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NASA's Hubble Sees Aftermath of Galaxy's Scrape with Milky Way - NASA Science
A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga. The Large Magellanic Cloud, also called the LMC, is one of the Milky Way galaxy’s nearest neighbors.science.nasa.gov
NASA’s Webb Peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy - NASA Science
Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than 58,000 light-years away from the Galactic Center.science.nasa.gov
NASA Images Help Explain Eating Habits of Massive Black Hole - NASA
Data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope has given scientists new insights into why some supermassive black holes shine differently than others.Anthony Greicius (NASA)
NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side - NASA
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has announced plans for an unprecedented survey of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. It will peer deeper intoAshley Balzer (NASA)
NASA Telescopes Find New Clues About Mysterious Deep Space Signals - NASA
Using two of the agency’s X-ray telescopes, researchers were able to zoom in on a dead star’s erratic behavior as it released a bright, brief burst of radioAnthony Greicius (NASA)
NASA’s GUSTO Prepares to Map Space Between the Stars - NASA Science
On a vast ice sheet in Antarctica, scientists and engineers are preparing a NASA experiment called GUSTO to explore the universe on a balloon. GUSTO will launch from the Ross Ice Shelf, near the U.S.science.nasa.gov
Seeing Sagittarius C in a New Light - NASA
A star-forming region, named Sagittarius C (Sgr C), is seen in exceptional detail in this image from Nov. 20, 2023, thanks to the Near-Infrared CameraNASA
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)
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)