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NASA’s CODEX Captures Unique Views of Sun’s Outer Atmosphere

By |2025-06-10T18:15:00-04:00June 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

For the first time, scientists can observe temperature changes in the Sun’s outer atmosphere thanks to new technology introduced by NASA’s CODEX instrument. This animated, color-coded heat map shows temperature changes over the course of a couple days, where red indicates hotter regions and purple indicates cooler ones. NASA/KASI/INAF/CODEX Key Points: NASA’s CODEX investigation [...]

High Above the World

By |2025-06-10T14:22:00-04:00June 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA NASA astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz works with a grapple fixture during a June 2002 spacewalk outside of the International Space Station. He was partnered with CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales)  astronaut Philippe Perrin for the spacewalk – one of three that occurred during the STS-111 mission. Chang-Diaz was part of NASA’s ninth class of astronaut [...]

Frigid Exoplanet in Strange Orbit Imaged by NASA’s Webb

By |2025-06-10T14:15:00-04:00June 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Webb Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Science Overview and Goals Early Universe Galaxies Over Time Star Lifecycle Other Worlds Observatory Overview Launch Deployment [...]

I Am Artemis: Ernesto Garcia

By |2025-06-10T13:37:00-04:00June 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Ernesto Garcia Ernesto Garcia, engineering manager at Rayotech Scientific, Inc., holds a test article of one of the windowpanes for the Orion spacecraft. Credits: NASA/Rad Sinyak Listen to this audio excerpt from Ernesto Garcia, Rayotech Scientific engineering manager: 0:00 / 0:00 Your browser does not support the audio [...]

NASA F-15s Validate Tools for Quesst Mission

By |2025-06-10T12:14:00-04:00June 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s F-15D research aircraft conducts a calibration flight of a shock-sensing probe near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The shock-sensing probe is designed to measure the signature and strength of shock waves in flight. The probe was validated during dual F-15 [...]

NASA Student Challenge Prepares Future Designers for Lunar Missions

By |2025-06-10T10:43:00-04:00June 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read NASA Student Challenge Prepares Future Designers for Lunar Missions At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the next generation of lunar explorers and engineers are already hard at work. Some started with sketchbooks and others worked with computer-aided design files, but all had a vision of how design could thrive in [...]

Laser Focused: Keith Barr Leads Orion’s Lunar Docking Efforts 

By |2025-06-10T06:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Keith Barr was born only months before the historic Apollo 11 landing in 1969. While he was too young to witness that giant leap for mankind, the moment sparked a lifelong fascination that set him on a path to design technology that will carry astronauts farther into space than ever before.  Today, Barr serves as [...]

NASA’s Chandra Sees Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic “Noon”

By |2025-06-09T15:56:00-04:00June 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/J. Maithil et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/SAO/M. Weiss; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from NASA’s [...]

Central Brazil Cerrado

By |2025-06-09T13:32:00-04:00June 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Amid a patchwork of fields, towns, and winding rivers and roads in central Brazil stands a monolithic oval-shaped plateau. This conspicuous feature, the Serra de Caldas (also known as the Caldas Novas dome and Caldas Ridge), is perched about 300 meters (1,000 feet) above the surrounding landscape in the state of Goiás.NASA/Wanmei Liang; Landsat data: [...]

NASA’s TROPICS Mission: Offering Detailed Images and Analysis of Tropical Cyclones

By |2025-06-09T11:55:00-04:00June 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam Announcements More Archives Conference Schedules Style Guide 9 min read NASA’s TROPICS Mission: Offering Detailed Images and Analysis of Tropical Cyclones Introduction Tropical cyclones represent a danger to life, property, and the economies of [...]

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