Gallery
Public Domain Images
Images free of copyright, in the public domain.
Image Archive
18 images.
- A dark field scattered with thousands of galaxies of many colours; several appear stretched into arcs by gravitational lensing.Public Domain
Webb's First Deep Field (SMACS 0723)
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
- A glowing, cliff-like edge of orange gas and dust below a starry blue expanse, with newborn stars sparkling throughout.Public Domain
Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
- A shimmering shell of orange and blue gas expanding around a pair of central stars.Public Domain
The Southern Ring Nebula
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
- Four interacting galaxies clustered together with a fifth foreground galaxy, amid countless background stars and galaxies.Public Domain
Stephan's Quintet
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
- Three towering columns of dark, dense gas and dust silhouetted against glowing greenish nebulosity.Public Domain
Pillars of Creation (Hubble, 1995)
NASA, ESA, STScI
- A black field densely filled with thousands of galaxies of every size, colour, and shape.Public Domain
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field
NASA, ESA, and STScI
- The blue-and-white Earth rising above the grey, cratered lunar horizon against black space.Public Domain
Earthrise
NASA / William Anders
- A fully-lit Earth showing Africa, Antarctica, and swirling white clouds against black space.Public Domain
The Blue Marble
NASA / Apollo 17 crew
- A grainy image with scattered light bands, in which Earth appears as a single tiny bright dot.Public Domain
Pale Blue Dot
NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Saturn backlit by the Sun, its rings glowing, with a tiny bright point of light that is Earth in the distance.Public Domain
Saturn — The Day the Earth Smiled
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
- An edge-on galaxy with a bright bulging core and a dark, sharply defined dust lane, resembling a wide-brimmed hat.Public Domain
The Sombrero Galaxy (M104)
NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- A tangled, glowing web of orange, yellow, and blue filaments expanding outward from a central region.Public Domain
The Crab Nebula (M1)
NASA, ESA, STScI
- A rocky, rust-coloured Martian plain stretching to low hills under a hazy sky.Public Domain
Perseverance on Mars — Jezero Crater
NASA/JPL-Caltech
- The layered slopes of a Martian mountain rising above a boulder-strewn crater floor.Public Domain
Curiosity on Mars — Gale Crater
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
- A glowing golden disc of the Sun with bright active regions and looping arcs of plasma.Public Domain
The Sun in Extreme Ultraviolet
NASA/SDO and the AIA science team
- Jupiter in infrared, with glowing polar aurorae, bright cloud bands, and faint rings.Public Domain
Jupiter (James Webb Space Telescope)
NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team
- The International Space Station with its long solar arrays, backlit against Earth's blue limb and black space.Public Domain
The International Space Station
NASA
- A dark mosaic of narrow frames, each containing a tiny point of light marking a planet.Public Domain
The Solar System Family Portrait
NASA/JPL-Caltech