Endeavour Crew Make Repairs to Hubble
In this Dec. 1993, onboard view from Space Shuttle mission STS-61 shows astronauts Story Musgrave and Jeffrey Hoffman’s Extra Vehicular
M16: A Star Forming Pillar from Webb
What’s happening inside this interstellar mountain? Stars are forming. The mountain is actually a column of gas and dust in
NASA Administrator Names New Leadership at Two Agency Centers
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has named Bradley Flick director of the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, effective
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Orion Approaches Moon Before Return Flyby
On the 19th day of the Artemis I mission, Dec. 4, 2022, a camera mounted on the Orion spacecraft captured
Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster
Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you probably have never seen it as large
Video: Powers of Ten
How different does the universe look on very small scales? On very large scales? The most famous short science film
Stereo Mars
Mars looks sharp in these two rooftop telescope views captured in late November from Singapore, planet Earth. At the time,
NASA Sets Coverage of Orion’s Historic Moon Mission Return, Splashdown
NASA will provide live coverage of the Artemis I uncrewed Orion spacecraft’s return flyby of the Moon on Monday, Dec.
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Hubble Spies Emission Nebula-Star Cluster Duo
This whole collection is NGC 1858, an open star cluster in the northwest region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a
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Merging Galaxy Pair IIZw096
Bright at infrared wavelengths, this merging galaxy pair is some 500 million light-years away toward the constellation Delphinus. The cosmic