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NASA Solar System & Beyond
- NASA to Discuss Webb’s Arrival at Final Destination, Next Steps
20 January 2022, 9:58 pm
Scientists and engineers operating NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will answer questions about the mission’s latest milestones in a NASA Science Live broadcast at 3 p.m. EST Monday, Jan. 24, followed by a media teleconference at 4 p.m. - A un año del mandato de Biden, la NASA mira hacia el futuro
20 January 2022, 7:01 pm
Durante el año pasado, la NASA ha hecho valiosas contribuciones a los objetivos de la Administración Biden-Harris: liderando a nivel mundial, abordando el problema urgente del cambio climático, creando empleos bien remunerados e inspirando a las generaciones futuras. - One Year into the Biden Administration, NASA Looks to Future
19 January 2022, 5:33 pmOver the past year, NASA has made valuable contributions to Biden-Harris Administration’s goals – leading on the global stage, addressing the urgent issue of climate change, creating high paying jobs, and inspiring future generations. - NASA’s Webb Telescope Reaches Major Milestone as Mirror Unfolds
8 January 2022, 6:16 pm
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team fully deployed its 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror, successfully completing the final stage of all major spacecraft deployments to prepare for science operations. - NASA to Host Coverage, Briefing for Webb Telescope’s Final Unfolding
6 January 2022, 10:24 pm
NASA will provide live coverage and host a media briefing Saturday, Jan. 8, for the conclusion of the James Webb Space Telescope’s major spacecraft deployments. - Sunshield Successfully Deploys on NASA’s Next Flagship Telescope
4 January 2022, 4:51 pm
The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the spacecraft’s 70-foot sunshield, a key milestone in preparing it for science operations. - Update: NASA Plans Coverage of Webb Space Telescope Deployments
30 December 2021, 5:12 pm
Over about the next two weeks, NASA will provide broadcast coverage, media briefings, and other updates on major deployment milestones for the James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s largest and most powerful space science telescope. - NASA's Webb Telescope Launches to See First Galaxies, Distant Worlds
25 December 2021, 2:10 pm
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launched at 7:20 a.m. EST Saturday on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport. - NASA: Cobertura en español del despegue del telescopio espacial Webb
21 December 2021, 8:32 pm
NASA: Cobertura en español del despegue del telescopio espacial Webb - NASA’s 2021 Included Mars Landing, First Flight, Artemis, More
21 December 2021, 4:00 pm
In 2021, NASA completed its busiest year of development yet in low-Earth orbit, made history on Mars, continued to make progress on its Artemis plans for the Moon, tested new technologies for a supersonic aircraft, finalized launch preparations for the next-generation space telescope, and much more – all while safely operating during a pandemic and
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NASA Image of the Day
- Remembering Apollo 1
27 January 2022, 1:40 pm
On Jan. 27, 1967, tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy during a preflight test for Apollo 204 (AS-204). - The Colors of Water
26 January 2022, 2:48 pm
Much like the sky, rivers are rarely painted one color. - X-59 Wind Tunnel Testing at NASA Glenn
25 January 2022, 2:28 pm
This colorized schlieren image is of a small-scale model of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology airplane. - Studying the ‘Lost Habitable’ World of Venus
24 January 2022, 3:25 pm
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is designing mission concepts to survive the planet's extreme temperatures and atmospheric pressure. - Hubble Sights a Sail of Stars
21 January 2022, 2:00 pm
The spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 3318 are lazily draped across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This spiral galaxy lies in the constellation Vela and is roughly 115 light-years away from Earth. - Peering Through a Window to the World
