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$Image shows a large spiral galaxy that that has a bright white center, with several lanes of reddish-brown dust and gas in between faint white arms. The galaxy takes up the center third of the frame. There are several thousand stars, some with diffraction spikes, scattered around the image. This image is labeled Hubble. A small box outlining an area at the center of the galaxy leads a pullout square at the top right. The image, labeled Webb, is dark with a white glowing oval at the center.$

January 13, 2026

The Circinus Galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues…

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An illustration of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, its companion star, and a dusty wake. The disk of a red-orange star is in the center. It is surrounded by a diffuse orange cloud representing its extended atmosphere. Below it about one stellar diameter away is a yellow dot representing a smaller companion star. From the companion, a dark red cloud wraps around in a counterclockwise direction. It begins very narrow and expands as it gets further from the companion, finally disappearing at the outer edge of the diffuse orange cloud around 10 ou2019clock. The words u201cartistu2019s conceptu201d are at lower right.

January 6, 2026

Using new observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, astronomers tracked the influence of a recently…

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A region of space mostly filled with background galaxies, with one prominent star at upper left. A large blob of purple haze occupies much of the field. Within the purple region, an unremarkable area is outlined with a dashed white circle.

January 5, 2026

A team using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object — a starless,…

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December 19, 2025

For the first time, astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have traced a budding outflow of gas…

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An animated GIF shows a large oval that is initially filled with large rectangular pixels of different colors from dark blue, light blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and pink. The pixels change color rapidly. The oval then goes from filled to only having two large vertical bands of colored pixels and then two thinner vertical bands of pixels, with the rest of the oval becoming gray, with no data. At the center of the oval a white dot is labeled "Nose." An orange, circular outline extends from the top of the oval below the Nose. A second orange curve stretches across the oval, starting at the upper left, curving down toward the bottom center of the oval, and then bends back up to the upper right edge of the oval.

December 17, 2025

All 10 instruments aboard NASA’s newly launched IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) mission have successfully recorded their…

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Webb image shows hundreds of galaxies of all shapes and sizes against the black background of space. Toward the center-right is a large box that zooms in to show a faint red dot with the label GRB 250314A.

December 9, 2025

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has observed a supernova that exploded when the universe was only 730 million…

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A spiral galaxy, seen partly from the side, with a messy, turbulent appearance. Its disc is made of multiple patchy arms that contain numerous sparkling blue and glowing red regions — star clusters and star-forming nebulae. Thick clumps of dark reddish dust swirl through the disc. The glow of the disc extends out into the dark background, where both distant and nearby stars can be seen.

December 5, 2025

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a stormy and highly active spiral galaxy named NGC 1792. Located…

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Two people in white jumpsuits look up at a large telescope with three black and orange panels facing them. They are in a large white cleanroom with equipment and scaffolding.

December 4, 2025

Over the course of several hours, technicians meticulously connected the inner and outer segments of NASA’s Nancy Grace…

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The complete observatory in a clean room

December 4, 2025

NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner…

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a golden satellite with solar arrays extended, with the limb of Earth in the background

December 3, 2025

NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the…

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Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples

December 2, 2025

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early…

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Core portion of Roman observatory exiting test chamber

November 26, 2025

NASA’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has made another set of critical strides toward launch. This…

NASA’s Webb Delivers Unprecedented Look Into Heart of Circinus Galaxy

NASA Hubble Helps Detect ‘Wake’ of Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star

NASA’s Hubble Examines Cloud-9, First of New Type of Object

NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles

NASA’s IMAP Mission Captures ‘First Light,’ Looks Back at Earth

NASA’s Webb Identifies Earliest Supernova to Date, Shows Host Galaxy

Hubble Spots a Storm of New Stars

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Completed

NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Construction

NASA’s Fly Foundational Robots Demo to Bolster In-Space Infrastructure

Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples

NASA’s Roman Observatory Passes Spate of Key Tests