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Chandra Rewinds Story of Great Eruption of the 1840s

Portal origin URL: Chandra Rewinds Story of Great Eruption of the 1840sPortal origin nid: 489186Published: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 - 13:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A new time-lapse sequence shows Eta Carinae as it changes over time from 1999 to 2020.Portal image: The Eta Carinae star...

First Long-Duration Lidar Satellite Mission CALIPSO Ends

Portal origin URL: First Long-Duration Lidar Satellite Mission CALIPSO EndsPortal origin nid: 489165Published: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 - 12:15Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: CALIPSO, a lidar satellite that advanced the world’s understanding of climate, weather and air quality, ended its scientific mission August 1 after 17 years of...


MONDAY 25. SEPTEMBER 2023


Arctic Sea Ice 6th Lowest on Record; Antarctic Sees Record Low Growth

Portal origin URL: Arctic Sea Ice 6th Lowest on Record; Antarctic Sees Record Low GrowthPortal origin nid: 489173Published: Monday, September 25, 2023 - 15:44Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent on September 19, 2023, making it the 6th lowest year in the satellite recordPortal image: A lone...


SUNDAY 24. SEPTEMBER 2023


NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean Room

Portal origin URL: NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean RoomPortal origin nid: 489167Published: Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 17:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer)...


FRIDAY 22. SEPTEMBER 2023


Hubble Peers at Peculiar Galactic Pair

Portal origin URL: Hubble Peers at Peculiar Galactic Pair Portal origin nid: 489094Published: Friday, September 22, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This image taken using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) shows Arp 107, a celestial object that includes a pair of galaxies in the midst of a...


THURSDAY 21. SEPTEMBER 2023


NASA Invites Public to Share Excitement of Asteroid Sample Return

Portal origin URL: NASA Invites Public to Share Excitement of Asteroid Sample ReturnPortal origin nid: 489097Published: Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 13:38Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA is inviting the public to take part in virtual activities ahead of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and...

Growing Yeast on the Moon to Study Radiation Risks to Human Explorers

PROJECT Lunar Explorer Instrument for space biology Applications (LEIA) SNAPSHOT An autonomous microfluidic culturing system with CubeSat heritage teams up with two state-of-the-art radiation detectors to measure how biology responds to the radiation and reduced gravity environment on the lunar surface. A LEIA card stack: a fluidic card with microwells for yeast growth, sandwiched by...


WEDNESDAY 20. SEPTEMBER 2023


Sungrazer Project Volunteer Turned Professional Wins the Harold C. Urey Prize

This tiny white dot was the first comet discovered by then-teenager Quanzhi Ye in 2005, looking at images from the LASCO C3 telescope on the joint ESA-NASA SOHO spacecraft. Credit: ESA/NASA/NRL. Image processing by Karl Battams. In 2005, high school student Quanzhi Ye reported the discovery of a tiny "sungrazing" comet via the NASA-funded Sungrazer Citizen Science Project. It was the...


TUESDAY 19. SEPTEMBER 2023


Venus on Earth: NASA’s VERITAS Science Team Studies Volcanic Iceland

Portal origin URL: Venus on Earth: NASA’s VERITAS Science Team Studies Volcanic IcelandPortal origin nid: 489066Published: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 14:15Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The JPL-led international team used the island as a stand-in for Venus to test radar technologies that will help uncover the planet’s ground truth.Portal...

Water-Watching Satellite Monitors Warming Ocean off California Coast

Portal origin URL: Water-Watching Satellite Monitors Warming Ocean off California CoastPortal origin nid: 489065Published: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 13:16Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission is able to measure ocean features, like El Niño, closer to a coastline than previous space-based...


MONDAY 18. SEPTEMBER 2023


NASA’s Curiosity Reaches Mars Ridge Where Water Left Debris Pileup

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Curiosity Reaches Mars Ridge Where Water Left Debris PileupPortal origin nid: 489034Published: Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:48Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Believed to be a remnant of powerful ancient debris flows, Gediz Vallis Ridge is a destination long sought by the rover’s science team.Portal...


FRIDAY 15. SEPTEMBER 2023


Hubble Spots a Dreamy Galaxy

Portal origin URL: Hubble Spots a Dreamy Galaxy Portal origin nid: 488967Published: Friday, September 15, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This dream-like image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy known as NGC 3156.Portal image: A large lenticular galaxy appearing as faint, gray, concentric ovals that grow...

NASA’s Webb Snaps Supersonic Outflow of Young Star

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Webb Snaps Supersonic Outflow of Young StarPortal origin nid: 488974Published: Friday, September 15, 2023 - 06:03Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This image of HH 211 from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals an outflow from a Class 0 protostar, an infantile analog of our Sun when it was no more than a few tens of...


THURSDAY 14. SEPTEMBER 2023


NASA to Reveal Asteroid Sample Grabbed in Space, Delivered to Earth

Portal origin URL: NASA to Reveal Asteroid Sample Grabbed in Space, Delivered to EarthPortal origin nid: 488985Published: Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 16:06Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Wednesday,...

