Article Published by: nasa.gov NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA. Jackson started her NASA career in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency’s...
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Article Published by: forbes.com The next solstice comes this Saturday morning, depending on your time zone, and will be followed less than 24 hours later by a special celestial treat in the form of a partial, annular solar eclipse. This type of eclipse will see the new...
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Article Published by: cnn.com Tom Cruise wants to fly into outer space in the name of filmmaking, and NASA says it's happening. The head of NASA confirmed Tuesday that the space agency is working with actor Tom Cruise to make a movie on the International Space Station....
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Article Published by: space.com Thank your lucky stars that the sun is pretty weird, as scientists have learned by comparing its activity with that of similar stars. In new research, astronomers compared the brightness of our sun over time with data gathered on other stars by NASA's...
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Article published by: sciencedaily.com Since its discovery in 2017, an air of mystery has surrounded the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system, an elongated, cigar-shaped body named 'Oumuamua (Hawaiian for "a messenger from afar arriving first"). How was it formed, and where did it...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class known as "intermediate-mass," which betrayed its existence by tearing apart a wayward star that passed too close. Weighing in at about 50,000 times...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov Born: Aug. 26, 1918 Died: Feb. 24, 2020 Hometown: White Sulphur Springs, WV Education: B.S., Mathematics and French, West Virginia State College, 1937 Hired by NACA: June 1953 Retired from NASA: 1986 Actress Playing Role in Hidden Figures: Taraji P. Henson Biography by Margot Lee Shetterly Being handpicked to be...
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Article Published by: cnn.com Stars that have companions aren't always friendly to them, as evidenced by a stellar confrontation witnessed by astronomers. They studied the binary star system, HD101584, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array of telescopes in Chile to find out what happened. They discovered that the...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov The latest Star Wars movie is now playing at an International Space Station (relatively) near you, just weeks after a pair of the film’s actors traveled to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to train like real-life astronauts preparing for missions to...
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Article Published by: popsci.com Their impossible fluffiness has researchers scratching their heads. With each new alien planet discovered, the astronomical catalog of bizarre worlds and systems swells. “Hot Jupiters” huddle closer to their host stars than Mercury. “Circumbinary” planets circle two stars at once. One “super earth”...
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