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NASA's Hubble, Webb Telescopes Survey Pinwheel Galaxy
3+ hour, 44+ min ago (166+ words) This March 16, 2026, image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope takes a closer look at the core of Messier 101, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy. At 25 million light-years away, M101 is one of the closest "face-on" spiral…...
Goldstone’s DSS-15 Antenna and the Milky Way
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (188+ words) Deep Space Station 15, one of the 112-foot antennas at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California, looks skyward, with the stars of the Milky Way overhead, in September 2025. Goldstone is part of NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN), which…...
Journey to Center of Milky Way With Upcoming NASA Roman Core Survey
2+ mon, 1+ hour ago (736+ words) At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the deepest-ever view of this zone, revealing stars, planets,…...
White Dwarf Star (Artist’s Concept)
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (218+ words) A smaller white dwarf star (left) pulls material from a larger star into a swirling accretion disk in this artist's concept released Nov. 19, 2025, to illustrate the first use of NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a white dwarf…...
Lightning from Above - NASA
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (85+ words) NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured this image of lightning while orbiting aboard the International Space Station more than 250 miles above Milan, Italy on July 1, 2025. Storm observations from space station help scientists study Earth's upper atmosphere, which can improve weather models…...
NASA’s Chandra Rings in New Year With Champagne Cluster
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (438+ words) Celebrate the New Year with the "Champagne Cluster," a galaxy cluster seen in this new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes. Astronomers discovered this galaxy cluster Dec. 31, 2020. The date, combined with the bubble-like appearance of the galaxies…...
Curiosity Sends Holiday Postcard from Mars
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (211+ words) NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times of day on Nov. 18, 2025, spanning periods that occurred on both the 4,722nd and 4,723rd Martian days, or sols, of the mission. The panoramas were captured at 4:15 p.m. on…...
A Galactic Embrace - NASA
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (169+ words) Mid-infrared data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (in white, gray, and red) and X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (in blue) come together in this photo of colliding spiral galaxies released on Dec. 1, 2025. The pair grazed one another…...
Sprites Over Château de Beynac
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (212+ words) A flash of lightning, and then'something else. High above a storm, a crimson figure blinks in and out of existence. If you see it, you are a lucky witness of a sprite, one of the least-understood electrical phenomena in Earth's…...
NASA Ames Science Directorate: Stars of the Month - September 2025
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (298+ words) Ames Science Directorate's Stars of the Month: September 2025 The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Taejin Park, Lydia Schweitzer, and Rachel Morgan. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical…...