Image of the Day Archives

Each day we highlight a spectacular picture from space. See space exploration photos, astronaut pictures and more in our Image of the Day galleries.

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Sunrise over the High-Fidelity Space Shuttle Model

Image of the Day: June 2012

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Expedition 30 Landing with Parachute Canopy Up

Image of the Day: May 2012

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Four of Five ATREX Launching

Image of the Day: April 2012

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Planetary Nebula Hen 3-1333

Image of the Day: March 2012

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Space Weather Forecasters

Image of the Day: February 2012

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Saturn Orange and Blue Hazes

Image of the Day: January 2012

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Solar Burst on the Far Side

Image of the Day: December 2011

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The far side.

Lynd's Dark Nebula 1622.

Image of the Day: November 2011

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Humanity's most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers. The first released image, of the Antennae Galaxies, reveals a view of the Universe that cannot be s

Image of the Day: October 2011

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Clusters of yellow lights on the Indo-Gangetic Plain reveal numerous cities large and small in this astronaut photograph of northern India and northern Pakistan.

Image of the Day: September 2011

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ALMA Antenna on the Road

Image of the Day: August 2011

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several star-forming regions

Image of the Day: July 2011

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Sunrise Over Shuttle Atlantis

Image of the Day: June 2011

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Only a computer artist could present NASA's Voyager spacecraft the way it appears here, in eerie perfection.

Image of the Day: May 2011

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Astronaut Paolo Nespoli took this image of the Sinai Peninsula from the International Space Station on March 19, 2011.

Image of the Day: April 2011

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It’s a good day for spacewalking. Halfway through the ISS airlock, Discovery shuttle astronaut Al Drew looks at the panorama for a second. This photo was taken by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli on the International Space Station on Feb. 28, 2011 during

Image of the Day: March 2011

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During the STS-107 mission, the crew appears to fly toward the camera in a group photo aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. On the bottom row (L to R) are astronauts Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist; Rick D. Husband, mission commander; Laurel B. Clark, mi

Image of the Day: February 2011

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Silent Hill. Spirit--the first of two NASA Mars Exploration Rovers--landed on Mars Jan. 4, 2004. This image shows the path the rover traveled on its way to the "Columbia Hills." Since March 22, 2010, however, Spirit has not responded to commands from Eart

Image of the Day: January 2011

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Magnetic fields

Image of the Day: December 2010

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A colourful star-forming region is featured in this stunning new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 2467. Huge clouds of gas and dust are sprinkled with bright blue, hot young stars. Strangely shaped dust clouds, resembling spilled liquids, are

Image of the Day: November 2010

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