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City lights are visible on the night side of Earth between the solar panels of docked spacecraft in a picture captured from the International Space Station.

Lunar New Year fireworks seen from orbit | Space photo of the day for Feb. 19, 2026

By Anthony Wood Published

Beijing sparkles with Lunar New Year celebrations.

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A heat map of the Earth's northern hemisphere, with a dark blue shape over the US showing a severe winter storm

NASA satellite watches January's polar vortex | Space photo of the day for Feb. 4, 2026

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry Published

A late January 2026 winter storm left more than snow and ice in its wake.

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An image of the world with various lines of green and blue showing the river system with a table of numbers on the left showing main flow levels corresponding to various colors.

Satellite sees river flow across the globe | Space photo of the day for Jan. 29, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry Published

Along with this stunning image is the first-ever global estimate of river water discharge and overall sediment suspension.

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A series of snow-covered mountain peaks jut out against a white landscape in an image seen from space

Satellite sees snowy Greenland peaks from space | Space photo of the day for Jan. 14, 2026

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry Published

Greenland's mountains greatly affect local climate patterns.

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A snowy landscape shows red rocks with white snow interspersed to create a muscle-y, meaty image

This Canadian crater looks like marbled meat | Space photo of the day for Jan. 6, 2026

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry Published

The reservoir seen in this image is sometimes referred to as the "eye of Quebec."

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Two large brown and white islands are seen in a dark blue ocean from space with various labels including Vindication Island, Medusa Pool and Lucifer Hill

NASA satellite gazes into Medusa Pool | Space photo of the day for Dec. 24, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry Published

The South Sandwich Islands were born from a tectonic collision, forged by volcanism and relentlessly reshaped by ice, wind and waves.

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An image from space showing a gray plume of smoke drifting over brown and snowy mountains

Volcano belches ash over Chile | Space photo of the day for Nov. 10, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry Published

The European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite mission captured a plume of ash over the Planchón-Peteroa volcanic complex.

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A black shadow is seen at the top right of the image with a blue halo of light in the middle where the coronagraph is

Earth photobombs the sun in satellite image | Space photo of the day for Oct. 23, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry Published

A new image from NOAA's GOES-19 satellite has captured a rate celestial cameo: Earth itself appearing in the view of the spacecraft's solar coronagraph.

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A view of Earth from space, with snow in the middle of the image and a series of green coastlines with water around the snow

Satellites watch glaciers melting in Patagonia | Space photo of the day for Oct. 22, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry Published

New satellite imagery from the European Space Agency reveals nearly four decades of dramatic ice loss for two of Patagonia's largest glaciers.

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Winter Storm from Space Feb. 13, 2014

Satellite Spies Winter Storm as Eastern US Digs Out (Photo)

By Megan Gannon Published

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