Portal origin URL: Hubble Observes a Cosmic Sea CreaturePortal origin nid: 487573Published: Friday, June 9, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The jellyfish galaxy JO206 trails across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: Spiral galaxy tilted partially toward us. Bright and colorful inner disk with bluish and...

Mars and Venus draw closer throughout the month, while Saturn leads Jupiter into the morning sky. Bright stars Spica and Arcturus shine brightly overhead on June evenings, along with the Summer Triangle. And the June solstice, on the 21st, has a special claim to fame....

Portal origin URL: Hubble Gazes at a Hazy GalaxyPortal origin nid: 487454Published: Friday, June 2, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This moody image shows a galaxy named Messier 85, captured in all its delicate, hazy glory by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: Diffuse oval haze against black background. Stars and...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Peers Behind BarsPortal origin nid: 487435Published: Friday, June 2, 2023 - 05:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A delicate tracery of dust and bright star clusters threads across this image from the James Webb Space Telescope. The bright tendrils of gas and stars belong to the barred spiral galaxy NGC...

Portal origin URL: NASA Looks Back at 50 Years of Gamma-Ray Burst SciencePortal origin nid: 487446Published: Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Fifty years ago, on June 1, 1973, astronomers around the world were introduced to a powerful and perplexing new phenomenon called gamma-ray bursts, now seen somewhere in the sky...

Portal origin URL: Webb Maps Surprisingly Large Plume Jetting From Saturn’s Moon EnceladusPortal origin nid: 487410Published: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A water vapor plume from Saturn’s moon Enceladus spanning more than 6,000 miles – nearly the distance from Los Angeles, California to Buenos Aires, Argentina...

As the universe expands, it stretches out the waves of light coming from distant galaxies. Now you can measure this stretching, or “redshift” and use it to look back in time. The new Redshift Wrangler citizen science project, hosted by Zoonverse, asks you to help astronomers peer across billions of light years using this remarkable trick to learn how galaxies form. “In astronomy,...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Captures a Drifting GalaxyPortal origin nid: 487364Published: Friday, May 26, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: Large spiral galaxy at center. Its core surrounded by concentric rings of dark and light...

Portal origin URL: NASA's Chandra, Webb Combine for Arresting ViewsPortal origin nid: 487316Published: Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 11:39Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Four composite images deliver dazzling views from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope of two galaxies, a nebula, and a star cluster. Each image combines...

Portal origin URL: NASA's Hubble Hunts for Intermediate-Sized Black Hole Close to HomePortal origin nid: 487306Published: Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Astronomers using Hubble have come up with what they say is some of their best evidence yet for the presence of a rare class of "intermediate-sized" black hole...

Portal origin URL: NASA Scientists Make First Observation of a Polar Cyclone on UranusPortal origin nid: 487311Published: Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 07:35Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Scientists used ground-based telescopes to get unprecedented views, thanks to the giant planet’s position in its long orbit around the Sun.Portal image: Images...

Portal origin URL: NASA Mission to Study Ice Clouds, Help Observe Our Dynamic AtmospherePortal origin nid: 487305Published: Monday, May 22, 2023 - 12:37Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA has selected a new mission to help humanity better understand Earth’s dynamic atmosphere – specifically, ice clouds that form at high altitudes throughout...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Peers into a Glistening Star ClusterPortal origin nid: 487237Published: Friday, May 19, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The densely packed globular cluster NGC 6325 glistens in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: Dense cluster of bright stars. Its core is to the left and has a...

Portal origin URL: NASA Releases New Solar Eclipse Educational MaterialsPortal origin nid: 487254Published: Thursday, May 18, 2023 - 12:30Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: To help learners of all ages understand how to safely observe the Oct. 14, 2023, annular solar eclipse and the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse, NASA has released a new set of...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Spitzer, TESS Find Potentially Volcano-Covered Earth-Size WorldPortal origin nid: 487212Published: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size exoplanet, or world beyond our solar system, that may be carpeted with volcanoes.Portal image: A planet covered...

Image credit: Catalina Sky Survey This just in: NASA’s new Daily Minor Planet project seeks your help discovering and tracking asteroids—in a dazzling new data set. Remember asteroids, those lumps of rock tumbling through space left over from the formation of our solar system? There are so many reasons to find these objects. Some asteroids pose an impact hazard to Earth, while others...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Juno Mission Getting Closer to Jupiter’s Moon IoPortal origin nid: 487195Published: Monday, May 15, 2023 - 12:01Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The gas giant orbiter has flown over 510 million miles and also documented close encounters with three of Jupiter’s four largest moons.Portal image: JunoCam image of the...

Portal origin URL: Two NASA Studies Find Lower Methane Emissions in Los Angeles RegionPortal origin nid: 487194Published: Monday, May 15, 2023 - 11:20Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Researchers found that emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas dropped for several years near the nation’s second-largest metropolitan area.Portal...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Webb Finds Water, and a New Mystery, in Rare Main Belt CometPortal origin nid: 487186Published: Monday, May 15, 2023 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Using Webb’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument, astronomers have confirmed gas – specifically water vapor – around a comet in the main asteroid belt...

Portal origin URL: Hubble Captures a Light-Bending Galaxy ClusterPortal origin nid: 487121Published: Friday, May 12, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A vast galaxy cluster lurks in the center of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: Cluster of large galaxies, surrounded by various stars and smaller galaxies...

Portal origin URL: Images From NASA’s Perseverance May Show Record of Wild Martian RiverPortal origin nid: 487134Published: Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 07:36Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Evidence left in rocks is leading scientists to rethink what watery environments looked like on ancient Mars.Portal image: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover...

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Webb Takes Closest Look Yet at Mysterious PlanetPortal origin nid: 487116Published: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - 10:39Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A science team gains new insight into the atmosphere of a “mini-Neptune,” a class of planet common in the galaxy but about which little is known.Portal image: This...

Portal origin URL: How Desert Dust Nourishes the Growth of Phytoplankton at SeaPortal origin nid: 487115Published: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - 10:06Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: After a long-distance delivery, nutrients in desert dust nourish life in the ocean.Portal image: This image, acquired on April 8, 2011, with the Moderate Resolution...

NASA supports USDA plant science research that benefits life on our home planet and beyond! This image shows the USDA Biotechnology Lab at EPCOT, located within Walt Disney World Resort. The two illuminated white squares stacked one over the other above the Biotechnology Lab sign are plant growing chambers developed by NASA’s Biological and Physical Sciences Division at Kennedy Space...