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Hubble Spies a Diminutive Galaxy

By |2024-08-02T08:19:00-04:00August 2nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 min read Hubble Spies a Diminutive Galaxy This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the dwarf elliptical galaxy named IC 3430. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the subtle glow of the galaxy named IC 3430, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. This dwarf elliptical galaxy is part [...]

NASA’s First-Ever Quantum Memory Made at Glenn Research Center

By |2024-07-31T08:59:00-04:00July 31st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA Glenn Research Center’s quantum team stands with new quantum memory laboratory equipment.Credit: NASA/Jef Janis Bringing bright minds together has once again proven to be the key to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. Researchers developed technology that will store information within a cloud [...]

Earth to Gateway: Electric Field Tests Enhance Lunar Communication

By |2024-07-29T07:54:00-04:00July 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An artist’s rendering of NASA’s Gateway space station in lunar orbit, featuring the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), left, and a photograph of an antenna undergoing testing in an anechoic chamber at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, right.NASA/Robert Markowitz [...]

Hubble Images a Classic Spiral 

By |2024-07-26T07:00:00-04:00July 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 min read Hubble Images a Classic Spiral  This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the majestic spiral galaxy NGC 3430. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image treats viewers to a wonderfully detailed snapshot of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430 that lies 100 million light-years from Earth in the [...]

How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Illuminate Cosmic Dawn

By |2024-07-25T09:00:00-04:00July 25th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

This artist’s concept shows how the universe might have looked when it was less than a billion years old, about 7 percent of its current age. Star formation voraciously consumed primordial hydrogen, churning out myriad stars at an unprecedented rate. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will peer back to the universe’s early stages to [...]

Former Space Communications, Navigation Interns Pioneer NASA’s Future

By |2024-07-25T08:47:00-04:00July 25th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

11 Min Read Former Space Communications, Navigation Interns Pioneer NASA’s Future Interns from the SCaN Internship Project visiting NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. Credits: NASA For over a decade, NASA’s SCaN (Space Communications and Navigation) Internship Project alumni have played important roles in extending the agency’s long-term vision for exploration. For [...]

Hubble Studies a Potential Galactic Merger

By |2024-07-19T07:00:00-04:00July 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

3 min read Hubble Studies a Potential Galactic Merger This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 5238. ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Annibali This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 5238, located 14.5 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. Its unexciting, blob-like [...]

July 2024 Transformer of the Month: Brooke Weborg

By |2024-07-18T09:13:00-04:00July 18th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

“She gets things done.”    This is how colleagues describe Brooke Weborg, machine learning data scientist and engineer at NASA. Weborg was nominated as Digital Transformer of the Month for her work on the AI/ML (artificial intelligence/machine learning) consultation portal, the type of ambitious project that computer scientist Herb Schilling had seen fail in the [...]

An Ancient Partnership: Co-Evolution of Earth Environments and Microbial LifeAn Ancient Partnership:

By |2024-07-18T08:37:00-04:00July 18th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA-supported scientists have examined the long and intricately linked history of microbial life and the Earth’s environment. By reviewing the current state of knowledge across fields like microbiology, molecular biology, and geology, the study looks at how microorganisms have both shaped and been shaped by chemical properties of our planet’s oceans, land, and atmosphere. The [...]

NASA Signs US, Saudi Arabia Agreement for Civil Aeronautics, Space Collaboration

By |2024-07-16T09:08:00-04:00July 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Credit: NASA The United States and Saudi Arabia signed a framework agreement that opens new possibilities for cooperation with NASA in areas such as space science, exploration, aeronautics, space operations, education, and Earth science. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson signed on behalf of the U.S., and CEO of the Saudi Space Agency Mohammed bin Saud Al-Tamimi [...]

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