15 Mind-Blowing Featured Images by NASA. The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the United States’ largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe. They are also home to some of the most amazing images, visualizations and videos NASA has to offer!
Please do yourself a favour and check out their incredible Flickr page which has thousands of images with wonderfully detailed descriptions. Below is a collection of 15 mind-blowing featured images from NASA. Enjoy! 1. Huge Eruptive Prominence Seen on Sun The STEREO (Ahead) spacecraft caught this spectacular eruptive prominence in extreme UV light as it blasted away from the Sun (Apr. 12-13, 2010). 2. This is a mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star’s supernova explosion. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Catching Its Tail. 217794_1266152627_large.jpg from cgsociety.org - StumbleUpon. Antennae-galaxy-pr2006046a-lw.jpg from nationalgeographic.com - StumbleUpon. Hires.jpg from harvard.edu - StumbleUpon. Atlantis-iss-plasma-trail-large-1.jpeg from popsci.com. 46 Fabulous Photos of Endeavour's Last Ever Spacewalk. May 27th, 2011: the last spacewalk for NASA’s Endeavour astronauts. Here, a fish-eye lens attached to an electronic still camera was used to capture this image of NASA astronaut Michael Fincke (top center) during the mission’s fourth session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continued on the International Space Station.
Photo #1 by NASA A bright sun, a portion of the International Space Station and Earth’s horizon are featured in this image photographed by a spacewalker during the STS-134 mission. Photo #2 by NASA May 27, last day for Endeavour spacewalkers, NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff continued to work on the International Space Station. Photo #3 by NASA May 27: A portion of the International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour is featured in this image photographed by a spacewalker, using a fish-eye lens attached to an electronic still camera, during the STS-134 mission’s fourth session of extravehicular activity (EVA).
May 21, 2011. 419131main_iss017e013842_high.jpg from nasa.gov. People Shape Shuttle. Shuttle Taking Off Smoke. Night Lights.