Tag: science
Magellanic Clouds over Chile
The two prominent clouds in this Chilean Atacama Desert skyscape captured on January 21 actually lie beyond our Milky Way galaxy, reported NASA.
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Untangling a Knot of Galaxy Clusters
Astronomers have captured a spectacular, ongoing collision between at least three galaxy clusters, reported NASA.
Data from NASA’s Chandra X- [...]
NASA’s Webb captures star formation
By peering into a well-known star cluster within the Small Magellanic Cloud, Webb’s NIRCam instrument has revealed many new pockets of star formation [...]
After 50 thousand years, it is back!
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was discovered by astronomers using the wide-field survey camera at the Zwicky Transient Facility in early March 2022.
A [...]
A party of 5 in the Southern Ring Nebula
How did all the “partygoers” –up to five stars– create the Southern Ring Nebula? Let’s hit “rewind” and replay the interactions that might have creat [...]
Orion Spacecraft back in Kennedy Space Center
After its 1.4-million-mile mission beyond the Moon and back, the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission arrived back at NASA’s Kennedy Space Cent [...]
Orion comes back from the Moon
After a 25.5 day mission in space, the Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean some 20 minutes from noon. NASA informed on the succesful unm [...]
NASA sets live coverage of Orion’s return, splashdown
NASA will provide live coverage of the Artemis I uncrewed Orion spacecraft’s return to Earth on Sunday, Dec. 11.
The agency also will host several [...]
Spacewalkers complete installation of new solar array
Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio of NASA concluded their spacewalk at 2:21 p.m. EST after 7 hours and 5 minutes, reported [...]
The beauty of a proto-star by the James Webb
The protostar within the dark cloud L1527, shown in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is embedded with [...]