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  1. Teachable Moments: NASA Balloon Mission Designed to See the Space Between Stars

    Article | Resource Guide
    A NASA balloon mission designed to study the interstellar medium – the space between stars – will take to the skies above Antarctica in December 2023. Read on to learn how the GUSTO mission's...
    NASA's GUSTO mission preparing its white stratospheric balloon in snow-covered Antarctica against a sky with a bright blue hue.

  2. Stephan's Quintet: A Multi-wavelength Exploration

    Sonification | Videos
    This visualization explores the galaxy group Stephan's Quintet by using observations in visible, infrared, and X-ray light. The sequence contrasts images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer...
    Four galaxies appear close to each other in the sky: two in the middle, one toward the top, and one to the upper left. The galaxies appear to be touching. The galaxies are large relative to the hundreds of much smaller (more distant) galaxies in the background. All four galaxies have bright white cores and have streaks of blue and red. Some of the galaxies are peppered with white dust-like specks. Each galaxy is unique in size, shape, structure, and exact coloring. Scattered across the image, in front of the galaxies, are a number of foreground stars with diffraction spikes: bright white points, each with eight bright lines radiating out from the center.

  3. 2023 NASA’s Astrophoto Challenge (Summer)

    May 15 through July 31, 2023 Challenge

    Make Your Own Image of the Phantom Galaxy M74 with NASA’s Astrophoto Challenge Using Webb data.  Join NASA's Universe of Learning for an exciting opportunity to use real astronomical data ...

  4. Teachable Moments: Learn About the Universe with the James Webb Space Telescope

    Article | Resource Guide
    Learn about the science and engineering behind the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built while exploring ways to engage learners in the mission. TEACHABLE MOMENTS: JAMES WEBB SPACE...
    Webb Telescope in clean room (folded)

  5. A Universe of Sound

    Sonification
    Every sound begins with a vibration. When those vibrations travel through the air, they can enter the human eardrum where they are eventually turned into electrical signals that our brain interprets as...
    A Universe of Sound website banner

  6. ViewSpace Videos: Black Holes

    Videos
    What are black holes? How can we detect them? These videos allow your visitors to journey to the centers of galaxies to explore what we know about these elusive objects. Are you interested in playing...
    Black hole in a super massive black hole

  7. 2020 NASA's Astrophoto Challenge (Winter)

    December 9, 2019 through February 29, 2020 Challenge

    The winter 2020 NASA's Astrophoto Challenges have ended. This season's target: M82 Galaxy. Try your hand at processing images from NASA's space telescopes, or capture and process your ...

  8. ViewSpace Videos: Structure and Makeup of the Universe

    Videos
    Immerse your viewers in the scale of the universe, how galaxies change over time, and what the center of our Milky Way looks like (and why we don’t have a full image of it!) in these videos. Are...
    Sombrero Galaxy in infrared light

  9. 2019 NASA's Astrophoto Challenge (Summer)

    May 31 through July 31, 2019 Challenge

    The summer 2019 NASA's Astrophoto Challenges have ended. This season's target: Whirlpool Galaxy. Try your hand at processing images from NASA's space telescopes, or capture and process ...

  10. ViewSpace Interactives: Black Holes

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    A black hole is a region of space packed with so much mass that its own gravity prevents anything from breaking away. Although we can’t see a black hole, telescopes can observe the material around...

  11. ViewSpace Interactives: Dark Matter

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    Scientists know more about what dark matter isn’t than what it is. We know dark matter exists because of its gravitational effects on objects we do see – objects that emit or reflect light....

  12. ViewSpace Interactives: Interacting Galaxies

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    When galaxies are drawn toward each other by gravity, stars and planets can pass by each other unharmed, but the gas and dust between stars collide. The gas is compressed and heated, setting off waves...

  13. ViewSpace Videos: Galaxies

    Videos
    Examine galaxies up close: These videos showcase stunning spiral, elliptical and irregular galaxies, show what various light reveals about certain targets, and link galaxies to larger structures like galaxy...
    Stephan’s Quintet of five galaxies

  14. Shedding New Light on the Whirlpool Galaxy

    Videos
    The Whirlpool Galaxy is a magnificent spiral galaxy that has been studied across the electromagnetic spectrum by NASA's Great Observatories. This remarkable video uses two-dimensional images and three-dimensional...
    Shedding New Light on the Whirlpool Galaxy

  15. ViewSpace Videos: Space

    Videos
    ViewSpace videos tell the stories of planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe, giving viewers opportunities to experience space observed by satellites and telescopes. Explore more than 250 videos in...
    Star-Forming Region in the Small Magellanic Cloud Star Cluster NGC 602