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Interview with Dave Des Marais

By |2025-06-03T11:58:00-04:00June 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Portrait of Dave Des Marais Let’s start with your childhood, where you’re from, your family at the time, if you have siblings, your early years, and when it was that you became interested in what has developed into your career as an astrophysicist or research scientist? I was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1948, the [...]

NASA’s Webb Rounds Out Picture of Sombrero Galaxy’s Disk

By |2025-06-03T10:00:00-04:00June 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Webb Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Science Overview and Goals Early Universe Galaxies Over Time Star Lifecycle Other Worlds Observatory Overview Launch Deployment [...]

c-FIRST Team Sets Sights on Future Fire-observing Satellite Constellations

By |2025-06-03T09:15:00-04:00June 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Two NASA-developed technologies are key components of a new high-resolution sensor for observing wildfires: High Operating Temperature Barrier Infrared Detector (HOT-BIRD), developed with support from NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO), and a cutting-edge Digital Readout Integrated Circuit (DROIC), developed with funding from NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. NASA’s c-FIRST instrument could provide [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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