Hear the Eerie Sounds of Nebula NGC 2392
About 5,000 light-years from Earth, the stunning nebula NGC 2392 formed after the demise of a star like our Sun. In this sonification, the image…
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NASA Completes Critical Testing Milestone for NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-2
The Joint Polar Satellite System-2 satellite, or JPSS-2, which will improve weather forecasts and increase our understanding of extreme weather and climate change, has cleared…
Listen to NASA’s Sonification of Majestic Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
The majestic spiral galaxy NGC 1300’s arms hold blue clusters of young stars, pink clouds of star formation, and dark lanes of dust. To represent…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Observes Asteroid Bennu’s Boulder “Body Armor”
Asteroid Bennu’s boulder-covered surface gives it protection against small meteoroid impacts, according to observations of craters by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith…
Cosmic Cannibalism: Dead Star Caught Violently Tearing Up Planetary System
Both Rocky and Icy Bodies Were Identified Among the Debris on the Surface of a White Dwarf Star “Bring out your dead!” rings in the…
NASA’s $10 Billion Webb Space Telescope Struck by Micrometeoroid
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope sustained an impact to one of its primary mirror segments between May 23 and 25. Our solar system is filled…
Student-Built, Dime-Sized Instrument Is Venus-Bound on NASA’s DAVINCI Space Probe
Scheduled to launch in the late 2020s, NASA’s DAVINCI mission will investigate the origin, evolution, and present state of
NASA’s DAVINCI Space Probe To Plunge Through Hellish Atmosphere of Venus
Last year, NASA selected the DAVINCI mission as part of its Discovery program. It will investigate the origin, evolution, and present state of Venus in…
Coming Soon: First Images From NASA’s Webb Space Telescope
The first full-color images and other data, coming July 12, 2022, will showcase Webb’s capabilities and kick off its science mission. NASA has announced that…
Webb Space Telescope’s Quest for Primeval Black Holes
The Webb Space Telescope team continues to work on commissioning the science instruments, the final step before starting science operations in the summer. We recently…
Hubble Captures a Turbulent Galactic Gravitational Dance
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation finds the large spiral galaxy, NGC 3227, engaged in a turbulent gravitational dance with its companion, the elliptical galaxy…
Hubble Captures a Peculiar Galactic Pair
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of IC 4271, also known as Arp 40, shows a strange pair of spiral galaxies approximately 800 million…
Webb Space Telescope Nearly Set to Explore the Solar System
As NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope moves through the final phases of commissioning its science instruments, the JWST team has also begun working on technical…
Seventeen Modes to Discovery: Webb Space Telescope’s Final Commissioning Activities
With the telescope optics and instruments aligned, the Webb team is now commissioning the observatory’s four powerful science instruments. There are 17 different instrument “modes”…
Hubble Captures a Dwarf Spiral Galaxy with Multiple Mysteries
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a section of the spiral galaxy nicknamed the Needle’s Eye – an appropriately diminutive name for a dwarf…
NASA ICON Finds Effects of Massive Tonga Volcanic Eruption Reached Space
When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai volcano erupted on January 15, 2022, it sent atmospheric shock waves, sonic booms, and tsunami waves around the world. Now,…
Examining the Heart of the Webb Space Telescope: The Final Phase of Commissioning
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now experiencing all seasons – from hot to cold – as it undergoes the thermal stability test. Meanwhile, activities…
Hubble Space Telescope: Not Yet Imagined [Video]
Hubble’s launch and deployment in April 1990 marked the most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo’s telescope. Thanks to five servicing missions and more than…
