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Apollo 17 in Real Time
A real-time interactive journey through the last landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1972.Apollo 17 in Real Time
Does this ring a bell? 💍
Webb’s first images showed 2 stars, a dying star and its orbiting companion, in the Southern Ring Nebula. Webb scientists now think more hidden companions helped shape the gas and dust here, potentially a total of 5 stars! More: go.nasa.gov/3UMDo5j
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NASA’s Webb Indicates Several Stars ‘Stirred Up’ Southern Ring Nebula
Some of the first data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has shown there were at least two, and possibly three, more unseen stars that crafted the oblong, curvy shapes of the Southern Ring Nebula.Jamie Adkins (NASA)
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LIVE: Administrator @SenBillNelson, NASA chief scientist Dr. Kate Calvin, and other agency leaders are providing updates on our portfolio of @NASAClimate research projects and NASA's role in understanding our changing planet. Tune in: twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1mrxm…
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Just how dark is dark?
Astronomers studied 200,000 Hubble images and made thousands of measurements to look for any residual background glow in the sky.
The "leftover" light they found was likely caused by sunlight reflecting off of dust from comets: go.nasa.gov/3UHA6Ak
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Hubble Detects Ghostly Glow Surrounding Our Solar System
Astronomers sorted through 200,000 Hubble images and made tens of thousands of measurements on them to look for any residual background glow in the sky, in an ambitious project called SKYSURF.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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Apollo 17 in Real Time
A real-time interactive journey through the last landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1972.Apollo 17 in Real Time
Today at 11am ET (1600 UTC), @nasa Administrator @SenBillNelson and agency leaders will discuss @NASAClimate research and our role as a global leader in understanding how the planet is changing.
How to watch: go.nasa.gov/3P92hHi
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NASA to Discuss Climate Research, Mitigation Efforts
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will discuss the agency’s climate portfolio at 11 a.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 8 from NASA Headquarters in Washington.Gerelle Dodson (NASA)
APOD: 2022 December 8 - Orion and the Ocean of Storms
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
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Galileo - Overview
Galileo was designed to make the first study of Jupiter and its moons and magnetosphere from orbit. The orbiter carried 10 science instruments and a atmospheric probe.NASA Solar System Exploration
Orion and the Ocean of Storms
Image Credit: NASA, Artemis 1
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APOD: 2022 December 8 - Orion and the Ocean of Storms
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
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10 Things: Our Home World From Afar
“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” - Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11NASA Solar System Exploration
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Hubble Observes a Mystery: 'Cotton Candy' Planets
"Super-Puffs" may sound like a new breakfast cereal. But it's actually the nickname for a unique and rare class of young exoplanets that have the density of cotton candy. Nothing like them exists in our solar system.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
Time for a Mars “close-up”! 📸
About every 26 months, the orbit of Mars makes its closest approach to Earth – and December 8 is the next time!
This Hubble image shows Mars before its closest approach back in 2016: go.nasa.gov/3iMazJ9
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New Hubble Portrait of Mars
Hubble Space Telescope took a photo of Mars on May 12, 2016, when Mars was 50 million miles from Earth, revealing details as small as 20 to 30 miles across.NASA
Stargazers: Tonight Mars will slip behind the Moon for viewers in parts of North America, Europe, and Northern Africa.
This is called a lunar occultation! Check your preferred stargazing app for the time in your area. Learn more ⬇️ go.nasa.gov/3uvBqvN
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What’s Up: Skywatching Tips from NASA
Watch the latest video in NASA’s “What’s Up” series to discover the skywatching highlights for this month.NASA Solar System Exploration
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'Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations
"Super-Puffs" may sound like a new breakfast cereal. But it's actually the nickname for a unique and rare class of young exoplanets that have the density of cotton candy. Nothing like them exists in our solar system.Rob Garner (NASA)
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NASA to Discuss Climate Research, Mitigation Efforts
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will discuss the agency’s climate portfolio at 11 a.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 8 from NASA Headquarters in Washington.Gerelle Dodson (NASA)
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NASA Sets Coverage for SWOT Water Survey Mission Launch
NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission.Roxana Bardan (NASA)
Fifty years ago, Apollo 17 launched from @NASAKennedy, bringing a geologist, bacon, and what turned out to be super-handy duct tape to the lunar surface.
