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NASA astronaut Victor Glover speaks with students about his time aboard the International Space Station, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, at Ben’s Chili Bowl in Washington.

A pair of U.S. spacesuits are pictured inside the International Space Station's Quest airlock ready for an upcoming spacewalk.

This Hubble infrared image captures a protostar designated J1672835.29-763111.64 in the reflection nebula IC 2631, part of the Chamaeleon star-forming region in the southern constellation Chamaeleon.

This image taken from the space station shows the blue-green waters around the Bahamas.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

During its 36th low pass over Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of striking cloud bands and swirls in the giant planet’s mid-southern latitudes.

During its 36th low pass over Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of striking cloud bands and swirls in the giant planet’s mid-southern latitudes.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft is lifted onto the GO Navigator recovery ship after it landed off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Mon., Nov. 8, 2021.

This image shows knots of cold, dense interstellar gas where new stars are forming. These Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules (frEGGs) are located in the Northern Coalsack Nebula in the direction of Cygnus, the Swan.

The colorful planetary nebula, NGC 2438, formed after the death of a Sun-like star. It appears to lie on the outskirts of the open star cluster, M46 (NGC 2437), when in fact it is in the foreground between us and the star cluster.

​An artists' impression of the Mariner 10 mission, the first mission to perform an interplanetary gravity assist.

An aurora dimly intersected with Earth's airglow as the International Space Station flew into an orbital sunrise 264 miles above the Pacific Ocean.

In this 90-second exposure, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is rolled to the launch pad on Oct. 27, 2021.

Take a tour of some of the most terrifying and mind-blowing destinations in our galaxy ... and beyond.

On October 8, 2014, active regions on our Sun gave it the appearance of a jack-o'-lantern.

In June 2021, NASA received its first sample of asteroid Ryugu, which was returned to Earth in December 2020.

This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away, but rather inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida lifted the Orion spacecraft and placed it atop the Space Launch System Moon rocket.

The Hubble Space Telescope's glamour shots of the universe nearly always have a discovery behind them.

​A vivid aurora streams over the Earth as the International Space Station orbited 274 miles above the southern Indian Ocean.