Your search criteria found 1307 images
Gallery: Universe
Go to PIAxxxxx:
Refine this list of images by:
Target:
Mission:
Spacecraft:
Instrument:
Click on an image for detailed information
Click on a column heading to sort in ascending or descending order
My
List		 Addition Date Target MissionSort Descending Instrument Size
Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-11 Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
 2000x1125x3
This artist's concept showcases both the visible and infrared visualizations of the Orion Nebula, looking down a 'valley' leading to the star cluster at far end.
PIA22089:
Visible and Infrared Visualization of the Orion Nebula (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.841 MB)     JPEG (94.93 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-31 Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
 1608x2048x3
This image of distant interacting galaxies, known collectively as Arp 142, bears an uncanny resemblance to a penguin guarding an egg. Data from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have been combined to show these dramatic galaxies.
PIA22092:
Arp 142: The Penguin and the Egg
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.359 MB)     JPEG (144.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2018-08-09 Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
 15556x11667x3
Based on data from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, these simulated views of the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b show what the planet might look like from five different vantage points, illuminated to different degrees by its parent star.
PIA22565:
Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b
Full Resolution:     TIFF (23.61 MB)     JPEG (3.002 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2019-05-08 Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
 IRAC
 1600x900x3
This deep-field view of the sky taken by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes is dominated by galaxies.
PIA23123:
A Field of Galaxies Seen by Spitzer and Hubble
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.124 MB)     JPEG (245.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-04 Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
 1780x1001x3
The image shows galaxy Arp 148, captured by NASA's Spitzer and Hubble telescopes. Specially processed Spitzer data is shown inside the white circle, revealing infrared light from a supernova hidden by dust.
PIA24575:
Hidden Supernova Spotted by Spitzer
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.522 MB)     JPEG (128.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-23 Hubble Space Telescope
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
 WISE Telescope
 4095x2842x3
The tiny red spot in this image is one of the most efficient star-making galaxies ever observed, converting gas into stars at the maximum possible rate. The galaxy is shown here is from NASA's WISE, which first spotted the rare galaxy in infrared light.
PIA17005:
Galaxy Packs Big Star-Making Punch
Full Resolution:     TIFF (34.93 MB)     JPEG (1.316 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-10 Hubble Space Telescope
XMM-Newton
Chandra X-ray Observatory
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Very Large Array (VLA)
 1296x1024x3
This image of the Crab Nebula combines data from five different telescopes. It is know as the expanding gaseous remnant from a star that self-detonated as a supernova, briefly shining as brightly as 400 million suns.
PIA21474:
Crab Nebula from Five Observatories
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.823 MB)     JPEG (119.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-03 IRAS
 1200x601x3
Nearly the entire sky, as seen in infrared wavelengths and projected at one-half degree resolution, is shown in this image, assembled from six months of data from the NASA's Infrared Astronomical Satellite, or IRAS.
PIA12335:
Infrared Astronomical Satellite's View of the Sky
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.166 MB)     JPEG (48.08 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-17 IRAS
 1440x540x3
The image on the left shows an infrared view of the center of our Milky Way galaxy as seen by the 1983 Infrared Astronomical Satellite, which surveyed the whole sky with only 62 pixels. The image on the right shows an infrared view similar to what NASA's
PIA12465:
The Next Generation of Infrared Views
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.337 MB)     JPEG (115.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-17 IRAS
 720x540x3
This infrared view of the whole sky highlights the flat plane of our Milky Way galaxy (line across middle of image). NASA's WISE, will take a similar infrared census of the whole sky, only with much improved resolution and sensitivity.
PIA12467:
All-Sky Infrared Survey
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.168 MB)     JPEG (29.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-12 Star James Webb Space Telescope
 Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI)
 2258x1558x3
The two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 produce shells of dust every eight years that look like rings, as seen in this image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Each ring was created when the stars came close together and their stellar winds collided.
