National Aeronautics and Space Administrion

Since its inception in 1958, NASA has accomplished many great scientific and technological feats in air and space. NASA technology also has been adapted for many nonaerospace uses by the private sector. NASA remains a leading force in scientific research and in stimulating public interest in aerospace exploration, as well as science and technology in general. Perhaps more importantly, our exploration of space has taught us to view Earth, ourselves, and the universe in a new way. While the tremendous technical and scientific accomplishments of NASA demonstrate vividly that humans can achieve previously inconceivable feats, we also are humbled by the realization that Earth is just a tiny "blue marble" in the cosmos. Check out our "Thinking About NASA History" folder online as an introduction to how history can help you.

Sunday, December 24, 2023

EMIT Mission

"NASA’s EMIT mission has created the first comprehensive maps of the world’s mineral dust-source regions, providing precise locations of 10 key minerals based on how they reflect and absorb light. "


https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-sensor-produces-first-global-maps-of-surface-minerals-in-arid-regions

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

MAVEN

"NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission observed a sudden disappearance of solar wind while in orbit around the Red Planet. The solar wind then resumed as normal 2 days later."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/mars-nasa-solar-wind/?utm_source=Cosmos+Magazine&utm_campaign=7cd5f5c8d9-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3f5c04479a-7cd5f5c8d9-181027409&mc_cid=7cd5f5c8d9&mc_eid=3e3d9f7a52

Water

"Water is essential for life as we know it."

https://esawebb.org/news/weic2318/?lang

Jazero Crator

"This animated artist’s concept depicts a scene of water breaking through the rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater, which NASA’s Perseverance rover is now exploring. Water entered the crater billions of years ago, depositing sediments that built up into a delta."

https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/27840/water-enters-jezero-crater-billions-of-years-ago-artists-concept/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Frank Rubio

"Astronaut Frank Rubio may feel vindicated after produce that went missing on his watch was finally found aboard the International Space Station."


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/18/how-iss-tomato-looks-eight-months-lost-nasa-space-station/71957382007/

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Universe Expands

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"One of the biggest mysteries in cosmology is the rate at which the universe is expanding. This can be predicted using the standard model of cosmology, also known as Lambda-cold dark matter (ΛCDM)."

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-giant-void-puzzle-universe-expansion.html

Psyche is on a Roll

"NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on a roll. In the eight weeks since it left Earth on Oct. 13, the orbiter has performed one successful operation after another, powering on scientific instruments, streaming data toward home, and setting a deep-space record with its electric thrusters."


https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-psyche-delivers-first-images-and-other-data

Monday, December 4, 2023

Largest Black Hole Merger

"The largest black-hole merger ever detected seemed to produce a black hole 150 times the mass of the Sun, in defiance of some accepted theories."


https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03813-w

Weight of DCBH

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"A DCBH would outweigh the total mass of stars in its small host galexy by up to 50 times, Natarajan says, creating bizarre objects known as an obese black hole galexy."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23

Meteor Shower

https://www.almanac.com/content/meteor-shower-calendar?trk_msg=EKNLFNNIGOG4B1JVETMP3055P0&trk_contact=7P4DL6LCTF9MHOCNU0TVI0O1AK&trk_module=new&trk_sid=VVLRTNPTDBR9IDERHVUE3VTT6K&trk_link=KGU7E65PFLFKF7R7CEJ7BBHCA4&lctg=&utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Meteor+Showers+Calendar+2023%3a+Times+and+Dates+(read+more)&utm_campaign=Companion+Newsletter&utm_content=Daily

Sunday, December 3, 2023

Earliest Galexy Detected

"The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the earliest-known carbon dust in a galaxy ever."

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-1st-detection-of-diamond-like-carbon-dust-earliest-stars

Primordial Growth of Gas Giants

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"Natajan emphasizes that "special conditions" are required to form these DCBHs: a small primordial cloud of hydrogen and helium gas sitting at just the right distance to a much larger star-forming galexy. This explains why high-redshift quasars are uncommon. "The conditions you need are pretty stringent to make direct collapse black holes," she says. Those conditions are rare in the early universe, but they are available. Luckily these monster black holes are very rare, so you can accommodate what is seen so far easily, without a problem."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

2 planets Have become home to Aircraft designs

"For the first time in history, two planets have been home to testing future aircraft designs." 

