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Uranus has 27 known moons. Most are too small and faint to see, but the 6 brightest are labeled in this wide-view. (The other bright objects are background galaxies.) This was only a 12-minute exposure image! It's just the tip of the ice(planet)berg for what Webb will uncover.
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How far we've come in the last 50 years!

Back in 1972, a team at JPL spent days pasting together photographs taken by Mariner 9 by hand to create a 4-foot globe of Mars. nasa.gov/image-feature/technol…

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At the Kennedy Center last night, NASA Administrator @SenBillNelson awarded a NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal to Jeannie Schulz, widow of Peanuts gang creator Charles M. Schulz. 📷: flic.kr/s/aHBqjAyH4i
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#40YearsAgo, astronauts were training to repair the Solar Max satellite in the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator at @NASAMarshall. A year later, #OTD in 1984, STS-41C launched to Solar Max, and went on to perform the first satellite retrieval and the first satellite repair in space!
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The Soyuz MS-23 crew ship with three Exp 69 crewmates aboard docked to the Prichal docking module at 5:22am ET today completing a 37-minute relocation maneuver. More... go.nasa.gov/3nPnhcF
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LIVE: Astronaut Frank Rubio and two cosmonauts are moving their Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to a new docking port on the @Space_Station. Undocking is scheduled for 4:45am ET (0845 UTC), with redocking targeted for 5:23am (0923 UTC). twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1RDGl…
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LIVE: Astronaut Frank Rubio and two cosmonauts are moving their Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to a new docking port on the @Space_Station. Undocking is scheduled for 4:45am ET (0845 UTC), with redocking targeted for 5:23am (0923 UTC). twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1RDGl…

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The Soyuz crew ship carrying three Exp 69 crewmates undocked from the space station at 4:45am ET today for a short ride to a new docking port. go.nasa.gov/40K39ar
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Three Exp 69 crewmates will be taking a short ride around the space station inside their Soyuz crew ship beginning at 4:45am ET today live on @nasa TV. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
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Terran 1 Burns Methalox

Image Credit: Relativity / John Kraus

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Rockets weren’t the only thing to help send the #Artemis I flight test around the Moon.

Discover the small businesses that contributed to every aspect of the mission and will shape @nasa’s future, establishing a long-term presence on the Moon. go.nasa.gov/3MglpUs
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Both scientists and the public can navigate a new global map of Mars that shows cliffs, craters, and dust devil tracks in mesmerizing detail. It uses a mosaic composed of 110,000 images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. See more and try it yourself: go.nasa.gov/410VjZI
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Using two decades of NASA satellite data, scientists assessed the risks Belize’s coral reefs face from murky waters and rising temperatures.

The findings could help protect reefs around the world from overfishing, pollution, and climate change. Details: go.nasa.gov/3nNiuZl
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All of these #CitizenScience programs are great, but we have to admit that we're partial to the ones where you can discover exoplanets. Follow @DoNASAScience for more.
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We need your help to @DoNASAScience! Many of our citizen science projects can be done by anyone, anywhere, with just a cell phone or laptop. Find a project that sparks your curiosity this #CitSciMonth: science.nasa.gov/citizenscienc…
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Tonight is the first full moon of spring in the northern hemisphere! Pink flowers coming into bloom lend their name to this full moon.

Full moons occur when the Moon is opposite the Sun in its orbit around Earth and its nearside is fully illuminated.
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This being England, it is cloudy, how predictable eh.


In some Christian traditions, Easter falls on the first Sunday after this full moon, called the Paschal Moon. This full moon also marks the start of the Jewish holiday, Passover. Do you have a holiday or festival associated with the April full moon?
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Last year, I moved into a place with a large western window, pretty good for suburban stargazing. My tradition is looking at the moon and appreciating it.


We’re over the Moon about being nominated by the @TheWebbyAwards for best education & discovery social campaign.

