- Hubble Views the Dawn of a Sun-like Star
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Hubble Views the Dawn of a Sun-like Star
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a triple-star star system.
NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Universite de Grenoble I); Image Processing: Gladys ...
- Space Physics and Space Weather Scientist Dr. Yihua (Eva) Zheng
“I grew up in China. In China, everybody talks about what they want to be . Many want to grow up to be a scientist or engineer. ...
- Binoculars: A Great First Telescope
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Binoculars: A Great First Telescope
A pair of good binoculars can show craters on the Moon around 6 miles (10 km) across and larger. How large is that? It ...
- UN Tourism Calls for Cross-Cultural Dialogue and Climate Actions
Baku, Azerbaijan, May 15, 2024 / TRAVELINDEX / UN Tourism has joined leading international organizations and government leaders at the World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue, held in Baku around the ...
- Eleasa Kim: Pioneering CLDP Payload Operations and Cultural Integration
Eleasa Kim, stationed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, leads the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program (CLDP) payload operations at Johnson Space Center, with 18 years of mission support ...
- Mission Manager Update: VIPER Rover Approved to Move into Environmental Testing!
Engineers test the VIPER rover’s wheel movement and rotation in a clean room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
NASA/Helen Arase Vargas
While NASA’s VIPER team has been focused on building ...
- Sols 4184-4185: Look Near! Look Far!
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Sols 4184-4185: Look Near! Look Far!
This image was taken by Left Navigation Camera onboard NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4183 (2024-05-13 02:30:29 UTC).
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Earth planning date: Monday, May 13, ...
- NASA Tests Technology, Practices Artemis Moonwalks in Arizona Desert
NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Andre Douglas push a tool cart loaded with lunar tools through the San Francisco Volcanic Field north of Flagstaff, Arizona, as they practice moonwalking operations ...
- NASA’s DC-8 to Fly Low Altitude Over Pocatello, Idaho, for Final Flight
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NASA’s DC-8 aircraft.
NASA
NASA’s DC-8 aircraft will fly at low altitude over Pocatello, Idaho, and surrounding areas during its final flight from ...
- NASA’s DC-8 to Fly Low Altitude Over San Jose, California, for Final Flight
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NASA’s DC-8 aircraft.
NASA
NASA’s DC-8 aircraft will fly at low altitude over San Jose and surrounding areas during its final flight from ...
- NASA’s DC-8 to Fly Low Altitude Over Palmdale, California, for Final Flight
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NASA’s DC-8 aircraft.
NASA
NASA’s DC-8 aircraft will fly at low altitude over Palmdale, California, and surrounding areas during its final flight from ...
- NASA Teammates Recall Favorite Memories Aboard Flying Laboratory
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The NASA DC-8 aircraft lifts off on a flight from U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, at sunset. The ...
- NASA Names Deputy Station Manager, Operations Integration Manager
NASA has selected Dina Contella, left, as the International Space Station Program deputy manager, based at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Contella succeeds Dana Weigel, who became the ...
- What Is… Earth’s Atmosphere?
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The sun’s last rays illuminate Earth’s atmosphere in this photograph of an orbital sunset from the International Space Station as it ...
- Aurora over Idaho
NASA/Bill Dunford
The aurora paints the sky near Malad City, Idaho, red, purple, and green in this May 11, 2024, image. This aurora was sparked by multiple eruptions of solar material—called ...
- Meet NASA Women Behind World’s Largest Flying Laboratory
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NASA’s DC-8 aircraft – the world’s largest flying science laboratory – began its science missions in 1987 and since then, has ...
- Tech Today: A NASA-Inspired Bike Helmet with Aerodynamics of a Jet
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Jim Gentes wearing the Jiro Prolight bicycle helmet.
Credit: Jiro
Before the U.S. Cycling Federation adopted a requirement for all bike racers to ...
- NASA to Discuss New Polar Climate Mission During Media Teleconference
The PREFIRE mission will launch the first of two CubeSats – depicted in this artist’s concept orbiting Earth – into space on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, to study how much ...
- Johnson Celebrates AA and NHPI Heritage Month: Meet Hemanth Koralla
Hemanth Koralla was working as a software developer for General Motors when he received a LinkedIn message inviting him to apply for a NASA contract position with Jacobs Technology. While ...
- 15 Years Ago: STS-125, the Final Hubble Servicing Mission
“Trying to do stellar observations from Earth is like trying to do birdwatching from the bottom of a lake.” James B. Odom, Hubble Program Manager 1983-1990.
The fifth and final servicing ...
- NASA Invites Media to Expedition 70 Crew Visit at Marshall
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Four Expedition 70 crew members pose for a fun portrait inside their crew quarters aboard the International Space Station’s Harmony module. ...
- Sols 4182-4183: We Reached the South Side of Pinnacle Ridge… What’s Next?
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Sols 4182-4183: We Reached the South Side of Pinnacle Ridge… What’s Next?
This image was taken by Left Navigation Camera onboard NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4180 (2024-05-10 ...
- NASA Awards Expand Research Capabilities at Institutions Nationwide
A photo of a team of researchers from the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras while working to discover a more efficient water recycling system for use on space missions. The ...
- That’s Refreshing
NASA/Kim Shiflett
An American flamingo takes a moment to drink water in the Indian River at Haulover Canal on Merritt Island on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. American Flamingos are more common ...
- NASA Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Competition
From left to right, Cielo Torres, Jacob Liorca, Thomas Jaycard, and Gavin Fitzgerald work on a robotic rover inside the University of Central Florida’s robotics lab ahead of the 2024 ...