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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Completes Comprehensive Systems Test

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Completes Comprehensive Systems Test

07.13.2020
Now that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been assembled into its final form, testing teams seized the unique opportunity to perform a critical software and electrical analysis on the entire observatory as a single, fully connected vehicle.
Aqua satellite infrared image of Tropical Storm Fay

Fay – Atlantic Ocean

07.10.2020
NASA used satellite data to create an animation of Fay’s development and progression over the past few days, showing how the storm organized into a tropical storm.
Hubble Sees Sculpted Galaxy

Hubble Sees Sculpted Galaxy

07.10.2020
Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, this image shows NGC 7513, a barred spiral galaxy. This galaxy is moving at the astounding speed of 972 miles per second, and it is heading away from us.
Two Bizarre Brown Dwarfs Found With Citizen Scientists’ Help

Two Bizarre Brown Dwarfs Found With Citizen Scientists’ Help

07.10.2020
With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered two highly unusual brown dwarfs, balls of gas that are not massive enough to power themselves the way stars do.
Aqua satellite image of several fires burning in the states of Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, and Mato Grosso.

Conditions Ripe for Active Amazon Fire, Atlantic Hurricane Seasons

07.09.2020
Warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean so far in 2020 have set the stage for an active hurricane season and elevated the risk of fires in the southern Amazon.
Aqua satellite infrared image of Tropical Storm Christina

Cristina – Eastern Pacific Ocean

07.07.2020
A low-pressure area strengthened quickly and became Tropical Storm Cristina in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and infrared imagery from NASA revealed the powerful thunderstorms fueling that intensification.
Aqua satellite infrared image of Tropical Storm Edouard

Edouard – Atlantic Ocean

07.06.2020
The latest tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean formed one day ago and was already being battered by wind shear.
Suomi NPP satellite image of fires in Western Australia

NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP Sees Prescribed Burns Set in Western Australia

07.06.2020
NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of prescribed fires in Western Australia on July 06, 2020.
Hubble Spots Feathered Spiral

Hubble Spots Feathered Spiral

07.02.2020
NGC 2275 is classified as a flocculent (or fluffy-looking) spiral galaxy, located 67 million light-years away in the constellation of Cancer. Millions of bright, young, blue stars shine in the complex, feather-like spiral arms, interlaced with dark lanes of dust.
Terra satellite image of fires in New Mexico

NASA's Terra Satellite Peers Down at New Mexico Fires

07.02.2020
NASA's Terra satellite peered down from space to capture an image of the three fires visible in New Mexico on July 01, 2020. The fires pictured in this image are the Cub Fire, the Good Fire and the Vics Peak fire.
Aqua satellite image of smoke and fire in Siberia

NASA's Aqua Satellite Shows Siberian Fires Filling Skies With Smoke

07.02.2020
NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of Siberian fires criss-crossing the landscape and huge clouds of smoke obscuring large portions of the countryside.
GEOS5 global image of Dust Aerosol Optical Thickness

A Dust Plume to Remember

07.01.2020
While dust routinely blows across the Atlantic Ocean, scientists rarely see plumes as large and dense with particles as the one that darkened Caribbean skies in June 2020.
cloud fraction map reveals how much of Earth's surface is covered by clouds over a span of one month

NCCS Collaborates with the NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center at George Mason University – Part 2

06.30.2020
Among other collaborative machine learning projects, the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) and the National Science Foundation Spatiotemporal Innovation Center at George Mason University are classifying clouds to more accurately model and forecast local precipitation.
NASA’s TESS Delivers New Insights Into an Ultrahot World

NASA’s TESS Delivers New Insights Into an Ultrahot World

06.30.2020
KELT-9 b is one of the hottest planets known. New measurements from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of this bizarre world.
Operation IceBridge photo of Johns Hopkins Glacier by Chris Larsen, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Johns Hopkins Glacier

06.30.2020
While most glaciers in southeast Alaska are losing an astounding amount of ice, this glacier has been relatively stable.
Suomi NPP satelitee image of Woods Springs 2 fire

NASA's Suomi NPP Satellite Focuses on Wood Springs 2 Fire in Arizona

06.30.2020
NASA's Suomi NPP satellite used its VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) instrument to capture this image of the Wood Springs 2 fire in Arizona on June 29, 2020.
Suomi NPP satellite image of Tropical Depression 4E

04E – Eastern Pacific Ocean

06.30.2020
Tropical Depression 4E formed late on June 29 and it is forecast to become a remnant low-pressure area by the end of the day on June 30.
Terra satellite image of the Rock Path fire in Utah

NASA's Terra Satellite Captures Rock Path Fire in Utah

06.29.2020
NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of the Rock Path fire located 15 miles north of Milford, Utah on June 28, 2020.
Hubble Captures Galaxy on Edge

Hubble Captures Galaxy on Edge

06.26.2020
We don’t see the beautiful spiral arms of galaxy NGC 5907 in this Hubble image because we are viewing it edge-on, like looking at the rim of a plate. It is for this reason that NGC 5907 is also known as the Knife Edge galaxy.
Animation showing the aerosols in the Saharan dust plume from June 15 to 25, 2020. It was created from the Suomi NPP OMPS aerosol index.

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP Satellite Analyzes Saharan Dust Aerosol Blanket

06.26.2020
Dust storms from Africa’s Saharan Desert traveling across the Atlantic Ocean are nothing new, but the current dust storm has been quite expansive and NASA satellites have provided a look at the massive June plume.
Suomi NPP satellite image of Tropical Storm Boris

Boris – Eastern Pacific Ocean

06.26.2020
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with visible image of the Eastern Pacific Ocean’s second tropical storm of the season, Boris.
Suomi NPP satellite image of fires across Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Both Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo Experiencing High Numbers of Agricultural Fires

06.26.2020
Fires have spread across the majority of the landscape in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Map depicting Europe's Groundwater Wetness Percentile

Signs of Drought in European Groundwater

06.26.2020
Long-term rainfall deficits, heat waves, and increased evaporation have depleted some of the groundwater supply beneath central and eastern Europe.
Hubble Sees Cosmic Flapping ‘Bat Shadow’

Hubble Sees Cosmic Flapping ‘Bat Shadow’

06.25.2020
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed a young star’s unseen, planet-forming disk casting a huge shadow across a more distant cloud in a star-forming region – like a fly wandering into a flashlight beam shining on a wall. The feature was dubbed the “Bat Shadow” because it resembles a pair of wings. Now, scientists see the Bat Shadow flapping!
NASA’s TESS, Spitzer Missions Discover a World Orbiting a Unique Young Star

NASA’s TESS, Spitzer Missions Discover a World Orbiting a Unique Young Star

06.24.2020
Astronomers using data from NASA's TESS and retired Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered a planet as large as Neptune circling the young star orbiting AU Microscopii.
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