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    Jun 1
    Dragonfly’s heat shield endured a 4,500°F blast—and passed the test. Units of NASA’s Dragonfly's heat shield faced intense solar radiation and mechanical stress testing @SandiaLabs, confirming that its carbon fiber and resin thermal protection material can withstand the harsh
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    Sep 3, 2022
    We are going.
    A full Moon is in view from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 14, 2022. The Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher, are being prepared for a wet dress rehearsal to practice timelines and procedures for launch. The first in an increasingly complex series of missions, Artemis I will test SLS and Orion as an integrated system prior to crewed flights to the Moon. Through Artemis, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and using the Moon as a steppingstone on the way to Mars. Credit: NASA/Cory Huston
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    Jul 12, 2022
    We're starry eyed! 🤩 The first full-color images from @NASAWebb have been released. Which one is your favorite? #UnfoldTheUniverse here: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
    This image of Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies, is contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. Sparkling clusters of millions of young stars and starburst regions of fresh star birth grace the image. Sweeping tails of gas, dust and stars are being pulled from several of the galaxies due to gravitational interactions. Most dramatically, Webb captures huge shock waves as one of the galaxies, NGC 7318B, smashes through the cluster. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
    This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
    Two cameras aboard Webb captured the latest image of this planetary nebula, cataloged as NGC 3132, and known informally as the Southern Ring Nebula. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
    NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image shows galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
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    May 24, 2024
    From 100,000 miles away 📸 This Apollo 10 image of Earth was taken 55 years ago in 1969.
    An Apollo 10 photograph of Earth taken from 100,000 miles away. Visible are many areas of Europe and Africa. Among the features and countries identifiable are Portugal, Spain, Italy, the Mediterranean Sea, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, the Black Sea, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Sinai Peninsula, the Nile Delta, Lake Chad, and South Africa. Image credit: NASA
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    Feb 19, 2021
    San Francisco City Hall is illuminated in red to celebrate today’s historic landing of @NASAPersevere on the surface of Mars: go.nasa.gov/37vres2
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    Nov 18, 2021
    It’s an almost total eclipse of our heart! 💖🌙 The Moon will pass through Earth’s shadow tonight for the longest partial lunar eclipse of the century. Catch the show from 11:19pm to 2:47am, with the peak occurring at 1:03am PT: go.nasa.gov/3qUQrXd
    A composite image of four Moons in various stages of eclipse.
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    Aug 29, 2024
    Sail deployment achieved! Our Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has successfully unfurled its sail & will use sunlight for propulsion as it orbits Earth, testing next-generation technologies that will help enable future missions at the Moon & beyond: go.nasa.gov/3XovKTm
    An artist's concept of the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System with its large silver sail unfurled in low Earth orbit. The Earth horizon is visible below, and stands out against the black backdrop of space. Credit: NASA/Aero Animation/Ben Schweighart
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    Sep 1, 2022
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    Jan 24, 2022
    Welcome to your orbit 💫 @NASAWebb! What a trip! We are proud that our support teams could help get you to your destination safe and sound — and rest assured that we'll be watching as your journey continues to unfold. #UnfoldTheUniverse
    Artist's illustration of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
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    Oct 4, 2022
    The making of our Moon... A new @NASA simulation shows the Moon may have formed much faster than previously thought (over a matter of hours!) following the collision of a Mars-sized object with Earth. Learn more about this lunar origin story: go.nasa.gov/3UYWZ3D
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    Mar 17, 2023
    Happy St.Patrick's Day! This stunning green aurora was captured #OTD in 2015, thanks to a geomagnetic storm, and maybe a little luck.🍀
    Earth experienced a geomagnetic storm and aurora were visible in the Northern U.S. states. These images of aurora were captured on March 17, 2015, around 5:30 a.m. EDT in Donnelly Creek, Alaska by Sebastian Saarloos. These aurora might have been caused by the fast solar wind streaming from two solar coronal holes. Credit: NASA
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    Jul 4, 2020
    Happy #FourthOfJuly! Apollo 14 astronaut & the first American to travel to space, Alan Shepard, stands with the U.S. flag on the Moon. By 2024 we'll return astronauts to the lunar surface. Learn about #Artemis, America's next chapter in space exploration: go.nasa.gov/2Rxuco9
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    Nov 23, 2023
    Thankful for that pale blue dot. #HappyThanksgiving from our NASA family to yours.
    In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn's rings and Earth in the same frame. Earth and the moon appear as mere dots -- Earth a pale blue and the moon a stark white, visible between Saturn's rings. It was the first time Cassini's highest-resolution camera captured Earth and its moon as two distinct objects. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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    Aug 1, 2023
    Hey Moon, you’re looking pretty full. 🌕 August’s full moon is known as the “Sturgeon Moon”, named for the time of year when this giant fish was once abundant in the Great Lakes.
    A full Moon is pictured above the Earth's horizon as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above the Washington-Oregon border in northwestern United States. Credit: NASA
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