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Completing the Roman Telescope’s Primary Mirror
Completing the Roman Telescope’s Primary Mirror

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s primary mirror, which will collect and focus light from cosmic objects near and far,…

New Gears Can Withstand Impact, Freezing Temperatures During Lunar Missions
New Gears Can Withstand Impact, Freezing Temperatures During Lunar Missions

Andrew Kennett (left) watches as Dominic Aldi (right) uses liquid nitrogen to cool a motor integrated bulk metallic glass gearbox…

SN 87A
SN 87A

On February 24, 1987, observers in the southern hemisphere saw a new object in a nearby galaxy called the Large…

Helix Nebula
Helix Nebula

When a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, it expands and its outer layers puff off, and then…

Cartwheel Galaxy
Cartwheel Galaxy

This galaxy resembles a bull's eye, which is appropriate because its appearance is partly due to a smaller galaxy that…

Eta Carinae
Eta Carinae

What will be the next star in our Milky Way galaxy to explode as a supernova? Astronomers aren't certain, but…

Director of Communications for Space Technology Derek Wang
Director of Communications for Space Technology Derek Wang

"It takes twenty thousand people to run NASA — and we’re not all astronauts and scientists and engineers. I try…

Astronaut Ricky Arnold
Astronaut Ricky Arnold

"And here we are twenty years later, and now we have a whole generation of kids that have never known…

Intern Ashley Walker
Intern Ashley Walker

"We’re just going to keep lifting each other up and making sure that we all have each other’s backs, because…

Materials Engineer Glen Bigelow
Materials Engineer Glen Bigelow

"I’ve been working with heat treating ever since I started working with shape memory alloys. We actually have our own…