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NASA’s Hubble Dazzles With Young Stars in Trifid Nebula

By |2026-04-20T10:01:00-04:00April 20th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Hubble Science Hubble Space Telescope NASA’s Hubble Dazzles With… 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 [...]

CSDA Quality Assessment Report Evaluates Satellogic NewSat Data

By |2026-04-17T17:21:00-04:00April 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Issued March 9, 2026, the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program Satellogic NewSat Radiometric & Geometric Quality Assessment Report documents the evaluation process of the NASA subject matter experts (SMEs) enlisted to analyze the quality of the constellation’s radiometric and geometric data products. NASA/CSDA A new quality assessment report from NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition [...]

M82: Starburst Galaxy with a Superwind

By |2026-04-17T16:44:35-04:00April 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Messier 82 is a starburst galaxy with a superwind. In fact, through supernova explosions and powerful winds from massive stars, the burst of star formation in M82 is driving a prodigious outflow. Evidence for the superwind from the galaxy's central regions is clear in the sharp telescopic portrait. The composite [...]

Webinar 4/29: NASA CSDA Program Vendor Focus- MDA Space

By |2026-04-17T16:33:00-04:00April 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Artistic rendering of the MDA Space CHORUS-C (right), RADARSAT-2 (centre), and CHORUS -X (left) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation constellation in orbit above Earth. NASA/CSDA NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) established the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program to explore the potential of commercial satellite data in advancing the agency’s Earth science research [...]

NASA Artemis II Human Research Data Methodology Challenge

By |2026-04-17T14:41:00-04:00April 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

art002e013365 (April 7, 2026) – The Artemis II crew – (clockwise from left) Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, Commander Reid Wiseman, and Pilot Victor Glover – pause for a group photo with their zero gravity indicator “Rise,” inside the Orion spacecraft on their way home. Following a swing around the far side [...]

NASA, OPM Announce New NASA Force Website, Open Job Applications 

By |2026-04-17T13:04:00-04:00April 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management opened a new NASA Force website on Friday, April 17, 2026.Credit: NASA NASA and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) launched the NASA Force website on Friday, opening applications for roles aimed at recruiting the nation’s top engineers and technologists to support America’s air and space program.  NASA Force, a new hiring initiative developed [...]

NASA’s Mobile Launcher Arrives at Vehicle Assembly Building 

By |2026-04-17T11:59:00-04:00April 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

NASA’s mobile launcher enters the Vehicle Assembly Building following its approximately 4-mile trek from Launch Complex 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, April 17, 2026, in preparation for Artemis III stacking operations. Teams will perform checkouts, inspections, and data analysis, and make repairs to the tower that saw damage during [...]

Quality Assessment Report Evaluates Tomorrow.io Precipitation Radar Data

By |2026-04-17T11:06:00-04:00April 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

CSDA Menu CSDA Commercial Data Commercial Datasets Commercial Satellite Data Explorer Satellite Data Evaluation CSDA Vendors Airbus BlackSky Capella Space GeoOptics GHGSat ICEYE Vantor Planet PlanetiQ Polar Geospatial Center Satellogic Spire Teledyne Brown Engineering Tomorrow.io Umbra Program Activities Pilot Research Projects FAQs News Issued March 9, 2026, the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program Tomorrow.io [...]

Volunteers Discover Rare Space Weather Events Using Their Ears

By |2026-04-17T11:04:00-04:00April 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Our planet rests inside a magnetic cocoon filled with plasma – but it’s not always peaceful and quiet. Activity from the Sun can send waves through this space, and some of those disturbances can even reach Earth, affecting our power grid. Scientists are working to understand exactly how these waves behave, and the team behind [...]

NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Maps Interstellar Ice in Milky Way

By |2026-04-17T10:14:00-04:00April 17th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC/Hora et al. An observation made by NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) shows the chemical signatures of water ice (shown in bright blue) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (orange) in Cygnus X, one of the most active and turbulent regions of star birth in our Milky [...]

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