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Join Moon Joy June!

A graphic that depicts the Moon in bright purple and pink hues. Overlaid on the image are the following words in white letters: “Moon Joy June. (June 1-7, 2026) Week 1: Launch. (June 8-14, 2026) Week 2: Moon. (June 15-21, 2026) Week 3: Crew. (June 22-30, 2026) Week 4: Earth.” Credit: NASAALT

Are you in need of some serious Moon joy? Get ready for Moon Joy June.

NASA is hosting a month-long art challenge and we would love for you to participate! For every week of June, NASA will introduce a new prompt to inspire artists and creators of all kinds:

  • June 1-7: Launch 
  • June 8-14: Moon 
  • June 15-21: Crew 
  • June 22-30: Earth 

To share your Moon joy-inspired art on Tumblr, use the hashtag #ArtemisArtShow.

The sky is (not) the limit! We encourage all forms of art, including but not limited to: paintings, drawings, sculptures, dances, music, animations, nail art, latte foam art, poetry, fashion. Choose your favorite medium and share it with us!

Learn more about the challenge in our FAQ. Happy Moon Joy June to all who celebrate!

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What’s Hiding in the Emptiest Parts of Space?

Glowing pinkish-purple filaments fill the screen. Brighter and denser areas made up of myriad yellow dots which represent matter (both normal and “dark”), while voids are black. Mile markers appear over the voids and a label that says “Cosmic Voids” appears. Credit: Volker Springel (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics) et al., NASAALT
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This artist’s impression pinpoints many cosmic voids –– relatively empty bubbles of space.

The universe is home to trillions of galaxies, each chock full of smaller cosmic objects like stars and planets. Since galaxies gravitate together in a web-like pattern, there are also immense open spaces called cosmic voids in between. In those growing, gloomy places, dark energy dominates.

On a black background, small blobby galaxies are faintly arranged in large, ring-like structures. The animation appears to zoom in and all galaxies move outward from the center. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterALT

Galaxies in this animation are structured a bit like a Hoberman sphere (a lattice-like toy ball that expands and collapses), growing farther apart as the universe expands.

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Night and (Earth) Day

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This image, released in celebration of Earth Day, shows the terminator – the line between night and day – on Earth. The Artemis II astronauts captured this view on April 2, 2026, during their journey to the Moon.

NASA science improves life on Earth every day. We provide insights on our home planet that can only be gathered from space, which can then be used for disaster response, farming, and more. In addition, our observations of Earth and the technologies we develop provide the foundation needed to explore and sustain human life on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

Download this year’s Earth Day poster.

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Roman is Ready to Go!

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope with three large black solar panels deployed. The massive spacecraft is in a large open room with a viewing window on the wall on the left. There are extendable gates of different colors all around the telescope. A cherry-picker machine is fully extended in front of the telescope. Credit: NASAALT

After being assembled, our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has passed final tests, and is being prepared to move to our Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where teams will work to prepare it for a launch in early September 2026.

With a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble’s, Roman can potentially measure light from a billion galaxies in its lifetime. It will also be able to block starlight to directly see exoplanets and planet-forming disks, complete a statistical census of planetary systems in our galaxy, and settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.

The observatory is named after Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer who made cosmic vistas readily accessible to all by paving the way for telescopes based in space.

Want to learn more about Roman? Check out our #Roman Space Telescope tag and visit our mission page.

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