Astrophysical Imaging and Experimentation

Images of celestial bodies and phenomena captured through scientific instruments, including radar and X-ray images of comets and the human stomach.

Fluorescent minerals emit visible light when exposed to ultraviolet light
Fluorescent minerals emit visible light when exposed to ultraviolet light
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Engraving depicting a photographic telescope at the Paris Observatory. Dated 19th century
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Interference fringes produced by an amplified helium-neon gas laser, passing through two adjacent thin holes.
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Shadows seem ubiquitous in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's rings. The moon Pan casts a long shadow towards the right from where it orbits in the Encke Gap of the A ring in the upper right of the image.
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Overhead view of Pathfinder Landing Site
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.Schema for Zeiss-Icon 16 mm Timp. 3 Tidmark printers. 6 movie windows. 13 lenses. 14 Mirror wreath.Bäckström, Helmer. Photographic manual. Other revised edition. Nature and Culture. Stockholm. 1948. p. 1374.
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S129-E-006740 (19 Nov. 2009) --- Anchored to a Canadarm2 mobile foot restraint, astronaut Robert L. Satcher Jr., STS-129 mission specialist, participates in the mission's first session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 37-minute spacewalk, Satcher and astronaut Mike Foreman (out of frame), mission specialist, installed a spare S-band antenna structural assembly to the Z1 segment of the stations truss, or backbone. Foreman and Satcher also installed a set of cables for a future space-to-ground antenna on the Destiny laboratory and replaced a handrail on the Unity node with a new bracket used to route an ammonia cable that will be needed for the Tranquility node when it is delivered next year. The two spacewalkers also repositioned a cable connector on Unity, checked S0 truss cable connections, and lubricated latching snares on the Kibo robotic arm and the stations mobile base system.
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covid 19 corona virus microscope An illustration of a covid 19 corona virus microscope Copyright: xZoonar.com/magannx 15190027
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Dragon Endurance Approaches Station with Crew-7 Aboard. iss069e082518 (August, 27, 2023) -- SpaceX's Dragon Endurance spacecraft, with the four Crew-7 members aboard, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, approaches the International Space Station as it prepares to autonomously dock to the Harmony module's space-facing port on August 27, 2023.
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Titan (T16) Viewed by Cassini's Radar - July 22, 2006
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Dissection of a diseased intestine showing signs of cholera asiatica, with a detail showing a section as seen under a microscope. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
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High-voltage test at the Siemens plant in Drresden
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Keeping a close watch on the outer portion of Saturn's B ring, NASA's Cassini spacecraft records the complex inward and outward movement of the edge of the ring. This ring movement resembles the suspected behavior of spiral disk galaxies.
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Project 21 - Operation Ivy (Enewetak/Bikini) Test Activities. Mike Shock Wave Size in Relation to N.Y. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.
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stereo effect of a bacterium virus Coronavirus COVID-19 . Virus bacteria Virus Covid 19-NCP
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This video demonstrates the hiss-like radio noise generated by electrons moving along magnetic field lines from the Saturnian moon Enceladus to a glowing patch of ultraviolet light on Saturn.
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Kieselalgen Kieselalgen Diatomeen im Wasser Copyright: xZoonar.com/Dr.xLangex 13381703
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STS062-42-026 (4-18 March 1994) --- This 35mm frame, photographed as the Space Shuttle Columbia was orbiting Earth during a night pass, documents the glow phenomenon surrounding the vertical stabilizer and the Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) pods of the spacecraft.
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Set of modern vector banners. Molecular research, illustration of cells in gray, science vector background.
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'Fluid Dynamics,' mixed media by Tina York depicts fluid dynamics studies at the Ames Research Center. The purpose of such studies is to learn more about what happens to an object when it encounters the friction of atmospheric resistence (such as a plane encountering resistance as it speeds through the air). used in Ames 60 year history by Glenn Bugos NASA SP-4314
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P-34692 Range 500 km. ( 300 miles ) Smallest Resolvable Feature 900 m. or 2,700 ft. Part of Triton's complex geological history canbe seen in this image, shot by Voyager 2. Part of a sequence, this photograph encompasses two depressions, possibly old impact basins, that have been extensively modified by floodind, melting, faulting, and collapse. Several episodes of filling and partial removal of material appear to have occurred. The rough area in the middle of the bottom depression probably marks the most recent eruption of material. Only a few impact craters dot the area, which shows the dominance of internally driven geologic processes on Triton.
