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This side-by-side comparison shows a Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Array Camera image of HH 49/50 (left) versus a Webb image of the same object (right) using the NIRCam (Near-infrared Camera) instrument and MIRI (Mid-infrared Instrument). The Webb image shows intricate details of the heated gas and dust as the protostellar jet slams into the material. Webb also resolves the “fuzzy” object located at the tip of the outflow into a distant spiral galaxy. The Spitzer image shows 3.6-micron light in blue, the 4.5-micron in green, and the 8.0-micron in red (IRAC1, IRAC2, IRAC4). In the Webb image, blue represents light at 2.0-microns (F200W), cyan represents light at 3.3-microns (F335M), green is 4.4-microns (F444W), orange is 4.7-microns (F470N), and red is 7.7-microns (F770W).

NASA’s Webb Telescope Unmasks True Nature of the Cosmic Tornado

Categories Physics & Mathematics, Space

NASA’s SPHEREx mission will survey the Milky Way galaxy looking for water ice and other key ingredients for life. In the search for these frozen compounds, the mission will focus on molecular clouds — collections of gas and dust in space — like this one imaged by the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA

NASA’s New Space Telescope to Hunt for Ice That Could Harbor Life’s Origins

Categories Life & Non-humans, Space

LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth. Hubble and Keck also confirmed which galaxy dove through the Bullseye, creating these rings: the blue dwarf galaxy that sits to its immediate center-left.

Cosmic Bull’s-Eye: Monster Galaxy’s Nine Rings Reveal Epic Space Collision

Categories Physics & Mathematics, Space, Technology

This photo shows instances of the black aurora, the dark patches that sometimes form within an aurora where electrons escape upward. The photo was taken near Thompson, Manitoba, Canada, on Sept. 29, 2024, at 3:19 a.m. CDT. The photographer, Donna Lach, submitted this image to NASA’s Aurorasaurus citizen science project, which works with participants around the world to photograph, report and verify aurora sightings to advance auroral science. Learn more at www.aurorasaurus.org. Copyright Donna Lach, used with permission

NASA’s Daredevil Rockets Hunt the Aurora’s Dark Side

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Space

Death Valley

NASA Study Reveals Unprecedented Changes in Earth’s Water Patterns

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment

In this visualization, the LEXI instrument is shown onboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which will deliver 10 Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) payloads to the Moon. Firefly Aerospace

NASA’s Recycled X-ray Instrument Set to Capture First Global Images of Earth’s Magnetic Shield

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Space

The spacecraft’s record close distance of 3.8 million miles may sound far, but on cosmic scales it’s incredibly close. If the solar system was scaled down with the distance between the Sun and Earth the length of a football field, Parker Solar Probe would be just four yards from the end zone — close enough to pass within the tenuous outer atmosphere of the Sun known as the corona.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Achieves Historic Close Encounter with the Sun

Categories Space

Surrounded by frost, these Martian dunes in Mars northern hemisphere were captured from above by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its HiRISE camera on Sept. 8, 2022. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Mars Welcomes Spring with Avalanches, Ice Explosions and Swirling Dunes

Categories Space

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft captured this image of Vesta as it left the giant asteroid’s orbit in 2012. The framing camera was looking down at the north pole, which is in the middle of the image. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

How Table Salt Could Explain Mysterious Gullies on Asteroid Vesta

Categories Space

Using the deepest X-ray image ever made with Chandra of Centaurus A, astronomers have found an unusual mark from the giant black hole’s powerful jet striking an unidentified object in its path. A patch of V-shaped emission connected to a bright source of X-rays is located close to the path of the jet from the supermassive black hole (highlighted in the inset). The arms of the “V” are at least about 700 light-years long. In this image, low, medium, and high-energy X-rays from Chandra are colored pink, purple, and blue respectively.

When black hole jets go bump in the night

Categories Physics & Mathematics, Space

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, right, stands near the apex of a sand ripple in an image taken by Perseverance on Feb. 24, 2024, about five weeks after the rotorcraft’s final flight. Part of one of Ingenuity’s rotor blades lies on the surface about 49 feet (15 meters) west of helicopter (at left in image). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS

NASA Performs First Aircraft Accident Investigation on Another World

Categories Space

An artist’s concept of NASA’s Europa Clipper shows the spacecraft in silhouette against Europa’s surface, with the magnetometer boom fully deployed at top and the antennas for the radar instrument extending out from the solar arrays. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Europa Clipper: Millions of Miles Down, Instruments Deploying

Categories Space

This image compares the view of the famous Sombrero Galaxy in mid-infrared light (top) and visible light (bottom). NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) reveals the smooth inner disk of the galaxy.

Webb’s New View Transforms Iconic Sombrero Galaxy into Cosmic Archery Target

Categories Space

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