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Ball Aerospace lead optical test engineer Dave Chaney inspects six primary mirror segments, critical elements of the James Webb Space Telescope, prior to cryogenic testing in the X-ray & Cryogenic Facility at Marshall Space Flight Center

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The Crab Nebula supernova remnant resembles a neon purple mushroom at the heart of a colorful, heavily veined blue and red cloud of gas set against the blackness of space. At its center is a bright white dot in a neon purple cloud ringed in white – a pulsar, or a rotating neutron star emitting electromagnetic radiation. The mushroom shape is enhanced by a narrow beam of purplish-white particles blasting away from the pulsar like a stem.

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Uganda National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NAFIRRI) staff using some of the water quality monitoring equipment acquired with the support of the SERVIR grant.

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This image features the Cassiopeia A supernova, an expanding ball of matter and energy ejected from an exploding star. Here, rings of neon blue and brilliant white emit veins of polished gold. The rings and their arching veins encircle a place of relative calm at the center of the supernova remnant. This hole at the center of the circle, and the three-dimensionality conveyed by the rings and their arching veins, give this image of Cassiopeia A the look of a giant, crackling, electric blue donut. X-rays detected by Chandra show debris from the destroyed star and the blast wave from the explosion.

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This image was created by adding together 54 observations of the sun's 10-million degree outer atmosphere, called the corona.

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A sounding rocket launches into a bright blue sky leaving a plume of smoke behind.

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