PIA25432:
Dust Rings in the Wolf-Rayet 140 System
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.995 MB)     JPEG (122.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-16 Kepler
 Photometer
 2385x2974x3
This star chart illustrates the large patch of sky that NASA's Kepler mission will stare at for the duration of its three-and-a-half-year lifetime.
PIA11983:
Where Kepler Sees
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.3 MB)     JPEG (573 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-16 NGC 6791 Kepler
 Photometer
 5876x5876x3
This image from NASA's Kepler mission shows the telescope's full field of view an expansive star-rich patch of sky in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra stretching across 100 square degrees, or the equivalent of two side-by-side dips of the Big Dipper.
PIA11984:
Kepler's Diamond Mine of Stars
Full Resolution:     TIFF (103.6 MB)     JPEG (7.193 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-16 NGC 6791 Kepler
 Photometer
 2400x1800x3
This image zooms into a small portion of NASA's Kepler's full field of view -- an expansive, 100-square-degree patch of sky in our Milky Way galaxy. At the center of the field is a star with a known 'hot Jupiter' planet, named 'TrES-2.'
PIA11985:
Host to 'Hot Jupiter'
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.327 MB)     JPEG (185.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-16 NGC 6791 Kepler
 Photometer
 2400x1800x3
This image zooms into a small portion of NASA's Kepler's full field of view, an expansive, 100-square-degree patch of sky in our Milky Way galaxy. An eight-billion-year-old cluster of stars 13,000 light-years from Earth, called NGC 6791, is seen here.
PIA11986:
Cluster of Stars in Kepler's Sight
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.327 MB)     JPEG (387.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-08-26 NGC 6791 Kepler
 3000x2400x3
This artist's concept illustrates the two Saturn-sized planets discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. The star system is oriented edge-on, as seen by Kepler, such that both planets cross in front, or transit, their star, named Kepler-9.
PIA13351:
Worlds on the Edge (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.6 MB)     JPEG (200.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-01-10 Kepler
 3600x2026x3
Artist's concept of the first rocky world discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. The planet, called Kepler 10-b, is shown in front of its host star.
PIA13776:
NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky Planet (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.88 MB)     JPEG (547.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-02-02 Kepler
 3300x2550x3
This artist's concept shows Kepler-11 -- the most tightly packed planetary system yet discovered.
PIA13833:
Kepler-11 Planetary System (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (25.25 MB)     JPEG (229.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-20 Kepler-20 Kepler
 4200x2700x3
This chart compares the first Earth-size planets found around a sun-like star to planets in our own solar system, Earth and Venus. NASA's Kepler mission discovered the newfound planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f.
PIA14886:
Earth-class Planets Line Up
Full Resolution:     TIFF (34.02 MB)     JPEG (440.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-20 Kepler-20 Kepler
 1280x720x3
This artist's concept flies through the Kepler-20 star system, where NASA's Kepler mission discovered the first Earth-size planets around a star beyond our own. The system is jam-packed with five planets.
PIA14887:
An Unusual Planetary System (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.768 MB)     JPEG (134.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-20 Kepler-20 Kepler
 4264x2400x3
Kepler-20e is the first planet smaller than the Earth discovered to orbit a star other than the sun. A year on Kepler-20e only lasts 6 days, as it is much closer to its host star than the Earth is to the sun.
PIA14888:
Kepler-20e -- The Smallest Exoplanet (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (30.7 MB)     JPEG (1.439 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-20 Kepler-20 Kepler
 4264x2400x3
Kepler-20f is the closest object to the Earth in terms of size ever discovered. With an orbital period of 20 days and a surface temperature of 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celsius), it is too hot to host life, as we know it.
PIA14889:
Kepler-20f -- An Earth-size World (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (30.7 MB)     JPEG (1.344 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-01-11 Kepler
 4268x2400x3
This artist's concept, based on data from NASA's Kepler mission and ground-based telescopes, depicts an itsy bitsy planetary system -- so compact, in fact, that it's more like Jupiter and its moons than a star and its planets.
