Night Skies and National Parks
NASA helped to create a web-based tool that helps park managers better understand the impact of outdoor lighting and noise on animal species in national parks.
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Finding the Origins of Supermassive Black Holes
Finding the Origins of Supermassive Black Holes
This artist’s impression is of a supermassive black hole that is inside the dust-shrouded core of a vigorously star-forming «starburst» galaxy.
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Space Butterfly
Space Butterfly
What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
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April 12, 1981: Launch of the First Shuttle Mission
April 12, 1981: Launch of the First Shuttle Mission
On April 12, 1981, NASA launched is first Space Transportation System, or space shuttle, mission, carrying astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen into orbit.
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When Galaxies Collide
When Galaxies Collide
A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in this image from Hubble.
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