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NASA’s Webb Telescope Unmasks True Nature of the Cosmic Tornado
2025.03.24
Craving an ice cream sundae with a cherry on top? This random alignment of Herbig-Haro 49/50 — a frothy-looking outflow from a nearby protostar — with a multi-hued spiral galaxy may do the trick. This new composite image combining observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) provides a […]
Hubble Captures a Neighbor’s Colorful Clouds
2025.03.21
Say hello to one of the Milky Way’s neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The SMC is a dwarf galaxy located about 200,000 light-years away. Most of the galaxy resides in the constellation Tucana, but a […]
Low Ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
2025.03.21
The body of water off eastern Canada is one of the southernmost locations where Arctic sea ice forms, but its extent in winter 2024-2025 was well below normal.
Signs of Life in Thawing Lake Erie
2025.03.20
As winter turned to spring, ice cover on the lake diminished to reveal colorful billows of sediment and phytoplankton.
Scientists Simulate the Electrical Dynamics of Thundersnow at NCCS
2025.03.19
In a first-of-a-kind study, NASA, university, and industry scientists simulated the electrical dynamics of thundersnow — lightning within snowfall — at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS).
NASA’s Webb Images Young, Giant Exoplanets, Detects Carbon Dioxide
2025.03.17
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of multiple gas giant planets within an iconic planetary system. HR 8799, a young system 130 light-years away, has long been a key target for planet formation studies. The observations indicate that the well-studied planets of HR 8799 are rich in carbon dioxide gas. This provides […]
Dusty Inferno Hits Oklahoma
2025.03.17
A major weather system spawned wind-fueled fires and dust storms in the state before moving east.
Bahía Blanca Inundated
2025.03.17
Torrential rains set off dangerous flash flooding in the Argentinian port city.
Swirling Skies and Melting Icebergs
2025.03.15
The remote South Sandwich Islands can disrupt passing clouds in ways that shed alternating rows of cloud spirals.
Glacial Losses in the Swiss Alps
2025.03.14
Images bridging four decades show where Switzerland’s largest glacier and its neighbors have been losing ice.
Hubble Sees a Spiral and a Star
2025.03.14
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the constellation Virgo. While the galaxy and the star appear to be close to one another, even overlapping, they’re actually a great distance apart. The star, marked with four long diffraction spikes, is in our own galaxy. […]
Part 1 of 2: NASA Researchers Study Coastal Wetlands, Champions of Carbon Capture
2025.03.13
When Hurricane Irma made landfall in September 2017 as a category 4 storm, violent winds battered the shore and a storm surge swept across the coast, decimating large swaths of mangrove forest. Seven years later, most of the mangroves here haven’t seen any new growth...
Nyamulagira Brings the Heat
2025.03.13
Clouds parted to reveal fresh lava flows on the slopes of the East African Rift volcano.
Team Preps to Study Dark Energy via Exploding Stars With NASA’s Roman
2025.03.11
The universe is ballooning outward at an ever-faster clip under the power of an unknown force dubbed dark energy. One of the major goals for NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is to help astronomers gather clues to the mystery. One team is setting the stage now to help astronomers prepare for this exciting […]
NASA’s Webb Peers Deeper into Mysterious Flame Nebula
2025.03.10
The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years old. Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores will never be able to fuse hydrogen like full-fledged stars—brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs, often called “failed stars,” over time become very […]
Alfred’s Strange and Destructive Journey
2025.03.08
The tropical cyclone took a sharp turn toward Australia’s east coast, bringing flooding and other hazards to an area that rarely sees this type of storm.
Hubble Unveils a Glittering View of Sh2-284
2025.03.08
A tiny fraction of the stellar nursery known as Sh2-284 is visible in this glittering, star-filled NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. This immense region of gas and dust is the birthing place of stars, which shine among the clouds. Bright clusters of newborn stars glow pink in infrared light, and clouds of gas and dust, […]
Hubble Jams With A Cosmic Guitar
2025.03.08
Arp 105 is a dazzling ongoing merger between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy drawn together by gravity, characterized by a long, drawn out tidal tail of stars and gas more than 362,000 light-years long. The immense tail, which extends beyond this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, was pulled from the two galaxies […]
Hubble Spies a Spectacular Starburst Galaxy
2025.03.08
Sweeping spiral arms extend from NGC 4536, littered with bright blue clusters of star formation and red clumps of hydrogen gas shining among dark lanes of dust. The galaxy’s shape may seem a little unusual, and that’s because it’s what’s known as an “intermediate galaxy”: not quite a barred spiral, but not exactly an unbarred […]
Hubble Examines Stars Ensconced in a Cocoon of Gas
2025.03.08
An open cluster of stars shines through misty, cocoon-like gas clouds in this Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 460. NGC 460 is located in a region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. This particular region contains a number of young star clusters and nebulae of different sizes […]
NASA Webb Wows With Incredible Detail in Actively Forming Star System
2025.03.07
High-resolution near-infrared light captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows extraordinary new detail and structure in Lynds 483 (L483). Two actively forming stars are responsible for the shimmering ejections of gas and dust that gleam in orange, blue, and purple in this representative color image. Over tens of thousands of years, the central protostars […]
Hubble Spies a Spiral in the Water Snake
2025.03.07
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a vibrant spiral galaxy called NGC 5042 resides about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra (the water snake). The galaxy nicely fills the frame of this Hubble image, while a single, foreground star from the Milky Way shines with cross-shaped diffraction spikes near the galaxy’s […]
A Proliferation of Lakes on the Tibetan Plateau
2025.03.05
Satellites have documented lakes on the “roof of the world” becoming larger and more numerous over the past three decades.
NASA’s Hubble Finds Kuiper Belt Duo May Be Trio
2025.03.04
The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show “3 Body Problem.” There’s no problem, however, with what a team of researchers say is likely a stable trio of icy space rocks in the solar […]
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