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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Curiosity Blog, Sols 4589 – 4592: Setting up to explore Volcán Peña Blanca" Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Thursday, July 3, 2025 The team was delighted this morning to learn that Wednesday’s drive had completed flawlessly, placing us in a stable position facing a ~3 foot high ridge located ~35 feet away. This ridge is the eastern edge […] [July 07, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4589-4592-setting-up-to-explore-volcan-pena-blanca/
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#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Working in Space" NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim works inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft completing cargo operations before it undocked from the International Space Station's Harmony module several hours later. [July 07, 2025] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/iss073e0078643orig.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA’s Hubble and Webb Telescopes Reveal Two Faces of a Star Cluster Duo" A riotous expanse of gas, dust, and stars stake out the dazzling territory of a duo of star clusters in this combined image from NASA’s Hubble and Webb space telescopes. Open clusters NGC 460 and NGC 456 reside in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. Open clusters consist of anywhere […] [July 07, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-and-webb-reveal-two-faces-of-star-cluster-duo/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" It came from outer space. An object from outside our Solar System is now passing through at high speed. Classified as a comet because of its gaseous coma, 3I/ATLAS is onlythe third identified macroscopic object as being so alien. The comet's trajectory is shown in white on the featured map, where the orbits of Jupiter, Mars, and Earth are shown in gold, red, and blue. Currently Comet 3I/ATLAS is about the distance of Jupiter from the Sun -- but closing, with its closest approach to our Sun expected to be within the orbit of Mars in late October. Expected to pass near both Mars and Jupiter, 3I/ATLAS is not expected to pass close to the Earth. The origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS remains unknown. Although initial activity indicates a relatively normal comet, future observations about 3I/ATLAS' composition and nature will surely continue. [July 07, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2507/Interstellar3I_nasa_1080.jpg
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" Difficult to capture, this mysterious, squid-shaped interstellar cloud spans nearly three full moons in planet Earth's sky. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula's bipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms. Though apparently surrounded by the reddish hydrogen emission region Sh2-129, the true distance and nature of the Squid Nebula have been difficult to determine. Still, one investigation suggests Ou4 really does lie within Sh2-129 some 2,300 light-years away. Consistent with that scenario, the cosmic squid would represent a spectacular outflow of material driven by a triple system of hot, massive stars, cataloged as HR8119, seen near the center of the nebula. If so, this truly giant squid nebula would physically be over 50 light-years across. [July 05, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2507/Ou4_difusco1024.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Remembers Former Johnson Director Jefferson Howell" July 3, 2025 Jefferson Davis Howell, Jr., former director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, died July 2, in Bee Cave, Texas. He was 85 years old. Howell was a champion of the construction of the International Space Station, working on a deadline to complete the orbiting lab by 2004. He oversaw four space […] [July 03, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-remembers-former-johnson-director-jefferson-howell/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Hubble Observations Give “Missing” Globular Cluster Time to Shine" A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular clusters like this one, called ESO 591-12 or Palomar 8, are spherical collections of tens of thousands to millions of stars tightly bound together by gravity. Globular clusters generally form early in the galaxies’ histories in regions rich […] [July 03, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-observations-give-missing-globular-cluster-time-to-shine/
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#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Old Glory on the Red Planet" This close-up view of the United States flag plate on NASA's Perseverance was acquired on June 28, 2025 (the 1,548th day, or sol, of its mission to Mars), by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) imager on the turret at the end of the rover's Mars robotic arm. [July 03, 2025] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pia26579.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Discovery Alert: Scientists Spot a Planetary Carousel" The Planets KOI-134 b and KOI-134 c The Discovery A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has two planets which orbit their star in a unique style, like an old-fashioned merry-go-round. Key Facts The KOI-134 system contains two planets which orbit their […] [July 03, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/discovery-alert-scientists-spot-a-planetary-carousel/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-11 Mission to Space Station" NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Thursday, July 10, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. First is an overview news conference at 12 p.m. EDT with mission leadership discussing final launch and mission preparations on the agency’s […] [July 02, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sets-briefings-for-spacex-crew-11-mission-to-space-station/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "How NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Share Its All-Sky Map With the World " NASA’s newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now settled into low-Earth orbit, SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) has begun delivering its sky survey data to a public archive on a weekly basis, allowing anyone […] [July 02, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/spherex-universe-map/
