Webb Sees Sombrero Galaxy in Near-InfraredWebb Sees Sombrero Galaxy in Near-Infrared

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), which shows dust from the galaxy’s outer ring blocking stellar light from stars within the galaxy. In the central region of the galaxy, the roughly 2,000 globular clusters, or collections of hundreds of thousands of old stars held together...

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Hubble Captures Cotton Candy CloudsHubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a cloudscape in the Large Magellanic Cloud., a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble - NASA, C. Murray

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America&s First SpacewalkAmerica’s First Spacewalk

Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot of the Gemini IV four-day Earth-orbital mission, floats in the zero gravity of space outside the Gemini IV spacecraft.

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NASA&s SpaceX Demo-2 Launch Fifth AnniversaryNASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 Launch Fifth Anniversary

President Donald Trump steps onstage to speak following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

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A Star Like No OtherA Star Like No Other

Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects.

Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/ICRAR, Curtin Univ./Z. Wang et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL/CalTech/IPAC; Radio: SARAO/MeerKAT; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk

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45 Years Ago: NASA Announces Ninth Astronaut Group45 Years Ago: NASA Announces Ninth Astronaut Group

Sixteen of 19 astronaut candidates named on May 29, 1980, and two European trainees as payload specialists pose for photographers in the briefing room in the public affairs facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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