NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), which shows dust from the galaxy’s outer ring blocking stellar light from stars within the
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Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, was captured before dawn on May 2, 2025, by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter while the spacecraft was studying the Red Planet’s atmosphere, which
A new online portal by NASA and the Alaska Satellite Facility maps satellite radar meas-urements across North America, enabling users to track land movement since 2016 caused by earthquakes, landslides,
This guide is for those just starting to explore the fantastic world of binocular observation. Whether it’s stargazing or observing birds from a bird hide, we will walk you through
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, located on the summit of Haleakalā on the island of Maui, Hawaii, captured the sharpest-ever images of the sun’s surface.
Bubble ring created by a humpback whale named Thorn. Credit: © Dan Knaub, The Video Company SETI Institute A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of
A thick plume of sand and dust from the Sahara Desert is seen in these images blowing from the west coast of Africa across the Atlantic Ocean. Larger image Sandstorms,
Darkening of the Global Ocean. (A) The rate change (units per year) in the diffuse attenuation coefficient for downwelling irradiance at 490 nm measured from MODIS Aqua between 2003 and
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Mercury and Jupiter will fit within the field of view of a pair of 10×50 binoculars (denoted by the yellow circle) after sunset on June 7. (Image credit: Starry Night)
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