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CAPSTONE, the pathfinder for NASA’s lunar outpost, will test an orbit around the Moon that has never been flown before. In this image from April 2022, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, was undergoing final construction – and with solar panel installation and vibration testing now complete...
After completing two additional mirror alignment steps in March 2022, the team confirmed the James Webb Space Telescope’s optical performance will be able to meet or exceed the science goals the observatory was built to achieve. This “selfie” was created using a specialized pupil imaging lens inside of Webb’s Near Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, instrument...
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this glittering scene using its Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. Globular clusters are stable, tightly bound groups of tens of thousands to millions of stars. As this image demonstrates, the hearts of globular clusters are densely packed with stars. Terzan 9 is dotted with so many glittering stars that ...
Attendees try on Oculus headsets and experience the International Space Station using virtual reality prior to a special screening of the NASA-produced documentary “The Color of Space” at Howard University’s Cramton Auditorium in Washington, Saturday, June 18, 2022. Officially premiering for the public on Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the end...
The issue of General Order No. 3 by Union troops on June 19, 1865, marked the official end of slavery in Texas and the U.S. On that Monday, enslaved African Americans in Texas learned of their freedom. That day of liberation became known as Juneteenth, when the Emancipation Proclamation was announced by Union troops in Galveston, Texas. On Thursday, June 17,...
The Progress Pride flag is seen flying at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building, Thursday, June 9, 2022, in Washington, DC. In recognition of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, the Progress Pride flag will be flown outside of the agency’s headquarters for the month of June. Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky 2022年6月9日，星期四，华盛顿特区，进步骄傲旗在玛丽·杰克逊NASA总部大楼飘扬。为表彰LGBTQ+自豪月，6月份将...
The brilliant cascade of stars through the middle of this image is the galaxy ESO 318-13 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in this image from 2012. Despite being located millions of light-years from Earth, the stars captured in this image are so bright and clear one could almost attempt to count them. ESO 318-13 is sandwiched between a vast collection of...
Flag Day is celebrated on June 14 each year and commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777, by the Second Continental Congress. NASA flies the U.S. flag on its missions throughout our solar system. In this iconic image from the Apollo 11 lunar landing, Commander Neil Armstrong snapped this picture of Buzz Aldrin saluting the ...
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide speaks with students during a visit to Arlington Science Focus Elementary School, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Arlington, Virginia. Hoshide and his crewmates from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 completed the agency’s second long-duration commercial crew mission to the International Space Station in Novem...
Like Sherlock Holmes’s magnifying glass, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope can peer into an astronomical mystery in search of clues. The enigma in question concerns the globular cluster Ruprecht 106, pictured here. Unlike most globular clusters, Ruprecht 106 may be what astronomers call a single population globular cluster. While the majority of stars in a...