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LL/63332
First photograph from space
1946, 24 October
Black and white image
 
Creative Commons - Wikipedia
Original source: NASA (?)
 
LL/63332 [Further details available]

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LL/7968
Earth, Moon, and Jupiter, as Seen From Mars
2003, 8 May
Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Orbiter Camera
 
Malin Space Science Systems
NASA / JPL / Malin Space Science Systems
 
LL/7968

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LL/7969
Earthrise sequence - Earth rises over lunar horizon
1969
 
NASA
NASA (AS11-44-6553)
 
LL/7969

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LL/6840
The Blue Marble
2002, 8 February
NASA Visualization
 
NASA
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stöckli (land surface, shallow water, clouds). Enhancements by Robert Simmon (ocean color, compositing, 3D globes, animation). Data and technical support: MODIS Land Group; MODIS Science Data Support Team; MODIS Atmosphere Group; MODIS Ocean Group Additional data: USGS EROS Data Center (topography); USGS Terrestrial Remote Sensing Flagstaff Field Center (Antarctica); Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (city lights).
 
LL/6840

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LL/6625
Satellite photograph of the earth, Red Sea, Africa, Arabia, Indian and Atlantic Oceans, and wind patterns.
1991 (before)
 
United States Geological Service
US Geological Service (Digital File:hcl00006)
 
LL/6625

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LL/36974
First U.S. Image of the Moon
1964, 28 July
Digital image
 
NASA
NASA, NASA Solar System Collection, UID:SPD-SLRSY-2162, Image ID: 227263
 
LL/36974 [Further details available]

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LL/36973
Moon - False Color Mosaic
1992, 8 December
Digital image
 
NASA
JPL, NASA Solar System Collection, UID: SPD-SLRSY-2088, Image ID: 227219
 
LL/36973 [Further details available]

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LL/7970
False-color image of the Mare Tranquilitatis and Mare Serenitatis regions on the Moon.
1992, 7 December
False-color image, Galileo Project
 
NASA
NASA / JPL / CALTECH
 
LL/7970

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LL/36985
Moon
1992, 7 December
Digital image
 
NASA
NASA, Galileo, JPL, U.S. Geological Survey, NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection, UID: SPD-PHOTJ-PIA00405, Image ID: 109893
 
LL/36985 [Further details available]

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LL/5148
David Malin
The Moon, around the Crater Tycho
n.d.
Hand coated Platinum print on artist's paper
 
Edwynn Houk Gallery
® Anglo-Australian Observatory [0810-21p/1114-9p/1620-8p]
 
LL/5148

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LL/36986
Total Eclipse of the Sun
2002, 3 December
Digital image, Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
 
NASA
NASA's Earth Observatory, Image ID: 134103
 
LL/36986 [Further details available]

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LL/36967
The Sun, A full-disk multiwavelength extreme ultraviolet image of the sun taken by SDO
2010, 30 March
SDO/AIA image
 
SDO - Solar Dynamics Observatory
NASA SDO/AIA
 
LL/36967 [Further details available]

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LL/36968
The Sun
2010, 18 April
SDO/AIA image
 
SDO - Solar Dynamics Observatory
NASA SDO/AIA - 193 20100418_000102, Images 2010/04/18 00:01:08 UT - 193
 
LL/36968 [Further details available]

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LL/7974
Fe XV (284 +)
2000, 28 February
SOHO's EIT (Extreme-Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope)
 
NASA
NASA / SOHO's EIT (Extreme-Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope), Courtesy of the EIT Consortium
 
LL/7974

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LL/36971
Coronal loops
n.d.
Digital image
 
NASA
NASA, NASA Solar System Collection, UID: SPD-SLRSY-191, Image ID: 227136
 
LL/36971 [Further details available]

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LL/36972
Venus Transit
2004, 8 June
Digital image
 
NASA
NASA, NASA Solar System Collection, UID: SPD-SLRSY-2403, Image ID: 227347
 
LL/36972 [Further details available]

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LL/36997
Spicules: Jets on the Sun
2004, June (data)
Digital image
 
Location and source information requested
SST, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, LMSAL
 
