Artist’s concept of a dark and mysterious object. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESSLaunched on April 18, 2018, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, NASA’s…
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December 30, 2021 Hurricane-force winds whipped fires across drought-parched grasslands and into suburban neighborhoods. On December 30, 2021, high winds roared out of the west…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The Webb mission operations team began the first steps in the process of tensioning the first…
[embedded content]January 3 – August 15, 2012 The waters circling Antarctica absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than they release, serving as a strong carbon…
Hubble Space Telescope image of spiral galaxy NGC 105. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Jones, A. Riess et al., Acknowledgement: R. Colombari This image from…
[embedded content] What’s Up for January? New year, new Moon; midnight meteors; and MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the…
Astronomical chart showing Bootes the Ploughman holding a spear, a sickle, and two dogs, Asterion and Chara, on leash, also showing a quadrant, and the…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Taking advantage of its flexible commissioning schedule, the Webb team has…
December 6, 2021 Astronauts traveling within Earth’s largest artificial satellite can capture unique shots of the planet’s only natural satellite. Astronauts traveling within Earth’s largest…
James Webb Space telescope. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Work on the deployment of Webb’s sunshield mid-booms went late into the…
How rare in the galaxy are rocky planets like Earth in similar orbits around Sun-like stars? The question turns out to be surprisingly difficult to…
[embedded content] From extreme weather to volcanic eruptions, these images highlight another year on our planet. Earth in 2021: Some Highlights From Another Year on…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab With the successful extension of Webb’s second sunshield mid-boom, the observatory has passed another critical deployment…
J- Boom and Sun Shield deployment. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The Webb mission operations team has extended the first of…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] As the 2021 calendar year comes to a close, it’s nice to sit back and reflect on all the progress…
[embedded content] What has NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that…
Mars Perseverance Sol 286 – Left Navigation Camera: NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its onboard Left Navigation Camera (Navcam). The camera is…
Sunshield Membrane Cover Releases (4) roll to holding location. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Webb’s engineers have released and rolled up…
Webb Aft Momentum Flap deployment. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Shortly after 9 a.m. EST today (December 30, 2021), the Webb…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab With Webb’s first major structural deployments completed and the observatory’s Deployable Tower Assembly extended, we are…