20 January 2022, 3:13 pm
In this image from Jan. 9, 2022, NASA astronaut Kayla Barron peered out from a window inside the International Space Station's cupola. - Remembering Trailblazing Pilot Charles McGee
19 January 2022, 3:03 pm
Retired U.S. Air Force Honorary Brigadier General Charles McGee, left, spoke with NASA astronaut Alvin Drew in 2020. - Drilling Holes on the Red Planet
18 January 2022, 4:39 pm
This image shows the Highfield drill hole, on Vera Rubin Ridge in Gale crater on Mars, made by NASA’s Curiosity rover in its search for rock samples. Just recently, scientists announced that an analysis of rock samples collected by the rover were enriched in carbon 12, a type of carbon that on Earth is associated with biological processes. - Color Explosion; Beautiful Earth
13 January 2022, 3:52 pm
This image, captured by the Landsat-8 satellite, shows the view over Western Australia on May 12, 2013. - Baby Stars in the Orion Constellation
12 January 2022, 3:29 pm
Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in this infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174. - The Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole Has a Leak
11 January 2022, 2:17 pm
Our Milky Way's central black hole has a leak. - Sidney Poitier's Visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
10 January 2022, 2:14 pm
Legendary actor and diplomat, Sidney Poitier, visited JPL in 1979. - Waiting to Unfold
7 January 2022, 2:18 pm
This image shows the James Webb Space Telescope atop its launch vehicle, but before it was encapsulated in the rocket fairing. - Hubble Spots Star-Hatching frEGGs!
6 January 2022, 2:39 pm
This image shows knots of cold, dense interstellar gas where new stars are forming. - NASA’s X-59 Kicks Off 2022 in Texas for Ground Testing
5 January 2022, 4:30 pm
2021 saw significant milestones achieved in the assembly of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft (QueSST), and all eyes now look forward to a pivotal 2022.
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Astronomy News - ScienceDaily
- Scientists explain mysterious finger-like features in solar flares
27 January 2022, 5:43 pmAstronomers have presented a new explanation for the mysterious downward-moving dark voids seen in some solar flares. - Ancient ice reveals mysterious solar storm
26 January 2022, 8:42 pmThrough analysis of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team has found evidence of an extreme solar storm that occurred about 9,200 years ago. What puzzles the researchers is that the storm took place during one of the sun's more quiet phases -- during which it is generally believed our planet is less exposed to such events. - Extraordinary black hole found in neighboring galaxy
24 January 2022, 9:10 pmAt one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes we have found at the centers of galaxies, but bigger than the black holes that are born when stars explode. This makes it one of the only confirmed intermediate-mass black holes, an object that has long been sought by astronomers. - Highly eccentric black hole merger discovered
20 January 2022, 10:50 pmScientists believe they have detected a merger of two black holes with eccentric orbits. This can help explain how some of the previous black hole mergers are much heavier than previously thought possible. - Hubble finds a black hole igniting star formation in a dwarf galaxy
20 January 2022, 1:41 amOften portrayed as destructive monsters that hold light captive, black holes take on a less villainous role in the latest research from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. A black hole at the heart of the dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 is creating stars rather than gobbling them up. The black hole is apparently contributing to the firestorm of new star formation taking place in the galaxy. The dwarf galaxy lies 30 million light-years away, in the southern constellation Pyxis. - How many black holes are out there in the universe?
