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General

NASA high-end computing plays a key role in taking many agency missions from concept to application in the real world. From increasing accuracy of global weather forecasts for forecast entities (like NOAA) to warn of severe storms, to designs for future air taxis to safely fly people around urban areas, to parachute design tests for […]

Posted November 14, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Galaxies

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

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Hubble Space Telescope

The Universe

NASA’s Webb, Hubble Combine to Create Most Colorful View of Universe

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have united to study an expansive galaxy cluster known as MACS0416. The resulting panchromatic image combines visible and infrared light to assemble one of the most comprehensive views of the universe ever taken.

Posted November 9, 2023

People of Goddard

Carbon Cycle

Earth

Earth Science

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Oceans

Peter Griffith: Diving Into Carbon Cycle Science

Dr. Peter Griffith serves as the director of NASA’s Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Griffith's scientific journey began by swimming in lakes as a child, then to scuba diving with the Smithsonian Institution, and now he studies Earth’s changing climate with NASA.

Posted November 8, 2023

Auroras

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Heliophysics

Sounding Rockets

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Sounding Rocket Launches into Alaskan Aurora

A sounding rocket launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov. 8, 2023, carrying NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's DISSIPATION mission.

Posted November 8, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

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The Universe

NASA’s Webb Findings Support Long-Proposed Process of Planet Formation

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just made a breakthrough discovery in revealing how planets are made. By observing water vapor in protoplanetary disks, Webb confirmed a physical process involving the drifting of ice-coated solids from the outer regions of the disk into the rocky-planet zone.

Posted November 8, 2023

Asteroids

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Lucy

The Solar System

NASA’s Lucy Surprises Again, Observes 1st-ever Contact Binary Orbiting Asteroid

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft took images of asteroid Dinkinesh, discovering that the asteroid has the first-ever contact binary pair orbiting the asteroid.

Posted November 7, 2023

Podcasts

Audio

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NASA’s Curious Universe Podcast Unveils New Season of Adventures

NASA’s short-form, narrative podcast, NASA’s Curious Universe, returns for its sixth season Nov. 7. This season will bring listeners on new “wild and wonderful” adventures from the farthest reaches of the cosmos to right here on planet Earth. In season six, listeners will meet researchers who are using sounds from the Sun to learn crucial […]

Posted November 7, 2023

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

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Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Science Mission Directorate

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe

Hubble Tangos with a Dancer in Dorado

This vibrant Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 1566, sometimes informally referred to as the ‘Spanish Dancer Galaxy’. Like the subject of another recent image, NGC 1566 is a weakly-barred or intermediate spiral galaxy. This means that it does not have a clearly present or a clearly absent bar-shaped structure at its […]

Posted November 3, 2023

Asteroids

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Lucy

The Solar System

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Discovers 2nd Asteroid During Dinkinesh Flyby

On Nov. 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by not just its first asteroid, but its first two. The first images returned by Lucy reveal that the small main belt asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a binary pair.

Posted November 2, 2023

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Space Communications Technology

Technology

NASA Goddard’s ‘Spiky’ Antenna Chamber: Signaling Success for 50 Years

Rows upon rows of cobalt-blue spires in Goddard’s antenna chamber evoke a soundproof room from a recording studio. Much like laying down tracks on a hit album, this testing facility ensures clean takes for NASA missions' antennas and their data transmissions.

Posted November 2, 2023