ALT An image from the James Webb Space Telescope of many glowing galaxies in deep space, in various shapes and colors, on a black background. There are some large, blue spiral galaxies, some large and pale white elliptical galaxies, and many orange and red, medium-sized galaxies. Even smaller galaxies, down to tiny faint spots, appear in all these colors. Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Rihtaršič (University of Ljubljana, FMF), R. Tripodi (University of Ljubljana, FMF)

ALT The NASA “meatball” logo, showing a blue circle with white stars and a white orbital path, crossed by a red aerodynamic swoosh. The word “NASA” appears in bold white letters at the center. The logo sits against a solid black background.

ALT Satellite imagery showing land vegetation data, captured by PACE.

ALT A colorful view of a glowing nebula shaped by flowing, cloud‑like gas. Bright orange and yellow filaments form a sweeping structure surrounded by a dense field of blue‑white stars. The background shifts from red to green hues, with star diffraction spikes scattered throughout the scene. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Reiter; Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç

ALT A diagram shows a satellite orbiting Earth, with each orbit getting closer due to orbital drag, illustrated by yellow curved paths decreasing in altitude against a starry background. “Orbital Drag” is labeled in yellow.

ALT This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the Wide Field Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It was taken as an initial performance assessment with the detector array still stowed as it was for launch, far from best focus. Roman’s primary science instrument has opened its eyes to the universe for the first time, revealing a sea of out-of-focus stars, each spread out over many thousands of pixels. The image, which zooms into one detector and zooms again to a single star in the insets, offers a baseline the Roman team will work from to align the telescope’s optics and tune the focus. The team will soon activate the instrument’s fine-guidance system, which will mean Roman can lock onto targets. They’ll also focus the observatory, which will shrink each star’s light to appear as a crisp point, rather than the broad, donut-like features seen here (which appear as expected given the instrument’s present configuration).

ALT A detailed Hubble Space Telescope view of the face‑on spiral galaxy Messier 101 (the Pinwheel Galaxy). The bright core glows warm yellow, surrounded by sweeping spiral arms filled with clusters of hot blue stars, star‑forming nebulae, and intricate lanes of dust. The galaxy’s thin disk reveals countless stars and regions of glowing gas set against a dark backdrop dotted with more distant galaxies.

ALT A group of interns is gathered around a large red sculpture of the NASA worm logo outside of NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.

ALT NASA astronaut Jessica Meir photographed the New York City area from the International Space Station in March 2020. Credit: NASA

ALT Artwork for Roman Space Telescope miniseries of NASA's podcast Curious Universe. The image shows a close, detailed rendering of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in black and purple. The logo "Roman Space Telescope" is bottom center, and the logo "Curious Universe" is top center of the frame.