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photo by To celebrate Earth Day, this month’s photo challenge focused on the beauty of Mother Nature and her crazy weather conditions. We asked our Facebook Photobug Community to share with us their favorite stormy weather photos and the results are spectacular. With dark grey cumulus clouds, a downpour of

Spectacular jets are powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules A. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/almost-every-galaxy-has-one-a-black-hole-that-is

The night lights of Tokyo, Japan, are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above the island nation. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/tokyo-at-night

This image, taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory in 2012, shows an extraordinary outburst from a black hole. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sometimes-black-holes-are-prettier-in-pink

In April 2019, ablack hole and its shadow were captured in an image for the first time. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/photographing-a-black-hole

When space shuttle Columbia took to the skies, a new era of spaceflight took wing. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sts-1-takes-flight

Mary W. Jackson (second from left) seen in 1984 Student Symposium at Langley Research Center. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/celebrating-mary-w-jacksons-100th-birthday

A sea of dark dunes, sculpted by the wind into long lines, surrounds Mars’ northern polar cap and covers an area as big as Texas. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/blue-dunes-on-the-red-planet

Today is World Health Day and we’re funding studies to determine whether environmental factors influence the spread of the virus. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/researching-the-environment-and-covid-19

The Soyuz rocket is rolled out by train to the launch pad at Site 31, Tuesday, April 6, 2021, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/expedition-65-soyuz-rollout

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus resupply ship, with its prominent cymbal-shaped UltraFlex solar arrays is pictured attached to the space station. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/a-view-of-northrop-grummans-cygnus-resupply-ship

This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope revisits the Veil Nebula, which was featured in a previous Hubble image release. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2021/hubble-revisits-the-veil-nebula

This view of Earth’s horizon as the Sun sets over the Pacific Ocean was taken by the Expedition 7 crew onboard the International Space Station in 2003. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/space-station-view-of-sun-over-earth-from-space

As a payload communications manager Penny J. Pettigrew spends most days in the Payload Operations Integration Center at Marshall Space Flight Center. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/penny-j-pettigrew-iss-payload-communications-manager-at-nasa-s-marshall-space-flight

Set to launch next year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will explore a metal-rich asteroid of the same name in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/exploring-the-metal-rich-asteroid-psyche

This artist’s concept is of a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting the nearby star Epsilon Eridani. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nearest-exoplanet-to-our-solar-system

Expedition 65 backup and prime crew members are seen during a press conference. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/expedition-65-crew-press-conference

A field of sand dunes occupies this frosty 5-kilometer diameter crater in the high-latitudes of the northern plains of Mars. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/frosty-sand-dunes-of-mars

This image, taken on March 5, 2021, shows NASA astronaut Kate Rubins during a spacewalk to install solar array modification kits on the station. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/kate-rubins-works-to-upgrade-the-space-station

More than 11,000 years ago, a massive, supergiant star came to the end of its life. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/vision-of-a-stellar-ending

NASA has investigated humanity’s impact on a number of our home planet’s natural resources and recently explored our impact on freshwater resources. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/exploring-the-earths-water

photo by With vaccine distribution rising, more folks are able to plan their weddings again. To celebrate this good news, we felt it only fitting to ask our Facebook Photobug Community to share their favorite photos to get in your feels. We received an outpour of tears, smiles, and celebration

Spring doesn’t just hapen on Earth. Spring also happens on some of our neighboring planets in the solar system. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/saturns-spring

On March 18, 1978, space shuttle Enterprise arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center for mated vertical ground vibration testing. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/march-18-1978-space-shuttle-enterprise-arrives-for-vibration-testing

An illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter flying on Mars. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/ingenuity-helicopter-on-mars-illustration

Sometime in the far distant future, about 4 billion years from now, our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as illustrated in this artist rendition. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/hubble-shows-us-the-future

Image by The Marvelous Pictures In a market that only seems to be growing, it may feel hard to stand out as a wedding photographer. From pricing to profit to gear to social media and design, there’s a lot to think about as a small business owner. While these are

In this image from Jan. 18, 2019, Teddy Tzanetos, MiMi Aung and Bob Balaram of NASA’s Mars Helicopter project observe a flight test of a model of the Mars Helicopter. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/testing-the-mars-helicopter

NASA uses pi every day! Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-needs-pi

During the March 5, 2021, spacewalk, JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi spent nearly 7 hours working on the space station. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/japanese-astronaut-soichi-noguchi-works-on-stations-solar-arrays