PIA15257:
Mini Planetary System (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (30.73 MB)     JPEG (575.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-01-11 Kepler
 5400x2400x3
Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission and ground-based telescopes recently discovered the three smallest exoplanets known to circle another star, called KOI-961.01, KOI-961.02 and KOI-961.03.
PIA15258:
Sizing Up Exoplanets
Full Resolution:     TIFF (38.88 MB)     JPEG (484.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-01-11 Kepler
 3000x2000x3
This artist's conception compares the KOI-961 planetary system to Jupiter and the largest four of its many moons. The KOI-961 planetary system hosts the three smallest planets known to orbit a star beyond our sun.
PIA15259:
'Honey I Shrunk the Planetary System' (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (18 MB)     JPEG (175.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-05-21 Kepler
 1500x1200x3
This artist's concept depicts a comet-like tail of a possible disintegrating super Mercury-size planet candidate as it transits, or crosses, its parent star, named KIC 12557548. The results are based on data from NASA's Kepler mission.
PIA15629:
Possible Disintegrating Planet (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.41 MB)     JPEG (116.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-20 Kepler
 1067x600x3
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star like our sun, approximately 210 light-years away in the constellation Lyra.
PIA16693:
A Tiny Planet (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.922 MB)     JPEG (101.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-20 Kepler
 3600x1895x3
NASA's Kepler mission compares artist's concepts of the planets in the Kepler-37 system to the moon and planets in the solar system. The smallest planet, Kepler-37b, is slightly larger than our moon.
PIA16694:
A Moon-size Line Up (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (20.47 MB)     JPEG (204.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-04 Kepler
 5120x2880x3
This artist's concept depicts an ultra-dense dead star, called a white dwarf, passing in front of a small red star. NASA's planet-hunting Kepler was able to detect gravitational lensing by measuring a strangely subtle dip in the star's brightness.
PIA16885:
Dead Star Warps Light of Red Star (Artist's Animation) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (44.26 MB)     JPEG (907.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-04 Kepler
 3000x2400x3
This chart shows data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, which looks for planets by monitoring changes in the brightness of stars. As planets orbit in front of a star, they block the starlight, causing periodic dips.
PIA16886:
White Dwarfs: Small and Strong
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.61 MB)     JPEG (404.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-18 Kepler
 6112x4680x3
Relative sizes of Kepler habitable zone planets discovered as of 2013 April 18. Except for Earth, these are artists' renditions.
PIA16888:
Lining Kepler Habitable Zone Planets Up
Full Resolution:     TIFF (85.85 MB)     JPEG (1.055 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-18 Kepler
 3400x2400x3
This diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-62, a five-planet system about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. At seven billion years old, the star is somewhat older than the sun.
PIA16889:
Kepler-62 and the Solar System
Full Resolution:     TIFF (24.49 MB)     JPEG (379 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-18 Kepler
 3400x2400x3
This diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-69, a two-planet system about 2,700 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.
PIA17000:
Kepler-69 and the Solar System
Full Resolution:     TIFF (24.49 MB)     JPEG (346.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-18 Kepler
 4268x2400x3
The artist's concept depicts Kepler-62f, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the sun, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra.
PIA17001:
Kepler-62f, a Small Habitable Zone World (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (30.75 MB)     JPEG (1.432 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-18 Kepler
 4268x2400x3
This artist's concept depicts in the foreground planet Kepler-62f, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of its star, which is seen peeking out from behind the right edge of the planet.
PIA17002:
Morning Star (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (30.75 MB)     JPEG (1.245 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-18 Kepler
 4000x2251x3
The artist's concept depicts Kepler-69c, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star like our sun, located about 2,700 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.
PIA17003:
Super-Venus (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (27.02 MB)     JPEG (525.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-18 Kepler
 4268x2400x3
The artist's concept depicts Kepler-62e, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the sun, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra.
PIA17004:
Kepler-62e (Artist Concept) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (30.75 MB)     JPEG (1.774 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-17 Kepler
 4268x2400x3
This artist's concept shows a Super Venus planet on the left, and a Super Earth on the right. Researchers use a concept known as the habitable zone to distinguish between these two types of planets, which exist beyond our solar system.
