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NGC 3310: A Starburst Spiral Galaxy

By |2026-04-05T16:44:59-04:00April 5th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The party is still going on in spiral galaxy NGC 3310. Roughly 100 million years ago, NGC 3310 likely collided with a smaller galaxy causing the large spiral galaxy to light up with a tremendous burst of star formation. The changing gravity during the collision created density waves that compressed [...]

Orion and the Moon on Flight Day 2

By |2026-04-04T17:44:26-04:00April 4th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

art002e004429 (April 3, 2026) - The Artemis II crew is en route to the Moon on the second flight day of the mission. This photo shows the Orion spacecraft with the Moon in the distance, as captured by a camera on the tip of one of its solar array wings. [...]

Caught in the Web: Visualization of a Black Hole Merger in the Tarantula Nebula

By |2026-04-03T16:44:24-04:00April 3rd, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How can we see what is invisible? Black holes are not easy to see in the dark cosmic night, but astronomers can find them by analyzing their gravitational effects on matter, light and spacetime. The featured image shows an illustration that combines a simulation of a black hole binary system [...]

Liftoff! Returning to the Moon

By |2026-04-02T16:44:24-04:00April 2nd, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day We are one small step closer to returning to the Moon. A new chapter in human exploration began yesterday when NASA's Artemis II launched aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) from Kennedy Space Center. Carrying four astronauts, the Orion spacecraft's planned lunar flyby will be the first in over half [...]

The Claw and Bubble Nebulae

By |2026-04-01T16:44:25-04:00April 1st, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What unexpected things do you see when you look up at the night sky? Today’s image resembles an abstract painting, with large swaths of color strewn across a cosmic canvas seemingly without design. Despite the image's abstract nature, the human mind finds patterns, identifying a large claw reaching up towards [...]

Peculiar Elliptical Galaxy Centaurus A

By |2026-03-30T16:44:26-04:00March 30th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happened to the center of this galaxy? Dramatic dust lanes run across the center of unusual elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. These dust lanes are so thick they almost completely obscure the galaxy's center in visible light. This is particularly unusual as Cen A's older stars and oval shape are [...]

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