Orion’s Recently Installed Solar Array Wings
Two of Orion’s four recently installed solar array wings are exposed and surrounded by the panels that will protect it during launch and ascent.
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Hubble Snaps a Special Stellar Nursery
Hubble Snaps a Special Stellar Nursery
This Hubble image shows a special class of star-forming nursery known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules. Called frEGGs for short, these dark compact globules of dust and gas can give birth to low-mass stars.
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Cliffs in Ancient Ice on Mars
Cliffs in Ancient Ice on Mars
Scientists have come to realize that, just below the surface, about one third of Mars is covered in ice.
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NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins Prepares for Launch to Space Station
NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins Prepares for Launch to Space Station
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen as she has her Russian Sokol suit pressure checked as she and fellow crewmates prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station.
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The Ghost Nebula
The Ghost Nebula
Powerful gushers of energy from seething stars can sculpt eerie-looking figures with long flowing veils of gas and dust.
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