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Science is often portrayed as a solitary affair, where discoveries are made by lone geniuses toiling in isolation. But Dr. Natasha Batalha, an astronomer at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, says solving problems with the people around her is one of the best parts of her job.  “Oh, man, working with people […]
Posted February 21, 2024
Galaxies
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Spiral Galaxies
The Universe
NGC 4254, a spiral galaxy, is resplendent in orange and blue in this Jan. 29, 2024, image from the James Webb Space Telescope. This is one of 19 nearby spiral galaxies recently imaged by the telescope as part of the long-standing Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) program supported by more than […]
Posted February 13, 2024
Dark Energy
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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
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The Big Bang
The Universe
Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began with a rapid expansion we call the big bang. After this initial expansion, which lasted a fraction of a second, gravity started to slow the universe down. But the cosmos wouldn’t stay this way. Nine billion years after the universe began, its expansion started to speed up, […]
Posted February 5, 2024
Exoplanets
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Super-Earth Exoplanets
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
A newly discovered ‘super-Earth’ dwells in the habitable zone of its parent star – and might have a roughly Earth-sized companion.
Posted January 31, 2024
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
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Spiral Galaxies
The Universe
It’s oh-so-easy to be absolutely mesmerized by these spiral galaxies. Follow their clearly defined arms, which are brimming with stars, to their centers, where there may be old star clusters and – sometimes – active supermassive black holes.
Posted January 29, 2024
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Gamma-Ray Bursts
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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
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Stephen Lesage’s phone started vibrating just after halftime on Oct. 9, 2022, while he was watching a soccer game in Atlanta with a friend. When Lesage saw the incoming messages, the match no longer seemed important. There had been a rare cosmic event, and he needed to get to his computer immediately. NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray […]
Posted January 24, 2024
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Star-forming Nebulae
The Universe
The U.S. Postal Service has issued two new Priority Mail stamps celebrating NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most powerful, and most complex telescope ever put in space. The stamps, issued Jan. 22, feature images of the cosmos captured by Webb since it began its science mission in 2022. Webb is a mission led […]
Posted January 22, 2024
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Goddard Space Flight Center
Missions
Science & Research
The Universe
Researchers analyzing images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found that galaxies in the early universe are often flat and elongated, like surfboards and pool noodles – and are rarely round, like volleyballs or frisbees. “Roughly 50 to 80% of the galaxies we studied appear to be flattened in two dimensions,” explained lead author […]
Posted January 17, 2024
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Missions
Planetary Nebulae
Science & Research
The Universe
Beta Pictoris, a young planetary system located just 63 light-years away, continues to intrigue scientists even after decades of in-depth study. It possesses the first dust disk imaged around another star — a disk of debris produced by collisions between asteroids, comets, and planetesimals.
Posted January 10, 2024
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Auroras
Brown Dwarfs
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Heliophysics
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Stars
The Universe
Infrared emission from methane suggests atmospheric heating by auroral processes. Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) with infrared emission from methane, likely due to energy in its upper atmosphere.
Posted January 9, 2024
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