Space Art From Across The Universe 16-MAY-08 en-us San Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2007 - NASA and Internet Archive of San Francisco are partnering to scan, archive and manage the agency's vast collection of photographs, historic film and video. The imagery will be available through the Internet and free to the public, historians, scholars, students, and researchers.]]> ]]> Baltimore, MD (SPX) May 31, 2007 - The sharpest image ever taken of the large "grand design" spiral galaxy M81 is being released today at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. This beautiful galaxy is tilted at an oblique angle on to our line of sight, giving a "birds-eye view" of the spiral structure. The galaxy is similar to our Milky Way, but our favorable view provides a better picture of the typical architecture of spiral galaxies.]]> Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 18, 2007 - Ron Woods is one of the few people to effectively capture spacesuits in their native habitats. Designed to keep humans alive in the void of orbit and on the moon, the rugged garments nevertheless spend almost their entire lives in pristine rooms on Earth. It is there that Woods finds them and brings their stories to life. "To me, there's nothing more artistic than a spacesuit," Woods said. "They're just real interesting pieces of hardware to me and I just started painting them."]]> Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 13, 2007 - The Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades, seem to float on a bed of feathers in a new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Clouds of dust sweep around the stars, swaddling them in a cushiony veil.]]> ]]> Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 08, 2007 - Beth A. Biller is part of an international team of astronomers trying to tease out images of planets around young stars by removing the distortions caused by Earth's atmosphere. Extrasolar planets are extremely faint targets to begin with, and an atmospheric effect known as "speckling" has thwarted most previous attempts to observe them directly.]]> Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 25, 2006 - This active region of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), as photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, unveils wispy clouds of hydrogen and oxygen that swirl and mix with dust on a canvas of astronomical size. The LMC is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.]]> Darmstadt, Germany (SPX) Aug 04, 2006 - This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera aboard ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, shows regions of Granicus Valles and Tinjar Valles that might have been formed partly through the action of subsurface water, due to a process known as sapping.]]> Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 04, 2006 - Reminiscent of a U.S. Independence Day celebration, here is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a cosmic explosion that is quite similar to fireworks on Earth. In the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud, a massive star has exploded as a supernova, and begun to dissipate its interior into a spectacular display of colorful filaments.]]> Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2006 - The Hubble Space Telescope captured this unique view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to Earth's line-of-sight. Hubble's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy into two halves.]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2006 - Spitzer Space Telescope's latest image shows a pair of galaxies peering out as though through a mask of surrounding stars.]]> ]]> Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 25, 2006 - To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 16 years in orbit, NASA and ESA have released this image of the starburst galaxy Messier 82. The mosaic image represents the sharpest wide-angle view ever obtained of M82.]]> Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 18, 2006 - New images by the Hubble Space Telescope have captured the most detailed picture to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 and NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud – one of the Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbors.]]> Paranal, Chile (SPX) Apr 10, 2006 - Hanging above the nearly Large Magellanic Cloud - a miniature galaxy and one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors - is the Tarantula nebula. Also designated 30 Doradus or NGC 2070, the nebula owes its name to the arrangement of its brightest patches of nebulosity that somewhat resemble the legs of a spider.]]> ]]>