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Bok started a thread NASA Image Our Pale Blue Dot in Science

This updated version of "the Pale Blue Dot," made for the photo's 30th anniversary in 2020, uses modern image-processing software and techniques to...

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02-14-2025, 07:25 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image A Stellar Bouquet in Science

This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the spectacular star forming region called 30 Doradus. By combining X-ray data...

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02-13-2025, 03:17 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Giving NASA's CADRE a Hand in Science

One of three small lunar rovers that are part of a NASA technology demonstration called CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic...

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02-12-2025, 06:50 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image A Rainbow-colored “Feather” in the Martian Sky in Science

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this feather-shaped iridescent cloud just after sunset on Jan. 27, 2023, the 3,724th Martian day, or sol, of the...

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02-11-2025, 06:20 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Space Shuttle Endeavour Takes Flight in Science

The brilliant exhaust from the solid rocket boosters (center) and blue mach diamonds from the main engine nozzles mark the launch of Space Shuttle...

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02-10-2025, 06:21 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Mount Everest from Space in Science

This view from space shuttle Columbia shows Mount Everest, which reaches 29,028 feet in elevation (8,848 meters), along with many glaciers. Mount...

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02-07-2025, 03:50 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Golden Moon over the Superdome in Science

The full moon rises over the Superdome and the city of New Orleans, Louisiana on Monday evening, January 13, 2025. The Wolf Moon, also known as the...

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02-06-2025, 05:20 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Robot Gets a Grip in Science

The blue tentacle-like arms containing gecko-like adhesive pads, attached to an Astrobee robotic free-flyer, reach out and grapple a "capture cube"...

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02-05-2025, 04:19 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Apollo 14 Moon Landing in Science

An excellent view of the Apollo 14 lunar module on the Moon, as photographed during the first Apollo 14 moonwalk on the lunar surface. The astronauts...

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02-04-2025, 04:30 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Bullseye! in Science

LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known...

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02-03-2025, 05:20 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Stacking Artemis II in Science

Engineers and technicians with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program prepare to lift the left center center booster segment shown with the iconic...

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01-31-2025, 01:32 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Building an Antenna in Science

A crane lowers the 112-foot-wide (34-meter-wide) steel framework for the Deep Space Station 23 (DSS-23) reflector dish into position on Dec. 18,...

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01-30-2025, 11:00 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image SPHEREx’s Concentric Cones in Science

NASA's SPHEREx observatory is oriented in a horizontal position, revealing all three layers of photon shields as well as the telescope. This photo...

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01-29-2025, 04:50 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Geyser Season on Mars in Science

Springtime in the South Polar region of Mars is a season of exciting activity. The thick coating of carbon dioxide ice that accumulated over the...

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01-28-2025, 11:30 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Wolf Moon in Washington in Science

The full Moon, also known in January as the Wolf Moon, rises above the Lincoln Memorial and the Memorial Bridge, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, as seen from...

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01-27-2025, 04:00 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Get My Good Side in Science

An inquisitive sandhill crane approaches the photographer near the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 24,...

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01-24-2025, 11:10 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Hubble Studies the Tarantula Nebula’s Outskirts in Science

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic...

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01-23-2025, 03:01 AM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Artist’s Concept of Gemini Spacecraft in Science

This is an artist's concept of a two-person Gemini spacecraft in flight, showing a cutaway view. The Gemini program was designed as a bridge between...

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01-21-2025, 12:51 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Suni Williams Conducts Spacewalk in Science

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 commander Suni Williams is pictured during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station where she replaced a...

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