| In this week’s newsletter, see new images of large solar eruptions from NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere mission; what does it take to gaze through time to our universe’s very first stars and galaxies? Find out in the new NASA documentary Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space Telescope; and hear how NASA manages risk when the stakes are as high in the latest episode of the Small Steps, Big Leaps podcast. Plus, more stories you might have missed. |
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| On June 10, NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission released its first images of large solar eruptions, or coronal mass ejections. The mission’s highly sensitive, wide-field instruments were able to capture the eruptions as they evolved in space, in much greater detail than previously possible. This big-picture view is essential to helping scientists better understand and predict space weather, which can disrupt communications, endanger satellites, and create auroras at Earth. The images were taken with PUNCH’s four cameras, which work together as a single “virtual instrument”: three Wide Field Imagers, which observe the faint, outermost portion of the Sun’s atmosphere and solar wind, work with a Narrow Field Imager, a coronagraph that allows scientists to see details in the Sun’s atmosphere by blocking out the bright light of the Sun itself. SOLAR OBSERVATIONS |
 | HUMANS IN SPACE Axiom Mission 4 Delay NASA and Axiom Space are postponing the launch of Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space Station. As part of an ongoing investigation, NASA is working with Roscosmos to understand a new pressure signature after the recent post-repair effort of the International Space Station’s Zvezda service module. A new launch date for the fourth private astronaut mission will be provided once available. MISSION UPDATES |
| DOCUMENTARY Cosmic Dawn What does it take to gaze through time to our universe’s very first stars and galaxies? NASA answers this question in the new original documentary, Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space Telescope. NOW STREAMING |
 THE UNIVERSE Abnormal, Chaotic, Strange Using the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera, researchers have successfully imaged one of two known planets surrounding the star 14 Herculis, located 60 light-years away from Earth. The new data suggests the exoplanet, 14 Herculis c, weighs about 7 times the planet Jupiter and is as cool as 26 degrees Fahrenheit. LEARN MORE |  THE UNIVERSE Cosmic Lenses A funky effect Einstein predicted, known as gravitational lensing—when a foreground galaxy magnifies more distant galaxies behind it—will soon become common when the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope begins science operations. A research team out of Washington University in St. Louis has calculated that over 160,000 gravitational lenses are expected to pop up in Roman’s vast images, which will be 200 times larger than infrared snapshots from the Hubble Space Telescope. LEARN MORE |
| More NASA News |
 | In today’s crowded digital landscape, cutting through the noise is paramount for any organization trying to connect with its audience. Recognizing this, NASA has embarked on a significant initiative to streamline its extensive social media presence, aiming to create a more unified and impactful digital voice for its groundbreaking work. |
 | Big or small, we all take risks nearly every day. But how does NASA manage it? Dr. Mary Skow, NASA’s first agency risk management officer, explains in the latest episode of the Small Steps, Giant Leaps podcast. |
 | Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Coronal Diagnostic Experiment investigation have successfully evaluated the instrument’s first images, revealing the speed and temperature of material flowing out from the Sun. These images illustrate that the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, is not a homogenous, steady flow of material but an area with sputtering gusts of hot plasma. |
 | High over the Mojave Desert, two NASA F-15 research jets made a series of flights throughout May 2025 to validate tools designed to measure and record the shock waves that will be produced by the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic experimental aircraft. |
 | The next generation of lunar explorers and engineers are already hard at work thanks to the agency’s Student Design Challenge, Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students (SUITS). SUITS invites university and graduate students from across the U.S. to design, build, and test interactive displays integrated into spacesuit helmets, continuing an eight-year tradition of hands-on field evaluations that simulate conditions astronauts may face on the lunar surface. |
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| As Father’s Day draws near, we remember the father of modern rocketry, Dr. Robert Goddard. Goddard not only developed and launched the first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926 but was also a prolific inventor |
| Find out the answer in next week’s NASA newsletter! |
 | Last week on his birthday, we asked who was the first person to drive a lunar rover on the Moon. The answer? David R. Scott! Scott was selected in NASA’s third group of astronauts in October 1963 and went on to fly three spaceflights–Gemini VIII, Apollo 9, and Apollo 15– becoming the seventh human to set foot on the Moon in 1971. |
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| Do you have a telescope? Would you like to see some of the same night sky objects from the ground that Hubble has seen from space? We invite you to commemorate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 35th anniversary by accepting our yearlong stargazing challenge! New challenge objects will be featured weekly. This week’s object is Messier 80 (M80), one of the Milky Way’s densest globular clusters. Hubble’s observations of M80’s core reveal a large population of blue stragglers – stars that appear to be unusually young and more massive than other stars in the cluster. M80 contains more than twice as many of these stars than other globular clusters Hubble surveyed. Located about 28,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius, M80 is visible in a small telescope or binoculars from a dark sky site. JOIN THE CELEBRATION |
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