LL/36997 [Further details available]

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LL/36975
Saturn's Active North Pole
2006, 29 October
Digital image
 
NASA
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona, NASA Solarsystem Collection, UID: SPD-SLRSY-4803, Image ID: 227533
 
LL/36975 [Further details available]

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LL/37708
Saturn's Rings
1981, 25 August
 
NASA
NASA Center: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Image: PIA01531
 
LL/37708 [Further details available]

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LL/7971
Surface photographs from the Soviet Venera 13 spacecraft. The first of the Venera missions to include a color TV camera and the first to succeed in obtaining pictures since Venera 10, the Venera 13 lander touched down on 3 March 1982.
1982, 3 March (after)
 
NASA
NASA / Soviet Venera 13 Project (Venus)
 
LL/7971

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LL/36983
Hemispheric View of Venus Centered at the North Pole
1996, 3 June
Digital image, Imaging Radar
 
NASA
NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA. Data processed by JPL, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and the U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ. UID: SPD-PHOTJ-PIA00007, Image ID: 118029
 
LL/36983 [Further details available]

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LL/7972
Close up view of the Great Dark Spot, Neptune.
1989, 21 August
Narrow-angle camera, Voyager Project
 
NASA
NASA / JPL / CALTECH (NASA Id: P-34672C)
 
LL/7972

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LL/7975
Montage of images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot taken by HST between 1992 and 1999
1992-1999
 
NASA
NASA / Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA) and Amy Simon (Cornell U.), (NASA Id: STScI-PRC99-29)
 
LL/7975

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LL/36984
Io Eclipse/Volcanic Eruption
1997, 6 May
Digital image, Solid-State Imaging
 
NASA
NASA, PIRL / University of Arizona, NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection, UID: SPD-PHOTJ-PIA00704, Image ID: 119114
 
LL/36984 [Further details available]

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LL/1686
NASA, Hubble Space Telescope
Stellar
1995, 1 April
Hubble space telescope image
 
NASA
NASA [# Center: HSTI, # Center Number: PR95-44D, # GRIN DataBase Number: GPN-2000-001947]
 
LL/1686

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LL/1685
NASA, The Hubble Heritage Team, STScI, AURA
Stars in the Tarantula Nebula
1999, 1 April
Hubble space telescope image
 
NASA
NASA [#Center: HSTI, # Center Number: PR99-12, # GRIN DataBase Number: GPN-2000-000946]
 
LL/1685

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LL/1684
Dr. Jeonghee Rho (SSC/Caltech)
The Trifid Nebula dotted with glowing stellar incubator
n.d.
Spitzer space telescope image
 
NASA
NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Rho (SSC/Caltech)
 
LL/1684

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LL/36976
Window-Curtain - Structure of the Orion Nebula Revealed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
1990, 4 October
Digital image
 
NASA
NASA Hubble Space Telescope Collection, UID: SPD-HUBBLE-STScI-199 0-26a
 
LL/36976 [Further details available]

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LL/36977
Hubble Catches Scattered Light from the Boomerang Nebula
2005, 13 September
Digital image
 
NASA
NASA Hubble Space Telescope Collection, ESA, R. Sahai and J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and the WFPC2 Science Team, UID: SPD-HUBBLE-STScI-200 5-25b
 
LL/36977 [Further details available]

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LL/7973
Spiral galaxy NGC 4414.
n.d.
Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2)
 
NASA
Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA) (Id: STScI-PRC99-25)
 
LL/7973

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LL/36996
Wisps Surrounding the Horsehead Nebula
n.d.
Digital image
 
Star Shadows Remote Observatory (SSRO)
© SSRO
 
LL/36996 [Further details available]

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LL/36998
X-Rays from the Cat's Eye Nebula
n.d.
Digital image
 
NASA
X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI
 
LL/36998 [Further details available]

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LL/36999
M51: Cosmic Whirlpool
2005, January
Digital image
 
NASA
S. Beckwith (STScI) Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA), ESA, NASA
 
LL/36999 [Further details available]

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LL/37000
Halo of the Cat's Eye
n.d.
Digital image
 
Location and source information requested
R. Corradi (Isaac Newton Group), D. Goncalves (Inst. Astrofisica de Canarias)
 
LL/37000 [Further details available]

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LL/37362
Galileo Orbiter
Infrared Image of Low Clouds on Venus
1996, 29 January
Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
 
NASA
NASA/JPL, PIA00124
 
LL/37362 [Further details available]

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LL/37416
The Galactic bubble RCW 120
n.d.
 
