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In this nebula 3,300 light-years from Earth, the bright star in the middle has strewn out jets of superheated material, creating shockwaves and energizing the gas around them, seen in gold on the left. Protostars forming nearby are creating similar jets, glowing in red on the right.
Learn more about this nebula — including a full-screen, interactive tour — on our Webb site.
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A NASA photographer captured this photo on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 13, as SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted an uncrewed spacecraft into orbit, destined for the space station.
When a rocket launches near sunrise or sunset, its exhaust plume can become brightly illuminated, creating a glowing shape like the one seen here. Download the original image and learn more about the cargo this mission is carrying into orbit.
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A NASA photographer captured this photo on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 13, as SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted an uncrewed spacecraft into orbit, destined for the space station.
When a rocket launches near sunrise or sunset, its exhaust plume can become brightly illuminated, creating a glowing shape like the one seen here. Download the original image and learn more about the cargo this mission is carrying into orbit.
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On Thursday, Oct. 1, at 11:10 a.m. EDT (1510 UTC), NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov lifted off aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to become the newest residents of the International Space Station.
Dragon Grace docked with the station at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 UTC) that same day — only 7 hours and 55 minutes after liftoff. This makes Crew-13 the fastest launch‑to‑docking of a U.S. spacecraft in the history of the International Space Station.
Crew-13 will spend the next several months living, working and conducting scientific research in orbit. Follow the latest updates from the orbiting lab.
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On Thursday, Oct. 1, at 11:10 a.m. EDT (1510 UTC), NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov lifted off aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to become the newest residents of the International Space Station.
Dragon Grace docked with the station at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 UTC) that same day — only 7 hours and 55 minutes after liftoff. This makes Crew-13 the fastest launch‑to‑docking of a U.S. spacecraft in the history of the International Space Station.
Crew-13 will spend the next several months living, working and conducting scientific research in orbit. Follow the latest updates from the orbiting lab.
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"Lençóis" is the Portuguese word for "bedsheets" — and it's clear where the park got its name from in this image captured by the Landsat 9 satellite in June 2026.
Rows of sparkling white quartz dunes, some rising 30 meters, soar over a mosaic of freshwater lagoons. This dune field spans about 900 square kilometers, roughly the size of New York City.
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"Lençóis" is the Portuguese word for "bedsheets" — and it's clear where the park got its name from in this image captured by the Landsat 9 satellite in June 2026.
Rows of sparkling white quartz dunes, some rising 30 meters, soar over a mosaic of freshwater lagoons. This dune field spans about 900 square kilometers, roughly the size of New York City.
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Webb recently studied IC 348, a star-forming region 1,000 light-years from Earth, to take a look at its brown dwarfs: celestial bodies that collapse into a dense core but don't have enough mass to turn into shining stars. IC 348 holds some of the smallest brown dwarfs ever spotted — some only three to four times as massive as Jupiter.
These aren't the only sights worth seeing in this region, though; newborn stars are scattered throughout the image, and a brilliantly detailed collection of protostars occupies the upper right corner.
Learn more about this region and download the full-size image from our Webb team.
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Webb recently studied IC 348, a star-forming region 1,000 light-years from Earth, to take a look at its brown dwarfs: celestial bodies that collapse into a dense core but don't have enough mass to turn into shining stars. IC 348 holds some of the smallest brown dwarfs ever spotted — some only three to four times as massive as Jupiter.
These aren't the only sights worth seeing in this region, though; newborn stars are scattered throughout the image, and a brilliantly detailed collection of protostars occupies the upper right corner.
Learn more about this region and download the full-size image from our Webb team.
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Next week's total solar eclipse will pass over Greenland, Iceland, and Spain, with a partial eclipse visible in much of Europe and Canada (and parts of the United States).
If you're not in the path of the eclipse, though, you can still check it out with NASA on YouTube, Twitch, and other livestreaming platforms. Learn more about our live eclipse coverage and the science we'll be conducting during the eclipse.
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Next week's total solar eclipse will pass over Greenland, Iceland, and Spain, with a partial eclipse visible in much of Europe and Canada (and parts of the United States).
If you're not in the path of the eclipse, though, you can still check it out with NASA on YouTube, Twitch, and other livestreaming platforms. Learn more about our live eclipse coverage and the science we'll be conducting during the eclipse.
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There are many paths to get research products into space, one of which is explicitly geared toward turning ‘complete moonshot’ ideas into reality! The newest, most creative ideas are funded through NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. You can read about the recent NIAC selections here.
There are various other technology programs you can apply to to help you continue developing science instruments and ideas, with different programs geared to help technologies in different states of maturity. Usually concepts are fairly well tested by the time we send them to space, but not always! The Ingenuity Mars helicopter is a great example of a technology demonstration that was a huge success in space. -AF
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This is tough problem — designing a system to be robust, but yet needing to be compliant.
Sealing the sample tubes and how to compensate for dust/dirt is a great example, and several approaches were needed – from cleaning to having a sealant that could conform around imperfections. This video might be helpful. –MM
In this nebula 3,300 light-years from Earth, the bright star in the middle has strewn out jets of superheated material, creating shockwaves and energizing the gas around them, seen in gold on the left. Protostars forming nearby are creating similar jets, glowing in red on the right.
Learn more about this nebula — including a full-screen, interactive tour — on our Webb site.