Ten years ago, on March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern shore—the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to have hit Japan—generating enormous tsunami waves that spread across miles of shoreline, climbing as high as 130 feet (40 meters). The powerful inundation of seawater tore apart coastal

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features an impressive portrait of M1-63, an example of a bipolar planetary nebula located in the constellation of Scutum (the Shield). Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/portrait-of-a-nebula

The submissions to this year’s World Nature Photography Awards have been judged, and the winning images and photographers have just been announced. Thomas Vijayan was the Grand Prize winner, with his image of an orangutan climbing a tree. The contest organizers have shared with us some of the winning images,

Stacking is complete for the twin Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters for NASA’s Artemis I mission. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/stacking-complete-for-twin-space-launch-system-rocket-boosters

At NASA, women – be they scientists, pilots, astronauts and others – help the Agency fulfill its mission. Joan Higginbotham is one of those women. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/electrical-engineer-and-nasa-astronaut-joan-higginbotham

Beach meditation in Australia, tofu making in Indonesia, Newroz celebrations in Azerbaijan, ski racing in Massachusetts, anti-coup protests in Myanmar, ice surfing in Finland, visiting a platypus in Australia, underwater art in Russia, and much more Koala joey Humphrey sits with his mother in Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, on

This artist’s impression of hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris shows the star’s vast convection cells and violent ejections. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/hypergiant-star-canis-majoris

It’s March 2021 and in about another month the Hubble Space Telescope will celebrate 31 years in space observing the universe. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/hubble-30-years-and-counting

Earlier this week, the photographer Maria Passer visited some of the ice-covered abandoned buildings of Vorkuta, a dwindling coal-mining city north of the Arctic Circle, in Russia’s Komi Republic. Temperatures in Vorkuta can drop as low as -58 degrees Fahrenheit in the coldest winter months. Fewer than half of the

Did you know that NASA’s Kennedy Space Center shares its home with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge? Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-and-the-merritt-island-wildlife-refuge

Kelly J. Latimer was a research pilot in the Flight Crew Branch of NASA’s Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/kelly-latimer-drydens-first-female-research-test-pilot

On Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters sign is installed ahead of the building naming ceremony. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/mary-w-jackson-nasa-headquarters-sign-installation

On Feb. 25, 2021, the NASA Headquarters Building in Washington D.C. was officially renamed after Mary W. Jackson, the agency’s first African American female engineer. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/mary-w-jackson-nasas-first-female-african-american-engineer

Moving a home through the streets of San Francisco, ski jumping in Germany, hiking the Great Wall in China, visiting a ski resort in Tehran, opening a “hug room” in Rome, taking a vaccination selfie in Spain, surfing in front of Mount Fuji, walking a snow maze in Manitoba, and

This 2003 composite X-ray and optical image of galaxy NGC 1068 shows gas blowing away in a high-speed wind from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/reflections-from-a-black-hole

This image depicts a possible area through which the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover could traverse across Jezero Crater. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/traversing-mars-jezero-crater

wedding industry culture | image by Misha Lee Tame My 2020 began with an engagement ring and a healthy dose of hustle. Like most in the wedding industry culture, I had a busy wedding photography season on the horizon and within a matter of months. Then, I was going to

This is the first high-resolution, color image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover after its landing. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/perseverance-snaps-its-first-full-color-image-of-mars

In sharp contrast to last month’s roundup, February’s top pics are bringing a sense of warmth and wanderlust to the Photobug Community. But beyond the sunshine, two of the photos below contain incredible backstories that are worth the share. Keep scrolling to see the Top Pics of February 2021 images

On Feb. 28, 2011, NASA astronaut Alvin Drew participates in the STS-133 mission’s first spacewalk as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/alvin-drew-down-to-earth

NASAs Perseverance Rover lands on Mars. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/perseverance-rover-lands-on-the-red-planet

During the Mars Perseverance engineering and technology overview on Feb. 16, 2021, chief engineer Adam Steltzner displays a rover wheel. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/showcasing-the-rover-at-the-perseverance-engineering-and-technology-overview

The Empire State Building is illuminated in red to celebrate this Thursday’s scheduled landing on Mars of NASA’s Perseverance rover, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-empire-state-building-illuminated-for-mars-perseverance

