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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Harvest Moon refers to the nearest full Moon to the autumnal equinox. The Moon appeared full for about three days last month from the evening of Monday, Sept. 16, through Thursday morning, Sept. 19. The brightest Moon was on Sept. 17.  NASA’s Glenn Research Center photographers captured images of thisContinue reading “NASA Glenn’s Photographers Capture Harvest Moon “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In a teleconference with reporters on Tuesday, representatives from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the international Solar Cycle Prediction Panel announced that the Sun has reached its solar maximum period, which could continue for the next year. The solar cycle is a natural cycle the SunContinue reading “NASA, NOAA: Sun Reaches Maximum Phase in 11-Year Solar Cycle”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Science in Space: October 2024 Cultures around the world celebrate Halloween on Oct 31. In many places, in addition to people wearing costumes and eating candy, this day is associated with spooky decorating using fake blood, skeletons, flies, and spiders, some of them glow-in-the-dark. Crew members on the International SpaceContinue reading “Spooky on the Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. Europa Clipper is the first mission designed to conduct a detailed study of Jupiter’s moon Europa to determine if it currently has habitable conditions. The spacecraftContinue reading “Europa Clipper Begins Journey to Jupiter’s Icy Moon”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s ambitious Cassini mission to Saturn in the late 1990s was one of the agency’s greatest accomplishments, providing unprecedented revelations about the esoteric outer planet and its moons. The complex undertaking was also a tremendous, yet bittersweet, achievement for the Lewis Research Center (today, NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland),Continue reading “Cassini Mission: 5 Things to Know About NASA Lewis’ Last Launch”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY With contributions from NASA, the mission will map a third of the sky in order to study a cosmic mystery called dark energy. ESA (the European Space Agency) has released a new, 208-gigapixel mosaic of images taken by Euclid, a mission with NASA contributions that launched in 2023 to studyContinue reading “Snippet of Euclid Mission’s Cosmic Atlas Released by ESA”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Continuing his efforts to deepen international collaboration and promote the peaceful use of space, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will travel to Romania and Bulgaria, beginning Thursday, Oct. 17. Both countries have signed the Artemis Accords, a set of commonsense principles to commit to the peaceful exploration of space. Nelson willContinue reading “NASA Administrator to Visit, Engage Officials in Romania, Bulgaria”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Making the most of a solar eclipse demands attention to detail. Do you have what it takes? NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie project launched a new coding competition, and they need your help to organize images from the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. This is your chance to make a lastingContinue reading “Eclipse Megamovie Coding Competition”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The study of X-ray emission from astronomical objects reveals secrets about the Universe at the largest and smallest spatial scales. Celestial X-rays are produced by black holes consuming nearby stars, emitted by the million-degree gas that traces the structure between galaxies, and can be used to predict whether stars mayContinue reading “Revealing the Hidden Universe with Full-shell X-ray Optics at NASA MSFC”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY At the end of 2022, 65 percent of the Western United States was in severe drought, the result of a two decades long mega drought in the Colorado River Basin that had captured headlines around the world.  However, it was flooding, not drought, that was making headlines when we beganContinue reading “OpenET: Balancing Water Supply and Demand in the West”