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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "A New Alloy is Enabling Ultra-Stable Structures Needed for Exoplanet Discovery" A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space telescopes that future NASA missions require to search for habitable worlds. One of the goals of NASA’s Astrophysics Division is to determine whether we are alone in the universe. NASA’s astrophysics missions seek […] [July 01, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/science-enabling-technology/technology-highlights/a-new-alloy-is-enabling-ultra-stable-structures-needed-for-exoplanet-discovery/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" What do you see when you look into this sky? In the center, in the dark, do you see a night sky filled with stars? Do you see a sunset to the left? Clouds all around? Do you see the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy running down the middle? Do you see the ruins of an abandoned outpost on a hill? (The outpost is on Askold Island, Russia.) Do you see a photographer with a headlamp contemplating surreal surroundings? (The featured image is a panorama of 38 images taken last month and compiled into a Little Planet projection.) Do you see a rugged path lined with steps? Or do you see the eye of a dragon? [July 01, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2507/EyeDragonSky_Komlev_960.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 92 Launch, Space Station Docking" NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft delivering approximately three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to the Expedition 73 crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 92 spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 3:32 p.m. EDT, Thursday, July 3 (12:32 a.m. Baikonur time, […] [June 30, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-provide-coverage-of-progress-92-launch-space-station-docking/
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#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center" This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy UGC 11397, which resides in the constellation Lyra (The Lyre). [June 30, 2025] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/potw2525a.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Going the Distance: Lisa Pace Leads Exploration Development Integration at Johnson" Lisa Pace knows a marathon when she sees one. An avid runner, she has participated in five marathons and more than 50 half marathons. Though she prefers to move quickly, she also knows the value of taking her time. “I solve most of my problems while running – or realize those problems aren’t worth worrying […] [June 30, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/going-the-distance-lisa-pace-leads-exploration-development-integration-at-johnson/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" Are these trees growing on Mars? No. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on melting pinkish sand dunes covered with light frost. The featured image was taken in 2008 April near the North Pole of Mars. At that time, dark sand on the interior of Martian sand dunes became more and more visible as the spring Sun melted the lighter carbon dioxide ice. When occurring near the top of a dune, dark sand may cascade down the dune leaving dark surface streaks -- streaks that might appear at first to be trees standing in front of the lighter regions but cast no shadows. Objects about 25 centimeters across are resolved on this image spanning about one kilometer. Close ups of some parts of this image show billowing plumes indicating that the sand slides were occurring even while the image was being taken. [June 29, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2506/almosttrees_mro_960.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Welcomes Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space Station" A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying the Axiom Mission 4 crew docks to the space-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module on June 26. Axiom Mission 4 is the fourth all-private astronaut mission to the orbiting laboratory, welcoming commander Peggy Whitson, former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space, ISRO (Indian […] [June 27, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-welcomes-axiom-mission-4-to-the-international-space-station/
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#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Astronaut Joe Engle Flies X-15" In 1963, Captain Engle was assigned as one of two Air Force test pilots to fly the X-15 Research Rocket aircraft. In 1965, he flew the X-15 to an altitude of 280,600 feet, and became the youngest pilot ever to qualify as an astronaut. Three of his sixteen flights in the X-15 exceeded the 50-mile (264,000 feet) altitude required for astronaut rating. [June 27, 2025] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/29242855965-1388a62ecc-o.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Sophia Roberts: Showcasing the Cosmos" Astrophysics Science Video Producer – Goddard Space Flight Center Growing up in Detroit with a camera in her hand, Sophia Roberts — now an award-winning astrophysics science video producer—never imagined that one day her path would wind through clean rooms, vacuum chambers, and even a beryllium mine. But framing the final frontier sometimes requires traveling […] [June 27, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/people-of-nasa/goddard-people/sophia-roberts-showcasing-the-cosmos/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" Big beautiful barred spiral galaxy Messier 109 is the 109th entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog of bright Nebulae and Star Clusters. You can find it just below the Big Dipper's bowl in the northern constellation Ursa Major. In fact, bright dipper star Phecda, Gamma Ursa Majoris, produces the glare at the upper right corner of this telescopic frame. M109's prominent central bar gives the galaxy the appearance of the Greek letter "theta", θ, a common mathematical symbol representing an angle. M109 spans a very small angle in planet Earth's sky though, about 7 arcminutes or 0.12 degrees. But that small angle corresponds to an enormous 120,000 light-year diameter at the galaxy's estimated 60 million light-year distance. The brightest member of the now recognized Ursa Major galaxy cluster, M109 (aka NGC 3992) is joined by spiky foreground stars. Three small, fuzzy bluish galaxies also on the scene, identified (top to bottom) as UGC 6969, UGC 6940 and UGC 6923, are possibly satellite galaxies of the larger barred spiral galaxy Messier 109. [June 27, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2506/M109_Robert_Eder1024.