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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Craving an ice cream sundae with a cherry on top? This random alignment of Herbig-Haro 49/50 — a frothy-looking outflow from a nearby protostar — with a multi-hued spiral galaxy may do the trick. This new composite image combining observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) andContinue reading “NASA’s Webb Telescope Unmasks True Nature of the Cosmic Tornado”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On March 24, 1975, the last in a long line of super successful Saturn rockets rolled out from the vehicle assembly building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Saturn IB rocket for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was the 19th in the Saturn class stackedContinue reading “50 Years Ago: Final Saturn Rocket Rolls Out to Launch Pad 39 “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY After completing a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts will discuss their science mission during a postflight news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Monday, March 31, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Following the news conference, the crew will be available for aContinue reading “NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Astronauts to Discuss Science Mission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young aboard, America’s first two-person spaceflight. Grissom earned the honor as the first person to enter space twice and Young as the first member of the second group of astronauts toContinue reading “60 Years Ago: Gemini III, America’s First Two-Person Flight “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025  This terrain is a tricky drive, with rocks angled chaotically all around. One of our geologists remarked that they wouldn’t like to even walk over this without solid boots coming way upContinue reading “Sols 4486-4487: Ankle-Breaking Kind of Terrain!”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Alex Jones, Ph.D. candidate at Imperial College London Last week the Perseverance Science Team were astonished by a strange rock comprised of hundreds of millimeter-sized spheres… and the team are now working hard to understand their origin.  It has now been two weeks since Perseverance arrived at BroomContinue reading “Shocking Spherules!”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Convergent Aeronautics Solutions (CAS) Discovery identifies problems worth solving for the benefit of all. We formulate “convergent” problems—across multiple disciplines and sectors—and build footholds toward potentially transformative opportunities in aeronautics. As aeronautics rapidly advances, it is increasingly intersecting with other sectors like energy, healthcare, emergency response, economic resilience, the spaceContinue reading “CAS Discovery and Foresight”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral substorms affect the behavior and composition of Earth’s far upper atmosphere.  The experiment’s outcome could upend a long-held theory about the aurora’s interaction with the thermosphere.Continue reading “NASA to Launch Three Rockets from Alaska in Single Aurora Experiment”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has selected the 45 semifinalists of the Power to Explore Challenge, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Students from Richmond Hill, New York,will have the chance to connect with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related questions from aboard the International Space Station. Watch the 20-minute space-to-Earth call at 12 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 26, on NASA+Continue reading “NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Students in New York”