Juno – Science World

This is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of Galaxy NGC 6753 was released on September 18th. This galaxy is said to be one of only two known spiral galaxies that were both massive enough and close enough to permit detailed observations of their galactic coronas, which can only be detected by their X-ray emissions. (NASA/ESA/Hubble)

September 2017 Science Images

September 29, 2017

NASA plans to send a spacecraft to within 6.5 million kilometers of the sun's surface next summer. Here’s an artistic rendering of the Parker Solar Probe heading toward the Sun. On May 31, the spacecraft was named to honor astrophysics Eugene Parker who discovered the solar wind in 1958. (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory).

May 2017 – Science Images

June 1, 2017

Engineer Volkmar Dohmen stands in front of a giant bank of xenon short-arc lamps at the DLR German national aeronautics and space research center in Germany. When switched on, what is being called the world’s largest artificial sun creates combined intensity that's 10,000x stronger than sun's light on Earth's surface and produces temperatures of around 2,982° Celsius. The photo was taken on 3/21/17 (AP)

March 2017 Science Images

March 31, 2017

February 2017 Science Images

March 1, 2017

August 2016 Science Images

August 31, 2016

June 2016 Science Images

June 29, 2016

Jupiter’s Northern Lights; Watching Stars Explode & Too Much Sitting Kills

March 23, 2016

Astronomers Study Jupiter’s ‘Northern Lights’ Earth’s Auroras – Borealis in the northern polar region and Australis in the south – are among the most beautiful and haunting light displays in nature. Now, for the first time, scientists have been able to study Jupiter’s auroras, in x-ray wavelengths thanks to NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Auroras both […]

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