![]() ssc2019-14c 08.19.19 Dark World (Full)This artist's illustration depicts the exoplanet LHS 3844b, which is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits an M dwar... view image |
![]() ssc2018-04b1 02.05.18 TRAPPIST-1 Planet Lineup - Feb. 2018This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the pla... view image |
![]() ssc2018-04a 02.05.18 Illustration of TRAPPIST-1 Planets as of Feb. 2018This illustration shows the seven Earth-size planets of TRAPPIST-1. The image does not show the planets' orbits to sc... view image |
![]() ssc2018-04b2 02.05.18 TRAPPIST-1 Planet Lineup - Feb. 2018 (unannotated)This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the pla... view image |
![]() ssc2018-04d 02.05.18 TRAPPIST-1 Compared to Jovian Moons and Inner Solar System - Feb. 2018All seven planets discovered in orbit around the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 could easily fit inside the orbit of Mercu... view image |
![]() ssc2018-04c 02.05.18 TRAPPIST-1 Planet Data - Feb. 2018This chart shows, on the top row, artist concepts of the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 with their orbital periods, dist... view image |
![]() ssc2017-01g 02.22.17 TRAPPIST-1 Comparison to Solar System and Jovian MoonsAll seven planets discovered in orbit around the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 could easily fit inside the orbit of Mercu... view image |
![]() ssc2017-01c 02.22.17 Surface of TRAPPIST-1fImagine standing on the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f. This artist's concept is one interpretation of what it ... view image |
![]() ssc2017-01a 02.22.17 TRAPPIST-1 Planet LineupThis artist's conception shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about thei... view image |
![]() ssc2017-01f 02.22.17 TRAPPIST-1 Statistics TableThis chart shows, on the top row, artist conceptions of the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 with their orbital periods, d... view image |
![]() ssc2017-01d 02.22.17 Transit Illustration of TRAPPIST-1This illustration shows the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets as they might look as viewed from Earth using a fictional, incre... view image |
![]() ssc2017-01b 02.21.17 Abstract Concept of TRAPPIST-1 SystemThe TRAPPIST-1 star, an ultra-cool dwarf, has seven Earth-size planets orbiting it. This artist's concept appeared on... view image |
![]() ssc2015-02a 07.30.15 Hot, Rocky WorldThis artist's rendition shows one possible appearance for the planet HD 219134b, the nearest rocky exoplanet found to... view image |
![]() ssc2015-02d 07.30.15 Little Black Spot on the Star TodayThis artist's conception shows the silhouette of a rocky planet, dubbed HD 219134b, as it passes in front of its star... view image |
![]() ssc2012-11a 07.18.12 Exoplanet is Extremely Hot and Incredibly Close (Artist's Concept)Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is an alien world just two-thirds th... view image |
![]() ssc2011-08a 10.19.11 It's Raining CometsThis artist's conception illustrates a storm of comets around a star near our own, called Eta Corvi. view image |
![]() sig11-013 09.26.11 Earth and Super-EarthThis artists concept contrasts our familiar Earth with the exceptionally strange planet known as 55 Cancri e. While i... view image |
![]() ssc2009-16a 08.10.09 Planetary Demolition DerbyThis artist's animation shows a celestial body about the size of our moon slamming at great speed into a body the siz... view image |
![]() ssc2009-09b 04.07.09 Chemical Soups Around Cool StarsThis artist's conception shows a young, hypothetical planet around a cool star. A soupy mix of potentially life-formi... view image |
![]() ssc2008-19a 10.27.08 Epsilon Eridani: Double the RubbleThis artist's conception shows the closest known planetary system to our own, called Epsilon Eridani. Observations fr... view image |
![]() ssc2008-05a 02.17.08 Rocky, Terrestrial WorldsThis artist's concept illustrates the idea that rocky, terrestrial worlds like the inner planets in our Solar System ... view image |
![]() sig07-012 07.13.07 Sun and Earth in ScaleThis illustration shows the relative sizes of the Sun and the Earth by placing them impossibly close together. view image |
![]() sig05-018 08.07.05 Planet X: New Member of our Solar SystemThis artist's concept shows the planet catalogued as 2003UB313 at the lonely outer fringes of our solar system. The n... view image |
![]() ssc2005-10b 04.20.05 Alien Asteroid Belt Compared to our OwnThis artist's concept illustrates what the night sky might look like from a hypothetical alien planet in a star syste... view image |
![]() ssc2005-01b 01.10.05 Massive Smash-Up at VegaThis artist concept illustrates how a massive collision of objects, perhaps as large as the planet Pluto, smashed tog... view image |
![]() ssc2004-22e 12.09.04 The View from Within AU Microscopii's DiskThis is an artist's impression of the view from the vicinity of a hypothetical terrestrial planet and moon orbiting t... view image |
![]() ssc2004-17a 10.18.04 The Rocky World of Young Planetary Systems (Annotated)This artist's concept illustrates how planetary systems arise out of massive collisions between rocky bodies. New fin... view image |
![]() ssc2004-17a2 10.18.04 The Rocky World of Young Planetary SystemsThis artist's concept illustrates how planetary systems arise out of massive collisions between rocky bodies. New fin... view image |
![]() ssc2004-05d 03.15.04 Orbit ComparisonsThese four panels show the location of the newly discovered planet-like object, dubbed "Sedna," which lies in the far... view image |
![]() ssc2004-05c 03.15.04 Size ComparisonsThe artist's rendition shows the newly discovered planet-like object, dubbed "Sedna," in relation to other bodies in ... view image |
![]() dust_cover 08.23.03 Artist's Conception of Spitzer Ejecting its Dust CoverThe Spitzer Space Telescope was launched with a dust cover protecting the telescope. This image shows the dust cover... view image |
![]() SIRTF_departure 08.23.03 Spitzer Departing the Earth Soon After LaunchSpitzer departing the Earth soon after launch. Africa is prominently visible. The radio dish facilities at Hartebeest... view image |
![]() SIRTF_downlink 08.23.03 Spitzer Communicates with the EarthThe Spitzer Space Telescope points its high-gain antenna towards the Earth for downlinking recent observations and up... view image |