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We Are All Made of Cells: Space and the Immune System

By |2024-10-31T16:38:00-04:00October 31st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Bone cellsNASA Malcolm O’Malley and his mom sat nervously in the doctor’s office awaiting the results of his bloodwork. This was no ordinary check-up. In fact, this appointment was more urgent and important than the SATs the seventeen-year-old, college hopeful had spent months preparing for and was now missing in order to understand his symptoms.  [...]

Witch Nebula Casts Starry Spell

By |2024-10-31T14:07:00-04:00October 31st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech This 2013 image taken by NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, captures a nebula that looks like a witch screaming. Perhaps that imagined scream is a creation spell, for the Witch Hat nebula’s billowy clouds are a star nursery. We can see these clouds thanks to massive stars lighting them up; dust in [...]

Halloween on the International Space Station

By |2024-10-31T11:22:00-04:00October 31st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Although no ghouls or goblins or trick-or-treaters come knocking at the International Space Station’s front hatch, crew members aboard the orbiting facility still like to get in the Halloween spirit. Whether individually or as an entire crew, they dress up in sometimes spooky, sometimes scary, but always creative costumes, often designed from materials available aboard [...]

Artemis I Moon Tree Stewards

By |2024-10-31T11:15:00-04:00October 31st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

8 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artemis I Moon Tree seedlings continue to find new homes with schools, museums, libraries, universities, and community organizations across the contiguous United States. An open call to NASA’s Artifacts Module in Fall, 2023 welcomed over 1000 organization submissions, which were reviewed and ranked by [...]

Why NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Make ‘Most Colorful’ Cosmic Map Ever

By |2024-10-31T10:59:00-04:00October 31st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s SPHEREx observatory undergoes integration and testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in April 2024. The space telescope will use a technique called spectroscopy across the entire sky, capturing the universe in more than 100 colors. BAE Systems The space telescope will detect [...]

‘Blood-Soaked’ Eyes: NASA’s Webb, Hubble Examine Galaxy Pair

By |2024-10-31T10:00:00-04:00October 31st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 Min Read ‘Blood-Soaked’ Eyes: NASA’s Webb, Hubble Examine Galaxy Pair This observation combines mid-infrared light from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, and ultraviolet and visible light from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxies grazed one another millions of years ago. The smaller spiral on the left, cataloged as IC 2163, passed behind NGC [...]

Rigel and the Witch Head Nebula

By |2024-10-31T09:09:08-04:00October 31st, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day By starlight, this eerie visage shines in the dark with a crooked profile evoking its popular name, the Witch Head Nebula. In fact, this entrancing telescopic portrait gives the impression that a witch has fixed her gaze on Orion's bright supergiant star Rigel. More formally known as IC 2118, the [...]

Sols 4348-4349: Smoke on the Water

By |2024-10-30T19:40:00-04:00October 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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Hello Earth? Space Calling

By |2024-10-30T15:52:00-04:00October 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Nick Hague with the International Space Station’s amateur or ham radio equipment during his current mission (right) and a previous flight five years ago (left)NASA How it started versus how it’s going for astronaut Nick Hague with ISS Ham Radio on the space station. Since November 2000, crew members like Hague have used [...]

The Marshall Star for October 30, 2024

By |2024-10-30T15:09:00-04:00October 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

23 Min Read The Marshall Star for October 30, 2024 Editor’s Note: Starting Nov. 4, the Office of Communications at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will no longer publish the Marshall Star on nasa.gov. The last public issue will be Oct. 30. To continue reading Marshall news, visit nasa.gov/marshall. Marshall Team Members View Progress Toward Future [...]

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