Get pulled in…
Get pulled in… This image of a pair of galaxies – one elliptical (left) and the other spiral (right) – reveals something special: the supe...Read More
Why does it take so long for pirates to learn the alphabet?
Why does it take so long for pirates to learn the alphabet? : They can spend years lost at C. 🏴☠️ This #TalkLikeAPirateDay, avast ye an...Read More
Don’t cross the streams! 👻
Don’t Cross The Streams! : Thankfully, it wasn’t as bad as the Ghostbusters feared. Astronomers using @NASAChandraXray found a galaxy clu...Read More
Swipe for a cosmic spider 🕸️
Swipe for a cosmic spider 🕸️ : Our orbiting @NASAHubble telescope caught this glimpse of the Red Spider Nebula, a planetary nebula 3,000 ...Read More
Fishing and farming in Minais Gerais
Fishing and farming in Minais Gerais : Astronaut Loral O'Hara captured this photo of the Três Marias Reservoir, a human-made body of w...Read More
You’re gonna hear me roar
You’re gonna hear me roar : Have no fear: what might look like a nightmarish beast throwing its head back in an angry red sea is just a pi...Read More
You’d have to stop the world just to stop the feeling ✨
You’d have to stop the world just to stop the feeling : Observing Earth from space can alter an astronaut’s cosmic perspective, a mental...Read More
Today, we remember
Today, we remember. NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson was aboard the International Space Station on Sept. 11, 2001. He took this photo of Ne...Read More
If you got it, flaunt it
If you got it, flaunt it : This stylish sphere, spotted by @NASAHubble, is known as the Bubble Nebula. Residing 7,100 light-years from Eart...Read More
Look up at the Moon with NASA this weekend!
Look up at the Moon with NASA this weekend! Saturday, Sept. 14 is International Observe the Moon Night, and we're inviting you to joi...Read More
What’re you looking at? 🐢
What’re you looking at? : Our @NASAKennedy center is home to rockets that launch @NASAAstronauts and satellites into space—but it’s also a h...Read More
Some give their children the world, others give them space. ⭐
Some give their children the world, others give them space : Our Galileo spacecraft was named for a father of modern astronomy, Galileo Ga...Read More
Stand out above the crowd
Stand out above the crowd : This is NGC 2005. It’s a glittery star cluster – a globular cluster – and it’s kinda weird. NGC 2005’s stars ...Read More
Messier 94: a cosmic crossover that goes beyond the ice rink
Messier 94: a cosmic crossover that goes beyond the ice rink - and into space! Captured here by @NASAHubble, the spiral galaxy M94 is loca...Read More
Purple rain… purple rain ☂️
Purple rain… purple rain : The purple color in this video shows auroras across Mars’ nightside as detected by the Imaging Ultraviolet Spe...Read More
All that you change changes you.
All that you change changes you : In a patch of the autumn sky that contains the constellations Perseus, Andromeda, and Triangulum, a beauti...Read More
Ring ring! @NASAWebb calling
Ring ring! @NASAWebb calling This image of the Southern Ring Nebula was one of the very first that the James Webb Space Telescope shared...Read More
Oh, Neptune.
Oh, Neptune : Our Voyager 2 spacecraft captured this image of Neptune’s south pole as it sped away from the planet in 1989. Here’s one co...Read More
New whip, who this?
New whip, who this? @Boeing’s Starliner pulls into the orbital driveway of the International Space Station (@ISS) carrying two @NASAAstro...Read More
Chilling out in Brazil 🌊
Chilling out in Brazil 🌊 Located to the east of Rio de Janeiro, Cabo Frio is Portuguese for "Cape Cold" — so named because the o...Read More
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