“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”
(The planet Uranus, viewed from Saturn orbit)
Cassini outdoes itself.
A mosaic of Saturn passing in front of the Sun from the point of view of Cassini.
There is a high-resolution version, an annotated version, and a description of the image.
A scale model of an X-48C blended-wing aircraft in a NASA wind tunnel in Langley, Virginia. The model has been sprayed with fluorescent oil to enable scientists to study airflow patterns.
From October to November 2012 and April to May 2013, the instruments on Voyager 1 measured vibrations in interstellar plasma. These vibrations are within the range of human hearing.
Amplified and played back through a speaker, this is what space sounds like.
“Made by hand.”
The suits for the Apollo missions were all sewn entirely by hand, without the use of traditional sewing tools such as pins and other temporary fasteners for fear that one would be forgotten and left in the suit.
Jets of plasma fly away from the supermassive black hole in galaxy Hercules A. This image is a composite of visible light and radio data, combined from the Hubble and the Very Large Array.
The jets are composed of plasma, magnetic fields, and subatomic particles; they are travelling near the speed of light, and are 1.5 million light-years in length, dwarfing the galaxy at their centre.
NASA has a high-resolution version of this image available.
