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James Webb Telescope photos featured on postage stamps
Stamp collectors in the US might want to schedule a trip to their local post office and pick up a set of these beautiful stamps…
NASA’s Juno brings incredible photos of Jupiter’s moon Io in the closest flyby yet
NASA’s Juno orbiter has performed over 50 flybys of Jupiter so far. Besides documenting the gas giant, it also took photos during close encounters with…
This celestial “Christmas Tree” is our galaxy wishing you happy holidays
Astronomers have unveiled a stunning new image of NGC 2264, a cluster of young stars nicknamed the “Christmas Tree Cluster.” They even made it twinkle, so it looks like it has fairy lights all over it. Well isn’t this perfect timing for a photo like this?
NASA beams cat video 19 million miles through space
NASA put the latest and greatest technology to its best use this week and successfully beamed a cat video through deep space. The video of…
Ring in the holidays with this new close-up image of Uranus
The James Webb telescope has captured a magnificent new view of Uranus, which shows a detailed view of its rings in full glory. The image…
A star is born: James Webb Telescope captures supernova remnant in unprecedented detail
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured yet another stunning, detailed space image. This time, it offers a detailed view of the Cas A supernova remnant, a massive explosion that occurred 340 years ago. This image reveals intricate features of the expanding shell of material slamming into the gas shed by the star before it exploded.
From photo to symphony: NASA’s Milky Way image becomes a musical masterpiece
The Universe of Sound Data Sonification is NASA’s project that takes data and images and translates them into sounds. After releasing computer-made “space songs,” NASA has gone a step further. They teamed up with a composer and created a real symphony based on the “sounds” of the Milky Way. How cool is that?
Watch: Powerful solar eruption warps the sun’s magnetic field
This weekend, there was a solar eruption so powerful that it warped the Sun’s own magnetic field. ESA captured the event, also known as coronal…
This is the first-ever photo of Mars atmosphere glowing green
We all know Mars as the “Red Planet.” But the latest photo from ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter show that its atmosphere glows – green. The orbiter has detected glowing green oxygen in Mars’ atmosphere, which is exciting on its own. But there’s more – this is the first time that this emission has been seen around a planet other than Earth.
New Hubble UV image shows Jupiter as we’ve never seen before
The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has treated us with another gorgeous image. This time, it has shown us Jupiter in a totally different light. It’s a “different light,” both figuratively and literally: Jupiter doesn’t only look different than what we’re used to, but the shot was also taken using ultraviolet light.
