This photo captures the moment that Michael Thelen, NASA's flight system manager for the SPHEREx observatory, rang the closing bell for the New York Stock Exchange on Earth Day, April 22, 2025.

“To get to ring that bell, it really is your moment,” Keely Hodgkinson, a British runner who won the women’s 800-meter gold, tells Kelly Holmes of Talksport, a U.K. radio station.

"They can ring the bell for lives lost; they can ring the bell for social justice; they can ring the bell for service and sacrifice; they can ring the bell for peace," the release stated. After each ...

Members of NASA's SPHEREx mission were celebrated for the recent launch of the astrophysics observatory by being invited to ring the closing bell for the New York Stock Exchange on April 22, 2025.