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Supernova Supernovae can occur one of two ways. The first occurs when a white dwarf—the vestigial ember of a dead...
See how a team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory sews and installs thermal blankets to protect the agency’s Europa...
Superficially resembling a skyrocket, Comet ISON is hurtling toward the Sun at a whopping 48,000 miles per hour. Its...
Ep404_The Evolution of the Laboratory Dane Turner Houston, We Have a Podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the...
Date: 8 Nov 2013 - Comet ISON shines in this five-minute exposure taken at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on...
Taken on 19 Nov. 2013, this image shows a composite "stacked" image of comet ISON. These five stacked...
NASA image release August 10, 2010 A long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image shows a majestic face-on spiral...
New observations by the MESSENGER spacecraft provide compelling support for the long-held hypothesis that Mercury...
Geomagnetic Storms Sometimes during the solar magnetic events, solar explosions hurl clouds of magnetized particles...
Discovered by British astronomer William Herschel over 200 years ago, NGC 2500 lies about 30 million light-years...
This movie from NASA’s STEREO spacecraft's Heliospheric Imager shows Comet ISON, Mercury, Comet Encke and Earth over...
Look at the bright star in the middle of this image. It appears as if it just sneezed. This sight will only last for...
JANUARY 8, 2013: Astronomers using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a...
This Martian scene shows contrasting textures and colors of "Hinners Point," at the northern edge of "Marathon...
Hubble sees an unusal global cluster that is enriching the interstellar medium with metals Globular clusters offer...
Although this cluster of stars gained its name due to its five brightest stars, it is home to hundreds more. The...
Caption: A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what’s known as a prominence eruption. This...
Caption: In this composite image, visible-light observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are combined with...
NASA release July 27, 2011 These jets, known as spicules, were captured in an SDO image on April 25, 2010. Combined...
This close-up view of a rock target named "Dourbes" was provided by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for...
Caption: This image from June 20, 2013, at 11:15 p.m. EDT shows the bright light of a solar flare on the left side...
This picture, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), shows a galaxy...
Most galaxies possess a majestic spiral or elliptical structure. About a quarter of galaxies, though, defy such...
This movie from NASA’s STEREO spacecraft's Heliospheric Imager shows Comet ISON, Mercury, Comet Encke and Earth over...