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Blue Ghost to the Moon

By |2025-03-01T08:09:35-05:00March 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day With spacecraft thrusters at top center, the rugged surface of the Moon lies below the Blue Ghost lander in this space age video frame. The view of the lunar far side was captured by the Firefly Aerospace lunar lander on February 24, following a maneuver to circularize its orbit about [...]

SLS Payload Adapter Moved for Testing at NASA Marshall

By |2025-03-01T07:09:18-05:00March 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , |

Crews at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, moved and installed the payload adapter that will be used in the Block 1B configuration of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket from Building 4708, where it was manufactured, into Structural Test Stand 4697 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on March 13. [...]

Universal Stage Adapter for NASA’s SLS rocket readied for testing at Marshall

By |2025-02-28T19:09:21-05:00February 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

These photos and videos show how crews guided a test version of the universal stage adapter for NASA’s more powerful version of its SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to Building 4619 at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Feb. 22. Built by Leidos, the lead contractor for the universal stage adapter, crews [...]

Open Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158

By |2025-02-27T08:09:06-05:00February 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day Framed in this single, starry, telescopic field of view are two open star clusters, M35 and NGC 2158. Located within the boundaries of the constellation Gemini, they do appear to be side by side. Its stars concentrated toward the upper right, M35 is relatively nearby, though. M35 (also cataloged as [...]

Einstein Ring Surrounds Nearby Galaxy Center

By |2025-02-26T08:09:07-05:00February 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Do you see the ring? If you look very closely at the center of the featured galaxy NGC 6505, a ring becomes evident. It is the gravity of NGC 6505, the nearby (z = 0.042) elliptical galaxy that you can easily see, that is magnifying and distorting the image of [...]

M41: The Little Beehive Star Cluster

By |2025-02-25T08:09:15-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why are there so many bright blue stars? Stars are usually born in clusters, and the brightest and most massive of these stars typically glow blue. Less-bright, non-blue stars like our Sun surely also exist in this M41 star cluster but are harder to see. A few bright orange-appearing red [...]

NASA astronaut Anne McClain smiles and high fives SpaceX employees

By |2025-02-24T19:09:01-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

jsc2025e011329 (Feb. 24, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission Anne McClain smiles and high fives SpaceX employees during a sendoff at the company’s facility in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX

Light Pillar over Erupting Etna

By |2025-02-24T08:09:11-05:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Can a lava flow extend into the sky? No, but light from the lava flow can. One effect is something quite unusual -- a volcanic light pillar. More typically, light pillars are caused by sunlight and so appear as a bright column that extends upward above a rising or setting [...]

Saturn in Infrared from Cassini

By |2025-02-23T08:09:07-05:00February 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Saturn looks slightly different in infrared light. Bands of clouds show great structure, including long stretching storms. Also quite striking in infrared is the unusual hexagonal cloud pattern surrounding Saturn's North Pole. Each side of the dark hexagon spans roughly the width of our Earth. The hexagon's existence was not [...]

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