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The Bruce Murray Space Image Library is a unique collection – recent and past photos and videos from the world’s space agencies, artwork, diagrams, and amateur-processed space images. Bruce Murray, Planetary Society cofounder and emeritus director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, insisted that planetary missions take photos for the public as well as for scientists. Bruce literally helped change our picture of the solar system.

Browse by clicking on an icon, then sort by date and keywords. Look at pictures taken of a place or look at pictures taken from a place. Videos are marked with a blue arrow. Or, take a remarkable journey through space with images created by amateurs. The main thing is, enjoy!

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Rosetta's first sight of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko of final approach phase

Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko on February 28, 2014

Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko on October 5, 2013

Comet ISON's evolution from September 24 to November 15, 2013

Comet ISON's perihelion from the STEREO spacecraft

MESSENGER observes comet 2P/Encke

MESSENGER observes comet ISON

Comet ISON Dives Toward the Sun (SOHO LASCO images)

Comet ISON just after perihelion in SOHO LASCO C3

Comet ISON closest approach distance relative to the size of the Sun

ISON approaches the Sun as seen from STEREO-A (Nov 21-26, 2013)

Comet ISON's predicted path through SOHO LASCO fields of view

ISON, Encke, Mercury, and Home

Spectacular ISON

Rosetta's first sight of its target

Comet ISON comes into view

First photos of comet ISON from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Blink animation of Hartley 2's jets

The Deep Impact Impact

Comet Tempel 1

Deep Impact "lookback" image of Tempel 1

The Deep Impact Impact onto Tempel 1 as witnessed by XMM-Newton

The Deep Impact Impact onto Tempel 1 as witnessed by Hubble

Deep Impact animation on approach to Tempel 1

Tempel 1, 42 hours before Stardust's flyby

The pitted surface of Tempel 1

Animation of the Deep Impact into Tempel 1

Surface changes on Tempel 1

Stardust's closeup views of Tempel 1

Jets From Tempel 1

Tempel 1

Animation of Stardust's flyby of Tempel 1

Stardust's flight past Tempel 1 (version 3)

Animation of Stardust's flyby of Wild 2

The two components of ISON

Where's north? Defining Tempel 1's poles

Stardust's best images of Wild 2

Deep Impact's comet crash

Comet ISON from Hubble

Hubble View of Comet ISON

Comet Hartley 2

Comet ISON from Hubble

Comet encounter with Mars

STEREO Spies McNaught

Comet PANSTARRS, Earth, and a coronal mass ejection as seen from STEREO-B

Asteroid and Comet Census from WISE

How to tell the size of an asteroid using combined optical and infrared observations

Artist's concept of comet Siding Spring passing Mars