Tag: The Solar System
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How to Photograph the Moon
Ten suggestions for making the most of a moonlit night with your camera.
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Supermoons: In Depth
A supermoon occurs when the moon’s orbit is closest (perigee) to Earth at the same time it is full.
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Color Your Universe
All of NASA’s science missions are driven by powerful questions to help us better understand our planet, our solar system and beyond. What vibrant colors will you bring to these scenes of exploration?
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Dark Storm on Neptune Reverses Direction, Possibly Shedding a Fragment
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope watched a mysterious dark vortex on Neptune abruptly steer away from a likely death on the giant blue planet. The storm, which is wider than the Atlantic Ocean, was born in the planet’s northern…
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How to Photograph the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter
Tips for photographing the sky during December’s conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter
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NASA’s Webb To Examine Objects in the Graveyard of the Solar System
Beyond the orbit of Neptune, a diverse collection of thousands of dwarf planets and other relatively small objects dwells in a region called the Kuiper Belt. These often-pristine leftovers from our solar system’s days of planet formation are called Kuiper…
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Hubble Captures Crisp New Portrait of Jupiter’s Storms
This latest image of Jupiter, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on August 25, 2020, was captured when the planet was 406 million miles from Earth. Hubble’s sharp view is giving researchers an updated weather report on the monster planet’s…
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Announcement About Research on Venus’s Chemistry
Venus is proving to be an exciting place of discovery, though it had not been a significant part of the search for life because of its extreme temperatures, atmospheric composition and other factors.
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Hubble Snaps Close-Up of Celebrity Comet NEOWISE
NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of comet NEOWISE, taken on Aug. 8, zero in on the visitor’s coma, the gossamer shell of gas and dust that surrounds its nucleus as it is heated by the Sun. This is the first…
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Científicos descubren un nuevo fenomeno en las nubes de Venus
Las nubes de Venus albergan un nuevo fenómeno atmosférico nunca visto en nuestro sistema solar.