Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In celebration of International Observe the Moon Night, catch up on lunar science and exploration highlights from NASA, including preparations for Artemis, and explore the ways in which participants from around the world participate in the program.
Check out the program website (moon.nasa.gov/observe) to learn more, find evaluation resources, and to register to add yourself to the map of lunar observers around the world.
You can also add your own event images to our Flickr page (flickr.com/groups/observethemoon2025/) and share your experience using the hashtag #ObserveTheMoon on social media.
Keep up with lunar science and exploration throughout the year on science.nasa.gov/moon and by following NASA Solar System and NASA Artemis on social media.
International Observe the Moon Night is sponsored by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission and the Solar System Exploration Division at Goddard, with many supporters around the world.
Contributors:
-Federación de Asociaciones Astronómicas de España (FAAE)
-Sina Kürtz, German Space Agency
-Mariana and David, Australia
-Kuʻulei Bezilla, Hawai’i
Music credit: "Beginning of the Story," "Journey to the Countryside," "Outside Your Comfort Zone," and "Keep Looking Up" by Mark Russell from Universal Production Music
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
Producers:
James Tralie (eMITS)
Dan Gallagher (eMITS)
Social media support:
Staci Horvath (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Outreach coordinators:
Staci Horvath (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Caela Barry (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Animators:
Wes D. Buchanan (eMITS)
Walt Feimer (eMITS)
Art director:
Michael Lentz (eMITS)
Artist:
Vi Nguyen (ASRC Federal System Solutions)
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In celebration of International Observe the Moon Night, catch up on lunar science and exploration highlights from NASA, including preparations for Artemis, and explore the ways in which participants from around the world participate in the program.
Check out the program website (moon.nasa.gov/observe) to learn more, find evaluation resources, and to register to add yourself to the map of lunar observers around the world.
You can also add your own event images to our Flickr page (flickr.com/groups/observethemoon2025/) and share your experience using the hashtag #ObserveTheMoon on social media.
Keep up with lunar science and exploration throughout the year on science.nasa.gov/moon and by following NASA Solar System and NASA Artemis on social media.
International Observe the Moon Night is sponsored by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission and the Solar System Exploration Division at Goddard, with many supporters around the world.
Contributors:
-Federación de Asociaciones Astronómicas de España (FAAE)
-Sina Kürtz, German Space Agency
-Mariana and David, Australia
-Kuʻulei Bezilla, Hawai’i
Music credit: "Beginning of the Story," "Journey to the Countryside," "Outside Your Comfort Zone," and "Keep Looking Up" by Mark Russell from Universal Production Music
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
Producers:
James Tralie (eMITS)
Dan Gallagher (eMITS)
Social media support:
Staci Horvath (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Outreach coordinators:
Staci Horvath (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Caela Barry (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Animators:
Wes D. Buchanan (eMITS)
Walt Feimer (eMITS)
Art director:
Michael Lentz (eMITS)
Artist:
Vi Nguyen (ASRC Federal System Solutions)
This video can be freely shared and downloaded at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14908. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14908. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/.
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![“Cosmic Sea Slug” Appears in Hubble’s 36th Birthday Image
NASA is celebrating the 36th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope with a stunning new look at the Trifid Nebula, a star-forming region about 5,000 light-years away. Powerful ultraviolet light from massive stars has carved out this glowing bubble, triggering new waves of star birth.
First imaged in 1997, Hubble revisits this scene nearly 30 years later with sharper vision. The image reveals a structure nicknamed the “Cosmic Sea Slug,” including a jet from Herbig-Haro 399, showing how young stars actively shape their surroundings.
Bright stars, dark dust, and glowing gas tell the story of stars forming and evolving. Over time, the nebula will fade, leaving only stars behind. For 36 years, Hubble has transformed how we see the universe, and it’s not done yet.
Sit back and relax as Hubble Senior Project Scientist, Dr. Jennifer Wiseman takes us on a tour of this beautiful image.
For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble.
Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul Morris: Lead Producer
Script: Claire Blome (STSci)
Narrator: Dr. Jennifer Wiseman
Music Credit:
Hold Your Own by Tommy Evans [PRS] via Ninja Tune Production Music [PRS] and Universal Production Music
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![NASA’s Illuminate: Solar Orbiter Reveals Sun’s Poles For The First Time
We just got a brand new view of the Sun! ☀️ 👀
ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter has revealed the first-ever images of the Sun’s polar regions, previously hidden parts of the Sun newly visible thanks to the spacecraft’s uniquely “tilted” orbit.
The new images showcase a surprisingly splotchy mix of magnetic fields at the Sun’s poles. It’s a sign that our Sun is in its most chaotic phase, right in the middle of “flipping” its entire magnetic field upside down. 🔃
With its new vantage point, Solar Orbiter will be the first spacecraft to watch this flipping process happen at the Sun’s poles. The data will give new insight into the forces driving solar eruptions that affect Earth.
NASA’s Illuminate: Out-of-this-world images shining light on our Sun and solar system.
#NASAsIlluminate #NASA #sun #space #science
Music credit: “The Gourmet” by Marco Andrea Pes [IMRO] via Universal Production Music
Video credit: NASA
Producer: Joy Ng (eMITS)
This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14779 While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14779
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