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-uses-two-worlds-to-test-future-mars-helicopter-designs?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=Latest20231122-helicopter

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Pictures of Asteroids

"Capturing a piece of an asteroid and bringing it to Earth is even more difficult than it is time-consuming."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-nasa-captured-asteroid-dust-to-find-the-origins-of-life-180983274/

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Quantum Gas

"For the first time in space, scientists have produced a quantum gas containing two types of atoms."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-cold-atom-lab-sets-stage-for-quantum-chemistry-in-space

Monday, November 13, 2023

Juno Probe

"The space agency's distant Juno probe, orbiting Jupiter hundreds of millions of miles away, has been swooping progressively closer to the Jovian moon Io — the most volcanically active world in our solar system."

https://mashable.com/article/nasa-io-images-juno?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email

60 Meter Asteroid

"In July of this year, an asteroid roughly 30 to 60 meters across passed Earth to within one-quarter of the distance to the moon."


https://mashable.com/article/james-webb-space-telescope-crab-nebula

Solar Masses of DCBHs

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"DCBHs could have formed with as much as a million solar masses. Such as a massive black hole would have quicky merged with the nearby galexy, where it could have bulked up very rapidly on stars and gas. Natarjan and Lodato originally intendedthis model to explain ultra-massive blackholes."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23

Sunday, November 12, 2023

New Species of Mite

"A new species of mite, Paraschizogynium Hedwig, has been described and named after the owl Hedwig from the Harry Potter franchise."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/what-you-might-have-missed-hedwig-lives-on-potter-bendy-barnacles-palaeobionics-and-icy-moons/

Robotic Cargo

"SpaceX's 29th robotic cargo mission to the International Space Station successfully  lifted off on Thursday (Nov. 9)."

https://www.space.com/spacex-crs-29-iss-cargo-mission-launch

Friday, November 10, 2023

Galexy Cluster

"Yes, it’s technically only November. But that doesn’t mean astronomers can’t start getting in the spirit of the holiday season!"

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/christmas-tree-galaxy-cluster/

Thursday, November 9, 2023

Sun Peak

"The sun will reach the peak of its current activity cycle in 2024, one year earlier than previous estimates, according to experts at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)."

https://www.space.com/solar-maximum-expected-2024-new-predictions-suggest

Jupiter's Atmospheric winds

"Gravity data collected by NASA’s Juno mission indicates Jupiter’s atmospheric winds penetrate the planet in a cylindrical manner, parallel to its spin axis. A paper on the findings was recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy."


https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-juno-finds-jupiters-winds-penetrate-in-cylindrical-layers?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=juno20231109

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Crab Nebula

"NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus."

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/the-crab-nebula-seen-in-new-light-by-nasas-webb/

Supermassive blackholes

"Supermassive blackholes sucking galactic gas towards their centre end up throwing most of it away, Japanese researchers have found in research they describe as “monumental.”"

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrophysics/world-first-observation-of-lightyear-scale-black-hole-gas-flows/?utm_source=Cosmos+-+Master+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=43a878af00-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3f5c04479a-43a878af00-181027409&mc_cid=43a878af00&mc_eid=3e3d9f7a52

Saturday, November 4, 2023

Perseverance Rover

"On July 4, 2023, the Perseverance Rover celebrated its 842nd Martian day on Mars. As the red sky above began to grow dark, the adventurous robot turned its left navigation camera to the hazy horizon."

https://www.sciencealert.com/perseverance-captures-a-beautifully-strange-blue-sunset-on-mars

New System of Seven Planets

"Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space agency said Thursday."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-telescope-reveals-new-planets-kepler/

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Restroom with a View

"A restroom with an out-of-this-world view could be the surprise highlight for travelers adventuring with space tourism start-up Space Perspective."

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/space-toilet-space-perspective-scn/index.html

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Early days of aerial archaeology

"Back in the early days of aerial archaeology, a French Jesuit priest named Antoine Poidebard flew a biplane over the northern Fertile Crescent to conduct one of the first aerial surveys. "

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/i-spy-with-my-cold-war-satellite-eye-nearly-400-roman-forts-in-the-middle-east/

X-RAY uses

"In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in his wife’s hand, kicking off a revolutionary diagnostic tool for medicine."


https://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasa-x-ray-telescopes-reveal-the-bones-of-a-ghostly-cosmic-hand/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Monday, October 30, 2023

LIGO

"In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, made history when it made the first direct detection of gravitational waves, or ripples in space and time, produced by a pair of colliding black holes."

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20231023?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

SWIM

"The NASA-funded Subsurface Water Ice Mapping (SWIM) project released its fourth and most recent map of where on Mars we might find, as you might expect, subsurface water ice."

https://www.space.com/map-water-ice-mars-nasa-astronauts

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Mystery of Mars

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2023/10/mystery-of-the-martian-resolved.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Powerful Radio Waves

"Eight billion years ago, something happened in a distant galaxy that sent an incredibly powerful blast of radio waves hurtling through the universe."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fast-radio-burst-8-billion-years-reaches-earth-mind-blowing/

Jupiter's Atmosphere

"The atmosphere of Jupiter has east–west zonal jets that alternate as a function of latitude as tracked by cloud motions at tropospheric levels."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02099-2

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Milky Way

"If you’ve ever wanted to see the Milky Way galaxy from Earth, late September through October is your window of opportunity! Right now, we’re aimed toward the most concentrated part of the Milky Way. Learn more to see the kind of inspirational, star-filled panorama experienced in planetariums!"

