Great News For Astronomers,

all over the world,

 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has created a library of 140,000 high definition files filled with photos, videos, and sound clips, all free and available for download. Visual and audio content of planets, moons, nebulas, and specific space missions, are searchable by file type. The library spans the last hundred years, and users can narrow searches to focus on any timeframe between 1920 and 2019, each file also contains a thorough caption including the date and contextual information about the content, above backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis, a young five-star system just off the top of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope,

 again from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory produced a matched trio of images of the central region of our Milky Way galaxy,

 the Hubble space telescope captures vivid auroras in Jupiter’s atmosphere,

 this view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) in NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows an outcrop with finely layered rocks within the ‘Murray Buttes’ region on lower Mount Sharp,

the Hubble space telescope captures Mystic Mountain in the Carina Nebula,

 this view of Jupiter was taken by Voyager 1, the image was taken through color filters and recombined to produce the color image,

and of course we just had to have a picture of the moon, the North Polar Mosaic, and the prettiest planet of all,

our own earth, a composite image of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans captured by six orbits of the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership spacecraft, you can like spacecraft, explore the library on NASA’s dedicated website and see more updates from space on the Administration’s official Instagram, what stunning pictures indeed.