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ALT This sunset photo shows Deep Space Station 14 (DSS-14), the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California, part of NASA's Deep Space Network. The network's three complexes around the globe support communications with dozens of deep space missions. DSS-14 is also the agency's Goldstone Solar System Radar, which is used to observe asteroids that come close to Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
ALT An artist's rendering of what a commercial relay network in low Earth orbit could look like. The colors scale blue, grey, white, and black. In the bottom right corner, the Earth is shown with white dots to indicate activity. Relay satellites hover "above" Earth.
ALT NASA’s SPHEREx observatory separates from its spacecraft after launch on March 11, 2025. The pale blue marble of Earth fills the upper right, its surface coated in clouds. A circular base with a flat, rectangular solar panel attached to it faces the camera. A large white cone extends from that, its opening facing the darkness of space. Metal hardware along the bottom edge of the image shows the portion of the launch vehicle that carried SPHEREx to orbit, where the camera is mounted. The image is watermarked “Credit: NASA.”
ALT A portion of the sky is shown in an infrared wavelength similar to the color teal. This was captured by the SPHEREx space telescope as it scanned the sky and began its science operations. The portion of sky is dotted with hundreds of thousands of various sized stars and galaxies.
ALT At the center is a thin vertical cloud known as Lynds 483 that is shaped like an hourglass with irregular edges. At lower center are two discrete bright white, tiny blobs of light that have raced away from the hidden central stars. The top lobe shows a more prominent orange U-shape. Orange bleeds into light purple, and brighter pink at its edges. Some background stars are visible through sections of this lobe. Higher up, there is an orange arc. Some brighter pink material extends to the top edges near the center. In the lower lobe, less orange is visible. More opaque light purple is in its top third, rippling out into semi-transparent blues and pinks. The lower lobe has more texture. V-shapes left and right of the lobes are darkest, and the background stars in these areas appear orange. Elsewhere, the black background of space is clearer, speckled with tiny white stars and faint orange galaxies. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
ALT SCaN written out using Landsat-9 imagery.