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Exoplanets
Worlds beyond our solar system.
Stars
Giant balls of hot gas that burn for millions to billions of years.
Black Holes
Concentrations of matter with gravity so powerful not even light can escape.
Galaxies
Collections of stars, planets, and vast clouds of gas and dust bound together by gravity.
NASA’s Hubble Reveals Largest Found Chaotic Birthplace of Planets
Hubble has captured an image of the largest planet-forming disk ever observed, and it’s a chaotic, hamburger shaped cloud of gas and dust spanning 400 billion miles. We study systems like this one, called Dracula’s Chivito, because they’re laboratories for understanding the full range of possibilities for where and how planets form.
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Meet Pandora
Pandora, which will launch NET January 2026, will solve a critical puzzle in studying distant worlds. By studying exoplanets and their stars simultaneously, it will separate stellar noise from planetary signals to accurately detect water, clouds, or hazes that could indicate habitability.
Learn MoreNASA Completes Roman Telescope Construction
NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the Agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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First All-Sky Panorama from SPHEREx
The SPHEREx observatory looks out into space and maps the entire sky, like scanning the inside of a globe. By mapping the sky in infrared light, SPHEREx will trace the universe’s history from the big bang to today while identifying where water and organic molecules exist in different star-forming regions.
This video transitions between one all-sky map featuring infrared colors emitted by hot hydrogen gas (blue) and cosmic dust (red) and a second all-sky view showing infrared colors primarily emitted by stars and galaxies.
NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles
For the first time, astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have traced a budding outflow of gas from a cluster of young stars in our galaxy — insights that help us understand how the universe has evolved.
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