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One of Chile’s most active volcanoes, Villarrica, is having a minor eruption. 🌋

Plumes of steam and volcanic gases (magnified in the inset image) can be seen in this @Space_Station photo from Jan. 17, 2023. go.nasa.gov/3HI8Leb
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Low-level Strombolian activity – small, short eruptions – is common at Villarrica. As of Jan. 27, the alert level was still elevated at yellow (the second on a four-color scale).

Read the full story ⬇️ go.nasa.gov/3HI8Leb
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The Exp 68 crew gets ready for a Thursday spacewalk while studying plant genetics, fire safety, and future piloting techniques. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
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Meet the exoplanet KOI-55 b. It's a small, rocky world 4,000 light-years away. It's less than half the size of Earth, yet it orbits so closely to its host star, that it's stretching its sun.
#MondayMotivation: Don't let anyone dim your light. SHINE✨go.nasa.gov/3kOmWW1
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Update on berg A-81🧊

This #Landsat image from Jan. 25 shows the A-81 berg on the left and the new front of the Brunt Ice Shelf on the right.

According to a @NASAGoddard glaciologist, satellite images show the front has retreated 20 km since 1973. go.nasa.gov/1333
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A collaboration written in the stars. ✨

We’ve teamed up with @LibraryCongress’s Poet Laureate @AdaLimon to send a poem to space! Limon’s poem dedicated to @EuropaClipper will be engraved on the spacecraft, targeted to launch Oct. 2024. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/40gQQmf
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The poem set to fly in space aboard @EuropaClipper, and how you can participate, will be revealed in the coming months.

Learn more about the Library of Congress and Ada Limón’s work 🧵:
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From 1979 to Jan. 1983, 2 remotely piloted, experimental Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology (HiMAT) vehicles were used at what is now @NASAArmstrong, to develop high-performance fighter technologies.

Each aircraft was about 1/2 the size of an F-16: go.nasa.gov/3RpEEeZ
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Globular Star Cluster NGC 6355 from Hubble apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230130.ht… #APOD
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Using the "Our Galaxy" app, we show where the globular cluster NGC 6355 is located in our galaxy. The cluster is deeply embedded in the galactic bulge and is heavily obscured from our point of view. We turn on a wire frame rendering of the bulge so the cluster can be better seen.

The free "Our Galaxy" app can be found at otherwise.com.

youtu.be/hGBZmmDJa_c

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Globular Star Cluster NGC 6355 from Hubble

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola, R. Cohen

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Using the "Our Galaxy" app, we show where the globular cluster NGC 6355 is located in our galaxy. The cluster is deeply embedded in the galactic bulge and is heavily obscured from our point of view. We turn on a wire frame rendering of the bulge so the cluster can be better seen.

The free "Our Galaxy" app can be found at www.otherwise.com.



We're sending a new crew to the @Space_Station!

NASA's @SpaceX #Crew6 mission is scheduled to launch from @NASAKennedy no earlier than Sunday, Feb. 26. Get to know our four Crew-6 travelers and what they'll be working on over their six months in orbit: go.nasa.gov/3WNJhQI
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Woo hoo! Have a blast!
Get it...a blast? Hee hee
I crack myself up anyway 😋


An astronaut on the @Space_Station captured this photo of the Rio Grande – which defines a portion of the border between the U.S. and Mexico – on Sep. 19, 2022.
👩‍🚀🌎: go.nasa.gov/3JeaLfv
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Breaks my heart humans decided to build a SpaceX rocket facility in the middle of a coastal wetland. Such places are Nature's biodiversity factories --the closest to the Garden of Eden we can get in this universe.


"The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile."

These are the words of Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, and one of the 7 astronauts to fly on Columbia 20 years ago for STS-107. #NASARemembers
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Barnard 68: Dark Molecular Cloud apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230129.ht… #APOD
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Barnard 68: Dark Molecular Cloud

Image Credit: FORS Team, 8.2-meter VLT Antu, ESO

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These picture are exactly the type of thing that inspired me to write my #DarkNebula series. I’d love to know what’s going on in that inky black region. Perfect #SciFi fodder.
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Lake Albert in southern Oregon is drying up due to years of water withdrawals and dry weather.

The lake is also becoming too salty to support the flies and brine shrimp that serve as a food source for migrating birds.
Full story: go.nasa.gov/3kPwsIE
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These #Landsat images from 2002 (left), when water levels were near peak, and 2022 (right) show how much Lake Albert has shrunk.
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To understand why the lake is drying up, scientists analyzed two decades of @nasa’s Terra satellite data.

They found that between 2001 and 2021, fewer days of snow cover and higher surface temperatures led to more evaporation over Lake Albert. go.nasa.gov/3kPwsIE
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🦉 Duo bingo: @NASAHubble captured a bright variable star and its smaller companion star in the upper left of this composite image. Both lie in the Orion Nebula, a colossal region of star formation roughly 1,450 light-years from Earth: go.nasa.gov/3Y9idwJ
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Did COVID affect climate change? Climate change-causing greenhouse gases only decreased a little, so these gases continued to build in our atmosphere.

