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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 co-founder 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 view of the solar system.

Small Asteroids and Comets Visited by Spacecraft as of September 2022
Cometary nuclei imaged by spacecraft and radio telescope, to scale
Asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft as of June 2018, in color [DEPRECATED]
Asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft as of August 2014, in color, excepting Vesta
Scale comparison of comets visited by spacecraft as of 2014
Asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft as of December 2012, in color, excepting Vesta [DEPRECATED]
Deep Space 1 view of Borrelly (processed to show coma)
All asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft as of August 2014, in color, albedo linearly scaled
Comet 19P/Borrelly, target of Deep Space 1
Comets visited by spacecraft
Galaxy Cluster MACS 0416

The coolest new space pictures: November 2023

Two space telescopes team up to bring us a colorful new view of the Cosmos.