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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag Comet NEOWISE from the ISS geschrieben vor 1 Stunde, 23 Minuten
Rounding the Sun on July 3rd and currently headed for the outer Solar System, Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) has been growing brighter in the predawn skies of planet Earth. From low Earth orbit it also rises before the […]
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag STS-135: Shuttle’s Final Launch and the Beginning of a New Era geschrieben vor 16 Stunden, 40 Minuten
Space Shuttle Atlantis‘ STS-135 mission launched from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center on July 8, 2011 and was the last space shuttle mission. via NASA https://ift.tt/2ZS7F8r
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag Noctilucent NEOWISE geschrieben vor 1 Tag
These silvery blue waves washing over a tree-lined horizon in the eastern French Alps are noctilucent clouds. From high in planet Earth’s mesosphere, they reflect sunlight in this predawn skyscape taken on July 8. […]
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag Heat Shield Milestone Complete for First Orion Mission with Crew geschrieben vor 1 Tag, 16 Stunden
Technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida recently finished meticulously applying more than 180 blocks of ablative material to the heat shield for the Orion spacecraft. via NASA https://ift.tt/2O20mpo
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag Jupiter’s Magnificent Swirling Clouds geschrieben vor 1 Tag, 16 Stunden
A multitude of magnificent, swirling clouds in Jupiter’s dynamic North North Temperate Belt is captured in this image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. via NASA https://ift.tt/2O5QXNx
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag Mercurys Sodium Tail geschrieben vor 2 Tagen, 1 Stunde
What is that fuzzy streak extending from Mercury? Long exposures of our Solar System’s innermost planet may reveal something unexpected: a tail. Mercury’s thin atmosphere contains small amounts of sodium that glow […]
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag Comet NEOWISE over Lebanon geschrieben vor 3 Tagen, 1 Stunde
A comet has suddenly become visible to the unaided eye. Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was discovered in late March and brightened as it reached its closest approach to the Sun, inside the orbit of Mercury, late last […]
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag NASA Provides Update on Commercial Crew Program, Close Call Review of Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test geschrieben vor 3 Tagen, 9 Stunden
NASA will host a media teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 7, to discuss the outcome of its High Visibility Close Call review of the December 2019 uncrewed Orbital Flight Test of Boeing’s Starliner s […]
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag Artemis Generation Students Across US to Speak with NASA Astronaut in Space geschrieben vor 3 Tagen, 13 Stunden
Students from across the nation will pose questions about NASA’s Artemis program to an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. The educational event will air live at 12:15 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 9, on N […]
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag Upgrading the Space Station Is All in a Day’s Work geschrieben vor 3 Tagen, 15 Stunden
NASA astronaut Robert Behnken works during the Wednesday, July 1, 2020, six-hour and one-minute spacewalk to swap an aging nickel-hydrogen battery for a new lithium-ion battery on the International Space Station’s […]
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag M43: Dust, Gas, and Stars in the Orion Nebula geschrieben vor 4 Tagen
Unspeakable beauty and unimaginable bedlam can be found together in the Orion Nebula Arguably the most famous of all astronomy nebulas, the Great Nebula in Orion is an immense interstellar molecular cloud only […]
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag Saturns Northern Hexagon geschrieben vor 5 Tagen, 1 Stunde
Why would clouds form a hexagon on Saturn? Nobody is sure. Originally discovered during the Voyager flybys of Saturn in the 1980s, nobody has ever seen anything like it anywhere else in the Solar System. Acquiring […]
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag Meeting in the Mesosphere geschrieben vor 6 Tagen
A sensitive video camera on a summit of the Vosges mountains in France captured these surprising fireworks above a distant horizon on June 26. Generated over intense thunderstorms, this one about 260 kilometers […]
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag Lynds Dark Nebula 1251 geschrieben vor 1 Woche
Stars are forming in Lynds Dark Nebula (LDN) 1251. About 1,000 light-years away and drifting above the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the dusty molecular cloud is part of a complex of dark nebulae mapped toward […]
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag NASA Awards Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 Spacecraft Contract geschrieben vor 1 Woche
NASA has awarded the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 (TSIS-2) Spacecraft contract to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems Group of San Diego, California.
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag The Galaxy, the Planet, and the Apple Tree geschrieben vor 1 Woche, 1 Tag
The Old Astronomer’s Milky Way arcs through this peaceful northern sky. Against faint, diffuse starlight you can follow dark rifts of interstellar dust clouds stretching from the galaxy’s core. They lead toward […]
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag July 4, 1997: Sojourner Arrives on the Red Planet geschrieben vor 1 Woche, 1 Tag
Hitching a ride on the Mars Pathfinder mission, the Sojourner rover arrived on Mars on July 4, 1997. via NASA https://ift.tt/2VCVtXZ
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag A Day’s Work: Robert Behnken Updates Power Systems on the Station geschrieben vor 1 Woche, 1 Tag
On June 26, 2020, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy conducted the first of two spacewalks to swap batteries and upgrade power systems on the International Space Station. via NASA https://ift.tt/3iisdj1
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag Our Rotating Earth geschrieben vor 1 Woche, 2 Tagen
Has your world ever turned upside-down? It would happen every day if you stay fixed to the stars. Most time-lapse videos of the night sky show the stars and sky moving above a steady Earth. Here, however, the […]
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NASA hat den neuen Beitrag NASA Names Joel Montalbano International Space Station Program Manager geschrieben vor 1 Woche, 2 Tagen
Kathy Lueders, NASA’s associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, has named Joel Montalbano as manager of the International Space Station Program. The appointment was effective June 29 f […]
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