💥Tortured Clouds💥
Massive stars can wreak havoc on their surroundings, as seen in the Carina nebula. The bright star at the center is one of the most massive in the galaxy. Its blinding glare is sculpting – and destroying – the surrounding nebula. go.nasa.gov/3TbEiZb

What better way to mark #NewFriendsDay than with this new view?

One of Hubble’s most iconic shots now has a complementary companion from our friend NASA Hallo-Webb Telescope 🕸🕷🎃!

This star-forming region is known as the Pillars of Creation, and shows a small region of the Eagle Nebula.

That’s no ordinary spider web! This structure supports the primary mirror on our high-altitude balloon telescope ASTHROS. It’ll study the process in star-forming regions that disperses clouds of gas and dust, the ingredients to make stars. go.nasa.gov/3D5H23N #NASAHalloween

On Oct. 9, a record-breaking gamma-ray burst was caught by multiple NASA telescopes. Space station experiment MAXI used the recently activated Orbiting High-energy Monitor Alert Network (OHMAN) to tell station's NICER X-ray telescope to check it out!

This is what you’ve waited for.

Journey with us through Webb’s breathtaking view of the Pillars of Creation, where scores of newly formed stars glisten like dewdrops among floating, translucent columns of gas and dust: go.nasa.gov/3EPPiXW

Here’s your guided tour ⬇️

Needle’s Eye Galaxy 🪡

This #HubbleClassic view unveils a galaxy about 11 million light-years away from us.

It earned its nickname because one end of the galaxy is strangely empty of stars (not seen in this image of the starry center): go.nasa.gov/3eI55gP

Did you know future infrared telescopes observing black holes & other wonders of the cosmos will require detectors with 100,000 pixels? Luckily, a NASA BOOniverse 👻 sponsored team developed new technologies that enable production of these specialized array: go.nasa.gov/3MGrbNi

The universe is ever-changing. Our NEOWISE mission has released 18 all-sky surveys. When taken together, the maps show changes in the infrared sky over a decade. Maps like this can help us understand how stars evolve, among other things. go.nasa.gov/3Sd9khY

There’s a BAT lurking in the (gamma-ray) shadows. 🦇 Swift’s Burst Alert Telescope watches the sky for gamma-ray flashes. It even wears a mask (pictured) that creates a pattern of shadows to help pinpoint their locations. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/3AtANUQ #NASAHalloween

🎶🎵 Here’s the story
Of a bunch of galaxies
That were seen by SOFIA’s SALSA program.
All of them had different fields
Of magnetism —
Some of them were swirled.

The galactic bunch!
The galactic bunch!
Read the way SALSA studied the galactic bunch! 🎵🎶

tinyurl.com/wexvcvmz

Since its launch in 2018, NASA's TESS space telescope has been used to discover more than 260 exoplanets and almost 6,000 planet candidates. Now add another milestone: 1,000 research papers! That's a lot of science!🛰️ That's a good space robot💜

#OTD in 2002, ESA's INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) launched to study the cosmos using the highest-energy form of light. INTEGRAL has contributed to many discoveries, sometimes in tandem with NASA observatories. Meet INTEGRAL: sci.esa.int/web/integral

This fiendish specter lives in the center of the Milky Way, haunting our galaxy’s supermassive black hole. Our now-retired SOFIAtelescope discovered magnetic fields that may be keeping the black hole quiet. go.nasa.gov/34D7hNH #NASAHalloween

💥Flares of Fury!💥This planetary system is among the youngest ever observed at 22 million years old. The star, AU Microscopii, holds planet AU Mic b captive in a looming disk of ghostly dust and torments it with deadly blasts of radiation.

exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/2237…

💀Last gasps of stars💀 This trio of ghastly images shows the disembodied remains of dying stars called planetary nebulas. Planetary nebulas are a late stage in a Sun-like star's life, when outer layers have been shed and are lit by ultraviolet light from the central star.

On the largest scales, our universe looks like a giant web. 🕸 Clusters and superclusters of galaxies form along giant thread-like structures with voids in between. #MondayMotivation #NASAHalloween

The #TESS spacecraft began its return to normal operations on Oct. 13, with science expected to resume later today: nasa.gov/feature/goddar…