Like new fireworks launched against a background of dissipating smoke, blue and white stars shine brightly against a crimson background of glowing gas in this image of the LH 95 stellar nursery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. LH 95 is a region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. Low-mass
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NASA is recruiting research participants for the agency’s next simulated deep space mission. Starting in August 2027, research volunteers will spend a year living and working in interplanetary environments at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, operating in the isolated conditions expected during crewed missions to the Moon or the Red Planet.Learning from this
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More than 500,000 stars shine red, white and blue in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, released to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States. The image shows Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way’s most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars. Globular clusters are made up of
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A pre-dawn encounter between the Moon and the planets, the return of a comet, a great opportunity to see the Milky Way and Saturn’s rings from a new angle. July 7: last quarter moon July 11 + 12: Dawn alignment of the Moon, Mars, Saturn and Uranus July 14: New moon; The best dark sky
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured infrared light from numerous features that were previously impossible to see beyond the thick dust of the FS Tau star system. In addition to the countless background galaxies that come into view like fireworks for America’s 250th anniversary celebrations, this image flickers with a series of protostars, or
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