Hubble Peers at Pair of Closely Interacting Galaxies

[ad_1] This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two galaxies interacting due to gravity: NGC 5996 (the large spiral galaxy) and NGC 5994 (its smaller companion, in the lower left of the image). Both galaxies lie approximately 160 million light-years from Earth, and […]

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NASA Achieves Milestone for Engines to Power Future Artemis Missions

[ad_1] NASA achieved a major milestone April 3 for production of new RS-25 engines to help power its Artemis campaign to the Moon and beyond with completion of a critical engine certification test series at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The 12-test series represents a key step for lead engines contractor […]

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Harnessing the 2024 Eclipse for Ionospheric Discovery with HamSCI

[ad_1] 5 min read NASA Partnerships Bring 2024 Total Solar Eclipse to Everyone On Monday, April 8, NASA and its partners will celebrate the wonders of the total solar eclipse as it passes over North America, with the path of totality in the United States, from Kerrville, Texas, to Houlton, Maine. [ad_2] Source link

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Advances in Understanding COPV Structural Life 

[ad_1] The Structures Technical Discipline Team (TDT) was involved in numerous investigations this past year, but composites, fracture mechanics, and pressure vessels dominate the list. All three of these specialties are important to composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPV). One of the TDT’s most important findings this year was the exposure of an inherent vulnerability that […]

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NASA Employee Grateful for Opportunities at NASA Stennis

[ad_1] Cherie Beech knows full well the opportunity that working at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, affords. Since arriving at the federal city as a contractor 26 years ago, she since has expanded her skillset and grown as a member of the NASA Stennis team. cherie beech NASA Stennis Customer Engagement […]

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NASA Noise Prediction Tool Supports Users in Air Taxi Industry

[ad_1] Several air taxi companies are using a NASA-developed computer software tool to predict aircraft noise and aerodynamic performance. This tool allows manufacturers working in fields related to NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility mission to see early in the aircraft development process how design elements like propellors or wings would perform. This saves the industry time […]

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NASA’s NEOWISE Extends Legacy With Decade of Near-Earth Object Data

[ad_1] As the infrared space telescope continues its long-duration survey of the universe, it is creating a unique resource for future astronomers to make new discoveries. NASA’s NEOWISE mission has released its 10th year of infrared data – the latest in a unique long-duration (or “time-domain”) survey that captures how celestial objects change over long […]

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Save-The-Date: DoD-NASA Lidar Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM)

[ad_1] DoD-NASA Lidar TIM August 13-15, 2024 MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Arlington, VA (Crystal City)241 18th St S, Arlington, VA 22202 MIT Lincoln Laboratory is hosting a TIM between NASA and DoD to facilitate the sharing of lidar knowledge between these institutions and identify potential areas of collaboration that maximally utilizes the strengths from each […]

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Tech Today: Synthetic DNA Diagnoses COVID, Cancer

[ad_1] NASA-funded molecular research enables better disease detection At first glance, the search for life beyond Earth might not seem related to human illness, but to biochemist Steven Benner, the connection is clear. “In diagnostics for an infectious disease, you’re looking for alien life inside of a patient,” said Benner, who has spent nearly two […]

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Exobiology Deputy Branch Chief Melissa Kirven-Brooks

[ad_1] “… I’ve just seen such tremendous things happen since I’ve been part of the Astrobiology Program, and that’s why I’m pretty confident we’re going to find life elsewhere, because there are just so many brilliant people working on this.” — Melissa Kirven-Brooks, Exobiology Deputy Branch Chief and Future Workforce Lead of the NASA Astrobiology […]

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