Stardust Syndicate

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A black and white image of Enceladus' south pole. Several plumes of water ice spray up from the curved surface; they are visible as misty white spikes. Most of the south pole is dark, but a small sliver is lit up at bottom left.

The orange core stage of the Artemis II rocket with white boosters on each side fully stacked inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025.

A multicolored nebula stands out against the star-studded background of space. The nebula’s central star is hidden by a blotchy pinkish cloud of dust. A strong red light radiates from this area, lighting up the nearby dust. An elongated purple ‘S’ shape is centered on the heart of the nebula, while two blue lobes stretch diagonally outward to the edges of the image, making the entire structure look like a tilted hourglass.

Earth is a dark sphere with a glowing green border in this photo. We can only see one portion of it; in this photo’s orientation, we’re looking at the “bottom” of Earth’s sphere. City lights shine brightly at middle left; they are more dispersed throughout the rest of Earth that’s visible. Part of the space station is just barely visible at top left.

A galaxy seen face-on, with a slightly elliptical disk that appears to have a hole in the center like a doughnut. In the hole, the core is a brightly glowing point that shines light out beyond the edge of the disk. Around the hole is an inner ring of dust, and at the galaxy’s edge is a thicker outer ring of dust, with a swirling web of dust strands in between. Blue stars and red nebulae are visible behind the dust.

The X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above California. The plane has a distinctive shape with a long, sharply pointed nose. The nose is silver, while the rest of the body looks white. The words "NASA" and "X-59" are on the body of the aircraft. In the background, we can see brown earth below the plane as well as hazy mountains in the distance.

A gold and blue spiral galaxy swirls in the darkness of space. There is a bright spot of light at its center.

A person facing left sits inside a vehicle. They are wearing a yellow jumpsuit and gloves and a white helmet with a visor that looks like a smaller version of the kind astronauts wear during spacewalks. Outside of the window behind the person, you can see the ER-2 aircraft being prepared for flight.

Webb near-infrared data combined with Chandra X-ray data of the Bullet Cluster show many overlapping objects, including foreground stars, galaxies in galaxy clusters, and distorted background galaxies behind the galaxy clusters. The objects are all at various distances set against the black background of space. Most galaxies appear as tiny fuzzy ovals in white, orange, or red. A slightly larger, very bright, light blue spiral galaxy is at center. To its immediate left and right are two large bright pink splotches representing X-rays. The right pink area has a rounded nose facing right, where it is darker pink, and fades to the left as a triangular shape. This is referred to as the Bullet. To the far left and far right, next to the pink regions, are two blue regions representing dark matter mass. The left blue region is a large, long oval at an angle. The blue region at right is a far smaller oval.

The 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm extends from the International Space Station. The arm is long, cylindrical, and white, with several joints that are bent to the right (at left in the image) and downward (at center). Earth makes a bright white and blue background for the top half of the photo. Our home planet contrasts starkly with the darkness of space.

Jupiter's moon, Io, as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft. Io is yellow-brown and looks somewhat like a potato: some of its geographical features look like the eyes on a potato. Io is partly illuminated by sunshine reflecting off of Jupiter's surface. The darkness of space provides a black background.

$Stars in a star cluster shine brightly blue, with four-pointed diffraction spikes radiating from them. The center shows a small, crowded group of stars while a larger group is partially visible on the right side of the image. The nebula is mostly thick, smoky clouds of gas, lit up in blue tones by the stars. Clumps of dust hover before and around the stars; they are mostly dark but lit around their edges where the starlight erodes them.$

A view of northwestern China (bottom) and eastern Kazakhstan. A body of water in the distance glows gold; this is Lake Balkhash, one of the largest lakes in the world. The rest of Earth that is visible is mostly covered with flat, white clouds. At top, Earth's atmosphere can be seen, as well as the darkness of space.

A rocket lifts off into the sky, leaving a bright trail of flame in its wake. White vapor clouds billow out along the ground. There are also various structures in the image, including a gantry and a white structure that looks like a water tower.

A man in a dark blue jumpsuit faces away from the camera, watching a plane in the light blue sky. He shades his eyes with his right hand.

Ten people in blue jumpsuits link arms. The two women on either end wave at the audience, who is not visible.

Material resembling a tangle of dark pink hair swirls dramatically across the image. The picture is dotted with dozens of colorful orbs in various sizes.

A faint beam stretches up and to the left from the open dome of a laboratory into the sky. The building and surrounding trees are mostly in shadow. The sky is a deep blue with multicolored stars visible; the bottom of the sky where it meets the landscape fades from blue to pink.

The Milky Way galaxy appears above Earth's greenish atmospheric glow. The galaxy's dust and stars can be seen against the darkness of space.

An astronaut smiles at the camera while she works at a glovebox on the International Space Station. Her hands are inside the glove box. She is wearing a black headset.

Scores of gleaming white orbs and tiny specks pack the blackness of space, surrounded by a purple haze, and mottled golden clouds.

