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Liftoff! Returning to the Moon

By |2026-04-02T16:44:24-04:00April 2nd, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day We are one small step closer to returning to the Moon. A new chapter in human exploration began yesterday when NASA's Artemis II launched aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) from Kennedy Space Center. Carrying four astronauts, the Orion spacecraft's planned lunar flyby will be the first in over half [...]

The Claw and Bubble Nebulae

By |2026-04-01T16:44:25-04:00April 1st, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What unexpected things do you see when you look up at the night sky? Today’s image resembles an abstract painting, with large swaths of color strewn across a cosmic canvas seemingly without design. Despite the image's abstract nature, the human mind finds patterns, identifying a large claw reaching up towards [...]

Peculiar Elliptical Galaxy Centaurus A

By |2026-03-30T16:44:26-04:00March 30th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happened to the center of this galaxy? Dramatic dust lanes run across the center of unusual elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. These dust lanes are so thick they almost completely obscure the galaxy's center in visible light. This is particularly unusual as Cen A's older stars and oval shape are [...]

Black Holes and Neutron Stars: 218 Mergers and Counting

By |2026-03-26T16:44:27-04:00March 26th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What is the sound of two black holes merging in deep space? Sound waves don't propagate in vacuum, but gravitational waves do. In 2015 we were able to "hear" them for the first time and confirm one of Albert Einstein's theoretical predictions. Each square on the grid of the featured [...]

The Guardians of Rapa Nui beneath the Milky Way

By |2026-03-25T16:44:27-04:00March 25th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day In the words of today's astrophotographer, Rositsa Dimitrova, "What have these silent sentinels watched pass across the sky?" The volcanic mo'ai (meaning statue) of Ahu Tongariki stand guard over Rapa Nui (Isla de Pascua, Easter Island), a Polynesian island (annexed by Chile in 1888) located thousands of kilometers off the [...]

Light Pillars and Orion over Mohe

By |2026-03-23T16:44:24-04:00March 23rd, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happening at the end of that street? Pictured here are not auroras but light pillars, a phenomenon typically much closer. In most places on Earth, a lucky viewer can see a Sun pillar, a column of light appearing to extend up from the Sun caused by flat fluttering ice-crystals [...]

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