Hubble Sees a Diminutive Dwarf Galaxy
Portal origin URL: Hubble Sees a Diminutive Dwarf GalaxyPortal origin nid: 486167Published: Friday, March 17, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: UGCA 307 hangs against an irregular backdrop of distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: Band of bluish light speckled with stars and a few small...
THURSDAY 16. MARCH 2023
NASA Rockets to Search for Swirls at the Edge of Space
Portal origin URL: NASA Rockets to Search for Swirls at the Edge of SpacePortal origin nid: 486114Published: Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A NASA rocket team is on the hunt for giant hurricane-like swirls in our upper atmosphere. The Vorticity Experiment, or VortEx mission, is readying for a launch on March 17, 2023,...
WEDNESDAY 15. MARCH 2023
NASA’s Fermi Captures Dynamic Gamma-Ray Sky in New Animation
Portal origin URL: NASA’s Fermi Captures Dynamic Gamma-Ray Sky in New AnimationPortal origin nid: 486129Published: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Cosmic fireworks, invisible to our eyes, fill the night sky. We can get a glimpse of this elusive light show thanks to the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard NASA’s...
NASA’s Magellan Data Reveals Volcanic Activity on Venus
Portal origin URL: NASA’s Magellan Data Reveals Volcanic Activity on VenusPortal origin nid: 486138Published: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 07:24Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: In a first, scientists have seen direct evidence of active volcanism on Earth’s twin, setting the stage for the agency’s VERITAS mission to investigate.Portal...
TUESDAY 14. MARCH 2023
NASA Selects 7 Fundamental Physics Proposals
Artist's concept of a magneto-optical trap and atom chip to be used by NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s Fundamental Physics Program has selected seven proposals submitted in response to the Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences - 2022 (ROSES-2022) E.6 Fundamental Physics call for proposal....
NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures Rarely Seen Prelude to Supernova
Portal origin URL: NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures Rarely Seen Prelude to SupernovaPortal origin nid: 486116Published: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 - 14:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star – among the most luminous, most massive, and most briefly detectable stars known – was one of the first observations made by...
MONDAY 13. MARCH 2023
Study Finds Ocean Currents May Affect Rotation of Europa’s Icy Crust
Portal origin URL: Study Finds Ocean Currents May Affect Rotation of Europa’s Icy CrustPortal origin nid: 486118Published: Monday, March 13, 2023 - 16:39Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Research reveals a new explanation for how the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa rotates at a different rate than its interior. NASA’s Europa Clipper will take...
Warming Makes Droughts, Extreme Wet Events More Frequent, Intense
Portal origin URL: Warming Makes Droughts, Extreme Wet Events More Frequent, IntensePortal origin nid: 486093Published: Monday, March 13, 2023 - 12:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Scientists have predicted that droughts, floods will become more frequent and severe as our planet warms and climate changes, but measuring this on regional scales has...
Chesapeake Water Watch
Chesapeake Bay locals are helping take care of the Bay using their smartphones to train NASA satellites to monitor water quality. Find out how to get involved with this new project.
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Chesapeake Water Watch - Volunteers training NASA satellites to monitor water quality
Near the Chesapeake Bay? Join Chesapeake Water Watch and help scientists monitor its health! (Credit: Shelby Brown)
Chesapeake Bay locals are helping take care of the Bay using their smartphones! Climate disruption and other human disturbances are affecting our coastal waters. The Chesapeake Water Watch project asks volunteers in Maryland, Virginia, and other nearby states to monitor...
FRIDAY 10. MARCH 2023
Hubble Spots a Star-Forming Spiral
Portal origin URL: Hubble Spots a Star-Forming SpiralPortal origin nid: 486013Published: Friday, March 10, 2023 - 08:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: An irregularly shaped spiral galaxy....
FRIDAY 3. MARCH 2023
What's Up: March 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA
What are some skywatching highlights in March 2023?
Following their close approach in the sky on March 1, Venus and Jupiter go their separate ways. Venus climbs higher each evening, while Jupiter exists the morning sky at month's end. And those with binoculars of a small telescope can seek out dwarf planet Ceres, which is at its brightest this month....
Hubble Peers at a Galactic Seascape
Portal origin URL: Hubble Peers at a Galactic SeascapePortal origin nid: 485911Published: Friday, March 3, 2023 - 08:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A “jellyfish galaxy” with trailing tentacles of stars hangs in inky blackness in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: Center left: spiral galaxy with large, faint,...
WEDNESDAY 1. MARCH 2023
Hubble Captures Movie of DART Asteroid Impact Debris
Portal origin URL: Hubble Captures Movie of DART Asteroid Impact DebrisPortal origin nid: 485828Published: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by a 1,200-pound NASA spacecraft called DART on September 26,...
NASA-Funded Scientists Estimate Carbon Stored in African Dryland Trees
Portal origin URL: NASA-Funded Scientists Estimate Carbon Stored in African Dryland TreesPortal origin nid: 485812Published: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: With the help of artificial intelligence and high-resolution satellite images, scientists mapped almost 10 billion individual trees in Africa’s drylands to...