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NASA InSight Study Finds Mars Is Spinning Faster

Portal origin URL: NASA InSight Study Finds Mars Is Spinning FasterPortal origin nid: 488384Published: Monday, August 7, 2023 - 11:06Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Data sent by the spacecraft before it retired last December has provided new details about how fast the planet rotates and how much it wobbles.Portal image: NASA’s InSight Mars...


SATURDAY 5. AUGUST 2023


Hubble Glimpses a Glitzy Galactic Cluster

Portal origin URL: Hubble Glimpses a Glitzy Galactic ClusterPortal origin nid: 488352Published: Saturday, August 5, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The glittering, glitzy contents of the globular cluster NGC 6652 sparkle in this star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: A spherical cluster of stars...


FRIDAY 4. AUGUST 2023


NASA HQ Selects Three Researchers as Roman Technology Fellows in Astrophysics

NASA has awarded Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowships (RTF) to three early-career researchers in astrophysics for the class of 2022.  The program will support the advancement of their ideas for new technologies to further the exploration of the universe.  This annual fellowship gives researchers the opportunity to develop the skills necessary to become principal investigators (PIs) of...

NASA Helps Spot Wine Grape Disease From Skies Above California

Portal origin URL: NASA Helps Spot Wine Grape Disease From Skies Above CaliforniaPortal origin nid: 488374Published: Friday, August 4, 2023 - 12:15Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: In a case study, scientists detected the costly infection in cabernet sauvignon grapevines before they showed symptoms visible to the human eye.Portal image: Plant...


WEDNESDAY 2. AUGUST 2023


Webb Spotlights Gravitational Arcs in ‘El Gordo’ Galaxy Cluster

Portal origin URL: Webb Spotlights Gravitational Arcs in ‘El Gordo’ Galaxy ClusterPortal origin nid: 488310Published: Wednesday, August 2, 2023 - 10:56Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A new image of the galaxy cluster known as “El Gordo” is revealing distant and dusty objects never seen before, and providing a bounty of fresh science. The...


TUESDAY 1. AUGUST 2023


Join MoonDiff and Go Moon-Combing with NASA!

Comparing two Lunar images using MoonDiff. A new impact crater is visible in the right-hand image. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA needs your help spotting changes on the surface of Earth's nearest neighbor – the Moon! Join MoonDiff, our newest volunteer science project, and help scientists learn about the Moon’s dynamic surface. “You might be surprised how much goes on over...


MONDAY 31. JULY 2023


Euclid Mission to Study Dark Universe Takes First Test Images

Portal origin URL: Euclid Mission to Study Dark Universe Takes First Test ImagesPortal origin nid: 488284Published: Monday, July 31, 2023 - 10:53Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The telescope took a picture of a glittering field of stars, indicating that it is doing well after a million-mile journey from Earth.Portal image: This image was taken...


FRIDAY 28. JULY 2023


Optimizing Heat Exchange Flow in Microgravity

Interior of CM-HT test section:  Test fluid (normal perfluoro hexane or nPFH) is vaporized and pumped through the steel tube embedded in an insulating material section at the entrance and exit while Space Station cooling water flows countercurrently in the outer annulus around the steel tube causing the internal vapor to condense.  Both cooling water and the tube’s surface temperatures,...

Hubble Peers at a Tranquil Galaxy

Portal origin URL: Hubble Peers at a Tranquil GalaxyPortal origin nid: 488255Published: Friday, July 28, 2023 - 07:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The tranquil spiral galaxy UGC 12295 basks leisurely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Portal image: A spiral galaxy directly face-on: Two bright spiral arms extend from a bar,...


THURSDAY 27. JULY 2023


Hubble Sees Evaporating Planet Getting the Hiccups

Portal origin URL: Hubble Sees Evaporating Planet Getting the HiccupsPortal origin nid: 488206Published: Thursday, July 27, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A young planet whirling around a petulant red dwarf star is changing in unpredictable ways orbit-by-orbit.Portal image: Illustration: mottled red dwarf star with finger-like...


WEDNESDAY 26. JULY 2023


Webb Snaps Highly Detailed Infrared Image of Actively Forming Stars

Portal origin URL: Webb Snaps Highly Detailed Infrared Image of Actively Forming StarsPortal origin nid: 488212Published: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the “antics” of a pair of actively forming young stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution...


TUESDAY 25. JULY 2023


Join Radio JOVE’s Solar Eclipse Campaign!

