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New Space-Based Weather Instruments Start Gathering Data

Portal origin URL: New Space-Based Weather Instruments Start Gathering DataPortal origin nid: 477186Published: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 10:08Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Innovative mini instruments on the International Space Station have produced their first maps of global humidity and ocean winds.Portal image: This map, made using...


MONDAY 7. FEBRUARY 2022


NASA Selects Developer for Rocket to Retrieve First Samples from Mars

Portal origin URL: NASA Selects Developer for Rocket to Retrieve First Samples from MarsPortal origin nid: 477180Published: Monday, February 7, 2022 - 16:56Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado, to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a small, lightweight rocket to launch rock,...


FRIDAY 4. FEBRUARY 2022


Hubble Revisits a Galactic Oddball

Portal origin URL: Hubble Revisits a Galactic OddballPortal origin nid: 477073Published: Friday, February 4, 2022 - 08:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The dwarf galaxy NGC 1705 featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope lies in the southern constellation Pictor, approximately 17 million light-years from Earth. NGC 1705 is a...


THURSDAY 3. FEBRUARY 2022


Puffy Planets Lose Atmospheres, Become Super Earths

Portal origin URL: Puffy Planets Lose Atmospheres, Become Super EarthsPortal origin nid: 477057Published: Thursday, February 3, 2022 - 15:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Astronomers have identified two different cases of "mini-Neptune" planets that are losing their puffy atmospheres and likely transforming into super-Earths. The new...


WEDNESDAY 2. FEBRUARY 2022


What's Up: February 2022 Skywatching Tips from NASA

What's Up for February? Jupiter makes its exit, Venus at peak brightness, and the star-forming cloud next door. Jupiter is the lone planet lingering in twilight skies after sunset in February. It exits the evening sky this month leaving no bright planets there until August (save for a brief appearance from Mercury in April). Also Venus is at peak brightness for the year in the a.m., and...

An Expanse of Light

Portal origin URL: An Expanse of LightPortal origin nid: 477013Published: Wednesday, February 2, 2022 - 10:02Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A new gallery of images combining X-ray data from Chandra with those from other telescopes is being released. The objects range from a supernova remnant within the Milky Way to a galaxy cluster millions of light...


TUESDAY 1. FEBRUARY 2022


How Dark Matter Could Be Measured in the Solar System

Portal origin URL: How Dark Matter Could Be Measured in the Solar SystemPortal origin nid: 476998Published: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 - 16:04Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: How Much Dark Matter Is in the Solar System? New Study Considers How to Measure ItPortal image: An illustration of the Milky...

Citizen Science Team Led by High School Student Discover 16 Brown Dwarfs

Lead author Tarun Kota, a student at Eastview high school.  (Credit: Tanisha Kota) Sixteen new brown dwarfs near our Sun found by citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project were announced in the Astronomical Journal. Many astronomers have searched for such objects over the years, so finding new objects so close to the Sun is surprising. Each one of these finds...

NEID: A New, Ultra-Precise Window into Nearby Worlds

PROJECT The NEID Doppler Spectrometer SNAPSHOT A collaborative partnership between NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) has produced the NEID spectrometer, which makes extremely precise measurements of the wobbles of stars caused by the planets that orbit them. NEID will be used to characterize exoplanets discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and...


MONDAY 31. JANUARY 2022


NASA Asteroid Tracking System Now Capable of Full Sky Search

Portal origin URL: NASA Asteroid Tracking System Now Capable of Full Sky SearchPortal origin nid: 476946Published: Monday, January 31, 2022 - 14:29Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The NASA-funded ATLAS has reached a new milestone by becoming the first survey capable of searching the entire dark sky every 24 hours for near-Earth objects that could pose...

NASA-supported Prototype Turns Earth Data into 3D Video Dashboard

Portal origin URL: NASA-supported Prototype Turns Earth Data into 3D Video DashboardPortal origin nid: 476943Published: Monday, January 31, 2022 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Researchers and programmers have developed a prototype 3D video dashboard for data from field campaigns that will make information easier to process and more readily...

How NASA in Silicon Valley Will Use Webb to Study Distant Worlds

Portal origin URL: How NASA in Silicon Valley Will Use Webb to Study Distant WorldsPortal origin nid: 476865Published: Monday, January 31, 2022 - 09:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley will be among the first to observe the cosmos with Webb, and they’re looking for clues...


