Space Agencies
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Saturn (Cassini)
Photograph (Cassini-Huygens mission) · NASA / JPL / Cassini Imaging Team
This composite photograph of Saturn was assembled from images taken by the Cassini orbiter on 19 July 2013, a single frame from the spacecraft's 13-year mission orbiting the planet (2004-2017). The or
Buzz Aldrin on the Moon
Photograph (lunar surface, Apollo 11) · Neil Armstrong (NASA, Apollo 11)
Taken by Neil Armstrong on 20 July 1969, this photograph shows Buzz Aldrin standing on the lunar surface near the Eagle landing module in the Sea of Tranquility. Armstrong is reflected in Aldrin's hel
Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Photograph (deep-field astronomical exposure) · NASA / ESA / Hubble Space Telescope
Released in 2004, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field is the deepest visible-light image of the universe ever taken at the time of its publication. A composite of 800 exposures totaling 11.3 days of telescope
Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31)
Astronomical photograph · Anonymous astrophotographer (CC0 public domain), 2025
The Andromeda Galaxy is the most distant object visible to the unaided human eye. Under dark skies, away from city lights, it appears as a fuzzy oval patch in the constellation Andromeda, slightly elo
Pillars of Creation
Astronomical photograph (Hubble Space Telescope) · NASA / Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), 1995
The image we have may be of something that no longer exists. Infrared observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope in 2007 suggested the three pillars of cold molecular hydrogen in the Eagle Nebula m
