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Image description: Brand new manufactured parts give off gases from chemicals and residual solvents involved in their manufacture in a process known as outgassing. These gases filling your cabin are the cause of that familiar “new car smell.”
However, if your new car were actually a new spaceship full of extremely sensitive instruments and astronauts unable to roll down the windows, those gases could be a big problem.
In this image, a NASA technologist studies a paint sample as part of research that has resulted in a low-cost technique for preventing damage from outgassed contaminants. Find out more.
Photo by Pat Izzo, NASA.

Image description: Brand new manufactured parts give off gases from chemicals and residual solvents involved in their manufacture in a process known as outgassing. These gases filling your cabin are the cause of that familiar “new car smell.”

However, if your new car were actually a new spaceship full of extremely sensitive instruments and astronauts unable to roll down the windows, those gases could be a big problem.

In this image, a NASA technologist studies a paint sample as part of research that has resulted in a low-cost technique for preventing damage from outgassed contaminants. Find out more.

Photo by Pat Izzo, NASA.

Image description: This collage of solar images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows how observations of the sun in different wavelengths helps highlight different aspects of the sun’s surface and atmosphere. (The collage also includes images from other SDO instruments that display magnetic and Doppler information.) Credit: NASA/SDO/Goddard Space Flight Center.
Learn more about why NASA scientists observe the sun in different wavelengths.

Image description: This collage of solar images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows how observations of the sun in different wavelengths helps highlight different aspects of the sun’s surface and atmosphere. (The collage also includes images from other SDO instruments that display magnetic and Doppler information.) Credit: NASA/SDO/Goddard Space Flight Center.

Learn more about why NASA scientists observe the sun in different wavelengths.

Image description: The flight mirrors for the James Webb Space Telescope undergo cryogenic testing at NASA Marshall.
Photo by Ball Aerospace.

Image description: The flight mirrors for the James Webb Space Telescope undergo cryogenic testing at NASA Marshall.

Photo by Ball Aerospace.

Image description: Camelopardalis, or U Cam for short, is a star nearing the end of its life. As stars run low on fuel, they become unstable. Every few thousand years, U Cam coughs out a nearly spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core begins to fuse. The gas ejected in the star’s latest eruption is clearly visible in this picture as a faint bubble of gas surrounding the star.
Image from ESA/NASA

Image description: Camelopardalis, or U Cam for short, is a star nearing the end of its life. As stars run low on fuel, they become unstable. Every few thousand years, U Cam coughs out a nearly spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core begins to fuse. The gas ejected in the star’s latest eruption is clearly visible in this picture as a faint bubble of gas surrounding the star.

Image from ESA/NASA

Image description: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft delivered this view of Saturn while the spacecraft was in the planet’s shadow. Learn more about this view of Saturn.
Image from NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Image description: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft delivered this view of Saturn while the spacecraft was in the planet’s shadow. Learn more about this view of Saturn.

Image from NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute