Astrophysics

Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Updated April 30, 2024 Editor’s note: On April 30, 2024, NASA announced it restored the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope to science operations April 29.
Posted April 30, 2024
Active Galaxies
Astrophysics
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxy clusters
Goddard Space Flight Center
The Universe
XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission)
At a time when phone cameras are capable of taking snapshots with millions of pixels, an instrument on the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) satellite captures revolutionary science with just 36 of them. “That may sound impossible, but it’s actually true,” said Richard Kelley, the U.S.
Posted April 30, 2024
Astrophysics
Exoplanet Atmosphere
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanets
Gas Giant Exoplanets
Hubble Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Missions
Science & Research
Studying Exoplanets
An international team of researchers has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b.
Posted April 30, 2024
Astrophysics
E-Books
Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Goddard Space Flight Center
The Universe
To commemorate a milestone anniversary for NASA’s Fermi spacecraft, the mission team has published an e-book called “Our High-Energy Universe: 15 Years with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.” Readers can download the e-book in PDF and EPUB formats. The e-book is aimed at general audiences with an interest in space. Launched on June 11, 2008, […]
Posted April 23, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Nebulae
Planetary Nebulae
The Universe
In celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s legendary Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, astronomers took a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 76, M76, or NGC 650/651) located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus.
Posted April 23, 2024
Asteroids
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Citizen Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Science Mission Directorate
The Solar System
Like boulders, rocks, and pebbles scattered across a landscape, asteroids come in a wide range of sizes. Cataloging asteroids in space is tricky because they are faint and they don’t stop to be photographed as they zip along their orbits around the Sun. Astronomers recently used a trove of archived images taken by NASA’s Hubble […]
Posted April 18, 2024
Astrophysics
Goddard Space Flight Center
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer)
The Universe
NASA is planning to repair NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, during a spacewalk later this year. It will be the fourth science observatory in orbit serviced by astronauts.
Posted April 17, 2024
Astrophysics
Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Goddard Space Flight Center
Supernovae
The Universe
A nearby supernova in 2023 offered astrophysicists an excellent opportunity to test ideas about how these types of explosions boost particles, called cosmic rays, to near light-speed. But surprisingly, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected none of the high-energy gamma-ray light those particles should produce.
Posted April 16, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Nebulae
Spiral Galaxies
The Universe
The subject of this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the spiral galaxy IC 4633, located 100 million light-years away from us in the constellation Apus. IC 4633 is a galaxy rich in star-forming activity and also hosts an active galactic nucleus at its core. From our point of view, the galaxy […]
Posted April 12, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Dark Matter
Dark Matter & Dark Energy
E-Books
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Science Mission Directorate
The Universe
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope team has released a new downloadable e-book in the Hubble Focus series, called “Hubble Focus: The Dark Universe.” This e-book highlights the mission’s recent discoveries about two mysterious components of our universe, known as dark energy — an unexplained cosmic pressure that’s speeding up the universe’s expansion — a
Posted April 6, 2024
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