Hubble Sees Cosmic Flapping Bat Shadow
Sometimes nicknames turn out to be closer to reality than you might imagine. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a striking image of a fledgling star’s unseen, planet-forming disk casting a…
Watch a 10-Year Time Lapse of Sun From NASA’s SDO
As of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory – SDO – has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around Earth,…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Teams Up With Observatories Around Solar System for 4th Solar Encounter
At the heart of understanding our space environment is the knowledge that conditions throughout space — from the Sun to the atmospheres of planets to the radiation environment in deep…
Viewing the Red Planet
This artist’s concept shows an astronaut on Mars, as viewed through the window of a spacecraft. NASA is returning astronauts to the Moon and will test technology there that will be…
Japan’s HTV-9 Cargo Craft Helps Supply the Space Station
Japan’s resupply ship, the H-II Transfer Vehicle-9 (HTV-9), is pictured attached to the International Space Station‘s Harmony module. Stowed inside the Japanese space freighter is the HTV-8 cargo pallet that was…