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A Ring in a Shadow

This color map, available as 24-bit RGB TIFFs of various sizes, is centered on 0° longitude.

Castelli Romani, Italy

Hubble Spots a Swarm of Stars

Cosmic polar researchers map neutron stars

Hurricane Dorian off the coast of Florida, as seen by the small satellite TEMPEST-D at 2 a.m. EDT on Sep. 3, 2019 (11 p.m PDT on Sept. 2, 2019). The layers in the animation reveal slices of the hurricane from four depths, taken at different radio wavelengths. The vertical view of Dorian highlights where the storm is strongest in the atmosphere. The colors in the animation show the heavy rainfall and moisture inside the storm. The least-intense areas of rainfall are shown in green, while the most intense are yellow, red and pink.

This visible-light image of the Fireworks galaxy (NGC 6946) comes from the Digital Sky Survey, and is overlaid with data from NASA's NuSTAR observatory (in blue and green).

Berkeley Lab researchers built a numerical model of the Cosumnes River watershed, extending from the Sierra Nevada mountains to the Central Valley, to study post-wildfire changes to the hydrologic cycle.

Subsea scouting with NEEMO NXT

MIT’s entry was the only fully-functioning levitating pod in the competition at SpaceX headquarters in July.