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Maestro Piotr Gajewski conducts the National Philharmonic in the world premier performance of Henry Dehlinger’s “Cosmic Cycles,” Thursday, May 11, 2023, at Capital One Hall in Tysons, Va. “Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony” is a collaboration between composer Henry Dehlinger, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and the National Philharmonic that features a fusion of music and video in seven multimedia works on the Sun, Earth, Moon, Planets, and Cosmos. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA Goddard, National Philharmonic Explore Cosmos Through Imagery, Music Collaboration

05.15.2023
Awe-inspiring NASA visuals combined with the might of a live symphonic orchestra last week in “Cosmic Cycles,” a multimedia collaboration among the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the National Philharmonic, and composer Henry Dehlinger.
Photo of VP Harris at GSFC in 2021

VP Harris, South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol to Visit NASA Goddard

04.24.2023
Vice President Kamala Harris and Republic of Korea (ROK) President Yoon Suk Yeol will visit NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Tuesday, April 25, to see firsthand the agency’s climate change work. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Goddard Center Director Makenzie Lystrup will join them on tour.
NASA Missions Study What May Be a 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-ray Burst

NASA Missions Study What May Be a 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-ray Burst

03.28.2023
On Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, a pulse of intense radiation swept through the solar system so exceptional that astronomers quickly dubbed it the BOAT – the brightest of all time. After spending months combing through the data, astronomers now better understand its scientific impact.
NASA’s Fermi Captures Dynamic Gamma-Ray Sky in New Animation

NASA’s Fermi Captures Dynamic Gamma-Ray Sky in New Animation

03.15.2023
Cosmic fireworks, invisible to our eyes, fill the night sky. We can get a glimpse of this elusive light show thanks to the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which observes the sky in gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light.
Cover of Spinoff 2023

NASA Spinoffs Bolster Climate Resilience, Improve Medical Care, More

01.31.2023
The latest edition of NASA’s Spinoff publication features dozens of new commercialized technologies that use the agency’s technology, research, and/or expertise to benefit people around the globe. It also includes a section highlighting technologies of tomorrow.
NASA’s Fermi Detects First Gamma-Ray Eclipses From ‘Spider’ Star Systems

NASA’s Fermi Detects First Gamma-Ray Eclipses From ‘Spider’ Star Systems

01.26.2023
Scientists have discovered the first gamma-ray eclipses from a special type of binary star system using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
NASA’s Retired Compton Mission Reveals Superheavy Neutron Stars

NASA’s Retired Compton Mission Reveals Superheavy Neutron Stars

01.09.2023
Signals found in archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts indicate the brief existence of a supersized neutron star before it collapsed into a black hole.
Hubble space telescope image of stars in cluster NGC 2024

NASA Science To Be Featured at American Astronomical Society Meeting

01.06.2023
Experts will discuss new research from NASA missions at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), on topics ranging from the universe’s early galaxies to planets outside our solar system.
CISTO Chief and SMCE Government Manager Dr. Daniel Duffy presenting in front of the NASA hyperwall during Supercomputing 2022

NASA’s SMCE Team Helps Scientists Develop Collaborative Cloud Computing Projects

12.21.2022
An agile team of computer experts at NASA Goddard helps scientists collaborate and develop Open Science projects in astrophysics, Earth science, biology, and heliophysics by creating the SMCE managed cloud environment for science.
Image of moon over Earth's atmosphere

NASA Press Events at 2022 Fall AGU Meeting

12.08.2022
NASA researchers will be presenting findings on Earth and space sciences Dec.12-16 at the American Geophysical Union's 2022 Fall meeting, being held virtually and in Chicago this year.
NASA Missions Probe Game-Changing Cosmic Explosion

NASA Missions Probe Game-Changing Cosmic Explosion

12.07.2022
On Dec. 11, 2021, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a blast of high-energy light from the outskirts of a galaxy around 1 billion light-years away.
Image of FY21 NASA Economic Report

NASA’s Economic Benefit Reaches All 50 States

10.27.2022
NASA released the results of its second agencywide economic impact report on Thursday, demonstrating how its Moon to Mars activities, investments in climate change research and technology, as well as other work generated more than $71.2 billion in total economic output during fiscal year 2021.
NASA’s Swift, Fermi Missions Detect Exceptional Cosmic Blast

NASA’s Swift, Fermi Missions Detect Exceptional Cosmic Blast

10.13.2022
A powerful cosmic explosion detected by NASA's Fermi, Swift, and other missions ranks among the most luminous events known.
Image of the Crab Nebula

Space Station Experiment To Probe Origins of Elements

08.30.2022
Space Station Experiment Concept Would Probe Origins of Elements
50 Years Ago, NASA’s Copernicus Set the Bar for Space Astronomy

50 Years Ago, NASA’s Copernicus Set the Bar for Space Astronomy

08.19.2022
In August 1972, NASA launched the Copernicus satellite – the heaviest and most complex space telescope of its time.
NASA’s Fermi Confirms Star Wreck as Source of Extreme Cosmic Particles

NASA’s Fermi Confirms Star Wreck as Source of Extreme Cosmic Particles

08.10.2022
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope confirms one supernova remnant as a launch site for some of our galaxy’s highest-energy protons.
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day Recognized for Decades of Outreach

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day Recognized for Decades of Outreach

06.22.2022
NASA's APOD has been honored by the International Astronomical Union for decades of outreach.
Sagittarius A*: NASA Telescopes Support Event Horizon Telescope in Studying Milky Way's Black Hole

Sagittarius A*: NASA Telescopes Support Event Horizon Telescope in Studying Milky Way's Black Hole

05.12.2022
Multiple telescopes, including Chandra, observed the Milky Way's giant black hole simultaneously with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). This combined effort gave insight into what is happening farther out than the field-of-view of the EHT.
NASA’s Swift Tracks Potential Magnetic Flip of Monster Black Hole

NASA’s Swift Tracks Potential Magnetic Flip of Monster Black Hole

05.05.2022
An unusual galactic outburst may have been sparked by a flip of the magnetic field surrounding its central black hole.
Earth Day 2022 Poster image

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04.22.2022
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NASA’s Fermi Hunts for Gravitational Waves From Monster Black Holes

NASA’s Fermi Hunts for Gravitational Waves From Monster Black Holes

04.07.2022
Our universe is a chaotic sea of ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. Astronomers think waves from orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes in distant galaxies are light-years long and have been trying to observe them for decades, and now they’re one step closer thanks to NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
Photo of Dr. Katherine Calvin

NASA Invites Media to 59th Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium

03.16.2022
Media are invited to meet leaders in space exploration at the 59th annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium, taking place on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park, from March 23 to 25. Attendees also have the option to watch the symposium online.
artist's conception of Swift

NASA's Swift Observatory Returns to Science

02.18.2022
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory successfully returned to science operations on February 17. The spacecraft and its three instruments are healthy and operating as expected.
Three NASA Goddard Recipients Receive AAS 2022 Awards

Three NASA Goddard Recipients Receive AAS 2022 Awards

02.07.2022
Three individuals with NASA affiliations have received 2022 honors from the American Astronomical Society (AAS), a major international organization of professional astronomers.
Artist's conception of the Swift satellite in space

Swift Observatory in Safe Mode, Team Investigating Reaction Wheel

01.20.2022
On the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 18, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory entered into safe mode, suspending pointed science observations. The mission team is investigating a possible failure of one of the spacecraft's reaction wheels as the cause.

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