19 January 2022, 9:52 pmA new study has investigated stellar mass black holes, which are black holes with masses between a few to some hundred solar masses, that originated at the end of the life of massive stars. According to the study, a remarkable amount of around 1 percent of the overall ordinary matter of the universe is locked up in stellar mass black holes. Astonishingly, the researchers have found that the number of black holes within the observable universe at present time is about about 40 times 10 to the exponent 18. - Internal ocean in small Saturn moon uncovered
19 January 2022, 4:12 pmA scientist recently set out to prove that the tiny, innermost moon of Saturn was a frozen inert satellite and instead discovered compelling evidence that Mimas has a liquid internal ocean. In the waning days of NASA's Cassini mission, the spacecraft identified a curious libration, or oscillation, in the moon's rotation, which often points to a geologically active body able to support an internal ocean. - Newly discovered carbon may yield clues to ancient Mars
17 January 2022, 10:55 pmNASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, and since then has roamed Gale Crater taking samples and sending the results back home for researchers to interpret. Analysis of carbon isotopes in sediment samples taken from half a dozen exposed locations, including an exposed cliff, leave researchers with three plausible explanations for the carbon's origin -- cosmic dust, ultraviolet degradation of carbon dioxide, or ultraviolet degradation of biologically produced methane. - Unusual team finds gigantic planet hidden in plain sight
14 January 2022, 1:41 amAn astronomer and a group of eagle-eyed citizen scientists have discovered a giant gas planet hidden from view by typical stargazing tools. - Newly-found planets on the edge of destruction
13 January 2022, 9:14 pmAstronomers have found three Jupiter-like exoplanets that are dangerously close to being 'swallowed up' by their host stars. The discovery gives new insight into how planetary systems evolve over time, helping to reveal the fate of solar systems like our own. - Martian meteorite’s organic materials origin not biological, formed by geochemical interactions between water and rock
13 January 2022, 9:13 pmOrganic molecules found in a meteorite that hurtled to Earth from Mars were synthesized during interactions between water and rocks that occurred on the Red Planet about 4 billion years ago, according to new analysis. - New insights into seasons on a planet outside our solar system
13 January 2022, 6:07 pmImagine being in a place where the winds are so strong that they move at the speed of sound. That's just one aspect of the atmosphere on XO-3b, one of a class of exoplanets (planets outside our solar system), known as hot Jupiters. The eccentric orbit of the planet also leads to seasonal variations hundreds of times stronger than what we experience on Earth. - Cosmic 'spider' found to be source of powerful gamma-rays
12 January 2022, 8:50 pmAstronomers have discovered the first example of a binary system where a star in the process of becoming a white dwarf is orbiting a neutron star that has just finished turning into a rapidly spinning pulsar. The pair is a 'missing link' in the evolution of such binary systems. - Oxygen ions in Jupiter's innermost radiation belts
12 January 2022, 8:50 pmResearchers find high-energy oxygen and sulfur ions in Jupiter's inner radiation belts -- and a previously unknown ion source. - 1,000-light-year wide bubble surrounding Earth is source of all nearby, young stars
12 January 2022, 6:15 pmThe Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars -- but how did those stars form? For the first time, astronomers have retraced the history of our galactic neighborhood, showing exactly how the young stars nearest to our solar system formed.
Source: Astronomy News - ScienceDaily
Astronomy News - Astronomy.com
- <i>The Sky This Week:</i> Look for the zodiacal light
28 January 2022, 10:00 pmAfter watching the crescent Moon parade past the planets, enjoy dark overnight skies from January 28 to February 4. - When it comes to mass extinction, meteorite size doesn’t matter
28 January 2022, 2:30 amNew research shows it’s the composition of the rock a meteorite hits, and not the impactor’s size, that causes an extinction-level event. - <i>Snapshot</i>: Hubble catches a black hole creating new stars
28 January 2022, 12:30 amThe black hole at the heart of this dwarf galaxy is kick-starting star formation instead of cutting it off. - <i>Snapshot</i>: A stellar jet with a sinuous shape
26 January 2022, 8:30 pmLocated 10,000 light-years from Earth, this stellar jet with an opaque, winding appearance was captured by the Gemini South telescope. A stellar jet is created when the magnetic field of a rotating young star interacts with the plumes of gas surrounding each one. The ionized gas then spits into opposite directions from the star’s poles, emitting cloud-like formations. The featured jet is named MHO 2147 and lies in the plane of the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius. Astronomers t - Meet the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's next-gen goliath
26 January 2022, 1:30 amNow that JWST has reached its home in space, what can we expect from this landmark telescope? - In Oregon’s high desert, amateur rocketry burns brighter than ever
25 January 2022, 7:30 pmA hamlet in the sagebrush has become a hotbed for experimental rockets. - Exoplanet Earth: What our world tells us about the cosmos
24 January 2022, 1:00 pmAs researchers strive to understand our solar system, there’s a perfect laboratory right under our feet. - Charting the universe in 3D
22 January 2022, 12:00 amA new instrument called DESI is now mapping more galaxies than every other survey of its kind before it — combined. - <i>The Sky This Week:</i> Catch Mars in the morning
