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Tycho's Supernova, the red circle visible in the upper left part of the image, is SN 1572 is a remnant of a star explosion is named after the astronomer Tycho Brahe, although he was not the only person to obser More

This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) takes in several interesting objects in the constellation Cassiopeia, none of which are easily seen in visible light. The red circle visible in More

Tycho's Supernova, the red circle visible in the upper left part of the image, is SN 1572 is a remnant of a star explosion is named after the astronomer Tycho Brahe, although he was not the only person to obser More

Imagine yourself standing in a large open chamber like an aircraft hangar. If you clap your hands, you will be rewarded with a series of echoes reverberating through the building. These sound echoes are very mu More

*Description*: This black and white picture of Jupiter, taken in green light at 1:14 a.m. on the 11th March, 1991 by the Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows a wealth of fine detail in the More

*Description*: This is the first true-color photograph of the giant planet Jupiter from the Wide Field Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. All features in this image are cloud formations in the More

*Description*: Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display in this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar e More

*Description*: Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display in this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar e More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: White Sands Missile Range State: New Mexico (NM) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: STS-61 mission specialist Story Musgrave stands on the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm above the Endeavour's payload bay during an Extravehicular Ac More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken of the Earth limb from the shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), E More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: The Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere/ Shuttle Pallet Satellite (CRISTA-SPAS) 02 grows larger over the Earth limb as th More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from the Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (F More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from the Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (F More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FRO More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FRO More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FRO More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from the Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (F More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FRO More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken of the Earth limb from the shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), E More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FRO More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken of the Earth limb from the shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), E More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken of the Earth limb from the shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), E More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken of the Earth limb from the shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), E More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FRO More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken of the Earth limb from the shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), E More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FRO More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FRO More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FRO More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FRO More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FRO More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FRO More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FRO More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Earth limb and terminator. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITE More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FRO More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken of the Earth limb from the shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), E More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken of the Earth limb from the shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), E More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken of the Earth limb from the shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), E More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from the Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH OBSERVATIONS (F More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: The Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere/ Shuttle Pallet Satellite (CRISTA-SPAS) 02 grows larger over the Earth limb as th More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Extravehicular Activity (EVA) 4 on Flight Day 7 - handheld camera views - of the Hubble Space Telescope second servicing mission (HST SM-02). Mission Sp More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Typhoon Josie (013-27). Shuttle payload bay and Earth limb (028-29, More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken of the Earth limb from the shuttle orbiter Discovery during STS-82 mission. Subject Terms: STS-82, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), E More

Close-up view of Stephan's Quintet, a group of five galaxies. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image showcases three regions of star birth: Long, sweeping tail and spiral arms of NGC 7319 (near center), the More

*Description*: Hubble's variable nebula is named (like the Hubble telescope itself) after the American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble, who carried out some of the early studies of this object. It is a fan-shaped c More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observations taken during the STS-103 mission from the space shuttle Discovery. Subject Terms: EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE), STS-103 Date Tak More

*Description*: Astronomers have combined information from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope's visible- and infrared-light cameras to show the hearts of four spiral galaxies peppered with ancient populations of s More

*Description*: This troupe of four galaxies, known as Hickson Compact Group 87 (HCG 87), is performing an intricate dance orchestrated by the mutual gravitational forces acting between them. The dance is a slo More

These four images show frisbee shaped dust disks, called protoplanetary disks, around embryonic stars in the Orion Nebula being blowtorched by a blistering flood of ultraviolet radiation from the region's brig More

*Description*: Hubble's variable nebula is named (like the Hubble telescope itself) after the American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble, who carried out some of the early studies of this object. It is a fan-shaped c More

*Description*: Astronomers have used the NASA Hubble Space Telescope to produce an infrared "photo essay" of spiral galaxies. By penetrating the dust clouds swirling around the centers of these galaxies, the t More

*Description*: The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest view yet of the most famous of all planetary nebulae: the Ring Nebula (M57). In this October 1998 image, the telescope has looked down a More

*Description*: This troupe of four galaxies, known as Hickson Compact Group 87 (HCG 87), is performing an intricate dance orchestrated by the mutual gravitational forces acting between them. The dance is a slo More

*[top left] - *:This radio image of the galaxy M87, taken with the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in February 1989, shows giant bubble-like structures where radio emission is thought to be powered by th More

Astronomers, using the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in October and November 1997 and April 1999, imaged the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) with unprecedented clarity. For the f More

*Description*: This illustration shows that the Kuiper Belt is shaped like a disk [see inset diagram] and resides within the shell-like structure of the Oort Cloud. Located on the outskirts of the solar system More

*Description*: When 17th-century astronomers first turned their telescopes to Jupiter, they noted a conspicuous reddish spot on the giant planet. This Great Red Spot is still present in Jupiter's atmosphere, m More

*Description*: This active region of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), as photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, unveils wispy clouds of hydrogen and oxygen that swirl and mix with du More

*Description*: A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "natural color" image of the material surrounding the star Eta Carinae, as imaged by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC-2). The Camera was installed in the Hu More

*Description*: This active region of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), as photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, unveils wispy clouds of hydrogen and oxygen that swirl and mix with du More

These eerie, dark pillar-like structures are columns of cool interstellar hydrogen gas and dust that are also incubators for new stars. The pillars protrude from the interior wall of a dark molecular cloud like More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: BILL NYE TOURS VISITOR CENTER, SCIENCE ON A SPHERE WITH DR. JIM GARVIN,ASTROBIOLOGY LAB IN BLDG 34 WITH JASON DWORKIN AND JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE BLD More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: BILL NYE TOURS VISITOR CENTER, SCIENCE ON A SPHERE WITH DR. JIM GARVIN,ASTROBIOLOGY LAB IN BLDG 34 WITH JASON DWORKIN AND JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE BLD More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: BILL NYE TOURS VISITOR CENTER, SCIENCE ON A SPHERE WITH DR. JIM GARVIN,ASTROBIOLOGY LAB IN BLDG 34 WITH JASON DWORKIN AND JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE BLD More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENT 2009 - SPEAKERS :GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR ROB STRAIN ,NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN, ASTRONAUT More

[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-30706-06] Official delegation from Pakistan, posing in front of "The Expanding Universe" statue and fountain in south courtyard of Harry S. Truman Building [Photographer: Ann Thomas--State]

[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-30706-06] Official delegation from Pakistan, posing in front of "The Expanding Universe" statue and fountain in south courtyard of Harry S. Truman Building [Photographer: Ann Thomas--State]

[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-30706-06] Official delegation from Pakistan, posing in front of "The Expanding Universe" statue and fountain in south courtyard of Harry S. Truman Building [Photographer: Ann Thomas--State]

[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-30706-06] Official delegation from Pakistan, posing in front of "The Expanding Universe" statue and fountain in south courtyard of Harry S. Truman Building [Photographer: Ann Thomas--State]

[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-30706-06] Official delegation from Pakistan, posing in front of "The Expanding Universe" statue and fountain in south courtyard of Harry S. Truman Building [Photographer: Ann Thomas--State]

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observations taken by the STS-125 crew aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. Subject Terms: STS-125, Earth Observations (From Space) Date Taken: 5/ More