If we find life on the Red Planet, we’ll have astrobiologists like Dr. Kennda Lynch to thank. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/astrobiologist-kennda-lynch-uses-analogs-on-earth-to-find-life-on-mars

photo by We noticed the world could use more photos of love and we are excited to share this month’s photo challenge. February, the month of love, seemed like the perfect opportunity to showcase engagement shots! We asked our Facebook Photobug Community to share with us their favorite engagement sessions

A physician, flight surgeon, and NASA astronaut, Bernard Harris became the first African American to perform a spacewalk in February 1995, . Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/bernard-harris-first-african-american-spacewalker

There are more than 100,000 proteins in the human body. Every structure is different, and each one of them holds important information related to our health. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/crystal-clear-observing-crystal-growth-on-the-space-station-0

This stunning image captures a small region on the edge of the inky Coalsack Nebula, or Caldwell 99. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-coalsack-nebula

This view of a sunrise breaking through the Earth’s horizon was taken as the International Space Station orbited 271 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Chile. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sunrise-over-the-pacific

In this image from 2018, NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps trains in a U.S. spacesuit at the Johnson Space Center. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jeanette-epps-astronaut-and-aerospace-engineer

Image by Pytlik & Bak Fotografia Engagement photos are a great way to connect with couples in a lowkey, stress-free environment. They allow you to develop trust with your clients prior to their wedding day and give you the opportunity to try out new techniques and flex your creative muscle.

The tip of the “wing” of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this view from NASA’s Great Observatories. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/taken-under-the-wing-of-the-small-magellanic-cloud

Apollo 14 arrived n lunar orbit on Feb. 4, 1971 to prepare for the landing in and exploration of the Fra Mauro highlands. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/apollo-14-arrives-in-lunar-orbit-on-feb-4-1971

The waning gibbous moon is pictured the day after its full Moon phase as the International Space Station orbited 264 miles above China near the Mongolian border. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/seeing-our-moon-from-the-space-station

Victor Glover, who has accumulated 3,000 flight hours in more than 40 aircraft, over 400 carrier arrested landings and 24 combat missions, took his first spacewalk on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-astronaut-victor-glover-works-to-upgrade-the-station

The STS-107 crewmembers strike a ‘flying’ pose for their traditional in-flight crew portrait in the SPACEHAB Research Double Module aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/remembering-sts-107-and-her-crew

Image by A new year brings new opportunities to improve your photography skills and refresh your business. Whether you’re just starting out or you’re a full-time wedding photographer, it’s important to periodically evaluate your business and set goals. We can’t think of a better time for fresh starts and new goals

Captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESO 455-10 is one such chaotic planetary nebula, located in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2021/hubble-spots-an-interstellar-interaction

Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk places a wreath at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial during a ceremony that was part of NASA’s Day of Remembrance. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasas-day-of-remembrance-thursday-jan-28-2021

Welding Underway on Orion for First Artemis Mission Landing Astronauts on the Moon Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/welding-underway-on-orion-for-first-artemis-mission-landing-astronauts-on-the-moon

Kepler-22b is the first planet discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/finding-a-new-earth

A powerful new antenna has been added to the NASA Space Communications and Navigation’s Deep Space Network. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/welcoming-a-new-addition-to-the-deep-space-network

photo by It’s the beginning of a new year, which means it’s time to set new business goals and annual resolutions. Luckily, we can also finally wave a collective goodbye to 2020. Farewell and adieu! Our Photobug Community kicked off 2021 ready to inspire, with multiple photos that beautifully illustrate

Located in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin), around 50 million light-years from Earth, the galaxy NGC 4535 is truly a stunning sight to behold. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2021/hubble-takes-portrait-of-the-lost-galaxy

The core stage for the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket is seen in the B-2 Test Stand during a scheduled 8-minute duration hot fire test, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/hot-fire-test-of-sls-rocket-core-stage

image by With 2020 in our rearview mirror, we can finally look back at the year with a new perspective. For this month’s challenge, we wanted to think about the fondest memories of an otherwise unpredictable year. We asked our Facebook Photobug Community to share their favorite photo of 2020

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964, as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others, look on. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/fulfilling-the-dream

Inside star cluster NGC 602, a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud, bright, blue, newly formed stars are blowing a cavity in this nebula. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/bright-blue-stars

Astronomers have no evidence that a distant black hole estimated to weigh between 3 billion and 100 billion times the mass of the Sun is anywhere to be found. Read more here:: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/finding-a-missing-black-hole