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05-09-2025, 06:09 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image 25 Years of NASA Student Launch in Science

Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst team carry their high-powered rocket toward the launch pad at NASA’s 2025 Student Launch launch...

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05-09-2025, 05:13 AM

Bok started a thread NASA Image NASA Astronaut Anne McClain Works on Space Station in Science

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 flight engineer Anne McClain is pictured near one of the International Space Station's main solar arrays during a...

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05-08-2025, 01:55 AM

Bok started a thread NASA Image A Glimpse of a Meatball in Science

The NASA "meatball" logo mounted on the south side of the Flight Research Building at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, as seen through...

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05-06-2025, 02:47 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image SPHEREx Starts Scanning Entire Sky in Science

NASA's SPHEREx mission is observing the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, or wavelengths of light not visible to the human eye. This image shows a...

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05-06-2025, 01:54 AM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Hubble Images a Peculiar Spiral in Science

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a peculiar spiral galaxy called Arp 184 or NGC 1961. More...

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05-02-2025, 10:41 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Back to Earth in Science

The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is pictured backing away from the International Space Station shortly after undocking from the Rassvet module on April 19,...

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05-01-2025, 10:15 AM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Adding Dimension to Cassiopeia A in Science

Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is a supernova remnant located about 11,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. It spans approximately 10...

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04-30-2025, 06:20 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Saxophone in Space in Science

Astronaut Ronald E. McNair, STS-41B mission specialist, used some of his off-duty time aboard the space shuttle Challenger to play his saxophone. ...

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04-29-2025, 04:20 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Hubble Spots a Squid in the Whale in Science

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. More...

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04-28-2025, 01:30 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Seeing the Cygnus Loop in a New Way in Science

The Cygnus Loop (also known as the Veil Nebula) is a supernova remnant, the remains of the explosive death of a massive star. More...

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04-25-2025, 04:20 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Hubble Visits Glittering Cluster, Capturing Its Ultraviolet Light in Science

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster Messier 72 (M72). More...

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04-24-2025, 03:45 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image All Hands for Artemis III in Science

A NASA spacesuit glove designed for use during spacewalks on the International Space Station is prepared for thermal vacuum testing inside a...

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04-23-2025, 10:10 AM

Bok started a thread NASA Image NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson in Science

The asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI). This is one of the most detailed images returned by...

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04-22-2025, 05:09 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Sunshine on Earth in Science

The sun's glint beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above on March 5,...

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04-21-2025, 01:44 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Fuzzy Rings of a Dying Star in Science

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to its unique mid-infrared...

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04-18-2025, 05:01 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Hubble Spies Cosmic Pillar in Eagle Nebula in Science

This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion of the Eagle Nebula, but it is no less majestic in...

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04-17-2025, 04:51 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Space Shuttle Discovery Lifts Off in Science

The space shuttle Discovery launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading through Atlantic skies toward its 51-D mission. The...

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04-16-2025, 10:21 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Scrub Jay at the Vehicle Assembly Building in Science

A scrub jay perches on a branch near the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 22, 2020. More...

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04-15-2025, 07:51 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Testing NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) in Science

On March 18, 2025, NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama,...

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04-14-2025, 03:43 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Sculpted by Luminous Stars in Science

This new image showcases the dazzling young star cluster NGC 346. Although both the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope have...

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04-14-2025, 03:43 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Apollo 13 Launch: 55 Years Ago in Science

NASA astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert launch aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April...

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04-14-2025, 03:43 PM

Bok started a thread NASA Image Linear Sand Dunes in the Great Sandy Desert in Science

In northwest Australia, the Great Sandy Desert holds great geological interest as a zone of active sand dune movement. While a variety of dune forms...

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