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "I Am Artemis: Patrick Junen" For some people, a passion for space is something that might develop over time, but for Patrick Junen, the desire was there from the beginning. With a father and grandfather who both worked for NASA, space exploration is not just a dream; it remains a family legacy. Now, as the stage assembly and structures subsystem […] [June 26, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/i-am-artemis/i-am-artemis-patrick-junen/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Sparkling Andromeda" The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is a glittering beacon in this image released on June 25, 2025, in tribute to the groundbreaking legacy of astronomer Dr. Vera Rubin, whose observations transformed our understanding of the universe. In the 1960s, Rubin and her colleagues studied M31 and determined that there was some unseen […] [June 26, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/sparkling-andromeda/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "By Air and by Sea: Validating NASA’s PACE Ocean Color Instrument" In autumn 2024, California’s Monterey Bay experienced an outsized phytoplankton bloom that attracted fish, dolphins, whales, seabirds, and – for a few weeks in October – scientists. A team from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, with partners at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and the Naval Postgraduate School, spent two weeks […] [June 26, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/ames/ames-science/by-air-and-by-sea-validating-nasas-pace-ocean-color-instrument/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Citizen Scientists Find New Eclipsing Binary Stars" When two stars orbit one another in such a way that one blocks the other’s light each time it swings around, that’s an eclipsing binary. A new paper from NASA’s Eclipsing Binary Patrol citizen science project presents more than 10,000 of these rare pairs – 10,001 to be precise. These objects will help future researchers study […] [June 26, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/nasa-citizen-scientists-find-new-eclipsing-binary-stars/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA, Australia Team Up for Artemis II Lunar Laser Communications Test" As NASA prepares for its Artemis II mission, researchers at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland are collaborating with The Australian National University (ANU) to prove inventive, cost-saving laser communications technologies in the lunar environment. Communicating in space usually relies on radio waves, but NASA is exploring laser, or optical, communications, which can send […] [June 26, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/nasa-australia-team-up-for-artemis-ii-lunar-laser-communications-test/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Ames Science Directorate’s Stars of the Month: July 2025" The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Sigrid Reinsch, Lori Munar, Kevin Sims, and Matthew Fladeland. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborative disposition needed to explore this world and beyond. Space Biosciences Star: Sigrid Reinsch As Director of the SHINE (Space Health Impacts […] [July 01, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/general/ames-science-directorates-stars-of-the-month-july-2025/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Awards Electrical Utility Services Contract for Kennedy" NASA has awarded a task order to Florida Power and Light of Juno Beach, Florida, to provide electric distribution utility service at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is a fixed-price task order with an estimated value of $70 million over five years. The contract consists of a two-year base period beginning July […] [June 30, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awards-electrical-utility-services-contract-for-kennedy/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA is Coming to Netflix This Summer" NASA announced Monday its latest plans to team up with a streaming service to bring space a little closer to home. Starting this summer, NASA+ live programming will be available on Netflix. Audiences now will have another option to stream rocket launches, astronaut spacewalks, mission coverage, and breathtaking live views of Earth from the International […] [June 30, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-is-coming-to-netflix-this-summer/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center" The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of 250 million years. Its source was the spiral galaxy UGC 11397, which resides in the constellation Lyra (The Lyre). At first glance, UGC 11397 appears to be an average spiral galaxy: it sports two graceful spiral arms that are […] [June 30, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-captures-an-active-galactic-center/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" It's raining stars. What appears to be a giant cosmic umbrella is now known to be a tidal stream of stars stripped from a small satellite galaxy. The main galaxy, spiral galaxy NGC 4651, is about the size of our Milky Way, while its stellar parasol appears to extend some 100 thousand light-years above this galaxy's bright disk. A small galaxy was likely torn apart by repeated encounters as it swept back and forth on eccentric orbits through NGC 4651. The remaining stars will surely fall back and become part of a combined larger galaxy over the next few million years. The featured deep image was captured in long exposures from Saudi Arabia. The Umbrella Galaxy lies about 50 million light-years distant toward the well-groomed northern constellation of Berenice's Hair (Coma Berenices). [June 30, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2506/UmbrellaGal_Alkuwari_960.png
