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Colorful Celtic Sea
2024.05.15
Satellites captured an expansive blue and green phytoplankton bloom in the waters off France.
Hubble Views the Dawn of a Sun-like Star
2024.05.15
Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The triple-star system is made up of the variable star HP Tau, HP Tau G2, and HP Tau G3. HP Tau is known as a T […]
Smoke and Fire in British Columbia
2024.05.14
Unusually early and intense fires are spreading rapidly amid drought and high winds.
Hurricanes Have Left Their Mark on Louisiana’s Wetlands
2024.05.13
Scientists have been tracking how strong storms have eaten into the Gulf state’s coastline.
Water Levels Plunge in Philippine Reservoir
2024.05.11
Searing temperatures and little rain reduced water levels of Pantabangan Lake, one of the country’s largest reservoirs.
Media Advisory: NASA Invites Media to NOAA’s Advanced Weather Satellite Launch
2024.05.10
NASA is preparing to launch NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U), a mission to help improve weather observing and environmental monitoring capabilities on Earth, as well as advance space weather observations.
Hubble Celebrates the 15th Anniversary of Servicing Mission 4
2024.05.10
Fifteen years ago, human hands touched NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope for the last time. As astronauts performed finishing tasks on the telescope during its final servicing mission in May 2009, they knew they had successfully concluded one of the most challenging and ambitious series of spacewalks ever conducted. But they couldn’t have known at the […]
Hubble Glimpses a Star-Forming Factory
2024.05.10
The celestial object showcased in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the spiral galaxy UGC 9684, which lies around 240 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Boötes. This image shows an impressive example of several classic galactic features, including a clear bar in the galaxy’s center, and a halo surrounding its […]
Floods Engulf Porto Alegre
2024.05.09
Torrential rains have unleashed widespread and destructive flooding in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state.
NASA, JAXA XRISM Spots Iron Fingerprints in Nearby Active Galaxy
2024.05.08
After starting science operations in February, Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) studied the monster black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 4151.
NASA’s Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky Exoplanet
2024.05.08
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date for the existence of any rocky planet atmosphere outside our solar system.
Complex Beauty in the Gulf of Oman
2024.05.08
NASA's newest Earth science satellite captured a striking image of swirling bands of phytoplankton.
How NASA’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes
2024.05.07
Astronomers have discovered black holes ranging from a few times the Sun’s mass to tens of billions. Now a group of scientists has predicted that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could find a class of “featherweight” black holes that has so far eluded detection. Today, black holes form either when a massive star collapses […]
New Proposals to Help NASA Advance Knowledge of Our Changing Climate
2024.05.07
NASA has selected four proposals for concept studies of missions to help us better understand Earth science key focus areas for the benefit of all including greenhouse gases, the ozone layer, ocean surface currents, and changes in ice and glaciers around the world.
Sierra Snowpack Springs Back
2024.05.07
A May storm dumped over two feet of snow in one day on parts of the California mountain range.
Ken Carpenter: Ensuring Top-Tier Science from Moon to Stars
2024.05.07
Today, Ken Carpenter is a scientist for NASA’s Hubble and Roman space telescopes, but in 1967 he was just a teenager at his local library out to fact-check a “Star Trek” episode. Name: Kenneth G. CarpenterTitle: Operations Project Scientist for Hubble Space Telescope; Ground System Scientist for Roman Space Telescope; and a NASA Innovative Advanced […]
Hubble Views a Galaxy with a Voracious Black Hole
2024.05.06
Bright, starry spiral arms surround an active galactic center in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy NGC 4951. Located in the Virgo constellation, NGC 4951 is located roughly 50 million light-years away from Earth. It’s classified as a Seyfert galaxy, which means that it’s an extremely energetic type of galaxy with […]
New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink
2024.05.06
Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer, viewers can plunge into the event horizon, a black hole’s point of no return. “People often ask about this, and simulating these difficult-to-imagine processes helps me connect the mathematics of relativity to […]
Cloudy With a Chance of Eclipse
2024.05.06
NASA citizen scientists collected thousands of photographs and temperature readings that are being used to study the relationship between total solar eclipses and clouds.
Return of the GEDI: Space Station Instrument Returns to Forest Monitoring
2024.05.04
That’s no moon, that’s a space station! The return of NASA’s GEDI (Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation) is underway, as the agency’s very own “lightsaber” will soon be back to measuring forests in three dimensions after it was reinstalled on the International Space Station April 22.
Destructive Floods Afflict Tanzania
2024.05.02
Exacerbated by El Niño, heavy rains in spring 2024 caused severe flooding in Tanzania’s Rufiji district, among other areas in eastern Africa.
Two Small NASA Satellites Will Measure Soil Moisture, Volcanic Gases
2024.05.01
Two NASA pathfinding missions were recently deployed into low-Earth orbit, where they are demonstrating novel technologies for observing atmospheric gases, measuring freshwater, and even detecting signs of potential volcanic eruptions.
NASA’s Webb Maps Weather on Planet 280 Light-Years Away
2024.04.30
An international team of researchers has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b.
NASA/JAXA’s XRISM Mission Captures Unmatched Data With Just 36 Pixels
2024.04.30
At a time when phone cameras are capable of taking snapshots with millions of pixels, an instrument on the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) satellite captures revolutionary science with just 36 of them. “That may sound impossible, but it’s actually true,” said Richard Kelley, the U.S. principal investigator for XRISM at NASA’s Goddard […]
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