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The image shows thousands of galaxies across the black expanse of space. The closest thousand or so galaxies appear as small disks of spiraling material, surrounded by halos of yellow and white light. The background is scattered with a hundred thousand more distant galaxies of different shapes, ranging in color from white to yellow to red. Most galaxies are so far away they appear as single points of light.

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Engineers in white suits assemble and test NASA's first robotic Moon rover in a clean room at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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Engineer examining telescope mirror.

NASA’s Webb Telescope Improves Simulation Software

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This enhanced image of the Jovian moon Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during the mission's June 7, 2021, flyby of the icy moon on Juno's 34th pass close to Jupiter.

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President William J. “Bill” Clinton introduces the STS-95 crew

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ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst in a squat position while working out on the ARED, with his arms against a beam. His body is facing to the right and his head turned to smile at the camera.

Counteracting Bone and Muscle Loss in Microgravity

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Architecture Concept Review attendees listen to welcome remarks from NASA leadership on Nov. 14, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Attendees included representatives from all of NASA’s centers, leaders from all of NASA’s mission directorates, various technical authorities, and other stakeholders across the agency.

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Cassiopeia A, a circular-shaped cloud of gas and dust with complex structure. The inner shell is made of bright pink and orange filaments studded with clumps and knots that look like tiny pieces of shattered glass. Around the exterior of the inner shell, particularly at the upper right, there are curtains of wispy gas that look like campfire smoke. The white smoke-like material also appears to fill the cavity of the inner shell, featuring structures shaped like large bubbles. Around and within the nebula, there are various stars seen as points of blue and white light. Outside the nebula, there are also clumps of yellow dust, with a particularly large clump at the bottom right corner that appears to have very detailed striations.

NASA’s Webb Stuns With New High-Definition Look at Exploded Star

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Researchers with the BioSCape campaign collect vegetation data from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. The field work, which took place in October and November, was part of an international collaboration that could help inform the capabilities of future satellite missions aimed at studying plants and animals.

NASA Helps Study One of the World’s Most Diverse Ecosystems

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The laser retroreflector array is sitting inside a large testing chamber. The array is covered in a copper foil-like material. The mirrors of the array are placed in a honeycomb pattern and are reflecting back purple, blue, and black colors to the camera. These are the colors of what is surrounding the camera.

NASA Laser Reflecting Instruments to Help Pinpoint Earth Measurements

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Psyche’s “first light” images make up this annotated mosaic showing a starfield in the constellation Pisces.

NASA’s Psyche Delivers First Images and Other Data

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View of the horizon of Mars

NASA Orbiter Snaps Stunning Views of Mars Horizon

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Looking in from the outer edge of a dusty, spinning disk surrounding a bright central star, which is illustrated as an indistinct bright region in the center of the disk. Rays of light emanate from the central area. A dark gap in the disk appears between the bright core and the dusty, hazy outer regions, which build up slightly as you move outward, so that the core appears sunken. The outer disk has some bands of varying thickness, in varying shades of orange.

Webb Follows Neon Signs Toward New Thinking on Planet Formation

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Cassiopeia A, a circular-shaped cloud of gas and dust with complex structure. The inner shell is made of bright pink and orange filaments studded with clumps and knots that look like tiny pieces of shattered glass. Around the exterior of the inner shell, particularly at the upper right, there are curtains of wispy gas that look like campfire smoke. The white smoke-like material also appears to fill the cavity of the inner shell, featuring structures shaped like large bubbles. Around and within the nebula, there are various stars seen as points of blue and white light. Outside the nebula, there are also clumps of yellow dust, with a particularly large clump at the bottom right corner that appears to have very detailed striations.

NASA’s Webb Stuns With New High-Definition Look at Exploded Star

article4 hours ago

Researchers with the BioSCape campaign collect vegetation data from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. The field work, which took place in October and November, was part of an international collaboration that could help inform the capabilities of future satellite missions aimed at studying plants and animals.

NASA Helps Study One of the World’s Most Diverse Ecosystems

article2 days ago

The laser retroreflector array is sitting inside a large testing chamber. The array is covered in a copper foil-like material. The mirrors of the array are placed in a honeycomb pattern and are reflecting back purple, blue, and black colors to the camera. These are the colors of what is surrounding the camera.