https://www.almanac.com/best-time-view-milky-way-galaxy-earth

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Ring of Fire Eclipse

"A rare “ring of fire” eclipse of the sun cut across the Americas on Saturday, stretching from Oregon to Brazil, and huge crowds were on the move before dawn in cities, rural areas and national parks to try to catch a glimpse of it."

https://www.wmtw.com/article/solar-eclipse-videos/45537670

Solar Eclipse

"On Saturday morning, October 14, an annular solar eclipse will cross the skies of the Southwestern United States, allowing viewers to see a dazzling “ring of fire” surround the shadowy new moon."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-to-watch-the-annular-ring-of-fire-solar-eclipse-on-saturday-180983048/

Direct Collapse

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Direct Collapse

"Giuseppe Lodato published a series of papers explaining how dense primordial gas clouds (essentially protogalaxies) in the early universe could have collapsed to form seed black holes with masses of 1,000 to 100,000 Suns. Normally, such clouds would have fragmented during the collapse process to form a multitude of massive stars instead of a single black hole. But under certain rare conditions, a few clouds could have collapsed to form extremely black holes."Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23

How Gas Clouds Cool

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"The key to black holes forming is how gas clouds cool. Most of these clouds cool. Most of these clouds in the early universe contained a high abundance of molecular hydrogen (H), which consists of two hydrogen atom boundp together. Natarajan and Lodato found that such clouds will cool quickly, which causes them to fragment into numerous clumps that each go to form a star."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23

Direct Collapse Black Hole

Did you know?

"Instead, the cloud gravitationally collapse without cooling, ultimately concentrating such a huge amount of mass into a small volume of space that it forms what Natarajan calls "a direct-collapse black hole," or DCBH. This process bypasses the formation of traditional stars, although it could form a very short-lived supermassive star."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23

Primordial Cloud

"If a primordial cloud lies close to a much larger protogalaxy that is rapidily forming stars, those stars relentlessly zap the cloud with ultraviolet radiation. This massive input of energy breaks the chemical bonds that bind moleculer hydrogen together, converting the cloud into one of the almost pure atomic hydrogen (H), which is less efficient at radiating away energy. This gas remains hot, meaning it can't fragment to clumps that cool and condense to form stars."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23

Psyche Asteroid

Getting off to a ground-shaking start, NASA's $1.2 billion Psyche asteroid probe roared into space atop a Falcon Heavy rocket Friday, setting off on a 2.2-billion-mile voyage to a rare, metal-rich asteroid that may hold clues about how the cores of rocky planets like Earth first formed.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-launches-asteroid-probe-psyche/

Friday, October 13, 2023

Gravitational Lensing

"Gravitational Lensing, Clusters of Galaxies as Astrophysical Laboratories, Black Hole Physics, Binary Black Holes, Issues in Galaxy Formation, History & Philosophy of Science."

https://physics.yale.edu/people/priyamvada-natarajan

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Prada new suit

"Prada will take its designs to the next atmospheric level as the Italian fashion house announced its latest partnership with Axiom Space to design spacesuits for astronauts."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/07/nasa-artemis-iii-moon-mission-prada-axiom-space-spacesuit

Blue Sunset

https://www.sciencealert.com/perseverance-captures-a-beautifully-strange-blue-sunset-on-mars?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Sunday, October 8, 2023

NASA'S Curiosity

"It was a long slog. But NASA's Curiosity rover did it."

https://mashable.com/article/mars-nasa-curiosity-rover-image

Friday, October 6, 2023

Across Europe

"Across Europe, the entire night sky was aglow."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-to-watch-the-draconid-meteor-shower-this-weekend-180983029/

Thursday, October 5, 2023

Arthur Eddington

Did you know?

"Whizzing around the black hole at near-light-speed, the disk heats up and blast out torrents of radiation across many wavelengths. This intense radiation across many wavelengths. This intense radiation exerts pressure that literally pushes away nearby matter, limiting how fast black holes can add mass. An object's theoretical maximum accretion rate is known as the Eddington limit, after British astrophysicist Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944)."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" p. 20

Ravenous Black Hole

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"Even the most ravenous black hole could not consume enough material in 500 million years to attain the mass of a billion Suns. That's because as matter gathers around a black hole, it settles into an accreditation disk."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" p. 20

Monday, October 2, 2023

JUICE

"ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large ocean-bearing moons – Ganymede, Callisto and Europa – with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments."

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice

Martian Dust Devil

"The lower portion of a Martian dust devil was captured moving along the western rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater by NASA’s Perseverance rover on Aug. 30, 2023, the 899th Martian day, or sol, of the mission."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-captures-dust-filled-martian-whirlwind

Sunday, October 1, 2023

Radio Waves from Space

"Every so often, astronomers glimpse an intense flash of radio waves from space – a flash that lasts only instants but puts out as much energy in a millisecond as the Sun does in a few years."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/physics/scientists-look-for-the-origin-of-fast-radio-bursts-and-come-up-empty/

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Dante Lauretta

"Dante Lauretta, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, has waited nearly 20 years to get his hands on pristine specimens from an asteroid, which he says is a key to unlocking answers to mysteries about the origin of life on Earth. On Tuesday, he got his first look at dust grains returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission."https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/09/scientists-get-first-glimpse-of-samples-returned-from-asteroid/

371 Days in Space

"After spending an American record-breaking 371 days in space, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio safely landed on Earth with his crewmates Wednesday."

