A New Galactic Center Adventure in Virtual Reality
Combining data from Chandra and other telescopes with supercomputer simulations and virtual reality, a new visualization allows users to experience 500 years of cosmic evolution around the Milky Way’s supermassive…
How NASA is Helping the World Breathe More Easily
Look around. Can you see the air? No? Luckily, many of NASA’s Earth-observing satellites can see what the human eye can’t — including potentially harmful pollutants lingering in the air…
Hubble Hooks a One-Arm Galaxy
NGC 4618 was discovered on April 9, 1787, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel, who also discovered Uranus in 1781. Only a year before discovering NGC 4618, Herschel theorized that…
#NASAatHome – Let NASA Bring the Universe to Your Home
NASA’s new Internet and social media special, NASA at Home, will show and engage you in the agency’s discoveries, research, and exploration from around the world and across the universe…
Hubble Finds Best Evidence for Elusive Mid-Sized Black Hole
Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class known as “intermediate-mass,” which betrayed its existence by tearing apart…