Goddard Space Flight Center

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

Hubble Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Servicing Mission 1

In the pre-dawn hours on Dec. 2, 1993, the space shuttle Endeavour launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a critical mission to repair NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble was designed to be serviced in space with components that astronauts can slide in and out of place. But prior to launch, no one expected […]

Posted December 1, 2023

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Science Mission Directorate

The Universe

Hubble Views a Double Cluster of Glowing Galaxies

This Hubble image features a massive cluster of brightly glowing galaxies, first identified as Abell 3192. Like all galaxy clusters, this one is suffused with hot gas that emits powerful X-rays, and it is enveloped in a halo of invisible dark matter. All this unseen material – not to mention the many galaxies visible in this image […]

Posted December 1, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

Missions

Nebulae

Planetary Nebulae

Stars

Terrestrial Exoplanets

The Universe

Webb Study Reveals Rocky Planets Can Form in Extreme Environments

An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and other molecules in the highly irradiated inner, rocky-planet-forming regions of a disk in one of the most extreme environments in our galaxy.

Posted November 30, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Nebulae

Protostars

Stars

Webb Telescope: A prominent protostar in Perseus

This new Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate details of the Herbig Haro object 797 (HH 797).

Posted November 28, 2023

Astrophysics

Binary Stars

Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Gamma Rays

Goddard Space Flight Center

Neutron Stars

Pulsars

Stars

The Universe

NASA’s Fermi Mission Nets 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars … and Counting

A new catalog produced by a French-led international team of astronomers shows that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 294 gamma-ray-emitting pulsars, while another 34 suspects await confirmation. This is 27 times the number known before the mission launched in 2008.

Posted November 28, 2023

Scientific Balloons

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Scientific Balloons Ready for Flights Over Antarctica

NASA kicks off its annual Antarctic Long Duration Balloon Campaign around Dec. 1, which includes three scientific balloon flights planned for launch from the long-duration balloon (LDB) Camp near McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

Posted November 27, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Galaxies

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Goddard Space Flight Center

Protostars

Stars

The Milky Way

The Universe

NASA’s Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way

The latest image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, including never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to explain. The star-forming region, named Sagittarius C (Sgr C), is about 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.

Posted November 20, 2023

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe

Hubble Images Galaxy with an Explosive Past

This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy NGC 941, which lies about 55 million light-years from Earth. Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) collected the data that created this image.

Posted November 17, 2023

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Earth-like Exoplanets

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

Terrestrial Exoplanets

NASA’s Hubble Measures the Size of the Nearest Transiting Earth-Sized Planet

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has measured the size of the nearest Earth-sized exoplanet that passes across the face of a neighboring star. This alignment, called a transit, opens the door to follow-on studies to see what kind of atmosphere, if any, the rocky world might have. The diminutive planet, LTT 1445Ac, was first discovered by […]

Posted November 16, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

Planets