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NASA Awards Contract for Infrared Telescope Facility Operations
NASA has selected the University of Hawaii in Honolulu to maintain and operate the agency’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea in Hilo, Hawaii. The Management and Operations of NASA’s IRTF is a hybrid firm-fixed-price contract with an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity…
![The image shows two black-and-white microscopic views of a material's surface, with each view spanning 10 micrometers. The left image, labeled "1g" and the right image, labeled "µg," depicts the material in microgravity, showing a more structured formation.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/bps-06282024.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
NASA Selects 5 Proposals to Conduct Research Using Openly Available Data in the Physical Sciences Informatics System
NASA’s Physical Sciences Research Program has selected five ground-based proposals in response to the Physical Science Informatics System call for proposals. These proposals are in the research areas of biophysics, combustion science, fluid physics, and materials science. The five investigators…
![Four young latinx students wearing solar viewing glasses and and looking up at the sun, grasping each other in a circle as if they're jumping up and down with excitement.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/img-8025-anne-holland.jpeg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
NASA@ My Library and Partners Engage Millions in Eclipse Training and Preparation
The Space Science Institute, with funding from the NASA Science Mission Directorate and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, provided unprecedented training, support, and supplies to 15,000 libraries in the U.S. and territories in support of public engagement during the 2023…
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An Eclipse Megamovie Megastar
Nazmus “Naz” Nasir is a software engineer by day, and an astrophotographer by night….and sometimes by day as well! This April, Naz participated in NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie 2024 project, photographing the total solar eclipse. He posted online a spectacular video composed of stabilized and…
![The bright-white, diffuse glow of an elliptical galaxy sits at image center. The galaxy's core appears as an intense-white circle that gets more diffuse as you move outward from the core. A rusty-red, diffuse cloud is visible to the upper-left of the galaxy. It extends to the upper-left corner of the image, where it is very faint. Black background dotted with foreground stars and distant galaxies.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/hubble-m105-potw1901a.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Hubble Examines an Active Galaxy Near the Lion’s Heart
It might appear featureless and unexciting at first glance, but NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations of this elliptical galaxy — known as Messier 105 — show that the stars near the galaxy’s center are moving very rapidly. Astronomers have concluded…
![This image of Perseverance's backshell and parachute was collected by NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 26th flight on April 19, 2022.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/heli-flight-26-rte.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Mapping the Red Planet with the Power of Open Science
Mars rovers can only make exciting new discoveries thanks to human scientists making careful decisions about their next stop. The Mars 2020 mission is aimed at exploring the geology of Jezero Crater and seeking signs of ancient microbial life on…
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NASA’s Mars Odyssey Captures Huge Volcano, Nears 100,000 Orbits
The 23-year-old orbiter is taking images that offer horizon-wide views of the Red Planet similar to what astronauts aboard the International Space Station see over Earth. NASA’s longest-lived Mars robot is about to mark a new milestone on June 30:…
![A man practices calculating the height of a tree using a clinometer to view the top of a 13-foot artificial tree while a NASA eClips volunteer takes his photo at the NASA eClips exhibit booth during CNU’s Community STEM Day.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/24-06-01-cnu-stem-day-shannon-verstynen.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
NASA eClips Engages Families at 2024 STEM Community Day
On Saturday, June 1, 2024, thousands of community members attended the Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) Community Day hosted by Christopher Newport University in partnership with Newport News Public Schools in Virginia. The event showcased many different facets of…
![In the background, the bottom half of the image is filled with a portion of Earth. The top half is the very dark blue of space. Separating the two are bands of glowing greens and red, depicting the upper layers of Earth's atmosphere. In the foreground, a satellite. The satellite has two rectangular wing-like structures jutting out from the right and left of a silver rectangular box. On the top are 3 large white dishes.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/gold-comp2-00502-labeled.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Alphabet Soup: NASA’s GOLD Finds Surprising C, X Shapes in Atmosphere
Who knew Earth’s upper atmosphere was like alphabet soup? NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission has revealed unexpected C- and X-shaped formations in an electrified layer of gas high above our heads called the ionosphere. While…
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Detective Work Enables Perseverance Team to Revive SHERLOC Instrument
After six months of effort, an instrument that helps the Mars rover look for potential signs of ancient microbial life has come back online. The SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument aboard NASA’s…