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Sep 24, 2024 · The cutting-edge, $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shared its debut image with the world on July 12, 2022, peering deeper into the universe than any telescope before it. Since then ...
- The Pillars of Creation. Located 6,500 light-years from Earth, the soaring pillars of creation are a vast span of sculptured gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula.
- Put a ring on it. While peering at the southern constellation Eridanus, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope caught a pair of galaxies having an intimate moment.
- A solar explosion. A 1 million-mile-long jet of plasma rockets out of the sun in this epic time-lapse image. Photographer Andrew McCarthy created this composite image by stacking hundreds of thousands of individual shots on top of each other over a six-hour period, revealing the violent evolution of a coronal mass ejection.
- Strange 'polygons' on Mars. NASA's orbiting High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HIRISE) camera saw a strange sight while soaring over the high latitudes of Mars: patterned "polygons" of cracked soil, stretching on for miles.
Dec 13, 2022 · Returned to hosting in-person NASA Social events in 2022, beginning with NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 launch to the International Space Station. Social media guests also attended NASA Socials for the reveal of the Webb telescope’s first images, the DART mission impact, the launch of SpaceX Crew-5, and the Artemis I test flight.
Feb 20, 2024 · Originally Published: Dec. 14, 2022. In 2022, we saw some of the most striking photosfrom deep space alongside brand-new views of our Solar System. Historically important, scientifically ...
Dec 13, 2022 · Unprecedented views of the cosmos captured imaginations in 2022, as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope began beaming back images. On Earth, striking pictures came from stressed ecosystems and ...
Dec 21, 2022 · The International Space Station captured this image of the moon above Earth's horizon on January 21. NASA. Ganymede, one of Jupiter's four largest moons, casts a shadow on the planet on February ...
Dec 28, 2022 · Credits: NASA. On Mar. 15, 2022, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei surpassed former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly’s record by spending 355 days in space. His extended mission aboard the International Space Station provides researchers an opportunity to observe effects of long-duration spaceflight on the human body.
