Space Exploration Collection (page 7)

Saturn from 27 million miles, seen from Voyager 2 spacecraft. Creator: NASA
Saturn from 27 million miles, seen from Voyager 2 spacecraft

Nebula in Cygnus. Creator: NASA
Nebula in Cygnus. Cygnus is a constellation lying on the plane of the Milky Way, deriving its name from the Latinised Greek word for swan

Oberon, moon of Uranus, from Voyager 2, 24 January 1986. Creator: NASA
Oberon, moon of Uranus, from Voyager 2, 24 January 1986. This image of Oberon is the best the unmanned Voyager 2 spacecraft acquired of Uranus outermost moon

Space Shuttle Orbiter on the launch pad, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, USA, 1980s. Aerial view. The Space Shuttle program, (official name, Space Transportation System or STS)

Inspecting heat tiles, second Space Shuttle flight, November 1981. Creator: NASA
Inspecting heat tiles, second Space Shuttle flight, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, USA, November 1981. The Space Shuttle program, (official name, Space Transportation System or STS)

The Sun viewed with the Skylab 3 Apollo Telescope Mount, 1973. Creator: NASA
The Sun viewed with the Skylab 3 Apollo Telescope Mount, 1973. The Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) on Skylab was Americas first full-scale, manned astronomical observatory in space

Miranda, one of the moons of Uranus, seen from Voyager 2, 24 January 1986. Creator: NASA
Miranda, one of the moons of Uranus, seen from Voyager 2, 24 January 1986. High-resolution image of Miranda, also designated Uranus V, the smallest and innermost of Uranus five moons

Rocket booster recovery, second Space Shuttle flight, November 1981. Creator: NASA
Rocket booster recovery, second Space Shuttle flight, November 1981. The rocket booster is recovered from the sea. The space shuttles solid rocket boosters were reusable

The Sun in H-alpha light. Creator: NASA
The Sun in H-alpha light. Sun in the crimson light of hydrogen alpha (h-alpha), a specific deep-red visible spectral line emitted by many emission nebulae

Uranus seen from Miranda, 1986. Creator: NASA
Uranus seen from Miranda, 1986. Montage of photographs taken from unmanned spacecraft Voyager 2 in January 1986, that simulates a view of Uranus and rings as if seen over the horizon of Miranda

Artists impression of Space Shuttle. Creator: NASA
Artists impression of Space Shuttle. NASAs Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system. It operated between 1981 and 2011

Space Shuttle and 747 carrier plane in Mate-Demate Device. Creator: NASA
Space Shuttle and 747 carrier plane in Mate-Demate Device. Mate-Demate Device (MDD) at NASAs Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, USA

Solar eruption or flare. Creator: NASA
Thermal image of an eruption or flare on the surface of the Sun. Solar flares are giant explosions on the Sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space

The rings of Uranus. Creator: NASA
The rings of Uranus. The 9 main rings of Uranus are visible here as horizontal lines. The fainter, pastel lines seen between the rings are artifacts of computer enhancement

Roll-out of Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise, California, USA, 17 September 1976 Creator: NASA
Roll-out of Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise, California, USA, 17 September 1976. The Enterprise (OV-101) was built as part of NASAs Space Shuttle programme to perform atmospheric test flights after

Venus. Creator: NASA
Venus. The planet Venus, the second planet from the Sun, has the longest rotation period (243 days) of any planet in the Solar System

Nebulosity near the star Capella. Creator: NASA
Nebulosity near the star Capella. Capella, (Alpha Aurigae), is the brightest star in the constellation of Auriga

Mars from Viking 1 orbiter, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. Creator: NASA
Mars from Viking 1 orbiter, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. The Viking 1 spacecraft, part of NASAs Viking programme, was the first spacecraft to land successfully on Mars and perform its mission

Mercury. Creator: NASA
Mercury. Craters on the surface of the planet Mercury which is the smallest planet in our solar system, and the closest planet to the Sun

Nebulosity and star cluster in Serpens. Creator: NASA
Nebulosity and star cluster in Serpens. Serpens (from the Latin for serpent) is a constellation of the northern hemisphere

The first Lunar Roving Vehicle, Apollo 15, July 1971. Creator: NASA
The first Lunar Roving Vehicle, Apollo 15, July 1971. Battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15, 16, and 17) in 1971 and 1972

Whirlpool Galaxy in Canes Venatici. Creator: NASA
Whirlpool Galaxy in Canes Venatici. The Whirlpool Galaxy, (Messier 51a), in the constellation Canes Venatici, was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy

