NASA News

2021-12-10 00:47:10 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Selects Education Projects to Help Broaden STEM Participation" NASA has selected a diverse group of projects from museums, science centers, library systems, and other informal education organizations across the country as NASA Informal Education Community Anchors. [December 09, 2021] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-education-projects-to-help-broaden-stem-participation Open / Comment

2021-12-09 17:44:13 #NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Exploring the Secrets of the Universe" A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. [December 09, 2021] http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51733990422_be2a3d80f0_o.jpeg Open / Comment

2021-12-09 10:11:36 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Launches New Mission to Explore Universe’s Most Dramatic Objects" NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission launched at 1 a.m. EST Thursday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. [December 09, 2021] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-launches-new-mission-to-explore-universe-s-most-dramatic-objects Open / Comment

2021-12-09 08:11:50 #NewImage from #Nasa: "A Total Eclipse of the Sun" Few were able to stand in the Moon's shadow and watch the December 4 total eclipse of the Sun. Determined by celestial mechanics and not geographical boundaries, the narrow path of totality tracked across planet Earth's relatively inaccessible southernmost continent. Still, some enthusiastic and well-insulated eclipse chasers were rewarded with the dazzling spectacle in Antarctica's cold but clear skies. Taken just before the brief totality began, this image from a ground-based telescope inside the edge of the shadow path at Union Glacier catches a glimmer of sunlight near the top of the silhouetted lunar disk. Look closely for the pinkish solar prominences arcing above the Sun's limb. During totality, the magnificent solar corona, the Sun's outer atmosphere, made its much anticipated appearance, seen in the composite view streaming far from the Sun's edge. [December 09, 2021] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2112/SOLARECLIPSE2021FORDISTROHighRes1024.jpg Open / Comment

2021-12-08 17:48:13 #NewReport from #ISS : "ISS Daily Summary Report – 12/07/2021" Payloads: Bio-Monitor:  A crewmember performed the setup and donned the Bio-Monitor Garment and Headband and initiated a 48-hour data session.  Bio-Monitor is a Canadian onboard instrument that serves as a platform for scientific experiments on the ISS. The instrument performs on-orbit monitoring of crew member physiological parameters, with wearable sensors that only minimally interfere with Open / Comment

2021-12-08 17:46:38 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Invites Media to Briefing on Research Launching to Space Station" NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 14, to discuss science investigations launching on the next SpaceX commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station. [December 09, 2021] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-invites-media-to-briefing-on-research-launching-to-space-station Open / Comment

2021-12-08 17:30:04 #NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Observing a Dark Nebula" This stunning image captures a small region on the edge of the inky Coalsack Nebula, or Caldwell 99. [December 08, 2021] http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/coalsack_acs1_hpfinal.jpg Open / Comment

2021-12-08 16:56:51 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA’s Laser Communications Tech, Science Experiment Safely in Space" NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) and a NASA-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory space weather payload to study the Sun’s radiation lifted off at 5:19 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 7. [December 07, 2021] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-laser-communications-tech-science-experiment-safely-in-space Open / Comment

2021-12-08 08:11:08 #NewImage from #Nasa: "Comet Hale Bopp Over Val Parola Pass " Comet Hale-Bopp, the Great Comet of 1997, became much brighter than any surrounding stars. It was seen even over bright city lights. Away from city lights, however, it put on quite a spectacular show. Here Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed above Val Parola Pass in the Dolomite mountains surrounding Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Comet Hale-Bopp's blue ion tail, consisting of ions from the comet's nucleus, is pushed out by the solar wind. The white dust tail is composed of larger particles of dust from the nucleus driven by the pressure of sunlight, that orbit behind the comet. Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1) remained visible to the unaided eye for 18 months -- longer than any other comet in recorded history. The large comet is next expected to return around the year 4385. This month, Comet Leonard is brightening and may soon become visible to the unaided eye. [December 08, 2021] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2112/halebopp_dimai_960.jpg Open / Comment

2021-12-08 00:06:30 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Administrator Pays Tribute to Senior Advisor Mark Geyer" The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on the passing of Mark Geyer, senior advisor to associate administrator Bob Cabana, and former center director at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston: [December 07, 2021] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-administrator-pays-tribute-to-senior-advisor-mark-geyer Open / Comment