SATURDAY 29. JANUARY 2022


Hubble Examines a Star-Forming Chameleon

Portal origin URL: Hubble Examines a Star-Forming ChameleonPortal origin nid: 476918Published: Saturday, January 29, 2022 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures one of three segments that comprise a 65-light-year wide star-forming region named the Chameleon Cloud Complex.Portal image: Bright blue...


FRIDAY 28. JANUARY 2022


Hubble Spots a Starship-Shaped Galactic Pair

Portal origin URL: Hubble Spots a Starship-Shaped Galactic PairPortal origin nid: 476909Published: Friday, January 28, 2022 - 08:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The subject of this image is a group of three galaxies, collectively known as NGC 7764A. They were imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, using both its Advanced Camera for Surveys...

Volcano-observing Drone Flights Open Door to Routine Hazard Monitoring

Portal origin URL: Volcano-observing Drone Flights Open Door to Routine Hazard MonitoringPortal origin nid: 476687Published: Thursday, January 27, 2022 - 22:35Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: An airborne volcano-observing platform was created from an unpiloted aircraft designed for scientific uses in challenging environments. Its flights to Alaska’s...


WEDNESDAY 26. JANUARY 2022


NASA’s MRO Finds Water Flowed on Mars Longer Than Previously Thought

Portal origin URL: NASA’s MRO Finds Water Flowed on Mars Longer Than Previously Thought Portal origin nid: 476846Published: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 11:01Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Caltech researchers used the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to determine that surface water left salt minerals behind as recently as 2 billion years ago.Portal...

Teeming Life on the ISS

Video Length: 4:47A cornucopia of species bring the interior of the station to life, and also bring a plethora of scientific knowledge contributing to humans thriving both on Earth and beyond the edge of our planet. Read this story Video Links: Teeming Life on the ISS -...


TUESDAY 25. JANUARY 2022


Are There Oceans on Other Worlds? We Asked a NASA Expert

Are there oceans on other worlds? Yes! Earth is not alone. When you look deeper into our solar system, there are worlds we suspect have oceans hidden beneath their icy surfaces. NASA scientist Lucas Paganini is here to tell you more. Learn more about ocean worlds: https://go.nasa.gov/3rD0zlO Producers: Jessica Wilde & Scott Bednar Editor: Matthew Schara Video...

Amazing Earth: Satellite Images from 2021

Portal origin URL: Amazing Earth: Satellite Images from 2021Portal origin nid: 476611Published: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: In 2021, NASA’s fleet of Earth-observing satellites, as well as and instruments and astronauts on the International Space Station, captured some compelling moments on our planet.Portal...


FRIDAY 21. JANUARY 2022


Rodent Research

Portal origin URL: Rodent ResearchPortal origin nid: 414764Published: Friday, January 21, 2022 - 16:42Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: In space, far from the strong tug of Earth’s gravity, astronauts experience a number of changes that could affect their health. Understanding these effects of weightlessness, as well as how to treat them, will be...

Hubble Sights a Sail of Stars

Portal origin URL: Hubble Sights a Sail of StarsPortal origin nid: 476735Published: Friday, January 21, 2022 - 08:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 3318 are lazily draped across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This spiral galaxy lies in the constellation Vela and is roughly 115 light-years away...


THURSDAY 20. JANUARY 2022


Citizen Scientists Spot Jupiter-like Planet in NASA TESS Data

Body: Tom Jacobs of Bellevue, Washington, loves treasure hunts. Since 2010, the former U.S. naval officer has participated in online volunteer projects that allow anyone who is interested — “citizen scientists” — to look through NASA telescope data for signs of exoplanets, planets beyond our solar system. Link: Learn...

Citizen Scientists Spot Jupiter-like Planet in NASA TESS Data

Tom Jacobs of Bellevue, Washington, loves treasure hunts. Since 2010, the former U.S. naval officer has participated in online volunteer projects that allow anyone who is interested — “citizen scientists” — to look through NASA telescope data for signs of exoplanets, planets beyond our solar system. News Article Type: Homepage ArticlesPublished: Thursday, January 20,...