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Goddard Space Flight Center
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Once upon a time, the core of a massive star collapsed, creating a shockwave that blasted outward, ripping the star apart as it went. When the shockwave reached the star’s surface, it punched through, generating a brief, intense pulse of X-rays and ultraviolet light that traveled outward into the surrounding space. About 350 years later, […]
Posted January 14, 2025
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Astrophysics
Dark Energy
Dark Matter
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Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Galaxy clusters
Goddard Space Flight Center
High-Tech Computing
Science & Research
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The Universe
Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos as NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see it. This preview will help scientists explore a myriad of Roman’s science goals. “We used a supercomputer to create a synthetic universe and simulated billions of years of evolution, tracing […]
Posted January 14, 2025
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe
In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed something never seen before: numerous red objects that appear small on the sky, which scientists soon called “little red dots” (LRDs).
Posted January 14, 2025
Astrophysics
Binary Stars
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Nebulae
Science & Research
Stars
The Milky Way
The Universe
Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ongoing source of carbon-rich dust in our own Milky Way galaxy in greater detail: Wolf-Rayet 140, a system of two massive stars that follow […]
Posted January 13, 2025
Johnson Space Center
Earth
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International Space Station (ISS)
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Measurements from space support wildfire risk predictions Researchers demonstrated that data from the International Space Station’s ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) instrument played a significant role in the ability of machine learning algorithms to predict wildfire susceptibility.
Posted January 13, 2025
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Magnetic Field
Earth's Moon
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Magnetosphere
Marshall Space Flight Center
Science & Research
The Sun
A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of the magnetic field that shields Earth from solar radiation. The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager, or LEXI, instrument is one of 10 payloads aboard the next lunar delivery through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial […]
Posted January 3, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Parker Solar Probe (PSP)
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Solar Flares
Solar Wind
Space Weather
The Sun
Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour […]
Posted December 27, 2024
Black Holes
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Astrophysics
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
General
Hubble Space Telescope
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Science Research & Projects
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Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe
Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA researchers have discovered a perplexing case of a black hole that appears to be “tipped over,” rotating in an unexpected direction relative to the galaxy surrounding it. That galaxy, called NGC 5084, has been known for years, but the sideways secret of its central black hole lay hidden in […]
Posted December 18, 2024
Johnson Space Center
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
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Science & Research
Benchmarks for solidifying metal alloys Researchers report benchmark data for modeling the growth of specific types of microstructures that form during solidification of metal alloys under different conditions. These microstructures affect the properties of materials and products such as refrigeration devices and solar cells.
Posted December 16, 2024
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
Stars
The Universe
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just solved a conundrum by proving a controversial finding made with the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope more than 20 years ago. In 2003, Hubble provided evidence of a massive planet around a very old star, almost as old as the universe. Such stars possess only small amounts of heavier elements […]
Posted December 16, 2024
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