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Hubble’s Big Reveal: Unearthing the Secrets of a Nearby Earth-Sized World

Space Telescope Science Institute — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:48:22 +0000

Hubble Telescope confirms the size of Earth-like exoplanet LTT 1445Ac, offering new insights into its composition and the potential for further atmospheric study. Lots of...

NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment Successfully Installed on Space Station

Abbey Interrante, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 06:12:10 +0000

NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) was installed on the ISS on November 18, becoming operational on November 20. This mission aims to analyze atmospheric gravity...

NASA’s Latest Climate Hero, PACE, Just Landed in Florida and It’s Ready To Rocket

NASA — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 14:08:50 +0000

NASA’s PACE spacecraft arrived in Florida for its 2024 launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center, the mission...

Hidden Wonders: Webb Space Telescope Detects Unexplained Structures in Heart of Milky Way

Space Telescope Science Institute — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:27:00 +0000

The play of darkness and light in our galaxy’s crowded core is put on display like never before. A bright field of gas sweeps around...

Webb’s Window Into Cosmic Birth: Ice Pebble Drift Sparks Planetary Life

Space Telescope Science Institute — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 04:54:11 +0000

Drifting pebbles deliver water to the inner regions of planet-forming disks How are planets born? Scientists have long proposed that ice-covered pebbles are the seeds...

Galactic Collision Captured in Stunning Detail: NASA’s Webb & Hubble Unite To Create Most Colorful View of Universe

Space Telescope Science Institute — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 09:20:24 +0000

The result: A vivid landscape of galaxies along with more than a dozen newfound, time-varying objects. When two flagship observatories unite, they reveal a wealth...

Another Surprise From NASA’s Lucy Asteroid Encounter: “We Never Suspected Anything So Bizarre!”

Katherine Kretke, Southwest Research Institute — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 09:17:12 +0000

NASA’s Lucy Surprise Observation of 1st-ever Contact Binary Orbiting Asteroid It turns out there is more to the “marvelous” asteroid Dinkinesh and its newly discovered...

NASA’s AWE Mission Launching to Space Station To Study Atmospheric Gravity Waves via Airglow

J. Titus Stupfel, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 12:13:31 +0000

NASA’s AWE mission, set to launch to the ISS, will examine atmospheric waves and their effects on space weather through the Earth’s natural airglow, informing...

Hubble’s Ultraviolet Eye Reveals Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in a New Light

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 18:14:15 +0000

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope provides a new ultraviolet image of Jupiter during its opposition, revealing details like the Great Red Spot in false-color to highlight...

Double Surprise: NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Makes “Marvelous” Discovery During Asteroid Dinkinesh Flyby

Katherine Kretke, Southwest Research Institute — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 02:32:58 +0000

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has revealed that the asteroid Dinkinesh is a binary system. The flyby tested the spacecraft’s tracking abilities and provided a preview of...

Cosmic Alchemy: Webb’s First Glimpse Into Heavy Element Creation

Space Telescope Science Institute — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 02:14:32 +0000

Webb’s study of the second-brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen reveals tellurium. Under what conditions many chemical elements are created in the universe has long been...

Light-Speed Ahead: NASA’s Pioneering Leap Into Laser Data Transmission

Kendall Murphy and Katherine Schauer, Goddard Space Flight Center — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:30:33 +0000

NASA’s ILLUMA-T payload is set to launch to the ISS, aiming to demonstrate the potential of laser communications for faster data transmission. This collaboration with...

Microlensing Magic: How NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Illuminate the Milky Way’s Mysteries

Ashley Balzer, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 22:10:39 +0000

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set for a 2027 launch, aims to revolutionize our understanding of the Milky Way through microlensing, potentially discovering new...

Billions of Cosmic Objects: NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Prepares for Torrent of Future Data

Ashley Balzer, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:42:17 +0000

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope team is preparing for its 2027 launch, using simulations and collaborations with other telescopes to maximize scientific output and explore cosmic...

Supernova Bubble Captured in Hubble Time-Lapse Movie – 20,000-Year-Old Explosion Still Expanding at 500,000 MPH

Space Telescope Science Institute — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 13:20:20 +0000

20,000-Year-Old Explosion Continues Expanding Into Space The abrupt, explosive death of a massive star, called a supernova, is one of the biggest blasts in the...

Mesmerizing Cetus Constellation Galaxy: A Cosmic Dance of Stars Through Time

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 20:22:48 +0000

New and old stars alike twinkle in the dusty spiral arms of galaxy NGC 1087, as seen in this breathtaking image from NASA’s Hubble Space...

Hubble Captures Galaxy With Brilliant Blue Arms and Billion-Year-Old “Circumnuclear Ring”

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 21:58:05 +0000

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured this detailed image of NGC 6951, a notable galaxy in the Cepheus constellation. Renowned for its star formation history,...

Hubble’s Hitchcock Moment: A Bizarre Explosion in Unexpected Place

Space Telescope Science Institute — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 12:45:59 +0000

Extraordinarily Bright Bursts of Light Found Between Galaxies A clear starry night is deceptively tranquil to backyard skygazers. In reality, the sky is ablaze with...

Radiant Revelations: Hubble Space Telescope Records Rare Radio Galaxy

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 03:26:45 +0000

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the lenticular galaxy NGC 612, characterized by its orange and blue hues. A striking orange...

Asymmetric Enigma: Hubble Explores a Vibrant Virgo Cluster Galaxy

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:53:02 +0000

It’s easy to get swept up in the swirling starry arms of this intermediate spiral galaxy, NGC 4654, in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy has...

LHASA 2.0: Goddard’s Groundbreaking Tool Clinches NASA’s 2023 Software Gold

Samantha Kilgore, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 12:05:50 +0000

NASA awarded its Software of the Year to the team behind LHASA 2.0, a tool providing global insights into rainfall-triggered landslides. Available as open-source, LHASA...

Cosmic Detectives: NASA’s Roman and ESA’s Euclid Will Team Up To Investigate Dark Energy

Ashley Balzer NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 15:55:45 +0000

Euclid and NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will collaboratively study the universe’s accelerating expansion. Using unique methods, they aim to shed light on dark...

NASA’s Cosmic Vision: Simulating Our Galaxy Through Gravitational Waves

Francis Reddy, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 23:37:14 +0000

Astronomers using simulated data have produced a glimpse of the sky as it would appear in gravitational waves, cosmic ripples in space-time generated by orbiting...

Mother of All Tests: NASA’s PACE Spacecraft Triumphs in Space Simulation

Sara Blumberg, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:39:49 +0000

The PACE spacecraft completed a vital month-long thermal test at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, paving the way for its scheduled January 2024 launch. Consider...