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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) team has been awarded a top prize in high-energy astronomy. The High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded the 2024 Bruno Rossi Prize to retired NASA astrophysicist Martin Weisskopf, Italian Space Agency principal investigator Paolo Soffitta, and their teamContinue reading “NASA’s IXPE Awarded Prestigious Prize in High-energy Astronomy”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a group of interacting galaxies known as LEDA 60847. LEDA 60847 is classified as an active galactic nuclei, or AGN. An AGN has a supermassive black hole in the galaxy’s central region that is accreting material. The AGN emits radiation across theContinue reading “Hubble Glimpses a Bright Galaxy Group”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, media accreditation is open for Intuitive Machines’ first robotic flight to the Moon’s surface. The robotic deliveries will transport agency science and technology demonstrations to the Moon for the benefit of all. The Intuitive Machines Nova-C landerContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to First Intuitive Machines, SpaceX Moon Launch”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The U.S. Postal Service has issued two new Priority Mail stamps celebrating NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most powerful, and most complex telescope ever put in space. The stamps, issued Jan. 22, feature images of the cosmos captured by Webb since it began its science mission in 2022.Continue reading “New U.S. Postal Service Stamps Feature Iconic NASA Webb Images”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In this image from May 22, 2023, a NASA intern uses an augmented reality headset to test out heads-up display technology being developed for future Artemis missions. This technology was created as part of the NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students, or SUITS, design challenge in which college studentsContinue reading “NASA Interns at Johnson’s Rock Yard”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The annual competition aims to help students expand their ocean-related knowledge outside the classroom and to become environmental stewards. University High School of Irvine, California, emerged victorious on Jan. 20 at the Los Angeles regional Ocean Sciences Bowl tournament, which NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has hosted annually since 2000. EightContinue reading “University High Wins L.A. Ocean Sciences Bowl at NASA’s JPL”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY “[On December 15, 1941] a few shivering, startled Southerners from Langley, the vanguard of those in the Power Plants Division transferring to Cleveland, arrived in the biggest snowstorm in years,” recalled former receptionist Mary Louise Gosney. This vanguard was the first large group of NACA employees to relocate from theContinue reading “NASA Glenn’s Langley Legacy”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Arp 300 consists of two interacting galaxies, UGC 05028 (the smaller face-on spiral galaxy) and UGC 05029 (the larger face-on spiral). Likely due to its gravitational dance with its larger partner, UGC 05028 has an asymmetric, irregular structure, which is not as visible from ground-based telescopes but is quite distinctContinue reading “Hubble Observes an Askew Galaxy Coaxing Star Formation from its Partner “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In honor of the members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery for the benefit all, the agency will host its annual Day of Remembrance Thursday, Jan. 25. Traditionally held on the fourth Thursday in January each year, NASA Day ofContinue reading “NASA to Observe Day of Remembrance, Host Employee Safety Town Hall “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The first flight of NASA’s commercial lunar delivery service carrying agency science and technology, as well as other customer payloads intended for the Moon, has come to an end. After 10 days and 13 hours in space, Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One made a controlled re-entry on Earth over open waterContinue reading “NASA Science, Astrobotic Peregrine Mission One Concludes”