Tag Archives: Nasa

North Carolina Volunteers Work Toward Cleaner Well Water

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY When the ground floods during a storm, floodwaters wash bacteria and other contaminants into private wells. But thanks to citizen scientists in North Carolina, we now know a bit more about how to deal with this problem. A new NASA-Funded study describes the contributions of these volunteers and how their work makes otherContinue reading “North Carolina Volunteers Work Toward Cleaner Well Water”

NASA Awards Contract for IT Support, Platform Services

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has selected CACI, Inc. of Chantilly, Virginia, to maintain and improve IT services across the agency. The NASA Consolidated Applications and Platform Services (NCAPS) award is a hybrid firm-fixed price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity provision and a maximum potential value of about $2 billion. TheContinue reading “NASA Awards Contract for IT Support, Platform Services”

Hubble Finds Surprises Around a Star That Erupted 40 Years Ago

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Astronomers have used new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the retired SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) as well as archival data from other missions to revisit one of the strangest binary star systems in our galaxy – 40 years after it burst onto the scene as a bright and long-lived nova.Continue reading “Hubble Finds Surprises Around a Star That Erupted 40 Years Ago”

NASA’s Webb Opens New Window on Supernova Science

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Peering deeply into the cosmos, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving scientists their first detailed glimpse of supernovae from a time when our universe was just a small fraction of its current age. A team using Webb data has identified 10 times more supernovae in the early universe thanContinue reading “NASA’s Webb Opens New Window on Supernova Science”

NASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket Launch

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A suborbital rocket is scheduled for launch the week of June 10-17 from NASA’s launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. This launch is supporting the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Port Hueneme Division’s White Sands Detachment, other Department of Defense organizations, industry, andContinue reading “NASA Wallops to Support Sounding Rocket Launch”

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