Space News
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Ken Carpenter: Ensuring Top-Tier Science from Moon to Stars
Today, Ken Carpenter is a scientist for NASA’s Hubble and Roman space telescopes, but in 1967 he was just a teenager at his local library out to fact-check a “Star…
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Breaking the Scaling Limits: New Ultralow-noise Superconducting Camera for Exoplanet Searches
6 Min Read Breaking the Scaling Limits: New Ultralow-noise Superconducting Camera for Exoplanet Searches When imaging faint objects such as distant stars or exoplanets, capturing every last bit of light…
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How NASA’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes
Astronomers have discovered black holes ranging from a few times the Sun’s mass to tens of billions. Now a group of scientists has predicted that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space…
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Astronaut Suni Williams Prepares for Crew Flight Test
NASA/Frank Micheaux NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronaut Suni Williams gives a thumbs up during a mission dress rehearsal on Friday, April 26, 2024, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center…
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New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink
5 min read New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive…
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A Different Perspective – Remembering James Dean, Founder of the NASA Art Program
Artist James Dean prepares sketches of the space shuttle Columbia as it sits on Pad 39 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 9, 1981, waiting for its first historic…
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Tech Today: NASA’s Ion Thruster Knowhow Keeps Satellites Flying
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This Hall-effect thruster, shown being tested at Glenn Research Center, turns electricity and inert gas into force that could…
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Sols 4175-4177: Don’t Blink We’re Taking a Picture
3 min read Sols 4175-4177: Don’t Blink We’re Taking a Picture This image shows our previous workspace block and rover wheel tracks from Sol 4171 taken by the Left Navigation…
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NASA Invites Media to Attend Louisiana Space Day 2024
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, is one of the world’s largest manufacturing plants, with 43 acres…
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Hubble Views a Galaxy with a Voracious Black Hole
2 min read Hubble Views a Galaxy with a Voracious Black Hole This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4951, located roughly 50 million light-years away…