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Today is National Doctors’ Day!

Located about 21 million light-years from our galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, NGC 4618 has a diameter of about one-third that of our Milky Way. Together with its neighbor, NGC 4625, it forms an interacting galaxy pair, which means that the two galaxies are close enough to influence each other gravitationally.

This photograph shows ripples in the surface of Denman Glacier in East Antarctica that throw shadows against the ice.

NASA’s new three-dimensional portrait of methane concentrations shows the world’s second largest contributor to greenhouse warming.

Christina Koch handles media bags that enable the manufacturing of organ-like tissues using the BioFabrication Facility (BFF), a 3-D biological printer on the International Space Station.