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#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "To the Spacemobile!" Three members of NASA's Lewis Research Center’s (now NASA’s Glenn Research Center) Educational Services Office pose with one of the center’s Spacemobile space science demonstration units on Nov. 1, 1964. [July 02, 2025] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/53908497721-3de9cb90ee-o.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Discovery Alert: Flaring Star, Toasted Planet" The Discovery A giant planet some 400 light-years away, HIP 67522 b, orbits its parent star so tightly that it appears to cause frequent flares from the star’s surface, heating and inflating the planet’s atmosphere. Key Facts On planet Earth, “space weather” caused by solar flares might disrupt radio communications, or even damage satellites. But […] [July 02, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/discovery-alert-flaring-star-toasted-planet/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "3 Years of Science: 10 Cosmic Surprises from NASA’s Webb Telescope" Since July 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and analyze otherwise invisible infrared light, Webb is making observations that were once impossible, changing our view of the cosmos from the most distant galaxies to our own solar system. Webb was built with […] [July 02, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/3-years-of-science-10-cosmic-surprises-from-nasas-webb-telescope/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" Does the Milky Way always rise between these two rocks? No. Capturing this stunning alignment took careful planning: being in the right place at the right time. In the featured image taken in June 2024 from Otago, New Zealand, the bright central core of our Milky Way Galaxy, home to the many of our Galaxy's 400 billion stars, can be seen between two picturesque rocks spires. For observers in Earth's Northern Hemisphere, the core is only visible throughout the summer. As Earth orbits the Sun, different parts of the Milky Way become visible at different angles at different times of the night. As Earth rotates, the orientation of the Milky Way in the sky also shifts -- sometimes standing vertically as seen in the featured image, and other times stretching parallel to the horizon, making it harder to see. In early June, observers can watch it emerge low on the horizon after sunset and gradually arc upward to reveal its full grandeur. [July 02, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2507/MwSpires_Chay_960.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Curiosity Blog, Sol 4588: Ridges and troughs" Written by Lucy Thompson, APXS Collaborator and Senior Research Scientist at the University of New Brunswick, CanadaEarth planning date: Wednesday, July 2, 2025As we traverse the boxwork terrain, we are encountering a series of more resistant ridges/bedrock patches, and areas that are more rubbly and tend to form lower relief polygonal or trough-like features. We […] [July 07, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sol-4588-ridges-and-troughs/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Working in Space" In this May 23, 2025, image, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim works inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft completing cargo operations before it undocked from the International Space Station’s Harmony module several hours later. Kim launched to the International Space Station on April 8, 2025; this is his first mission. See what Kim and other space […] [July 07, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/working-in-space/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Aaisha Ali: From Marine Biology to the Artemis Control Room " As humanity prepares to return to the lunar surface, Aaisha Ali is behind the scenes ensuring mission readiness for astronauts set to orbit the Moon during Artemis II.  Ali is the Artemis ground control flight lead at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. She makes sure her team has the resources needed for the next […] [July 07, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/aaisha-ali-from-marine-biology-to-the-artemis-control-room/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" Why is there a spiral around the North Pole of Mars? Each winter this pole develops a new outer layer about one meter thick composed of carbon dioxide frozen out of the thin Martian atmosphere. This fresh layer is deposited on a water-ice layer that exists year round. Strong winds blow down from above the cap's center and swirl due to the spin of the red planet -- contributing to Planum Boreum's spiral structure. The featured image is a perspective mosaic generated in 2017 from numerous images taken by ESA's Mars Express and elevations extracted from the laser altimeter aboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor mission. [July 06, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2507/MarsNorthPole_MarsExpress_960.jpg
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" Face-on spiral galaxy NGC 6946 and open star cluster NGC 6939 share this cosmic snapshot, composed with over 68 hours of image data captured with a small telescope on planet Earth. The field of view spans spans about 1 degree or 2 full moons on the sky toward the northern constellation Cepheus. Seen through faint interstellar dust couds near the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the stars of open cluster NGC 6939 are 5,600 light-years in the distance, near bottom right in the frame. Face-on spiral galaxy NGC 6946 is at top left, but lies some 22 million light-years away. In the last 100 years, 10 supernovae have been discovered in NGC 6946, the latest one seen in 2017. By comparison, the average rate of supernovae in our Milky Way is about 1 every 100 years or so. Of course, NGC 6946 is also known as The Fireworks Galaxy. [July 04, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2507/N6946N6939pisabarro1024.