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Four Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Sensors or EXIS instruments that will fly aboard four of NOAA's...
In December 2016, snow fell in the Sahara for the first time since 1979. In 1984, the charitable supergroup Band Aid...
Some astronomical objects have endearing or quirky nicknames, inspired by mythology or their own appearance. Take,...
NASA image acquired December 19, 2012 In time for the 2012 winter solstice, a storm dropped snow over most of the...
Like almost all solar observatories, NASA's IRIS can provide images of different layers of the sun's atmosphere,...
The NASA-funded Ground-to-Rocket Electron-Electrodynamics Correlative Experiment, or GREECE, wants to understand...
In this comparison image the photo at the top was taken by Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in 1995 and shows...
Sen. Barbara Mikulski participated in a ribbon cutting at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center on January 6th, 2016,...
Some of the BARREL balloon launches took place at the South African National Antarctic Expedition Research base,...
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, taken in near-infrared light, transforms the pillars into eerie, wispy...
NASA acquired July 15, 2012 On July 15, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents the Arches Cluster, the densest known star cluster in the Milky...
Inside NASA's giant thermal vacuum chamber, called Chamber A, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the James...
This colorful bubble is a planetary nebula called NGC 6818, also known as the Little Gem Nebula. It is located in...
At the center of this amazing Hubble image is the elliptical galaxy NGC 3610. Surrounding the galaxy are a wealth of...
This image of part of the Atlantic coast of South America was acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite on the night of...
The Halley station team members assisted the BARREL team with the launches. Here, one gives the thumbs up to start...
Africa is front and center in this image of Earth taken by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory...
A group picture of all the researchers – from various science projects -- at the South African research station,...
The enhanced capabilities of the Suomi NPP satellite's day-night band are really becoming clear, as was seen this...
GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The Core Observatory will...
A view looking over the payload – the instruments that fly under a balloon – while the BARREL balloon inflates. The...
Antarctica—the continent at the southernmost reach of the planet—is fringed by cold, often frozen waters of the...
The BARREL team at Halley Research Station in Antarctica, work to inflate a balloon. The long tube on the left is...