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  • Sols 4355-4356: Weekend Success Brings Monday Best
    6 November 2024, 10:04 am
    Earth planning date: Monday, Nov. 4, 2024 After a spooky week last week, it’s great to see all our weekend plans succeed as planned! We don’t take success for granted as a rover going on 13 years. With all of the science at our fingertips and all the battery power we could need, the team […]

  • Beyond the Console: Kenneth Attocknie’s Mission to Bridge Cultures at NASA
    5 November 2024, 10:28 pm
    From the Mission Control Center to community celebrations, Kenneth Attocknie blends safety expertise with a commitment to cultural connection.  For the past 25 years at NASA, Attocknie has dedicated his career to safeguarding the International Space Station and supporting real-time mission operations at Johnson Space Center in Houston.   As a principal safety engineer in the […]

  • Bundling the Best of Heliophysics Education: DigiKits for Physics and Astronomy Teachers
    5 November 2024, 9:13 pm
    For nearly a decade, the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) has been working to bring together resources through its DigiKits–multimedia collections of vetted high-quality resources for teachers and their students. These resources are toolkits, allowing teachers to pick and choose interesting content to support their instruction. As a partner with the NASA Heliophysics Education […]

  • U.S. Navy Fleet Training Launch to be Conducted at NASA Wallops
    5 November 2024, 8:52 pm
    A rocket-propelled target is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a window Thursday, Nov. 7 to Friday, Nov. 8 between 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. EST both days as part of a U.S. Navy Fleet Training exercise. No real-time launch status updates will be available. The launch will not be livestreamed […]

  • From Campus to Cosmos: NASA Grants Boost Student, University Innovation
    5 November 2024, 2:16 pm
    Human exploration on the lunar surface is no small feat. It requires technologists and innovators from all walks of life to tackle many challenges, including feet.  From designing astronaut boots, addressing hazardous Moon dust, and researching new ways to land on Mars, NASA is funding valuable research through M-STAR (Minority University Research and Education Project’s […]

  • NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 31st SpaceX Resupply Mission to Station
    5 November 2024, 4:04 am
    Following a successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 31st commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and cargo for the agency are bound for the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying more than 6,000 pounds of supplies to the orbiting laboratory, lifted off at 9:29 p.m. EST Monday, on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from […]

  • Sols 4352-4354: Halloween Fright Night on Mars
    5 November 2024, 1:26 am
    Earth planning date: Friday, Nov. 1, 2024 Yesterday evening (Thursday) was Halloween for many of us here on Earth. My neighborhood in eastern Canada was full of small (and not so small!) children, running around in the dark collecting sweets and candy but also getting scared by the ghostly decorations hung at each house. Little […]

  • Lagniappe for November 2024
    4 November 2024, 10:17 pm
    Explore Lagniappe for November 2024 featuring: Gator Speaks The month of October is known for becoming cooler in these parts, and there sure were plenty of recent cool moments for NASA Stennis that set the tone for the future. Last month, the center marked a milestone for testing a new SLS (Space Launch System) rocket […]

  • From Logistics to Legacy: NASA Employee is a Part of Something Great
    4 November 2024, 10:09 pm
    Every task at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, is not simply work for Tessa Keating – it is a meaningful step toward a part of something great. “It has been a dream career. I count it an honor to share the NASA story and humbled to know our team witnesses a […]

  • NASA Stennis Plants Artemis Moon Tree
    4 November 2024, 9:59 pm
    A tree-planting ceremony at NASA’s Stennis Space Center on Oct. 29 celebrated NASA’s successful Artemis I mission as the agency prepares for a return around the Moon with astronauts on Artemis II. “We already have a thriving Moon Tree from the Apollo years onsite,” NASA Stennis Director John Bailey said. “It is exciting to add […]

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  • Contract Specialist Miranda Meyer
    5 November 2024, 8:18 pm
    "[Now that I work for Safety and Mission Assurance,] it's really cool to read everything about the different types of the scenarios. I always get to see the task orders and the type of work that is going on to keep people safe on the ground and in the air.” — Miranda Meyer, Contract Specialist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

  • Atlantis Begins 13th Space Trip
    4 November 2024, 7:45 pm
    The Space Shuttle Atlantis returned to work after a refurbishing and a two-year layoff, as liftoff for the mission occurred on Nov. 3, 1994. Five NASA astronauts and an ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut were aboard for the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-3) mission.

  • Witch Nebula Casts Starry Spell
    31 October 2024, 7:11 pm
    A witch appears to be screaming out into space in this image from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The infrared portrait shows the Witch Head nebula, named after its resemblance to the profile of a wicked witch.

  • 60 Years Ago: Lunar Landing Research Vehicle Takes Flight
    30 October 2024, 6:54 pm
    NASA test pilot Joe Walker took the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) for its first spin 60 years ago today. NASA used the LLRV, also known as the flying bedstead, to train Apollo astronauts for the descent to the Moon's surface.

  • A Particular Lenticular Cloud
    29 October 2024, 8:06 pm
    New Zealand’s stunning scenery has famously provided the backdrop for fictional worlds in fantasy films. A unique cloud that forms over the Otago region of the country’s South Island also evokes the otherworldly, while very much existing in reality.

  • An Opportunity to Study Water
    28 October 2024, 6:29 pm
    Space science is fun! NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit fills this sphere of water with food coloring creating a Jupiter-like effect in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station.

  • Hubble Sees a Celestial Cannonball
    25 October 2024, 8:34 pm
    The spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is IC 3225. It looks remarkably as if it was launched from a cannon, speeding through space like a comet with a tail of gas streaming from its disk behind it.

  • An Orange Blue Moon
    24 October 2024, 9:10 pm
    A super blue moon rises above NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Aug. 18, 2024. Although not actually appearing blue, as the third full moon in a season with four full moons, this is called a “blue” moon.

