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Three Storms Churn in an Active Atlantic
2024.10.06
The active 2024 hurricane season comes to a head with several simultaneous hurricanes—an unusual sight for October.
Flash Floods Swamp North Carolina
2024.10.05
Torrential rains from Hurricane Helene swamped communities in the mountainous western part of the state.
Hurricane Helene Stirs Up Gulf Coast Waters
2024.10.04
The heavy rains, high winds, and storm surge that devastated land also left a mark on the ocean.
Hubble Observes a Peculiar Galaxy Shape
2024.10.04
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the galaxy, NGC 4694. Most galaxies fall into one of two basic types. Spiral galaxies are young and energetic, filled with the gas needed to form new stars and sporting spiral arms that host these hot, bright youths. Elliptical galaxies have a much more pedestrian look, and their […]
Typhoon Krathon Nears Taiwan
2024.10.03
Once the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane, the typhoon weakened and stalled off the island’s southwest coast.
NASA’s TESS Spots Record-Breaking Stellar Triplets
2024.10.02
Professional and amateur astronomers teamed up with artificial intelligence to find an unmatched stellar trio called TIC 290061484, thanks to cosmic “strobe lights” captured by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite). The system contains a set of twin stars orbiting each other every 1.8 days, and a third star that circles the pair in just […]
NASA’s Webb Reveals Unusual Jets of Volatile Gas from Icy Centaur 29P
2024.10.02
Inspired by the half-human, half-horse creatures that are part of Ancient Greek mythology, the field of astronomy has its own kind of centaurs: distant objects orbiting the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has mapped the gases spewing from one of these objects, suggesting a varied composition and providing new insights […]
Via NASA Plane, Scientists Find New Gamma-ray Emission in Storm Clouds
2024.10.02
There’s more to thunderclouds than rain and lightning. Along with visible light emissions, thunderclouds can produce intense bursts of gamma rays, the most energetic form of light, that last for millionths of a second. The clouds can also glow steadily with gamma rays for seconds to minutes at a time.
Devastating Rainfall from Hurricane Helene
2024.10.01
The major storm brought heavy precipitation and destructive flooding to coastal Florida and southeastern states.
Astrophysicist Gioia Rau Explores Cosmic ‘Time Machines’
2024.10.01
To shape NASA’s path of exploration forward, Dr. Gioia Rau unravels stars and worlds beyond our solar system. Name: Dr. Gioia RauTitle: AstrophysicistOrganization: Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory, Astrophysics Division, Science Mission Directorate (Code 667) What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? I’m an astrophysicist who studies […]
Spring Snow in Lesotho
2024.09.29
A late-season storm covered the mountainous country and nearby provinces of South Africa in a blanket of white.
Dark Nights in Georgia
2024.09.28
The state faced widespread power outages after winds from Hurricane Helene snapped trees, tore off roofs, and toppled power lines.
Hubble Captures Stellar Nurseries in a Majestic Spiral
2024.09.27
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium. It sports a glowing bar in its core, majestically winding spiral arms, and clouds of dark dust across it.
Ocean Heat for Hurricane Helene
2024.09.27
Warm water from the Loop Current helped fuel Helene as the storm approached Florida’s Big Bend region.
Arctic Ozone Hits Record High
2024.09.26
An active atmosphere at northern latitudes contributed to the highest monthly Arctic ozone concentrations measured in the satellite era.
An Uncommonly Strong Atmospheric River
2024.09.26
A powerful atmospheric river swept through the Gulf of Alaska in September 2024, bringing abundant rain to coastal British Columbia, Canada, and southeastern Alaska.
NASA’s Hubble Finds that a Black Hole Beam Promotes Stellar Eruptions
2024.09.26
In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to erupt along its trajectory. The stars, called novae, are not caught inside the jet, but apparently in a dangerous neighborhood nearby. The […]
NCCS-Hosted Simulations Enable Exploring Prospects of Detecting Volcanic Signatures on ExoEarths
2024.09.26
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation enabled University of California, Riverside, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientists to simulate large igneous province volcanic eruptions on Earth to define the atmosphere of a hypothetical Earth-like exoplanet (or exoEarth) for exploring the possibility of detecting volcanic signatures.
Hurricane Helene 2024
2024.09.25
Helene formed as a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico on Sept. 24, 2024, and is currently forecast to make landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region the evening of Sept. 26 as a Category 3 hurricane. Meteorologists also anticipate impacts in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and the Carolinas, as the storm moves north after landfall.
In Odd Galaxy, NASA’s Webb Finds Potential Missing Link to First Stars
2024.09.25
Looking deep into the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: a galaxy with an odd light signature, which they attribute to its gas outshining its stars. Found approximately one billion years after the big bang, galaxy GS-NDG-9422 (9422) may be a missing-link phase of galactic evolution between the […]
Rivers in Europe Burst Their Banks
2024.09.24
Torrential rain from a stalled storm system caused flooding in countries such as Poland and Slovakia.
Arctic Sea Ice Near Historic Low; Antarctic Ice Continues Decline
2024.09.24
Arctic sea ice retreated to near-historic lows in the Northern Hemisphere this summer, likely melting to its minimum extent for the year on Sept.11, 2024, according to researchers at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). The decline continues the decades-long trend of shrinking and thinning ice cover in the Arctic Ocean.
Delaware’s Tidal Wetlands
2024.09.23
Water inundates the marshes along Delaware Bay, which provide protection against flooding and erosion, as well as habitat for migrating birds.
Hubble Lights the Way with New Multiwavelength Galaxy View
2024.09.20
The magnificent galaxy featured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 1559. It is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Reticulum, approximately 35 million light-years from Earth. The brilliant light captured in the current image offers a wealth of information. This picture is composed of a whopping ten different Hubble images, […]
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