@NASAClimate scientist Leslie Ott explains go.nasa.gov/3D1MoO5
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#OTD in 1986, as the crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-51L) perished when the vehicle exploded shortly after liftoff.

They were Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, and Judy Resnik. #NASARemembers
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I will never forget that day. I was a freshman in college and in the car with my girlfriend when the news broke. We got to a tv as soon as we could, horrified.


Comet ZTF over Mount Etna apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230128.ht… #APOD
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This Week at NASA: Remembering our fallen heroes, announcing new engine propulsion technology, and meeting #Crew6, set to launch to the @Space_Station in February. Sign up and be our virtual guest at launch: go.nasa.gov/3WIjjym
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The Exp 68 crew worked on a muscle study, cleaned up after bone healing research, then resumed spacewalk preps at the end of the workweek. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
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Students from Choctaw Nation Head Start and public schools in Oklahoma will get to connect with @NASA_Astronauts Nicole Mann, the first Native American woman in space, during a space-to-Earth call airing live at 10:20am ET on Tuesday, Jan. 31, on NASA TV. go.nasa.gov/3WO8OJI
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NASA is for everyone lets get more people from all background studying STEM so we can explore the universe as a human race, together and achive great things by combining all the unique qualities to achieve what was once seen as the impossible.


Researchers have a new method to look for planets around white dwarf stars and to examine their atmospheres for potential signs of life with @NASAWebb. go.nasa.gov/3HBnI1t go.nasa.gov/3DhqvdK
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We’re testing software developed by @NASAAero to help cut your tarmac wait times and make U.S. aviation carbon neutral by 2050.

In just one year, @DFWAirport saved 24,000 pounds of jet fuel and stopped 77,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions using it: go.nasa.gov/3J6b8Zq
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Last day to apply for the opportunity to watch #Crew6 astronauts launch from @NASAKennedy! Whether you have 5,000 or 50 followers, now is your chance to tour NASA facilities behind-the-scenes and share with your audiences: go.nasa.gov/3jdX85q
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Okay Feddits with follows, now is your chance to get photos inside NASA to share with us!
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Those suits totally look like Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey.


⏪ #FlashbackFriday to Hubble’s observations of Comet ISON in April 2013!

Even without a space-based observatory to help, this comet became visible with the naked eye too!

Read more: go.nasa.gov/3Y201oB
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Another comet viewing opportunity is here: C/2022 E3 (ZTF) can be seen with binoculars or a small telescope in the predawn sky as the comet travels across the northern sky.

Check your favorite skywatching app for the comet's position and more info! go.nasa.gov/3Y27Dax
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We're honored to receive the 2023 Swigert Award for Space Exploration, a top award from the Space Foundation.

The Webb team "represents the best of our humanity and an enduring pursuit to better understand the cosmos.” -NASA Administrator @SenBillNelson go.nasa.gov/3jflvPV
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it’s unfortunate the name Webb doesn’t represent “the best of our humanity”
It would have been better to acknowledge the widespread call to pick a more suitable name pre-flight. The scientific value of the poorly named mission is nonetheless enormous. I do enjoy reading about the vast quantity of information being collected.



This week on #SpaceToGround, learn more about #Crew6, launching to the space station next month, and the cutting-edge @ISS_Research they will be conducting, plus @nasa's annual Day of Remembrance at @NASA_Johnson.
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Have a stellar #HubbleFriday!

This week's image shows the bright star V 372 Orionis, along with a smaller companion star in the upper left.

Both stars call the Orion Nebula home – which is a massive region of starbirth about 1,450 light-years away: go.nasa.gov/3DkX6zq
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Planting cover crops – those planted between growing seasons – decreases the total harvest of corn and soybeans in the U.S. Midwest, a new #NASAHarvest study found.

Full story: go.nasa.gov/3XLwUGj 🌽
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This map shows the yield impacts for cover crop adoption for corn fields in 2019 and 2020 in six states. Red and orange areas on the map show fields with lower yields because of cover crop usage. 🌽
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a bit more context would help wit this post.

news.stanford.edu/2022/11/08/c…

"More research can help guide that implementation by showing, among other things, how alternatives to rye – the most commonly used cover crop in the U.S. Corn Belt – might result in higher primary crop yields in some regions"



Using #Landsat data, the team also identified fields using cover crops. They found that, from 2011 to 2021, the area where cover crops were planted increased from 1.8% to 7.2%.
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The team then calculated the yield of farms planting cover crops, and used machine learning to compare those fields to similar ones without. Almost all farmers using cover crops for 3+ years saw reduced yields compared to those who let the soil lay bare. go.nasa.gov/3XLwUGj
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A spark, a pure oxygen environment, design flaws in the hatch door…

Roger Chaffee, Ed White, and Gus Grissom were tragically killed on Jan. 27, 1967, when a fire erupted inside the Apollo command module during a preflight rehearsal test. #NASARemembers
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