Jet Propulsion LaboratoryFrom 2016 to 2022, this JPL-designed sound installation taught Huntington Gardens visitors about NASA’s Earth-science missions.Dr. Laurie Leshin, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since May 2022, is a distinguished geochemist and space scientist with...JPLers test a snake robot called EELS. Designed to sense its environment, calculate risk, travel, and gather data without real-time...Inside this compact vacuum chamber, physicists orchestrate a series of precisely timed cooling stages by applying laser beams, dynamic magnetic...NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with several of the 10 sample tubes it deposited at a sample depot...Some of the dozens of engineers involved in creating a ventilator prototype specially targeted to coronavirus disease patients at NASA's...The DSS-14 antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex.CGI: JPL engineer verifies electrical grounding of avionics systems on the Coronagraph Instrument.On June 27, 2021, teams from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and the March Air Reserve Base in...Created by 153 fiber artists and contributors, Dr. Leshin’s welcome quilt has become a symbol of JPL’s community.This visualization shows water features on New York's Long Island – shown as bright pink splotches nestled within the landscape....Two JPLers collaborate in the Office of Strategy and Formulation.NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar being assembled in SAF.Peering into the Moon's permanently shadowed regions, Lunar Trailblazer will detect signatures of water ice in reflected light, and it...In this illustration showing NEO Surveyor, NASA's next-generation near-Earth object hunter, the spacecraft floats in an infrared starfield containing stars,...A plume of methane – a potent greenhouse gas about 80 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere...Visitors to Open House at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., touch the solar panels of a full-scale model...This image taken by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows one of a total of 19 galaxies targeted for...More than 650 women gathered on Lab for the annual International Women’s Day photo, participating in a generational time-lapse showing...JPL’s Welcome Table events bring JPL employees together to share ideas and enjoy conversation.JPLers gather to view the updated plaque honoring JPL co-founder, Qian Xuesen.CADRE: NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration project is developing a network of shoebox-size mobile robots that could enable future...A JPLer shows the Mars Perseverance rover wheel design at the 2023 Explore JPL public event.An employee uses the JPL-developed Eyes on Earth data visualization application to demonstrate to visitors how we study the changing...
![This image taken by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows one of a total of 19 galaxies targeted for study by the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby Galaxies (PHANGS) collaboration. Nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1433 takes on a completely new look when observed by Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). NGC 1433’s spiral arms are littered with evidence of extremely young stars releasing energy and, in some cases, blowing out the gas and dust of the interstellar medium they plough into. Areas that once appeared dark and dim in optical imaging light up under Webb’s infrared eye, as clumps of dust and gas in the interstellar medium absorb the light from forming stars and emit it back out in the infrared. Webb’s image of NGC1433 is a dramatic display of the role that dynamic processes within the forming stars, dust, and gas play in the larger structure of an entire galaxy. At the centre of the galaxy, a tight, bright core featuring a unique double ring structure shines in exquisite detail, revealed by Webb’s extreme resolution. In this case, that double ring is actually tightly wrapped spiral arms that wind into an oval shape along the galaxy’s bar axis. NGC 1433 is classified as a Seyfert galaxy, a galaxy relatively close to Earth that has a bright, active core. The brightness and lack of dust in the MIRI image of NGC 1433 could hint at a recent merger or even collision with another galaxy.In the image of NGC 1433, blue, green, and red were assigned to Webb’s MIRI data at 7.7, 10 and 11.3, and 21 microns (the F770W, F1000W and F1130W, and F2100W filters, respectively). MIRI was contributed by ESA and NASA, with the instrument designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (The MIRI European Consortium) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in partnership with the University of Arizona.[Image Description: A large galaxy takes up the entirety of the image. The core is mostly bright white, but there are also swirling, detailed structures that resemble water circling a drain. There is white and light blue colored dust that emanates from the core’s center, but it is tightly contained to the core. The rings are wispy and highlight filaments of dust around cavernous black bubbles. The dust in the outer rings contains dots that are navy blue, pinkish, reddish, and white.]](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/weic2306a.jpg?w=1024)
