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Comet R3 PanSTARRS Behind Satellite Trails

By |2026-04-27T16:44:25-04:00April 27th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Can you find the comet? Somewhere through this web of satellite trails is Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS), a bright visitor passing through the inner Solar System. Now, the orbiting satellites themselves only appear as streaks because of the long camera exposure, over 10 minutes in this case. On the contrary, [...]

Mystic Mountain Monster being Destroyed

By |2026-04-26T16:44:28-04:00April 26th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Inside the head of this interstellar monster is a star that is slowly destroying it. The huge monster, actually an inanimate series of pillars of gas and dust, measures light years in length. The in-head star is not itself visible through the opaque interstellar dust but is bursting out partly [...]

Young Moon and Sister Stars

By |2026-04-24T16:44:26-04:00April 24th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Sunlit arms of a crescent moon seem to embrace the faint lunar night side in this dramatic celestial view from planet Earth. The single telephoto exposure tracking the sky was captured on the night of April 19, when a two day old Moon was near perigee in its elliptical orbit. [...]

Introduction to New SWE Community Colleges Affinity Group Chair — Nabimie Ducas

By |2026-04-24T12:32:00-04:00April 24th, 2026|Categories: Uncategorized|

Get to know the new affinity group lead, Nabimie Ducas! Learn more about Nabimie (who goes by Nabie) and consider joining the SWE Community Colleges Affinity Group (AG) leadership team to help further the impact of SWE on community colleges. What degrees do you have, and what colleges/universities did you attend? I hold a Bachelor... [...]

Large Scale Structure of the Universe

By |2026-04-23T16:44:23-04:00April 23rd, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This is a map of the universe. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) at Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona, has finished its five-year survey. It observed more than 47 million galaxies and quasars and created a 3D map centered on the Earth. Today's featured image shows a thin slice of [...]

Artemis II Orion Mission Evaluation Room Team During Splashdown

By |2026-04-22T17:44:30-04:00April 22nd, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

B-roll of the Orion Mission Evaluation Room (MER) team working during Orion’s Splashdown, on April 10, 2026, from the Orion MER inside Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston during the Artemis II mission.

Three Sky Arches over Snowy Alps

By |2026-04-21T16:44:37-04:00April 21st, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why are there three arches across the sky instead of two? Last month, after being dropped off by a helicopter at a high mountain peak in the Alps near the Swiss Italian border, an adventurous astrophotographer expected two arches of our Milky Way galaxy to be visible during the night. [...]

Welcome Home, Artemis II (Official NASA Recap)

By |2026-04-20T19:44:13-04:00April 20th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , |

Our Artemis II mission concluded its historic flight around the Moon on April 10, 2026. Among its many milestones, Artemis II surpassed Apollo 13's record for the farthest crewed spaceflight from Earth. We laughed, we cried, and we pushed the boundaries of what’s possible, setting the stage for future innovation and exploration. We’re just getting [...]

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