Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Peers at Pair of Closely Interacting Galaxies

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two galaxies interacting due to gravity: NGC 5996 (the large spiral galaxy) and NGC 5994 (its smaller companion, in the lower left of the image). Both galaxies lie approximately 160 million light-years from Earth, and their […]

Posted April 5, 2024

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Missions

Science & Research

Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)

Stars

Sunspots

TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)

The Solar System

The Sun

The Universe

How NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Measure Ages of Stars

Guessing your age might be a popular carnival game, but for astronomers it’s a real challenge to determine the ages of stars. Once a star like our Sun has settled into steady nuclear fusion, or the mature phase of its life, it changes little for billions of years. One exception to that rule is the […]

Posted April 4, 2024

General

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Receives 13 Nominations for the 28th Annual Webby Awards

Since it began in 1958, NASA has been charged by law with spreading the word about its work “to the widest extent practicable.” From typewritten press releases to analog photos and film, NASA has effectively moved into social media and other online communications.

Posted April 3, 2024

PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)

Climate Change

Earth

Goddard Space Flight Center

Missions

Oceans

People of Goddard

People of NASA

Veronica T. Pinnick Put NASA’s PACE Mission through Its Paces

To achieve the impossible, Veronica T. Pinnick, who put NASA’s PACE mission through its prelaunch paces, says you need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Name: Dr. Veronica T.

Posted April 2, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Science Mission Directorate

NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2024

The highly competitive NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) recently named 24 new fellows to its 2024 roster. The program fosters excellence and inclusive leadership in astrophysics by supporting a diverse group of exceptionally promising and innovative early-career astrophysicists.

Posted April 2, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer)

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Earns Neil Armstrong Space Flight Achievement Award

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) team received the American Astronomical Society’s Neil Armstrong Space Flight Achievement Award “for exceptional performance and extraordinary perseverance in successfully delivering a sample from asteroid Bennu to Earth.” The award, name

Posted April 1, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Star Clusters

Stars

The Universe

Hubble Finds a Field of Stars

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a globular cluster called NGC 1651. Like another recent globular cluster image, NGC 1651 is about 162,000 light-years away in the largest and brightest of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

Posted March 29, 2024

Wallops Flight Facility

Goddard Space Flight Center

Partner with NASA STEM

STEM Engagement at NASA

NASA, Salisbury U. Enact Agreement for Workforce Development

NASA and Salisbury University (SU) in Maryland signed a collaborative Space Act Agreement Thursday, March 28, 2024, opening new opportunities at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.

Posted March 28, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Stars

The Universe

Three-Year Study of Young Stars with NASA’s Hubble Enters New Chapter

In the largest and one of the most ambitious Hubble Space Telescope programs ever executed, a team of scientists and engineers collected information on almost 500 stars over a three-year period.

Posted March 28, 2024

OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer)

Asteroids

Goddard Space Flight Center

Johnson Space Center

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Collier Trophy

NASA and the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission team have won the National Aeronautic Association’s (NAA) Robert J. Collier Trophy.

Posted March 26, 2024