May has been an exciting month for our Sun. A barrage of solar storms and coronal mass ejections created the strongest solar storm to reach Earth in two decades — and possibly one of the strongest displays of auroras in the past 500 years. NASA.gov tells us how the agency tracked it, and the images and videos are astonishing, too. https://flip.it/VBUyCn #Science#Space#SolarStorms#Aurora#NASA
With 90-yo Ed Dwight & 5 others headed to space today on a Blue Origin flight🚀, wanted to reshare an interview I had with several astronauts about the future of space, space tourism, travel to Mars, etc.
And why do we go to space?
"To improve national unity, foster interntl unity, etc.. and then there’s the actual reason -- it's just TOTALLY COOL," says astronaut Stan Love 🧑🚀 https://tinyurl.com/5e8ann8n
After years of searching, astronomers have finally detected an atmosphere on a rocky planet around another star.
But what a strange planet it is! 55 Cancri e seems to be blanketed in carbon dioxide gas bubbling out of a global ocean of lava. Like an image out of Dante's Inferno.
#Voyager 1 sendete seit Herbst 23 nur Datenmüll. #NASA-#Ingenieur:innen schafften es anhand alter Doku und durch #Analyse der #Daten den Fehler zu lokalisieren: Der #Chip, auf dem das Datenaufbereitungsmodul liegt, ist defekt. Aus Platzgründen konnte es nicht einfach auf die verbleibenden Chips gelegt werden. Deshalb wurde die gesamte #Software so #optimiert, dass dieselbe #Funktion in den restlichen Platz passte. Voyager ist upgedatet und sendet wieder!
2.6 tons of batteries and the pallet they were mounted on were supposed to burn up in the atmosphere. Not all of it did, and Alejandro Otero's house was hit with a 0.7 kg nickel-chromium cylinder from space.
The heat shield for Orion, which is the crew vehicle for the Artemis program (which is supposed to return humans to the surface of the moon this decade), is having some problems.
During the flight of Artemis I, NASA noticed that the heat shield behaved in unexpected ways. So, what's going on??
STS-31, the #SpaceShuttle mission that deployed the #Hubble Space Telescope, launched #OTD in 1990: April 24.
However, the astronauts didn't deploy the observatory until April 25.
My view -- which is not held by the good folks at STScI -- is that Hubble's birthday is thus the 25th; I liken it to April 24th is when Hubble's parents drove to the hospital / went into labor, but the 25th is when it was born. #Astrodon#HistoryOfAstronomy#NASA
A Century of Sky, Digitized The Harvard College Observatory’s glass plates, which record a century of changes in the sky, has now been converted into digital form.
"[A] team of NASA researchers proposed how spacecraft could search for evidence of additional physics within our Solar System. This search, they argue, would be assisted by the spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral formation and using interferometers. Such a mission could help resolve a cosmological mystery that has eluded scientists for over half a century."