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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A – host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet, Vulcan, in the “Star Trek” universe – is really a kind of astronomical illusion caused by the pulses and jitters of the star itself, a new study shows. Key factsContinue reading “Discovery Alert: Spock’s Home Planet Goes ‘Poof’”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Exoplanets, planets outside of our own solar system, hold the keys to finding extraterrestrial life and understanding the origin of our own world. Now online students at Arizona State University (ASU) in a new course called Exoplanet Research Experience have become exoplanet scientists by taking part in NASA’s Exoplanet Watch project.  Fifteen students fromContinue reading “Arizona Students Go on an Exoplanet Watch “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will provide live launch and docking coverage of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 71 crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Progress 88 spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 5:43 a.m. EDT (2:43 p.m. Baikonur time) Thursday,Continue reading “NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 88 Launch, Space Station Docking”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Mission engineers were confident NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification – Apophis Explorer) spacecraft could weather its closest ever pass of the Sun on Jan. 2, 2024. Their models had predicted that, despite traveling 25 million miles closer to the heat of the Sun than it was originally designedContinue reading “NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX Unscathed After Searing Pass of Sun”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Friday, May 24, 2024 The first sol of this weekend includes an extremely long, 6-hour DAN activity to measure the amount of hydrogen near the surface, in parallel with a standard midday remote science block including: ChemCam LIBS on a smooth, dark rock named “Shadow Lake,” anContinue reading “Sols 4195-4198: Feels Like Summer”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY From May 29 to July 17, 2009, for the first time in its history, each of the five partner agencies participating in the International Space Station Program had a crew member living and working aboard the orbiting facility at the same time. The period also marked the beginning of six-personContinue reading “15 Years Ago: First Time all Partners Represented aboard the International Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY While NASA promotes the availability of EAP counselors at each Center, there may be reasons when, during a mental health crisis, employees do not think about EAP or cannot remember how to access. Now, the Suicide and Crises Lifeline (https://988lifeline.org/) is available to anyone, anytime nationwide by calling or textingContinue reading “A Mental Health Awareness Month Message from Your MAF EAP office: “Suicide and Crises Lifeline””

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY When you think about personal property, your home, clothes, and electronic devices probably come to mind. For NASA, personal property comprises government-owned government-held assets ranging from laptops to spacecraft and space station components. Managing the financial records for these assets is the responsibility of the Property Accounting Team, which includesContinue reading “Johnson Celebrates AA and NHPI Heritage Month: Britney Tang”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY An analysis of data from Magellan’s radar finds two volcanoes erupted in the early 1990s. This adds to the 2023 discovery of a different active volcano in Magellan data. Direct geological evidence of recent volcanic activity on Venus has been observed for a second time. Scientists in Italy analyzed archivalContinue reading “Ongoing Venus Volcanic Activity Discovered With NASA’s Magellan Data”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The first of a pair of climate satellites designed to study heat emissions at Earth’s poles for NASA is in orbit after lifting off atop Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, New Zealand at 7:41 p.m. NZST (3:41 a.m. EDT) on Saturday. The agency’s PREFIREContinue reading “NASA Launches Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth’s Poles”