PIA17250:
Toxic Wasteland or Lush Paradise? (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (30.75 MB)     JPEG (1.485 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-10-25 Kepler
 5333x3000x3
This artist's concept illustrates the fate of two different planets: the one on the left is similar to Earth, made up largely of silicate-based rocks with oceans coating its surface.
PIA17550:
A Tale of Two Worlds: Silicate Versus Carbon Planets (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (48.02 MB)     JPEG (793.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-04 Kepler
 3000x2400x3
This illustration shows the unusual orbit of planet Kepler-413b around a close pair of orange and red dwarf stars. The planet's 66-day orbit is tilted 2.5 degrees with respect to the plane of the binary stars' orbit.
PIA17836:
Wobbly Planet Orbital Schematic (Illustration)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.61 MB)     JPEG (345.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-27 Kepler
 1200x860x3
This illustration shows the unusual orbit of planet Kepler-413b around a close pair of orange and red dwarf stars. The planet's 66-day orbit is tilted 2.5 degrees with respect to the plane of the binary stars' orbit.
PIA17848:
Star System Bonanza (Illustration)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.097 MB)     JPEG (156.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-04-17 Kepler
 4534x2550x3
This artist's concept depicts Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone, a range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the planet's surface.
PIA17999:
Kepler-186f, the First Earth-size Planet in the Habitable Zone (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (34.71 MB)     JPEG (691.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-04-17 Kepler
 4534x2550x3
This diagram compares the planets of our inner solar system to Kepler-186, a five-planet star system about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.
PIA18000:
Kepler-186 and the Solar System
Full Resolution:     TIFF (34.71 MB)     JPEG (564.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-18 Kepler
 3000x2400x3
This artist concept shows NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft operating in a new mission profile called K2. Using publicly available data, astronomers have confirmed K2's first exoplanet discovery proving Kepler can still find planets.
PIA18904:
Reborn Kepler Discovers First K2 Exoplanet (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.61 MB)     JPEG (1.297 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-28 Kepler
 1920x1080x3
The tightly packed system, named Kepler-444, is home to five small planets in very compact orbits. The planets were detected from the dimming that occurs when they transit the disk of their parent star, as shown in this artist's conception.
PIA18910:
Kepler-444 Planetary System (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.223 MB)     JPEG (144.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-23 Kepler
 4534x2550x3
This artist's concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to our sun.
PIA19824:
Soaking up the Rays of a Sun-like Star (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (34.71 MB)     JPEG (403.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-23 Kepler
 4534x2550x3
Scientists used data from NASA's Kepler mission in this artist's concept confirming the first near-Earth-size planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a sun-like star.
PIA19825:
Earth's Bigger, Older Cousin (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (34.71 MB)     JPEG (497.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-23 Kepler
 3400x2400x3
This size and scale of the Kepler-452 system compared alongside the Kepler-186 system and the solar system. Kepler-186 is a miniature solar system that would fit entirely inside the orbit of Mercury.
PIA19826:
Planetary System Comparisons
Full Resolution:     TIFF (24.49 MB)     JPEG (341 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-23 Kepler
 4000x3000x3
Of the 1,030 confirmed planets from Kepler, a dozen are less than twice the size of Earth and reside in the habitable zone of their host stars. In this diagram, the sizes of the exoplanets are represented by the size of each sphere.
PIA19827:
Kepler's Small Habitable Zone Planets
Full Resolution:     TIFF (36.01 MB)     JPEG (382.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-23 Kepler
 4096x2304x3
A newly discovered exoplanet, Kepler-452b, comes the closest of any found so far to matching our Earth-sun system.
PIA19830:
Pantheon of Planets Similar to Earth (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (28.32 MB)     JPEG (411.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-21 Kepler
 1920x1080x3
The brilliant flash of an exploding star's shockwave -- what astronomers call the 'shock breakout' -- is illustrated in artist's concept based on NASA's Kepler.
