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Kepler Exoplanet Mission | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
About the mission. Kepler was a space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy in search of exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system. Using data from the Kepler mission and the extended K2 mission, scientists have identified more than 2,800 candidate exoplanets and have confirmed more than 2,600 of these as ...
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NASA Telescopes Find New Clues About Mysterious Deep Space Signals
The burst occurred between two “glitches,” when the magnetar suddenly started spinning faster. SGR 1935+2154 is estimated to be about 12 miles (20 kilometers) across and spinning about 3.2 times per second, meaning its surface was moving at about 7,000 mph (11,000 kph).
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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
JPL is a federally funded research and development center managed for NASA by Caltech. Space mission and science news, images and videos from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system.
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Webb Celebrates First Year of Science With Close-up on Birth of Sun ...
Some stars in the image display telltale shadows indicating protoplanetary disks – potential future planetary systems in the making. A Full Year, Across the Full Sky From its very first deep field image , unveiled by President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Nelson live at the White House, Webb has delivered on its promise to show us more of the universe than ever before.
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NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen Universe
July 12, 2022. One of the first images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, this landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby young star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Full Image Details.
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360-Degree View of the Milky Way - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
In Spitzer's mosaic, light from stars throughout the galaxy -- which stretches 100,000 light-years across -- shines through. This picture covers only about three percent of the sky, but includes more than half of the galaxy's stars and the majority of its star formation activity. The red color shows dusty areas of star formation.
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Different Types of Neutron Stars (Illustration)
Neutron stars, or cores leftover from exploded stars, are some of the densest objects in the universe. There are several types of neutron stars, including magnetars and pulsars. NuSTAR is a Small Explorer mission led by Caltech in Pasadena and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also in Pasadena, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate ...
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Image Gallery | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system.
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How Far Away is That Galaxy? Vast Catalog Has Answers
Instead, astronomers rely on extremely bright objects, such as Type Ia supernovae and pulsating stars called Cepheids variables, as indicators of distance. To calculate how far away a distant galaxy is, scientists use known mathematical relationships between distance and other properties of objects, such as their total emitted energy.
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Stars and Galaxies | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Stars and Galaxies Research at JPL. The nighttime sky is magical. The dark curtain sprinkled with tiny dots of light has inspired songs, sparked romances, and prompted humans through the ages to gaze at the twinkling scene overhead and wonder what’s out there and what it all means. Some of those humans are scientists and engineers at JPL, who ...
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