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Stellar Streams in the Local Universe

By |2024-09-27T09:09:17-04:00September 27th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The twenty galaxies arrayed in these panels are part of an ambitious astronomical survey of tidal stellar streams. Each panel presents a composite view; a deep, inverted image taken from publicly available imaging surveys of a field that surrounds a nearby massive galaxy image. The inverted images reveal faint cosmic [...]

SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 280: Engaging Youth STEM Voters With Jennifer McAndrew of Tufts University

By |2024-09-26T12:47:00-04:00September 26th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Explore how to boost voting turnout and civic participation among STEM students in this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast!

The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

By |2024-09-26T09:09:07-04:00September 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, "This is but a little Patch, but it shows itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent." Of course, M13 is now less modestly recognized as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, one of the brightest globular [...]

Comet A3 Through an Australian Sunrise

By |2024-09-25T09:09:10-04:00September 25th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is now visible in the early morning sky. Diving into the inner Solar System at an odd angle, this large dirty iceberg will pass its closest to the Sun -- between the orbits of Mercury and Venus -- in just two days. Long camera exposures are now capturing [...]

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