A twisted galaxy
Emil Andronic from Hemel Hempstead, U.K. The unusual shape of NGC 3718 is a barred spiral galaxy with an unusual, twisted shape —likely due to interactions with nearby NGC 3729. Lying around 120 million light-yearsaway, it’s also listed as the 214th entry in Halton Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Thisimager took 37⅓ hours of LRGB…
NEW YEAR. NEW SHIP. NEWLESSONS.
The seventh flight test of Starship and Super Heavy flew with ambitious goals, aiming to successfully repeat the corecapability of returning and catching a booster while launching an upgraded design of the upper stage. While not everytest objective was completed, the lessons learned will roll directly into future vehicles to make them more capable asStarship…
FUTURE OF BUILDING STARSHIP
In addition to continued infrastructure development at Starbase, Texas, where SpaceX is headquartered,SpaceX is expanding its Starship operations in Florida, bringing Starship production and launch capabilitiesto the Space Coast. As flight testing and development of Starship continues at Starbase in Texas, SpaceX isbuilding a new integration facility, called Gigabay, next to its HangarX location at…
Seeing the Cygnus Loop in a NewWay
X-ray: NASA/SAO/CXC; Optical: John Stone (Astrobin); Image Processing: NASA/SAO/CXC/L. Frattre, N. Wolk The Cygnus Loop, also known as the Veil Nebula, is a supernova remnant – the remains of theexplosive death of a massive star. Studying images like these leads to discovery, but NASA’sChandra X-ray Observatory provides another way to experience this data: three-dimensional (3D)models…
Where Does Gold Come From? NASA Data HasClues
This artist’s concept depicts a magnetar – a type of neutron star with a strong magneticfield – losing material into space. Shown as thin green lines, the magnetic field linesinfluence the movement of charged material around the magnetar.NASA/JPL-Caltech Since the big bang, the early universe had hydrogen, helium, and a scant amountof lithium. Later, some…
Help Classify Galaxies Seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope!
The Galaxy Zoo classification interface shows you an image from NASA’s Webb telescopeand asks you questions about it.Image credit: Galaxy Zoo, Zooniverse. Inset galaxy: NASA/STScI/CEERS/TACC/S.Finkelstein/M. Bagley/Z. Levay/A. Pagan NASA needs your help identifying the shapes of thousandsof galaxies in images taken by our James Webb SpaceTelescope with the Galaxy Zoo project. Theseclassifications will help scientists…
NASA’s Juno Dives Beneath Jupiter’s Clouds and Io’s Fiery Crust
JunoCam Delivers Dazzling New Views as Mission Breaks New Ground in Jovian Science During its 69th close pass by Jupiter on January 28, 2025, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a stunning, enhanced-color image of the gas giant’s northern high latitudes from an altitude of 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers). Taken by JunoCam, the image peeks into a…