Mariner 7 Goes to Mars

[ad_1] An Atlas-Centaur launched at 5:22 p.m. EST on March 27, 1969, to send Mariner 7 on its way to Mars. Mariner 7 joined its sister spacecraft, Mariner 6, on a journey that carried them within 2,000 miles of the red planet that summer. Mariner 6 was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on […]

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NASA, Salisbury U. Enact Agreement for Workforce Development  

[ad_1] NASA and Salisbury University (SU) in Maryland signed a collaborative Space Act Agreement Thursday, March 28, 2024, opening new opportunities at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The agreement forges a formal partnership to identify research and engineering projects and activities at Wallops […]

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March 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA

[ad_1] Overnight on March 24th and into the 25th, the Moon will pass through the outer part of Earth’s shadow, creating a faint lunar eclipse called a penumbral eclipse. Now, the more spectacular variety of lunar eclipses happens when the Moon passes through Earth’s inner shadow, or umbra. That’s when we see a dark “bite” […]

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International Space Station Program Deputy Chief Scientist Meghan Everett

[ad_1] “One of my cornerstone pinnacles [is], ‘Show up to work [and] life with integrity and intent.’ So, accomplish your goals with integrity, intent, and a mission. Stick to that and have the confidence to do that, and be OK with messing up and failing, and have fun with those things.” — Meghan Everett, International […]

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NASA Awards Promote Science, Technology, Engineering, Math Nationwide

[ad_1] NASA is awarding approximately $3.7 million to 17 museums, science centers, and other informal education institutions as part of an initiative to ignite STEM excitement. The money will go toward projects that inspire students and their learning support systems to take an active role in the wonder of science, technology, engineering, and math.   […]

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Hubble Spots Swirls of Dust in the Flame Nebula

[ad_1] The Flame Nebula, also called NGC 2024, is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400 light-years from Earth. It’s a part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. [ad_2] Source link

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Reflections of Starlight

[ad_1] This Hubble Space Telescope image captures a portion of the reflection nebula IC 2631, which contains a protostar, the hot, dense core of a forming star that is accumulating gas and dust. [ad_2] Source link

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Stay Tuned for DART!

[ad_1] The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will help determine if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to change its course. [ad_2] Source link

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Hubble Witnesses Shock Wave of Colliding Gases in Running Man Nebula

[ad_1] Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust glow in this Hubble image of a Herbig-Haro object known as HH 45. [ad_2] Source link

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Black Hole Collision May Have Exploded With Light

[ad_1] This artist’s concept shows a supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of gas. [ad_2] Source link

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