21 January 2022, 1:00 pmThere are also star clusters, galaxies, and the Last Quarter Moon to see from January 21 to 28.
- The Moon’s farside has sticky soil, Yutu-2 finds
21 January 2022, 4:30 amThe dirt tends to get stuck to the rover’s wheels in clods, but hasn’t hindered the rover yet. - Solar filters for observing the Sun
21 January 2022, 4:00 amWhether using a telescope or binoculars, solar filters can help you view the Sun in its best possible light. - <i>Snapshot</i>: Astronomers catch a stellar drive-by
20 January 2022, 1:00 pmAn intruding star recently flew past the Z Canis Majoris system, majorly disrupting its disk of gas and dust. - Grab-and-go astrophotography
20 January 2022, 12:00 amLife’s too short to spend a lot of valuable time setting up and aligning. - <i>Snapshot</i>: This new view of the Flame Nebula blazes bright
19 January 2022, 1:00 pmLit by the easternmost star in Orion’s Belt, a fiery tangle of brightly glowing gas shows off its moves in radio light. - The case for life on Venus — and the private mission that aims to find it
18 January 2022, 1:00 pmThe first private mission to search for life on another planet is due to head to Venus in May 2023.
Source: Astronomy News - Astronomy.com
Astronomy News - Sky & Telescope
- SpaceX Rocket Booster to Hit the Moon on March 4th
27 January 2022, 10:47 pmA discarded Falcon 9 upper stage rocket booster will impact Hertzsprung Crater on the lunar farside on March 4th.
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- Are These the Most Distant Galaxies Yet Seen?
26 January 2022, 6:00 pmTwo fuzzy red objects in the early universe may be galaxies shining at us from only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
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- Evidence Hints at Ancient Life on Mars
26 January 2022, 2:00 pmScientists have found a chemical signature that hints at ancient life on Mars. But other possible explanations remain.
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- Starlink Satellites Don't Impact Science (Yet)
25 January 2022, 9:29 pmA new study of Starlink satellites’ impact on astronomy gives the community cause for both relief and concern.
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- The James Webb Space Telescope Has Arrived at Its Destination
25 January 2022, 3:16 amFully deployed, the James Webb Space Telescope arrived at its new home today, in a halo orbit around the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange point.
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- Exploring a Magnetospheric Origin for Fast Radio Bursts
24 January 2022, 2:00 pmAstronomers are starting to close in on the origins of fast radio bursts — powerful, fleeting flashes of radio waves seen at extragalactic distances.
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- Solar and Lunar Eclipses in 2022
21 January 2022, 4:05 pmAlthough no total or annular solar eclipses occur this year, skywatchers can look forward to two total lunar eclipses — the first ones observable across North America in more than 3 years.
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- This Week's Sky at a Glance, January 21 – 29
21 January 2022, 11:11 amAs Jupiter gets lower now, Orion and Gemini rise high, the Winter Triangle pivots on Sirius, the Great Square sinks and the Big Dipper creeps up.
The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, January 21 – 29 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
- Set Your Sights on This Lunar Bull’s-Eye
19 January 2022, 6:48 pmGo ahead, live on the edge: Grab your chance this month to see Mare Orientale, one of the most spectacular lunar seas most people have never seen.
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- Interstellar Probe Proposed to Explore the Solar Neighborhood
17 January 2022, 2:00 pmA unique mission concept known as Interstellar Probe would venture beyond the solar system and probe our neighborhood environment.
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