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Documenting a decade of our ever-changing planet

June 1 starts the 2009 season.

NASA chartered the Goddard Space Flight Center on May 1, 1959, at the dawn of the space age.

Mystery of the Solar Tsunami—Solved

Sometimes you really can believe your eyes. That's what NASA's STEREO is telling researchers about a controversial phenomenon on the sun known as the "solar tsunami."
NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to Smithsonian

Two key instruments from Hubble have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis in May 2009.
COBE Satellite Marks 20th Anniversary

COBE, launched on Nov. 18, 1989, discovered evidence to support the Big Bang Theory and earned a Nobel Prize for scientists John Mather and George Smoot.
SDO Investigates the Sun's Cycle of Highs and Lows

The sun is a magnetic variable star that fluctuates on time scales ranging from a fraction of a second to billions of years. SDO will show us the underlying physics of solar variability.
Goddard Team Develops New Carriers for Space Station

Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. teamed up with engineers at NASA's Johnson and Kennedy Space Centers to design, build, and test five new ExPRESS Logistics Carriers which will be delivered to the International Space Station.