At 10 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 26, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, NASA will host a media briefing with other government agencies to discuss the Monday, April 8 rare total solar eclipse. Notable speakers from NASA and other government agencies will be participating in the event. NASA will be offering coverage of the eclipse…
Filament of solar plasma, Image/NASA/SDO The sun recently lost a huge filament of solar plasma from its surface. The broken filament is circling its north pole like a vortex of powerful winds. Although a normal occurring event, scientists have yet to see it form such a polar whirlwind until now. Space.com recently elaborated on the solar…
Watch Water Studying Satellite Unfold in Space, Image/NASA/JPL-Caltech The U.S.-European Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite was recently launched into space. After deploying its solar arrays while in Earth orbit, the satellite’s two cameras captured the unfurling of its large mast and KaRIn antenna panels of the spacecraft’s main science instrument. The antennas were successfully deployed over…
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…
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…
NASA Satellite Images Show Dramatic Decreased Lake Mead Water Capacity, Image/NASA Lake Mead is a reservoir which straddles Arizona and Nevada in the United States. In 1935, the Hoover Dam was built and the Colorado River was significantly altered. Lake Mead has varied in water level over the years. The lake last achieved full capacity…
M-class Sun Flare, Image/NASA NASA’s SDO and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a NASA/European Space Agency probe that was launched in 1995, obtained images of today’s CME. The M-class flare was associated with a coronal mass ejection (CME), a cloud of superheated plasma ejected from the sun. An increase in solar flare activity will continue since…
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…