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Engineers and scientists have shipped NASA’s ComPair instrument to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, ahead of its scheduled August flight early in NASA’s 2023 fall balloon campaign.

NASA's ComPair Gamma-Ray Hunting Mission Prepares for Balloon Flight

NASA's ComPair Gamma-Ray Hunting Mission Prepares for Balloon Flight

Scientists have found evidence of a universal background of gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of space-time.

15 Years of Radio Data Reveals Evidence of Space-Time Murmur

15 Years of Radio Data Reveals Evidence of Space-Time Murmur

The two instruments aboard Euclid, an ESA spacecraft with NASA contributions, have captured their first test images.

Euclid Mission to Study Dark Universe Takes First Test Images

Euclid Mission to Study Dark Universe Takes First Test Images

New research by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that rogue planets – worlds that drift through space untethered to a star – far outnumber planets that orbit stars.

New Study Reveals NASA's Roman Could Find 400 Earth-Mass Rogue Planets

New Study Reveals NASA's Roman Could Find 400 Earth-Mass Rogue Planets

A new satellite called XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) aims to pry apart high-energy light into the equivalent of an X-ray rainbow.

XRISM Mission To Study ‘Rainbow' of X-rays

XRISM Mission To Study ‘Rainbow' of X-rays

A young planet whirling around a petulant red dwarf star is changing in unpredictable ways orbit-by-orbit.

Hubble Sees Evaporating Planet Getting the Hiccups

Hubble Sees Evaporating Planet Getting the Hiccups

The discovery of the most distant galaxy cluster is providing insight into how these gigantic structures formed and why the universe looks like it does.

Unexpectedly Calm and Remote Galaxy Cluster Discovered

Unexpectedly Calm and Remote Galaxy Cluster Discovered

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Rho Ophiuchi

To celebrate the completion of a successful first year, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has released an image of a small star-forming region in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex.

CEERS: Flight to Maisie's Galaxy

This 3D visualization portrays about 5,000 galaxies within a small portion of the CEERS (Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science) Survey, which gathered data from a region known as the Extended Groth Strip.

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This colorful image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, celebrates the Earth-orbiting observatory’s 28th anniversary of viewing the heavens, giving us a window seat to the universe’s extraordinary stellar tapestry of birth and destruction. At the center of this image is a monster young star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun that is blasting powerful ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds, carving out a fantasy landscape of ridges, cavities, and mountains of gas and dust.

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