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NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble

By |2025-03-11T09:09:09-04:00March 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar. Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, featured here, was captured in spectacular detail in an image taken by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. Visible are dark filamentary dust [...]

Cyclones at Jupiter’s North Pole

By |2025-03-09T09:09:07-04:00March 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why are there so many cyclones around the north pole of Jupiter? The topic is still being researched. NASA's robotic Juno mission orbiting Jupiter took data in 2018 that was used to construct this stunning view of the curious cyclones at Jupiter's north pole. Measuring the thermal emission from Jovian [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Commander Anne McClain

By |2025-03-08T07:08:52-05:00March 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

jsc2025e015859 (March 7, 2025) --- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Commander Anne McClain poses for a portrait in her pressure suit at the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Pilot Nichole Ayers

By |2025-03-08T07:08:51-05:00March 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

jsc2025e015860 (March 7, 2025) --- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Pilot Nichole Ayers poses for a portrait in her pressure suit at the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov from Roscosmos

By |2025-03-08T07:08:50-05:00March 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

jsc2025e015861 (March 7, 2025) --- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov poses for a portrait in his pressure suit at the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi from JAXA

By |2025-03-08T07:08:49-05:00March 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

jsc2025e015862 (March 7, 2025) --- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi poses for a portrait in his pressure suit at the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX

A Quadruple Alignment over Italy

By |2025-03-04T08:09:19-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why does this Moon look so unusual? A key reason is its vivid red color. The color is caused by the deflection of blue light by Earth's atmosphere -- the same reason that the daytime sky appears blue. The Moon also appears unusually distorted. Its strange structuring is an optical [...]

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