The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has imaged NGC 2392, the Lion Nebula, in infrared light, offering a sharper look at the dust and gas structures shaped by the dying star at its center.
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for August 9, 2026, featured Steven Gilbert's 2012 image of a partially eclipsed Sun taken near Page, Arizona, and noted that a solar eclipse would occur that week.
A NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day entry published on August 8, 2026, contrasts the diffuse greenish coma of periodic comet 10P/Tempel 2 with the globular star cluster Messier 30, recorded on July 29.
After a 6-hour, 27-minute spacewalk on Aug. 6, NASA moved the next station spacewalk to Aug. 18 and kept the third planned for Aug. 25, pending suit evaluation.
A NASA page dated August 7, 2026 set out a Hyperwall speaking agenda at the 2026 IGARSS exhibit hall for August 10–12, covering Earth missions, NISAR, NOAA satellites, ocean observations, data access and STELLA platforms.
At Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineers use vacuum chambers and lunar regolith simulant to study how spacesuits and hardware withstand abrasive Moon dust ahead of Artemis missions, NASA reported on Aug. 7, 2026.
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for August 7, 2026, featured a Rubin Observatory image of the COSMOS field containing more than half a million galaxies in its central panel.
As of NASA's August 7, 2026 report, the PREFIRE twin CubeSats had captured two complete seasonal cycles at each pole since beginning science data collection in July 2024.
ESA's weekly image roundup for 3–7 August 2026 features Copernicus Sentinel-2 views of the Danube at a record low near Budapest, ongoing wildfire response in Greece, and the Orion spacecraft for Artemis III in a cleanroom at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
Copernicus Sentinel-2 images from early August 2026 reveal sharply lower water levels on the Danube near Budapest, as Hungary records a historic low driven by severe drought across central Europe.
A July 27–29, 2026, Leadership Institute at the Center for Astrophysics brought 13 educators together to build air quality case studies using NASA's TEMPO-Lab tool, per a report published August 6, 2026.
On August 6, 2026, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon completed a spacewalk that prepared the station's 3B power channel for future roll-out solar arrays.
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