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A celebration at the Intersection of Space and Creativity - October 23-24
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CosmoQuest invites you to help NASA scientists make maps of scientifically interesting features in our Solar System. You can map craters on the Moon, and trace the splatter of asteroid impacts on Vesta. All these worlds are yours to explore!
Currently we’re rebuilding all our citizen science projects with a new interface. We’ll get you sciencing again as soon as we can.
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Blog
Spectroscopic Windows Could Lead to Map of Venusian Surface
Laboratory experiments show that spectroscopic “windows” can be used to map and analyze the surface of Venus.
WASP-107b Turns Out to be Super-Puff the Size of Jupiter
A new paper presents the discovery of a puffed up planet. Roughly the size of Jupiter, the world has ten times less mass than Jupiter.
Juno Maps Water Ice at Northern Pole of Ganymede
New research uses data collected from NASA’s Juno Mission to evaluate some of the water ice found in the northern polar regions of Ganymede.
Climate Change: 2020 Tied for Warmest Year on Record
According to newly released NASA data, 2020 was tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record and was on average 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit or 1.02 degrees Celcius warmer than the baseline from 1951 to 1980.
Traces of Long-Sought Axion Particle Potentially Found
In particle physics news, the axion may just be starting to reveal itself in unusual flashes associated with nearby neutron stars.
Ancient, Massive Black Hole Found
One of the earliest forming massive galaxies in our universe as part of the DESI survey and now holds the record for the most distant galaxy ever seen.
Anatomical Dissection of Planetary Nebula Using Hubble Images
Hubble images revealed an intricate structure of glowing gas and dust, and with each new camera upgrade, HST has revisited planetary nebulae.
Chaos in the Grand Spiral Whirlpool Galaxy
While this image looks like it was made with some new, it is actually a combination of a Hubble image and magnetic field data taken by the SOFIA airborne observatory.
Rewinding the Clock on a Supernova Blast
Recently, a team of astronomers imaged a ghostly nebula in the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud. Working backward, they were able to estimate this supernova’s initial explosion to have been roughly 1700 years ago.