The Blue Marvel: NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Neptune in the summer of 1989 as it became the first spacecraft to fly by the planet. Neptune's blue color comes from ...
Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.
10 unseen pictures of star clusters captured by NASA
The edge of a nearby stellar nursery called NGC 3324, found at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula, forms the “mountains” and “valleys” spanning this image captured by the James Webb Space ...
Nearly three years since launch, Webb is a hit among astronomers
From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes ...
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Space Cadets, an Interactive NASA Hubble Space Telescope is Coming to Eastern Iowa
The skies over Iowa recently have been filled with Northern Lights on many nights and a comet, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) ...
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'Ridiculously smooth': James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-like disk around nearby star Vega — and scientists can't explain it
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
James Webb Telescope Detects Molecule In Orion Nebula View
The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...
On Election Night, Stare Into the Abyss
But because those galaxies are so far away, the pictures end up blurry ... which oversees not only the James Webb Space ...
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The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made About Neptune
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...
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Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a 'cannonball galaxy' blasting through space
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.
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NASA's New Space Pic On Halloween Reveals Giant Pair Of 'Ghostly Eyes', But It's Not What You Think
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released a pic of a "creepy" pair of giant "eyes" floating in space.
8 Incredible Images NASA Revealed This Week
As we enter the penultimate month of 2024, NASA has shared some spectacular images from across the universe and closer to ...
Webb Telescope Sees Perfect Circle Around Vega, Leaving Astronomers Puzzled
Vega, one of the brightest, most famous and most important stars in the night sky, has no evidence of giant planets around it ...