
ALT This image, taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, reveals bright-blue regions along the galaxy’s disk dotted with dark dust lanes where new stars are likely forming. A bright foreground star appears just to the left of the galaxy’s bright central bulge but is located between us and the galaxy. Its four diffraction spikes are the result of light bending around the internal supports that hold Hubble’s secondary mirror. Credit: NASA, ESA, Michael Jones (California Institute of Technology); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

ALT The 212-foot core stage of the Artemis III rocket is vertical in High Bay 3 of the VAB. The nose cones of the side boosters are visible near the rocket’s engines as it is lowered onto the Mobile Launcher. In the foreground, a man in a hard hat faces away to watch the operation. Credit: NASA/Sean Cannon

































