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UNITE All-Nighter Delights Amateur Astronomers
2 min readMaybe you read about them in the papers--amateur astronomers in Japan, Russia, France, Finland, and the United States have been pulling all-nighters to spot extraordinary exoplanets, planets orbiting…
30 Years Ago: STS-60, the First Shuttle-Mir Mission
On Feb. 3, 1994, space shuttle Discovery took off on its 18th flight, STS-60. Its six-person crew of Commander Charles F. Bolden, Pilot Kenneth S. Reightler, and Mission Specialists N.…
Hubble Sees a Merged Galaxy
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows ESO 185-IG013, a luminous blue compact galaxy (BCG). BCGs are nearby galaxies that show an intense burst of star formation. They are unusually blue…
Tiny NASA Cameras to Picture Interaction Between Lander, Moon’s Surface
Say cheese, Moon. We’re coming in for a Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander descends toward the Moon, four tiny NASA cameras will be trained on the lunar surface, collecting imagery of…
Hubble Views a Dim but Distinct Galaxy
2 min readThis image of the softly luminous spiral galaxy UGC 11105 is from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. It lies about 110 million light-years from Earth in the constellation…
Hubble Sees a Merged Galaxy
2 min readThis new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows ESO 185-IG013, a luminous blue compact galaxy (BCG). BCGs are nearby galaxies that show an intense burst of star formation.…
First Hot Fire Test of the Year for Artemis
Clouds of white vapor pile up at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi during a full-duration, 500-second hot fire of an RS-25 certification engine Jan. 17, 2024.…
OpenET Moisture Measurement Tool is Proving Highly Accurate
5 min readAs the world looks for sustainable solutions, a system tapping into NASA satellite data for water management has passed a critical OpenET, the system uses an ensemble of…
NASA Taps Alabama A&M University to Host Break the Ice Lunar Challenge
By Savannah Bullard NASA has selected Alabama A&M University’s Agribition Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to host the final level of the agency’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge, using indoor and…
Statement from NASA’s Jennifer Kunz at SpaceCom, 50th Space Congress
Jennifer Kunz, associate director technical of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, released the following statement after speaking Thursday at the SpaceCom / 50th Space Congress in Orlando, Florida. “NASA’s…