
Will the spider ever catch the fly?
Not if both are large emission nebulas toward the constellation of
the Charioteer
(Auriga)
Will the spider ever catch the fly?
Not if both are large emission nebulas toward the constellation of
the Charioteer
(Auriga)
The brilliant exhaust from the solid rocket boosters (center) and blue mach diamonds from the main engine nozzles mark the launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour from Launch Pad 39A on Feb. 11, 2000.
Read MoreIs this the largest hummingbird ever?
Although it may look like a popular fluttering
nectarivore,
what is pictured is actually a beautifully detailed and colorful
aurora,
complete with rays reminiscent of feathers
This view from space shuttle Columbia shows Mount Everest, which reaches 29,028 feet in elevation (8,848 meters), along with many glaciers. Mount Everest is to the left of the V-shaped valley.
Read MoreA waxing crescent Moon and a waning crescent Venus are found at
opposite corners of this twilight
telephoto field of view
The blue tentacle-like arms containing gecko-like adhesive pads, attached to an Astrobee robotic free-flyer, reach out and grapple a “capture cube” inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module. The experimental grippers, outfitted on the toaster-sized Astrobee, demonstrated autonomous detection and capture techniques that may be used to remove space debris and service satellites in low Earth orbit.
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Target: Mars Mission: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Instrument: HiRISE Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona |
Grand spiral galaxies
often seem to get all the glory, flaunting
their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful,
symmetric spiral arms
The full moon rises over the Superdome and the city of New Orleans, Louisiana on Monday evening, January 13, 2025. The Wolf Moon, also known as the Ice or Cold Moon, was full at 5:27 p.m. EST. New Orleans is home to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility where several pieces of hardware for the SLS (Space Launch System) are being built.
Read MoreAn excellent view of the Apollo 14 lunar module on the Moon, as photographed during the first Apollo 14 moonwalk on the lunar surface. The astronauts have already deployed the U.S. flag. While astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander, and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, descended in the lunar module to explore the Moon, astronaut Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot, remained with the command and service modules in lunar orbit.
Read MoreWhere is Comet ATLAS going?
In the
featured time-lapse video, the comet is not itself moving very much,
but the
Earth’s rotation makes it appear to be setting
over a hill
LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth. Hubble and Keck also confirmed which galaxy dove through the Bullseye, creating these rings: the blue dwarf galaxy that sits to its immediate center-left.
Read MoreEngineers and technicians with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program prepare to lift the left center center booster segment shown with the iconic NASA “worm” insignia for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025.
Read MoreVivid and lustrous,
wafting iridescent waves of color wash across this skyscape
from northern Sweden
British clothing manufacturer Vollebak has unveiled a groundbreaking tracksuit made entirely from pure silver. This innovative garment is designed to block electromagnetic radiation, shield wearers from infrared cameras, and offer antibacterial protection. The company claims that wearing this suit makes it impossible for anyone to track you through your smartphone—whether it’s on or off—or even call you. Vollebak, which brands itself as a “clothing from the future” company, has utilized a shielding material in this “conspiracy suit” that is reportedly the same as the one NASA used for its Curiosity rover. “Long before the Curiosity rover was sent to Mars…
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Read MoreWhat’s happening to Comet G3 ATLAS?
After
passing near the Sun in mid-January,
the head of the comet has become dimmer and dimmer
Gorgeous spiral galaxy Messier 33 seems to have more than its
fair share of glowing hydrogen gas
A crane lowers the 112-foot-wide (34-meter-wide) steel framework for the Deep Space Station 23 (DSS-23) reflector dish into position on Dec. 18, 2024, at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California. A multi-frequency beam waveguide antenna, DSS-23 will boost the DSN’s capacity and enhance NASA’s deep space communications capabilities for decades to come.
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Target: Io Mission: Juno Instrument: JIRAM Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM |
NASA’s SPHEREx observatory is oriented in a horizontal position, revealing all three layers of photon shields as well as the telescope. This photo was taken at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in April 2024.
Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx will create a map of the cosmos like no other. Using a technique called spectroscopy to image the entire sky in 102 wavelengths of infrared light, SPHEREx will gather information about the composition of and distance to millions of galaxies and stars. With this map, scientists will study what happened in the first fraction of a second after the big bang, how galaxies formed and evolved, and the origins of water in planetary systems in our galaxy.
Read MoreThe interstellar cloud of dust and gas captured in this
sharp telescopic snapshot is seen to change its appearance
noticeably over periods as short as a few weeks
Springtime in the South Polar region of Mars is a season of exciting activity. The thick coating of carbon dioxide ice that accumulated over the winter begins to sublimate (turn to vapor) as the sun rises higher in the sky and warms the ice. Sunlight penetrates through the transparent ice, and is absorbed at the base of the ice layer. The gas that forms as a result of the warming escapes through weaknesses in the ice and erupts in the form of magnificent geysers of gas and dust.
Read MoreWhat are those strange rings?
Rich in dust, the rings are likely 3D shells —
but how they were created remains a topic of research
On Thursday January 30th, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are doing a 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Among other goals, they’ll be collecting surface samples from the station to analyze for the presence of microbes, reports universetoday.com. The ISS “surface swab” is part of the ISS External Microorganisms project. It was developed to understand how microorganisms are transported by crew members to space. It also seeks to understand what happens to those “mini-critters” in the space environment. The “bugs” that the two astronauts bring back in for analysis will come from areas on the space station near…
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Read MoreThe full Moon, also known in January as the Wolf Moon, rises above the Lincoln Memorial and the Memorial Bridge, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, as seen from Arlington, Virginia.
Read MoreAn inquisitive sandhill crane approaches the photographer near the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 24, 2021. Kennedy shares space with the Merritt Island National Wildlife refuge, which is home to more than 1,000 species of plants, 117 species of fish, 68 amphibians and reptiles, 330 birds, and 31 different mammals. The refuge provides a favorable environment for sandhill cranes as it contains shallow freshwater habitats for nesting, along with a variety of vegetation and prey to feed on.
Read MoreWhy does this comet have so many tails?
C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) has developed several
long and intricate tails visible from
Earth’s southern hemisphere over the past two weeks
Clouds of stardust drift through
this deep skyscape,
across the
Perseus molecular cloud
some 850 light-years away
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy situated about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa.
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Target: Sky Mission: SPHEREx Instrument: Spectro-Photometer Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/BAE Systems |
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Target: Sky Mission: SPHEREx Instrument: Spectro-Photometer Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/BAE Systems |
This is an artist’s concept of a two-person Gemini spacecraft in flight, showing a cutaway view. The Gemini program was designed as a bridge between the Mercury and Apollo programs.
Read MoreThe North America nebula
on the sky can do what the
North America continent
on Earth cannot — form stars
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 commander Suni Williams is pictured during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station where she replaced a rate gyro assembly that helps maintain the orientation of the orbital outpost.
Read MoreWhat’s that in the sky?
Above the city, above most clouds, far in the distance: it’s a comet
Read MoreOn January 13
a Full Moon and a Full Mars were close,
both bright and opposite the Sun in planet Earth’s sky
What would it look like to land on Saturn’s moon Titan?
The
European Space Agency’s
Huygens probe set down on the Solar System’s
cloudiest moon in 2005, and a
time-lapse video of its descent images was created
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is seen in the foreground with the Washington Monument in the background, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, in Washington. The memorial covers four acres and includes the Stone of Hope, a granite statue of civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. carved by sculptor Lei Yixin.
Read MoreReleased on Nov. 3, 2023, in honor of Jupiter reaching opposition, which occurs when the planet and the Sun are in opposite sides of the sky, this view of the gas giant planet includes the iconic, massive storm called the “Great Red Spot.”
Read MoreBeautiful and bright
spiral galaxy M83
lies a some twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern
tip of the very long constellation
Hydra