One Year of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe
The Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument saw the solar wind streaming past during the spacecraft’s first solar encounter in November 2018.
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Hubble Catches 2 Galaxies at Play
Hubble Catches 2 Galaxies at Play
This galactic duo is known as UGC 2369. The galaxies are interacting, meaning that their mutual gravitational attraction is pulling them closer and closer together and distorting their shapes in the process.
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Hubble Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
Hubble Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter, taken on June 27, 2019, reveals the giant planet’s trademark Great Red Spot, and a more intense color palette in the clouds swirling in Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere than seen in previous years.
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Seven Years After Landing, Curiosity Rover is Still Rock N’ Rolling
Seven Years After Landing, Curiosity Rover is Still Rock N’ Rolling
Our Curiosity rover has come a long way since touching down on Mars seven years ago. It has traveled a total of 13 miles (21 kilometers) and ascended 1,207 feet (368 meters) to its current location.
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Our Sun Today
Our Sun Today
NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory, or SDO, was the first mission to be launched for NASA’s Living With a Star (LWS) Program, and is designed to understand the causes of solar variability and its impacts on Earth.
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