PIA20065:
Caught: A Supernova Shock Breakout (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.283 MB)     JPEG (178.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2016-04-07 Kepler
 2400x2329x3
In a global experiment in exoplanet observation, the K2 mission and Earth-based observatories on six continents will survey millions of stars toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
PIA20070:
Map of Exoplanet Search Areas
Full Resolution:     TIFF (10.39 MB)     JPEG (264.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2016-06-20 Kepler
 4800x2700x3
K2-33b, shown in this illustration, is one of the youngest exoplanets detected to date using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.
PIA20690:
Exoplanet Orbits Youthful Star (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (27.26 MB)     JPEG (997.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2016-06-20 Kepler
 4294x2415x3
This image shows the K2-33 system, and its planet K2-33b, compared to our own solar system, as discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.
PIA20691:
Comparing K2-33 to our Solar System
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.788 MB)     JPEG (328 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2016-06-20 Kepler
 1260x658x3
When a planet such as K2-33b passes in front of its host star, it blocks some of the star's light.shown in this frame from an animation as discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.
PIA20692:
Young Star and Its Infant Planet (Artist's animation) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.433 MB)     JPEG (70.08 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2016-10-18 Kepler
 5000x3117x3
This illustration based on computer modeling and data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, represents how hot Jupiters of different temperatures and different cloud compositions might appear while flying over the dayside of these planets on a spaceship.
PIA21074:
Clouds on Hot Jupiters (Illustration)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (31.99 MB)     JPEG (1.181 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2016-10-21 Kepler
 4800x2700x3
This artist's concept depicts 'heartbeat stars,' which have been detected by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. Two heartbeat stars are seen swerving close to one another in their closest approach along their highly elongated orbits around one another.
PIA21075:
Heartbeat Stars (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (16.76 MB)     JPEG (600 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2017-04-12 Kepler
 1280x960x3
This artist's concept shows a hypothetical planet covered in water around the binary star system of Kepler-35A and B.
PIA21470:
Water World Artist Concept
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.278 MB)     JPEG (163.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2017-12-14 Kepler
 8700x2628x3
With the discovery of an eighth planet, NASA's Kepler-90 system is the first to tie with our solar system in number of planets. This is an artist's concept.
PIA22192:
Kepler-90 system (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (10.73 MB)     JPEG (573.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2017-12-14 Kepler
 1152x648x3
With the discovery of an eighth planet, NASA's Kepler-90 system is the first to tie with our solar system in number of planets. This is an artist's concept compared with our own solar system.
PIA22193:
Kepler-90 System Compared to Our Solar System (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (645.6 kB)     JPEG (50.32 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-11 Kepler
 5120x2880x3
This artist concept shows the K2-138 system, the first multi-planet system discovered by citizen scientists.
PIA22088:
Kepler K2-138 System (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (18.94 MB)     JPEG (551.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-26 Kepler
 1337x706x3
This image from an animation shows a gigantic star exploding in a 'core collapse' supernova. As molecules fuse inside the star, eventually the star can't support its own weight anymore.
PIA22350:
Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars (Core Collapse Supernova) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (586.8 kB)     JPEG (82.38 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-26 Kepler
 1339x705x3
This image from an animation shows the explosion of a white dwarf, an extremely dense remnant of a star that can no longer burn nuclear fuel at its core.
PIA22352:
Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars (Type Ia Supernova from a White Dwarf Stealing Matter) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.887 MB)     JPEG (92.24 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-26 Kepler
 1334x701x3
This image from an animation shows the merger of two white dwarfs. A white dwarf is an extremely dense remnant of a star that can no longer burn nuclear fuel at its core.
PIA22353:
Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars (Type Ia Supernova from a White Dwarf Merger) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (994.5 kB)     JPEG (59.68 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2018-03-26 Kepler
 1336x710x3
This image from an animation shows a kind of stellar explosion called a Fast-Evolving Luminous Transient. In this case, a giant star 'burp' out a shell of gas and dust about a year before exploding.
