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On April 15, 2020, a wave of X-rays and gamma rays lasting only a fraction of a second triggered detectors on NASA and European spacecraft. The event was a giant flare from a magnetar, a type of city-sized stellar remnant that boasts the strongest magnetic fields known. Watch to learn more.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Collision Course-Alternative Version" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || MGF_Video_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [602.3 KB] || MGF_Video_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [264.7 KB] || MGF_Video_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [74.9 KB] || MGF_Video_Still_thm.png (80x40) [5.7 KB] || 13792_Magnetar_Giant_Flare_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.6 GB] || 13792_Magnetar_Giant_Flare_best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [498.6 MB] || 13792_Magnetar_Giant_Flare_good_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [221.6 MB] || 13792_Magnetar_Giant_Flare_best_1080.webm (1920x1080) [24.0 MB] || 13792_Magnetar_Giant_Flare_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.0 KB] || 13792_Magnetar_Giant_Flare_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.0 KB] ||

Scientists using NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy Probe (WMAP) have created the most detailed portrait of the infant Universe. By capturing the afterglow of the Big Bang, called the cosmic microwave background (CMB), we now believe the Universe to be 13.7 billion years old. Encoded in these patterns is much—anticipated information about the fundamental properties of the early Universe. WMAP launched on June 30, 2001. ||

An international team of scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a surprisingly powerful millisecond pulsar that challenges existing theories about how these objects form. At the same time, another team has exploited improved analytical techniques to locate nine new gamma-ray pulsars in Fermi data.A pulsar, also called a neutron star, is the closest thing to a black hole astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times more mass than Earth into a sphere no larger than a city. This matter is so compressed that even a teaspoonful weighs as much as Mount Everest.Typically, millisecond pulsars are a billion years or more old, ages commensurate with a stellar lifetime. But in the Nov. 3 issue of Science, the Fermi team reveals a bright, energetic millisecond pulsar only 25 million years old.The object, named PSR J1823—3021A, lies within NGC 6624, a spherical assemblage of ancient stars called a globular cluster, one of about 160 similar objects that orbit our galaxy. The cluster is about 10 billion years old and lies about 27,000 light-years away toward the constellation Sagittarius."With this new batch of pulsars, Fermi now has detected more than 100, which is an exciting milestone when you consider that before Fermi's launch only seven of them were known to emit gamma rays," said Pablo Saz Parkinson, an astrophysicist at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California Santa Cruz. ||

3x3 hyperwall-resolution image of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with instruments labeled.Credit: NASA/JIm Grossmann || Fermi_Hyperwall_2_2_Instruments_5760_print.jpg (1024x576) [86.4 KB] || Fermi_Hyperwall_2_2_Instruments_5760.png (5760x3240) [32.3 MB] || fermi-2-2-Instruments.hwshow [294 bytes] || For additional Fermi hyperwall visuals please check the second hyperwall page ||

Take a tour through TOI 700, a planetary system 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado. One of the system’s residents is TOI 700 d, the first Earth-size habitable-zone planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.Music: "Family Tree" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || TOI_700d.jpg (1920x1080) [397.4 KB] || TOI_700d_print.jpg (1024x576) [128.3 KB] || TOI_700d_searchweb.png (320x180) [65.8 KB] || TOI_700d_thm.png (80x40) [5.5 KB] || 13496_TOI700_Earth-size_1080.webm (1920x1080) [25.7 MB] || 13496_TOI700_Earth-size_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [229.2 MB] || 13496_TOI700_Earth-size_1080_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [394.2 MB] || TESS_TOI700_Earth-size_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.4 KB] || TESS_TOI700_Earth-size_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.4 KB] || 13496_TOI700_Earth-size_ProRes_1920x1080.mov (1920x1080) [2.7 GB] ||

The sequence and layout of the Roman Space Telescope's High Latitude Spectroscopic Survey tiling pattern.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center || Roman_HLSS_Pointing_Scheme_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [119.5 KB] || Roman_HLSS_Pointing_Scheme_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [1.1 MB] || Roman_HLSS_Pointing_Scheme_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [53.3 KB] || Roman_HLSS_Pointing_Scheme_Still_thm.png (80x40) [5.1 KB] || Roman_HLSS_Pointing_Scheme_FINAL_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [25.1 MB] || Roman_HLSS_Pointing_Scheme_FINAL_4k.webm (3840x2160) [9.1 MB] || Roman_HLSS_Pointing_Scheme_FINAL_ProRes_3840x2160_5994.mov (3840x2160) [1.7 GB] ||

Watch to learn about TOI 700 e, a newly discovered Earth-size planet with an Earth-size sibling. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Robert Hurt/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic Credit: Dream Box by Carl David HarmsWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || Title_Card_TOI700_e.jpg (1920x1080) [1.2 MB] || Second_Habitable_World_in_TOI700.00250_print.jpg (1024x576) [50.0 KB] || Second_Habitable_World_in_TOI700.00250_searchweb.png (320x180) [50.3 KB] || Second_Habitable_World_in_TOI700.00250_thm.png (80x40) [3.4 KB] || Second_Habitable_World_in_TOI700.mp4 (1920x1080) [69.1 MB] || Second_Habitable_World_in_TOI700.webm (1920x1080) [7.7 MB] || Second_Habitable_World_in_TOI700_ProRes.mov (1920x1080) [948.8 MB] || Second_Habitable_World_in_TOI700.en_US.srt [1.1 KB] || Second_Habitable_World_in_TOI700.en_US.vtt [1.1 KB] ||

This animated tour takes us first past a red giant locked in orbit with a black hole and its accretion disk; then through a spiral galaxy much like our own Milky Way; and then flies over a massive black hole with an accretion disk and jets. ||

It is believed that after the Big Bang, the universe originally decelerated in its expansion, but then 'changed gears' and began to accelerate. The unknown force causing this recent acceleration is dubbed the 'Dark Energy.' This visualization flies through a series of galaxy clusters, the largerst gravitationally-bound objects in the Universe. ||