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Mission Monitoring Air Quality from Space Extended " Since launching in 2023, NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution mission, or TEMPO, has been measuring the quality of the air we breathe from 22,000 miles above the ground. June 19 marked the successful completion of TEMPO’s 20-month-long initial prime mission, and based on the quality of measurements to date, the mission has been extended […] [July 03, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/tempo/nasa-mission-monitoring-air-quality-from-space-extended/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Advances Pressure Sensitive Paint Research Capability" Many of us grew up using paint-by-number sets to create beautiful color pictures. For years now, NASA engineers studying aircraft and rocket designs in wind tunnels have flipped that childhood pastime, using computers to generate images from “numbers-by-paint” – pressure sensitive paint (PSP), that is. Now, advances in the use of high-speed cameras, supercomputers, and […] [July 03, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/pressure-sensitive-paint-2025/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Old Glory on the Red Planet" The United States flag adorns an aluminum plate mounted at the base of the mast, or “head,” of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. This image of the plate was taken on June 28, 2025 (the 1,548th day, or sol, of the mission), by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) camera on the […] [July 03, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/old-glory-on-the-red-planet/
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#NewImage from #Nasa: "" If you know where to look, you can see a thermonuclear explosion from a white dwarf star. Possibly two. Such explosions are known as novas and the detonations are currently faintly visible with the unaided eye in Earth's southern hemisphere -- but are more easily seen with binoculars. Pictured, Nova Lupi 2025 (V462 Lupi) was captured toward the southern constellation of the Wolf (Lupus) last week near the central plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Nova Lupi 2025 was originally discovered on June 12 and peaked in brightness about a week later. Similarly, Nova Velorum 2025, toward the southern constellation of the Ship Sails (Vela), was discovered on June 25 and peaked a few days later. A nova somewhere in our Galaxy becomes briefly visible to the unaided eye only every year or two, so it is quite unusual to have two novas visible simultaneously. Meanwhile, humanity awaits even a different nova: T Coronae Borealis, which should become visible in northern skies and is expected to become even brighter. [July 03, 2025] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2507/V462Lupi_Pon_960_annotated.jpg
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Awards Simulation and Advanced Software Services II Contract" NASA has awarded a contract to MacLean Engineering & Applied Technologies, LLC of Houston to provide simulation and advanced software services to the agency. The Simulation and Advanced Software Services II (SASS II) contract includes services from Oct. 1, 2025, through Sept. 30, 2030, with a maximum potential value not to exceed $150 million. The […] [July 02, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awards-simulation-and-advanced-software-services-ii-contract/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "What’s Up: July 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA" A.M./P.M. Planet Watching, Plus the Eagle Constellation Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look for Aquila the eagle. Skywatching Highlights All Month – Planet Visibility: Daily Highlights: July 1 – 7 – Mercury is relatively bright and easy to […] [July 02, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/whats-up-july-2025-skywatching-tips-from-nasa/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "To the Spacemobile!" In this Nov. 1, 1964, image, three members of NASA’s Lewis Research Center’s (now NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland) Educational Services Office pose with one of the center’s Spacemobile space science demonstration units. Once the NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) became NASA, public outreach became one of the agency’s core tenets. Lewis, which […] [July 02, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/to-the-spacemobile/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Near-Earth Asteroids as of July 2025" Each month, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office releases a monthly update featuring the most recent figures on NASA’s planetary defense efforts, near-Earth object close approaches, and other timely facts about comets and asteroids that could pose an impact hazard with Earth. Here is what we’ve found so far. Updated: July 2, 2025 [July 02, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/planetary-science/planetary-defense/near-earth-asteroids/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Stennis Engineer Takes Pride in Test Support Work" As a controls engineer at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Dwayne Lavigne does not just fix problems – he helps put pieces together at America’s largest rocket propulsion test site. “There are a lot of interesting problems to solve, and they are never the same,” Lavigne said. “Sometimes, it is like […] [July 02, 2025] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/dwayne-lavigne-takes-pride-in-test-work/
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#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Curiosity Blog, Sols 4586-4587: Straight Drive, Strategic Science" Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis Earth planning date: Monday, June 30, 2025 Our weekend drive placed Curiosity exactly where we had hoped: on lighter-toned, resistant bedrock we have been eyeing for close study. Curiosity’s workspace tosol did not contain any targets suitable for DRT. After a detailed discussion […] [July 02, 2025] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4586-4587-straight-drive-strategic-science/
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