The first frame is dark as you peer into the black hole itself. You begin to look up and stars come back into view. Now the stars are more blue than ever before as starlight that has fallen into the black hole to reach you has become more energetic. You may notice many dim stars
Looking Up at the Photon Sphere – NASA Science Read More »
The first frame shows a background sky highly distorted by the black hole in the center. The gravity of the black hole is so great that it actually deflects the background starlight. Large light bending effects cause the background sky to appear to move in unusual ways as you circle the black hole. Light paths
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NASA’s Balloon Program is past the halfway point for the fall campaign in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Four missions have successfully launched from the launch site, with two more lined up in the coming weeks. Hurricane Polo is affecting the upper-level winds near the launch site and the team is evaluating launch opportunities for the
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Peebles – Turner Baird AuditoriumThe Smithsonian InstitutionNational Museum of Natural History 1998 October 4; Debate Program 1 – 4:30 pm Sponsors: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural HistoryNational Science FoundationNational Aeronautics and Space AdministrationMichigan Technological UniversityUniversities Space Research Association Program Organizers: Robert Nemiroff, Jerry Bonnell, Sandra Barnes, Wellesley Pereira,Gabriela Marani, Haihong Che, and Carolyn Weissbach Welcome
The Nature of the Universe Great Debate in 1998: Program – NASA Science Read More »
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft today fired its thrusters for 18 minutes boosting the International Space Station’s orbit. The Cygnus XL’s gimbaled delta velocity engine was used to adjust the space station’s altitude by 1.5 miles at apogee, or highest point of station’s orbit, 0.8 miles at perigee, or lowest point of station’s orbit, placing the station in an orbit of 265.5 x 256.8 miles.
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For more information, contact Donald S. Parker, Kennedy Space Center, donald.s.parker@nasa.gov Download the PDF version Improper casting and forging processes in the manufacture of aluminum alloy 2219 can lead to microstructural defects that result in a sub-optimal response to anodic surface treatments and an increase in corrosion susceptibility. This Technical Bulletin communicates the risks of
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Infrared Science and Technology Interest Group Over the next few months, our talk series will be highlighting research from PRIMA’s Working Groups, with this talk focusing on dust properties in galaxies in the nearby universe. Stay tuned as well for overview talks this fall that highlight PRIMA’s PI science in the areas of Protoplanetary Disks
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Explanation: Globular star cluster Omega Centauri packs about 10 million stars much older than the Sun into a volume some 150 light-years in diameter. Also known as NGC 5139, at a distance of 15,000 light-years it’s the largest and brightest of 200 or so known globular clusters that roam the halo of our Milky Way
APOD: 2026 September 25 – Globular Star Cluster Omega Centauri – NASA Science Read More »
In mid-September 2026, Hurricane Polo began as a tropical disturbance off the Pacific coast of Mexico. By September 20, it was organized enough to qualify as a tropical depression, and by the next day it was a tropical storm. From there, Polo launched into a period of rapid intensification that left meteorologists searching for adjectives
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Four crew members from three space agencies will launch to the International Space Station no earlier than spring 2027 for a long-duration science expedition as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-14 mission. NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Chris Birch will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Makoto Suwa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut
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