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Hubble Spies a Cosmic Eye
2024.12.20
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 2566, which sits 76 million light-years away in the constellation Puppis. A prominent bar of stars stretches across the center of this galaxy, and spiral arms emerge from each end of the bar. Because NGC 2566 appears tilted from our perspective, its disk takes […]
NASA Goddard Showcases Science and Technology at SC24 Conference
2024.12.19
SC24: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, held November 18–22 in Atlanta, Georgia, smashed all records with 18,104 attendees and 494 exhibits. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center contributed research projects, NASA 101 talks, and an Earth Information Center exhibit to NASA's popular exhibit.
NASA, Columbia U. Enact Collaborative Space Act Agreement
2024.12.18
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Columbia University in New York, New York, enacted a collaborative Space Act Agreement to advance research and education opportunities during a signing ceremony Monday, Dec. 16, at Goddard.
Cyclone Chido Pummels Mayotte
2024.12.17
Fueled by warm water in the Indian Ocean, the tropical cyclone caused widespread damage on the small archipelago.
NASA’s Webb Finds Planet-Forming Disks Lived Longer in Early Universe
2024.12.16
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just solved a conundrum by proving a controversial finding made with the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope more than 20 years ago. In 2003, Hubble provided evidence of a massive planet around a very old star, almost as old as the universe. Such stars possess only small amounts of heavier elements […]
The Many Arms of Réservoir Gouin
2024.12.16
A dam on the Saint-Maurice River transformed the network of lakes and river valleys upstream.
Hints of Color in Japan’s Kii Mountains
2024.12.14
The onset of autumn reds and yellows was delayed across the country following several unusually warm months.
Hubble Images a Grand Spiral
2024.12.13
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the glorious spiral galaxy NGC 5643, which is located roughly 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus, the Wolf. NGC 5643 is a grand design spiral, which refers to the galaxy’s symmetrical form with two large, winding spiral arms that are clearly visible. Bright-blue stars define the […]
The Fast Fire Threat
2024.12.12
Two decades of satellite data show that the most destructive U.S. fires burn in grasslands and shrublands fanned by strong winds.
NASA Successfully Integrates Roman Mission’s Telescope, Instruments
2024.12.12
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s telescope and two instruments onto the instrument carrier, marking the completion of the Roman payload. Now the team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will begin joining the payload to the spacecraft. “We’re in the middle of an exciting stage […]
Found: First Actively Forming Galaxy as Lightweight as Young Milky Way
2024.12.11
For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy that not only existed around 600 million years after the big bang, but is also similar to what our Milky Way galaxy’s mass might have been at the same stage of development. Other galaxies Webb has detected at this time […]
NASA Study: Crops, Forests Responding to Changing Rainfall Patterns
2024.12.11
A new NASA-led study has found that how rain falls in a given year is nearly as important to the world’s vegetation as how much.
NASA’s PACE, US-European SWOT Satellites Offer Combined Look at Ocean
2024.12.09
The ocean is an engine that drives Earth’s weather patterns and climate and sustains a substantial portion of life on the planet.
Nighttime Lights Reveal Industrial Activity in the Arctic
2024.12.09
Satellite observations at night indicate that oil, gas, and mining have expanded across Earth’s northern latitudes.
NASA’s Hubble Celebrates Decade of Tracking Outer Planets
2024.12.09
Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system. Collectively, since their launch in 1977, the twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft discovered that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune were far more complex than scientists had imagined. There was a lot […]
Annual Science Conference to Highlight NASA Research
2024.12.06
NASA researchers will present findings on Earth science, planetary science, and heliophysics at the upcoming American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2024 annual meeting in Washington, DC, beginning on Monday, Dec. 9.
Hubble Spots a Spiral in the Celestial River
2024.12.06
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 1637, a spiral galaxy located 38 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus, the River. This image comes from an observing program dedicated to studying star formation in nearby galaxies. Stars form in cold, dusty gas clouds that collapse under their own gravity. […]
NASA’s Hubble Takes the Closest-Ever Look at a Quasar
2024.12.05
Astronomers have used the unique capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to peer closer than ever into the throat of an energetic monster black hole powering a quasar. A quasar is a galactic center that glows brightly as the black hole consumes material in its immediate surroundings. The new Hubble views of the environment around […]
Patagonian Shelf Waters Abloom
2024.12.04
Colorful swirls of water reveal the presence of phytoplankton in the South Atlantic Ocean near the Falkland Islands.
Heavy Snows in Korea
2024.12.03
Late-November snowfall blanketed large portions of the country and deposited record-breaking accumulations in Seoul.
Satellites Reveal a Greener Antarctic Peninsula
2024.12.02
Scientists are beginning to unravel what comes next, after the ice moves out and vegetation moves in.
Lava Nears Iceland’s Blue Lagoon
2024.11.27
A tongue of lava from the eruption flowed into the parking lot of the geothermal spa.
Alfonso Delgado Bonal Has His Head in the Clouds — for Research
2024.11.26
Research scientist Alfonso Delgado Bonal makes important discoveries about patterns in cloud movements while thriving within the NASA Goddard family.
NASA Data Reveals Role of Green Spaces in Cooling Cities
2024.11.26
A recent study in Nature Communications used NASA satellite data to identify a major gap in global resilience to climate change: cities in the Global South have far less green space — and therefore less cooling capacity — than cities in the Global North.
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