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Extremely Bright and Extremely Rare
Extremely Bright and Extremely Rare

This image zooms in on the region around the first "hot DOG" (red object in magenta circle), discovered by NASA's…

Galaxies Burn Bright Like High-Wattage ‘Light Bulbs’
Galaxies Burn Bright Like High-Wattage ‘Light Bulbs’

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has identified about 1,000 extremely obscured objects over the sky, as marked by the…

Homing in on ‘Hot Dogs’
Homing in on ‘Hot Dogs’

This image is a portion of the all-sky survey from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. It highlights the…

APOD: 2012 August 29 – A Dark Earth with a Red Sprite
APOD: 2012 August 29 – A Dark Earth with a Red Sprite

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2012 August 29 – A… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss…

Sharing the Light of Two Suns
Sharing the Light of Two Suns

This artist's concept illustrates Kepler-47, the first transiting circumbinary system - multiple planets orbiting two suns – 4,900 light-years from…

Two Planets of Kepler-47
Two Planets of Kepler-47

The two planets of Kepler-47, the first transiting circumbinary system - a system with more than one planet orbiting a…

Isaac Churns in the Gulf
Isaac Churns in the Gulf

This visible image of Tropical Storm Isaac taken from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite shows the huge extent of the storm, where…

Climbing In
Climbing In

Astronaut Scott Carpenter climbs into Aurora 7 ahead of launching on the second American manned orbital flight on May 24,…

Inspecting the Heat Shield
Inspecting the Heat Shield

Inside Hangar S at the White Room Facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida, Scott Carpenter examines the honeycomb protective material on…

Congratulations
Congratulations

Fellow Mercury astronaut John Glenn, right, congratulates Carpenter after his Aurora 7 flight on May 24, 1962. Carpenter had served…