NASA Gauges Plant Stress in Costa Rican Drought
The ECOSTRESS image shows plant stress in the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica (in red on inset map) a few...
The Mystery of the Shrinking Storm
Jupiter.
NASA's Spitzer Spies a Perfectly Sideways Galaxy
Galaxy NGC 5866 lies 44 million light-years from Earth and has a diameter of roughly 60,000 light-years - a little more...
ALMA Dives into Black Hole’s ‘Sphere of Influence’
ALMA has made the most precise measurements of cold gas swirling around a supermassive black hole -- the cosmic behemoth at the center of...
How NASA Will Protect Astronauts From Space Radiation at the Moon
Earth’s magnetic bubble, called the magnetosphere, is illustrated in blue. The magnetosphere provides natural...
Anatomy of a Cosmic Seagull
The Rosy Glow of a Cosmic Seagull.
Astrophysical shock phenomena reproduced in the laboratory
An example of an interstellar collisionless shock is seen in this photo of a bow shock in the...
CryoSat conquers ice on Arctic lakes
