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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronaut Ed White, pilot of the Gemini IV mission, floats in space on June 3, 1965, while performing the first spacewalk by an American. As White floated outside the spacecraft, he used a Hand-Held Maneuvering Unit, informally called a “zip gun.” The device, seen in White’s right hand inContinue reading “America’s First Spacewalk”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY And the winner is… the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The Utah Student Robotics Club won the grand prize Artemis Award on May 22 for NASA’s 2025 Lunabotics Challenge held at The Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.  “WinContinue reading “Future Engineers Shine at NASA’s 2025 Lunabotics Robotics Competition”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot) undergoes testing to extract simulated regolith, or the loose, fragmental material on the Moon’s surface, inside of the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations Lab at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 27. Ben Burdess, mechanical engineer at NASA Kennedy,Continue reading “NASA Kennedy Digs Latest Robot Test”

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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Let’s start with your childhood, where you’re from, your family at the time, if you have siblings, your early years, and when it was that you became interested in what has developed into your career as an astrophysicist or research scientist? I was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1948, theContinue reading “Interview with Dave Des Marais”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY After capturing an image of the iconic Sombrero galaxy at mid-infrared wavelengths in late 2024, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has now followed up with an observation in the near-infrared. In the newest image, the Sombrero galaxy’s huge bulge, the tightly packed group of stars at the galaxy’s center, isContinue reading “NASA’s Webb Rounds Out Picture of Sombrero Galaxy’s Disk”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Two NASA-developed technologies are key components of a new high-resolution sensor for observing wildfires: High Operating Temperature Barrier Infrared Detector (HOT-BIRD), developed with support from NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO), and a cutting-edge Digital Readout Integrated Circuit (DROIC), developed with funding from NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.Continue reading “c-FIRST Team Sets Sights on Future Fire-observing Satellite Constellations”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a luminous tangle of stars and dust called the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1385, located about 30 million light-years away. Hubble released an earlier image of NGC 1385, but the two images are notably different. This more recent image has far more pinkish-redContinue reading “Hubble Filters a Barred Spiral”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY An unusual star (circled in white at right) behaving like no other seen before and its surroundings are featured in this composite image released on May 28, 2025. A team of astronomers combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope on Wajarri Country in Australia toContinue reading “A Star Like No Other”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Planets, Solstice, and the Galaxy Venus and Saturn separate, while Mars hangs out in the evening. Plus the June solstice, and dark skies reveal our home galaxy in all of its glory. Skywatching Highlights All Month – Planet Visibility: Daily Highlights: June 19 – Moon & Saturn – The third-quarterContinue reading “What’s Up: June 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA”