula can be seen at the northeastern edge of Africa. The large island off the coast of Africa is the Malagasy Republic. The Asian mainland is on the horizon toward the northeast. The Apollo 17 crew consisted of astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, mission commander; Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot; and Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. While astronauts Cernan and Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module (LM) to explore the moon, astronaut Evans remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit.","keywords":["APOLLO 17 FLIGHT","APOLLO PROJECT","EARTH (PLANET)","ONBOARD ACTIVITIES","EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE)","PHOTOGRAPHY"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"as17-148-22727","title":"View of the Earth seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as17-148-22727/as17-148-22727~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":181000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as17-148-22727/as17-148-22727~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":55000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as17-148-22727/as17-148-22727~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":55000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as17-148-22727/as17-148-22727~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":351000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as17-148-22727/as17-148-22727~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04591/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2003-06-25T20:05:04Z","description":"Mars 2003","description_508":"Mars 2003","keywords":["Mars","Mars Global Surveyor MGS"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA04591","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems","title":"Mars 2003"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04591/PIA04591~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":540,"size":34000,"height":810},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04591/PIA04591~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":810,"width":540,"size":37000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009007/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2026-04-02T00:00:00Z","description":"art002e009007 (April 4, 2026) - NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon.","description_508":"IMG_0168.DNG","keywords":["Artemis","Artemis II","Orion","Reid Wiseman","Earth"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"art002e009007","title":"Home, Seen from Orion."}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009007/art002e009007~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1440,"size":193536,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009007/art002e009007~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":959,"size":94208,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009007/art002e009007~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":479,"size":27648,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009007/art002e009007~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":479,"size":27648,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009007/art002e009007~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3088,"width":2316,"size":543744}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001518/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Test"],"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2017-12-08T00:00:00Z","description":"Image released April 19, 2013.  Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.  Looking like an apparition rising from whitecaps of interstellar foam, the iconic Horsehead Nebula has graced astronomy books ever since its discovery more than a century ago. The nebula is a favorite target for amateur and professional astronomers. It is shadowy in optical light. It appears transparent and ethereal when seen at infrared wavelengths. The rich tapestry of the Horsehead Nebula pops out against the backdrop of Milky Way stars and distant galaxies that easily are visible in infrared light.  <b>Credit:</b> NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/horsehead-different.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">More on this image.</a></b>  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA image use policy.</a></b>  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b> enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.  <b>Follow us on <a href=\"http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter</a></b>  <b>Like us on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897?ref=tsd\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook</a></b>  <b>Find us on <a href=\"http://instagrid.me/nasagoddard/?vm=grid\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instagram</a></b>","keywords":["Horsehead Nebula","hubble","hst"],"location":"Greenbelt, MD","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001518","title":"Horsehead Nebula"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001518/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001518~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1224,"size":135000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001518/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001518~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":612,"size":43000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001518/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001518~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":612,"size":43000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001518/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001518~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1837,"size":303000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001518/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001518~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/a-sky-view-of-earth-from-suomi-npp_16611703184_o/collection.json","data":[{"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2015-04-22T00:00:00Z","description":"This composite image of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans was captured by six orbits of the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership spacecraft on April 9, 2015, by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument. Tropical Cyclone Joalane can be seen over the Indian Ocean.  Winds, tides and density differences constantly stir the oceans while phytoplankton continually grow and die. Orbiting radiometers such as VIIRS allows scientists to track this variability over time and contribute to better understanding of ocean processes that are beneficial to human survival on Earth. The image was created by the Ocean Biology Processing Group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.","keywords":["Earth","NPP"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"a-sky-view-of-earth-from-suomi-npp_16611703184_o","title":"A Sky View of Earth From Suomi NPP"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/a-sky-view-of-earth-from-suomi-npp_16611703184_o/a-sky-view-of-earth-from-suomi-npp_16611703184_o~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":223000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/a-sky-view-of-earth-from-suomi-npp_16611703184_o/a-sky-view-of-earth-from-suomi-npp_16611703184_o~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":61000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/a-sky-view-of-earth-from-suomi-npp_16611703184_o/a-sky-view-of-earth-from-suomi-npp_16611703184_o~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":61000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/a-sky-view-of-earth-from-suomi-npp_16611703184_o/a-sky-view-of-earth-from-suomi-npp_16611703184_o~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":474000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/a-sky-view-of-earth-from-suomi-npp_16611703184_o/a-sky-view-of-earth-from-suomi-npp_16611703184_o~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":15000,"width":15000,"size":16000000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009212/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2026-04-06T00:00:00Z","description":"art002e009212 (April 6, 2026) In this fully illuminated view of the Moon, the near side (the hemisphere we see from Earth), is visible on the right. It is identifiable by the dark splotches that cover its surface. These are ancient lava flows from a time early in the Moon’s history when it was volcanically active. The large crater west of the lava flows is Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the Moon’s near and far sides. Orientale's left half is not visible from Earth, but in this image we have a full view of the crater. Everything to the left of the crater is the far side, the hemisphere we don’t get to see from Earth because the Moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that it orbits round us.","description_508":"019A0322.NEF","keywords":["Artemis II","NASA","Orion","Moon","Orientale Basin"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"art002e009212","photographer":"NASA","title":"Orientale on Display"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009212/art002e009212~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":120832,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009212/art002e009212~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":58368,"height":853},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009212/art002e009212~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":16384,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009212/art002e009212~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":16384,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009212/art002e009212~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":5504,"width":8256,"size":2025472}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/hubble-observes-one-of-a-kind-star-nicknamed-nasty_17754652960_o/collection.json","data":[{"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2015-03-21T00:00:00Z","description":"Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered surprising new clues about a hefty, rapidly aging star whose behavior has never been seen before in our Milky Way galaxy. In fact, the star is so weird that astronomers have nicknamed it “Nasty 1,” a play on its catalog name of NaSt1. The star may represent a brief transitory stage in the evolution of extremely massive stars.  First discovered several decades ago, Nasty 1 was identified as a Wolf-Rayet star, a rapidly evolving star that is much more massive than our sun. The star loses its hydrogen-filled outer layers quickly, exposing its super-hot and extremely bright helium-burning core.  But Nasty 1 doesn’t look like a typical Wolf-Rayet star. The astronomers using Hubble had expected to see twin lobes of gas flowing from opposite sides of the star, perhaps similar to those emanating from the massive star Eta Carinae, which is a Wolf-Rayet candidate.   Instead, Hubble revealed a pancake-shaped disk of gas encircling the star. The vast disk is nearly 2 trillion miles wide, and may have formed from an unseen companion star that snacked on the outer envelope of the newly formed Wolf-Rayet.  Based on current estimates, the nebula surrounding the stars is just a few thousand years old, and as close as 3,000 light-years from Earth.  Credits: NASA/Hubble","keywords":["Hubble","Milky Way","star"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"hubble-observes-one-of-a-kind-star-nicknamed-nasty_17754652960_o","title":"Hubble Observes One-of-a-Kind Star Nicknamed ‘Nasty’"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/hubble-observes-one-of-a-kind-star-nicknamed-nasty_17754652960_o/hubble-observes-one-of-a-kind-star-nicknamed-nasty_17754652960_o~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":43000,"height":989},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/hubble-observes-one-of-a-kind-star-nicknamed-nasty_17754652960_o/hubble-observes-one-of-a-kind-star-nicknamed-nasty_17754652960_o~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":15000,"height":494},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/hubble-observes-one-of-a-kind-star-nicknamed-nasty_17754652960_o/hubble-observes-one-of-a-kind-star-nicknamed-nasty_17754652960_o~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":15000,"height":494},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/hubble-observes-one-of-a-kind-star-nicknamed-nasty_17754652960_o/hubble-observes-one-of-a-kind-star-nicknamed-nasty_17754652960_o~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":81000,"height":1483},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/hubble-observes-one-of-a-kind-star-nicknamed-nasty_17754652960_o/hubble-observes-one-of-a-kind-star-nicknamed-nasty_17754652960_o~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":2550,"width":3300,"size":1751000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00404/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"1998-06-08T15:11:30Z","description":"Moon - North Polar Mosaic, Color  http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00404","description_508":"Moon - North Polar Mosaic, Color","keywords":["Moon","Galileo"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA00404","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL/USGS","title":"Moon - North Polar Mosaic, Color"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00404/PIA00404~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":172000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00404/PIA00404~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":49000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00404/PIA00404~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":49000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00404/PIA00404~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":342000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00404/PIA00404~orig.tif","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3053,"width":3053,"size":701000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001982/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Test"],"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2017-12-08T00:00:00Z","description":"This composite image of the moon using Clementine data from 1994 is the view we are most likely to see when the moon is full.   Credit: NASA  To learn about NASA's LRO project go to: <a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/main/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/main/index.html</a>  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b>  contributes to NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s endeavors by providing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.  <b>Follow us on <a href=\"http://twitter.com/NASA_GoddardPix\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter</a></b>  <b>Join us on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897?ref=tsd\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook</a></b>","keywords":["The Moon","moon","space","nasa","lro","goddardspaceflightcenter"],"location":"Greenbelt, MD","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001982","title":"The Moon"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001982/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001982~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":20000,"height":360},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001982/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001982~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":20000,"height":360},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001982/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001982~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA14417/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2011-08-10T21:00:09Z","description":"The Dumbbell nebula, also known as Messier 27, pumps out infrared light in this image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. Planetary nebulae are now known to be the remains of stars that once looked a lot like our sun.","description_508":"The Dumbbell nebula, also known as Messier 27, pumps out infrared light in this image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. Planetary nebulae are now known to be the remains of stars that once looked a lot like our sun.","keywords":["Helix Nebula","Spitzer Space Telescope"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA14417","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA","title":"Weighing in on the Dumbbell Nebula"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA14417/PIA14417~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":161000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA14417/PIA14417~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":54000,"height":320},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA14417/PIA14417~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":54000,"height":320},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA14417/PIA14417~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":1400,"width":2800,"size":490000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009298/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Artemis_II"],"center":"JSC","date_created":"2026-04-06T00:00:00Z","description":"art002e009298 (April 6, 2026) – A close-up view from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II crew’s lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, captures a total solar eclipse, with only part of the Moon visible in the frame as it fully obscures the Sun.  We see a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk. The science community is investigating whether this effect is due to the corona, zodiacal light, or a combination of the two.  From this deep-space vantage point, the Moon appeared large enough to sustain nearly 54 minutes of totality, far longer than total solar eclipses typically seen from Earth. The bright silver glint on the left edge of the image is the planet Venus. The round, dark gray feature visible along the Moon’s horizon between the 9 and 10 o’clock positions is Mare Crisium, a feature visible from Earth. We see faint lunar features because light reflected off of Earth provides a source of illumination. ","description_508":"015B2234.NEF","keywords":["Artemis II","Artemis II mission","Arrtemis 2 mission","lunar flyby","solar eclipse"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"art002e009298","photographer":"NASA","title":"Artemis II Total Solar Eclipse, Partial Frame"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009298/art002e009298~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":242688,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009298/art002e009298~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":76800,"height":853},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009298/art002e009298~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":11264,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009298/art002e009298~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":11264,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009298/art002e009298~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3712,"width":5568,"size":4299161}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA25163/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2022-06-16T00:00:00Z","description":"This image of the Andromeda galaxy, or M31, includes data from the ESA (European Space Agency) Herschel mission, supplemented with data from ESA's retired Planck observatory and two retired NASA missions: the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) and Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE).      Operated from 2009 to 2013, Herschel detected wavelengths of light in the far-infrared and microwave ranges, and was ideal for studying dust in nearby galaxies because it could capture small-scale structures in the dust clouds in high resolution. However, Herschel often couldn't detect light from diffuse dust clouds – especially in the outer regions of galaxies, where the gas and dust become sparse and thus fainter. As a result, the mission missed up to 30% of all the light given off by dust. Combining the Herschel observations with data from other observatories creates a more complete picture of the dust in the galaxy.      In the image, red indicates hydrogen gas; green indicates cold dust; and warmer dust is shown in blue. Launched in 1983, IRAS was the first space telescope to detect infrared light, setting the stage for future observatories like NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope. The Planck observatory, launched in 2009, and COBE, launched in 1989, both studied the cosmic microwave background, or light left over from the big bang.      Red indicates hydrogen gas detected using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands, and the Institute for Radio Astronomy in the Millimeter Range 30-meter telescope in Spain.  https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA25163","description_508":"The Andromeda galaxy, or M31, is shown here in far-infrared and radio wavelengths of light.","keywords":["Herschel Space Observatory","Andromeda Galaxy"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA25163","secondary_creator":"ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/GBT/WSRT/IRAM/C. Clark (STScI)","title":"Andromeda Galaxy Imaged by Herschel, Planck, IRAS, COBE"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA25163/PIA25163~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":50000,"height":719},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA25163/PIA25163~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":14000,"height":359},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA25163/PIA25163~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":14000,"height":359},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA25163/PIA25163~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":106000,"height":1079},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA25163/PIA25163~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":4162,"width":7400,"size":1118208}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA16008/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2013-04-19T19:54:40Z","description":"Backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis, a young five-star system just off the top of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope.","description_508":"Backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis, a young five-star system just off the top of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope.","keywords":["Hubble Space Telescope"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA16008","secondary_creator":"NASA/ESA/STScI","title":"Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA16008/PIA16008~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1224,"size":138000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA16008/PIA16008~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":612,"size":43000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA16008/PIA16008~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":612,"size":43000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA16008/PIA16008~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1837,"size":313000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA16008/PIA16008~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":2826,"width":2704,"size":689000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA21073/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2016-10-12T15:49:22Z","description":"The dusty side of the Sword of Orion is illuminated in this striking infrared image from the European Space Agency's Hershel Space Observatory.  This immense nebula is the closest large region of star formation, situated about 1,500 light years away in the constellation of Orion. The parts that are easily observed in visible light, known alternatively as the Orion Nebula or Messier 42, correspond to the light blue regions. This is the glow from the warmest dust, illuminated by clusters of hot stars that have only recently been born in this chaotic region.  The red spine of material running from corner to corner reveals colder, denser filaments of dust and gas that are scattered throughout the Orion nebula. In visible light this would be a dark, opaque feature, hiding the reservoir of material from which stars have recently formed and will continue to form in the future.  Herschel data from the PACS instrument observations, at wavelengths of 100 and 160 microns, is displayed in blue and green, respectively, while SPIRE 250-micron data is shown in red.  Within the inset image, the emission from ionized carbon atoms (C+), overlaid in yellow, was isolated and mapped out from spectrographic data obtained by the HIFI instrument.  http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21073","description_508":"The dusty side of the Sword of Orion is illuminated in this striking infrared image from the European Space Agency Hershel Space Observatory.","keywords":["Orion","Herschel Space Observatory"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA21073","secondary_creator":"ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech","title":"Ionized Carbon Atoms in Orion"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA21073/PIA21073~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":899,"size":75000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA21073/PIA21073~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":449,"size":26000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA21073/PIA21073~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":449,"size":26000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA21073/PIA21073~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1349,"size":141000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA21073/PIA21073~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":7400,"width":5200,"size":1349000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20181217_Saturn_m12672_Rings/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Saturn"],"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2018-12-17T00:00:00Z","description":"This video explores how Saturn is losing its rings at a rapid rate, and what that also reveals about the planet's history.  Infrared observations of Saturn were recorded using the 10-meter diameter Keck telescope in Hawaii. Through a careful analysis, Dr. James O'Donoghue and his team found a series of unusual bright and dark bands extending around the planet's upper atmosphere. It was found that these bands are linked to Saturn's rings by magnetic field lines, indicating that water ice from the rings is \"raining\" into the planet.  This mechanism is called \"ring rain,\" and was discovered using Voyager spacecraft data in the 1980s by study co-author Dr. Jack Connerney. In this process, electrically charged icy dust in Saturn's rings is pulled into the planet along magnetic field lines by gravity. Modeling work by study co-author Dr. Luke Moore shows that if there is a small amount of rain, the ionosphere glows, while if there is a large amount of rain, it becomes dark.  In this new study, the rate of water flow into the planet is estimated to be one Olympic sized swimming pool every half an hour, meaning Saturn's rings will be gone in under 300 million years. This is short relative to the 4.5 billion-year age of the solar system. The findings suggest that giant planetary ring systems are not built to last forever.","description_508":"Scientists from NASA Goddard have discovered that not only are Saturn's rings younger than previously thought, but also that the rings are actually disappearing at a rapid pace through a process called \"ring rain.\" Learn more about this phenomena in this animated video.","keywords":["Saturn","Planets","Moon"],"location":"Goddard Space Flight Center","media_type":"video","nasa_id":"GSFC_20181217_Saturn_m12672_Rings","secondary_creator":"David Ladd","title":"Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20181217_Saturn_m12672_Rings/GSFC_20181217_Saturn_m12672_Rings~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":10000,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20181217_Saturn_m12672_Rings/GSFC_20181217_Saturn_m12672_Rings~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":3900,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20181217_Saturn_m12672_Rings/GSFC_20181217_Saturn_m12672_Rings~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":1983,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20181217_Saturn_m12672_Rings/GSFC_20181217_Saturn_m12672_Rings~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":2600,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20181217_Saturn_m12672_Rings/GSFC_20181217_Saturn_m12672_Rings.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009282/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2026-04-06T00:00:00Z","description":"art002e009282 (April 6, 2026) - A close-up view taken by the Artemis II crew of Vavilov Crater on the rim of the older and larger Hertzsprung basin. The right portion of the image shows the transition from smooth material within an inner ring of mountains to more rugged terrain around the rim. Vavilov and other craters and their ejecta are accentuated by long shadows at the terminator, the boundary between lunar day and night. The image was captured with a handheld camera at a focal length of 400 mm, as the crew flew around the far side of the Moon.","description_508":"015A9942.NEF","keywords":["Artemis","Artemis II","Moon","Craters","Lunar Surface","Orion","Lunar Flyby"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"art002e009282","photographer":"NASA","title":"Shadows Across Vavilov Crater","album":["Artemis_II_Lunar_Science"]}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009282/art002e009282~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":368640,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009282/art002e009282~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":192512,"height":853},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009282/art002e009282~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":59392,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009282/art002e009282~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":59392,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009282/art002e009282~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3712,"width":5568,"size":2070528}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/NHQ_2019_0626_Earth Views from the ISS/collection.json","data":[{"center":"HQ","date_created":"2019-06-26T00:00:00Z","description":"Earth Views from the ISS","keywords":["Earth Views","EarthViews","Earth From Space","Earth from ISS","Earth from International Space Station"],"media_type":"video","nasa_id":"NHQ_2019_0626_Earth Views from the ISS","title":"Earth Views from the ISS"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/NHQ_2019_0626_Earth Views from the ISS/NHQ_2019_0626_Earth Views from the ISS~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":40000,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/NHQ_2019_0626_Earth Views from the ISS/NHQ_2019_0626_Earth Views from the ISS~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":15000,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/NHQ_2019_0626_Earth Views from the ISS/NHQ_2019_0626_Earth Views from the ISS~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":5200,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/NHQ_2019_0626_Earth Views from the ISS/NHQ_2019_0626_Earth Views from the ISS~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":8800,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/NHQ_2019_0626_Earth Views from the ISS/NHQ_2019_0626_Earth Views from the ISS.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00122/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"1996-02-08T10:48:12Z","description":"This color image of the Earth was obtained by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft on Dec. 11, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.5 million miles from the Earth.  http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00122","description_508":"This color image of the Earth was obtained by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft on Dec. 11, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.5 million miles from the Earth. ","keywords":["Earth","Galileo"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA00122","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL","title":"Earth - India and Australia"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00122/PIA00122~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":27000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00122/PIA00122~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":27000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00122/PIA00122~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":800,"width":800,"size":42000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04216/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"1999-12-10T00:00:01Z","description":"This image from NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a celestial object called the Ant Nebula may shed new light on the future demise of our Sun. ","description_508":"This image from NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a celestial object called the Ant Nebula may shed new light on the future demise of our Sun. ","keywords":["Ant nebula","Hubble Space Telescope"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA04216","secondary_creator":"NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute","title":"Ant Nebula"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04216/PIA04216~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":53000,"height":422},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04216/PIA04216~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":53000,"height":422},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04216/PIA04216~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":708,"width":1072,"size":145000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04217/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"1999-12-15T00:00:01Z","description":"An amazing edge-on view of a spiral galaxy 55 million light years from Earth has been captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The image reveals in great detail huge clouds of dust and gas extending along and above the galaxy main disk. ","description_508":"An amazing edge-on view of a spiral galaxy 55 million light years from Earth has been captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The image reveals in great detail huge clouds of dust and gas extending along and above the galaxy main disk. ","keywords":["Galaxy NGC 4013","Hubble Space Telescope"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA04217","secondary_creator":"NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team STSci/AURA","title":"Galaxy NGC 4013"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04217/PIA04217~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":33000,"height":625},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04217/PIA04217~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":33000,"height":625},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA04217/PIA04217~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":1018,"width":1041,"size":78000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002159/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Test"],"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2017-12-08T00:00:00Z","description":"The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, all that remains of a tremendous stellar explosion. Observers in China and Japan recorded the supernova nearly 1,000 years ago, in 1054.  Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University)  The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute conducts Hubble science operations.    Goddard is responsible for HST project management, including mission and science operations, servicing missions, and all associated development activities.  To learn more about the Hubble Space Telescope go here:  <a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html</a>   <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b>  is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.  <b>Follow us on <a href=\"http://twitter.com/NASA_GoddardPix\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter</a></b>  <b>Join us on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897?ref=tsd\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook</a><b> </b></b>","keywords":["Crab Nebula","space","nasa","telescope","galaxy","nebula","supernova","crabnebula","goddard","hubble","hst","hubblespacetelescope","goddardspaceflightcenter"],"location":"Greenbelt, MD","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002159","title":"Crab Nebula"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002159/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002159~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":251000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002159/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002159~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":74000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002159/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002159~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":74000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002159/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002159~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":528000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002159/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002159~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Orion_Artemis-I_b-roll_9_2021_FS/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2021-09-15T00:00:00Z","description":"Animation showing Orion's journey to the Moon on Artemis I - full screen version.  Artemis I will be the first integrated flight test of NASA’s deep space exploration system: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground systems at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. During this flight, the uncrewed Orion spacecraft will launch on the most powerful rocket in the world and travel thousands of miles beyond the Moon, farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown, over the course of about a three-week mission.","description_508":"Orion Artemis I animation b-roll - full screen","keywords":["Orion","Artemis","Animation","Moon"],"location":"Moon","media_type":"video","nasa_id":"Orion_Artemis-I_b-roll_9_2021_FS","secondary_creator":"NASA / Liam Yanulis","title":"Orion_Artemis-I_animation_b-roll_9_2021_FS"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Orion_Artemis-I_b-roll_9_2021_FS/Orion_Artemis-I_b-roll_9_2021_FS~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":11000,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Orion_Artemis-I_b-roll_9_2021_FS/Orion_Artemis-I_b-roll_9_2021_FS~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":4600,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Orion_Artemis-I_b-roll_9_2021_FS/Orion_Artemis-I_b-roll_9_2021_FS~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":2300,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Orion_Artemis-I_b-roll_9_2021_FS/Orion_Artemis-I_b-roll_9_2021_FS~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":3200,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Orion_Artemis-I_b-roll_9_2021_FS/Orion_Artemis-I_b-roll_9_2021_FS.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss064e041512/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2021-03-11T00:00:00Z","description":"iss064e041512 (March 11, 2021) --- An external pallet packed with old nickel-hydrogen batteries is released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm as the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above the Pacific Ocean west of Central America. Mission controllers in Houston commanded the Canadarm2 to release the external pallet into space where it will orbit Earth between two to four years before burning up harmlessly in the atmosphere. The batteries were removed during previous spacewalks and replaced with newer lithium-ion batteries to continue powering the station's systems.","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"iss064e041512","title":"iss064e041512"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss064e041512/iss064e041512~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":120000,"height":853},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss064e041512/iss064e041512~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":38000,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss064e041512/iss064e041512~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":38000,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss064e041512/iss064e041512~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":229000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss064e041512/iss064e041512~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3712,"width":5568,"size":2300000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00405/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"1998-06-08T15:17:56Z","description":"NASA Galileo spacecraft took this image of Earth moon on December 7, 1992 on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-97. The distinct bright ray crater at the bottom of the image is the Tycho impact basin.  http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00405","description_508":"NASA Galileo spacecraft took this image of Earth moon on December 7, 1992 on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-97. The distinct bright ray crater at the bottom of the image is the Tycho impact basin.","keywords":["Moon","Galileo"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA00405","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL/USGS","title":"Earth Moon"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00405/PIA00405~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":202000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00405/PIA00405~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":63000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00405/PIA00405~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":63000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00405/PIA00405~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":380000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00405/PIA00405~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":1986,"width":1986,"size":399000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009285/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2026-04-06T00:00:00Z","description":"art002e009285 (April 6, 2026) – Our planet draws closer to passing behind the Moon in this image captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby, about six minutes before Earthset. Earth is in a crescent phase, with sunlight coming from the right. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over muted blue in the Australia and Oceania region.   The lines of small indentations on the Moon’s rugged surface are secondary crater chains. These structures are formed by material ejected during a violent primary impact.","description_508":"015B0281.NEF","keywords":["Artemis","Artemis II","Moon","Earth","Orion","Orion Spacecraft"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"art002e009285","photographer":"NASA","title":"The Edge of Two Worlds"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009285/art002e009285~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":140288,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009285/art002e009285~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":68608,"height":853},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009285/art002e009285~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":19456,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009285/art002e009285~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":19456,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009285/art002e009285~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3712,"width":5568,"size":998400}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S84-27562/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"1984-02-23T00:00:00Z","description":"S84-27562 (7 Feb. 1984) --- Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, one of two 41B mission  specialists participating in a historical Extravehicular Activity (EVA), is a few meters away from the cabin of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Challenger in this 70mm frame. This Extravehicular Activity (EVA) represented the first use of a nitrogen-propelled, hand-controlled device called the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), which allows for much greater mobility than that afforded previous spacewalkers who had to use restrictive tethers. Robert L. Stewart later tried out the MMU McCandless is using here, and the two of them tested another similar unit two days later. Inside the spacecraft were astronauts Vance D. Brand, commander; Robert L. Gibson, pilot; and Ronald E. McNair, mission specialist. Photo credit: NASA","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"S84-27562","title":"STS-11 Extravehicular Activity (EVA)-1 - Astronaut McCandless, Bruce"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S84-27562/S84-27562~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":136000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S84-27562/S84-27562~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":47000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S84-27562/S84-27562~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":47000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S84-27562/S84-27562~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":266000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S84-27562/S84-27562~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00271/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"1996-07-18T21:25:34Z","description":"The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA Magellan spacecraft.  http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00271","description_508":"The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA Magellan spacecraft. ","keywords":["Venus","Magellan"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA00271","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL","title":"Venus - Computer Simulated Global View of the Northern Hemisphere"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00271/PIA00271~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":214000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00271/PIA00271~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":60000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00271/PIA00271~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":60000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00271/PIA00271~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":452000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00271/PIA00271~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":4096,"width":4096,"size":1727000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S84-27031/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"1984-02-12T00:00:00Z","description":"S84-27031 (7 Feb 1984) --- Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, 41-B mission specialist, reaches a maximum distance from the Challenger before reversing direction his manned maneuvering unit (MMU) and returning to the Challenger.  A fellow crewmember inside the vehicle's cabin took this photograph with a 70mm camera.  The untethered EVA marked the first such experience for astronauts.","keywords":["ASTRONAUTS","CHALLENGER (ORBITER)","CREW PROCEDURES (INFLIGHT)","EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY","EXTRAVEHICULAR MOBILITY UNITS MANNED MANEUVERING UNITS","SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION 41-B"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"S84-27031","title":"Views of the extravehicular activity during STS 41-B"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S84-27031/S84-27031~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":156000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S84-27031/S84-27031~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":46000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S84-27031/S84-27031~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":46000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S84-27031/S84-27031~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":326000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/S84-27031/S84-27031~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA07906/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2005-05-05T20:19:08Z","description":"This ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer is of a small area of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.  