Research Guides: Space Studies: Images

NASA Image of the Day

Click below for the most recent images of the day:

Image Websites

NASA Images
Hubblesite Picture Gallery
MESSENGER Gallery
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MESSENGER stands for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging. The gallery contains a wide variety of images, photos, animations, and movies about all aspects of the mission to conduct the first orbital study of Mercury.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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Access deep, multi-color images covering more than a quarter of the sky and the 3-dimensional maps containing more than 930,000 galaxies and more than 120,000 quasars.

Galaxy

Title: M81 Galaxy is Pretty in Pink

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA /Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

Collection: NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection

Astronaut floating

Title: Mark Lee Tetherless and Free

Full Description: Backdropped against clouds 130 nautical miles below, astronaut Mark C. Lee floats freely without tethers as he tests the new Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) system.

Collection: NASA Great Images in Nasa Collection