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A cosmic cloudscape ☁️ This week's new #HubbleFriday image takes a look into one of our Milky Way's neighbors, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Located 160,000 light-years away, it's the largest of the Milky Way’s many small satellite galaxies: go.nasa.gov/3GShk8b

#OTD in 1925 Nancy Grace Roman was born. This “Mother of Hubble” was integral to planning Hubble, and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is named in her honor. Also #OTD, Hubble observed two galaxies in Hickson Compact Group 90 tearing apart the third. Check out your day: go.nasa.gov/4mkmDNT

We wish a happy 100th birthday to the late Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, the namesake of NASA’s next flagship astrophysics mission, which is on track to launch by May 2027. Dr. Roman's passion and dedication drove the development of telescopes like Hubble, NASA Webb Telescope, and now

The spiral galaxy NGC 2082 stuns from 60 million light-years away. Captured here by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys, NGC 2082 can be seen in exquisite detail – filaments of dark dust splay across the galaxy's arms and central hub of stars: go.nasa.gov/4kjjv2Y

Telescopes across the NASA Universe have been studying a distant galaxy known as Centaurus A. At the center, is a black hole that is sending a booming jet across the entire length of the galaxy. Listen to this new sonification to hear the data! 🔗 go.nasa.gov/3FfzzEa

These two galaxies, nicknamed The Mice, are two spiral galaxies caught about 160 million years after a close encounter. But that’s not the end of the story. They will likely merge, forming a large elliptical galaxy. #MondayMotivation

#OTD in 2011, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer began collecting cosmic rays from its perch on the International Space Station. More than 240 billion cosmic rays later, AMS continues to help us learn how the universe works. What are cosmic rays? Learn more: tmblr.co/Zz_Uqj2XaWrWy

The faraway galaxy HerS 020941.1+001557 (rolls off the tongue!) appears in this Hubble image as the red arc partially encircling the bright elliptical galaxy at center. Why does it look like that? ⬇️

Twister: Space style! 🌪️ 🌌 Meet Herbig-Haro 49/50 (HH 49/50), nicknamed the “Cosmic Tornado” for its helical appearance. NASA Webb Telescope’s infrared mirrors captured this detailed view of HH 49/50, which was produced by jets launched from a nearby, forming star. Outflows like HH

Five years ago today, WFIRST was renamed to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is on track to launch no later than May 2027. Check out our most recent hardware milestone here: go.nasa.gov/4dpZwxr

Neptune is glowing—and it’s not what we expected. Webb just spotted auroras stretching across Neptune’s mid-latitudes—not the poles. Why? The planet’s bizarre magnetic field and a shockingly cold upper atmosphere may hold the answer.

Open science is a collaborative culture enabled by technology that empowers the open sharing of data, information & knowledge to accelerate scientific research & understanding.🧪 Learn the fundamentals with NASA Open Science 101, a free, 5-module course. stemgateway.nasa.gov/s/course-offer…

How big is our universe? The closest star to us is about 4 light-years away — and that's just in our neighborhood. Learn about mind-boggling cosmic distances from NASA Goddard’s Dr. Amber Straughn in just 90 seconds. More answers from NASA experts: go.nasa.gov/3FoyFVS

Today Chandra is studying NGC 1097, a beautiful barred spiral galaxy located about 48 million light-years from Earth. Young clusters of blue stars sparkle in the galaxy's arms, while the galaxy's core harbors a monster black hole roughly 140 million times the mass of our Sun.

Space has its own color palette! 🎨 Hubble captured dusty gas clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf galaxy located 160,000 light-years away. The image combines observations from 5 different filters on Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.

#TBT to Karl Jansky’s accidental discovery of radio emission from the heart of our galaxy, which was widely publicized this month in 1933. This kicked off the field of radio astronomy, and we now know our galactic center houses a supermassive black hole.

A galactic tilt-a-whirl 🌀 Located 43 million light-years away, the galaxy NGC 3511 appears tilted in this new #HubbleFriday view. Hubble observed NGC 3511 as part of a survey of the star formation cycle in (relatively) nearby galaxies: go.nasa.gov/3FnweD8

A peculiar possible planet has been added to NASA’s Exoplanet Archive! If confirmed, 2M1510 b would be the first exoplanet found in a polar orbit — one that’s perpendicular to the path followed by the two brown dwarfs it’s orbiting. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/43b3W7X

In the hunt for the mysterious substance that makes up most of the universe’s matter, our Fermi mission searches for signatures of dark matter particles destroying each other in the Milky Way, nearby galaxies, & other places it may be hiding. go.nasa.gov/43v5UPt #FermiFriday

NGC 6872 is one of the largest spiral galaxies in the known universe. At over 520,000 light-years across, it's more than five times the size of our Milky Way galaxy. This incredible image combines X-ray light from Chandra with optical light from Hubble. 🌀