http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07906","description_508":"This ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer is of a small area of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. ","keywords":["Virgo Galaxy Cluster","Galaxy Evolution Explorer GALEX"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA07906","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSC","title":"Virgo Galaxy Cluster"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA07906/PIA07906~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":203000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA07906/PIA07906~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":56000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA07906/PIA07906~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":56000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA07906/PIA07906~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":423000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA07906/PIA07906~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":2274,"width":2274,"size":567000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000193/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2026-04-03T00:00:00Z","description":"art002e000193 (April 3, 2026) - A view of a backlit Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman from one of the Orion spacecraft's window after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2, 2026.","description_508":"017A5561.NEF","keywords":["NASA","Artemis II","Translunar Injection","Orion","Reid Wiseman"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"art002e000193","photographer":"NASA","title":"Artemis II Captures Dark Side of the Earth "}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000193/art002e000193~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":286720,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000193/art002e000193~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":99328,"height":853},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000193/art002e000193~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":18432,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000193/art002e000193~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":18432,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000193/art002e000193~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3712,"width":5568,"size":4823449}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5875/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"1969-07-20T00:00:00Z","description":"AS11-40-5875 (20 July 1969) --- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during an Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. The Lunar Module (LM) is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil of the moon. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this picture with a 70mm Hasselblad lunar surface camera. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the LM, the \"Eagle\", to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) \"Columbia\" in lunar orbit. Photo credit: NASA","keywords":["APOLLO 11","APOLLO PROJECT","ASTRONAUTS","EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY","LUNAR MODULE EXTRAVEHICULAR MOBILITY UNITS","LUNAR EXPLORATION","LUNAR LANDING SITES","MOON LUNAR PHOTOGRAPHY","LUNAR SOIL","LUNAR SURFACE","PHOTOGRAPHY"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"as11-40-5875","title":"Astronaut Edwin Aldrin poses for photograph beside deployed U.S. flag"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5875/as11-40-5875~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1237,"size":238000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5875/as11-40-5875~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":618,"size":68000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5875/as11-40-5875~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":618,"size":68000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5875/as11-40-5875~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1856,"size":497000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/as11-40-5875/as11-40-5875~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA18182/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"1986-12-18T00:00:00Z","description":"This is an image of the planet Uranus taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986.","description_508":"This is an image of the planet Uranus taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986.","keywords":["Uranus","Voyager"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA18182","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL-Caltech","title":"Uranus as seen by NASA Voyager 2"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA18182/PIA18182~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":49000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA18182/PIA18182~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":15000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA18182/PIA18182~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":15000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA18182/PIA18182~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":1720,"width":1720,"size":82000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA03606/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2005-12-01T21:09:21Z","description":"The Crab Nebula is one of the most intricately structured and highly  dynamical objects ever observed. The new Hubble image of the Crab was  assembled from 24 individual exposures taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble  Space Telescope","description_508":"The Crab Nebula is one of the most intricately structured and highly dynamical objects ever observed. The new Hubble image of the Crab was assembled from 24 individual exposures taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope","keywords":["Crab Nebula","Hubble Space Telescope"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA03606","secondary_creator":"NASA/ESA/JPL/Arizona State Univ.","title":"Most Detailed Image of the Crab Nebula"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA03606/PIA03606~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":252000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA03606/PIA03606~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":74000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA03606/PIA03606~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":74000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA03606/PIA03606~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":529000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA03606/PIA03606~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3864,"width":3864,"size":1886000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001894/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Test"],"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2017-12-08T00:00:00Z","description":"The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. Located around 10 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), the galaxy's close proximity, combined with the wide variety of evolutionary stages among the stars, make it an ideal laboratory to research the triggers of star formation and evolution.  Intricate patterns of glowing hydrogen formed during the star-birthing process, cavities blown clear of gas by stellar winds, and bright stellar clusters of NGC 4214 can be seen in this optical and near-infrared image.  Observations of this dwarf galaxy have also revealed clusters of much older red supergiant stars. Additional older stars can be seen dotted all across the galaxy. The variety of stars at different stages in their evolution indicates that the recent and ongoing starburst periods are not the first, and the galaxy's abundant supply of hydrogen means that star formation will continue into the future.  This color image was taken using the Wide Field Camera 3 in December 2009.  Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration  Acknowledgment: R. O'Connell (University of Virginia) and the WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA image use policy.</a></b>  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b> enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.  <b>Follow us on <a href=\"http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter</a></b>  <b>Like us on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897?ref=tsd\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook</a></b>  <b>Find us on <a href=\"http://instagram.com/nasagoddard?vm=grid\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instagram</a></b>","keywords":["A Star-Formation Laboratory","nasa","hubble","hst","space","star","galaxy","dwarfgalaxy","ngc4214","constellation","баян","аул"],"location":"Greenbelt, MD","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001894","title":"A Star-Formation Laboratory"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001894/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001894~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":335000,"height":953},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001894/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001894~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":87000,"height":476},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001894/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001894~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":87000,"height":476},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001894/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001894~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Vertical Video/collection.json","data":[{"center":"HQ","date_created":"2026-01-14T00:00:00Z","description":"The AVATAR (A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response) investigation will use organ-on-a-chip devices, or organ chips, to study the effects of deep space radiation and microgravity on human health. The chips will contain cells from Artemis II astronauts and fly side-by-side with crew on their approximately 10-day journey around the Moon. This research, combined with other studies on the health and performance of Artemis II astronauts, will give NASA insight into how to best protect astronauts as exploration expands to the surface of the Moon, Mars, and beyond. For more information: go.nasa.gov/4m5dGH9","description_508":"AVATAR payload aboard Artemis II","keywords":["AVATAR","Artemis II","Artemis Science","Biological & Physical Sciences","SMD"],"media_type":"video","nasa_id":"Artemis II Science - AVATAR Vertical Video","title":"Artemis II Science - AVATAR Vertical Video","album":["AVATAR","Artemis_II"]}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Vertical Video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Vertical Video~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":450,"size":30830,"height":800},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Vertical Video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Vertical Video~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":225,"size":13987,"height":400},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Vertical Video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Vertical Video~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":112,"size":6013,"height":200},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Vertical Video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Vertical Video~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":168,"size":10718,"height":300},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Vertical Video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Vertical Video.