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NASA Welcomes Senegal as Artemis Accords Signatory

By |2025-07-28T13:44:22-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Senegal signed the Artemis Accords July 24, 2025, during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. In 2020, during the first Trump Administration, the United States, led by NASA and the State Department, joined with seven other founding nations to establish the Artemis Accords, responding to the growing interest in lunar [...]

Lightning over the Volcano of Water

By |2025-07-27T13:44:25-04:00July 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? You're not alone. Details of what causes lightning are still being researched, but it is known that inside some clouds, internal updrafts cause collisions between ice and snow that slowly separate charges between cloud tops and bottoms. The rapid electrical discharges [...]

SWE on the Hill: Members Successfully Advocate for STEM RESTART Act Reintroduction

By |2025-07-25T15:00:00-04:00July 25th, 2025|Categories: Uncategorized|

SWE’s Hill Day reminds everyone that progress is still possible when powered by people passionate about equity, education, and engineering. Source

Twelve Years of Kappa Cygnids

By |2025-07-25T13:44:24-04:00July 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Meteors from the Kappa Cygnid meteor shower are captured in this time-lapse composite skyscape. The minor meteor shower, with a radiant not far from its eponymous star Kappa Cygni, peaks in mid-August, almost at the same time as the much better-known and better-observed Perseid meteor shower. But, seen to have [...]

Fireball over Cape San Blas

By |2025-07-23T13:44:28-04:00July 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day Have you ever seen a fireball? In astronomy, a fireball is a very bright meteor -- one at least as bright as Venus and possibly brighter than even a full Moon. Fireballs are rare -- if you see one you are likely to remember it for your whole life. Physically, [...]

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