NASA Just Launched a New Tool That Lets You Browse Decades of Beautiful Space Porn

If you’re looking for the perfect space-themed computer or phone background, or just want to browse decades’ worth of spaceflight and science history, NASA has you covered – big time.

The space agency just launched a new multimedia search engine called the NASA Image and Video Library: a collection of more than 140,000 of the NASA’s most popular photos, illustrations, videos, audio files, and videos.

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NASA Image and Video Library

Ta Tau.

Am really enjoying looking through these. many I haven’t seen before, particularly those photographed by the Spitzer space telescope.

This image highlights the problems with SOFIA. Left is the SOFIA image. Right is the Hubble image of the same object. SOFIA is an IR telescope on board a Jumbo jet, it’s proved extremely difficult to get the plane ride stable enough for good images.

mollwollfumble said:

Am really enjoying looking through these. many I haven’t seen before, particularly those photographed by the Spitzer space telescope.

This image highlights the problems with SOFIA. Left is the SOFIA image. Right is the Hubble image of the same object. SOFIA is an IR telescope on board a Jumbo jet, it’s proved extremely difficult to get the plane ride stable enough for good images.

Looks like a giant christmas cracker.