You named the Moonikin, shared your #NASAMoonSnap, & flew your names around the Moon during the #Artemis I mission. Help us launch to the top wbby.co/31856N
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About 390 million light-years away, the galaxy Z 229-15 shines extra brightly, as seen by @NASAHubble. Its luminosity is caused by a black hole at the center as a disk of material heats as it swirls toward the galaxy's core: go.nasa.gov/40uKG1z
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Our video "How Hubble Images Are Made" shares how the telescope's iconic images are captured and processed – and now it's a nominee for the #Webbys! You can vote here: wbby.co/31912N

Plus, learn about all nine @nasa nominees: nasa.gov/feature/nasa-receives…
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See more photos and details about the flight of Apollo 6, 55 years ago. nasa.gov/feature/55-years-ago-…
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Three Exp 69 crew members will move their Soyuz crew ship on Thursday morning. The rest of the crew studied biology and packed a cargo craft on Wednesday. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
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LIVE: An update on the science of #TEMPO, a space-based instrument that will revolutionize the way scientists observe air quality. youtube.com/live/qg_XJ5OsYNI?f…
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Together, we've explored Earth, flight, and space. From the #Artemis I launch to the Moon to the DART asteroid impact to @NASAWebb’s first cosmic images. You're part of it all, including nine nominations for the #Webbys!

Voting is open through April 20: go.nasa.gov/3KBXNZl
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Quasars are bright objects powered by supermassive black holes that blast out energy as they consume everything within their gravitational grasp.

Hubble detected a pair of quasars that existed when our universe was just 3 billion years old: go.nasa.gov/3U96spd
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Because of how long it takes distant light to reach Hubble, this double quasar no longer exists.

Over the past 10 billion years, their host galaxies have likely settled into an elliptical galaxy, and the quasars have merged to become a supermassive black hole at its center.
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#50YearsAgo today at 9:11 PM EST, Pioneer 11 launched from @NASAKennedy. The first spacecraft to study Saturn up close, it is one of five NASA spacecraft on a trajectory out of the solar system and carries a pictorial plaque about where it came from.
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See where Pioneer 11 is now with NASA's Solar System Interactive: go.nasa.gov/3nIINQb

📷 Pioneer 11 launch on April 5, 1973
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Rubin's Galaxy

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, B. Holwerda (University of Louisville)

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Watch live as three crew members aboard the space station relocate the Soyuz MS-23 from the Poisk to the Prichal module on Thursday, April 6. Relocation coverage begins at 4:15am ET on NASA TV. 🛰️🔀 go.nasa.gov/3Kb7DQf
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5,322! That's how many planets we've confirmed beyond our solar system. That includes 10 such recent discoveries as K2-415 b, a warm, super-Earth orbiting a low-mass M dwarf star 71 light-years away. A year there, one orbit, takes 4 days. exoplanets.nasa.gov/discovery/
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Did you guess the puzzler?

It’s Crater Lake in Oregon! At 1,943 feet (592 meters) deep, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and among the deepest in the world. #Landsat captured this picture of the lake on March 18, 2023.
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As the Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter team prepares for its 50th flight, we're looking toward the future of Red Planet exploration. Ride along with Ingenuity: mars.nasa.gov/technology/helic…
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Welcome @NASAScienceAA! We are excited to have you at the helm of NASA's history-making science missions studying our home planet, solar system, and the universe.
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We're excited to follow @NASAScienceAA Dr. Nicky Fox on Twitter and in our work! We can't wait to see where her leadership takes us as we discover and explore new worlds. And you know we'll be sharing it all with you!✨
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We're excited to follow @NASAScienceAA Nicky Fox on Twitter and in our work! We can's wait to see where her leadership takes us as we discover and explore new worlds.✨
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Help us put the Webb in #Webbys!

For @TheWebbyAwards this year, our team is nominated for 3 social media and video awards thanks to stellar explorers like you ✨

Vote here for our #UnfoldTheUniverse social media campaign: wbby.co/31856N
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Relive the heart-pounding preview of Webb’s 29-day unfolding in space…

👉 Vote here: wbby.co/31914N
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Ist it just me, or did the music sound a lot like that of Babylon 5?


…And recall when we took you along with us on that journey with livestreams of key moments — across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Twitch and more! Watch: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcy…

👉 Vote here: wbby.co/31871N
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