ESA - European Space Agency
ESA/PACS/SPIRE/HOBYS Consortia, ID number: SEMIA7KPO8G
 
LL/37416 [Further details available]

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LL/37363
Magellan
Venus - Eistla Region
1996, 7 February
Imaging Radar
 
NASA
NASA/JPL, PIA00084
 
LL/37363 [Further details available]

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LL/37424
Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble captures view of 'Mystic Mountain'
2010, 1-2 February
Wide Field Camera 3
 
ESA - European Space Agency
NASA/ESA/M. Livio & Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI), ID number: SEMMHWF098G
 
LL/37424 [Further details available]

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LL/37366
Galileo
Europa "Ice Rafts" in Local and Color Context
1997, February (combined image)
Solid-State Imaging
 
NASA
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona, PIA01296
 
LL/37366 [Further details available]

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LL/37425
IRAS satellite
Dust structures within 500 light-years of the Sun
n.d.
 
ESA - European Space Agency
ESA and the HFI Consortium, IRAS, ID number: SEM3C6CKP6G
 
LL/37425 [Further details available]

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LL/37367
Cassini Orbiter
Rhea - Icy Profile
2007, 17 July
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
 
NASA
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute, PIA10494
 
LL/37367 [Further details available]

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LL/48203
NASA
Saturn's Brightly Reflective Moon Enceladus
2012, March 12
Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera
 
NASA
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute, 647792main_image_2246_1024-768
 
LL/48203 [Further details available]

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LL/37426
Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble COSMOS survey
n.d.
Hubble space telescope
 
ESA - European Space Agency
NASA, ESA and R. Massey (California Institute of Technology), ID number: SEMSMGSVYVE
 
LL/37426 [Further details available]

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LL/37368
Spitzer Space Telescope
Towering Infernos
2005, 9 November (before)
IRAC
 
NASA
IRAC Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA/ESA/STScI, Visible Light Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA/DSS, PIA03096
 
LL/37368 [Further details available]

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LL/37427
Hubble Space Telescope
Close-up views of the active galaxy M82
2006, March
Hubble space telescope
 
ESA - European Space Agency
NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), ID number: SEM7L8OFGLE
 
LL/37427 [Further details available]

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LL/48202
NASA
The sun unleashed an M4.7 class flare at 8:32 EDT on May 9, 2012 as captured here by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
2012, 9 May
SDO
 
NASA
NASA/GSFC/SDO
 
LL/48202 [Further details available]

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LL/44223
R. Durßn (ALMA)
16 antennas on Chajnantor
2011
Colour image
 
ALMA - Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
 
LL/44223 [Further details available]

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LL/44225
Scientific collaboration
Coverage of ALMA Test Observations
2011 (or earlier)
Colour image
 
ALMA - Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
(NRAO/AUI/NSF), ALMA (NRAO/NAOJ/ESO)
 
LL/44225 [Further details available]

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LL/44224
Scientific collaboration
Antenn' Galaxies composite of ALMA and Hubble observations
2011
Colour image
 
ALMA - Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO). Visible light image: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
 
LL/44224 [Further details available]

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LL/36970
The International Space Station (ISS)
2009, 25 November
Digital image
 
NASA
NASA Nov. 25, 2009, Collection: STS-129 Gallery, 408082main_fd10
 
LL/36970 [Further details available]

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LL/48700
First Color Image of the Martian Landscape Returned from Curiosity
2012, 6 August
Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI)
 
NASA
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems
 
LL/48700 [Further details available]

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LL/56811
NavCam
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
2014, 20 August
Black and white digital image, Rosetta navigation camera
 
ESA - European Space Agency
© ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM, Id: 318054
 
