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Wolf-Rayet Star 124: Stellar Wind Machine

Photo of the Day Some stars explode in slow motion. Rare, massive Wolf-Rayet stars are so tumultuous and hot that they are slowly disintegrating right before our telescopes. Glowing gas globs each typically over 30 times more massive than the Earth are being expelled by violent stellar winds. Wolf-Rayet star WR 124, visible near [...]

By |2025-02-03T08:09:11-05:00February 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Station Nation: Meet Tandra Gill Spain, Computer Resources Senior Project Manager in the Avionics and Software Office 

For astronauts aboard the International Space Station, staying connected to loved ones and maintaining a sense of normalcy is critical. That is where Tandra Gill Spain, a computer resources senior project manager in NASA’s Avionics and Software Office, comes in. Spain leads the integration of applications on Apple devices and the hardware integration on the [...]

By |2025-02-03T07:00:00-05:00February 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA to Talk Science, Tech Aboard Next Intuitive Machines Moon Flight

As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Intuitive Machines’ second delivery to the Moon will carry NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations on their Nova-C class lunar lander. Credit: Intuitive Machines NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 7, to discuss the agency’s science [...]

By |2025-01-31T16:51:00-05:00January 31st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Astronauts Relax After Spacewalk, Cosmonauts Work Physics and Exercise Research

NASA spacewalker Suni Williams is attached to the Canadarm2 robotic arm’s latching end effector while being maneuvered 264 miles above the South Pacific Ocean. Two spacewalkers and their assisting crew members took a half-day off on Friday following the previous day’s excursion to remove radio hardware and swab for microbes outside the International Space Station. [...]

By |2025-01-31T14:07:00-05:00January 31st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

What’s Up: February 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

Skywatching Skywatching Home What’s Up Eclipses Explore the Night Sky Night Sky Network More Tips and Guides FAQ Download the Video A Month of Bright Planets Venus blazes at its brightest for the year after sunset, then Mars and Jupiter to rule the night amid the menagerie of bright winter stars. Skywatching Highlights All [...]

By |2025-01-31T14:00:00-05:00January 31st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Radar Imagery Reveals Details About Los Angeles-Area Landslides

NASA’s UAVSAR airborne radar instrument captured data in fall 2024 showing the motion of landslides on the Palos Verdes Peninsula following record-breaking rainfall in Southern California in 2023 and another heavy-precipitation winter in 2024. Darker red indicates faster motion.NASA Earth Observatory Analysis of data from NASA radar aboard an airplane shows that the decades-old active [...]

By |2025-01-31T13:31:00-05:00January 31st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Flight Tests Wildland Fire Tech Ahead of Demo

An FVR90 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) lifts off from the Monterey Bay Academy Airport near Watsonville, California, during the Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO) Shakedown Test in November 2024.NASA/Don Richey NASA is collaborating with the wildfire community to provide tools for some of the most challenging aspects of firefighting – particularly aerial nighttime [...]

By |2025-01-31T13:26:00-05:00January 31st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Building an Antenna

NASA/JPL-Caltech A crane lowers the 112-foot-wide (34-meter-wide) steel framework for the Deep Space Station 23 (DSS-23) reflector dish into position on Dec. 18, 2024, at the Deep Space Network’s (DSN) Goldstone Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California. Once online in 2026, DSS-23 will be the fifth of six new beam waveguide antennas to be added [...]

By |2025-01-31T12:15:00-05:00January 31st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 Things to Know About SPHEREx, NASA’s Newest Space Telescope

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s SPHEREx observatory undergoes testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in August 2024. Launching no earlier than Feb. 27, 2025, the mission will make the first all-sky spectroscopic survey in the near-infrared, helping to answer some of the biggest questions in astrophysics. BAE [...]

By |2025-01-31T11:56:00-05:00January 31st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Meet the Space Ops Team: Lindsai Bland

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) With more than 17 years of experience at NASA, Lindsai Bland has been an integral part of the agency, contributing to multiple Earth observing system missions at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Now, Bland ensures the agency’s communications and navigation resources [...]

By |2025-01-31T09:51:00-05:00January 31st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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