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Team Preps to Study Dark Energy via Exploding Stars With NASA’s Roman
2025.03.11
The universe is ballooning outward at an ever-faster clip under the power of an unknown force dubbed dark energy. One of the major goals for NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is to help astronomers gather clues to the mystery. One team is setting the stage now to help astronomers prepare for this exciting […]
NASA’s Webb Peers Deeper into Mysterious Flame Nebula
2025.03.10
The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years old. Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores will never be able to fuse hydrogen like full-fledged stars—brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs, often called “failed stars,” over time become very […]
Alfred’s Strange and Destructive Journey
2025.03.08
The tropical cyclone took a sharp turn toward Australia’s east coast, bringing flooding and other hazards to an area that rarely sees this type of storm.
Hubble Unveils a Glittering View of Sh2-284
2025.03.08
A tiny fraction of the stellar nursery known as Sh2-284 is visible in this glittering, star-filled NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. This immense region of gas and dust is the birthing place of stars, which shine among the clouds. Bright clusters of newborn stars glow pink in infrared light, and clouds of gas and dust, […]
Hubble Jams With A Cosmic Guitar
2025.03.08
Arp 105 is a dazzling ongoing merger between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy drawn together by gravity, characterized by a long, drawn out tidal tail of stars and gas more than 362,000 light-years long. The immense tail, which extends beyond this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, was pulled from the two galaxies […]
Hubble Spies a Spectacular Starburst Galaxy
2025.03.08
Sweeping spiral arms extend from NGC 4536, littered with bright blue clusters of star formation and red clumps of hydrogen gas shining among dark lanes of dust. The galaxy’s shape may seem a little unusual, and that’s because it’s what’s known as an “intermediate galaxy”: not quite a barred spiral, but not exactly an unbarred […]
Hubble Examines Stars Ensconced in a Cocoon of Gas
2025.03.08
An open cluster of stars shines through misty, cocoon-like gas clouds in this Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 460. NGC 460 is located in a region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. This particular region contains a number of young star clusters and nebulae of different sizes […]
NASA Webb Wows With Incredible Detail in Actively Forming Star System
2025.03.07
High-resolution near-infrared light captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows extraordinary new detail and structure in Lynds 483 (L483). Two actively forming stars are responsible for the shimmering ejections of gas and dust that gleam in orange, blue, and purple in this representative color image. Over tens of thousands of years, the central protostars […]
Hubble Spies a Spiral in the Water Snake
2025.03.07
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a vibrant spiral galaxy called NGC 5042 resides about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra (the water snake). The galaxy nicely fills the frame of this Hubble image, while a single, foreground star from the Milky Way shines with cross-shaped diffraction spikes near the galaxy’s […]
A Proliferation of Lakes on the Tibetan Plateau
2025.03.05
Satellites have documented lakes on the “roof of the world” becoming larger and more numerous over the past three decades.
NASA’s Hubble Finds Kuiper Belt Duo May Be Trio
2025.03.04
The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show “3 Body Problem.” There’s no problem, however, with what a team of researchers say is likely a stable trio of icy space rocks in the solar […]
Fire Grows Unusually Large in Japan
2025.03.04
Following a record dry month, a fire near Ofunato spread to become the country’s largest in decades.
NASA’s Webb Exposes Complex Atmosphere of Starless Super-Jupiter
2025.03.03
An international team of researchers has discovered that previously observed variations in brightness of a free-floating planetary-mass object known as SIMP 0136 must be the result of a complex combination of atmospheric factors, and cannot be explained by clouds alone. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to monitor a broad spectrum of infrared light emitted […]
Going With the Flow: Visualizing Ocean Currents with ECCO
2025.03.03
Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model. This data visualization showing ocean currents around the world uses data from NASA’s ECCO model, or Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean. The model pulls data from spacecraft, buoys, and other measurements.
Colorful Dust Over Mauritania
2025.03.03
Airborne dust is common over the West African country, but its source can affect the appearance of plumes.
Hubble Captures New View of Colorful Veil
2025.02.28
In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous — and frequently photographed — supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. The remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the Sun that exploded about 10,000 years ago, the Veil Nebula is situated about 2,400 light-years away in […]
Cyclone Flurry in the Southern Hemisphere
2025.02.28
An unusual number of tropical storms churned across the planet’s southern oceans simultaneously in February 2025.
NASA’s Hubble Provides Bird’s-Eye View of Andromeda Galaxy’s Ecosystem
2025.02.27
Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers don’t see is a swarm of nearly three dozen small satellite galaxies circling the Andromeda galaxy, like bees around a hive. These satellite galaxies represent […]
Large Fire Footprint on Faraway Amsterdam Island
2025.02.27
Wildfire burned through unique landscapes and disrupted scientific research on this remote island in the southern Indian Ocean.
Whorls of White off Greenland
2025.02.26
Bright snow topped the island’s thick ice sheet, while a swirling display of sea ice hugged the southeast coast.
New Antarctic Iceberg Speeds Off
2025.02.24
Iceberg A-84 has spent part of the Southern Hemisphere’s summer zipping along West Antarctica’s coastline.
NASA’s PUNCH Mission to Revolutionize Our View of Solar Wind
2025.02.21
Earth is immersed in material streaming from the Sun. This stream, called the solar wind, is washing over our planet, causing breathtaking auroras, impacting satellites and astronauts in space, and even affecting ground-based infrastructure. NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission will be the first to image the Sun’s corona, or outer […]
How New NASA, India Earth Satellite NISAR Will See Earth
2025.02.21
When NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) new Earth satellite NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) launches in coming months, it will capture images of Earth’s surface so detailed they will show how much small plots of land and ice are moving, down to fractions of an inch.
Sweater Weather in North America
2025.02.21
Even with global temperatures well above normal in February 2025, a blast of frigid Arctic air spilled south into the central and eastern United States.
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