https://www.nasa.gov/image-of-the-day/ Events collected by UnlimitedPipe 0.3.2 UnlimitedPipe 0.3.2 Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:36:46 +0000 https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/a-galaxy-spinning-out-of-sync/ ccd9af6555ca69b4ffd6 Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:54:00 +0000 Though the spiral galaxy in this ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nasa-navigation-experiment-shows-promise-for-landing-on-other-planets/ fb54d2a78e3cbe70d0d7 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:36:00 +0000 An Alta-X drone flies an advanced guidance and navigation system known as the Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) experiment near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/stsci-h-p26023a-m-2000x1207/ 1da713d1ab7702ee51a3 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 An image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of galaxy cluster MACS J0417 is part of repeated observations to monitor for the reappearance of supernova Athena, which can help astronomers measure the expansion rate of the universe. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/m101-lg/ 5811f00abd1e3cd1a60d Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike any they have seen before. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nasas-inspiration-tour-at-mt-bank-stadium/ 5ad316d62ebb09d78383 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 NASA astronaut and commander of the agency’s Artemis II mission, Reid Wiseman, a Baltimore native, takes a selfie with fans at an NFL game between the New Orleans Saints and the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026, in Baltimore. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/cosi-2026july-01/ 06b80ca9cd2656d440d1 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 UC Berkeley engineers and managers watch as the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) detector assembly is slowly raised from a table in this July 8, 2026, image. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/the-shuttle-enterprise-with-star-trek-cast/ 50cf5d16f94d7d3f007c Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 The rollout ceremony for NASA’s first space shuttle, OV-101, coincided with Constitution Day of the nation’s bicentennial on Sept.17, 1976. Although the orbiter was originally planned to be named Constitution, Star Trek fans successfully convinced President Gerald Ford to name it Enterprise after the series’ fictional starship. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/krakatau-oli-20260905-lrg/ 092aa1008c4d00bba72d Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 Anak Krakatau erupts ash and volcanic gases in this image acquired with the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 on Sept. 5, 2026. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-1307/ c57d8c5cef1c5b0c05b5 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik (left) and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano view progress on the solid rocket booster integration in High Bay 3 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nasas-inspiration-tour-at-acrisure-stadium/ 66f9d696dcdefc52612e Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 Fans pose for a photo with an astronaut in the NASA Experience Zone at an NFL game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Atlanta Falcons at Acrisure Stadium, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/galaxies-iizw096/ c1326cbcb594cf29dab9 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 Galaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct. A gallery from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes displays a collection of galactic images that showcase this variety. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/55459350878-2e1468b664-o/ d091e2635f67b8477737 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have discovered that dust and water can form and survive surprisingly close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/msfc-09012026-artemis-ii-crew-visit-at-msfc-1orig/ 4401aceb4d5573fbeddc Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission visited NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama on Sept. 1, 2026. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-n44-wfc3-large/ 1c5b654ab4246c8f08d6 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of stars of different ages. One of its most distinctive features, however, is the dark, starry gap called a “superbubble,” visible in this Hubble Space Telescope image in the upper central region. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-nhq202606170001/ 97d0aef856358e7472c7 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 On Wednesday, June 17, skywatchers across the United States—and parts of Canada—enjoyed a rare event: a daytime lunar occultation of Venus. A lunar occultation occurs when the Moon moves directly in front of another celestial object from our viewpoint on Earth, briefly hiding it from sight. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-nhq202608300037/ 95744d014570bd3ae7e4 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The mission launched at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Aug. 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-maf_20260827_lunareclipse_01/ 441756b4cd141c5f2d46 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 A lunar eclipse is visible over southern Louisiana. The lunar eclipse was visible throughout much of North and South America and part of Europe and Africa between Aug. 27-28. The Full Moon slipped through Earth’s shadow on Aug. 27, continuing into Aug. 28 for some parts of the world, resulting in the lunar eclipse. At maximum eclipse, the Moon takes on a dramatic dark, ruddy or coppery tint along the covered edge. New Orleans is home to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, where stages for NASA’s… https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-ksc-20260825-ph-rcr01_0045/ 18845d48fd381d0ddd50 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 Technicians prepare to transfer the #2 RS-25 SLS (Space Launch System) rocket engine (front) to the work stand with the #3 engine (back) for integration with the Artemis III core stage rocket on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During Artemis III, the four RS‑25 engines will launch the Orion spacecraft and its crew of four into low Earth orbit, generating more than two million pounds of thrust at liftoff. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-launch-2/ 77b7f6cc1e47ca181dfe Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope on board is seen transiting the sun during launch from Launch Complex 39A, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/20260828-120552-jk1-3999-2/ 630da16b79300ceee7ee Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 President Donald J. Trump awarded NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on Aug. 28, 2026, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nasa-civil-servant-swearing-in-ceremony/ a2ef09128b3ab0b18ca6 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 New civil servants and guests pose for a group photo with NASA and Center leadership in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) 80-by-120-foot test section, N221. