Astrophysics Holiday Vertical Video

Looking for a festive fireplace? How about the gamma-ray sky! Flip your phone and get cozy.

Our Fermi fireplace features a time-lapse of 14 years of data containing high-energy sources ranging from neutron stars and supernova remnants in our own galaxy to the jets of supermassive black holes billions of light-years away.

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA/DOE/LAT Collaboration

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Doing some pumpkin carving? Make space on your front porch for some NASA Halloween jack-o’-lanterns! 🎃

Download these stencils — and others — at the links in today’s story or our Halloween highlight!

These templates feature cosmic cartoon characters from our series on NASA+, “The Traveler,” as well as a design inspired by our upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Credits: Sara Mitchell, Kelly Ramos, Courtney Lee, and Ashley Balzer Vigil

Music: “Waltz Of The Jack In The Box,” Amit Weiner [PRS], Universal Production Music

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A star’s habitable zone is the range of distances where conditions may be just right for liquid water to exist on the surface of an orbiting planet. Like toasting a perfectly golden marshmallow on a campfire, it can’t be too hot … or too cold.

Credit: Sara Mitchell

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