Space Open House Week: Find Your Place in Space

Together, two merging galaxies form a bean-like shape just below the center of this image. The cores of the galaxies are colored blue, and one is above and to the left of the other. These two cores are surrounded by bright tendrils of coral star-forming regions, which stretch above and below. To the right of the top galactic core is a particularly bright star-formation clump with faint diffraction spikes. The lower galaxy is a mostly regular spiral shape, while the upper galaxy has been distorted into a much more condensed bun. There is also a semi-transparent arc of pale dust above both merging galaxies. The background is black, and many tiny distant galaxies dot the scene.

Galactic Get-Together

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. Evans.

Dates: April 6-April 13, 2024

From Saturday, April 6 through Saturday, April 13, 2024, federal departments and agencies, museums, science centers, companies, and community organizations will open their doors to the public for Space Open House Week: Find Your Place In Space. The purpose of the week is to open the doors of the space industry to those who already love space and those who want to know more.