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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 19 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by aContinue reading “APOD: 2026 September 19 – A Zodiacal Night”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Republic of Albania will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 12 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 21, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, becoming the 73rd country signatory. NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson will host Albania’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Ferit Hoxha and Ambassador of theContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to Albania Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory, astronomers have directly observed a giant star’s outflow, called a stellar wind, being captured by its compact companion and providing the power source for strong X-ray flares. The research is part of NASA’s exploration of the extreme universeContinue reading “NASA-JAXA XRISM Mission Sees Pulsar Gathering Companion’s ‘Wind’”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY UC Berkeley engineers and managers watch as the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) detector assembly is slowly raised from a table in this July 8, 2026, image. The four pieces of silver material on the top of the detector box cover the flex circuits, which carry signals from the detectorsContinue reading “COSI Telescope Comes Together”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY To continue regular crew transportation to the International Space Station, NASA has awarded SpaceX three additional missions through a contract modification.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret. This galaxy is NGC 4698, and it lies about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It’s one of over a thousand galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, the nearest large clusterContinue reading “NASA’s Hubble Spots an Out-of-Sync Galaxy”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 18 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by aContinue reading “APOD: 2026 September 18 – Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s StarBurst mission, a small satellite designed to investigate neutron star mergers and the origins of short gamma-ray bursts. StarBurst will launch aboard a Bandwagon rideshare mission on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape CanaveralContinue reading “NASA Awards Launch Services for StarBurst Gamma-Ray Detector”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Media accreditation is open for the next cargo launch that will deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. The 35th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the orbital laboratory for NASA will lift off on a Falcon 9 rocket. NASA and SpaceX are targeting noContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 35th Resupply Launch to Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Fifty years ago, on Sept. 17, 1976—Constitution Day of America’s bicentennial year—NASA unveiled its first space shuttle orbiter, OV-101, to the public. NASA had originally planned to name the vehicle Constitution, but a letter-writing campaign changed the agency’s plans. Nearly 100,000 fans of the Star Trek television series wrote theContinue reading “NASA Unveils Enterprise, the First Space Shuttle”