Central Brazil Cerrado
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Amid a patchwork of fields, towns, and winding rivers and roads in central Brazil stands a monolithic oval-shaped plateau. This conspicuous feature, the Serra de Caldas (also known as the Caldas Novas dome and Caldas Ridge), is perched about 300 meters (1,000 feet) above the surrounding landscape in the state of Goiás.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/caldasridge-oli2-20250519-lrg/
Webb Sees Sombrero Galaxy in Near-Infrared
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), which shows dust from the galaxy’s outer ring blocking stellar light from stars within the galaxy. In the central region of the galaxy, the roughly 2,000 globular clusters, or collections of hundreds of thousands of old stars held together by gravity, glow in the near-infrared. The Sombrero Galaxy is around 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. From Earth, we see this galaxy nearly “edge-on,” or from the side.
Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a cloudscape in the Large Magellanic Cloud., a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/capturing-candyfloss-clouds/
A Star Like No Other
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects.
NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 Launch Fifth Anniversary
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay President Donald Trump steps onstage to speak following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
45 Years Ago: NASA Announces Ninth Astronaut Group
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Sixteen of 19 astronaut candidates named on May 29, 1980, and two European trainees as payload specialists pose for photographers in the briefing room in the public affairs facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Moon and Flag at NASA Michoud
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The waning gibbous moon sets behind a flag at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans just after sunrise on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/waning-gibbous-moon-sets-behind-flag-at-maf/
Preflight Flower
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay A flower is seen in the foreground with a Soyuz rocket on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 7, 2025. Expedition 73 crewmembers including NASA astronaut Jonny Kim launched aboard their Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft on April 8.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/expedition-73-preflight-2/
Another Milestone for X-59
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is seen during its “aluminum bird” systems testing at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The test verified how the aircraft’s hardware and software work together, responding to pilot inputs and handling injected system failures.
Sunset on Mars
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay On May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This panoramic camera mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover's 489th Martian day, or sol.
Nancy Grace Roman’s 100th Birthday
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, briefs Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on celestial objects in 1965 in Washington, D.C.
Webb Finds Icy Disk
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Webb has found crystalline water ice in a debris disk around a young, Sun-like star called HD 181327. Based on its presence in our own solar system, scientists have expected to see it in other star systems - but haven't had sensitive enough instruments to provide definitive proof until now.
Deimos Before Dawn
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025, the 1,433rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
Pretty in Pink
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The perfectly picturesque spiral galaxy known as Messier 81, or M81, looks sharp in this composite from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
