NASA Wins 6 Webby Awards, 8 Webby People’s Voice Awards 23 Apr 2024, 2:46 pm

Sols 4164-4165: What’s Around the Ridge-bend? 23 Apr 2024, 2:31 pm

Hubble Spots the Little Dumbbell Nebula 23 Apr 2024, 1:14 pm

In celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers took a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 76, or M76, located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. The name 'Little Dumbbell' comes from its shape that is a two-lobed structure of colorful, mottled, glowing gases resembling a balloon that’s been pinched around a middle waist. Like an inflating balloon, the lobes are expanding into space from a dying star seen as a white dot in the center. Blistering ultraviolet radiation from the super-hot star is causing the gases to glow. The red color is from nitrogen, and blue is from oxygen.

Our Beautiful Water World 22 Apr 2024, 2:06 pm

Behold one of the more detailed images of Earth. This Blue Marble Earth montage—created from photographs taken by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the Suomi NPP satellite—shows many stunning details of our home planet.

 

How did a star form this beautiful nebula?

 

What created this giant X in the clouds?

NASA ends CloudSat Earth-observing mission after 18 years

NASA's pioneering CloudSat weather and climate mission has come to an end after nearly 18 productive years in Earth orbit.

Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater

Scientists turned into cosmic crime scene investigators to reconstruct the impact that sent Earth's "quasi-moon" Kamo'oalewa rocketing from the lunar surface millions of years ago.