ALT Three large satellite dishes stand outdoors on metal supports, angled toward the sky during sunset. The ground is covered in gravel, a few shrubs sit in the foreground, and the sky fades from warm orange near the horizon to deep blue above.

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 This photograph was taken during encapsulation of HEAO 3 into the payload faring that would sit atop its rocket. The spacecraft, near the center of the image, is a tall, boxy structure mostly wrapped in white and shiny gold coverings. The module at its base is covered in shiny silver. Blue, segmented solar panels cover the left side of the spacecraft. On either side of HEAO 3 are the halves of a large white protective shroud that is cylindrical with a cone-shaped tip. Its interior is black. The clean room is stark white and brightly lit, filled with various equipment and structures. Several people stand near the base of the spacecraft, wearing protective white garments and hair coverings. The photo is watermarked “Credit: NASA.”

ALT Colorful, mostly red glowing cloud with a distorted, asymmetrical shape that is illuminated from within by a bright central star. The asymmetrical shape resembles a large squished bug on the ground. In the center, a light blue glow appears over areas of dark pockets that look dark blue and are traced with orange material. It has a clumpy appearance. Shells of gas and dust appear as lobes stretching from roughly 11 to 5 o’clock, another from 1 to 7 o’clock, and possibly a third from 12 to 6 o’clock. The shells become a deeper red with distance from the center. These outflows push gas toward the equatorial plane, forming a disk that appears to span from 9 to 3 o’clock. The background of space is black and speckled with tiny bright stars and distant galaxies.

ALT Composite image of edge-on spiral starburst galaxy Messier 82 as observed by NASA's James Webb and Hubble space telescopes. Hourglass-shaped plumes of gas are shooting outward from above and below a bright blue-white, disk-shaped center. The plumes are yellow near the galaxy’s bright center, denoting areas of ionized hydrogen gas as observed by Hubble, and gradually become redder as you move farther away. Messier 82 is set against the black background of space, which has many distant galaxies that appear as small white and orange spirals, ovals, and points of light. Toward the right of Messier 82 is a blue-white star with eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of Webb.

ALT An illustration of a telescope spacecraft with a parabolic mirror floating in deep space.

ALT This certifies that "Nancy Roman has officially adopted one pixel from Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's first images." The number 2 is at the bottom, representing the unique pixel number assigned to Nancy Roman.

ALT Several galaxies shine against black space, with a large cluster near center-left.

ALT The spiral arms of a galaxy are orange and red near the golden core but fade to cloudy and gray at the outer edges. Bright magenta dots of light shine throughout.

ALT This composite image shows a supernova remnant with a pulsar wind nebula in the center in X-ray and radio light. A large, deep purple bubble fills the image, extending outside the top and bottom edges. At the center of the bubble is a bright white dot, marking the location of the crushed stellar core. Offset from the center is a hazy red region, which is a pulsar wind nebula. Another aqua blob in the lower right of the supernova remnant is an unrelated X-ray source. The image is watermarked “Credit: Brunelli et al. (2026)/MeerKAT (Heywood et al. 2022)/H. Earnshaw.”

ALT The disk of a spiral galaxy stretches across the image, with a softly glowing orange core and spiral arms laced with brown dust and blue patches of stars.

ALT This ultraviolet image of Omega Centauri is a composite of three images with colors selected to emphasize different UV wavelengths. It was captured by NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and features thousands and thousands of tiny colorful dots that are clumped together on the black background of space. The majority of the dots, which represent stars at varying stages of their lives, are clustered slightly below the center of the image in a bright region. The density of the stars decreases toward the edges of the image, with just a few dozen stars scattered around the edges of the cluster. The image is watermarked “Credit: NASA/Swift/S. Holland (GSFC), M. Siegel and E. Fonseca (PSU).”

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