Smiling Sun, courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams According to one of NASA’s Twitter sites, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recently caught the Sun “smiling.” Viewed in ultraviolet light the coronal holes, dark patches on the Sun, are regions where fast solar wind gushes out into space. The Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first…
SpaceX Falcon Heavy USSF-44 mission, Screen capture/Youtube/SpaceX SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch of the USSF-44 mission to a geosynchronous Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida was successfully completed today. Following booster separation, Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters completed landing at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2 (LZ-1 and LZ-2). Falcon…
NASA Artemis I Moon Mission, Image/NASA Artemis Update Engineers Assess Data After Launch Delay: Engineers are evaluating data gathered during the Artemis I launch attempt Monday, Aug. 29, when teams could not get the rocket’s engines to the proper temperature range required to start the engines at liftoff, and ran out of time in the two-hour…
According to scientists employing atomic clocks, the Earth’s rotation was 1.59 milliseconds under 24 hours recently. Apparently June 29, 2022 was the Earth’s shortest day since its rotational history began to be recorded. Up until the last two years, the Earth has been spinning more slowly and taking longer to complete a full day. In the last few…
NASA Webb Telescope Releases First Image Image/NASA NASA on Wednesday released the first image from the Webb Space Telescope after sharpening its focus, as the agency plans to commence examining the farthest galaxies in the universe. The image shows the brilliant, fiery orange star 2MASS J17554042+6551277: “Following the completion of critical mirror alignment steps, NASA’s Webb Space Telescope team expects…
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), Image/NASA With recent sun related coronal mass ejections (CME) resulting in space and aviation communications and power grid disruptions here on earth, interest in this phenomenon has ultimately, burgeoned. Launched on December 2, 1995, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, has been instrumental in detecting eruptions…