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA21390/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2017-05-05T16:51:29Z","description":"This enhanced color view of Jupiter's south pole was created by citizen scientist Gabriel Fiset using data from the JunoCam instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft. Oval storms dot the cloudscape. Approaching the pole, the organized turbulence of Jupiter's belts and zones transitions into clusters of unorganized filamentary structures, streams of air that resemble giant tangled strings.  The image was taken on Dec. 11, 2016 at 9:44 a.m. PST (12:44 p.m. EST), from an altitude of about 32,400 miles (52,200 kilometers) above the planet's beautiful cloud tops.  https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21390 .  -   Enhanced image by Gabriel Fiset (CC-BY) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS","description_508":"This enhanced color view of Jupiter south pole was created using data from the JunoCam instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft. Oval storms dot the cloudscape.","keywords":["Jupiter","Juno"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA21390","title":"Approaching Jupiter"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA21390/PIA21390~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":426,"size":28000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA21390/PIA21390~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":426,"size":28000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA21390/PIA21390~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":1837,"width":1225,"size":188000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/KSC-01172026-Artemis II_Rollout_Timelapse/collection.json","data":[{"center":"MSFC","date_created":"2026-01-17T00:00:00Z","description":"NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 carrying the agency’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft, secured to the mobile launcher, begins the 4.2-mile journey toward Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 01/17/2026. The Artemis II test flight will take Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), around the Moon and back to Earth no later than April 2026.","description_508":"NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 carrying the agency’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft, secured to the mobile launcher, begins the 4.2-mile journey toward Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 01/17/2026. The Artemis II test flight will take Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), around the Moon and back to Earth no later than April 2026.","keywords":["NASA","SLS","Artemis","NASA Artemis","Space Launch System","Artemis II","Rollout","KSC","Kennedy Space Center"],"location":"NASA's Kennedy Space Center","media_type":"video","nasa_id":"KSC-01172026-Artemis II_Rollout_Timelapse","photographer":"NASA/Brandon Hancock","title":"Artemis II Rollout Timelapse","album":["Artemis_II","Artemis_II_Rollout","Artemis_II_Launch"]}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/KSC-01172026-Artemis II_Rollout_Timelapse/KSC-01172026-Artemis II_Rollout_Timelapse~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":53666,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/KSC-01172026-Artemis II_Rollout_Timelapse/KSC-01172026-Artemis II_Rollout_Timelapse~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":17274,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/KSC-01172026-Artemis II_Rollout_Timelapse/KSC-01172026-Artemis II_Rollout_Timelapse~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":6445,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/KSC-01172026-Artemis II_Rollout_Timelapse/KSC-01172026-Artemis II_Rollout_Timelapse~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":11460,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/KSC-01172026-Artemis II_Rollout_Timelapse/KSC-01172026-Artemis II_Rollout_Timelapse.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20110617_LRO_m10794_Eclipse_Librating_Moon/collection.json","data":[{"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2011-06-17T00:00:00Z","description":"During the June 2011 lunar eclipse, scientists will be able to get a unique view of the moon. While the sun is blocked by the Earth, LRO's Diviner instrument will take the temperature on the lunar surface. Since different rock sizes cool at different rates, scientists will be able to infer the size and density of rocks on the moon.","description_508":"View of the librating moon.","keywords":["Moon","LRO","Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter","Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment","DLRE","Planetary Science","Lunar Eclipse","Lunar Surface","Lunar Surface Temperature","Sun","Planets and Moons"],"location":"Goddard Space Flight Center","media_type":"video","nasa_id":"GSFC_20110617_LRO_m10794_Eclipse_Librating_Moon","secondary_creator":"Genna Duberstein, Ernie Wright, Chris Smith, Chris Meaney","title":"LRO's Diviner Takes the Moon's Temperature During Eclipse: Librating Moon"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20110617_LRO_m10794_Eclipse_Librating_Moon/GSFC_20110617_LRO_m10794_Eclipse_Librating_Moon~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":13000,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20110617_LRO_m10794_Eclipse_Librating_Moon/GSFC_20110617_LRO_m10794_Eclipse_Librating_Moon~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":5200,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20110617_LRO_m10794_Eclipse_Librating_Moon/GSFC_20110617_LRO_m10794_Eclipse_Librating_Moon~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":1906,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20110617_LRO_m10794_Eclipse_Librating_Moon/GSFC_20110617_LRO_m10794_Eclipse_Librating_Moon~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":3400,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20110617_LRO_m10794_Eclipse_Librating_Moon/GSFC_20110617_LRO_m10794_Eclipse_Librating_Moon.vtt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20080520_HST_m10223_COS/collection.json","data":[{"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2008-05-20T00:00:00Z","description":"The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) instrument will be placed in the Hubble Space Telescope during Service Mission 4. It's primary science objectives are the study of the origins of large scale structure in the Universe, the formation and evolution of galaxies, the origin of stellar and planetary systems, and the cold interstellar medium. This animation zooms out from our Milky Way galaxy to show the cosmic web, or large scale structure of the Universe.","description_508":"Zoom out to the edge of the universe revealing the large-scale structure of the universe also called the \"cosmic web\".","keywords":["Hubble Space Telescope","HST","Astrophysics","SM4","Servicing Mission 4","Universe","Space","Cosmic Origins","Spectograph","Cosmic Web","Large Scale Structure","Evolution"],"location":"Goddard Space Flight Center","media_type":"video","nasa_id":"GSFC_20080520_HST_m10223_COS","secondary_creator":"Michael McClare, Greg Bacon","title":"Cosmic Origins Spectrograph: Large Scale Structure of the Universe"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20080520_HST_m10223_COS/GSFC_20080520_HST_m10223_COS~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":65000,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20080520_HST_m10223_COS/GSFC_20080520_HST_m10223_COS~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":23000,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20080520_HST_m10223_COS/GSFC_20080520_HST_m10223_COS~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":7300,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20080520_HST_m10223_COS/GSFC_20080520_HST_m10223_COS~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":12000,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20080520_HST_m10223_COS/GSFC_20080520_HST_m10223_COS.vtt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_Plaque_Comparison_720p/collection.json","data":[{"center":"HQ","date_created":"2017-08-03T00:00:00Z","description":"Neil Armstrong reads a commemorative plaque affixed to the Apollo 11 lunar module. The video compares existing footage with the partially restored video. The thumbnail image shows the new footage on the left and the old on the right.","description_508":"Neil Armstrong reads a commemorative plaque affixed to the Apollo 11 lunar module. The video compares existing footage with the partially restored video. The thumbnail image shows the new footage on the left and the old on the right.","keywords":["Neil Armstrong","Apollo 11","Earth's Moon","Moon","Lunar landing"],"location":"Earth's Moon","media_type":"video","nasa_id":"Apollo_11_Plaque_Comparison_720p","photographer":"NASA","title":"Apollo_11_Plaque_Comparison_720p"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_Plaque_Comparison_720p/Apollo_11_Plaque_Comparison_720p~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":27000,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_Plaque_Comparison_720p/Apollo_11_Plaque_Comparison_720p~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":12000,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_Plaque_Comparison_720p/Apollo_11_Plaque_Comparison_720p~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":4500,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_Plaque_Comparison_720p/Apollo_11_Plaque_Comparison_720p~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":7400,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Apollo_11_Plaque_Comparison_720p/Apollo_11_Plaque_Comparison_720p.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA26234/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2023-12-22T00:00:00Z","description":"This image revealing the north polar region of the Jovian moon Io was taken on October 15, 2023, by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft. Since the high latitudes were not well covered in imagery gathered by NASA's Voyager and Galileo missions, three of the peaks captured here were observed for the first time. Those mountains are seen at the upper part of the image, near the terminator (the line dividing day and night).  At the time the image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was about 7,270 miles (11,700 kilometers) above Io's surface.  Citizen scientist Ted Stryk made this image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument, processing the data to enhance details.  https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA26234","description_508":"This image revealing the north polar region of the Jovian moon Io was taken on June 15 by NASA's Juno. Three of the mountain peaks visible in the upper part of image were observed here for the first time by the spacecraft's JunoCam.","keywords":["Juno","Io"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA26234","secondary_creator":"Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing by Ted Stryk","title":" Imaging Io's Volcanos With JunoCam"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA26234/PIA26234~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1234,"size":51000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA26234/PIA26234~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":617,"size":16000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA26234/PIA26234~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":617,"size":16000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA26234/PIA26234~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1851,"size":100000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA26234/PIA26234~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":5223,"width":5037,"size":570368}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/20190530-SPITZRf-0001-Stars of Cephus/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2019-05-30T00:00:00Z","description":"Soar through this cosmic landscape filled with bright nebulas, as well as runaway, massive and young stars. The image comes from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which sees the universe in infrared light. For more about Spitzer, visit https://www.nasa.gov/spitzer or http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/ .   Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech","description_508":"Soar through this cosmic landscape filled with bright nebulas, as well as runaway, massive and young stars.","keywords":["Nebula,star formation,star birth,Cepheus c,Cepheus b,amazing images,space images,nasa,spitzer,space,flythrough,stars,bow shock,astronomy,science,Caltech,JPL,Jet Propulsion Laboratory,IR,infrared"],"media_type":"video","nasa_id":"20190530-SPITZRf-0001-Stars of Cephus","title":"Stars of Cepheus as Seen by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/20190530-SPITZRf-0001-Stars of Cephus/20190530-SPITZRf-0001-Stars of Cephus~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":46000,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/20190530-SPITZRf-0001-Stars of Cephus/20190530-SPITZRf-0001-Stars of Cephus~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":17000,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/20190530-SPITZRf-0001-Stars of Cephus/20190530-SPITZRf-0001-Stars of Cephus~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":6400,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/20190530-SPITZRf-0001-Stars of Cephus/20190530-SPITZRf-0001-Stars of Cephus~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":15000,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/20190530-SPITZRf-0001-Stars of Cephus/20190530-SPITZRf-0001-Stars of Cephus.vtt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001465/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Test"],"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2017-12-08T00:00:00Z","description":"This planetary nebula's simple, graceful appearance is thought to be due to perspective: our view from Earth looking straight into what is actually a barrel-shaped cloud of gas shrugged off by a dying central star. Hot blue gas near the energizing central star gives way to progressively cooler green and yellow gas at greater distances with the coolest red gas along the outer boundary. Credit: NASA/Hubble Heritage Team   ----  The Ring Nebula's distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like star reveal a new twist.  &quot;The nebula is not like a bagel, but rather, it's like a jelly doughnut, because it's filled with material in the middle,&quot; said C. Robert O'Dell of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He leads a research team that used Hubble and several ground-based telescopes to obtain the best view yet of the iconic nebula. The images show a more complex structure than astronomers once thought and have allowed them to construct the most precise 3-D model of the nebula.  &quot;With Hubble's detail, we see a completely different shape than what's been thought about historically for this classic nebula,&quot; O'Dell said. &quot;The new Hubble observations show the nebula in much clearer detail, and we see things are not as simple as we previously thought.&quot;   The Ring Nebula is about 2,000 light-years from Earth and measures roughly 1 light-year across. Located in the constellation Lyra, the nebula is a popular target for amateur astronomers. Read more: <a href=\"http://1.usa.gov/14VAOMk\" rel=\"nofollow\">1.usa.gov/14VAOMk</a>  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA image use policy.</a></b>  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b> enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.  <b>Follow us on <a href=\"http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter</a></b>  <b>Like us on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897?ref=tsd\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook</a></b>  <b>Find us on <a href=\"http://instagram.com/nasagoddard?vm=grid\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instagram</a></b>","keywords":["Planetary Nebula","nasa","nebula","hubble","hubblespacetelescope"],"location":"Greenbelt, MD","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001465","title":"Planetary Nebula"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001465/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001465~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":626,"size":20000,"height":639},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001465/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001465~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":626,"size":20000,"height":639},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001465/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001465~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20130314_Jupiter_m11204_HotSpots/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Jupiter"],"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2013-03-14T00:00:00Z","description":"Jupiter's bright Equatorial Zone swirls with dark patches, dubbed \"hot spots\" for their infrared glow. These holes in the ammonia clouds at the top of the atmosphere allow a glimpse into Jupiter's darker, hotter layers below. In 1995 NASA's Galileo spacecraft dropped a probe directly into a hot spot, taking the first and only in situ measurements of Jupiter's atmosphere. Now, movies recorded by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal that hot spots are not just local weather phenomena, but are in fact linked to much larger-scale atmospheric structures called Rossby waves.","description_508":"NASA postdoctoral fellow David Choi discusses his study of dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called \"hot spots,\" and their connection to large-scale atmospheric waves.","keywords":["Galileo","Infrared","Jupiter","Atmosphere","Cassini","Planets and Moons","Hot Spot","Rossby/planetary Waves"],"location":"Goddard Space Flight Center","media_type":"video","nasa_id":"GSFC_20130314_Jupiter_m11204_HotSpots","photographer":"Robert Andreoli, Greg Shirah, Ernie Wright, Trent Schindler, Lori Perkins","secondary_creator":"Dan Gallagher","title":"Jupiter's Hot Spots"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20130314_Jupiter_m11204_HotSpots/GSFC_20130314_Jupiter_m11204_HotSpots~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":22000,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20130314_Jupiter_m11204_HotSpots/GSFC_20130314_Jupiter_m11204_HotSpots~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":8400,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20130314_Jupiter_m11204_HotSpots/GSFC_20130314_Jupiter_m11204_HotSpots~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":3800,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20130314_Jupiter_m11204_HotSpots/GSFC_20130314_Jupiter_m11204_HotSpots~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":6800,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/GSFC_20130314_Jupiter_m11204_HotSpots/GSFC_20130314_Jupiter_m11204_HotSpots.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e052303/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2024-01-03T00:00:00Z","description":"iss070e052303 (Jan. 3, 2024) --- The sun's glint beams off the Atlantic Ocean revealing the island country of the Republic of Cabo Verde (left) off the coast of Africa in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above.","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"iss070e052303","title":"iss070e052303"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e052303/iss070e052303~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":2768,"width":4928,"size":1241088}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA17669/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"2014-02-11T15:20:02Z","description":"The dark region seen on the face of the sun at the end of March 2013 is a coronal hole just above and to the right of the middle of the picture, which is a source of fast solar wind leaving the sun in this image from NASA Solar Dynamic Observatory.","description_508":"The dark region seen on the face of the sun at the end of March 2013 is a coronal hole just above and to the right of the middle of the picture, which is a source of fast solar wind leaving the sun in this image from NASA Solar Dynamic Observatory.","keywords":["Sun","Solar Dynamics Observatory SDO"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA17669","secondary_creator":"NASA/SDO/AIA","title":"Pulses from the Sun"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA17669/PIA17669~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":37000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA17669/PIA17669~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":37000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA17669/PIA17669~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":1024,"width":1024,"size":75000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA02210/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"1999-08-19T14:15:01Z","description":"This contrast enhanced color picture of Neptune was acquired by NASA Voyager 2 on Aug. 14, 1989. As Voyager 2 approached Neptune, rapidly increasing image resolution is revealed striking new details. Bright, wispy clouds are seen overlying the Great Dar","description_508":"This contrast enhanced color picture of Neptune was acquired by NASA Voyager 2 on Aug. 14, 1989. As Voyager 2 approached Neptune, rapidly increasing image resolution is revealed striking new details. Bright, wispy clouds are seen overlying the Great Dar","keywords":["Neptune","Voyager"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA02210","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL","title":"Neptune"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA02210/PIA02210~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":13000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA02210/PIA02210~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":13000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA02210/PIA02210~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":1000,"width":1000,"size":37000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e064005/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2024-01-10T00:00:00Z","description":"iss070e064005 (Jan. 10, 2024) --- A portion of Mozambique's Bazaruto Archipelago, a national park ceated to protect marine wildlife, on the southern coast of the African nation is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above.","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"iss070e064005","title":"iss070e064005"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e064005/iss070e064005~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":169000,"height":853},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e064005/iss070e064005~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":51000,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e064005/iss070e064005~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":51000,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e064005/iss070e064005~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":336000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e064005/iss070e064005~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3712,"width":5568,"size":3250585}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/art002m1200912222_Liftoff_1/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2026-04-01T00:00:00Z","description":"Launch pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida falls away as Artemis II lifts off of Earth, as seen from a camera on the exterior of the Orion spacecraft. Artemis II launched at 6:35 p.m. EDT on April 1, 2026, with the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket setting Orion and its crew of four on their way for an approximately 10-day journey around the Moon and back.","description_508":"Launch pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida falls away as Artemis II lifts off of Earth, as seen from a camera on the exterior of the Orion spacecraft. Artemis II launched at 6:35 p.m. EDT on April 1, 2026, with the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket setting Orion and its crew of four on their way for an approximately 10-day journey around the Moon and back.","keywords":["Artemis II","Artemis II mission","Artemis 2 mission","Orion","liftoff"],"media_type":"video","nasa_id":"art002m1200912222_Liftoff_1","title":"Orion Camera View of Artemis II Liftoff","album":["Artemis_II","Artemis_II_Inflight_Video"]}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/art002m1200912222_Liftoff_1/art002m1200912222_Liftoff_1~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":23978,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/art002m1200912222_Liftoff_1/art002m1200912222_Liftoff_1~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":9463,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/art002m1200912222_Liftoff_1/art002m1200912222_Liftoff_1~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":3838,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/art002m1200912222_Liftoff_1/art002m1200912222_Liftoff_1~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":7137,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/art002m1200912222_Liftoff_1/art002m1200912222_Liftoff_1.