NASA Announces Summer 2023 Hottest on Record

Portal origin URL: NASA Announces Summer 2023 Hottest on RecordPortal origin nid: 488978Published: Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 16:05Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The summer of 2023 was Earth’s hottest since global records began in 1880, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York.Portal...

The Eclipse Soundscapes Project

When the moon blocks the sun, do crickets really begin chirping as if night were coming on? How do other kinds of insects and animals respond to a solar eclipse? The new Eclipse Soundscapes Project invites you to collect multi-sensory observations and sound recordings during the upcoming October 14, 2023 annular solar eclipse and the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. These data will help...


WEDNESDAY 13. SEPTEMBER 2023


NASA Selects Two Space Biology Research Studies That Will Lead to a Better Understanding of What It Takes to Enable Organisms to Thrive in Deep Space Beyond Low Earth Orbit

NASA announces the award of two grants or cooperative agreements for exciting new Space Biology research that will advance NASA’s understanding of how robust multicellular organisms respond, acclimate, and adapt to the deep space environment in support of human space exploration.  Proposals for these projects were submitted in response to ROSES-2022 Program Element E.11: “Research...


TUESDAY 12. SEPTEMBER 2023


NASA Receives Decadal Survey on Biological, Physical Sciences Research

Portal origin URL: NASA Receives Decadal Survey on Biological, Physical Sciences ResearchPortal origin nid: 488928Published: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 - 10:50Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A new study report may help NASA define and align biological and physical sciences research to uniquely advance scientific knowledge, meet human and robotic...


MONDAY 11. SEPTEMBER 2023


NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Captures its 1st Images of Asteroid Dinkinesh

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Captures its 1st Images of Asteroid DinkineshPortal origin nid: 488911Published: Monday, September 11, 2023 - 13:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured its first images with a view of the main belt asteroid Dinkinesh, the first of 10 asteroids that the spacecraft will visit on...

Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18 b

Portal origin URL: Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18 bPortal origin nid: 488910Published: Monday, September 11, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A new investigation with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope into K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, has revealed the presence of carbon-bearing...


FRIDAY 8. SEPTEMBER 2023


Physical Science Data for All

NASA has designated 2023 the “Year of Open Science”— a next-generation step towards increasing accessibility to decades’ worth of research data. NASA’s Open Science initiative aims to foster greater collaboration within the scientific community by removing all barriers to reviewing and analyzing benchmark data generated over the years by NASA-funded physical science research....

Hubble Images a Swirling Supernova Site

Portal origin URL: Hubble Images a Swirling Supernova SitePortal origin nid: 488883Published: Friday, September 8, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The swirls of the galaxy IC 1776 stand in splendid isolation in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: A irregularly-shaped spiral galaxy with difficult to...


THURSDAY 7. SEPTEMBER 2023


NASA’s Swift Learns a New Trick, Spots a Snacking Black Hole

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Swift Learns a New Trick, Spots a Snacking Black HolePortal origin nid: 488851Published: Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which launched in 2004, scientists have discovered a black hole in a distant galaxy repeatedly nibbling on a Sun-like...

Hubble Sees Glittering Globular Cluster Embedded Inside Our Milky Way

Portal origin URL: Hubble Sees Glittering Globular Cluster Embedded Inside Our Milky WayPortal origin nid: 488864Published: Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Hubble's colorful image of the globular star cluster Terzan 12 is a spectacular example of how dust in space affects starlight coming from background...

NASA-funded Study: Half of Glaciers Vanish with 1.5 Degrees of Warming

Portal origin URL: NASA-funded Study: Half of Glaciers Vanish with 1.5 Degrees of WarmingPortal origin nid: 488852Published: Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 08:43Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The world’s glaciers could lose as much as 40% of their mass by 2100 with 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. That's according to a NASA-funded study...

NASA Scientists Test New Tool for Tracking Algal Blooms

Portal origin URL: NASA Scientists Test New Tool for Tracking Algal BloomsPortal origin nid: 488876Published: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 19:12Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Harmful algae can endanger public health and coastal ecosystems and economies. Advances in satellite imaging are providing new ways to look at our living ocean.Portal...


WEDNESDAY 6. SEPTEMBER 2023


NASA Selects Groups to Guide ‘Habitable Worlds Observatory’ Activities, Invites Community Participation

NASA has selected 56 individuals to participate in groups that will guide maturation activities for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). HWO is a concept for a NASA flagship mission, as recommended by the 2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey, that would pursue a breadth of astrophysics goals, including searching for and characterizing potentially habitable planets beyond our solar system. The...

2 New Eclipse Projects Receive NASA Funding

Portal origin URL: 2 New Eclipse Projects Receive NASA FundingPortal origin nid: 488853Published: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 09:20Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Ahead of the total solar eclipse crossing North America on April 8, 2024, NASA has funded two more proposals that will use the eclipse to advance science while engaging the public.Portal...


FRIDAY 1. SEPTEMBER 2023


NASA Awards New Crop of Citizen Science Grants

NASA’s citizen science program reaches more than two million volunteers in more than 167 countries—and it’s growing even larger! NASA is funding nine new awards across the U.S. to develop or support citizen science projects. Nine new awards for citizen science will enable scientists and volunteers to study the Sun, the Moon, exoplanets, white dwarfs and distant galaxies. (credit:...