LL/56811 [Further details available]

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LL/65666
First View of Pluto's Surface
1994, July
NASA Hubble Space Telescope with the ESA Faint Object Camera
 
NASA
ID: PLAN-PIA00825
 
LL/65666 [Further details available]

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LL/56812
Osiris
OSIRIS spots Philae drifting across the comet
2014, 17 November
Black and white digital image
 
ESA - European Space Agency
ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA, Id: 329220
 
LL/56812 [Further details available]

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LL/56813
Hubble Space Telescope
Ghost Light
2014, 31 October
Colour image
 
NASA
NASA, ESA, M. Montes (IAC), and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team (STScI), id: 325775
 
LL/56813 [Further details available]

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LL/65844
Carina Nebula
n.d.
Hubble digital image (?)
 
Internet - Original source ill-defined
 
LL/65844

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LL/65166
NASA /C. Henze
A computer simulation of gravitational waves rippling away from the massive collision of two black holes
2015
Computer simulation
 
NASA
Id: 348339
 
LL/65166

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LL/65843
Dark Clouds of the Carina Nebula
2008, 7 August
Hubble digital image
 
NASA
NASA, ESA, N. Smith (U. California, Berkeley) et al., and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
 
LL/65843 [Further details available]

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LL/70175
NASA / JHU Applied Physics Lab / Carnegie Inst. Washington
Colors of Mercury
2013 (ca)
Digital image
 
NASA
 
LL/70175 [Further details available]

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LL/77436
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Ames
First X-ray View of Martian Soil
[Mission: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)]
2012, 30 October
X-ray
 
NASA
Full-Res TIFF: PIA16217.tif
 
LL/77436 [Further details available]

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LL/77437
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Mimas Global Map
[Mission: Cassini-Huygens]
2017, June
Digital image
 
NASA
Full-Res TIFF: PIA17214.tif
 
LL/77437 [Further details available]

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LL/77438
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Advance Inspection of NASA's Next Mars Landing Site
[Mission: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)]
2017, 29 march
Digital image
 
NASA
Full-Res TIFF: PIA21489.tif
 
LL/77438 [Further details available]

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LL/81514
NASA
Surface of Mars
1977
Gelatin silver print
14 x 23 3/4 ins (35.56 x 60.33 cm) (image)
 
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.4279
 
LL/81514

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LL/80500
The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (HXDF) taken in 2012
2002, July - 2012, March
Hubble telescope
 
NASA
NASA; ESA; G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch, University of California, Santa Cruz; R. Bouwens, Leiden University; and the HUDF09 Team
 
LL/80500 [Further details available]

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LL/80998
NASA
View of the Martian surface through lander's left front
1976
Gelatin silver print
20 x 20 ins (50.8 x 50.8 cm) (image)
 
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Object number: 2005.27.4542
 
LL/80998

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LL/87500
NASA
Pluto
1984 / 2018
Digital images
 
Internet - Original source ill-defined
 
LL/87500

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LL/90125
Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
The first image of a black hole
2019, April
Digital image
 
Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
 
LL/90125 [Further details available]

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LL/117298
NASA/CXC/SAO
Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant
2017, 27 December (published)
Colour image
 
NASA
 
LL/117298 [Further details available]

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LL/121205
NASA, CSA, and FGS team
Stars and galaxies captured by the James Webb Space Telescope using its Fine Guidance Sensor
2022
Fine Guidance Sensor image
 
NASA
 
LL/121205 [Further details available]

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LL/121247
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
“Cosmic Cliffs” in the Carina Nebula
2022, 12 July (released)
NIRCam image, James Webb Telescope
 
NASA
Carina Nebula, NGC 3324
 
LL/121247 [Further details available]

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LL/121248
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
“Cosmic Cliffs” in the Carina Nebula
2022, 12 July (released)
NIRCam image, James Webb Telescope
 
NASA
Carina Nebula, NGC 3324
 
LL/121248 [Further details available]

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LL/122089

First Moments of a Solar Flare in Different Wavelengths of Light
2014, 24 February
SDO image
 
NASA
NASA/SDO
 
LL/122089 [Further details available]

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