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Nestled among the vast clouds of star-forming regions like this one lie potential clues about the formation of our own solar system. This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features AFGL 5180, a beautiful stellar nursery located in the constellation of Gemini (the Twins). At the center of the image, a massive star is forming and blasting cavities...
This image, taken from aboard the International Space Station, shows the aurora australis as it streams across the Earth’s atmosphere as the station orbited 271 miles above the southern Indian Ocean in between Asia and Antarctica. Named for the Roman goddess of dawn, the aurora is a captivating display of light in the night sky. The aurora borealis and...
Known as NGC 6523 or the Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8 is a giant cloud of gas and dust where stars are born. At about 4,000 light years from Earth, Messier 8 provides astronomers an excellent opportunity to study the properties of very young stars. Many infant stars give off copious amounts of high-energy light including X-rays, which are seen in the Chandra dat...
In this 30-second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, as seen from Spruce Knob, West Virginia. Learn more about the annual Perseid meteor shower. Find out how you can see them in skies across North America! Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls 在这张30秒的曝光照片中，2021年8月11日星期三，英仙座流星雨期间，一颗流星划过天空。照片摄...
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus resupply spacecraft is seen in the vertical launch position on the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad 0A, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman’s 16th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver about 8,200 ...
Happy #NationalBookLoversDay! NASA not only explores the universe, we also publish books on our discoveries! Learn about Hubble and other science discoveries, NASA history, aeronautics, engineering, and so much more. Find them all in our e-books archive. And so you know, we publish in all the most popular formats. Image Credit: NASA 祝#国家图书爱好者日 快乐! NASA不仅探索宇宙...
This infrared view of Jupiter’s icy moon Ganymede was obtained by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its July 20, 2021, flyby. JIRAM’s infrared instrument developed this image during recent flybys of Jupiter’s mammoth moon to create this latest map, which comes out a decade after Juno’s Aug. 5, 20...
On Aug. 5, 2012, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover landed safely on the Red Planet. In this self-portrait from 2018, Curiosity sits atop Vera Rubin Ridge, which the rover had been investigating. Directly behind the rover is the start of a clay-rich slope scientists are eager to begin exploring. In the coming week, Curiosity will begin to climb this slope. No...
An army marches on its stomach, the saying goes, and astronauts fly on theirs. The success of any mission relies on plentiful, nutritious, and enjoyable food. A growing body of research on the space station looks at ways to improve the food supply as missions increase in length. Station crew members continue to work on two current food-related investigations...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Starliner spacecraft aboard is illuminated by spotlights on Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, as it sits on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 will be Starliner’s second uncrewed flight tes...