Hubble Views a Sphere of Stars

Portal origin URL: Hubble Views a Sphere of StarsPortal origin nid: 488808Published: Friday, September 1, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This huge ball of stars – around 100 billion in total – is an elliptical galaxy located some 55 million light-years away.Portal image: Upper-right quadrant is filled by a sphere of stars with a...


FRIDAY 25. AUGUST 2023


New X-ray Detectors to Provide Unprecedented Vision of the Invisible Universe

PROJECT Advanced Magnetic Microcalorimeter development SNAPSHOT A new class of X-ray detector with unprecedented energy resolution and array size could help transform our understanding of the cosmos through unparalleled vision into the otherwise invisible universe. Figure 1: Prototype 100,000-pixel magnetic calorimeter array developed via collaboration between NASA GSFC and MIT Lincoln...

Hubble Sees a Sparkling Neighbor Galaxy

Portal origin URL: Hubble Sees a Sparkling Neighbor GalaxyPortal origin nid: 488693Published: Friday, August 25, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: Irregular galaxy of many tiny stars clumped together, surrounded in diffuse light with a...

What is the Lunar Explorer Instrument for Space Biology Applications?

Portal origin URL: What is the Lunar Explorer Instrument for Space Biology Applications?Portal origin nid: 488671Published: Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 20:25Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: An experiment on the Moon’s surface that will study yeast’s biological response to the lunar environment to help understand and mitigate health risks for...


THURSDAY 24. AUGUST 2023


NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring Instrument

Portal origin URL: NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring InstrumentPortal origin nid: 488696Published: Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 10:18Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: On Thursday, NASA released the first data maps from its new instrument launched to space earlier this year, which now is successfully transmitting information about...


WEDNESDAY 23. AUGUST 2023


NASA, Partners Study Ancient Life in Australia to Inform Mars Search

Portal origin URL: NASA, Partners Study Ancient Life in Australia to Inform Mars Search Portal origin nid: 488683Published: Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 14:38Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA's Mars Exploration Program leaders joined their counterparts from the Australian Space Agency, ESA, and the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and CSIRO...


TUESDAY 22. AUGUST 2023


NASA Selects Geology Team for the First Crewed Artemis Lunar Landing

Portal origin URL: NASA Selects Geology Team for the First Crewed Artemis Lunar LandingPortal origin nid: 488662Published: Tuesday, August 22, 2023 - 14:04Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA has selected the geology team that will develop the surface science plan for the first crewed lunar landing mission in more than 50 years.Portal...


FRIDAY 18. AUGUST 2023


Hubble Captures Cosmic Cluster

Portal origin URL: Hubble Captures Cosmic ClusterPortal origin nid: 488593Published: Friday, August 18, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The massive cluster Abell 3322 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in which the galaxy 2MASX J05101744-4519179 basks in the center.Portal image: A crowd of oval-shaped...


THURSDAY 17. AUGUST 2023


Neptune's Disappearing Clouds Linked to the Solar Cycle

Portal origin URL: Neptune's Disappearing Clouds Linked to the Solar CyclePortal origin nid: 488555Published: Thursday, August 17, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Astronomers have uncovered a link between Neptune's shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, in which the waxing and waning of the Sun's entangled...


WEDNESDAY 16. AUGUST 2023


NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Gets Final Payload for Moon Water Hunt

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Gets Final Payload for Moon Water HuntPortal origin nid: 488560Published: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 - 11:16Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The spacecraft’s Lunar Thermal Mapper science instrument will work with an imaging spectrometer to help researchers understand the nature of water on the Moon’s...


TUESDAY 15. AUGUST 2023


NASA’s Europa Probe Gets a Hotline to Earth

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Europa Probe Gets a Hotline to EarthPortal origin nid: 488538Published: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 - 14:55Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The addition of a high-gain antenna will enable the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft – set to launch in October 2024 – to communicate with mission controllers hundreds of millions...


MONDAY 14. AUGUST 2023


NASA Clocks July 2023 as Hottest Month on Record Ever Since 1880

Portal origin URL: NASA Clocks July 2023 as Hottest Month on Record Ever Since 1880Portal origin nid: 488504Published: Monday, August 14, 2023 - 10:14Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: According to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, July 2023 was hotter than any other month in the global temperature...


FRIDAY 11. AUGUST 2023


All Eyes on the Ice Giants

Portal origin URL: All Eyes on the Ice Giants Portal origin nid: 488460Published: Friday, August 11, 2023 - 12:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft plans to observe Uranus and Neptune from its location far out in the outer solar system this fall, and the mission team is inviting the global amateur astronomy community to...

NASA Selects Space Weather Centers for Excellence

NASA has selected three Space Weather Centers of Excellence (SWxC) and is partnering with the Department of Commerce (DoC) on the joint selection of a fourth proposal. The SWxC program element supports multi-institution collaboration to address grand challenge goals of space weather that require more than individual investigators or small teams. The SWxC program element takes advantage of...