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COSI Telescope Comes Together

UC Berkeley/Alan Toth UC Berkeley engineers and managers watch as the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) detector assembly is slowly raised from a table in this July 8, 2026, image. The four pieces of silver material on the top of the detector box cover the flex circuits, which carry signals from the detectors to the [...]

By |2026-09-18T11:45:00-04:00September 18th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Hubble Spots an Out-of-Sync Galaxy

3 min read NASA’s Hubble Spots an Out-of-Sync Galaxy The spiral galaxy NGC 4698 shines in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, the MAUVE-HST Team Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret. This galaxy is [...]

By |2026-09-18T09:38:00-04:00September 18th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

APOD: 2026 September 18 – Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 18 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Messier 33: [...]

By |2026-09-18T00:05:00-04:00September 18th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA, SpaceX Continue Crew‑13 Prep as Crew Enters Quarantine

The four members representing NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station pose for a portrait next to the Dragon spacecraft mockup after completing a preflight training session at SpaceX’s facility in Hawthorne, California. SpaceX The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission entered quarantine late Thursday at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. [...]

By |2026-09-17T18:02:00-04:00September 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

A Treasure Chest in the Carina Nebula

Photo of the Day This treasure chest is full of stars. The featured image was obtained with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and shows a dust pilar in the Carina Nebula inside our Galaxy, roughly 7500 light-years away. It is formed by interstellar gas and dust, and shaped by powerful stellar winds and radiation [...]

By |2026-09-17T17:44:26-04:00September 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Awards Launch Services for StarBurst Gamma-Ray Detector

Credit: NASA NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s StarBurst mission, a small satellite designed to investigate neutron star mergers and the origins of short gamma-ray bursts. StarBurst will launch aboard a Bandwagon rideshare mission on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station [...]

By |2026-09-17T16:37:00-04:00September 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Crew Works Soldering, Cardiac Research, Virtual Reality and Prepares for Cargo Mission

From left, Expedition 75 crew members Sophie Adenot of ESA, Anna Kikina of Roscosmos, and Jessica Meir of NASA gather together for a portrait inside the Kibo laboratory module.Roscosmos Circuit board soldering, spacesuit maintenance, and cargo mission operations topped the schedule for the Expedition 75 crew aboard the International Space Station on Thursday. The orbital [...]

By |2026-09-17T14:45:00-04:00September 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|

NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 35th Resupply Launch to Space Station

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches on May 15, 2026, carrying about 6,500 pounds of science, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station during the company’s 34th commercial resupply mission for NASA.Credit: NASA Media accreditation is open for the next cargo launch that will deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International [...]

By |2026-09-17T14:32:00-04:00September 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Unveils Enterprise, the First Space Shuttle

The rollout ceremony for NASA’s first space shuttle, OV-101, coincided with Constitution Day of the nation’s bicentennial on Sept.17, 1976. Although the orbiter was originally planned to be named Constitution, Star Trek fans successfully convinced President Gerald Ford to name it Enterprise after the series’ fictional starship. NASA Fifty years ago, on Sept. 17, 1976—Constitution [...]

By |2026-09-17T11:22:00-04:00September 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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