PIA22351:
Kepler Beyond Planets: Finding Exploding Stars (Type Felt Supernova) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (585.8 kB)     JPEG (79.56 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-15 Kepler
 3840x2160x3
This artist's concept shows exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star.
PIA23689:
Kepler Planet 1649c Artist's Illustration From Space
Full Resolution:     TIFF (15.27 MB)     JPEG (563.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-15 Kepler
 3840x2160x3
This artist's concept shows what exoplanet Kepler-1649c could look like on its surface.
PIA23690:
Kepler Planet 1649c Surface View Artist's Concept
Full Resolution:     TIFF (7.746 MB)     JPEG (315.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2020-04-15 Kepler
 3741x2244x3
This graphic compares the size of Earth and Kepler-1649c, an exoplanet only 1.06 times larger than Earth by radius.
PIA23774:
Comparing the Size of Exoplanet Kepler-1649c and Earth (Illustration)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.766 MB)     JPEG (479.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2016-10-07 Comet Kepler
Rosetta
 1786x1030x1
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft observed the comet during the final month of the Rosetta mission, while the comet was not visible from Earth. This is a frame from an animation composed of images from Kepler of the comet.
PIA21072:
Comet 67P Seen by Kepler Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (400.4 kB)     JPEG (46.74 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-30 Kepler
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Kepler Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
 3840x2160x3
Kepler-7b (right), which is 1.5 times the radius of Jupiter (left), is the first exoplanet to have its clouds mapped. The cloud map was produced using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes.
PIA17445:
Partially Cloudy Skies on Kepler-7b (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (24.89 MB)     JPEG (243 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-10 Kepler
Spitzer Space Telescope
 4534x2550x3
This illustration shows a cool star, called W1906+40, marked by a raging storm near one of its poles. The storm is thought to be similar to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. Scientists discovered it using NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes.
PIA20055:
Cool Star Marked by Long-Lived Storm (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.704 MB)     JPEG (349.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2019-01-07 Kepler
Spitzer Space Telescope
 5120x2880x3
This artist's illustration shows the planetary system K2-138. Five planets were initially detected in the system but in 2018 scientists found evidence of a sixth planet.
PIA23002:
K2-138 6 Planets Artwork (Artist's Illustration)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (12.4 MB)     JPEG (399.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2019-01-07 Kepler
Spitzer Space Telescope
 9019x5068x3
This diagram image shows the estimated radii of the six planets in the planetary system K2-128, as well as their distance from the parent star.
PIA23003:
K2-138 System Diagram
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.129 MB)     JPEG (1.072 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2019-01-07 Kepler
Spitzer Space Telescope
 6000x3375x3
This artist's illustration shows the newfound planet K2-288Bb is slightly smaller than Neptune.
PIA23004:
K2-288Bb (Artist's Illustration)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (33.47 MB)     JPEG (1.192 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2017-12-13 MAVEN
 1920x1080x3
To receive the same amount of starlight as Mars receives from our Sun, a planet orbiting an M-type red dwarf would have to be positioned much closer to its star than Mercury is to the Sun.
PIA22075:
How Habitable Might an Exo-Mars Be?
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.901 MB)     JPEG (192.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-08 Sol (our sun) Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 399x198x3
The panoramic camera on NASA's Opportunity combines the first photographs of solar eclipses by Mars' two moons, Deimos and Phobos. Deimos appears as a speck in front of the Sun and Phobos grazes its edge.
PIA05518:
Martian Eclipses: Deimos and Phobos
Full Resolution:     TIFF (44.62 kB)     JPEG (10.21 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-10 Sol (our sun) Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 1600x1200x1
This image shows the Sun as it appears on Mars throughout the day. Scientists monitor the dimming of the setting Sun to assess how much dust is in the martian atmosphere. The pictures were taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's panoramic camera.
PIA05041:
Martian Sunsets More Than Just Pretty
Full Resolution:     TIFF (188.5 kB)     JPEG (68.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-11 Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 1024x1024x1
Stars in the upper portion of the constellation Orion the Hunter, including the bright shoulder star Betelgeuse and Orion's three-star belt, appear in this image taken from the surface of Mars by the panoramic camera on NASA's rover Spirit.
