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Read MoreMonth: July 2021
New York Students to Hear from NASA, JAXA Astronauts on Space Station
Students from Harlem Link Charter School will have an opportunity this week to hear from astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Read MoreNASA Announces Public Meeting on Mission Equity, Request for Information
NASA’s public meeting to discuss its recently issued request for information (RFI), entitled Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities in NASA Programs, Contracts and Grants, will take place at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 13.
Read MoreIn Orbit Around a Red Dwarf Star
Planet TOI-1231 b orbits a red dwarf star some 90 light-years away from Earth and is oddly reminiscent of our own Neptune.
Read MoreEnormous Antarctic lake vanishes in 3 days
An enormous, ice-covered lake in Antarctica vanished suddenly, and scientists are worried it could happen again. In this disappearing act, which researchers say occurred during the 2019 winter on the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica, an estimated 21 billion to 26 billion cubic feet (600 million to 750 million cubic meters) of water — roughly twice the volume of San Diego Bay — drained into the ocean. The scientists who used satellite observations to capture the shocking vanishing act say the lake drained in roughly three days after the…
Read MoreWally Funk to break John Glenn’s spaceflight record with Blue Origin flight
Pioneering aviator Wally Funk is set to beat one of John Glenn’s spaceflight records. In 1961, at just 21 years old, Funk became one of the famous “Mercury 13” — women who made it through the”Women in Space” program led by NASA astronaut physician Dr. Randy Lovelace. In the program, which wasn’t affiliated with NASA, a group of women participated in rigorous physical and mental testing in parallel with NASA’s (male) Mercury 7 astronauts, who were training for space. Many of the women excelled, with Funk scoring even better than…
Read MoreNew exhibit tells ‘stranger than fiction’ tale of aerospace medicine
The idea of an antigravity suit may seem like the stuff of sci-fi, but one such garment that was worn by a NASA astronaut is among the space artifacts now highlighting how aerospace medicine can be “stranger than fiction.” Opening on Saturday (July 3) at The Museum of Flight in Seattle, “Stranger Than Fiction: The Incredible Science of Aerospace Medicine” brings together dozens of aviation and space artifacts to tell the story of how doctors and researchers have devised the means to keep humans alive and in good health while…
Read MoreMore Mysterious Buried Splotches on Mars Might Not be Liquid Water
Astronomers find more bright spots underneath Mars’s south polar cap, but could they really be subterranean lakes? The post More Mysterious Buried Splotches on Mars Might Not be Liquid Water appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read MoreAphelion Day 2021: Earth is farthest from the sun today!
The Independence Day holiday weekend is upon us and the national weather forecast from NOAA is calling for afternoon high temperatures to hit at least 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) across most of the High Plains, Intermountain, Desert Southwest and Pacific States. Near record-breaking high temperatures at or above 100 degrees F (38 degrees C) are expected across parts of six states. In fact, it’s expected to be as hot as the proverbial firecracker on the Fourth of July, with scorching readings of 101 degrees F (38 degrees…
Read MoreA ‘strange signal’ is coming from the Milky Way. What’s causing it?
All About Space (Image credit: Future) This article is brought to you by All About Space. All About Space magazine takes you on an awe-inspiring journey through our solar system and beyond, from the amazing technology and spacecraft that enables humanity to venture into orbit, to the complexities of space science. On April 28, 2020, two ground-based radio telescopes detected an intense pulse of radio waves. It only lasted a mere millisecond but, for astonished astronomers, it was a major discovery, representing the first time a fast radio burst (FRB) had ever…
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