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P-34705 This false-color photograph of Neptune was made from Voyager 2 images taken through three filters blue, green, and a filter that passes light at a wavelength that is absorbed by methane gas. Thus, regions that appear white or bright red are those that reflect sunlight before it passes through a large quantity of methane. The image reveals the presence of a ubiquitous haze that covers Neptune in a semitransparent layer. Near the center of the disk, sunlight passes through the haze and deeper into the atmosphere, where some wavelenghths are absorbed by methane gas, causing the center to appear less red. Near the edge of the planet, the haze scatters sunlight at a higher altitude, above most of the methane, causing the bright red edge around the planet. By measuring haze brightness at several wavelengths, scientists are able to estimate the thickness of the haze and its ability to scatter sunlight. The image is among the last of the full-disk photos that Voyager 2 took before begi
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Oil Berral Earth by Mike Agliolo, computer graphics
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Slide for optical microscope
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Flying fox, X-ray
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Engraving depicting a rain gauge at the Paris Observatory. Dated 19th century
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Magnetic resonance imaging of spine with spine model
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.Röd Credit.
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High-voltage test at the Siemens plant in Drresden
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Thin line icons set of hospital and medical care.
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Aerial Photo of the Reservation (Swamp or Marginal Land). Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Red Lake Agency. 1964-. Photographs
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Analoges und Digitales Fieberthermometer als Hintergrundbild Analoges und Digitales Fieberthermometer als Hintergrundbild Copyright: xZoonar.com/lantapixx 887002
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A thermal image capturing the heat signature of a person's lower body and legs.
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Effervescent dissolving tablet pills in fizzy water. Tablet of antibiotic, aspirin or vitamin C soluble. Medicine drug with bubbles effect. Effervescent pharmacy pill on isolated background. vector. Effervescent dissolving tablet pills in fizzy water. Tablet of antibiotic, aspirin or vitamin soluble. Medicine drug with bubbles effect. Effervescent pharmacy pill on isolated background. vector
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A861281 U12G GTSF CHU (Project Engineer) NOV 13 1986 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 11/13/1986 CHU, T. Y.; CHU, TZE YAO "T.Y"; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; GTSF; MARKED; MARKINGS; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; ROCKS; ROCKS & MINERALS (MISC); ROCKS (MISCELLANEOUS); TEST SITES; U12G; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPONS EFFECTS; WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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A91569 U12P DISTANT ZENITH S.T.A.R.S. SYSTEM OPALKA (Project Engineer) SEP 12 91 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 9/12/1991 DISTANT ZENITH; DISTANT ZENITH TEST; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; EQUIPMENT (SNL); INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MONITORS; MONITORS, COLOR; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; P-TUNNEL; S.T.A.R.S.; STARS; STARS SYSTEM; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; DISTANT ZENITH-STARS SYSTEM historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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ISS033-E-007980 (28 Sept. 2012) --- European Space Agency's "Edoardo Amaldi" Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 (ATV-3) begins its relative separation from the International Space Station during the Expedition 33 mission. The ATV-3 undocked from the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module at 5:44 p.m. (EDT) on Sept. 28, 2012. The ATV-3 is scheduled to deorbit on Oct. 2 for a fiery re-entry over the Pacific Ocean that will destroy the trash-filled spacecraft. Inside the ATV-3 is the Re-Entry Breakup Recorder that will record various data such as temperature, pressure and speed as the resupply craft burns up during its return to Earth. Experts will use that data to design safer and more predictable destructive re-entry techniques.
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You are here: Earth as seen from Mars
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hybrea extralight
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An Arch fingerprint. Fingerprints are an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger. The recovery of fingerprints from a crime scene is an important method of forensic science.
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tussilago rg
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Cause of muscle's stiffness and pain illustration
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Coma Berenices star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space, Berenice hair
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Structure of the mitochondrion, illustration.
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High detailed Star Map with names of constellations
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AGER-3 Inclining Experiment Data , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy