When Atlantis lands at the end of its current mission, that will spell the end of the 30-year space shuttle program — and the beginning of a years-long hiatus in NASA’s capability to launch humans […]
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our neighboring galaxy
NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, highlights the Andromeda Galaxy in one of the first images sent down from orbit. This image, released Feb. 17, combines data from all four of WISE’s infrared detectors. […]
New moon over the Earth
A gibbous moon is visible above Earth’s atmosphere, photographed by a member of the space shuttle Discovery’s crew on Aug. 30.
Galaxy cam
The spiral galaxy NGC 1097 takes on a beautiful swirl in this infrared view, produced by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and published on July 23. The “eye” at the center of the galaxy is actually […]