WD 1856 b, a potential planet the size of Jupiter, orbits its dim white dwarf star every 36 hours and is about seven times larger.…
Posts published in “NASA Goddard Space Flight Center”
Auto Added by WPeMatico
[embedded content]Understanding the Sun’s behavior is an important part of life in our solar system. Scientists use several indicators to track solar cycle progress. Credit:…
NASA’s Aqua satellite provided a visible image of Sally at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Sept. 16 about 8 hours after landfall in southern Alabama. Sally…
On September 15 at 3:25 a.m. EDT (0725 UTC), the MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite revealed the most powerful thunderstorms (yellow) were…
Episode 3: Time Machines – Hubble has looked back billions of years in time to see some of the earliest galaxies in their infancy, and…
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the massive galaxy cluster MACS J1206. Embedded within the cluster are the distorted images of distant background galaxies, seen…
This series of GIF images shows the development of the Creek fire from September 5 through September 7, 2020. Credit: NASA Worldview On Friday September…
MMS look for explosive reconnection events as it flies through the magnetopause — the boundary region where Earth’s magnetic butts up against the solar wind…
Episode 2: An Unexpected Journey – With five servicing missions, upgraded instruments, and new ways of operating, Hubble is not the same telescope it was…
A member of the L3Harris team removes a cloth from the Roman Space Telescope’s primary mirror. Credit: L3Harris Technologies The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s…
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured a visible image of Super Typhoon Haishen moving through the Philippine Sea on September 4. Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing…
NASA’s Terra satellite provided a visible image to forecasters of Omar struggling against wind shear on September 2 in the North Atlantic Ocean. Credit: NASA…
TXS 0128+554, outlined in red here, is an elliptical galaxy located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey Not…
Artist’s concept of Lucy spacecraft at Trojan asteroid. Credit: NASA NASA’s first mission to explore the Trojan asteroids is one step closer to launch. The…
Technologists holding the solar array of the James Webb Space Telescope after a test of the array earlier in 2020. The fifth panel of the…
NASA’s Terra satellite shows a smoke-covered California on August 24, 2020. Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) In August 2020,…
NASA’s Terra satellite captures this image of the burn scars from both the LNU Lightning fire complex and the SCU Lightning fire complex in California…
This illustration depicts the gaseous halo of the Andromeda galaxy if it could be seen with the naked eye. At a distance of 2.5 million…
Shown with its primary mirror fully deployed, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most technically complex space science telescope NASA has ever…
High-resolution illustration of the Roman spacecraft against a starry background. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center New simulations show that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space…