PIA05546:
Stars in Orion as Seen from Mars
Full Resolution:     TIFF (71.62 kB)     JPEG (17.04 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-12 Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 1024x1024x1
In this five-minute exposure taken from the surface of Mars by NASA's Spirit rover, stars appear as streaks due to the rotation of the planet, and instantaneous cosmic-ray hits appear as points of light.
PIA05551:
Stars and Cosmic Rays Observed from Mars
Full Resolution:     TIFF (145.9 kB)     JPEG (53.38 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-12 Sol (our sun) Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 360x360x5
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, shows the transit of Mars' moon Phobos across the Sun. Animation available at the Photojournal.
PIA05553:
Martian Moon Blocks Sun Animation Icon
Full Resolution:
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-12 Sol (our sun) Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 360x360x5
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, shows the transit of Mars' moon Deimos across the Sun. Animation available at the Photojournal.
PIA05556:
Deimos Crosses Face of Sun Animation Icon
Full Resolution:
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-12 Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Navigation Camera
Panoramic Camera
 1174x1041x1
Observing the sky with the green filter of it panoramic camera, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit came across a surprise: a streak across the sky, probably the brightest object in the sky at the time.
PIA05557:
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a... Spacecraft?
Full Resolution:     TIFF (600.2 kB)     JPEG (54.38 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-13 Sol (our sun) Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 1080x360x1
This panel illustrates the transit of the martian moon Phobos across the Sun. It is made up of images taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
PIA05554:
Martian Moon Eclipses Sun, in Stages
Full Resolution:     TIFF (206 kB)     JPEG (13.92 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-27 Sol (our sun) Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 640x350x3
The sun descends to the Martian horizon and sets in this image from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. A movie is available at the Photojournal.
PIA13736:
Sunset Watched by Opportunity, November 2010 Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (672.9 kB)     JPEG (7.169 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-27 Sol (our sun) Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Panoramic Camera
 640x350x3
The larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, passes in front of the Sun's face in this image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. A movie is available at the Photojournal.
PIA13737:
Phobos Passes in Front of Sun's Face, Nov. 9, 2010 Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (672.9 kB)     JPEG (6.111 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-10 Sol (our sun) Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Mastcam
 801x400x1
This single frame from a sequence of images shows sunspots as viewed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from June 27 to July 8, 2015; the rover was in position to see the opposite side of the sun from the side facing Earth during this period.
PIA19801:
Tracking Sunspots from Mars, Summer 2015 (Animation) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (320.9 kB)     JPEG (22.27 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-10 Sol (our sun) Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Mastcam
 801x400x1
This single frame from a sequence of six images of an animation shows sunspots as viewed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from April 4 to April 15, 2015. From Mars, the rover was in position to see the opposite side of the sun.
PIA19802:
Tracking Sunspots from Mars, April 2015 (Animation) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (320.9 kB)     JPEG (25.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-23 Pleiades MESSENGER
 MDIS - Narrow Angle
 508x512x1
This image is a 'star cal' frame collected about a month before NASA's MESSENGER's first flyby of Venus.
PIA15244:
Stars Are Stars
Full Resolution:     TIFF (260.6 kB)     JPEG (58.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-08 Comet NEOWISE
 860x651x3
Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE appears as a string of fuzzy red dots in this composite of several heat-sensitive infrared images taken by NASA's NEOWISE mission on March 27, 2020.
PIA23792:
Comet NEOWISE Discovery Images
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.68 MB)     JPEG (175.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-31 NEOWISE
 360x360x3
The dark spot in the bottom left corner of the image is a brown dwarf, nicknamed The Accident, which was discovered by citizen scientist Dan Caselden using data from NASA's NEOWISE.
PIA24578:
An Accidental Discovery
Full Resolution:     TIFF (256.6 kB)     JPEG (15.79 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-08 NEOWISE
 2784x2784x3
This final image captured by NASA's NEOWISE shows part of the Fornax constellation in the Southern Hemisphere. It was taken by the spacecraft just before midnight Pacific Time on July 31, 2024, when the mission's survey ended.
