[NASA] Mary Jackson: A Life of Service and a Love of Science
Mary Jackson began her engineering career in an era in which female engineers of any background were a rarity. via NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2Gg2WX1
[NASA] Vice President Attends NASA Day of Remembrance
Vice President Mike Pence visits the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial after a wreath laying ceremony that was part of NASA’s Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. via NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2DZuRba
[NASA] Apollo Astronaut Buzz Aldrin at the 2019 State of the Union
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin salutes after being introduced at the 2019 State of the Union address. via NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2UNHLyL
Moon and Venus Appulse over a Tree
What’s that bright spot near the Moon? Venus. About a week ago, Earth’s Moon appeared unusually close to the distant planet Venus, an angular coincidence known as an appulse. Similar to a conjunction, which is a coordinate term, an appulse refers more generally to when two celestial objects appear close together. This Moon and Venus appulse — once as close as 0.05 degrees — was captured rising during the early … Read More →
[NASA] Star Formation in the Orion Nebula
The powerful wind from the newly formed star at the heart of the Orion Nebula is creating the bubble and preventing new stars from forming. via NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2MSbmnE
Perijove 16: Passing Jupiter
Watch Juno zoom past Jupiter again. NASA‘s robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its 53-day, highly-elongated orbits around our Solar System’s largest planet. The featured video is from perijove 16, the sixteenth time that Juno has passed near Jupiter since it arrived in mid-2016. Each perijove passes near a slightly different part of Jupiter’s cloud tops. This color-enhanced video has been digitally composed from 21 JunoCam still images, resulting in … Read More →
[NASA] Victor Glover, One of the Crew of SpaceX’s First Flight to Station
When SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off on its first operational mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Victor Glover will be aboard. via NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2UG6ZPo
Henize 70: A Superbubble in the LMC
Massive stars profoundly affect their galactic environments. Churning and mixing interstellar clouds of gas and dust, stars — most notably those upwards of tens of times the mass of our Sun — leave their mark on the compositions and locations of future generations of stars. Dramatic evidence of this is illustrated in our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), by the featured nebula, Henize 70 (also known as N70 … Read More →
An Airglow Fan from Lake to Sky
Why would the sky look like a giant fan? Airglow. The featured intermittent green glow appeared to rise from a lake through the arch of our Milky Way Galaxy, as captured during 2015 next to Bryce Canyon in Utah, USA. The unusual pattern was created by atmospheric gravity waves, ripples of alternating air pressure that can grow with height as the air thins, in this case about 90 kilometers up. … Read More →
[NASA] Sunrise From Columbia
On Jan. 22, 2003, the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia captured this sunrise from the crew cabin during Flight Day 7. via NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2Ggd9BM