  • Melbourne City Lights
    23 October 2024, 8:13 pm
    The city lights of Melbourne, Australia are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 271 miles above.

  • A Dazzling Supernova
    22 October 2024, 9:54 pm
    Nearly four decades ago, astronomers spotted one of the brightest exploding stars in more than 400 years. The titanic supernova, called Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), blazed with the power of 100 million suns for several months following its discovery on Feb. 23, 1987.

  • On the Road Again…
    21 October 2024, 9:12 pm
    A drone camera captures NASA’s mobile launcher 1 atop the agency’s crawler-transporter 2 moving from Launch Complex 39B to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. The mobile launcher has been at the launch pad since August 2023 undergoing upgrades and tests in preparation for NASA’s Artemis II mission.

  • NASA Michoud Gets a Rare Visitor
    18 October 2024, 9:42 pm
    The Oort Cloud comet, called C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, passes over Southeast Louisiana near New Orleans, home of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. The comet is making its first appearance in documented human history; it was last seen in the night sky 80,000 years ago. The Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet made its first close pass by Earth in mid-October and will remain visible to viewers in the Northern Hemisphere just between the star Arcturus and planet Venus through early November.

  • Imagining the Future
    17 October 2024, 7:21 pm
    An unidentified illustration of NASA's space shuttle. The space shuttle fleet flew 135 missions and helped construct the International Space Station between the first launch on April 12, 1981 and the final landing on July 21, 2011. There were five orbiters: Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour.

  • Europa Clipper Begins Journey to Jupiter’s Icy Moon
    15 October 2024, 7:17 pm
    A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:06 p.m. EDT on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. After launch, the spacecraft plans to fly by Mars in February 2025, then back by Earth in December 2026, using the gravity of each planet to increase its momentum. With help of these “gravity assists,” Europa Clipper will achieve the velocity needed to reach Jupiter in April 2030.

  • Ancient Comet Makes Appearance
    11 October 2024, 9:27 pm
    Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was about 44 million miles away from Earth in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 272 miles above the South Pacific Ocean southeast of New Zealand just before sunrise on Sept. 28, 2024.

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  • Dance of electrons measured in the glow from exploding neutron-stars
    4 November 2024, 5:22 pm
    The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole. This has, for the first time, made it possible to measure the microscopic, physical properties in these cosmic events. Simultaneously, it reveals how snapshot observations made in an instant represents an object stretched out across time.

  • Astronomers discover the fastest-feeding black hole in the early universe
    4 November 2024, 5:20 pm
    Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical limit. While short lived, this black hole's 'feast' could help astronomers explain how supermassive black holes grew so quickly in the early Universe.

  • NASA's Hubble, Webb probe surprisingly smooth disk around Vega
    1 November 2024, 5:35 pm
    Teams of astronomers used the combined power of NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to revisit the legendary Vega disk.

  • New ESO image captures a dark wolf in the sky
    31 October 2024, 6:10 pm
    For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop. Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, it was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile.

  • One of the fastest-spinning stars in the Universe
    30 October 2024, 8:04 pm
    New research in our Milky Way has revealed a neutron star that rotates around its axis at an extremely high speed. It spins 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest-spinning objects ever observed.

  • Seeing a black hole's jet in a new light
    28 October 2024, 6:14 pm
    Researchers have pored over more than two decades' worth of data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory to show there's new knotty science to discover around black holes.

  • Evidence mounts for dark energy from black holes
    28 October 2024, 6:14 pm
    Researchers have strengthened the case that matter becomes dark energy when massive stars collapse and become black holes.

  • Scientists discover molecules that store much of the carbon in space
    24 October 2024, 8:53 pm
    A distant interstellar cloud was found to contain an abundance of pyrene, a type of large carbon-containing molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). This suggest pyrene may have been the source of much of the carbon in our solar system.

  • Dandelion-shaped supernova and zombie star
    24 October 2024, 7:06 pm
    A historical supernova documented by Chinese and Japanese astronomers in 1181 has been lost for centuries, until very recently. Yet, the newly found remnant shows some stunning characteristics that are puzzling astronomers. Now, it surrenders its secrets. A team provides the first detailed study of the supernova's structure and speed of expansion in 3D.

  • NRL coronagraph captures unique images of a dusty comet
    23 October 2024, 11:16 pm
    U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) imaging instruments on three sun-orbiting observatories have captured sequences of comet C/2023 A3, known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as it passed between the Earth and the Sun during the beginning of October 2024.

  • Rocky planets orbiting small stars could have stable atmospheres needed to support life
    23 October 2024, 7:10 pm
    A sequence of events during the evolution of certain rocky planets orbiting M-dwarfs, the most common stars in the universe, creates an atmosphere that would be stable over time. This is true for more temperate planets, orbiting a bit farther from the central star.

  • Physicists discover first 'black hole triple'
    23 October 2024, 7:09 pm
    A surprising discovery about the black hole V404 Cygnus is expanding our understanding of black holes, the objects they can host, and the way they form.

  • NASA reveals prototype telescope for gravitational wave observatory
    22 October 2024, 9:41 pm
    NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves.

  • Neutron stars may be shrouded in axions
    18 October 2024, 7:12 pm
    Physicists have shown that extremely light particles known as axions may occur in large clouds around neutron stars. These axions could form an explanation for the elusive dark matter that cosmologists search for -- and moreover, they might not be too difficult to observe.

  • Astronomers detect ancient lonely quasars with murky origins
    17 October 2024, 7:21 pm
    Astronomers observed ancient quasars that appear to be surprisingly alone in the early universe. The findings challenge physicists' understanding of how such luminous objects could have formed so early on in the universe, without a significant source of surrounding matter to fuel their growth.