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/record-setting-nasa-astronaut-crewmates-return-from-space-mission

Friday, September 29, 2023

Cosmic History

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"This early era of cosmic history remains out of reach for observers. So to investigate it, theorists perform sophisticated computer simulations, which help tease out what happened as pristine clouds of hydrogen and helium gas gravitationally collapsed. According to calculations these clouds fragmented into multiple clumps that formed stars with masses up to 500 Suns. These early beacons lived fast and died young shining with millions of times of energy of our Sun but lasting only a few million years. They died in studendous supernova explosions and their cores collapsed into black holes with 100 to 200 solar masses."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 19-20

Thursday, September 28, 2023

High Res CMB

Did you know?

"High-resolution measurements of CMB show that the universe at this time was extremely--but not perfectly--uniform. Subtle irregularities in the density of matter eventually enabled gravity to do its thing. Starting around 200 million years after the Big Bang, regions with slightly greater concentrations of dark matter and gas started collapsing into the first stars and protogalaxies."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" p. 19

Universe Existance

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"Critically, in the first few minutes of the universe's existance, the prevailing temperatures and pressures enabled subatomic particles to coelece into hydrogen and helium nuclei, with only the barest tracest of heavier elements. When the universe cooled further, 380,000 years later, electrons continued with the hydrogen and helium nuclei, forming neutral atoms and releasing the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB)."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" p. 19

Cold Dark Matter

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"Lamda-Cold Dark Matter (ACDM for short) the universe originated 13.8 billion years ago in the Big Bang. The early universe was initially a nearly featureless cauldron of subatomic particles and dark matter (which outweighs familiar atomic matter by nearly 6 to 1), with material almost evenly distributed and thus unable to clump together into intesting structures."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" p. 19

High Redshift Quasars

Did you know?

"The relative dearth of high-redshift quasars means the conditions that form them are uncommon--i.e., a highly unusual set of conditions can do the trick, creating "seeds" that grow quickly into quasars. As University of Texas at Austin astrophysist Volkar Bromm says, "We only need very few seeds to explain the observed billion-solor-mass quasars at high redshift."

Astronomy Magazine March  2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" p. 19

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

7 Earth Sized Planets

"About 40 light years away, a system of seven Earth-sized planets orbit a star that is much cooler and smaller than our sun— the exoplanetary system called TRAPPIST-1." 

https://www.popsci.com/science/jwst-trappist-atmosphere-spectroscopy/

Sunday, September 24, 2023

Next Gold Rush

"As excited observers gear up for the possible return of asteroid chips in the next few days, attention turns again to the prospect of going to the Moon and other planetary bodies in search of natural resources."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/space-mining-is-closer-than-you-think/

Dr. Carl Seubert

"While space researchers around the world are scrambling to track the growing number of satellites above us, Dr Carl Seubert wants satellites to track themselves."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/smartsat-satellites-space-cloud-ai/

Saturday, September 23, 2023

Saucer Shaped Capsule

"A small saucer-shape capsule carrying a half-pound of rocks and dust collected from an asteroid called Bennu — leftovers from the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago — is expected to slam into Earth's atmosphere at a blistering 27,650 mph on Sunday."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-asteroid-samples-bennu-land-on-earth-sunday/

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Cosmic Pantry

"Scientists have looked through the cosmic pantry to write what has been described as a “cookbook” with hundreds of chemical “recipes” which have the potential to give rise to life."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrobiology/life-recipe-chemical/

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Crushing Atmosphere

"With its crushing atmospheric pressure, clouds of sulfuric acid, and searing surface temperature, Venus is an especially challenging place to study."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/venus-on-earth-nasas-veritas-science-team-studies-volcanic-iceland

Northern Lights

"Experts are predicting northern lights to be visible from U.S. states as far south as Colorado and Missouri on Tuesday."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2023/09/17/northern-lights-possible-in-the-us-early-on-tuesday-as-solar-storm-erupts-in-earth-strike-zone/

Outer Space Release

"For the first time, fossilized remains of ancient human relatives have gone to the edge of outer space — and scientists are not happy about it."

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/i-am-horrified-archaeologists-are-fuming-over-ancient-human-relative-remains-sent-to-edge-of-space

Sunday, September 17, 2023

Spaceforce Mission

"U.S. Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman on Sept. 6 unveiled a new mission statement for the service — in an effort to more clearly communicate what the Space Force does and why it was created."

https://spacenews.com/space-force-rewrites-mission-statement/

SpaceX Rocket

"On Tuesday September 6, SpaceX stacked its Starship rocket on top of a Super Heavy booster in South Texas, beginning final preparations for a second launch attempt of the massive vehicle."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/09/starship-is-stacked-and-ready-to-make-its-second-launch-attempt/

James Webb Telescope

"NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted an early yet tantalizing piece of evidence that an exoplanet some 120 light years away could be covered in a massive ocean — that's possibly harboring life."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/james-webb-possible-signs-life-distant-planet

Saturday, September 16, 2023

UFO

"NASA said Thursday that the study of UFOs will require new scientific techniques, including advanced satellites as well as a shift in how unidentified flying objects are perceived."

https://apnews.com/article/nasa-ufos-inidentified-flying-objects-8b477a5ed6a42f99bb13a4518368ce9a

Friday, September 15, 2023

Quasar

Did you know?

"If quasars were common beyond redshift 7.5, then astronomers would have found several more by now. But their spatial density --the numbers of quasars in a given volume of space--appears to be very low, only about one quasar per cubic gigaparsec, where a gigaparsec is 3.26 billion light years. "You have to survey huge areas of the sky to find these objects just because they are intrinsically so rare in the universe."

Astronomy Magazine April  2022 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 18-19

Mexico's ET

"Mexico's Congress heard testimony from experts who study extraterrestrials on Tuesday."

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/13/1199251336/mexico-alien-corpses-congress

Imaging Spectrometer

"A state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer, which will measure the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide from space, moved closer to launch this month after being delivered to a clean room at Planet Labs PBC (Planet) in San Francisco."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-built-greenhouse-gas-detector-moves-closer-to-launch?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=carbonmapper20230914

Quasar J1007+2115

"The quasar J1007+2115 lies at a redshift of 7.515. Its black hole engine weighs a whooping 1.5 solar masses at a time when the universe was barely 700 million years old."

Astronomy Magazine April 2022 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" p. 18

Black Hole Growth

Did you know?

"Gathering all this mass in under 690 million years is an enormous challenge of supermassive black hole growth, the findings shows that a process obviously existed in the early universe to make this monster."

Banadas

Astronomy Magazine April  2022
"How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" by Robert Naeye p. 18

Monday, September 11, 2023

LRO

"NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has successfully located and photographed the landing site of a spacecraft recently sent to the moon by India’s space program."

https://thedebrief.org/look-what-nasas-lunar-reconnaissance-orbiter-just-spotted-on-the-surface-of-the-moon/

Moon Gazing

"This week is perfect for moon-gazing. Most people assume that the best time to watch our satellite is when it’s full, but it’s actually far more pleasing sight—in my view—when it’s a delicate crescent."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2023/09/10/see-the-moon-set-up-a-ring-of-fire-eclipse-the-night-sky-this-week/

Sunday, September 10, 2023

SKA-LOW

"Scientists who are building the world’s biggest telescope in the heart of the West Australian desert, are grappling with the horns of a dilemma. The site of the SKA-low has to be as technologically quiet as possible. But one of the biggest potential noise generators is the technology itself."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/ska-low-silent-electronics-smart-box/

Mars

"The first experiment to produce oxygen on another planet has come to an end on Mars after exceeding NASA’s initial goals and demonstrating capabilities that could help future astronauts explore the red planet."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/world/nasa-mars-moxie-perseverance-scn/index.html

Moon Sniper

"The lander, dubbed the "moon sniper", is expected to attempt a Moon landing in February if all goes well."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66737048?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Thursday, September 7, 2023

Freeze Ray

"A team of scientists led by University of Virginia professor Patrick Hopkins is developing a plasma "freeze ray" that will be less interesting to super villains than to engineers looking for ways to cool electronics in the vacuum of space."

https://newatlas.com/science/plasma-pulses-promise-real-life-freeze-ray/

Monday, September 4, 2023

Intelligence Community

"A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin."

https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/

Differences between asteroids, comets, meteors, and meteorites

"What are the differences between asteroids, comets, meteors, and meteorites?"

https://www.almanac.com/meteoroids-meteors-and-meteorites-whats-difference

Sunday, September 3, 2023

Pulsars

"Pulsars are the lighthouses of the universe."

https://www.universetoday.com/163021/a-bizarre-pulsar-switches-between-two-brightness-modes-astronomers-finally-figured-out-why/#more-163021

Dark Energy Camera

"The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Blanco 4m telescope, located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, will provide the optical imaging for targeting for 2/3 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) footprint, covering both the North Galactic Cap region at Dec ≤ 32° and the South Galactic Cap region at Dec ≤ 34°. Due to the combination of large field of view and high sensitivity from 400-1000 nm, DECam is an efficient option for obtaining photometry in the g�, r�, and z� bands."

https://www.legacysurvey.org/decamls/

Mars

"Mars is rotating more quickly than it used to, according to data that NASA’s InSight lander collected on the red planet."

