International SWOT Mission Can Improve Flood Prediction nasa.gov/missions/swot/interna… #NASA #SWOTSurfaceWaterAndOceanTopography #EarthScience #WaterOnEarth
International SWOT Mission Can Improve Flood Prediction - NASA
A partnership between NASA and the French space agency, the satellite is poised to help improve forecasts of where and when flooding will occur in Earth’sAnthony Greicius (NASA)
White Sands Propulsion Team Tests 3D-Printed Orion Engine Component nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #WhiteSandsTestFacility #General #JohnsonSpaceCenter
White Sands Propulsion Team Tests 3D-Printed Orion Engine Component - NASA
Enter the Propulsion Test Office at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility. From November 2023 to January 2024, this team led rigorous testing of a critical OMELinda E. Grimm (NASA)
Ken Carpenter: Ensuring Top-Tier Science from Moon to Stars nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #HubbleSpaceTelescope #NancyGraceRomanSpaceTelescope #PeopleOfGoddard #PeopleOfNASA
Ken Carpenter: Ensuring Top-Tier Science from Moon to Stars - NASA
Name: Kenneth G. CarpenterTitle: Operations Project Scientist for Hubble Space Telescope; Ground System Scientist for Roman Space Telescope; and a NASAMadison Olson (NASA)
Breaking the Scaling Limits: New Ultralow-noise Superconducting Camera for Exoplanet Searches science.nasa.gov/science-resea… #NASA #Astrophysics #ExoplanetScience #Exoplanets #ScienceEnablingTechnology #StudyingExoplanets #TechnologyHighlights #TheUniverse
Breaking the Scaling Limits: New Ultralow-noise Superconducting Camera for Exoplanet Searches - NASA Science
When imaging faint objects such as distant stars or exoplanets, capturing every last bit of light is crucial to get the most out of a scientific mission.science.nasa.gov
How NASA’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-… #NASA #NancyGraceRomanSpaceTelescope #Astrophysics #BlackHoles #DarkMatter #GalaxiesStarsBlackHoles #GalaxiesStarsBlackHolesResearch #General #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #Missions #OriginEvolutionOfTheUniverse #ScienceResearch
How NASA’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes - NASA
Astronomers have discovered black holes ranging from a few times the Sun’s mass to tens of billions. Now a group of scientists has predicted that NASA’s NancyAshley Balzer (NASA)
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Black Hole Accreting with Jet
Illustration Credit: NASA, Swift, Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State U.)
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Astronaut Suni Williams Prepares for Crew Flight Test nasa.gov/image-article/astrona… #NASA #AsianAmericanAndNativeHawaiianPacificIslanderHeritage #CommercialCrew #DiversityAtNASA #PeopleOfNASA #SunitaLWilliams
Astronaut Suni Williams Prepares for Crew Flight Test - NASA
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronaut Suni Williams gives a thumbs up during a mission dress rehearsal on Friday, April 26, 2024, at the agency’s KennedyNASA
New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink science.nasa.gov/supermassive-… #NASA
New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink - NASA Science
Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer, viewers can plunge into the event horizon, a black hole’s point of no return.science.nasa.gov
A Different Perspective – Remembering James Dean, Founder of the NASA Art Program nasa.gov/general/a-different-p… #NASA #General
A Different Perspective – Remembering James Dean, Founder of the NASA Art Program - NASA
Shortly thereafter, NASA employee and artist James Dean was tasked with implementing NASA’s brand-new art program. Working alongside National Art GalleryMichelle Zajac (NASA)
Tech Today: NASA’s Ion Thruster Knowhow Keeps Satellites Flying nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/tec… #NASA #Spinoffs #GlennResearchCenter #TechnologyTransfer #TechnologyTransferSpinoffs
Tech Today: NASA’s Ion Thruster Knowhow Keeps Satellites Flying - NASA
In low Earth orbit, satellites face a constant challenge – a tiny amount of atmospheric drag that, over time, causes them to slow down and decay their orbit.Andrew Wagner (NASA)
Sols 4175-4177: Don’t Blink We’re Taking a Picture science.nasa.gov/blogs/sols-41… #NASA #Blogs
Sols 4175-4177: Don't Blink We're Taking a Picture - NASA Science
Curiosity loves to drive so it’s pretty rare we stay at a location longer than one planning cycle without the intention of drilling.science.nasa.gov
NASA Invites Media to Attend Louisiana Space Day 2024 nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-inv… #NASA #MichoudAssemblyFacility #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter
NASA Invites Media to Attend Louisiana Space Day 2024 - NASA
Media are invited to Louisiana Space Day 2024 hosted by NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, several aerospace companies, and GNO Inc. at the Louisiana State Capitol on May 8.NASA
Hubble Views a Galaxy with a Voracious Black Hole science.nasa.gov/missions/hubb… #NASA #Astrophysics #AstrophysicsDivision #Galaxies #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #HubbleSpaceTelescope #Missions #SpiralGalaxies #TheUniverse
Hubble Views a Galaxy with a Voracious Black Hole - NASA Science
Bright, starry spiral arms surround an active galactic center in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy NGC 4951. Located in the Virgo constellation, NGC 4951 is located roughly 50 million light-years away from Earth.science.nasa.gov
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A Total Solar Eclipse from Sliver to Ring
Video Credit & Copyright: Reinhold Wittich; Music: Sunrise from Also sprach Zarathusra (R. Strauss) by Sascha Ende
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Total Solar Eclipse from Sliver to RIng
Credit: Reinhold WittichDate: 2024 April 8From: Mountain View, Arkansas, USA Music: Sunrise: Also sprach Zarathustra (R. Strauss); by Sascha EndeYouTube
TIL Coca-Cola was accused of hiring hitmen between 1990 and 2002 to kill at least 10 trade union leaders.
