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Studying Exoplanets
An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study the disk of gas and dust around a young, very low-mass star. The results reveal the largest number of carbon-containing molecules seen to date in such a disk. These findings have implications for the potential composition of any planets that might […]
Posted June 6, 2024
Science & Research
Astrophysics
Exoplanet Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Science Mission Directorate
The Search for Life
NASA announced Friday it selected three industry proposals to help develop technologies for future large space telescopes and plan for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory mission concept, which could be the first space telescope designed to search for life outside our solar system.
Posted May 31, 2024
ISS Research
Biological & Physical Sciences
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Microbiology
Science & Research
Space, the saying goes, is hard. And the farther humans go, the harder it can get. Some of the challenges on missions to explore the Moon and Mars include preventing microbial contamination of these destinations, navigating there safely, protecting crew members and hardware from radiation, and maintaining and repairing equipment.
Posted May 31, 2024
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
Nebulae
Pulsars
Science & Research
Stars
Supernovae
The Universe
A new project provides special 3D “experiences” on Instagram using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes through augmented reality (AR), allowing users to travel virtually through objects in space.
Posted May 29, 2024
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
The Universe
Researchers analyzing data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed three galaxies that may be actively forming when the universe was only 400 to 600 million years old. Webb’s data shows these galaxies are surrounded by gas that the researchers suspect to be almost purely hydrogen and helium, the earliest elements to exist in […]
Posted May 23, 2024
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Galaxy clusters
Marshall Space Flight Center
Science & Research
Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe
A team of astronomers have studied 16 supermassive black holes that are firing powerful beams into space, to track where these beams, or jets, are pointing now and where they were aimed in the past, as reported in our latest press release. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the U.S.
Posted May 22, 2024
Science & Research
Heliophysics
Solar Flares
Solar Wind
Space Weather
NASA announced Tuesday it selected a new instrument to study the Sun and how it creates massive solar eruptions. The agency’s Joint EUV coronal Diagnostic Investigation, or JEDI, will capture images of the Sun in extreme ultraviolet light, a type of light invisible to our eyes but reveals many of the underlying mechanisms of the […]
Posted May 21, 2024
Ames Research Center
Astrophysics
Exoplanets
Gas Giant Exoplanets
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
The Universe
Why is the warm gas-giant exoplanet WASP-107 b so puffy? Two independent teams of researchers have an answer.
Posted May 20, 2024
Auroras
Citizen Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2)
Ionosphere
Mesosphere
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
May 2024 has already proven to be a particularly stormy month for our Sun. During the first full week of May, a barrage of large solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) launched clouds of charged particles and magnetic fields toward Earth, creating the strongest solar storm to reach Earth in two decades — and […]
Posted May 16, 2024
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Marshall Space Flight Center
Science & Research
Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe
These images show evidence for an exhaust vent attached to a chimney releasing hot gas from a region around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, as reported in our latest press release.
Posted May 9, 2024
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