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Hubble Captures a Monster Merger

[ad_1] This Hubble Picture of the Week features Arp 122, a peculiar galaxy that in fact comprises two galaxies — NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642, the round, face-on spiral — that are in the midst of a collision. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Acknowledgement: L. […]

NASA’S OSIRIS-REx Curation Team Reveals Remaining Asteroid Sample

[ad_1] A top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed, revealing the remainder of the asteroid sample inside. Erika Blumenfeld, creative lead for the Advanced Imaging and Visualization of Astromaterials (AIVA) and Joe Aebersold, project management lead, captured this picture using manual high-resolution precision photography and a semi-automated focus stacking procedure. […]

NASA Interns at Johnson’s Rock Yard

[ad_1] A NASA intern uses an augmented reality headset to test out heads-up display technology being developed for future Artemis missions. This technology was created as part of the NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students, or SUITS, design challenge in which college students from across the country help design user interface solutions for future […]

Axiom Mission 3 Launches to the International Space Station

[ad_1] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft for Axiom Space’s Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) to the International Space Station lifts off at 4:49 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. Ax-3 is the third all private astronaut mission to the […]

Safety First! – NASA

[ad_1] Safety is important, no matter where you’re viewing the eclipse. NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station show off their eclipse glasses, which allow safe viewing of the Sun during a solar eclipse. Image Credit: NASA/Loral O’Hara https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gmt087_23_34_loral-ohara_pao-photos-solar-eclipse/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] Source link

Celebrating NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity Rovers’ Mars Landings

[ad_1] On the 20th anniversary of the landing of Spirit and Opportunity, celebrate NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Project with this two-sided poster that lists some of the pioneering explorers’ accomplishments on the Red Planet. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/e1-mer-20th-poster-vert-front-1080×1920-1-eefb7b/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] Source link

Day of Remembrance – NASA

[ad_1] From left to right, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, and Deputy Chief of Mission for the Embassy of Israel Eliav Benjamin, place wreaths at the Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial during a ceremony that was part of NASA’s Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, […]

A New Home for Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Prototype

[ad_1] The aerial prototype of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is seen at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steve F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Friday, Dec. 15, 2023, in Chantilly, Va. The prototype, which was the first to demonstrate it was possible to fly in a simulated Mars environment at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), was […]

Earth’s Atmospheric Glow – NASA

[ad_1] This high exposure photograph revealed Earth’s atmospheric glow against the backdrop of a starry sky in this image taken from the International Space Station on Jan. 21, 2024. At the time, the orbital lab was 258 miles above the Pacific Ocean northeast of Papua New Guinea. The Nauka science module and Prichal docking module […]

Cygnus Flies to the International Space Station

[ad_1] A successful liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida as Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, heads to the International Space Station for the 20th Northrop Grumman resupply mission on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. The spacecraft is expected to reach the space station […]

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Category: Pic of the Day

Hubble Captures a Monster Merger

NASA’S OSIRIS-REx Curation Team Reveals Remaining Asteroid Sample

NASA Interns at Johnson’s Rock Yard

Axiom Mission 3 Launches to the International Space Station

Safety First! – NASA

Celebrating NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity Rovers’ Mars Landings

Day of Remembrance – NASA

A New Home for Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Prototype

Earth’s Atmospheric Glow – NASA

Cygnus Flies to the International Space Station