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Antarctic Sea Ice Near Historic Lows; Arctic Ice Continues Decline

Sea ice at both the top and bottom of the planet continued its decline in 2024. In the waters around Antarctica, ice coverage shrank to near-historic lows for the third year in a row. The recurring loss hints at a long-term shift in conditions in the Southern Ocean, likely resulting from global climate change, according […]

Posted March 25, 2024

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Hubble Space Telescope

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Nebulae

Protostars

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The Universe

Hubble Sees New Star Proclaiming Presence with Cosmic Lightshow

Jets emerge from the cocoon of a newly forming star to blast across space, slicing through the gas and dust of a shining nebula in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. FS Tau is a multi-star system made up of FS Tau A, the bright star-like object near the middle of the image, […]

Posted March 25, 2024

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NASA Innovation on Display at AAS Goddard Space Science Symposium

From the search for habitable worlds beyond our solar system to Earth science missions closer to home, NASA shared its goals for the next decades of exploration at this year’s Goddard Space Science Symposium, held March 20-22, 2024, at the University of Maryland in College Park. “We wanted to help bring focus to this long-term […]

Posted March 22, 2024

Astrophysics

Galaxies

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Hubble Space Telescope

Irregular Galaxies

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The Universe

Hubble Spots the Spider Galaxy

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the gauzy-looking celestial body UGC 5829, an irregular galaxy that lies about 30 million light-years away. Despite the lack of observations of this relatively faint galaxy, UGC 5829 has a distinct and descriptive name: the Spider Galaxy.

Posted March 22, 2024

Astrophysics

BurstCube

CubeSats

Gamma Rays

Gamma-Ray Bursts

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Gravitational Waves

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Sensing the Universe & Multimessenger Astronomy

NASA’s Tiny BurstCube Mission Launches to Study Cosmic Blasts

NASA’s BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions, is on its way to the International Space Station. The spacecraft travels aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission, which lifted off at 4:55 p.m.

Posted March 21, 2024

Brown Dwarfs

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Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

The Universe

NASA’s Hubble Finds that Aging Brown Dwarfs Grow Lonely

It takes two to tango, but in the case of brown dwarfs that were once paired as binary systems, that relationship doesn’t last for very long, according to a recent survey from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Brown dwarfs are interstellar objects larger than Jupiter but smaller than the lowest-mass stars. They are born like stars […]

Posted March 21, 2024

Podcasts

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NASA’s Curious Universe Podcast Unveils New Sun + Eclipse Series

NASA released Tuesday the first episode of a new six-part podcast series for first-time space explorers to learn about the Sun. Ahead of the total solar eclipse in April, NASA’s Sun + Eclipse Series will focus on the sphere full of swirling magnetic fields and explosions of hot gases. New episodes will post every Tuesday […]

Posted March 19, 2024

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People of Goddard

Expedition 69 Astronauts Tour NASA Goddard, Speak With Employees

A trio of astronauts visited with employees at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on March 18, 2024, to share their spaceflight experiences aboard the International Space Station.

Posted March 19, 2024

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Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

NASA’s Swift Temporarily Suspends Science Operations

On March 15, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory entered into safe mode, temporarily suspending science operations due to degrading performance from one of its three gyroscopes (gyros), which are used to point the observatory for making observations. The rest of the spacecraft remains in good health.

Posted March 18, 2024

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NASA Invites Media to 61st Annual Goddard Space Science Symposium

Media are invited to attend the 61st annual Goddard Space Science Symposium (formerly the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium), which will take place March 20-22, 2024, at the Brendan Iribe Center on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. The symposium will also be streamed online.

Posted March 14, 2024