Want to do your own radio astronomy? NASA’s Radio JOVE citizen science project wants your help studying the Sun.  Join the project and use your own radio telescope to make coordinated observations of the Sun for the 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses over the Americas! “NASA’s Radio JOVE Citizen Science Project allows me to further explore my lifelong interest in astronomy,” said John...


MONDAY 24. JULY 2023


Webb Detects Water Vapor in Rocky Planet-Forming Zone

Portal origin URL: Webb Detects Water Vapor in Rocky Planet-Forming ZonePortal origin nid: 488174Published: Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: New measurements by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) have detected water vapor in the system’s inner disk, at distances of less than 100...


FRIDAY 21. JULY 2023


Hubble Images a Starstruck Galaxy

Portal origin URL: Hubble Images a Starstruck GalaxyPortal origin nid: 488121Published: Friday, July 21, 2023 - 08:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The irregular galaxy Arp 263 lurks in the background of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, but the view is dominated by a stellar photobomber.Portal image: An irregular galaxy that...


THURSDAY 20. JULY 2023


NASA Offers Many Resources to Monitor Climate Change

Portal origin URL: NASA Offers Many Resources to Monitor Climate ChangePortal origin nid: 488128Published: Thursday, July 20, 2023 - 16:33Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: In light of recent extreme weather events in the United States and around the world, NASA held a media roundtable July 20 from its headquarters in Washington to highlight the...


WEDNESDAY 19. JULY 2023


NASA Selects 14 Investigations to Help Understand the Universe through Ultraviolet Light

NASA has selected 14 U.S.-based researchers to join the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) science team. The selected U.S. ULTRASAT Participating Scientists will pursue science investigations that will contribute to Israel’s first space telescope mission which is planned to launch into geostationary orbit around Earth in 2026. Proposals were submitted in response to ROSES...

NASA Funds 3 Citizen Science Projects to Study 2024 U.S. Solar Eclipse

Portal origin URL: NASA Funds 3 Citizen Science Projects to Study 2024 U.S. Solar EclipsePortal origin nid: 488055Published: Wednesday, July 19, 2023 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA has awarded funding for three science teams to conduct citizen science investigations as a total solar eclipse sweeps across North America on April 8,...

New Study Reveals NASA’s Roman Could Find 400 Earth-Mass Rogue Planets

Portal origin URL: New Study Reveals NASA’s Roman Could Find 400 Earth-Mass Rogue PlanetsPortal origin nid: 488049Published: Wednesday, July 19, 2023 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: New research by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that our galaxy’s rogue planets far outnumber the hundred billion or so worlds...


TUESDAY 18. JULY 2023


NASA’s IXPE Fires Up Astronomers With New Blazar Findings

Portal origin URL: NASA’s IXPE Fires Up Astronomers With New Blazar FindingsPortal origin nid: 488092Published: Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - 13:48Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: An international team of astrophysicists, using new data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), published findings about the blazar called Markarian 421 –...

NASA’s Psyche Mission Enters Home Stretch Before Launch

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Psyche Mission Enters Home Stretch Before LaunchPortal origin nid: 488090Published: Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - 12:52Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Engineers and technicians at Cape Canaveral are preparing the Psyche spacecraft for liftoff, which is slated for Oct. 5.Portal image: NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is shown in...


MONDAY 17. JULY 2023


Researchers Become “Beaver Believers” After Measuring the Impacts of Rewilding

Portal origin URL: Researchers Become “Beaver Believers” After Measuring the Impacts of RewildingPortal origin nid: 488077Published: Monday, July 17, 2023 - 15:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Researchers are using NASA Earth observations to monitor impacts of beaver restoration on water availability in drought-prone ecosystems.Portal...

XRISM Mission To Study ‘Rainbow’ of X-rays

Portal origin URL:  XRISM Mission To Study ‘Rainbow’ of X-raysPortal origin nid: 488052Published: Monday, July 17, 2023 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A new satellite called XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, pronounced “crism”) aims to pry apart high-energy light into the equivalent of an X-ray rainbow.Portal...


FRIDAY 14. JULY 2023


Thank you to all the Solar Active Region Spotters!

What happens when 500 dedicated volunteers band together to tackle a set of really complex data? Science gets done -- fast! A NASA-funded Zooniverse project called Solar Active Region Spotters recently reached the end of its data set, as the volunteers tore through over 850 sets of observations in just ten weeks.  Image of an active region on the Sun captured in ultraviolet wavelengths by...