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Stellar Duo

By |2025-07-08T11:30:00-04:00July 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally, M. Robberto NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a bright variable star, V 372 Orionis, and its companion in this festive image in this image released on Jan. 27, 2023. The pair lie in the Orion Nebula, a colossal region of star formation roughly 1,450 light-years from Earth. V 372 Orionis [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4589 – 4592: Setting up to explore Volcán Peña Blanca

By |2025-07-07T19:21:00-04:00July 7th, 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 Navcam view [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sol 4588: Ridges and troughs

By |2025-07-07T18:27:00-04:00July 7th, 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 NASA’s Mars [...]

Working in Space

By |2025-07-07T14:57:00-04:00July 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA; JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)/Takuya Onishi In this May 23, 2025, image, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim works inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft completing cargo operations before it undocked from the International Space Station’s Harmony module several hours later. Kim launched to the International Space Station on April 8, 2025; this is his first [...]

NASA’s Hubble and Webb Telescopes Reveal Two Faces of a Star Cluster Duo

By |2025-07-07T10:58:00-04:00July 7th, 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 [...]

Aaisha Ali: From Marine Biology to the Artemis Control Room 

By |2025-07-07T06:00:00-04:00July 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

As humanity prepares to return to the lunar surface, Aaisha Ali is behind the scenes ensuring mission readiness for astronauts set to orbit the Moon during Artemis II.  Ali is the Artemis ground control flight lead at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. She makes sure her team has the resources needed for the next [...]

NASA Remembers Former Johnson Director Jefferson Howell

By |2025-07-03T17:11:00-04:00July 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Former Johnson Director Jefferson Howell July 3, 2025 Jefferson Davis Howell, Jr., former director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, died July 2, in Bee Cave, Texas. He was 85 years old. Howell was a champion of the construction of the International Space Station, working on a deadline to complete the orbiting lab by [...]

NASA Mission Monitoring Air Quality from Space Extended 

By |2025-07-03T16:05:00-04:00July 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Since launching in 2023, NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution mission, or TEMPO, has been measuring the quality of the air we breathe from 22,000 miles above the ground. June 19 marked the successful completion of TEMPO’s 20-month-long initial prime mission, and based on [...]

Hubble Observations Give “Missing” Globular Cluster Time to Shine

By |2025-07-03T16:00:00-04:00July 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 Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights Science Behind Discoveries Hubble’s Partners in Science Universe Uncovered Hubble and Artificial Intelligence Explore the Night Sky Impact & Benefits [...]

NASA Advances Pressure Sensitive Paint Research Capability

By |2025-07-03T14:59:00-04:00July 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Swept Wing Flow Test model, known as SWiFT, with pressure sensitive paint applied, sports a pink glow under ultraviolet lights while tested during 2023 in a NASA wind tunnel at Langley Research Center in Virginia.NASA / Dave Bowman Many of us grew up [...]

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