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#til #todayilearned
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Coca-Cola boycott launched after killings at Colombian plants
Trade unions around the world have launched a boycott of Coca-Cola products, alleging that the company's locally owned bottlers in Colombia used illegal paramilitary groups to intimidate, threaten and kill its workers.Sibylla Brodzinsky (The Guardian)
A Black Hole Disrupts a Passing Star
Illustration Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech
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Aw, this got me all jazzed until I saw it was an artist's rendering, not an astrograph.
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3 ATs
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory, TWAN)
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Former NASA Center Director, Scientist to Receive Presidential Medals nasa.gov/news-release/former-n… #NASA #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JohnsonSpaceCenter #Missions
Former NASA Center Director, Scientist to Receive Presidential Medals - NASA
President Joe Biden will present Dr. Ellen Ochoa, former center director and astronaut at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, and Dr. Jane Rigby,NASA
Former NASA Center Director, Scientist to Receive Presidential Medals nasa.gov/news-release/former-n… #NASA #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #Missions
Former NASA Center Director, Scientist to Receive Presidential Medals - NASA
President Joe Biden will present Dr. Ellen Ochoa, former center director and astronaut at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, and Dr. Jane Rigby,NASA
A Moonlit Trio nasa.gov/image-article/a-moonl… #NASA #EarthSMoon #Jupiter #Saturn
A Moonlit Trio - NASA
The Moon (left), Saturn, and Jupiter (lower right; Saturn is above and to the left of Jupiter) were seen in the sky above the Washington Memorial on Dec. 17,NASA
Hi-C Rocket Experiment Achieves Never-Before-Seen Look at Solar Flares nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #SoundingRockets #SoundingRocketsProgram #WallopsFlightFacility
Hi-C Rocket Experiment Achieves Never-Before-Seen Look at Solar Flares - NASA
After months of preparation and years since its last flight, the upgraded High Resolution Coronal Imager Flare mission – Hi-C Rocket Flare, for short – took to the skies for a never-before-seen view of a solar flare.Beth Ridgeway (NASA)
There’s nothing better than the quality of comments you get when presenting a new theoretical model /s
Hubble Hunts Visible Light Sources of X-Rays science.nasa.gov/missions/hubb… #NASA #Astrophysics #AstrophysicsDivision #Galaxies #HubbleSpaceTelescope #Missions #SpiralGalaxies #TheUniverse
Hubble Hunts Visible Light Sources of X-Rays - NASA Science
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf galaxy IC 776. This swirling collection of new and old stars is located in the constellation Virgo, in the Virgo galaxy cluster, 100 million light-years from Earth.science.nasa.gov
Temperatures on Exoplanet WASP-43b
Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Science: Taylor Bell (BAERI), Joanna Barstow (The Open University), Michael Roman (University of Leicester)
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Apologies for not being a US citizen, but do you have that one in Celsius? The temperatures seem to be in the range where the conversion to Celsius still matters.
