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May 20, 2024 · Barred Spiral Galaxy. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)) Wednesday, May 1, 2024: A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the ...
Flip through Hubble's numerous Flickr albums and see astronauts at work in space, behind the scenes of mission operations, and Hubble's iconic images from nebulae to gravitational lens. M57, or the Ring Nebula, is a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a sun-like star. The tiny white dot in the center of the nebula is the star’s hot core ...
Mar 13, 2015 · Earth is revealed as a crescent — sunlight only partly from the perspective of the spacecraft. The first picture of Earth from deep space was taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 on Aug. 23, 1966. Earth is ...
Feb 22, 2024 · Here, a newborn star called HH 211, located around 1,000 light-years from Earth in the Perseus constellation, spews out supersonic streams of gas and dust into space, triggering visually stunning ...
Dec 21, 2020 · 90 Years of Our Changing Views of Earth. John Uri. Johnson Space Center. Dec 21, 2020. Article. Indirect evidence of the Earth’s spherical shape has existed for a long time, but the photographic proof was lacking until well into the 20th century. The ancient Greeks believed the Earth was round and calculated its circumference with remarkable ...
Date : March 9, 2016. Orbiting from a million miles away, NASA's DSCOVR satellite always views this sunlit half of our planet. This allowed it to take 13 images of the moon's shadow as it raced ...
Nov 22, 2023 · Images of Earth from space are now so commonplace that it’s hard to fathom the pre-spaceflight era—a time when people were forced to use their imaginations instead. The first suborbital images ...