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick (left, in a blue jumpsuit with a patch on the right arm) and Mark Vande Hei (right, in camouflage clothing) in the cockpit of a helicopter. Dominick holds an open binder in his right hand and points forward with his left. They are both wearing black helmets. There is another person behind Dominick, also wearing a blue jumpsuit and helmet, facing the opposite way.

This image focuses on a twisting jet of material erupting from the Sun, glowing bright against the black backdrop of space. The Sun is a fiery, deep red ball taking up three-quarters of the image on the right.

In what appears as a celestial dreamscape, a blue and black sky filled with brilliant stars covers about two thirds of the image. The stars are different sizes and shades of white, beige, yellow, and light orange. Across the bottom third of the scene is a craggy, mountain-like vista with spire-like peaks and deep, seemingly misty valleys. These so-called mountains appear in varying shades of orange, yellow, and brown. The soaring spires are going up, up, up, where a wispy, ethereal white cloud stretches horizontally across the scene. Steam appears to rise from the mountaintops and join with this cloud. At the top, right corner of the image, a swath of orange and brown structure cuts diagonally across the sky.

Two metal trays of food are attached to a surface by Velcro strips. The tray in the foreground has sushi on it, while the tray in the back has shrimp cocktail on crackers.

Four astronauts - three men and one woman - walk down a dark gray ramp, exiting a building. A Black man at front left waves as he looks to our right. The other three people are smiling. All of the astronauts wear bright orange jumpsuits with various patches on them.

A man in a dark polo shirt smiles at the camera with his arms crossed. He is in the cupola of the International Space Station, an area with multiple windows through which Earth and space can be seen. Earth's clouds can be seen through the windows behind him.

Orion Mission Evaluation Room (MER) team member works during an Artemis II mission simulation on Aug. 19, 2025, from the new Orion MER inside the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA astronauts Jonny Kim and Zena Cardman, both Expedition 73 Flight Engineers, pose for a portrait inside the International Space Station's Unity module during a break in weekend housecleaning and maintenance activities. Kim and Cardman are both part of NASA Astronaut Group 22 selected in June 2017 with 12 other astronauts, including two Canadian Space Agency astronauts, and affectionately nicknamed "The Turtles."

$Aerial view of fractured sea ice floating in the Arctic Ocean. Large white ice sheets are broken into irregular shapes, with deep blue melt ponds and dark open water channels visible between them.$

Stars photographed over 31 minutes make a concentric pattern of white circles. At the bottom edge of the photo, there is a soft orange glow. A portion of the International Space Station can be seen in the foreground. This photo was taken through a window on the space station.

A satellite image shows brown-red, jagged land in the bottom-right corner jutting into blue-green water. Numerous islands dot the rest of the scene. The water appears to swirl around the islands. Some of the coastal areas are dotted with green.

A black and white photo of a woman wearing a spacesuit and helmet. She looks upward toward the right. The photo shows only her head and shoulders.

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is seen on the ramp at sunrise with its canopy open. Orange and gold light filters through the clouds behind the aircraft, highlighting the aircraft’s shape. Several ground crew members are visible around the aircraft, along with support carts. A vertical light pole with a coiled cable can be seen in the foreground.

A parachute carrying a capsule is fully open against a canvas of deep blue sky.

California's San Francisco Bay Area as seen from the International Space Station orbiting 260 miles above. The water is slate gray, while the surrounding land is in shades of brown, deep green, and gray.

A rocket launches upward. There is a very bright flame coming from the rocket, as well as clouds of white vapor. The clouds cover up the right side of the scene. On the left side, the sky is visible along with some thin white clouds. There are trees and other vegetation in the foreground of the image.

$The Moon looks nearly full from the viewpoint of the International Space Station. Below, we can see the Moon's light being refracted by Earth's atmosphere. A few clouds can be seen at the bottom of the image.$

NASA astronauts Christina Koch, a white woman, and Victor Glover, an African-American man, walk to the left during a night-run launch day demonstration. The crew access arm they're walking on has railings, one of which is in the foreground. The astronauts are wearing orange suits with patches and straps on them, as well as white helmets with clear visors. There is a person walking in front of them. This person is wearing khaki clothing and is carrying a gas tank on their back. The gas tank has straps like a backpack.

An astronaut in a white spacesuit comes out of a hatch on the International Space Station. We can see parts of the space station in the photo.

$Stars in a star cluster shine brightly blue, with four-pointed diffraction spikes radiating from them. The center shows a small, crowded group of stars while a larger group is partially visible on the right side of the image. The nebula is mostly thick, smoky clouds of gas, lit up in blue tones by the stars. Clumps of dust hover before and around the stars; they are mostly dark but lit around their edges where the starlight erodes them.$

$Aerial view of fractured sea ice floating in the Arctic Ocean. Large white ice sheets are broken into irregular shapes, with deep blue melt ponds and dark open water channels visible between them.$

$The Moon looks nearly full from the viewpoint of the International Space Station. Below, we can see the Moon's light being refracted by Earth's atmosphere. A few clouds can be seen at the bottom of the image.$