Explore Science Activation

The links below provide direct access to the NASA infrastructure projects which support Science Activation, as well as to resources created by the Science Activation teams. You can also explore many of these resources in the Learning Resources Catalog.

Explore Infrastructure Projects

  • Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research: Establishes partnerships with government, higher education and industry that are designed to effect lasting improvements in a state or region’s research infrastructure, research and development capacity, and its national research and development competitiveness. 
  • Minority University Research & Education Project (MUREP): Engages underrepresented populations through a wide variety of initiatives. Multiyear grants are awarded to assist Minority Institution faculty and students in research of pertinent missions. 
  • Museum & Informal Education Alliance: Brings current NASA Science and Technology to free-choice learners through professional development of informal education providers and access to NASA staff and materials.
  • NASA Engages: Find NASA Experts who share NASA missions and content at educational, professional, civic, and other public venues
  • Next Gen STEM: Develops and deploys evidence-based STEM learning opportunities that provide a platform for students to learn via NASA’s endeavors in exploration and discovery. 
  • Space Grant: A national network of colleges and universities working to expand opportunities for Americans to understand and participate in NASA’s aeronautics and space projects by supporting and enhancing science and engineering education, research and public outreach efforts.
  • Teams Engaging Affiliated Museums and Informal Institutions (TEAM II): Competitive award program that enables non-profit museums, planetariums, libraries, and youth-serving organizations to propose NASA mission-inspired STEM projects for K-12 students and their learning support systems of families and educators

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The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.

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