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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Arp 105 is a dazzling ongoing merger between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy drawn together by gravity, characterized by a long, drawn out tidal tail of stars and gas more than 362,000 light-years long. The immense tail, which extends beyond this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, wasContinue reading “Hubble Jams With A Cosmic Guitar”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY For the 13th straight year, NASA has earned the title of Best Place to Work in the Federal Government – large agency – from the Partnership for Public Service. The ranking reflects employee satisfaction and workplace elements across the agency while executing NASA’s mission to explore the unknown and discoverContinue reading “NASA Earns Best Place to Work in Government for 13th Consecutive Year “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s latest space observatory is targeting a March 8 liftoff, and the agency’s PUNCH heliophysics mission is sharing a ride. Here’s what to expect during launch and beyond. In a little over a day, NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope is slated to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboardContinue reading “Cosmic Mapmaker: NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Ready to Launch”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Shortly after touching down inside a crater on the Moon, carrying NASA technology and science on its IM-2 mission, Intuitive Machines collected some data for the agency before calling an early end of mission at 12:15 a.m. CST Friday. As part of the company’s second Moon delivery for NASA underContinue reading “NASA Receives Some Data Before Intuitive Machines Ends Lunar Mission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA Astronaut Tracy Dyson points to the Expedition 71 patch on her flight suit on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Dyson and her fellow Expedition 71 crewmates Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps answered questions from students at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington. While aboardContinue reading “NASA Astronaut Tracy Dyson Speaks to Students”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA is seeking design ideas from global creators for a zero gravity indicator that will fly aboard the agency’s Artemis II test flight. Zero gravity indicators are small, plush items carried aboard spacecraft to provide a visual indication of when the spacecraft and its crew reach space. This opportunity, withContinue reading “NASA Invites Creators to Design Mascot for Artemis Moon Mission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Students from Oregon will have the chance to connect with NASA astronaut Don Pettit as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related questions from aboard the International Space Station. Watch the 20-minute space-to-Earth call at 2:15 p.m. EDT on Monday, March 10, on NASA+ and learn how to watchContinue reading “NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in Oregon”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY High-resolution near-infrared light captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows extraordinary new detail and structure in Lynds 483 (L483). Two actively forming stars are responsible for the shimmering ejections of gas and dust that gleam in orange, blue, and purple in this representative color image. Over tens of thousandsContinue reading “NASA Webb Wows With Incredible Detail in Actively Forming Star System”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a vibrant spiral galaxy called NGC 5042 resides about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra (the water snake). The galaxy nicely fills the frame of this Hubble image, while a single, foreground star from the Milky Way shines with cross-shapedContinue reading “Hubble Spies a Spiral in the Water Snake”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Melissa Rice, Professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington University  This week, the Perseverance team faced a stubborn engineering challenge. After successfully collecting a core called “Green Gardens” from the “Tablelands” location, the rover struggled to seal the sample tube, despite multiple attempts. This isn’t entirely unprecedented —Continue reading “Sealing the Deal”