PIA26385:
NASA's NEOWISE Captures Final Image Moments Before End of Mission
Full Resolution:     TIFF (17.92 MB)     JPEG (782.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-19 NEOWISE
 NEOWISE Telescope
 2032x2032x3
This is one of the first images captured by the revived NEOWISE mission, after more than two years of hibernation. It shows a patch of sky in the constellation Canes Venatici, or the Hunting Dogs.
PIA17810:
NEOWISE Opens its Eyes
Full Resolution:     TIFF (12.39 MB)     JPEG (388 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-01-28 NEOWISE
 NEOWISE Telescope
 660x308x3
NASA's NEOWISE mission captured images of Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring. The infrared pictures reveal a comet that is active and very dusty.
PIA17833:
NEOWISE Spies Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring
Full Resolution:     TIFF (610.3 kB)     JPEG (65.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-23 NEOWISE
 NEOWISE Telescope
 728x585x3
Comet C/2013 UQ4 (Catalina) first looked like an asteroid when NASA's NEOWISE team first observed it on December 31, 2013. These exposures were taken that day, when the comet was at a distance of about 2.9 AU from the sun.
PIA18652:
NEOWISE Spots Comet Catalina
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.278 MB)     JPEG (113.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-07-23 NEOWISE
 NEOWISE Telescope
 1596x1080x3
NASA's NEOWISE spotted Comet C/2013 UQ4 (Catalina), appearing to be a highly active comet one day past perihelion on July 7, 2014.
PIA18653:
NEOWISE Spies Activity on Comet Catalina
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.173 MB)     JPEG (315 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-07 NEOWISE
 NEOWISE Telescope
 2519x2519x3
NASA's NEOWISE mission detected comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring on July 28, 2014, less than three months before this comet's close flyby of Mars on Oct. 19.
PIA18593:
NEOWISE Spies Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring a Second Time
Full Resolution:     TIFF (19.04 MB)     JPEG (483.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-26 NEOWISE
 1799x1799x3
NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft viewed comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) for a second time on January 30, 2015, as the comet passed through the closest point to our sun along its 14,000-year orbit, at a solar distance of 120 million miles (193 million kilometers).
PIA19354:
NEOWISE Wise to Comet Lovejoy
Full Resolution:     TIFF (9.713 MB)     JPEG (150.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2017-04-11 New Horizons
 1700x2004x3
This is an overhead view of NASA's New Horizons full trajectory; the spacecraft has entered a hibernation phase on April 7 that will last until early September.
PIA21589:
Nap Time for New Horizons: NASA Spacecraft Enters Hibernation
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.052 MB)     JPEG (265.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2017-04-04 New Horizons
 LORRI
 1024x1024x3
In preparation for NASA's New Horizons flyby of 2014 MU69 on Jan. 1, 2019, the spacecraft's LORRI took a series of 10-second exposures of the background star field near the location of its target Kuiper Belt object (KBO).
PIA21588:
A KBO among the Stars
Full Resolution:     TIFF (845.9 kB)     JPEG (414.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-19 Kuiper Belt Object New Horizons
 LORRI
MVIC
 559x345x3
This frame from an animation shows a Kuiper Belt object know as 2014 MU69, as seen by NASA's New Horizons.
PIA21865:
Wink of a Star
Full Resolution:     TIFF (194.8 kB)     JPEG (38.14 kB)
Retrieve Previous Set  Jump to a Previous Set   Jump to a Previous Set   Jump to a Previous Set   Jump to a Previous Set   Current Set   Jump to a Following Set   Jump to a Following Set   Jump to a Following Set   Jump to a Following Set   Jump to a Following Set   Retrieve Next Set 
 1-100   101-200   201-300   301-400   401-500   501-600   601-700   701-800   801-900   901-1000 
Currently displaying images: 401 - 500 of 1307