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/08/14/world/mars-rotation-insight-nasa-scn/index.html

Psyche

"NASA's Psyche spacecraft is running a year behind schedule before the beginning of its journey to explore a metal asteroid, but mission managers said Friday the probe is essentially ready for launch in less than two months." https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/everything-is-coming-together-for-launch-of-nasas-mission-to-a-metal-asteroid/

8 Ursae Minoris b

"The exoplanet 8 Ursae Minoris b should not exist." https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/planet-that-should-have-been-swallowed-by-its-star-somehow-still-orbits/

Euclid Space Telescope

"Europe's Euclid space telescope is scheduled to blast off Saturday on the first-ever mission aiming to shed light on two of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark energy and dark matter." https://phys.org/news/2023-06-europe-space-telescope-universe-dark.html

Avi Loeb

"After spending years studying the night skies for signs of extraterrestrial life, Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb believes he has found proof of their existence at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alien-spacecraft-harvard-avi-loeb-pacific-b2366806.html

Gravitational Waves

"Gravitational waves are back, and they’re bigger than ever." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02167-7

Chandrayaan 3

"India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander and rover are quickly checking all the boxes of planned tasks for the mission." https://www.universetoday.com/163005/so-much-to-do-so-little-time-chandrayaan-3-makes-the-most-of-its-time-at-the-moons-south-pole/

Gravitational Wave

"Current gravitational wave observatories have two significant limitations. The first is that they can only observe powerful gravitational bursts such as the mergers of black holes and neutron stars." https://www.universetoday.com/162925/pulsars-detected-the-background-gravitational-hum-of-the-universe-now-can-they-detect-single-mergers/

Rocket Lab

"Private space company, Rocket Lab, launched its 40th Electron mission on their lauded Electron rocket, dubbed “We Love The Nightlife”, on August 24th at 11:45am New Zealand Standard Time (August 23rd at 7:45pm EST), which also marks the 7th launch of 2023, all successful." https://www.universetoday.com/162928/40th-rocket-lab-mission-we-love-the-nightlife-launches-from-new-zealand-with-reused-engine/

Quasars

"For decades the most distant objects we could see were quasars." https://www.universetoday.com/162930/the-early-universe-should-be-awash-in-active-galaxies-but-jwst-isnt-finding-them/

Chandrayaan 3

"The Chandrayaan-3 rover currently charting the Moon’s south pole has identified elements indicating the region’s unique composition. " https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/exploration/chandrayaan-detects-moon-elements-including-sulphur-chromium/?utm_source=Cosmos+-+Master+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=dd88606ac5-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3f5c04479a-dd88606ac5-181027409&mc_cid=dd88606ac5&mc_eid=3e3d9f7a52

Saturday, September 2, 2023

NASA Lunar Trailblazer

"NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer is nearing completion now that its second and final cutting-edge science instrument has been added to the small spacecraft."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-lunar-trailblazer-gets-final-payload-for-moon-water-hunt

Friday, September 1, 2023

Dart Mission

https://www.earth.com/news/dart-mission-released-boulders-with-the-explosive-capacity-of-an-atomic-bomb/

Chandrayaan

"India's Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft is setting up for a final descent to the surface of the Moon on Wednesday, four days after Russia's Luna 25 lander cratered following a botched engine 

burn."https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/after-russias-failure-india-is-next-in-line-to-attempt-a-moon-landing/

Mercury Retrograde

"Mercury enters retrograde motion starting on August 23, 2023!"

https://www.almanac.com/content/mercury-retrograde-dates?trk_msg=F87RM3D62QDKH0V8MIVMELVD34&trk_contact=7P4DL6LCTF9MHOCNU0TVI0O1AK&trk_module=new&trk_sid=LL0PNUF79N75FPO9FG9DH4EGKK&trk_link=EIGQ6AA3AV6K76BM1JAIU5EGV0&lctg=&utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Mercury+Retrograde+Dates+for+2023+(read+more)&utm_campaign=Companion+Newsletter&utm_content=Daily

FAA investigation of Space X

"The Federal Aviation Administration is now reviewing a mishap investigation report submitted by SpaceX regarding the company's April test flight of its giant Starship rocket, a spokesperson for the regulatory agency said Tuesday."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/let-the-review-begin-spacex-takes-another-step-toward-launching-starship-again/

NASA plans to retrieve samples

"While the ongoing quest to detect life on Mars continues, NASA's plan to retrieve samples from the planet is set to conclude in the early next decade."

https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-756389

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Once In a Blue Moon

"A “Once in a Blue Moon” happens on Wednesday night, August 30. The Moon will not actually be the color blue, so don’t be disappointed."

https://www.almanac.com/what-blue-moon

Monster Black Hole

Did you know?

"In 2017, astronomers started finding monster black holes in the very early universe. Containing roughly a billion times the mass of our Sun, these Black Holes were surrounded by disks of infalling matter shining so intensely that we can detect them across immense stretches of space and time."

