NASA Image of the Day

The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Source link

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson lays a wreath at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial. Source link

On January 25, 1984, President Ronald Reagan used his State of the Union address to call for NASA to build a permanent manned space station. Source link

Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk installing a modification kit on the International Space Station’s starboard truss structure. Source link

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has obtained an in-depth inventory of the deepest, coldest ices measured to date in a molecular cloud. Source link

Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are pictured on Jan. 12, 2023, during a fit check of their spacesuits inside the Quest airlock ahead of a planned spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station’s power generation system. Source link

Snow and ice cover mountains of the Tien Shan range in this photograph taken from the International Space Station (ISS) on Feb. 9, 2022. Source link

Snoopy, the zero gravity indicator that flew aboard Orion during the Artemis I mission, wears a smile after being unpacked from his transport case on Jan. 5, 2023. Source link

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthplace, Atlanta, Georgia, is seen on January 20, 2013, in this image from the International Space Station as it flew approximately 240 miles above the city. Source link

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy LEDA 48062 in the constellation Perseus. Source link