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Category: 2. Space
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Long-lived Mantle Plume Tracing The Onset And Spreading Of The Proto-Tethys Ocean
Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
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It’s time to unlock inland orbital launch for a resilient U.S. space future
As space operations grow in the United States, we face a bottleneck: the limited capacity of coastal spaceports. While Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg remain effective for the nation, these launch sites are becoming congested, and their…
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Senators raise NASA funding concerns in letter to Duffy
WASHINGTON — Several senators are demanding details from NASA on claims that the agency is withholding funding already appropriated for the current fiscal year and plans to enact proposed cuts in the next fiscal year.
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Hubble Surveys Supernova-Rich Spiral – NASA Science
Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 1309 is about 100 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.
This stunning Hubble image encompasses NGC 1309’s bluish…
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Albedo wins NRO Stage 2 imagery contract
SAN FRANCISCO – Earth-observation startup Albedo won a National Reconnaissance Office Stage 2 contract, clearing the way for the intelligence agency to begin purchasing imagery.
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Black holes don’t just swallow light, they sing. And we just learned the tune
Black holes embody the ultimate abyss. They are the most powerful sources of gravity in the universe, capable of dramatically distorting space and time around them. When disturbed, they begin to “ring” in a distinctive pattern known as…
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I could not have become an astronomer on my own
Brenda Namumba, shown receiving her PhD, would not have switched from teaching in a secondary school to become an astronomer without the scholarships and encouragement she received. Credit: Brenda Namumba
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Heads Up Contractor Employees: WARN Act
Keith’s note: I don’t want to freak people out, but there is a question that has been troubling me. A lot of media focus has been on departing NASA civil servants (which sucks) but there may be massive contractor employee layoffs as well (which…
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