“Earth rocks! Let’s protect it. Happy #AsteroidDay from @space_station! #YearInSpace” -via Twitter on June 30, 2015
TIME is following Kelly’s mission in the new series, A Year In Space. Watch the first two episodes here.
Photo: Scott Kelly/NASA
In this parting image, the New Horizons spacecraft captured a darkened Pluto backlit by the sun—illuminating the hydrocarbon haze circling the dwarf planet for the first time.
Photo: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
New Horizons found a second mountain range in Pluto’s ‘heart’
Photo: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
From the famed Apollo 17 image to DSCOVR’s most recent addition, see the history of the world’s biggest selfie.
NASA released the first image of Earth from its Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite on Monday. The image shows a sunlit Earth from one million miles away.
Photo: NASA
Our gif shows the evolution of Pluto’s images from a barely perceptible gray blob to a closeup showing a heart-shaped area on Pluto’s surface
Images: NASA/APL/SwRI; Animation: Jonathan D. Woods
It can’t be easy to hear again and again about all of the breathtaking pictures the Hubble Space Telescope has been taking over the years, when all you can do is hear about them. For the visually impaired, the cosmic artwork captured by the greatest telescope in human history is all hearsay—or at best something that can be seen only poorly, with nothing like the clarity and richness that is available to the fully sighted.
That’s about to change, thanks to Elena Sabbi, a lead researcher with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, and SAS, a software analytics company in Cary, NC.
Read more here.
(Photo: NASA / ESA / E. Sabbi (STScI)