NASA Laser Reflecting Instruments to Help Pinpoint Earth Measurements

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Cassiopeia A, a circular-shaped cloud of gas and dust with complex structure. The inner shell is made of bright pink and orange filaments studded with clumps and knots that look like tiny pieces of shattered glass. Around the exterior of the inner shell, particularly at the upper right, there are curtains of wispy gas that look like campfire smoke. The white smoke-like material also appears to fill the cavity of the inner shell, featuring structures shaped like large bubbles. Around and within the nebula, there are various stars seen as points of blue and white light. Outside the nebula, there are also clumps of yellow dust, with a particularly large clump at the bottom right corner that appears to have very detailed striations.

NASA’s Webb Stuns With New High-Definition Look at Exploded Star

article4 hours ago

Researchers with the BioSCape campaign collect vegetation data from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. The field work, which took place in October and November, was part of an international collaboration that could help inform the capabilities of future satellite missions aimed at studying plants and animals.

NASA Helps Study One of the World’s Most Diverse Ecosystems

article2 days ago

The laser retroreflector array is sitting inside a large testing chamber. The array is covered in a copper foil-like material. The mirrors of the array are placed in a honeycomb pattern and are reflecting back purple, blue, and black colors to the camera. These are the colors of what is surrounding the camera.

NASA Laser Reflecting Instruments to Help Pinpoint Earth Measurements

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A dark metallic-gray air taxi with four sets of counter-rotating propellers hovers against a blue-and-gray sky. Empty because it is remotely piloted, the air taxi bears red text that reads Moog Experimental N834LW.

NASA, Moog Humming Along on Air Taxi Noise Tests

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Evan Kawamura holds a laptop beside a table holding two drone aerial vehicles.

Aero Engineer Brings NASA into Hawaii’s Classrooms

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Artist illustration showing and unmanned cargo delivery aircraft an small package delivery drones being used.

La Movilidad Aérea Avanzada Ayuda al Transporte de Mercancías

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an 8-inch wafer of silicon, with hair-thin panels etched with microscopic holes.

NASA Engineers Push Limits of Physics to Focus Light

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Astronaut Kjell Lindgren, wearing a black shirt, faces the control panel of the station’s ham radio set. He is holding a notepad and pen in his right hand and speaking into the microphone in his left hand.

Ham Radio in Space: Engaging with Students Worldwide for 40 Years

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Frontier Airlines was among the first companies to test Digital Winglets for its fleet of aircraft. In testing, the commercial implementation of NASA’s TASAR technology provided fuel savings of 2%, which adds up at airline scale. Credit: Frontier Airlines

‘Digital Winglets’ for Real Time Flight Paths Born from NASA Tech

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View of the globe of Earth from space, featuring swirling white clouds over North America, with the title “Earthrise: Elevating Earth and Climate Science in the Classroom”

Earthrise: Monthly e-Newsletter With Earth and Climate Science Resources

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Cassiopeia A, a circular-shaped cloud of gas and dust with complex structure. The inner shell is made of bright pink and orange filaments studded with clumps and knots that look like tiny pieces of shattered glass. Around the exterior of the inner shell, particularly at the upper right, there are curtains of wispy gas that look like campfire smoke. The white smoke-like material also appears to fill the cavity of the inner shell, featuring structures shaped like large bubbles. Around and within the nebula, there are various stars seen as points of blue and white light. Outside the nebula, there are also clumps of yellow dust, with a particularly large clump at the bottom right corner that appears to have very detailed striations.

NASA’s Webb Stuns With New High-Definition Look at Exploded Star

article4 hours ago

Researchers with the BioSCape campaign collect vegetation data from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. The field work, which took place in October and November, was part of an international collaboration that could help inform the capabilities of future satellite missions aimed at studying plants and animals.

NASA Helps Study One of the World’s Most Diverse Ecosystems

article2 days ago

The laser retroreflector array is sitting inside a large testing chamber. The array is covered in a copper foil-like material. The mirrors of the array are placed in a honeycomb pattern and are reflecting back purple, blue, and black colors to the camera. These are the colors of what is surrounding the camera.

NASA Laser Reflecting Instruments to Help Pinpoint Earth Measurements

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NASA astronaut Frank Rubio uses a tool in his right hand as he activates a space biology experiment that is studying how weightlessness affects genetic expression in microbes.

Ciencia destacada del año en el espacio del astronauta Frank Rubio

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Frank Rubio, un hombre de pelo y ojos oscuros y con lentes, sonrÃe y tiene los brazos cruzados. Va vestido con un polo oscuro y pantalones khaki. DetrÃ¡s suyo se ve la atmÃ³sfera de la Tierra a travÃ©s de las ventanas de observaciÃ³n de la cÃºpula.

Misión récord de astronauta ayuda a planificar viajes al espacio profundo

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