Space & Aviation
Explore Space & Aviation across the Smithsonian through stories, events, and exhibitions. Use the filters to browse by format, then bookmark events and exhibitions to keep track of what you want to visit or attend.
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The “50 for 50” artifact for Maryland is the Hubble Space Telescope, operated out of NASA Goddard. Maryland native Reid Wiseman reflects on Hubble's legacy.
NASA and STRI join forces in Panama to investigate the structure of tropical forests using cutting-edge airborne technology.
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The James Webb Space Telescope observed 13-billion-year-old light, using a closer galactic cluster like a magnifying glass. The work helps experts understand the universe’s earliest stars and mysterious ultra-faint dwarf galaxies.
The “50 for 50” artifacts for Ohio are pieces of the Wright Flyer that Neil Armstrong took to the Moon on Apollo 11.
What happens when we ask a space history to rank five incredible artifacts from California — without knowing what artifacts are coming?
The aftermath of a stellar explosion should be a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. The last thing astronomers expected to find was a population of supernova remnants appearing to dramatically change in brightness.
Astronomers may have found a supernova remnant in an intriguing neighborhood of our galactic downtown.
Astronomers have discovered a calm island of gas in the harsh center of the Milky Way, an environment similar to where most stars may have formed.