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Image description: This photo is of one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror segments coated with gold by Quantum Coating Incorporated.
Photo by Drew Noel, NASA
Image description: NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope revealed an object that looks like a giant tornado in space. The structure actually results from shock waves where a powerful protostellar jet hits neighboring gas and dust.
Find more images from the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Photo by NASA / JPL-Caltech / J. Bally (University of Colorado)
Space Shuttle Discovery’s Last Flight
Video description
Yesterday, the Space Shuttle Discovery made its last flight around Washington, D.C. before heading to its permanent home at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia.
Video transcript
CAROLINE, 4TH GRADE STUDENT: I’m here to see the space shuttle fly in.
INTERVIEWER: What is your favorite planet?
CAROLINE: Saturn.
INTERVIEWER: Oh, why Saturn?
CAROLINE: Because I like to study its rings.
INTERVIEWER: When the shuttle gets to the museum do you plan to go visit?
CAROLINE and HER DAD: Yes.
[Background noise of people talking and cameras going off as the shuttle flies by.]
INTERVIEWER: Where did you see the shuttle in the sky?
CAROLINE: I saw it there, and there and there and there.
INTERVIEWER: What did you think? Was it big? Was it small?
CAROLINE: It was huge!
INTERVIEW: Can you believe it’s been up in space so many times?
CAROLINE: Yea!
NARRATOR: To learn more about the space shuttle, go to NASA.gov/shuttle and the Air and Space Museum’s page discovery.si.edu.
For more information about space and science, visit Kids.gov.
Image description: NASA engineer Ernie Wright looks on as the first six mirror segments from the James Webb Space Telescope are prepped to begin final cryogenic testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Photo by David Higginbotham, NASA
