Layers of a Total Solar Eclipse
Neither rain, nor snow, nor dark of night can keep a space-based spacecraft from watching the Sun. In […]
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Vice President Pence Visits NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Vice President Mike Pence offered his thanks Monday to employees working on NASA’s human spaceflight programs during a […]
Massive Shell Expelling Star G79 29 0 46
Stars this volatile are quite rare. Captured in the midst of dust clouds and visible to the right […]
Vice President Pence to Visit NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center ...
Vice President Mike Pence will visit NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Monday, Sept. 25. […]
A Conjunction of Comets
A conjunction of comets is captured in this pretty star field from the morning of September 17. Discovered […]
Solar Eclipse Solargraph
Today is the September equinox. Heading south, the Sun’s path through the sky will cross the celestial equator […]
Students at National Air and Space Museum to Speak with ...
Students at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington will speak with a NASA astronaut living, […]
A September Morning Sky
The Moon, three planets, and a bright star gathered near the ecliptic plane in the September 18 morning […]
Media Invited to View NASA Spacecraft That Will Touch Our ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be humanity’s first-ever mission to explore the Sun’s outer atmosphere. Media are invited […]
The Big Corona
Most photographs don’t adequately portray the magnificence of the Sun‘s corona. Seeing the corona first-hand during a total […]