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A Milky Road to the Rubin Observatory

By |2025-06-04T09:09:14-04:00June 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Is the sky the same every night? No -- the night sky changes every night in many ways. To better explore how the night sky changes, the USA's NSF and DOE commissioned the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Cerro Pachón, Chile. In final testing before routine operations, Rubin will begin [...]

Rainbow Airglow over the Azores

By |2025-06-03T09:09:07-04:00June 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why would the sky glow like a giant repeating rainbow? Airglow. Now, air glows all of the time, but it is usually hard to see. A disturbance however -- like an approaching storm -- may cause noticeable rippling in the Earth's atmosphere. These gravity waves are oscillations in air analogous [...]

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 [...]

Irregular Dwarf Galaxy Sextans A

By |2025-05-29T09:09:06-04:00May 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the attention, flaunting young, bright, blue star clusters and pinkish star forming regions along graceful, symmetric spiral arms. But small galaxies form stars too, like irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A. Its young star clusters and star forming regions are gathered into a [...]

Zeta and Rho Ophiuchi with Milky Way

By |2025-05-27T09:09:17-04:00May 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Behold one of the most photogenic regions of the night sky, captured impressively. Featured, the band of our Milky Way Galaxy runs diagonally along the bottom-left corner, while the colorful Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is visible just right of center and the large red circular Zeta Ophiuchi Nebula appears near [...]

Spiral Galaxy NGC 2566 from Webb

By |2025-05-26T09:09:08-04:00May 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What’s happening in the center of spiral galaxy NGC 2566? First, the eight rays that appear to be coming out of the center in the featured infrared image are not real — they are diffraction spikes caused by the mechanical structure of the Webb space telescope itself. The center of [...]

International Space Station Crosses the Sun

By |2025-05-21T09:09:10-04:00May 21st, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Typically, the International Space Station is visible only at night. Slowly drifting across the night sky as it orbits the Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) can be seen as a bright spot about once a month from many locations. The ISS is then visible only just after sunset or [...]

Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited

By |2025-05-17T09:09:12-04:00May 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This close-up from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera shows weathered craters and windblown deposits in southern Acidalia Planitia. A striking shade of blue in standard HiRISE image colors, to the human eye the area would probably look grey or a little reddish. But human eyes have not gazed across [...]

NGC 1360: The Robin’s Egg Nebula

By |2025-05-14T09:09:05-04:00May 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This pretty nebula lies some 1,500 light-years away, its shape and color in this telescopic view reminiscent of a robin's egg. The cosmic cloud spans about 3 light-years, nestled securely within the boundaries of the southern constellation of the Furnace (Fornax). Recognized as a planetary nebula, egg-shaped NGC 1360 doesn't [...]

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