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Hubble Filters a Barred Spiral

By |2025-06-03T08:46:00-04:00June 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights [...]

A Star Like No Other

By |2025-06-02T14:13:00-04:00June 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects.X-ray: NASA/CXC/ICRAR, Curtin Univ./Z. Wang et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL/CalTech/IPAC; Radio: SARAO/MeerKAT; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk An unusual star (circled in white at right) behaving like no other seen before and its surroundings [...]

What’s Up: June 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

By |2025-06-02T11:30:00-04:00June 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Skywatching Skywatching Home What’s Up Meteor Showers Eclipses Daily Moon Guide More Tips & Guides Skywatching FAQ Night Sky Network Planets, Solstice, and the Galaxy Venus and Saturn separate, while Mars hangs out in the evening. Plus the June solstice, and dark skies reveal our home galaxy in all of its glory. Skywatching Highlights [...]

Apocalypse When? Hubble Casts Doubt on Certainty of Galactic Collision

By |2025-06-02T11:00:00-04:00June 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights [...]

Veil Nebula: Wisps of an Ancient Supernova

By |2025-06-02T09:09:07-04:00June 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Wisps like this are all that remain visible of a Milky Way star. About 7,000 years ago that star exploded in a supernova, leaving the Veil Nebula. At the time, the expanding cloud was likely as bright as a crescent Moon, remaining visible for weeks to people living at the [...]

UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble

By |2025-06-01T09:09:06-04:00June 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Although details remain uncertain, it surely has to do with an ongoing battle with its smaller galactic neighbor. The featured galaxy is labelled UGC 1810 by itself, but together with its collisional partner is known as Arp 273. The overall shape of UGC 1810 [...]

Sols 4554–4555: Let’s Try That One Again…

By |2025-05-30T10:44:00-04:00May 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 2 min [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 Launch Fifth Anniversary

By |2025-05-30T10:00:00-04:00May 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Bill Ingalls President Donald Trump walks onstage to speak to a crowd at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission on May 30, 2020. The mission was the first crewed launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part [...]

Hubble Spies Paired Pinwheel on Its Own

By |2025-05-30T07:00:00-04:00May 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights [...]

June’s Night Sky Notes: Seasons of the Solar System

By |2025-05-30T06:00:00-04:00May 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 Min Read June’s Night Sky Notes: Seasons of the Solar System Two views of the planet Uranus appear side-by-side for comparison. At the top, left corner of the left image is a two-line label. The top line reads Uranus November 9, 2014. The bottoms line reads HST WFC3/UVIS. At the top, left corner [...]

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