Astronomy Magazine March  2021"How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" by Robert Naeye p. 17

First Supermassive Blackholes

Did you know?

"The first supermassive Black Holes pose a cosmic mystery; they got to big to fast."

Astronomy Magazine March  2021
"How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" by Robert Naeye p. 17

Saturday, August 26, 2023

Collosal Sunspot

"A team of experts from NASA has recently spotted a colossal sunspot, predicted to expand and shift until it directly faces Earth in the coming week."

https://www.earth.com/news/giant-sunspot-may-soon-disrupt-earths-power-grids/

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Chandrayaan-3

"India successfully landed on the moon on Wednesday. The Chandrayaan-3 mission was a success."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/exploration/chandrayaan-3-watch-indias-attempt-to-make-history-tonight/

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Voyager 2

"NASA lost contact with its Voyager 2 spacecraft—the second-most distant object ever built by humans and flung into space—nearly two weeks ago due to an errant command sent to the probe."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/voyager-2-phones-home-and-says-everything-is-cool/

Fourth Dimension

"The notion of dimension at first seems intuitive."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-mathematicians-guided-tour-through-high-dimensions-20210913/

Superconductor

"In late July, a couple of startling papers appeared on the arXiv, a repository of pre-peer-review manuscripts on topics in physics and astronomy."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/whats-going-on-with-the-reports-of-a-room-temperature-superconductor/

Astrobee

"Astrobee is a free flying robot designed to work on the International Space Station. It can navigate around the ISS autonomously, and will perform useful tasks for the astronauts."

https://robotsguide.com/robots/astrobee

Sunday, August 20, 2023

Demon Particle

https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/physics/demon-particle-found/?utm_source=Cosmos+-+Master+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=7e063e281a-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3f5c04479a-7e063e281a-181027409&mc_cid=7e063e281a&mc_eid=3e3d9f7a52

Magnetars

"Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the universe. "

https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/magnetars-nzs-largest-fault-stopping-ovarian-cancer-and-more/

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Mars Rover Life

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/mars-rover-life.html

Longest Timelapse Video

"The longest timelapse video of an exoplanet has been created by a physicist at Northwestern University in the US."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrophysics/exoplanet-timelapse/

SpaceX rocket

"Just after 8 p.m. EST on Sept. 15, 2021, the next batch of space tourists lifted off aboard a SpaceX rocket. Organized and funded by entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, the Inspiration4 mission touts itself as “the first all-civilian mission to orbit” and represents a new type of space tourism."

https://theconversation.com/spacex-inspiration4-mission-sent-4-people-with-minimal-training-into-orbit-and-brought-space-tourism-closer-to-reality-167611

Monday, August 14, 2023

Saturn

"In our culture of publicity and hard sell, it’s tempting to exaggerate. But one planet never disappoints: Saturn."

https://www.almanac.com/saturn-closest-earth-and-brightest-august-2023

Sunday, August 13, 2023

Voyager 2

"After days of silence, NASA has heard from Voyager 2 in interstellar space billions of miles away."

https://apnews.com/article/nasa-voyager-spacecraft-regains-contact-addc3ad28f1d6bec03210b587f69663d

Plan to turn Asteroid into Space Station

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientist-unveils-a-bold-plan-to-turn-an-asteroid-into-a-space-station

Earendel

"Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe Earendel, the most distant star ever detected."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/11/world/webb-telescope-earendel-distant-star-scn/index.html

Sunday, August 6, 2023

NASA Opening Moon to businesses

"If NASA has its way, it will send astronauts back to the moon by the end of the decade, making them the first humans to walk on the lunar surface in over half a century."

https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-helping-private-companies-build-business-moon-make-lunar-billions-2023-6

Deep Space Pictures

"A question mark in deep space has been spotted inside pictures captured by the James Webb Space Telescope."

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/cosmic-question-mark-spotted-in-deep-space-by-webb-telescope/

Saturday, August 5, 2023

Unpiloted Cargo Ship

"An unpiloted Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship carrying four tons of supplies and equipment caught up with the International Space Station early Friday to wrap up a smooth two-and-a-half-day rendezvous."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cygnus-cargo-ship-delivers-supplies-and-pizza-kit-to-the-international-space-station/

Friday, August 4, 2023

Space Fireworks

"Europe’s Euclid Space Telescope has sent back its first photos, showing an array of stars and galaxies, after arriving on the far side of the Earth in late July."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrophysics/euclids-first-photos/

Supermassive Blackholes

"Europe’s Euclid Space Telescope has sent back its first photos, showing an array of stars and galaxies, after arriving on the far side of the Earth in late July."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrophysics/euclids-first-photos/

New Photos

"Europe’s Euclid Space Telescope has sent back its first photos, showing an array of stars and galaxies, after arriving on the far side of the Earth in late July."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrophysics/euclids-first-photos/