NASA Research Park Public Documents nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #AmesResearchCenter #NASACentersFacilities
NASA Research Park Public Documents - NASA
Economic Benefits Study: 2015 Economic Benefits Study 2010 Economic Benefits Study 2010 Economic Benefits Study - Appendices Development Plans: NASA AmesTheodore R. Triano (NASA)
2024 Total Solar Eclipse: Prediction vs. Reality science.nasa.gov/image-article… #NASA #2024SolarEclipse #AmesResearchCenter #Eclipses #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #Heliophysics #Modeling #ScienceResearch #Skywatching #SolarDynamicsObservatorySDO #SolarEclipses
2024 Total Solar Eclipse: Prediction vs. Reality - NASA Science
Before a total solar eclipse crossed North America on April 8, 2024, scientists at Predictive Science Inc. of San Diego aimed to foresee what the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, would look like during totality.science.nasa.gov
Researchers Develop ‘Founding Document’ on Synthetic Cell Development nasa.gov/general/researchers-d… #NASA #General #AmesResearchCenter #CellAndMolecularBiology #DevelopmentalReproductiveAndEvolutionaryBiology #ScienceResearch
Researchers Develop ‘Founding Document’ on Synthetic Cell Development - NASA
Cells are the fundamental units of life, forming the variety of all living things on Earth as individual cells and multi-cellular organisms. To betterTara Friesen (NASA)
Hi-C Rocket Experiment Achieves Never-Before-Seen Look at Solar Flares nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #SoundingRockets #SoundingRocketsProgram
Hi-C Rocket Experiment Achieves Never-Before-Seen Look at Solar Flares - NASA
After months of preparation and years since its last flight, the upgraded High Resolution Coronal Imager Flare mission – Hi-C Rocket Flare, for short – took to the skies for a never-before-seen view of a solar flare.Beth Ridgeway (NASA)
Galaxy Evolution Explorer Searches for Light nasa.gov/image-article/galaxy-… #NASA #GALEXGalaxyEvolutionExplorer
Galaxy Evolution Explorer Searches for Light - NASA
This Dec. 21, 2002, artist’s concept of NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer imagines what the space telescope would look like during its mission. Launched AprilNASA
Sols 4173-4174: Reflections science.nasa.gov/blogs/sols-41… #NASA #Blogs
Sols 4173-4174: Reflections - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 Today’s planning was a little out of the ordinary. Not in terms of the plan itself, Curiosity’s team built an exciting plan utilizing much of its science toolkit.science.nasa.gov
Hi-C Rocket Experiment Achieves Never-Before-Seen Look at Solar Flares nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter
Hi-C Rocket Experiment Achieves Never-Before-Seen Look at Solar Flares - NASA
After months of preparation and years since its last flight, the upgraded High Resolution Coronal Imager Flare mission – Hi-C Rocket Flare, for short – took to the skies for a never-before-seen view of a solar flare.Beth Ridgeway (NASA)
in reply to NASA
The headline or accompanying text really should include the fact that the Hi-C Flare includes the COOL-AID instrument and the CAPRI-SUN instrument, if you are going for clicks. 😀
NASA Is Helping Protect Tigers, Jaguars, and Elephants. Here’s How. science.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-is… #NASA #Earth #EarthScience
NASA Is Helping Protect Tigers, Jaguars, and Elephants. Here’s How. - NASA Science
As human populations grow, habitat loss threatens many creatures. Mapping wildlife habitat using satellites is a rapidly expanding area of ecology, and NASA satellites play a crucial role in these efforts.science.nasa.gov
NASA Technology Grants to Advance Moon to Mars Space Exploration nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-tec… #NASA #Mars #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #OpportunitiesForStudentsToGetInvolved #OpportunitiesToContributeToNASAMissionsGetInvolved
NASA Technology Grants to Advance Moon to Mars Space Exploration - NASA
NASA has awarded nearly $1.5 million to academic, non-profit, and business organizations to advance state-of-the-art technology that will play a key role inNASA
NASA Partner Zooniverse Receives White House Open Science Award science.nasa.gov/get-involved/… #NASA #Astrophysics #CitizenScience #EarthScience #Heliophysics #NASAOpenSourceSoftware #PlanetaryScience
NASA Partner Zooniverse Receives White House Open Science Award - NASA Science
Congrats to NASA partner Zooniverse for being named winners in the White House’s Year of Open Science Recognition Challenge! The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) designated 2023 as the year of Open Science, and invited innovat…science.nasa.gov
NASA Technology Grants to Advance Moon to Mars Space Exploration nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-tec… #NASA #Mars #OpportunitiesForStudentsToGetInvolved #OpportunitiesToContributeToNASAMissionsGetInvolved
NASA Technology Grants to Advance Moon to Mars Space Exploration - NASA
NASA has awarded nearly $1.5 million to academic, non-profit, and business organizations to advance state-of-the-art technology that will play a key role inNASA
NASA Mission Strengthens 40-Year Friendship nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #KennedySpaceCenter #Astronauts #CommercialCrew #HumansInSpace #InternationalSpaceStationISS #NASACentersFacilities #NASAHeadquarters #PeopleOfNASA
NASA Mission Strengthens 40-Year Friendship - NASA
As NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore launches aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station Monday, May 6 on its first crewed flight, oneElyna N. Niles-Carnes (NASA)
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