The Calabash Nebula, pictured here — which has the technical name OH 231.8+04.2 — is a…
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Stellar Jet – NASA
Webb’s image of the enormous stellar jet in Sh2-284 provides evidence that protostellar jets scale with…
NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Returns to Earth
The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town…
Sprites Over Château de Beynac
A flash of lightning, and then—something else. High above a storm, a crimson figure blinks in…
XRISM Finds Chlorine, Potassium in Cas A
This composite image of the Cassiopeia A (or Cas A) supernova remnant, released Jan. 8, 2024,…
Testing Drones for Mars in the Mojave Desert
Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California monitor a research drone in the Dumont…
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Completed
Over the course of several hours, technicians meticulously connected the inner and outer segments of NASA’s…
Hubble Seeks Clusters in ‘Lost Galaxy’
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble &…
Waxing Gibbous Moon – NASA
The waxing gibbous Moon rises above Earth’s blue atmosphere in this photograph taken from the International…
Sagittarius B2 Molecular Cloud – NASA
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope took a look at the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud, the most…