Take a behind-the-scenes look at our last crewed mission to the Moon: go.nasa.gov/3FywKeD
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50 Years Ago: Apollo 17
Not long after midnight on Dec. 7, 1972, the last crewed mission to the Moon, Apollo 17, lifted off with three astronauts: Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ronald Evans. Experience the Apollo 17...nasa (Tumblr)
According to the NASA feed today is the 50's anniversary of the launch of the last moon rocket.
It's been 50 years since a human left low earth orbit.
Earth has lost 561 square miles (1,453 square kilometers) of salt marshes in the past 20 years, a new @nasa study using #Landsat data shows.
Degrading marsh habitats releases carbon dioxide – a greenhouse gas – into the atmosphere. go.nasa.gov/3UEtIdg
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NASA Scientists Map Global Salt Marsh Losses and Their Carbon Impact
Earth has lost 561 square miles of salt marshes over the past 20 years, according to a new NASA-led study of the first consistent global accounting of salt marsh locations and changes.Kate Ramsayer (NASA)
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EPIC :: DSCOVR
Daily natural color imagery of Earth from the EPIC camera onboard the DSCOVR spacecraft.epic.gsfc.nasa.gov
Shine bright like NGC 2031 💎
Hubble's next #StarrySights image shows a cluster that resides about 150,000 light-years from Earth in an extremely dense region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way.
For more: go.nasa.gov/3Hgfc8z
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Hubble Beholds Brilliant Blue Star Cluster
In the top left corner of this starry sight, the globular cluster NGC 2031 shines brilliantly.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
Unlike the 15 rock cores collected to date, 2 samples taken by @NASAPersevere are filled with broken rock & dust. Studying these could help teams design safer missions & equipment, especially for future Mars astronauts. go.nasa.gov/3YgdutY
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Gets the Dirt on Mars
The mission’s first two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – could help scientists better understand the Red Planet and engineers prepare for future missions there.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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50th Anniversary of OAO 2: NASA’s 1st Successful Stellar Observatory
Launched on Dec. 7, 1968, NASA's Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2, nicknamed Stargazer, was the agency's first successful cosmic explorer — a direct ancestor of Hubble and many other astronomy satellites.Rob Garner (NASA)
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NASA's Spitzer Captures Stellar Family Portrait
The evolution of stellar families - born from the same clumps of gas and dust - is just some of what's on display in this sweeping image.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Skywatchers in North America and Europe might be able to spot Mars ducking behind the Moon tonight.
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Spacesuit Work and Emergency Training Aboard Station Today
The Expedition 68 crew took a break from its intense space research activities and focused on spacesuits, biomedical tests, and lab maintenance on Wednesday.blogs.nasa.gov
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What's Up: December 2022 Skywatching Tips from NASA
What are some skywatching highlights in December 2022?The Moon sweeps past Jupiter twice this month, and actually covers Mars completely, in an event called ...YouTube
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NASA's Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before
Webb's firsts keep coming: Observations of the exoplanet WASP-39 b show fingerprints of atoms and molecules, as well as signs of active chemistry and clouds.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
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NASA Missions Probe Game-Changing Cosmic Explosion
On Dec. 11, 2021, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a blast of high-energy light from the outskirts of a galaxy around 1 billion light-years away.Jeanette Kazmierczak (NASA)
As @NASA_Orion continues its journey home, we're also celebrating the 50th anniversary of the iconic "Blue Marble" photo of Earth, taken on Dec. 7, 1972 by the crew of Apollo 17.
Get the full-size image: go.nasa.gov/3VDWmg1
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Collection - Earth from Afar
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Look up!
Mars slips behind the Moon tonight (called an "occultation") for viewers in most of the U.S. If you're in the East Coast or the Southeast, the Moon will appear to just barely graze past Mars.
Check out stargazing tips for the December here: go.nasa.gov/3zLnOgh
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NASA Skywatching Home
What’s visible in the night sky? Get skywatching tips and resources from NASA.NASA Solar System Exploration
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