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Universe
May 4, 2023
There is an “H”-shaped structure outlined in the hot gas in the galaxy Messier 84 (M84). Jets from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy have created cavities in the hot in opposite directions. X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink) have been combined with radio... Read More
Universe
May 4, 2023
The young star TW Hydrae is playing "shadow puppets" with scientists observing it with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Universe
May 4, 2023
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals NGC 547, an elliptical galaxy that sits about 250 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cetus.
Universe
May 3, 2023
A star nearing the end of its life swelled up and absorbed a Jupiter-size planet. In about 5 billion years, our Sun will go through a similar end-of-life transition.
Universe
May 3, 2023
This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows interacting galaxies known as AM 1214-255.
Space Experiments
May 2, 2023
NASA’s 2023 TechFlights solicitation is now open!
Universe
May 2, 2023
The first building blocks of life on Earth may have formed thanks to eruptions from our Sun, a new study finds.
Universe
May 2, 2023
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4395 looks at a small section of the larger galaxy.
Universe
May 1, 2023
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the lenticular galaxy NGC 3489.
Space Experiments
Apr 28, 2023
NASA’s 2023 TechFlights solicitation is now open!
Universe
Apr 28, 2023
A menagerie of interesting astronomical finds are visible in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Sun
Apr 26, 2023
The plan will keep Voyager 2’s science instruments turned on a few years longer than previously anticipated, enabling yet more revelations from interstellar space.
Earth, Citizen Science
Apr 25, 2023
Dr. Gerald Guala talks about the many ways citizen scientists are enhancing NASA's Earth science data collection.
Seven volunteers dressed in colorful drysuits ride in a gray inflatable boat moving through waters containing floating sea ice. In the background is cloudy sky framing a large snow-covered iceberg, rock or land formation.
Solar System
Apr 25, 2023
One of six instruments aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, CRISM produced global maps of minerals on the Red Planet’s surface.