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e035893/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2023-12-04T00:00:00Z","description":"iss070e035893 (Dec. 4, 2023) --- Islands along the Greek coast and the Ambracian Gulf (upper left) are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above the Ionian Sea.","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"iss070e035893","title":"iss070e035893"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e035893/iss070e035893~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":114000,"height":853},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e035893/iss070e035893~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":32000,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e035893/iss070e035893~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":32000,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e035893/iss070e035893~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":245000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e035893/iss070e035893~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3712,"width":5568,"size":2936012}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00123/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JPL","date_created":"1996-01-29T14:44:56Z","description":"This color image of the Earth was obtained by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft early Dec. 12, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.6 million miles from the Earth.  http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00123","description_508":"This color image of the Earth was obtained by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft early Dec. 12, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.6 million miles from the Earth.","keywords":["Earth","Galileo"],"media_type":"image","nasa_id":"PIA00123","secondary_creator":"NASA/JPL","title":"Earth - Pacific Ocean"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00123/PIA00123~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":31000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00123/PIA00123~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":31000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA00123/PIA00123~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":800,"width":800,"size":48000}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e034016/collection.json","data":[{"center":"JSC","date_created":"2023-11-30T00:00:00Z","description":"iss070e034016 (Nov. 30, 2023) --- Earth's atmosphere refract's the Moon's light as it sets below the horizon in this photograph from the International Space Station while orbiting 260 miles above the Pacific Ocean.","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"iss070e034016","title":"iss070e034016"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e034016/iss070e034016~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":65000,"height":853},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e034016/iss070e034016~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":20000,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e034016/iss070e034016~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":20000,"height":426},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e034016/iss070e034016~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":128000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/iss070e034016/iss070e034016~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":3712,"width":5568,"size":1435648}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GRC-2024-C-02645/collection.json","data":[{"album":["2024_Total_Solar_Eclipse"],"center":"GRC","date_created":"2024-04-08T00:00:00Z","description":"A total solar eclipse is seen from NASA's Glenn Research Center, Monday, April 8, 2024, in Cleveland, Ohio. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of Central America and Europe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Jordan Salkin) ","keywords":["NASA/GRC/Jordan Salkin","Total Solar Eclipse","Eclipse","Glenn","NASA Glenn Research Center","Composite","Composite","Total Solar Eclipse 2024","Eclipse 2024","Moon","Sun"],"location":"NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GRC-2024-C-02645","photographer":"NASA/GRC/Jordan Salkin","title":"2024 Total Solar Eclipse"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GRC-2024-C-02645/GRC-2024-C-02645~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":30000,"height":854},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GRC-2024-C-02645/GRC-2024-C-02645~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":10000,"height":427},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GRC-2024-C-02645/GRC-2024-C-02645~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":10000,"height":427},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GRC-2024-C-02645/GRC-2024-C-02645~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":60000,"height":1281},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GRC-2024-C-02645/GRC-2024-C-02645~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image","height":4004,"width":6000,"size":5662310}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Horizontal Video/collection.json","data":[{"center":"HQ","date_created":"2026-01-14T00:00:00Z","description":"The AVATAR (A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response) investigation will use organ-on-a-chip devices, or organ chips, to study the effects of deep space radiation and microgravity on human health. The chips will contain cells from Artemis II astronauts and fly side-by-side with crew on their approximately 10-day journey around the Moon. This research, combined with other studies on the health and performance of Artemis II astronauts, will give NASA insight into how to best protect astronauts as exploration expands to the surface of the Moon, Mars, and beyond. For more information: go.nasa.gov/4m5dGH9","description_508":"AVATAR payload aboard Artemis II","keywords":["AVATAR","Artemis II","Artemis Science","Biological & Physical Sciences","SMD"],"media_type":"video","nasa_id":"Artemis II Science - AVATAR Horizontal Video","title":"Artemis II Science - AVATAR Horizontal Video","album":["AVATAR","Artemis_II"]}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Horizontal Video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Horizontal Video~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":800,"size":34477,"height":450},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Horizontal Video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Horizontal Video~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":400,"size":15474,"height":225},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Horizontal Video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Horizontal Video~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":200,"size":5852,"height":112},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Horizontal Video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Horizontal Video~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":300,"size":10301,"height":168},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Horizontal Video/Artemis II Science - AVATAR Horizontal Video.srt","rel":"captions"}]},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001861/collection.json","data":[{"album":["Test"],"center":"GSFC","date_created":"2017-12-08T00:00:00Z","description":"Full Moon. Rises at sunset, high in the sky around midnight. Visible all night.  This marks the first time that accurate shadows at this level of detail are possible in such a computer simulation. The shadows are based on the global elevation map being developed from measurements by the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). LOLA has already taken more than 10 times as many elevation measurements as all previous missions combined.  The Moon always keeps the same face to us, but not exactly the same face. Because of the tilt and shape of its orbit, we see the Moon from slightly different angles over the course of a month. When a month is compressed into 12 seconds, as it is in this animation, our changing view of the Moon makes it look like it's wobbling. This wobble is called libration.  The word comes from the Latin for &quot;balance scale&quot; (as does the name of the zodiac constellation Libra) and refers to the way such a scale tips up and down on alternating sides. The sub-Earth point gives the amount of libration in longitude and latitude. The sub-Earth point is also the apparent center of the Moon's disk and the location on the Moon where the Earth is directly overhead.  The Moon is subject to other motions as well. It appears to roll back and forth around the sub-Earth point. The roll angle is given by the position angle of the axis, which is the angle of the Moon's north pole relative to celestial north. The Moon also approaches and recedes from us, appearing to grow and shrink. The two extremes, called perigee (near) and apogee (far), differ by more than 10%.  The most noticed monthly variation in the Moon's appearance is the cycle of phases, caused by the changing angle of the Sun as the Moon orbits the Earth. The cycle begins with the waxing (growing) crescent Moon visible in the west just after sunset. By first quarter, the Moon is high in the sky at sunset and sets around midnight. The full Moon rises at sunset and is high in the sky at midnight. The third quarter Moon is often surprisingly conspicuous in the daylit western sky long after sunrise.  Celestial north is up in these images, corresponding to the view from the northern hemisphere. The descriptions of the print resolution stills also assume a northern hemisphere orientation. To adjust for southern hemisphere views, rotate the images 180 degrees, and substitute &quot;north&quot; for &quot;south&quot; in the descriptions.  Credit: <a href=\"http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio</a>  <b><a href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></b> enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.  <b>Follow us on <a href=\"http://twitter.com/NASA_GoddardPix\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter</a></b>  <b>Join us on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897?ref=tsd\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook</a></b>  <b>Find us on <a href=\"http://web.stagram.com/n/nasagoddard/?vm=grid\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instagram</a></b>","keywords":["Full Moon","moon","nasa","lunareclipse","lro","lundar","goddardspaceflightcenter"],"location":"Greenbelt, MD","media_type":"image","nasa_id":"GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001861","title":"Full Moon"}],"links":[{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001861/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001861~medium.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1280,"size":184000,"height":1280},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001861/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001861~small.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":640,"size":50000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001861/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001861~thumb.jpg","rel":"preview","render":"image","width":640,"size":50000,"height":640},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001861/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001861~large.jpg","rel":"alternate","render":"image","width":1920,"size":381000,"height":1920},{"href":"https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001861/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001861~orig.jpg","rel":"canonical","render":"image"}]}]}}