As NASA’s Juno mission completed its 43rd close flyby of Jupiter on July 5, 2022, its JunoCam instrument captured this striking view of vortices — hurricane-like spiral wind patterns — near the planet’s north pole.
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SOAR High School Student Wins NASA Armstrong Scholarship
The NASA Armstrong Employee Exchange Council presented the 2022 John W. Russell Memorial Scholarship Award to Katelyn Perez.
Read MoreRussia will stay in ISS program at least until 2028: report
Russia’s departure from the International Space Station (ISS) program isn’t exactly imminent, it would seem. On Tuesday (July 26), Yuri Borisov, the new head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, announced that the nation planned to leave the ISS consortium “after 2024.” That statement contains quite a bit of wiggle room, and it appears that Russia is going to take advantage of it. The nation intends to remain an ISS partner at least until its own space station is up and running, a milestone that’s not expected until 2028 at the…
Read MoreUS Postal Service to launch James Webb Space Telescope ‘forever’ stamp
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is celebrating NASA’s revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) with a new “Forever” stamp. The new James Webb Space Telescope Forever stamps will be available for preorder on Aug. 8 through the USPS’s online stamp store, and will open for general sale on Sept. 8. The stamp commemorates the start of the telescope’s science mission and depicts the James Webb Space Telescope‘s iconic golden honeycomb mirror and its large sunshields in space as Earth and the moon can be seen in the distance behind…
Read MoreNASA to Host Briefings to Preview Artemis I Moon Mission
NASA will host a pair of briefings on Wednesday, Aug. 3, and Friday, Aug. 5, to preview the upcoming Artemis I lunar mission.
Read More‘Castaway’ gamma-ray bursts come from distant early galaxies
Isolated mysterious blasts of intense energy that previously couldn’t be traced back to galactic sources could originate from incredibly dim galaxies located as far away as 10 billion light-years. An international team of astronomers used some of the most powerful ground and space-based telescopes — including the Gemini North telescope in Hawai’i and the Gemini South telescope in Chile — to trace the origins of these “castaway” short gamma-ray bursts to incredibly distant galaxies. “Many short gamma-ray bursts are found in bright galaxies relatively close to us, but some of…
Read MoreNASA Announces Astronaut Shane Kimbrough to Retire
NASA’s Shane Kimbrough is retiring after 22 years, including 18 years as an astronaut. His last day with the agency is Sunday, July 31.
Read MoreNASA Will Inspire World When It Returns Mars Samples to Earth in 2033
NASA has finished the system requirements review for its Mars Sample Return Program, which is nearing completion of the conceptual design phase.
Read MoreSolving an Earthshine Mystery
Something we take for granted about the crescent Moon’s appearance may be nothing more than an optical illusion. The post Solving an Earthshine Mystery appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read MorePreparing for the Next Generation of Flight
Before NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft takes to the skies, plenty of testing happens to ensure a safe first flight.
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