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" Tidally locked in synchronous rotation, the Moon always presents its familiar nearside to denizens of planet Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon's farside can become familiar, though. In fact this sharp picture, a mosaic from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's wide angle camera, is centered on the lunar farside. Part of a global mosaic of over 15,000 images acquired between November 2009 and February 2011, the highest resolution version shows features at a scale of 100 meters per pixel. Surprisingly, the rough and battered surface of the farside looks very different from the nearside covered with smooth dark lunar maria. A likely explanation is that the farside crust is thicker, making it harder for molten material from the interior to flow to the surface and form dark, smooth maria. [June 28, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2506/farside_lro800.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Announces Winners of 2025 Human Lander Challenge" NASA’s Human Lander Challenge marked its second year on June 26, awarding $18,000 in prize money to three university teams for their solutions for long-duration cryogenic, or super chilled, liquid storage and transfer systems for spaceflight. Building on the crewed Artemis II flight test, NASA’s Artemis III mission will send astronauts to explore the lunar […] [June 27, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/esdmd/artemis-campaign-development-division/human-landing-system-program/human-lander-challenge/nasa-announces-winners-of-2025-human-lander-challenge/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Astronaut Joe Engle Flies X-15" Former NASA astronaut Joe Engle poses in front of an X-15 plane in this Dec. 2, 1965, photo. On June 29, 1965, Engle flew the X-15 to 280,600 feet, becoming the youngest U.S. pilot to qualify as an astronaut. The Kansas native flew the X-15 for the U.S. Air Force 16 times from 1963 to […] [June 27, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/astronaut-joe-engle-flies-x-15/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center" The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of 250 million years. Its source was the spiral galaxy UGC 11397, which resides in the constellation Lyra (The Lyre). At first glance, UGC 11397 appears to be an average spiral galaxy: it sports two graceful spiral arms that are […] [June 27, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-captures-an-active-galactic-center/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Curiosity Blog, Sols 4580-4581: Something in the Air…" Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis Earth planning date: Monday, June 23, 2025 Curiosity was back at work on Monday, with a full slate of activities planned. While summer has officially arrived for much of Curiosity’s team back on Earth, Mars’ eldest active rover is recently through the depths […] [June 26, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4580-4581-something-in-the-air/
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#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Sparkling Andromeda" The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. This new composite image contains data of M31 taken by some of the world’s most powerful telescopes in different kinds of light. This image is released in tribute to the groundbreaking legacy of Dr. Vera Rubin, whose observations transformed our understanding of the universe. [June 26, 2025] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/54614323748-5967d5c0c5-o.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA’s Webb Digs into Structural Origins of Disk Galaxies" Present-day disk galaxies often contain a thick, star-filled outer disk and an embedded thin disk of stars. For instance, our own Milky Way galaxy’s thick disk is approximately 3,000 light-years in height, and its thin disk is roughly 1,000 light-years thick. How and why does this dual disk structure form? By analyzing archival data from […] [June 26, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-digs-into-structural-origins-of-disk-galaxies/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Mars Orbiter Learns New Moves After Nearly 20 Years in Space" The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is testing a series of large spacecraft rolls that will help it hunt for water. After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to squeeze even more science out of the busy spacecraft as it circles the Red Planet. Engineers […] [June 26, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-reconnaissance-orbiter/nasa-mars-orbiter-learns-new-moves-after-nearly-20-years-in-space/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Meet the Space Ops Team: Derrick Bailey" Since childhood, Derrick Bailey always had an early fascination with aeronautics. Military fighter jet pilots were his childhood heroes, and he dreamed of joining the aerospace industry. This passion was a springboard into his 17-year career at NASA, where Bailey plays an important role in enabling successful rocket launches. Bailey is the Launch Vehicle Certification […] [June 26, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/meet-the-space-ops-team-derrick-bailey/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" An interstellar expanse of glowing gas and obscuring dust presents a bird-like visage to astronomers from planet Earth, suggesting its popular moniker, the Seagull Nebula. This broadband portrait of the cosmic bird covers a 3.5-degree wide swath across the plane of the Milky Way, in the direction of Sirius, alpha star of the constellation of the Big Dog (Canis Major). The bright head of the Seagull Nebula is cataloged as IC 2177, a compact, dusty emission and reflection nebula with embedded massive star HD 53367. The larger emission region, encompassing objects with other catalog designations, is Likely part of an extensive shell structure swept up by successive supernova explosions. The notable bluish arc below and right of center is a bow shock from runaway star FN Canis Majoris. Dominated by the reddish glow of atomic hydrogen, this complex of interstellar gas and dust clouds with other stars of the Canis Majoris OB1 association spans over 200 light-years at the Seagull Nebula's estimated 3,800 light-year distance. [June 26, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2506/IC2177SeagullLRGB-APOD1024.jpg
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