[ad_1] Resembling sparks from a fireworks display, this image taken by a JPL camera onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows delicate filaments that are sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. Image Credit: NASA, STScI/AURA Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia04609orig/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] …
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Reflection – NASA
[ad_1] Creating an artistic reflection, a Great Blue Heron skims its wings on a waterway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 11, 2021. The center shares a border with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Image Credit: NASA / Ben Smegelsky Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-470/Copy URL to clipboard> …
Read More »Research Physical Scientist Tra-My Justine Richardson
[ad_1] “It takes a lot of courage to confront your fears and failures. Each and every time is really difficult, but you will feel really empowered. It’s a very significant step in your life if you can do that.” Image Credit: NASA / Brandon Torres Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/enviromental-portrait-of-justine-richardson/Copy URL to …
Read More »Ringing in the Holidays – NASA
[ad_1] Seen here by Webb, ice giant Uranus is a dynamic world with rings, moons, storms, extreme seasons, and more. Webb’s sensitivity has even captured the close-in Zeta ring, faint, diffuse, and elusive. These new images reveal detailed features of Uranus’s seasonal north polar cap, as well as bright storms …
Read More »On Cupid! On, Donner and BARREL!
[ad_1] Four reindeer walk past the BARREL payload on the launch pad at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden. The BARREL team was at Esrange Space Center launching a series of six scientific payloads on miniature scientific balloons. The NASA-funded BARREL – which stands for Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic …
Read More »NASA’s Artemis II Crew Meet with President, VP at White House
[ad_1] Artemis II crew members: CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, left, NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman, right, pose for a group photograph after their meetings with U.S. President Joe Biden and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. …
Read More »Making Fire Sense on Monroe Mountain
[ad_1] At the start of October 2023, green conifers and golden aspen covered the slopes of Monroe Mountain in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest. Then, starting on October 9, these forests turned black as fire worked its way across the mountain. Flames and smoke were visible for miles. Image Credit: NASA …
Read More »NGC 2264: Telescopes Illuminate ‘Christmas Tree Cluster’
[ad_1] This composite image shows the Christmas Tree Cluster. The blue and white lights (which blink in the animated version of this image) are young stars that give off X-rays detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Optical data from the National Science Foundation’s WIYN 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak shows …
Read More »Ice Flows on Mars – NASA
[ad_1] The surface of Mars is littered with examples of glacier-like landforms. While surface ice deposits are mostly limited to the polar caps, patterns of slow, viscous flow abound in many non-polar regions of Mars. Streamlines that appear as linear ridges in the surface soils and rocky debris are often …
Read More »120th Anniversary of the First Powered, Controlled Flight
[ad_1] Orville Wright makes the first powered, controlled flight on Earth as his brother Wilbur looks on in this image taken at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on Dec. 17, 1903. Orville Wright covered 120 feet in 12 seconds during the first flight. The Wright brothers made four flights that day, …
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