#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Preserves Its Past at Kennedy While Building Future of Space" Current and former employees of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida gathered recently to celebrate the installation of a Florida Historical Marker cast in bronze at the location of the spaceport’s old headquarters building. The first of its kind inside the center’s secure area, the marker is the latest example of the center’s commitment to [

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Stephanie Duchesne: Leading with Integrity and Openness for CLDP" Of all the lessons learned throughout her NASA career, the importance of relationship and personal integrity is one that has been repeatedly reinforced for Stephanie Duchesne, a Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program (CLDP) project executive. “Each person you work with has their own unique perspectives and concerns, and in order to solve a problem [

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "First of Its Kind Detection Made in Striking New Webb Image" Alignment of bipolar jets confirms star formation theories For the first time, a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to directly image has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). In this stunning image of the Serpens Nebula, the discovery lies in the northern area (seen at the upper left) of this […] [June 20, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/first-of-its-kind-detection-made-in-striking-new-webb-image/

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Studying the Sun" Science in Space: June 2024 The Sun wields a huge influence on Earth. Its gravity holds our planet in its orbit, and solar energy drives the seasons, ocean currents, weather, climate, radiation belts, and auroras on Earth. The solar wind, a flow of charged particles from the Sun, constantly bombards Earth’s magnetosphere, a vast magnetic [

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Next Generation NASA Technologies Tested in Flight" Teams of NASA researchers put their next-generation technologies to the microgravity test in a series of parabolic flights that aim to advance innovations supporting the agency’s space exploration goals. [June 20, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/game-changing-development-program/next-generation-nasa-technologies-tested-in-flight/

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA’s Chandra Peers Into Densest and Weirdest Stars" The supernova remnant 3C 58 contains a spinning neutron star, known as PSR J0205 6449, at its center. Astronomers studied this neutron star and others like it to probe the nature of matter inside these very dense objects. A new study, made using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton, reveals that the interiors of neutron [

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Engineer Honored as Girl Scouts ‘Woman of Distinction’" You’d think a NASA aerospace engineer who spends her days inside a giant dome researching how to make plane engines quieter and spacecraft systems more efficient would have a pretty booked schedule. Still, advocacy and mentoring, especially for women and girls in STEM, is something Danielle Koch always tries to say yes to. For decades, [

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "A Bright New Abrasion" Last week, Perseverance arrived at the long-awaited site of Bright Angel, named for being a light-toned rock that stands out in orbital data. [June 20, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/a-bright-new-abrasion/

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Giant Batteries Deliver Renewable Energy When It’s Needed" Solar power is abundant – when the Sun is shining. Wind power is steady – when the wind

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA CubeSats Loaded for Launch" Eight CubeSats that are part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative have been integrated into Firefly Aerospace’s deployment hardware and are ready to be encapsulated into the payload fairing of Firefly’s Alpha rocket. The launch, named “Noise of Summer,

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Why Scientists Are Intrigued by Air in NASA’s Mars Sample Tubes" Tucked away with each rock and soil sample collected by the agency’s Perseverance rover is a potential boon for atmospheric scientists. Atmospheric scientists get a little more excited with every rock core NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover seals in its titanium sample tubes, which are being gathered for eventual delivery to Earth as part of the [

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Augmented Reality Speeds Spacecraft Construction at NASA Goddard" Technicians armed with advanced measuring equipment, augmented reality headsets, and QR codes virtually checked the fit of some Roman Space Telescope structures before building or moving them through facilities at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “We’ve been able to place sensors, mounting interfaces, and other spacecraft hardware in 3D space faster and [

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Invites Media to ‘NASA in the Park’ June 22" Media are invited to attend a celebration of space and the Rocket City during

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA’s Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with “Rose” of Galaxies" To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA, Partners Conduct Fifth Asteroid Impact Exercise, Release Summary" For the benefit of all, NASA released a summary Thursday of the fifth biennial Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise. NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, in partnership with FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and with the assistance of the U.S. Department of State Office of Space Affairs, convened the tabletop exercise to inform and assess our [

#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "NASA's Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with "Rose" of Galaxies" To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., pointed Hubble's eye at an especially photogenic pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273. The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational tidal pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813. This image is a composite of Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 data taken on December 17, 2010, with three separate filters that allow a broad range of wavelengths covering the ultraviolet, blue, and red portions of the spectrum. [June 20, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/gsfc-20171208-archive-e001885orig.jpg

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Releases Updated Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience Plan" NASA joined more than 20 federal agencies in releasing its updated Climate Adaptation Plan Thursday, helping expand the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to make federal operations increasingly resilient to the impacts of climate change for the benefit of all. The updated plans advance the administration’s National Climate Resilience Framework, which helps align climate resilience investments across [

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "55 Years Ago: One Month Until the Moon Landing" With the dress rehearsal completed during Apollo 10 in May 1969, only a few weeks remained until Apollo 11, the actual Moon landing mission to meet President Kennedy’s goal set in 1961. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin and their backups James A. Lovell, William A. Anders, and [

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Marshall Research Scientist Enables Large-Scale Open Science" By Jessica Barnett  Most people use tools at work, whether it’s a hammer, a pencil, or a computer. Very few seek a doctorate degree in creating new tools for the job. Using that degree to make it easier for people around the world to access and use the vast amounts of data gathered by NASA? […] [June 20, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/research-scientist-rahul-ramachandran/

#NewImage from #Nasa: "Hubble s NGC 1546" Returning to science operations on June 14, the Hubble Space Telescope used its new pointing mode to capture this sharp image of spiral galaxy NGC 1546. A member of the Dorado galaxy group, the island universe lies a mere 50 million light-years away. The galactic disk of NGC 1546 is tilted to our line-of-sight, with the yellowish light of the old stars and bluish regions of newly formed stars shining through the galaxy's dust lanes. More distant background galaxies are scattered throughout this Hubble view. Launched in 1990, Hubble has been exploring the cosmos for more than three decades, recently celebrating its 34th anniversary. [June 21, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2406/NGC1546compassHST1024.jpg