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Rescuers at the Ready at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center 

By |2024-08-16T15:37:00-04:00August 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read Rescuers at the Ready at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center  Credits: NASA/Kim Shiflett If there’s an emergency at the launch pad during a launch countdown, there’s a special team engineers at Kennedy Space Center teams can call on – the Pad Rescue team. Trained to quickly rescue personnel at the launch pad and [...]

Rings and Things

By |2024-08-16T15:28:00-04:00August 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

ESA/Hubble & NASA, I. Chilingari The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is situated in the Perseus Cluster, also known as Abell 426, 320 million light-years from Earth. It’s a barred spiral galaxy known as MCG+07-07-072, seen here among a number of photobombing stars that are much closer to Earth than it is. MCG+07-07-072 has quite an unusual [...]

NASA-Funded Research Institute Selects New Class of Space Health Fellows

By |2024-08-16T13:25:00-04:00August 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Earth as viewed from the International Space Station.Credit: NASA The NASA-funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) announced its selections for the institute’s 2024 postdoctoral fellowship, a space health program intended to launch the careers of a new generation of researchers tackling various challenges involved with human space exploration. The program supports early-career scientists [...]

Kansas Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Station

By |2024-08-16T11:02:00-04:00August 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Expedition 71 Flight Engineers Matthew Dominick and Tracy C. Dyson, both NASA astronauts, pose for a fun portrait as Dominick tests portable breathing gear aboard the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module. (Credit: NASA) Students from Topeka, Kansas, will have the opportunity Wednesday, Aug. 21, to have NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Tracy C. Dyson [...]

Hubble Rings in a New Galactic View

By |2024-08-16T09:29:00-04:00August 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the galaxy LEDA 857074. ESA/Hubble & NASA, I. Chilingari The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is situated in the Perseus Cluster, also known as Abell 426, 320 million light-years from Earth. It’s a barred spiral galaxy known as MCG+07-07-072, seen here among a number of [...]

Southern California Student Wins NASA Scholarship

By |2024-08-15T18:50:00-04:00August 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Brad Flick, center director at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, presents a 2024 NASA College Scholarship Award to Sabrina Redifer. From left to right are Sabrina Redifer’s parents Matthew and Saynne Redifer, Flick, Sabrina Redifer, and her sister Samantha Redifer.NASA/Steve Freeman Sabrina Redifer, a 2024 graduate of Quartz Hill High School in [...]

Geospatial AI Foundation Model Team Receives NASA Marshall Group Achievement Award 

By |2024-08-15T17:31:00-04:00August 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Geospatial AI Foundation Model Team Receives NASA Marshall Group Achievement Award  Rahul Ramachandran of NASA IMPACT, left, Elizabeth Fancher of NASA IMPACT, Ankur Kumar of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Sujit Roy of UAH, Raghu Ganti of IBM Research, David McKenzie of NASA, Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian of UAH, Iksha Gurung [...]

São Francisco’s Colorful Palette

By |2024-08-15T14:11:00-04:00August 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA This Dec. 27, 2023 image of the São Francisco River in southeast Brazil showcases the range of vibrant colors in the area including blues, reds, greens, and yellows. Much of the unvegetated land, such as unplanted fields and unpaved roads, appears in bright shades of red and yellow. This coloration comes from the underlying [...]

NASA Selects 5 New Roman Technology Fellows in Astrophysics

By |2024-08-15T12:05:00-04:00August 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

9 min read NASA Selects 5 New Roman Technology Fellows in Astrophysics 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 constellation Leo Minor. Several other galaxies, located relatively nearby to this one, are just [...]

NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour

By |2024-08-15T11:11:00-04:00August 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour This artist’s concept shows a hypothetical white dwarf, left, that has exploded as a supernova. The object at right is CWISE J1249, a star or brown dwarf ejected from this system as a result of the explosion. This scenario is [...]

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