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Jan 3, 2023
As of January 1, 2023, Mr. Eric Ianson is serving as the Acting Deputy Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) at NASA...
Jan 3, 2023
This line of stars is real.
A little too faint to see with the unaided eye,
Kemble’s Cascade of stars
inspires awe when seen with...
Jan 2, 2023
Look up tonight and see a whole bunch of planets.
Just after sunset, looking west, planets
Venus,
Saturn,
Jupiter and
Mars will all be...
Jan 1, 2023
There, that dot on the right,
that's the largest rock known in
our Solar System.
It is larger than every known
asteroid,
moon, and
comet...
Dec 31, 2022
Makemake
(sounds like MAH-kay MAH-kay),
second brightest dwarf planet of the
Kuiper
belt,
has a moon.
Nicknamed MK2, Makemake's moon...
Dec 30, 2022
At this year's
end
Mars still
shines brightly in
planet Earth's night
as it wanders through the head-strong constellation Taurus.
Its bright...
Dec 29, 2022
The Horsehead Nebula,
famous celestial
dark marking also known as Barnard 33,
is notched against a background glow of emission nebulae in...
Solar System
Dec 28, 2022
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Kathleen Vander Kaaden (she/her) is a Program Scientist in the Planetary Science Division at NASA...
Dec 28, 2022
Charles Messier
described the 88th entry in his 18th century catalog of
Nebulae and Star Clusters
as a spiral nebula without stars.
Of...
Universe
Dec 27, 2022
The following table provides a snapshot of Astrophysics Division accomplishments and plans in response to the 2020 decadal survey “Pathways to...