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Learn more about how @nasa engineers test a prototype Mars lander: go.nasa.gov/3saK98q
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Watch NASA Engineers Put a Mars Lander's Legs to the Test
Sturdy legs are needed to absorb the impact of the heaviest spacecraft to ever touch down on the Red Planet.NASA Mars Exploration
Oklahoma, Texas Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Station
Students from Oklahoma and Texas will have separate opportunities this week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.Claire O’Shea (NASA)
#NASAExoplanets
Discovery of eight planets makes alien system the first to tie with our solar system
Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light years from Earth.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
NASA to Host Media for Asteroid Capsule Drop Test Briefing in Utah
Media are invited to Utah’s western desert on Wednesday, Aug. 30, to learn about NASA preparations and readiness to receive America’s first asteroid sample collected in space.Roxana Bardan (NASA)
8 Approaches to Find Yourself
Learn how to stop reacting to life, making up for the shadows of yesterday, and toiling for your tomorrow. See how to know yourself now.Margarita Tartakovsky, MS (Psych Central)
Moon Meets Jupiter
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APOD: 2023 August 8 – Moon Meets Jupiter
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
APOD: 2023 August 10 - Five Meters over Mars
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Webb’s vision has revealed more details about Earendel. Now we know it's more than twice as hot and about a million times more luminous than our Sun!
Based on colors observed with Webb, astronomers think Earendel may have a companion star, too: go.nasa.gov/3Ovd9iJ
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Webb Reveals Colors of Earendel, Most Distant Star Ever Detected
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has followed up on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of the farthest star ever detected in the very distant universe, within the first billion years after the big bang.Isabelle Yan (NASA)
Hubble broke records by observing the farthest star ever detected, Earendel!
Thanks to a lucky cosmic alignment, the gravity of a galaxy cluster between us & Earendel magnified the star’s light: go.nasa.gov/47pbT9w
Now, we know more about it with @NASAWebb on the job! ⬇️
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Record Broken: Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang – the farthest individual star ever seen to date.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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In Depth | Perseids – NASA Solar System Exploration
The Perseid meteor shower peaks in mid-August, and is considered the best meteor shower of the year.NASA Solar System Exploration
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What's Up: August 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA
What are some skywatching highlights in August 2023?Saturn reaches opposition this month, meaning it's at its biggest and brightest for the year, and visible...YouTube
Cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev rode the European robotic arm as he and Dmitri Petelin installed debris shields and relocated a portable workstation on the station during a spacewalk today. More... go.nasa.gov/44ZweAF
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Cosmonauts Finish Spacewalk Installing Shields and Relocating Hardware
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 5:19 p.m. EDT after 6 hours and 35 minutes.go.nasa.gov
The most distant star is seen by @NASAWebb because a massive galaxy cluster bends light, allowing us to look through it like a magnifying glass. Based on its colors, astronomers think Earendel may have a cooler companion star!…
#NASAExoplanets
Celebrate by curling up with a @nasa ebook about exoplanets. Strange New Worlds focuses on @NASAHubble's science and discoveries. nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/…
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NASA’s New Hubble E-Book Takes Readers on a Journey to Curious Worlds
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope team has released a new edition in the Hubble Focus e-book series, called “Hubble Focus: Strange New Worlds.”Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
We know the Moon has water, so could future astronauts access and make use of it? We're working on it. Once it lands at the lunar South Pole, our Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) will robotically sample ice from beneath the lunar surface: go.nasa.gov/2QygCmF
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Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1)
NASA’s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) is leading development of the lunar drill called TRIDENT, which can core out a hole roughly three feet deep on the lunar surface.Eric Vitug (NASA)
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Cracks in Ancient Martian Mud Surprise NASA's Curiosity Rover Team
A new paper suggests the same conditions that created the cracks could have been favorable to the emergence of microscopic life.NASA Mars Exploration
Spacewalker Sergey Prokopyev attaches a portable workstation to the European robotic arm as the space station orbits 260 miles above Africa. Watch now... nasa.gov/live
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What about second breakfast? 🧝♂️
We're eating up @NASAWebb's second look at the star Earendel, first seen by @NASAHubble. It's the farthest star ever detected, & Webb now shows it to be more than twice as hot as our Sun and about a million times brighter: go.nasa.gov/3OOJEtL
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Webb Reveals Colors of Earendel, Most Distant Star Ever Detected
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has followed up on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of the farthest star ever detected in the very distant universe, within the first billion years after the big bang.Isabelle Yan (NASA)
What will you discover about our universe on #BookLoversDay? 📚
Explore our free e-book library to uncover stories about Hubble and its history, plus learn more about the planets in our solar system, galaxies beyond our own, and more: go.nasa.gov/3YuY6dN
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Digital Library - E-books
NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind.NASA
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NASA Data Shows Fierce Surface Temperatures During Phoenix Heat Wave
Streets and other built surfaces in the region absorbed and retained heat long after sunset and grew hotter over many days of persistent high temperatures.Naomi Hartono (NASA)
NASA Software Catalog Offers Free Programs for Earth Science, More
Each year, NASA scientists, engineers, and developers create software packages to manage space missions, test spacecraft, and analyze the petabytes of data produced by agency research satellites.Claire O’Shea (NASA)
#OTD in 2005, STS-114 completed the Space Shuttle Program's 14-day "Return to Space" mission, the first after the tragic loss of Columbia 2.5 years earlier.
