Tag: The Solar System
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Hubble Captures the Start of a New Spoke Season at Saturn
New images of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope herald the start of the planet’s “spoke season” surrounding its equinox, when enigmatic features appear across its rings. The cause of the spokes, as well as their seasonal variability, has yet…
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Webb Detects Extremely Small Main Belt Asteroid
An asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum — between 300 to 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length — has been detected by an international team of European astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Their project used…
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The Moon Illusion: Why Does the Moon Look So Big Sometimes?
Why does the Moon look so big when it’s rising or setting? The Moon illusion is the name for this trick our brains play on us.
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NASA Solar System Ambassadors: Sharing the Science for 25 Years
NASA’s Solar System Ambassadors Program is celebrating its 25th anniversary in Fall 2022.
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10 Facts about the Pioneer Spacecraft
Someone’s got to be first. In space, the first to explore beyond Mars were Pioneers 10 and 11, twin robots who charted the course to the cosmos.
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Webb, Hubble Capture Detailed Views of DART Impact
Two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, have captured views of a unique NASA experiment designed to intentionally smash a spacecraft into a small asteroid in the world’s first-ever in-space test for…
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New Webb Image Captures Clearest View of Neptune’s Rings in Decades
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows off its capabilities closer to home with its first image of Neptune. Not only has Webb captured the clearest view of this distant planet’s rings in more than 30 years, but its cameras reveal…
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10 Things: Why Cassini Mattered
The Cassini spacecraft has been gone for a year now, but the science continues. Here are 10 reasons why Cassini mattered…
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10 Things: Dust in the Wind (on Mars and Well Beyond)
To most of us, dust is an annoyance. But these tiny particles that float about and settle on surfaces play an important role across the solar system.