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NASA’s Swift Reaches 20th Anniversary in Improved Pointing Mode

November 20, 2024

NASA

After two decades in space, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is performing better than ever thanks to a new operational strategy implemented earlier this year. The spacecraft has made great scientific strides in the years since scientists dreamed up a new way to explore gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe. “The idea…
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astrophysics, Astrophysics Division, galaxies, goddard space flight center, Hubble Space Telescope, Missions, Spiral Galaxies, stars, supernovae, Tech Industry, Tech News, The Universe

Hubble Captures a Galaxy with Many Lights

November 8, 2024

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado. This galaxy is a multi-talented light show, showing off an impressive array of different celestial lights. Like any spiral galaxy, shining stars fill its disk, giving the galaxy a beautiful glow. Along…
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Researchers spot black hole feeding at 40x its theoretical limit

November 4, 2024

n John Timmern

Similar feeding events could explain the rapid growth of supermassive black holes.
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NASA’s NEOWISE Spacecraft Re-Enters Atmosphere, But More Discoveries Await!

November 4, 2024

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NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft re-entered and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere on Friday night, as expected. Launched in 2009 as the WISE mission, the spacecraft has been mapping the entire sky at infrared wavelengths over and over for nearly fifteen years. During that time, more than one hundred thousand amateur…
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Sadie Coffin Named Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences/NASA Citizen Science Leaders Series Fellow

November 4, 2024

NASA

In August, the Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences (AAPS) announced a fellowship opportunity in partnership with the NASA Citizen Science Leaders Series. Fifty-five people applied! The applications came from graduate students and early career professionals in diverse disciplines, including astronomy, ecology, engineering, nursing, policy, and zoology, to name a few. Sadie Coffin, AAPS-NASA Cit Sci…
Read more: Sadie Coffin Named Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences/NASA Citizen Science Leaders Series Fellow
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NASA’s Hubble, Webb Probe Surprisingly Smooth Disk Around Vega

November 1, 2024

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In the 1997 movie “Contact,” adapted from Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by actor Jodi Foster) takes a space-alien-built wormhole ride to the star Vega. She emerges inside a snowstorm of debris encircling the star — but no obvious planets are visible. It looks like the filmmakers got it…
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Why NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Make ‘Most Colorful’ Cosmic Map Ever

October 31, 2024

Anthony Greicius

The space telescope will detect over 100 colors from hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies. Here’s what astronomers will do with all that color. NASA’s SPHEREx mission won’t be the first space telescope to observe hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies when it launches no later than April 2025, but it will be…
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astrophysics, galaxies, Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research, goddard space flight center, Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Science & Research, Spiral Galaxies, Tech Industry, Tech News, The Universe

‘Blood-Soaked’ Eyes: NASA’s Webb, Hubble Examine Galaxy Pair

October 31, 2024

NASA

Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The long, ghastly “stare” of their searing eye-like cores shines out into the supreme cosmic darkness. It’s good fortune that looks can be deceiving. These galaxies have only grazed one another to date, with the smaller…
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Hubble Sees a Celestial Cannonball

October 25, 2024

NASA

The spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is IC 3225. It looks remarkably as if it was launched from a cannon, speeding through space like a comet with a tail of gas streaming from its disk behind it. The scenes that galaxies appear in from Earth’s point of view are fascinating; many…
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astrophysics, black holes, Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes, goddard space flight center, gravitational waves, LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), Tech Industry, Tech News, The Universe

NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory

October 22, 2024

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NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves — ripples in space-time caused by merging black holes and other cosmic sources. The LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission is led by ESA (European Space Agency) in partnership…
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NASA’s Swift Reaches 20th Anniversary in Improved Pointing Mode

Hubble Captures a Galaxy with Many Lights

Researchers spot black hole feeding at 40x its theoretical limit

NASA’s NEOWISE Spacecraft Re-Enters Atmosphere, But More Discoveries Await!

Sadie Coffin Named Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences/NASA Citizen Science Leaders Series Fellow

NASA’s Hubble, Webb Probe Surprisingly Smooth Disk Around Vega

Why NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Make ‘Most Colorful’ Cosmic Map Ever

‘Blood-Soaked’ Eyes: NASA’s Webb, Hubble Examine Galaxy Pair

Hubble Sees a Celestial Cannonball

NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory

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