Baltimore, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—July 26, 2018 Contacts: Ann Jenkins and Ray Villard, Space Telescope Science Institute NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has photographed Saturn and Mars near their closest approaches to Earth in June and July 2018. It’s now summertime in Saturn’s northern hemisphere and springtime in Mars’ southern hemisphere. The Hubble images[Read More…]
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NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Planet-Hunting Mission
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—April 12, 2018 By: Felicia Chou, and Joshua Finch On a mission to detect planets outside of our solar system, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is scheduled to launch no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT Monday, April 16. Prelaunch mission coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency’s[Read More…]
Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen
Baltimore, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—April 3, 2018 By: Ann Jenkins, Ray Villard, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, and Patrick Kelly, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities More than halfway across the universe, an enormous blue star nicknamed Icarus is the farthest individual star ever seen. Normally, it would be much too faint to view,[Read More…]
Taking the Pulse of Greenhouse Gases
Hampton, VA—(ENEWSPF)—March 23, 2018 By: Joe Atkinson, NASA Langley Research Center It can happen in a flash — airborne science, that is. Two hundred microseconds, to be exact. With lasers shot from the belly of a King Air B200 aircraft. That’s right, scientists are shooting lasers at atmospheric gases —[Read More…]
Hubble Solves Cosmic ‘Whodunit’ with Interstellar Forensics
Baltimore, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—March 22, 2018 By: Ann Jenkins, Ray Villard, and Andrew Fox On the outskirts of our galaxy, a cosmic tug-of-war is unfolding—and only NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope can see who’s winning. The players are two dwarf galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, both of which[Read More…]
NASA to Discuss Upcoming Launch of Next Planet Hunter on March 28 (Video)
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—March 19, 2018 By: Felicia Chou and Claire Saravia Join NASA at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 28, as astrophysics experts discuss the upcoming launch of NASA’s next planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The briefing will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.[Read More…]
NASA Twins Study Confirms Preliminary Findings
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—March 16, 2018 By: Monica Edwards and Laurie Abadie, NASA Human Research Strategic Communications Mark and Scott Kelly are still identical twins; Scott’s DNA did not fundamentally change. What researchers did observe are changes in gene expression, which is how your body reacts to your environment. This likely is within[Read More…]
NASA Juno Findings – Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly (Video)
Washington—(ENEWSPF)—March 9, 2018 By: DC Agle, Dwayne Brown, and Laurie Cantillo Data collected by NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter indicate that the atmospheric winds of the gas-giant planet run deep into its atmosphere and last longer than similar atmospheric processes found here on Earth. The findings will improve understanding of[Read More…]
Public Invited to Come Aboard NASA’s First Mission to Touch the Sun (Video)
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe named in honor of Eugene Parker, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Washington—(ENEWSPF)—March 6, 2018 By: Dwayne Brown and Karen Fox Want to get the hottest ticket this summer without standing in line? NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names online[Read More…]
NASA’s SDO Reveals How Magnetic Cage on the Sun Stopped Solar Eruption
Greenbelt, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—February 26, 2018 By: Lina Tran A dramatic magnetic power struggle at the Sun’s surface lies at the heart of solar eruptions, new research using NASA data shows. The work highlights the role of the Sun’s magnetic landscape, or topology, in the development of solar eruptions that can trigger[Read More…]