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SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) with telescope postition to the rear model prepares for...
This video shows Jupiter as revealed by a powerful telescope and a mid-infrared filter sensitive to the giant...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers on Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, start dismantling the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Space Infrared Telescope...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Space Infrared Telescope...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Space Infrared Telescope...
This new composite image of stellar cluster NGC 1333 combines X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink);...
A monitor in the NASA James Webb Space Telescope flight control room of the Space Telescope Science Institute shows...
NASA's Super Guppy Turbine cargo aircraft in the hangar with SOFIA at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center on...
NASA James Webb Space Telescope Commissioning Manager John Durning monitors the progress of the Webb observatory as...
NASA James Webb Space Telescope Timeline Coordinator Andria Hagedorn monitors the progress of the Webb observatory’s...
NASA James Webb Space Telescope Commissioning Manager John Durning monitors the progress of the Webb observatory as...
NASA James Webb Space Telescope Project Manager Bill Ochs monitors the progress of the observatory’s second primary...
NASA James Webb Space Telescope Timeline Coordinator Matt Wasiak monitors the progress of the Webb observatory as...
NASA James Webb Space Telescope Ground Engineer Evan Adams monitors the progress of the Webb observatory as it’s...
NASA James Webb Space Telescope Ground Systems Engineer Carl Reis at NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Mission...
Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning...
A composite image of the Cigar Galaxy (also called M82), a starburst galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the...
This engineering image derives from 100 seconds of observing time on one of the three science instruments aboard the...
The SOFIA telescope team collected baseline operational measurements during several nights of characterization...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope mission operations team celebrates, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022, at the Space Telescope...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope mission operations team celebrates, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022, at the Space Telescope...
NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate Thomas Zurbuchen congratulates the NASA James Webb...
Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket, with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is seen in this false color infrared...