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Is gravity the only thing keeping you together? You might be a globular cluster. Star clusters like this one, imaged by
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, can contain millions of stars held together by gravity.
@NASAWebb
will give us a closer look at these cosmic objects: go.nasa.gov/3SIpT7c
A cluster of thousands of stars of varying sizes and temperatures glittering in blue, gold, and reddish tones. More stars are concentrated toward the middle where it's brighter.
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An overview of our #Artemis I mission to the Moon, a new image released from humanity's most powerful space telescope, and a celebration of
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landing on the Red Planet 10 years ago today—all this and more This Week at NASA.
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Ten years ago, a car-sized rover with a rock-vaporizing laser was rappelling out of a jetpack onto Mars. Where were you when
@MarsCuriosity
landed? Check out the mission site for the latest raw images, where the rover is now, and updates from the team: mars.nasa.gov/msl
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Curiosity takes us everywhere... even up a Martian mountain! It's been 10 years since
@MarsCuriosity
's daring landing on the Red Planet. Set a reminder to join the celebration and chat with mission team members. Submit questions with #AskNASA or ask live.
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Our mission to scan dust plumes in Earth's atmosphere is now operational on the
@Space_Station
. EMIT has taken its first scans while flying over Australia, mapping the dust makeup of the region to help scientists understand climate heating and cooling: go.nasa.gov/3zunYtU
EMIT is installed on the International Space Station. A large white robotic arm repositions a cube-shaped metallic box in orbit around Earth. On one side of the box is a reflective surface that looks like a mirror. The large robotic arms shifts at multiple joints swiveling during movement. In the background white clouds and the blue of an ocean are visible.
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Webb is on a roll! 🤸 This new
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near and mid-infrared composite image highlights the Cartwheel Galaxy, the result of a high-speed collision that occurred about 440 million years ago, along with two neighboring galaxies. Get the details: go.nasa.gov/3OSNteh
A large galaxy on the right, with two much smaller companion galaxies to the left at 10 o’clock and 9 o’clock. The large galaxy resembles a speckled wheel, with an oval outer ring and a small, off-center inner ring. The outer ring contains pink plumes like wheel spokes, with dusty blue regions in between. The pink areas are silicate dust, while the blue areas are pockets of young stars and hydrocarbon dust. The inner ring is smoother, filled in with a more uniform pale pink. This smaller ring is interwoven with thin, orange-pink threads. On the galaxy's right edge, a bright white star with 8 diffraction spikes shines. The two companion galaxies to the left, one above the other, are about the same size and both spiral galaxies. The galaxy above is a reverse S shape but similar in coloring and texture as the large ring galaxy. The galaxy below is smoother and largely white, with a blue tinge. The background is black and full of more distant, orange-red colored galaxies of various sizes.
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It’s a shine off! 🌌 This year’s Perseids meteor shower will have to contend with the full Moon’s brightness. Look up if you’re outside after midnight (local time) on Aug. 12 or 13, when it’ll be at its peak--you might be lucky and see the brightest ones. go.nasa.gov/3oNIy3w
A shower of Perseids meteors lights up the black night sky with streaks of green and purple light. Diffuse clouds and blue dots of light share the background.
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We celebrate the life of Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek actor, trailblazer, and role model, who symbolized to so many what was possible. She partnered with us to recruit some of the first women and minority astronauts, and inspired generations to reach for the stars.
View of Star Trek actor Nichelle Nichols in the CAPCOM area of the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in 1977. Image taken during filming of promotional movie designed to aid in recruiting minorities as candidates for Space Shuttle Astronaut positions.
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More like An-Drama-da 🌌 Seven years ago,
@NASAHubble
captured its largest-ever image assembled of the Andromeda galaxy in brilliant clarity, showing a 48,000-light-year-long stretch of our cosmic neighbor with over 100 million stars in this view. go.nasa.gov/3beGm23
A bright spot emanates from the lower left, with light dissipating to bands of purple and blue giving way to the blackness of space.
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Letting go of the past is not one of Dr. John Mather’s strong suits. In fact, he’s received a Nobel Prize for it. As
@NASAWebb
's senior project scientist at
@NASAGoddard
, Mather is shifting the past into new focus. Learn more in Gravity Assist: go.nasa.gov/3zlescr
A portrait of Dr. John Mather with his arms crossed, smiling, in front of what appears to be a chalk-drawn diagram of the James Webb Space Telescope with its hexagonal, honeycomb-shaped mirrors arranged to form one large primary mirror.
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✨ Spot two planets in the morning sky, gawk at the Perseids meteor shower, and get down with the Cygnus (constellation). Here’s what else is up in the night sky this August: go.nasa.gov/37ePy0B
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A powerful stellar explosion from a nearby star propelled Zeta Ophiuchi about 100,000 mph (160,934 km). Data from
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shows a bubble of X-ray emission (blue) around the star is produced by gas that has been heated to tens of millions of degrees: go.nasa.gov/3S6NlKR
A dramatic blade made of red gaseous wisps comes down top-to-bottom in the center of the image as smaller green wisps feather out in horizontal directions. A bright star shrouded in blue light is near the center of the bow-like blade. Blue dots in different sizes dot the background of the image, signifying neighboring stars.⁣
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When a daring team of engineers put a lander and our first rover on Mars a quarter century ago, they changed how the world explores. Read about how it was made possible and how it continues to inspire our exploration of the Red Planet: go.nasa.gov/3ODiCSU
An eight-image mosaic of the Mars Sojourner rover. The small microwave-sized Sojourner rover sits still at the bottom of a short metallic ramp on the red and rocky surface of Mars. The rover is primarily comprised of solar paneling and metallic components connected to its wheels and chassis. The background of the image is the iconic red of Martian soil and is dotted with small rocks and bolders.
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Here’s our updated plan to bring Mars samples to Earth: The
@NASAPersevere
rover will take samples to a lander, so a robotic arm provided by
@ESA
can load them into an ascent vehicle. Two Mars helicopters will act as back-ups. Targeting return in 2033. go.nasa.gov/3PDLWtO
An illustration shows the Perseverance rover and an Ingenuity-class helicopter on the reddish-brown surface of Mars, along with concept renderings of a sample retrieval lander, an ascent rocket lifting off, and an Earth return orbiter in space. A rendering of a half Earth is in the distant sky.
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Wednesday, NASA and
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leaders will lay out proposed plans to bring Mars samples back to Earth. Listen in to the live media briefing July 27 at 11am ET (15:00 UTC): youtu.be/wThkJXvCmrw
View from the underside of a Mars rover as the camera points at the reddish-brown surface of the planet. Part of a wheel is at the left of the screen and the rest of the rover's shadow is visible at the bottom and the right of the screen, with its prominent "head" protruding from its mechanical body. The rocks on the surface are flat as if weathered by wind and water over millennia. Rocks and pebbls of varying sizes are scattered across the surface.
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