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Hawaii Astronomers

"A University of Hawai’i astronomer argues tethering a sun shield to an asteroid would reduce the required mass of the climate geoengineering structure for blocking solar radiation."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrophysics/astronomer-wants-to-lasso-a-sun-shade-to-an-asteroid-to-tackle-climate/

Amazing Astronouts

Amazing Astronouts

The crew the Apollo and Gemini missions were astounding, they were a mix of astronauts as well as cosmonauts. The flight operations were extremely complex as they orbited Mercury, Venus and Mars. Their were a whole lot of trainings that had to be done beforehand, but it was well worth the time and aggravation of the pilots. These rigorous projects were a physical miracle to attest to human stamina as well as endurance because they were the first of their kind to orbit Mercury, Venus and Mars.#BeNoteWorthy#piccadillyinc

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Young Stars

"To find the pair of young stars, trace the bright pink and red diffraction spikes in the image until you hit the centre: the stars are within the orange-white splotch. They are buried deeply in a disc of gas and dust that feeds their growth as they continue to gain mass."

https://esawebb.org/news/weic2319/?lang

TESS

"By analyzing the long-term, high-cadence continuous photometry from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have investigated UU Columbae and Swift J0939.7-3224—two intermediate polars."

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-intermediate-polars-astronomers.html

SpaceX's plans

"You've probably heard about SpaceX's plans to use its giant new Starship vehicle to land people on the Moon and Mars, send numerous Starlink satellites or large telescopes into space, or perhaps even serve as a high-speed point-to-point terrestrial transport for equipment or people."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/could-spacex-turn-starship-into-a-space-station/

Monday, July 31, 2023

Dark Universe

"The two instruments aboard Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) spacecraft with NASA contributions, have captured their first test images. The results indicate that the space telescope will achieve the scientific goals that it has been designed for – and possibly much more."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/euclid-mission-to-study-dark-universe-takes-first-test-images

Mars Sample

"NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) recently reached some major milestones in support of the Mars Sample Return program."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-mars-ascent-vehicle-continues-progress-toward-mars-sample-return

Euclid

"The two instruments aboard Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) spacecraft with NASA contributions, have captured their first test images."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/euclid-mission-to-study-dark-universe-takes-first-test-images

Thursday, July 27, 2023

Regulas

"On Friday, July 28, 2023, soon after sunset, see a strange and wonderful spectacle."

https://www.almanac.com/remarkable-star-regulus

Gravitational Astronomers

"For the first time, an image has revealed large dusty clumps near a young star that astronomers believe could gravitationally collapse to form giant planets."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/image-planet-clump-young-star/

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

NASA Awards

"A difficult summer for the Starliner program continued this week, with Boeing reporting additional losses on the vehicle's development and NASA saying it's too early to discuss potential launch dates for the crewed spacecraft."

 https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/boeing-has-now-lost-1-1-billion-on-starliner-with-no-crew-flight-in-sight/

Starliner Program

"A difficult summer for the Starliner program continued this week, with Boeing reporting additional losses on the vehicle's development and NASA saying it's too early to discuss potential launch dates for the crewed spacecraft."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/boeing-has-now-lost-1-1-billion-on-starliner-with-no-crew-flight-in-sight/

Ancient Stellar Body

"Astronomers have discovered an ancient stellar body gatecrashing a gathering of hot, young stars."

https://www.space.com/old-star-crashes-party-solar-system-mystery

Thursday, July 20, 2023

Space Age Recording

"A truly historic Space Age recording is up for auction as the personal copy of the master tapes belonging to Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan for the crafting of the Golden Record that flew on Voyager 1 and 2 goes on the block at Sotheby's."

https://newatlas.com/space/carl-sagans-personal-golden-record-tapes-auction/

Monday, July 17, 2023

NASA and LEGO

"Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL) are busy keeping the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter functioning in Jezero Crater on Mars while these robotic explorers continue the search for ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. But some of those same engineers have also been busy working with LEGO designers on new one-tenth-scale LEGO Technic buildable models of these very same robotic explorers with the goal of inspiring the next generation of NASA scientists and engineers."

https://www.universetoday.com/162180/nasa-and-lego-continue-brick-solid-partnership-with-perseverance-and-ingenuity-lego-models/

Sunday, July 16, 2023

Interstellar Collaboration

"A Papua New Guinean international relations academic has called for more mentorship with local Universities to be guaranteed when overseas scientists visit his country."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/news/avi-loeb-interstellar-issue-collaboration/?utm_source=Cosmos+-+Master+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=4ef818d665-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3f5c04479a-4ef818d665-181027409&mc_cid=4ef818d665&mc_eid=3e3d9f7a52

Cosmic Circle

"A mere 1,200 light years away from Earth sits a pair of cosmic circles, the remains of an ancient death."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/andes-optical-telescope-snaps-rare-double-lobe-nebula/

Friday, February 24, 2023

The Universe


In the creation of infinity, their is a totalitarian creation of which the cosmos the cosmos is immensely vast within all space and time. This relativity is known as frequency. All seen and Unseen objects within reality have this aspect which create them.

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