New NASA map details 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses in the US
Where will you be for the 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses in the United States?
Astronomy
Mar 8, 2023
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Millions of galaxies emerge in new simulated images from NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Scientists have created a gargantuan synthetic survey that shows what we can expect from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's future observations. Though it represents just a small chunk of the real future survey, this ...
Astronomy
Mar 8, 2023
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NASA to measure forest health from above
In places across the U.S., tree cover is shrinking—forests are burned by wildfires on the West Coast and drowned by rising sea levels along the East. From the ground, it's hard to assess the scale of the losses and the ...
Planetary Sciences
Mar 8, 2023
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Image: Hubble observes jellyfish galaxy JO201
A "jellyfish galaxy" with trailing tentacles of stars hangs in inky blackness in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. As jellyfish galaxies move through intergalactic space, gas is slowly stripped away forming ...
Astronomy
Mar 6, 2023
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NASA delivers hardware for commercial lunar payload mission
Ever wondered how your phone knows exactly where you are? Or how it can provide directions from one place to another?
Space Exploration
Mar 6, 2023
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Ozone-measuring instrument on NOAA-21 satellite captures first image
On February 9, 2023, an ozone-measuring instrument on the recently launched NOAA-21 satellite opened its doors and, over the course of a week, gathered data for its first global image. The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite ...
Planetary Sciences
Mar 6, 2023
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How NASA's Roman Space Telescope will rewind the universe
A new simulation shows how NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will turn back the cosmic clock, unveiling the evolving universe in ways that have never been possible before when it launches by May 2027. With its ability ...
Astronomy
Mar 2, 2023
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Hubble captures movie of DART asteroid impact debris
In 2022 NASA embarked on a bold experiment to see if they could change an asteroid's velocity by smacking it with a ballistic probe—kind of like hitting it with a hammer. This experiment was to test a potential technique ...
Astronomy
Mar 1, 2023
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Scientists estimate carbon stored in African dryland trees
Using commercial, high-resolution satellite images and artificial intelligence, an international team including NASA scientists mapped almost 10 billion individual trees in Africa's drylands in order to assess the amount ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 1, 2023
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Hubble observes gravitational lens of a massive galaxy cluster
A massive galaxy cluster in the constellation Cetus dominates the center of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This image is populated with a serene collection of elliptical and spiral galaxies, but galaxies ...
Astronomy
Feb 24, 2023
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