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-1305/ b284273c7267f4ea75e5 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, encapsulated in its payload fairing, travels to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gmt230_ehdc1-2/ 89b19ba089e026559120 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 From left, Expedition 75 flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA (partially obscured and wearing the spacesuit with a red stripe on the legs) and Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) work together during a six‑hour and 23‑minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/freedom-250-grand-prix/ 2b44309af90df5470ea7 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, is seen in the two-seat IndyCar as he prepares for driver Conor Daly to take him on a lap in the fastest seat in sport ahead of the start of the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky) https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/webb-opens-a-treasure-chest-filled-with-stars/ 7eab33e3f5fc79b5a200 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month takes us to a fantastical realm within our home galaxy, where piercing starlight and billowing winds sculpt dust clouds into inventive shapes. This scene is from the Carina Nebula, which lies just 7500 light-years away in the constellation Carina (the Keel). https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-1304/ f72ef5f83393460e7a2c Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 A NASA jacket containing Artemis I and II mission patches, along with other NASA patches hangs on the back of a chair on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, inside Firing Room 1 of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a terminal countdown simulation for the Artemis III mission. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/stsci-01kz4n4d8g9ak26cf28hd5nt5n-d2d764/ 48d24d4022670ff2b92d Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 About 12 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy known as LKH collided with a young Milky Way and merged with it. This artist’s concept portrays that collision. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope uncovered definitive evidence of this collision by studying globular star clusters. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/jsc2026e407303/ f52f2ee2c3d38fb95892 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 NASA's Boeing 777 returns to the agency's Langley Research Center after receiving a new paint scheme. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/30dor-crop/ 14f16331f2cd487694e9 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 Like a collage made of layered sheets of colored cellophane, a vibrant new image layers observations of a famous star-forming nebula from NASA space telescopes. The resulting cosmic “craft” reveals new details about the star formation region known as 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/2026-total-solar-eclipse-3/ bda887bd21d07f219bb2 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 This composite image shows the progression of a total solar eclipse over San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain on, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/perseidsorion-2/ 49260a0695edf763ac51 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 The constellation Orion is framed by two Perseid meteors on Aug. 12, 2018, in Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/2026-total-solar-eclipse-2/ dd362c65491553f07a21 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 A total solar eclipse is seen from San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/stsci-01kx6d0xbhsyp7q1em5qtc43rp/ 871c72035cda597b6174 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope imaged the planetary nebula NGC 2392, the Lion Nebula, using the observatory’s NIRCam and MIRI instruments. The central star’s remains are responsible for the nebula’s structure, including a lion face-shaped bubble of ionized gas and dust “mane.” https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/iss075e0000191/ 38ceea6618a546c3449e Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 commander Jessica Meir wears a set of virtual reality goggles, also called the Nevada Screening Vision System, for a test that measures visual function using a series of vision screening apps testing visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, and more. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/ixpemagnetarartistsconcept-web/ b40dd920db6701ec8a16 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. The results published Wednesday in Nature. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/55412014375-711b8f02f7-o/ cb1f8f6469314c8b9956 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 NASA astronaut candidate Adam Fuhrmann prepares for a training flight aboard NASA’s WB-57 aircraft. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/ksc-20260730-ph-as01-6583-2/ 7f44b9f8cbc58f5763e9 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 Engineers connect the Orion crew and service modules for the Artemis III mission inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-1303/ 65ae72771837ddec51d6 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 Technicians inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center complete installation of a commemorative plaque on the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, as photographed on Tuesday, July 28, 2026. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/bijagosarchipelago-oli-20251128-lrg/ 7f08351a8266096e4180 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 Relatively low tidal waters expose sandflats and mudflats in the Bijagós Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau in this image acquired on November 28, 2025, with the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8. These coastal landforms support an array of invertebrates, making the archipelago a popular stopover for migratory shorebirds. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/fdrf-ribbon-cutting-ceremony-at-nasa-langley/ cfd7d25cd4e20920c485 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 NASA opened its newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, providing a critical resource for the agency and its partners to test the safety and performance of future generations of aircraft, rockets, and space exploration vehicles. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/stsci-01kvt4gqmq5mxv6xdpfpzmxg65-30d932/ 17beffb3be820bd24b9c Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, exposing the dusty structures and hidden activity that shape this unusual system. