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Artist's conception of neutron star next to Manhattan island

Swift Catches an Anti-glitch from a Neutron Star

05.29.2013
A neutron star is the densest object astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times Earth's mass into a sphere about 12 miles across, or similar in size to Manhattan Island.
Image of Ring Nebula

The Ring Nebula’s true shape

05.31.2013
New observations of the Ring Nebula – the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like star – reveal a new twist.
Numerical simulation of the density of matter when the universe was one billion years old

NASA Launching Experiment to Examine the Beginnings of the Universe

06.03.2013
When did the first stars and galaxies form? How brightly did they burn? Scientists hope to answer to these questions with the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRIment (CIBER).
Satellite image of swirls in the waters off France in Bay of Biscay

Swirls in the Waters off France

05.17.2013
Springtime has brought a substantial and long-lasting bloom of phytoplankton in the Bay of Biscay, off the western coast of France.
Photograph of Laguna Verde taken from by astronaut on ISS

Laguna Verde

05.17.2013
This photograph taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station shows water of different colors within sub-basins of the Laguna (lake) Verde in the high Andes of northwest Argentina.
A combined view of the coronal mass ejection

STEREO Detects a CME From the Sun

05.29.2013
A CME can cause a space weather phenomenon called a geomagnetic storm.
Photo of NASA's rover, GROVER, rolling on Greenland ice sheet

GROVER Debuts on Greenland's Ice Sheet

05.10.2013
NASA's new Earth-bound rover began testing on the Greenland ice sheet this week.
map of IceBridge flight coverage over Greenland

IceBridge 2013 Coverage

05.14.2013
Project IceBridge completed the 2013 Arctic campaign on May 2, with 26 land ice and sea ice research missions.
graph of ozone hole over time

The Ozone Hole

06.05.2013
Timeline of Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Observations
hubble image of supernova remnant

Hubble Sees the Remains of a Star Gone Supernova

05.08.2013
These thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants from when an unstable progenitor star exploded violently as a supernova around 600 years ago.
Hubble image of Horsehead Nebula

Horsehead Nebula

04.19.2013
Hubble's 23rd anniversary Horsehead Nebula release. Hubble sees a horsehead of a different color.
Airborne photo of ice-bound Davis Strait

IceBridge Flight Over Baffin Island

04.19.2013
Previous surveys showed this ice cap thinning and glaciers retreating. The April 12 mission was to measure several glaciers in the area to see how much the Penny Ice Cap has melted in recent years.
Image of sun's quiet corona

Sun's Quiet Corona

05.31.2013
SDO's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument shows the current conditions of the quiet corona.
Kepler Supernova Remnant

Kepler Supernaova: a post-mortem

04.08.2013
This composite of images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the remnant of Kepler's supernova in low (red), intermediate (green) and high-energy (blue) X-rays.
photo of lunar crater and surroundings

Melt or Rubble?

04.11.2013
SDO image of solar prominence

Graceful Eruption

05.08.2013
A solar prominence began to bow out and the broke apart in a graceful, floating style in a little less than four hours on March 16, 2013.
Visualization of Buried Marte Vallis Channels

Visualization of Buried Marte Vallis Channels

04.01.2013
Befor and After photo of Mona Lisa transmission image

First demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the Moon

03.04.2013
plot of vela in Fermi field of view over time

Celestial Spirograph

04.11.2013
A Fermi scientist has transformed LAT data of a famous pulsar into a mesmerizing movie that visually encapsulates the spacecraft's complex motion.
GALEX image of spiral galaxy

Largest Known Spiral Galaxy

02.14.2013
The giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 is 522,000 light-years across from the tip of one outstretched arm to the tip of the other, making it about 5 times the size of our home galaxy, the Milky Way.
Image of drill hole from Curiosity on Mars

Curiosity's First Sample Drilling

02.14.2013
There were several preparatory events with the drill including a test that made the shallow hole on the right, but the deep hole resulted from the first use of the drill for rock sample collection.
Light curve of V1647

Hot Spot

03.04.2013
satellite image of snow on desert terrain

Storm Turns the Taklimakan Desert White

01.02.2013
Snow-covered deserts are rare, but that’s exactly what the MODIS instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite observed as it passed over the Taklimakan Desert in western China.
X-ray and optical image of SXP 1062

Slowly Turning

12.31.2012
Most neutron stars rotate rapidly, some spinning hundreds of times per second. Scientists have found an unusual, young neutron star with an extremely slow spin - just one turn every 17.7 minutes.
SDO ultraviolet image of x-ray flare

X-Class

12.31.2012
A region of the Sun erupts in a powerful explosion, known as an "X-class" solar flare. These can cause observable effects on earth such as aurorae and power grid and communications satellite failures.
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