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This Hubble image features a massive cluster of brightly glowing galaxies, first identified as Abell 3192. Like all galaxy clusters, this one is suffused with hot gas that emits powerful X-rays, and it is enveloped in a halo of invisible dark matter. All this unseen material – not to mention the many galaxies visible in this image […]

Posted December 1, 2023

Night Sky Network

December’s Night Sky Notes: A Flame in the Sky – the Orion Nebula

It’s that time of year again: winter! Here in the Northern Hemisphere, the cold, crisp sky offers spectacular views of the Orion Nebula!

Posted December 1, 2023

CubeSat Launch Initiative

Kennedy Space Center

Small Satellite Missions

NASA’s Educational CubeSats: Small Satellites, Big Impact

Despite their small size, the satellites launching through NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) missions have a big impact, creating access to space for many who might not otherwise have the opportunity.

Posted December 1, 2023

Stennis Space Center

NASA Delivers Inclusion Message to Annual Bayou Classic Participants

NASA was on full display during the 50th Annual Bayou Classic Fan Fest activity in New Orleans on Nov. 25, hosting an informational booth and interacting with event participants to deliver a clear message – There’s Space for Everybody at NASA. In addition to event signage and messaging, NASA representatives were out in force during […]

Posted November 30, 2023

General

Humans in Space

NASA Conducts Annual Moon to Mars Architecture Concept Review

NASA hosted its second annual Architecture Concept Review in mid-November, bringing together leaders from across the agency to discuss progress on and updates to NASA’s Moon to Mars architecture since NASA released outcomes from its first such review in April.

Posted November 30, 2023

Earth

GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment)

GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on)

SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)

Water on Earth

Google’s ‘A Passage of Water’ Brings NASA’s Water Data to Life

As part of the long-standing partnership, NASA worked with Google Arts & Culture to create an interactive digital experience around global freshwater.

Posted November 30, 2023

SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment)

Earth

NASA’s 6-Pack of Mini-Satellites Ready for Their Moment in the Sun

Most NASA missions feature one spacecraft or, occasionally, a few. The agency’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) is using half a dozen. This month, mission members completed construction of the six identical cereal box-size satellites, which will now go into storage and await their final testing and ride to space.

Posted November 30, 2023

Aeronautics

NASA Research Pilot David Zahn

“I want to help the Native community get better representation and show that we can help Native citizens get into aerospace engineering, mathematics, or [other STEM career fields]. And the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations are trying to do the same thing on their reservations. They have amazing education networks, so when I realized what they […]

Posted November 30, 2023

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Hubble Space Telescope

Marshall Space Flight Center

Neutron Stars

Pulsars

Spitzer Space Telescope

The Universe

Chandra Catches Spider Pulsars Destroying Nearby Stars

A group of dead stars known as “spider pulsars” are obliterating companion stars within their reach. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of the globular cluster Omega Centauri is helping astronomers understand how these spider pulsars prey on their stellar companions.

Posted November 30, 2023