This Hubble Space Telescope image captures a portion of the reflection nebula IC 2631, which contains a protostar, the hot, dense core of a forming star that is accumulating gas and dust. via NASA https://ift.tt/3s7vAkd

Dr. Eugene Parker (seated), a pioneer in heliophysics, watches the liftoff of the mission named in his honor. via NASA https://ift.tt/3pVQ6l7

IIn this image, a Hayabusa2 sample canister containing sample fragments of the asteroid Ryugu is transferred from JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, to NASA. via NASA https://ift.tt/3pWiy6j

Each December the Geminids meteor showers appear in the night sky. via NASA https://ift.tt/3IJLyqy

Snoopy, the Zero G Indicator for the Artemis I mission, was delivered to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 2 2021. via NASA https://ift.tt/3pJgdvw

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. via NASA https://ift.tt/3oDqk5B

This stunning image captures a small region on the edge of the inky Coalsack Nebula, or Caldwell 99. via NASA https://ift.tt/3rKEm7x

NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, or LCRD, launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. via NASA https://ift.tt/3GnUPlY

This image of our home planet shows how Earth looked from more than 950,000 miles, or 1.5 million kilometers, away during the total solar eclipse visible in Antarctica on Dec. 4, 2021. via NASA https://ift.tt/3Gn7lCt

Christopher Kraft, flight director during Project Mercury, works at his console inside the Flight Control area at Mercury Mission Control. via NASA https://ift.tt/31vAAna