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21 Ways to Celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope Launch in 2021
A new year brings hope, expectations, and promise. Related to the space science community, this year…
NASA’s First Mission to the Trojan Asteroids Integrates its Second Scientific Instrument
NASA’s Lucy mission is one step closer to launch as L’TES, the Lucy Thermal Emission Spectrometer,…
NASA Explores Upper Limits of Global Navigation Systems for Artemis
NASA navigation engineers from the Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program are developing a navigation architecture…
Professional Administrative, Alicia Jose, Shares Her Singer-Songwriter Prowess Outside Work
Alicia Jose, a professional administrative for the Astrophysics and Science Division, graces local venues with her…
Secrets Behind Sunquakes Could Lurk Beneath the Solar Surface
A secret behind the workings of sunquakes – seismic activity on the Sun during solar flares…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Looks Back on 2020 Engineering Milestones
2020 was a year of monumental progress for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The world’s largest…
NASA’s AIM Sees First Night-Shining Clouds of Antarctic Summer
NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere mission — AIM for short — spotted the summer’s…
This May Be the First Complete Observation of a Nanoflare
Researchers may have found the long-sought “nanoflares” thought to heat the solar corona to its incredible…
Recently Discovered Comet Seen During 2020 Total Solar Eclipse
As Chile and Argentina witnessed the total solar eclipse on Dec. 14, 2020, unbeknownst to skywatchers,…