Bassac River, Southern Vietnam

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A camera on the International Space Station captured this Oct. 2, 2025, photo of the Bassac River in Cù Lao Dung, a river islet district in southern Vietnam. The Bassac River surrounds the district before emptying into the South China Sea. The river’s brown waters at its mouth result fromContinue reading “Bassac River, Southern Vietnam”

Unexpected Trajectory: Erin Sholl’s Path to Human Spaceflight Safety

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Career paths are rarely a straight line and often include some unexpected curves. That is certainly true for Erin Sholl, deputy chief of the Space Transportation Systems Division within the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. From struggling with multiplication tables in elementary schoolContinue reading “Unexpected Trajectory: Erin Sholl’s Path to Human Spaceflight Safety”

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim to Discuss Eight-Month Space Station Mission

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will recap his recent mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 3:30 p.m. EST Friday, Dec. 19, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Watch the news conference live on NASA’s YouTube channel. Learn how to stream NASA content through aContinue reading “NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim to Discuss Eight-Month Space Station Mission”

NASA’s Webb, Curiosity Named in TIME’s Best Inventions Hall of Fame

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Two icons of discovery, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Curiosity rover, have earned places in TIME’s “Best Inventions Hall of Fame,” which recognizes the 25 groundbreaking inventions of the past quarter century that have had the most global impact, since TIME began its annual Best Inventions list inContinue reading “NASA’s Webb, Curiosity Named in TIME’s Best Inventions Hall of Fame”

A Rare Gourd

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight – the death of a low-mass star – in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017. Here, we can see the star going through a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula, during which itContinue reading “A Rare Gourd”

NASA Announces Plan to Map Milky Way With Roman Space Telescope

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations spread across two years, the survey will unveil tens of billions of stars and explore previously uncharted structures.Continue reading “NASA Announces Plan to Map Milky Way With Roman Space Telescope”

Massive Stars Make Their Mark in Hubble Image

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a glittering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 (Mrk 178). The galaxy, which is substantially smaller than our own Milky Way, lies 13 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear). Mrk 178 is one of more than 1,500 MarkarianContinue reading “Massive Stars Make Their Mark in Hubble Image”

NASA Selects Two Heliophysics Missions for Continued Development

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has selected one small explorer mission concept to advance toward flight design and another for an extended period of concept development. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Science Management Council selected CINEMA (Cross-scale Investigation of Earth’s Magnetotail and Aurora) to enter Phase B of development, which includes planning and design forContinue reading “NASA Selects Two Heliophysics Missions for Continued Development”

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Spies Solar Wind ‘U-Turn’

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Images captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields responsible for space weather escape from the Sun — and how sometimes they don’t. Like a toddler, our SunContinue reading “NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Spies Solar Wind ‘U-Turn’”

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