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NASA's Astrophoto Challenges

Try your hand at processing images from NASA's telescopes, or capture and process your own! These videos highlight the galaxy M87, host to a supermassive black hole, and the subject of the 2021 challenge.
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NASA's Astrophoto Challenges - NASA Data Challenge

Expert astronomers explore M87 at different wavelengths of light. All of the NASA images that the experts discuss here are available for you to work with in the NASA Data Challenge. Find them in the Challenge Images menu of JS9-4L.
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NASA's Astrophoto Challenges - Introduction Video

Watch this overview video to learn how to participate in the Astrophoto Challenges. You might also learn a thing or two about M87, and how you can find this object out in the night sky.

NASA’s Universe of Learning materials are based upon work supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award number NNX16AC65A to the Space Telescope Science Institute, working in partnership with Caltech/IPAC, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The award is part of NASA’s Science Activation program, which strives to further enable NASA science experts and content into the learning environment more effectively and efficiently with learners of all ages.