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The Secret Sauce of STEM Scholarships

By |2022-10-31T13:33:00-04:00October 31st, 2022|Categories: Uncategorized|

Celeste Irwin is a woman with a plan. Hard at work for nearly a decade, this gem of STEM is on track to graduate from her fourth higher education institution in 2024. Earning two Associate’s degrees and two Bachelor degrees is an amazing accomplishment—however, it is what Irwin has not acquired that has us most [...]

Waves of the Great Lacerta Nebula

By |2022-09-14T14:09:08-04:00September 14th, 2022|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day It is one of the largest nebulas on the sky -- why isn't it better known? Roughly the same angular size as the Andromeda Galaxy, the Great Lacerta Nebula can be found toward the constellation of the Lizard (Lacerta). The emission nebula is difficult to see with wide-field binoculars because [...]

A Long Snaking Filament on the Sun

By |2022-09-13T14:09:52-04:00September 13th, 2022|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day rlier this month, the Sun exhibited one of the longer filaments on record. Visible as the bright curving streak around the image center, the snaking filament's full extent was estimated to be over half of the Sun's radius -- more than 350,000 kilometers long. A filament is composed of hot [...]

Red Sprite Lightning over the Czech Republic

By |2022-09-12T14:09:35-04:00September 12th, 2022|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What are those red filaments in the sky? They are a rarely seen form of lightning confirmed only about 35 years ago: red sprites. Research has shown that following a powerful positive cloud-to-ground lightning strike, red sprites may start as 100-meter balls of ionized air that shoot down from about [...]

Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins

By |2022-09-11T14:09:12-04:00September 11th, 2022|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How does your favorite planet spin? Does it spin rapidly around a nearly vertical axis, or horizontally, or backwards? The featured video animates NASA images of all eight planets in our Solar System to show them spinning side-by-side for an easy comparison. In the time-lapse video, a day on Earth [...]

North America and the Pelican

By |2022-09-08T14:09:19-04:00September 8th, 2022|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Fans of our fair planet might recognize the outlines of these cosmic clouds. On the left, bright emission outlined by dark, obscuring dust lanes seems to trace a continental shape, lending the popular name North America Nebula to the emission region cataloged as NGC 7000. To the right, just off [...]

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