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#NASAMarshall delivers NASA's most vital propulsion systems, launch vehicles, cutting-edge science, and more. Verification: nasa.gov/socialmedia
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    NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host a virtual conversation at 2:30 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 30, to share updates to NASA’s plans to build a Moon Base on the lunar surface. Learn more here: go.nasa.gov/4g1X6bK
    Artist’s rendering of the Moon’s South Pole region. Glowing points of light scattered across the lunar surface represent surface assets supporting sustained human and robotic operations near the South Pole.
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    Jun 24
    You can stand under my umbrella ☔ NASA’s Pegasus barge has delivered a weather cover for the Artemis III SLS core stage to @NASAKennedy. The cover will protect the stage’s internal systems when SLS undergoes a future tanking test in its short stack configuration. 🔗
    NASA’s Pegasus barge carrying a weather cover for the Artemis III SLS (Space Launch System) rocket core stage arrives Sunday, June 21, 2026, at the Launch Complex 39 turn basin at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The cover will protect the stage’s thermal systems while SLS sits atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B in its short stack configuration. NASA will send four Artemis astronauts on increasingly difficult missions to explore more of the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, establish an enduring human presence on the lunar surface, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. Credit: NASA/Amber Jean Notvest
    Teams load a weather cover for the Artemis III SLS (Space Launch System) rocket core stage on Monday, June 22, 2026, from NASA’s Pegasus barge at the Launch Complex 39 turn basin to transport the hardware to the spaceport’s Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The cover will protect the stage’s thermal systems while SLS sits atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B in its short stack configuration. NASA will send four Artemis astronauts on increasingly difficult missions to explore more of the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, establish an enduring human presence on the lunar surface, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. Credit: NASA/Amber Jean Notvest
    Teams transport a weather cover for the Artemis III SLS (Space Launch System) rocket core stage from NASA’s Pegasus barge to the spaceport’s Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, June 22, 2026. The cover will protect the stage’s thermal systems while SLS sits atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B in its short stack configuration. NASA will send four Artemis astronauts on increasingly difficult missions to explore more of the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, establish an enduring human presence on the lunar surface, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. Credit: NASA/Amber Jean Notvest
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    Jun 21
    Scientists are still studying data from NASA Lucy's flyby of asteroid Donaldjohanson! One of the surprising reveals has been the asteroid's shape, which indicates that it has undergone a lot of activity in its relatively short history. Read more: go.nasa.gov/3SeiBMJ
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    Jun 20
    This photo from the @Space_Station shows the aurora australis arcing over Earth during an active solar event. When energetic particles from space collide with atoms and molecules in the atmosphere, they can cause the colorful glow that we call auroras: go.nasa.gov/4uQdksa
    Image credit: NASA/Jessica Meir
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    Jun 19
    🐝Looking somewhat like a swarm of bees returning to their hive, this @NASAHubble image features the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211. Galaxy clusters like this one can help us understand how the structure of the universe evolved. READ MORE >> go.nasa.gov/4oG2VOf
    Zoom into this galaxy swarm and you will find large, oval-shaped elliptical galaxies, and thin spiral and lenticular galaxies viewed from the edge. We can also see the full, face-on view of spiral galaxies and their curving spiral arms. The image’s upper-right quadrant holds faint arcs of distant galaxies gravitationally lensed by the cluster’s massive gravity. The largest of these arcs appears above the bright oval shape of a giant elliptical galaxy. Closer inspection of the image’s center reveals several bright-white intersecting curves that appear as a distorted figure eight. This may be another distant galaxy whose light was magnified and distorted by this massive cluster’s gravity.
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    Jun 18
    During the Lyrids meteor shower in April, our Meteoroid Environments Office at #NASAMarshall captured several lunar impacts! Studying these impacts will help us protect hardware, instruments, and astronauts who will walk on the Moon's surface. MORE: go.nasa.gov/4w3ELQt
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    Jun 18
    Artemis III will send four astronauts into low Earth orbit to carry out a series of objectives designed to demonstrate critical systems needed for future lunar landings. Hear more about their backgrounds and the training ahead of them >> go.nasa.gov/4oE1XSK
    The Artemis III crew photographed during a video shoot (from left: Andre Douglas, Luca Parmitano, Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio). Credit: NASA/Luna Posadas Nava
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    Jun 17
    The aftermath of a supernova is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. However, after looking at observations from @chandraxray, astronomers found that some supernova remnants in galaxy M83 are dramatically changing in X-ray brightness. MORE: go.nasa.gov/4ownSLs
    Galaxy M83 in X-ray and Optical Light.
X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/AURA/STScI, Hubble Heritage Team, W. Blair (STScI/Johns Hopkins University) and R. O'Connell (University of Virginia); Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/A. Jubett, L. Frattare and P. Edmonds
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    Jun 16
    Today, the unpiloted SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked from the @Space_Station. Dragon will splash down off the coast of California tomorrow, June 17, returning thousands of pounds of cargo in one of the most research-packed returns in commercial resupply mission history!
    A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft, with its nose cone open to reveal its docking mechanism, approaches the International Space Station on May 17, 2026. This mission marked SpaceX’s 34th commercial resupply services flight to the space station for NASA. Credit: NASA/Jessica Meir
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    Jun 15
    Hey Huntsville, did you see that meteor streak across the sky last night?! ☄️ This fireball traveled from Mississippi to Missouri, and we captured it using one of our #NASAMarshall meteor cameras in Huntsville, Ala., at 10:26 p.m. CDT. 🔗More on meteors: go.nasa.gov/2872
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    Jun 14
    Since @NASAArtemis II concluded, science teams have been busy collecting more data and combing through observations from the test flight. Results from these science investigations will provide a blueprint for future Artemis and deep space missions. 🔗 go.nasa.gov/4v2rLKC
    Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover walks on a treadmill while in a space suit harnessed to NASA’s Active Response Gravity Offload System at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Glover is simulating a walk on a planetary surface while in a suit that has been offloaded to lunar gravity. Artemis II astronauts completed this and other suited tasks before their mission launched and within a few days of landing, giving researchers a chance to assess how quickly upon landing crews’ bodies adapt to a different gravity. Results will help scientists better understand how soon after landing crews can complete mission-critical tasks on the surface of the Moon or Mars.
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    Jun 13
    Astronomers may have found a new supernova remnant near the center of the Milky Way galaxy using data from @chandraxray. If confirmed, this would be one of the closest supernova remnants to the supermassive black hole in the Galactic Center! 🔗go.nasa.gov/4vQqHcX
    This release features a composite image of colorful, overlapping clouds, which suggests to astronomers that a supernova remnant may be buried in gas near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

Set against a backdrop packed with distant stars and other specks of light are two distinct, overlapping clouds. The larger, visually dominant cloud, is red and multifaceted. It has an irregular shape, and features patches of different textures, including pockets that resemble wispy smoke, tangles of faint red veins, and clear streaking lines. This large cloud of expanding gas represents radio data from the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa.

Overlapping with that red cloud is a cloudy blue blob representing X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton. Astronomers suggest that this blue blob of X-ray emissions is the remains of a massive star destroyed by a supernova.
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    Jun 12
    Whether it’s a ball rocketing toward the net or a star shooting across the cosmos, both soccer and space are full of motion, energy, and force. As the world takes the field, see what happens when science is in play: chandra.si.edu/cosmicpitch/
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