By Neha Yadav
Published May 15, 2024

Hindustan Times
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Photo Credits: NASA

10 astounding 'Images of the Day' shared by NASA

The US space agency NASA regularly shares its 'Image of the Day'. Here are some astounding photos shared as 'Images of the Day' by NASA.

This breathtaking image shared by NASA shows aurora in flashes of red, purple, and green, dotted with stars near Malad City, Idaho in the US, when a solar storm hit Earth on May 11, 2024.  

NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope captured this sparkly image of the Andromeda Galaxy. It shows streams of dust moving toward the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.

This closeup image of Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot and its surrounding turbulent zone was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft. This image is a combination of three separate images of Jupiter.

Here's a gorgoeus image of the Washington Monument seen after sunset with the moon on the left, Jupiter and Saturn twinkling on the right. 

This mesmerising image is of a magnificent barred galaxy NGC 2217, captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It is roughly 65 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Canis Major.

This surreal image is of a little dumbbell nebula, captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It is also known as Messier 76 and is located 3,400 light-years away in the constellation Perseus.

This dazzling image is of a star-forming region NGC 604, captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam.

This spectacular image is of our planet Earth, captured by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard the Suomi NPP satellite.

Here's a marvellous image of a total solar eclipse seen in Dallas, Texas. The solar eclipse was visible in April 2024 across the entire North American continent along with parts of Central America and Europe.

Take a look at this splendid view of the aurora borealis, captured in Donnelly Creek, Alaska.