Rosette Nebula in Monoceros. Creator: NASA
Rosette Nebula in Monoceros. The Rosette Nebula (Caldwell 49) is about 5, 000 light years from Earth, near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy

Harrison Schmitt with US flag on the surface of the Moon, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972
Astronaut Harrison Schmitt with US flag on the surface of the Moon, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. Earth can be seen floating above the flag

Ring Nebula in Lyra. Creator: NASA
Ring Nebula in Lyra. The Ring Nebula (Messier 57) is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Lyra. Such objects are formed when a shell of ionised gas is expelled into the surrounding

Sombrero Galaxy. Creator: NASA
Sombrero Galaxy. The galaxy gets its name from the unusually large and extended central bulge of stars which make it look like a Mexican hat

Great Andromeda Galaxy. Creator: NASA
Great Andromeda Galaxy. Andromeda is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light-years) from Earth, and is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy

Dumbell Nebula in Vulpecula. Creator: NASA
Dumbell Nebula in Vulpecula. The Dumbbell Nebula (Messier 27), 1, 360 light-years away in the constellation of Vulpecula, was discovered in 1764 by Charles Messier

Commander Neil Armstrong in the Lunar Module on the Moon, Apollo 11 mission, July 1969. The Apollo 11 Lunar Module, code named Eagle, with US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on board

Horsehead Nebula in Orion. Creator: NASA
Horsehead Nebula in Orion. The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is a dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula was first recorded in 1888 by Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming

Crab Nebula in the constallation of Taurus. Creator: NASA
Crab Nebula in the constallation of Taurus. The Crab Nebula (Messier 1), a six-light-year-wide remnant of a supernova explosion, was discovered by English astronomer John Bevis in 1731

Cigar Galaxy in Ursa Major. Creator: NASA
Cigar Galaxy in Ursa Major. The Cigar Galaxy (Messier 82) is a starburst galaxy approximately 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major

Moon rock. Creator: NASA
Moon rock

Black Hole, artists concept. Creator: NASA
Black Hole, artists concept. A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space

Night sky with Cygnus constellation. Creator: NASA
Night sky with Cygnus constellation. Northern constellation lying on the plane of the Milky Way, deriving its name from the Latinised Greek word for swan

Total eclipse of the Sun from Tsavo National Park, Kenya. Creator: NASA
Total eclipse of the Sun from Tsavo National Park, Kenya. In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon passing in front of it

Hercules Globular Cluster. Creator: NASA
Hercules Globular Cluster. The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules or the Hercules Globular Cluster, (Messier 13) is a cluster of several hundred thousand stars in the constellation of Hercules

Astronaut Richard Truly, second Space Shuttle flight, November 1981. Creator: NASA
Astronaut Richard Truly, second Space Shuttle flight, November 1981. US fighter pilot and astronaut Joe Engle (born 1937) looks at data in zero gravity on the second flight of the Space Shuttle

The Milky Way. Creator: NASA
The Milky Way. False colour image of the centre of the Milky Way from data from the IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite). The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System

Big Joe, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. Creator: NASA
Big Joe, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. Big Joe, a dark rock on the planet surface, about 2 metres (6.6 feet) long, seen here about 8 meters (26 feet) from the Viking 1 Lander spacecraft

The Orion Nebula. Creator: NASA
The Orion Nebula. The Orion Nebula (Messier 42) is stellar nursery only 1, 500 light-years away, making it the closest large star-forming region to Earth in the constellation of Orion

Viking spacecraft, 1970s. Creator: NASA
Viking spacecraft, 1970s. NASAs Viking program consisted of a pair of American space probes sent to Mars, Viking 1 and Viking 2

Lander and surface of Mars, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. Creator: NASA
Lander and surface of Mars, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. The Viking 1 spacecraft, part of NASAs Viking programme, was the first spacecraft to land successfully on Mars and perform its mission

Sample scoop and arm, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. Creator: NASA
Sample scoop and arm, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. The Viking 1 spacecraft, part of NASAs Viking programme, was the first spacecraft to land successfully on Mars and perform its mission

First colour photograph of the Martian planet surface, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. The Viking 1 spacecraft, part of NASAs Viking programme

Martian sunset, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. Creator: NASA
Martian sunset, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. Mars skyline at sunset, pictured from the Viking lander. The Viking 1 spacecraft, part of NASAs Viking programme

Spiral galaxy in Triangulum constellation. Creator: NASA
Spiral galaxy in Triangulum constellation

The Planet Mars. Creator: NASA
The Planet Mars

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