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Lunar Eclipse in Two Hemispheres

By |2025-09-12T13:44:30-04:00September 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day September's total lunar eclipse is tracked across night skies from both the northern and southern hemispheres of planet Earth in these two dramatic timelapse series. In the northern hemisphere sequence (top panel) the Moon’s trail arcs from the upper left to the lower right. It passes below bright planet Saturn, [...]

Up from the Earth: Gigantic Jet Lightning

By |2025-09-09T13:44:31-04:00September 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's that rising up from the Earth? When circling the Earth on the International Space Station early in July, astronaut Nicole Ayers saw an unusual type of lightning rising up from the Earth: a gigantic jet. The powerful jet appears near the center of the featured image in red, white, [...]

IRAS 04302: Butterfly Disk Planet Formation

By |2025-09-08T13:44:26-04:00September 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This butterfly can hatch planets. The nebula fanning out from the star IRAS 04302+2247 may look like the wings of a butterfly, while the vertical brown stripe down the center may look like the butterfly's body -- but together they indicate an active planet-forming system. The featured picture was captured [...]

All the Water on Planet Earth

By |2025-09-07T13:44:24-04:00September 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How much of planet Earth is made of water? Very little, actually. Although oceans of water cover about 70 percent of Earth's surface, these oceans are shallow compared to the Earth's radius. The featured illustration shows what would happen if all of the water on or near the surface of [...]

SWE Mexico’s Fourth Virtual Event: “Historias que Inspiran – Construyendo el Futuro”

By |2025-09-04T15:41:00-04:00September 4th, 2025|Categories: Uncategorized|

Read all the highlights of SWE Mexico’s fourth virtual event, featuring uplifting speakers celebrating the growth of women’s participation across the country. Source

Cir X-1: Jets in the Africa Nebula

By |2025-09-03T13:44:26-04:00September 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How soon do jets form when a supernova gives birth to a neutron star? The Africa Nebula provides clues. This supernova remnant surrounds Circinus X-1, an X-ray emitting neutron star and the companion star it orbits. The image, from the ThunderKAT collaboration on the MeerKAT radio telescope situated in South [...]

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