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NASA's Hubble Presents a Holiday Globe of Stars - NASA Science
The billion stars in galaxy UGC 8091 resemble a sparkling snow globe in this festive Hubble Space Telescope image from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency).science.nasa.gov
Telescopes Illuminate 'Christmas Tree Cluster' - NASA
This new image of NGC 2264, also known as the “Christmas Tree Cluster,” shows the shape of a cosmic tree with the glow of stellar lights. NGC 2264 is, inNASA
NASA’s BurstCube Passes Milestones on Journey to Launch - NASA Science
Scientists and engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed testing for BurstCube, a shoebox-sized spacecraft designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions.science.nasa.gov
NASA’s Webb Identifies Tiniest Free-Floating Brown Dwarf - NASA
Brown dwarfs are objects that straddle the dividing line between stars and planets. They form like stars, growing dense enough to collapse under their ownSteve Sabia (NASA)
NASA’s Webb Stuns With New High-Definition Look at Exploded Star - NASA
Like a shiny, round ornament ready to be placed in the perfect spot on a holiday tree, supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) gleams in a new image fromSteve Sabia (NASA)
NASA’s Webb Stuns With New High-Definition Look at Exploded Star - NASA
Like a shiny, round ornament ready to be placed in the perfect spot on a holiday tree, supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) gleams in a new image fromSteve Sabia (NASA)
NASA’s IXPE Marks Two Years of Groundbreaking X-ray Astronomy - NASA
Dec. 9 marks two years since the launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a joint NASA-Italian Space Agency mission to study polarized X-ray light – and the geometry and inner workings of the ultra-powerful energy sources from which i…Beth Ridgeway (NASA)
Hubble Captures a Cluster in the Cloud - NASA Science
This striking Hubble Space Telescope image shows the densely packed globular cluster known as NGC 2210, which is situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).science.nasa.gov
Hubble Views a Double Cluster of Glowing Galaxies - NASA Science
This Hubble image features a massive cluster of brightly glowing galaxies, first identified as Abell 3192. Like all galaxy clusters, this one is suffused with hot gas that emits powerful X-rays, and it is enveloped in a halo of invisible dark matter.science.nasa.gov
Chandra Catches Spider Pulsars Destroying Nearby Stars - NASA
A group of dead stars known as “spider pulsars” are obliterating companion stars within their reach. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-rayNASA
Webb Study Reveals Rocky Planets Can Form in Extreme Environments - NASA
An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and other molecules in the highlysteve sabia (NASA)
Chandra Catches Spider Pulsars Destroying Nearby Stars - NASA
A group of dead stars known as “spider pulsars” are obliterating companion stars within their reach. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-rayNASA
Discovery Alert: Watch the Synchronized Dance of a 6-Planet System - NASA Science
Six "sub-Neptune" exoplanets orbit their star in a rhythmic dance – one easily set to music.science.nasa.gov
NASA’s Fermi Mission Nets 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars … and Counting - NASA Science
A new catalog produced by a French-led international team of astronomers shows that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 294 gamma-ray-emitting pulsars, while another 34 suspects await confirmation.science.nasa.gov
NASA’s Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way - NASA
The latest image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, including never-before-seensteve sabia (NASA)
Hubble Images Galaxy with an Explosive Past - NASA Science
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy NGC 941, which lies about 55 million light-years from Earth. Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) collected the data that created this image.science.nasa.gov
NASA Telescope Data Becomes Music You Can Play - NASA
For millennia, musicians have looked to the heavens for inspiration. Now a new collaboration is enabling actual data from NASA telescopes to be usedLee Mohon (NASA)
Construction on NASA Mission to Map 450 Million Galaxies Is Under Way - NASA
Key elements are coming together for NASA’s SPHEREx mission, a space telescope that will create a map of the universe like none before.Anthony Greicius (NASA)
NASA’s Webb, Hubble Combine to Create Most Colorful View of Universe - NASA
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have united to study an expansive galaxy cluster known as MACS0416. The resulting panchromaticsteve sabia (NASA)
NASA’s Webb Findings Support Long-Proposed Process of Planet Formation - NASA
Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just made a breakthrough discovery in revealing how planets are made. By observing water vapor insteve sabia (NASA)
First Science Images Released From ESA Mission With NASA Contributions - NASA
The new images from the Euclid mission include a cluster of thousands of distant galaxies, demonstrating the spacecraft’s unique abilities.Naomi Hartono (NASA)
NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole - NASA
Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet seen in X-rays, using NASA telescopes. The black hole is at an early stage of growth that hadLee Mohon (NASA)
Hubble Tangos with a Dancer in Dorado - NASA Science
This vibrant Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 1566, sometimes informally referred to as the ‘Spanish Dancer Galaxy’. Like the subject of another recent image, NGC 1566 is a weakly-barred or intermediate spiral galaxy.science.nasa.gov
Details from Webb’s Cameras Reveal Crabby Composition - NASA
The James Webb Space Telescope captures new details of the Crab Nebula, 6,500 light-years away, in this image released on Oct. 30, 2023. The Crab Nebula, theNASA
NASA X-ray Telescopes Reveal the "Bones" of a Ghostly Cosmic Hand - NASA
NASA's Chandra and IXPE data have been used to examine the pulsar wind nebula known as MSH 15-52 which is well-known for its shape that resembles that of a ghostly cosmic hand.Beth Ridgeway (NASA)
The Crab Nebula Seen in New Light by NASA’s Webb - NASA
Exquisite, never-before-seen details help unravel the supernova remnant’s puzzling history.steve sabia (NASA)
Hubble Captures a Galactic Dance - NASA Science
This striking image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the interacting galaxy pair known as Arp-Madore 2339-661.science.nasa.gov
NASA’s Webb Makes First Detection of Heavy Element From Star Merger - NASA
Webb’s study of the second-brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen reveals tellurium.steve sabia (NASA)
Hubble Captures a Galaxy Face-On - NASA Science
This glittering image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the spiral galaxy IC 5332. The galaxy lies about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor and has an almost face-on orientation to Earth.science.nasa.gov
Hubble Views a Vibrant Virgo Cluster Galaxy
It’s easy to get swept up in the swirling starry arms of this intermediate spiral galaxy, NGC 4654, in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy has a bright centerNASA Hubble Mission Team (NASA)
NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Sample Contains Carbon, Water
Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample collected in space and brought to Earth by NASA show evidence of high-carbon content andAbbey A. Donaldson (NASA)