Mars at Closest Approach 2016 Copyright: Jesús Santos Garzás Details: Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD): 2016 August 9 Details: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160809.html
This dramatic view of the Pluto system is as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft saw it in July 2015. This animation, made with real images taken by New Horizons, begins with Pluto flying in for its clo...
This visualization shows gamma rays detected during 3C 279's big flare by the LAT instrument on NASA's Fermi satellite. The flare is an abrupt shower of "rain" that trails off toward the end of the...
A video composed images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager. The time-lapse covers 2015 May 5 - 2015 May 17 and features active region 2339.
A new video animation of dwarf planet Ceres, based on images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, provides dramatic flyover views of this heavily cratered, mysterious world. The images come from Dawn's...
This "movie" shows a series of LORRI images of Pluto and Charon taken at 13 different times spanning 6.5 days, from April 12 to April 18, 2015. During that time, the spacecraft's distance from Plut...
Sun rotation movie showing sunspot group AR 2192 crackling Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA Downloaded 2014 October 21 3:45 pm EDT http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/
A huge payoff from the longevity of the LRO mission is the repeat coverage obtained by the LROC Wide Angle Camera (WAC). The WAC has a very wide field-of-view (FOV), 90° in monochrome mode and 60° ...
A flight through the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, the most distant visible-light view of the universe. The redshifts of 5,333 galaxies were converted to distances to assemble a 3-D model of the data. T...
The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft captured several stunning images of Earth during a gravity assist swingby of its home planet on Aug. 2, 2005. Several hundred images, taken with the wide-angl...
The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft captured several stunning images of Earth during a gravity assist swingby of its home planet on Aug. 2, 2005. Several hundred images, taken with the wide-angl...
23-31 October 2012. Hurricane Sandy drifted up along the Gulf Stream from the Caribbean to the mid-Atlantic to become wedged between a stationary cold front over the Appalachians and a static high ...