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NASA Earns Two Emmy Nominations for 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Coverage

By |2025-05-08T13:01:00-04:00May 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s coverage of the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse has earned two nominations for the 46th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the nominations on May 1, recognizing NASA’s outstanding work in sharing this rare [...]

NASA Telescopes Tune Into a Black Hole Prelude, Fugue

By |2025-05-08T11:40:00-04:00May 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

8 Min Read NASA Telescopes Tune Into a Black Hole Prelude, Fugue The first sonification features WR124, an extremely bright, massive star. Here, the star is shown in a short-lived phase preceding the possible creation of a black hole. NASA released three new pieces of cosmic sound Thursday that are associated with the densest [...]

Sols 4532-4533: Polygon Heaven

By |2025-05-08T10:40:00-04:00May 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 2 min [...]

NASA’s Hubble Pinpoints Roaming Massive Black Hole

By |2025-05-08T10:02:00-04:00May 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Hubble Science Hubble Space Telescope NASA’s Hubble Pinpoints… Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts [...]

NASA Stennis Releases First Open-Source Software

By |2025-05-08T10:00:00-04:00May 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Editor’s Note: The following is one of three related articles about the NASA Data Acquisition System and related efforts. Please visit Stennis News – NASA to access accompanying articles. NASA software engineer Brandon Carver updates how the main data acquisition software processes information at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, where he has contributed to the creation [...]

NASA Stennis Software is Built for Future Growth

By |2025-05-08T10:00:00-04:00May 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Editor’s Note: The following is one of three related articles about the NASA Data Acquisition System and related efforts. Please visit Stennis News – NASA to access accompanying articles. The NASA Data Acquisition System, developed at NASA Stennis, is used in multiple test areas at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, including Test [...]

NASA Stennis Tool Enables Unified Collection of Test Data

By |2025-05-08T10:00:00-04:00May 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Editor’s Note: The following is one of three related articles about the NASA Data Acquisition System and related efforts. Please visit Stennis News – NASA to access accompanying articles. A blended team of NASA personnel and contractors support ongoing development and operation of the [...]

NASA Statement on Nomination of Matt Anderson for Deputy Administrator

By |2025-05-07T16:37:00-04:00May 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

President Trump has nominated Matt Anderson to serve as the agency’s deputy administrator.Credit: Photo courtesy of Matt Anderson Acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro issued the following statement regarding the nomination by President Donald Trump of Matt Anderson Wednesday to serve as the agency’s deputy administrator: “As a retired United States Air Force colonel and executive [...]

Key Portion of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Clears Thermal Vacuum Test

By |2025-05-07T14:14:00-04:00May 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

One half of NASA’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just passed a lengthy test to ensure it will function properly in the space environment. This photo shows half of the NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman observatory — the outer barrel assembly, deployable aperture cover, and test solar arrays — fully deployed in a thermal [...]

A Glimpse of a Meatball

By |2025-05-07T14:08:00-04:00May 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Bridget Caswell The NASA “meatball” logo, mounted on the Flight Research Building at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, peeks through tree leaves in this June 10, 2016, photo. Built in the 1940s, the Flight Research Building, also known as the NASA Glenn Hangar, is a facility large enough to hold numerous aircraft of various [...]

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