More: go.nasa.gov/45cQfnh
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STS-114 - NASA
STS-114 was the first Return to Flight mission since the tragic loss of Columbia Feb. 1, 2003. Two and a half years were spent researching and implementing safety improvements for orbiters and external tanks.Empty Test
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Cosmonauts Begin Spacewalk for Station Upgrade Work
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin began a spacewalk at 10:44 a.m. EDT.blogs.nasa.gov
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Cosmonauts Exiting Station for Spacewalk Soon Live on NASA TV
NASA coverage is underway for today’s spacewalk with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin.blogs.nasa.gov
The light of Earendel, our most beloved star ⭐
Discovered by @NASAHubble, Earendel is the farthest star ever detected. Webb’s fresh look reveals it to be a massive B-type star more than twice as hot and about a million times more luminous than our Sun: go.nasa.gov/3Os44aC
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Webb Reveals Colors of Earendel, Most Distant Star Ever Detected
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has followed up on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of the farthest star ever detected in the very distant universe, within the first billion years after the big bang.Isabelle Yan (NASA)
> Earendel
Earendil was a mariner
That tarried in Arvernien
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The Flammifer of Westernesse
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Apollo, X-planes, and everything in-between: celebrate #BookLoversDay with some aerospace history!
We have more than 200 books in our NASA History Series available to download for free: go.nasa.gov/3YpXPJ1
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History Publications and Resources - NASA
The NASA History Series includes over 200 books and monographs on a wide range of topics from rockets and wind tunnels to the psychology and sociology ofEmpty Test
APOD: 2023 August 9 – Meteor Shower: Perseids from Perseus
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
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LIVE NOW: Join @SenBillNelson, the #Artemis II astronauts, and other NASA leaders as they provide updates on the first crewed Artemis mission around the Moon. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BRKj…
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Another round of speculative-execution vulnerabilities
There is a newly disclosed set of vulnerabilities in Intel processors that have been given the name Downfall attacks.lwn.net
#ISS
Cancer Therapy, Agriculture Studies One Day Before Spacewalk
Stem cells and space botany were the top research objectives for the Expedition 69 crew on Tuesday while still working to unpack a new U.S. cargo craft.blogs.nasa.gov
Cosmic collision!
Seen in this #HubbleClassic view, the galaxy IC 883 is likely the result of two gas-rich galaxies merging.
This collision likely triggered a burst of star formation, as seen by the bright star clusters in the central region: go.nasa.gov/4452W2m
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Revolutionary!
The GRACE mission, launched on March 12, 2002, flew twin spacecraft around Earth to measure tiny variations in gravity, and revolutionized our view of how water moves on our planet over its 15 years of operation.
A retrospective: go.nasa.gov/47e6HoZ
#NASAhistory
GRACE Mission: 15 Years of Watching Water on Earth
In 15 years of operations, the GRACE satellite mission has dramatically changed our view of how water moves and is stored on Earth.NASA
On Aug. 9 at approximately 10:45am ET (1445 UTC), cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin will conduct a spacewalk to make updates to the @Space_Station's Rassvet module.
Learn where to watch live: go.nasa.gov/440aNy0
#NASA
NASA Sets Coverage of Roscosmos Spacewalk Outside Space Station
NASA will provide live coverage beginning at 10:15 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 9, as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station. The spacewalk is expected to begin about 10:45 a.m.Roxana Bardan (NASA)
APOD: 2023 August 8 – Moon Meets Jupiter
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Seasonal warmth led to the rapid disintegration of sea ice near two large outlet glaciers in Greenland. 🌊🧊
A pocket of persistent open water – or polynya – had formed within the sea ice on July 21 (left). By July 25 (right), the sea ice had broken out. go.nasa.gov/3YntuL7
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Summer Breakout in Northeast Greenland
Seasonal warmth led to the rapid disintegration of sea ice near the junction of two large outlet glaciers.go.nasa.gov
WhatsApp introduces screen sharing during video calls, rolling out on iOS, Android, and Windows, and support for landscape mode on video calls (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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WhatsApp introduces screen-sharing during video calls | TechCrunch
WhatsApp has introduced screen sharing and support for landscape mode as its latest features to enhance video calling.Jagmeet Singh (TechCrunch)
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