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    NASA’s Webb Finds Possible ‘Direct Collapse’ Black Hole

    A pair of distant galaxies that form the rough shape of an infinity symbol seen at roughly a 45-degree angle. Two overlapping, fuzzy rings with brighter blue patches are at upper right and lower left. At the center of each ring is a bright yellow blob, which is the nucleus. Where the two rings overlap on the left side, there is a mottled green patch of glowing gas midway between the two yellow nuclei. It is offset slightly to the left.

    Editor’s Note: This post highlights a combination of peer-reviewed results and data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process. As data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope becomes public, researchers hunt its archives for unnoticed cosmic oddities. While examining images from the COSMOS-Web survey, two researchers, Pieter van […]

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    NASA+ is Live as Ax-4 Prepares to Undock from Station

    NASA’s live coverage is underway on NASA+ for the undocking of the fourth private astronaut mission, Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), from the International Space Station. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.

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    Ax-4 Boards Dragon and Closes Hatch for Departure

    At 5:07 a.m. EDT, the hatch closed between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for the undocking and return to Earth of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), with astronauts Peggy Whitson, Shubhanshu Shukla, Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, and Tibor Kapu.

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    Ax-4 Go for Monday Undocking, Finalizing Research

    Mission managers have given the “go” for the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crew to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and undock from the International Space Station’s space-facing port on the Harmony module at 7:05 a.m. EDT on Monday, July 14. Ax-4 Commander Peggy Whitson will lead Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, and Mission Specialists Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, and Tibor Kapu back to Earth completing a two-and-a-half-week research mission aboard the orbiting lab.

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    NASA Publishes New Heliophysics DRIVE Science Center Webpages

    NASA’s Diversify, Realize, Integrate, Venture, Educate (DRIVE) Science Centers are now available online. Information recently published on NASA’s science website includes each science center’s focus, associated partners, leveraged science missions, and where to learn more. The DRIVE Science Centers are the first of their kind, created to study important science topics in heliophysics. Heliophysics is […]

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    Light Duty Day Amid Space Research and Crew Swap Preps

    A portion of the Expedition 73 crew as well as the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) quartet had a light duty day on Wednesday. There was still time aboard the International Space Station for a variety of research activities and preparations for an upcoming crew swap.

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