NASA’s Hubble Tracks Down a ‘Blue Lurker’ Among Stars
Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact &…
Webb Watches Carbon-Rich Dust Shells Form, Expand in Star System
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Earth in Far-Ultraviolet
NASA On April 21, 1972, NASA astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 mission, took a far-ultraviolet photo of Earth with an ultraviolet camera. Young’s original black-and-white picture…
NASA Invites Media to Launch of Cosmic Origins, Solar Wind Missions
NASA’s SPHEREx observatory will use a technique called spectroscopy across the entire sky, capturing the universe in more than 100 colors. Credit: BAE Systems Media accreditation is open for the…
Station Science Top News: Jan. 10, 2025
Measurements from space support wildfire risk predictions Researchers demonstrated that data from the International Space Station’s ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) instrument played a significant role…
Newly Selected Citizen Science Proposals: A Peek at What’s Next
7 min read Newly Selected Citizen Science Proposals: A Peek at What’s Next Last year, the NASA citizen science community saw a prize from the White House and two prizes…
How Many Black Holes Are Hiding? NASA Study Homes in on Answer
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A…
Astronomers Catch Unprecedented Features at Brink of Active Black Hole
International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never seen before using data from NASA missions and other facilities.…
Hubble Reveals Surprising Spiral Shape of Galaxy Hosting Young Jet
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55 Years Ago: Apollo 13 Prepares for Third Moon Landing
Following the historic year of 1969 that saw two successful Moon landings, 1970 opened on a more sober note. Ever-tightening federal budgets forced NASA to rescope its future lunar landing…