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia22076-2/ 76d1bf76238c3166b8fc Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 This illustration depicts charged particles from a solar storm stripping away charged particles of Mars' atmosphere, one of the processes of Martian atmosphere loss studied by NASA's MAVEN mission. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/expedition-74-soyuz-landing/ 36dd1ca7b7f1219386f0 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 NASA astronaut Chris Williams is seen outside the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft after he landed with Expedition 74 Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and Sergei Mikaev in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Sunday, July 26, 2026. The trio returned to Earth after logging 241 days in space as a members of Expeditions 73 and 74 aboard the International Space Station. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/iss074e0814792/ 9b4e59efeee782e95e90 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a portrait while holding a cake celebrating their recent arrival aboard the International Space Station. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/crews-move-artemis-iv-liquid-hydrogen-tank-for-proof-testing/ e645dc79839652d18a50 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside the main factory building into a detached test building on a separate portion of the 829-acre site. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/250th-ngc4736/ 85ba1793f648fd239dfe Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 Messier 94 is a spiral galaxy with a bright inner ring around it, called a starburst ring, where new stars are forming. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia26586/ 2b8580196b0f8f3d752d Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 This composite of images taken by NASA’s Psyche mission shows the crescent of Mars grow as the spacecraft approached the planet for a gravity assist from May 2 to May 15, 2026. Because Psyche approached Mars from a high phase angle, the planet appeared as a thin crescent in the days running up to the close approach, lit by sunlight reflecting off its surface. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/34280-mars-viking1-lander-1st-image-pia00381/ eedd4c32e84dba7df3fd Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 On the morning of July 20, 1976, roughly 40 minutes after mission controllers received word that the Viking 1 lander had successfully touched down on the surface of Mars, this photo gave us our first view from the surface of the Red Planet. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/lighthouse-lg/ 1672276be534f7f26052 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) directly measured the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101, a pulsar located within what is often referred to as the “Lighthouse” Nebula, for the first time. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/55380623885-a00df544bb-o/ eb8f4a21c9a7f8168e7b Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 In the Picture of the Month from the James Webb Space Telescope, we are taken on a visit to a building site of significant scale. The project is a galaxy cluster named MACS J0553.4-3342, located in the constellation Columba (the Dove). https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/expedition-75-launch-3/ 5d72134ad7d471b3f3a4 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 NASA astronaut candidate Anna Menon and her children watch as a Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 75 crewmembers NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/55382014220-1dd17df9c0-o/ 6a66f2da520bf26f71dd Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 A glowing landscape of gas and dust is heated and illuminated by a thriving population of young stars in the LH 95 region of the Large Magellanic Cloud. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/jsc2026e000758/ 5dc1d06f4fb422d49f72 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gmt177_ehdc1/ 932895263b75b5066e5f Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured above Earth from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles above a partly cloudy Indian Ocean southeast of Madagascar. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nasa-iotd-curiosity-takes-a-close-look-at-martian-sulfur-crystals/ 185097640e8f7bc75c25 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 These sulfur crystals were found inside a rock after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over it and crush it on May 30, 2024, the 4,200th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-m3-july4-final/ 2160028547f305ff9874 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows Messier 3, a densely packed cluster of stars whose origins may be a merger between globular clusters in the early universe. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/jsc2026e396761/ b0f1b67f2f75133cb254 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 The Artemis II crew participates in the dedication of the Apollo 14 Moon tree at the Lunar Receiving Park at NASA's Johnson Space Center. This tree is a second-generation Apollo Moon tree of the loblolly pine species. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nasa-at-the-great-american-state-fair/ bc746798dd790a0a352a Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman leads a flyover featuring his personally owned F-5 Tiger during the Great American State Fair on July 4, 2026, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/iss074e0779393/ e967f4c7fa105424482e Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 A bright orange sunburst illuminates Earth's atmosphere during an orbital sunrise in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles above the Caucasus Mountains. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/stargazer-aircraft-with-link-spacecraft-at-nasa-wallops/ fda6e762d69e1e7bc97c Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 A Katalyst engineer runs tests on LINK while the satellite is inside the Pegasus XL rocket attached to the Stargazer aircraft at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the evening of Tuesday, June 16, 2026. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/55357496142-295d2a4b87-o/ 7d961a409f77a4d9e93d Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster NGC 6723, sometimes called the Chandelier Cluster. https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/iss074e0760514/ 7fe515975bf54780d38c Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:05:26 +0000 Flight engineer Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) assists flight engineer Chris Williams of NASA as he tries on his spacesuit, testing its comfort and mobility as well as its communications and life support systems inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock.