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NASA's Webb Will Use Quasars to Unlock the Secrets of the Early Universe

NASA's Webb Will Use Quasars to Unlock the Secrets of the Early Universe

06.23.2021
Shortly after its launch later this year, a team of scientists will train NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on six of the most distant and luminous quasars. They will study the properties of these quasars and their host galaxies, and how they are interconnected during the first stages of galaxy evolution in the very early universe.
Photo of active smoke stack with outpouring smoke

NASA Helps Map Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Harmful Air Pollution

06.23.2021
For tiny airborne-particle pollution, known as PM 2.5, researchers using NASA data found that variability from meteorology obscured the lockdown signals when observed from space.
Image of phytoplankton bloom

NASA Awards Funds to Minority-Serving Institutions for Ocean Research

06.21.2021
NASA???s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry, or OCEAN, has awarded cooperative agreements to 10 universities for projects that will support NASA???s Science Mission Directorate in seeking a better understanding of the ocean???s role in the Earth system.
Hubble Peers at a Galaxy with a Hidden Secret

Hubble Peers at a Galaxy with a Hidden Secret

06.18.2021
This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 3254, observed using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).
Mike Little

NCCS Staff Spotlight on Mike Little: Time Traveling in NASA Supercomputing

06.18.2021
To better understand the roots of using supercomputing for science at NASA, NCCS staff member Mike Little shared Goddard's beginning with the IBM System/360 and the Beowulf computer cluster.
DSCOVR EPIC images of the change in Earth’s tilt between the December (left) and June (right) solstices

Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere

06.18.2021
June 20, 2021, marks the summer solstice—the beginning of astronomical summer—in the Northern Hemisphere.
Photo of Gavin Schmidt

Let’s Talk About Climate Change, with Gavin Schmidt

06.18.2021
Transcript of NASA "Gravity Assist" podcast interview with Gavin Schmidt.
GEOS model map of air temperatures across the continental U.S. during the afternoon on June 15, 2021

Records Fall in Early Summer Heatwave

06.17.2021
Extreme heat has descended on the southwestern United States, with several states enduring temperatures near and above record highs for June.
Mystery of Galaxy's Missing Dark Matter Deepens

Mystery of Galaxy's Missing Dark Matter Deepens

06.17.2021
When astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovered an oddball galaxy that looked like it didn't have much dark matter, some thought the finding was hard to believe and looked for a simpler explanation.
Image of a gold mine in the Amazon forest in Peru, acquired May 2018 by a uncrewed plane.

Teaming up to Track Illegal Amazon Gold Mines in Peru

06.16.2021
Tracking gold mining activity and deforestation in the Amazon in near real-time using satellite-based Earth observations is now possible thanks to a collaboration between Peru, NASA and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Landsat 8 natural-color image of a large-scale mine and several artisanal mines in the Central Region of Ghana

The Large Footprint of Small-Scale Mining in Ghana

06.15.2021
In the past decade, unregulated artisanal mines accounted for more deforestation than industrial mines.
Image of researchers in field taking snow measurements

NASA Snow Campaign Wraps for 2021

06.14.2021
SnowEx teams measured snow at six sites across the Western U.S., on the ground and with drones and airplanes. This information is crucial for managing water resources for drinking, agriculture, hydropower, drought and more.
Temperature map of Middle East on June 6, 2021

Heatwave Scorches the Middle East

06.12.2021
A phenomenon known as a “heat dome” set the stage for remarkably high temperatures as meteorological summer got under way.
Hubble Sees a Spiral in Good Company

Hubble Sees a Spiral in Good Company

06.11.2021
This image, taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, features the spiral galaxy NGC 4680.
Image of North and South America landslide map

Machine Learning Model Doubles Accuracy of Global Landslide ‘Nowcasts’

06.10.2021
LHASA Version 2, released last month along with corresponding research, is a machine-learning-based model that analyzes a collection of individual variables and satellite-derived datasets to produce customizable ‘nowcasts’
Citizen Scientists Discover Two Gaseous Planets around a Bright Sun-like Star

Citizen Scientists Discover Two Gaseous Planets around a Bright Sun-like Star

06.10.2021
At night, seven-year-old Miguel likes talking to his father Cesar Rubio about planets and stars. "I try to nurture that," says Rubio, a machinist in Pomona, California, who makes parts for mining and power generation equipment.
Photo of the moon

NASA Selects New Science Investigations for Future Moon Deliveries

06.10.2021
As NASA continues plans for multiple commercial deliveries to the Moon???s surface per year, the agency has selected three new scientific investigation payload suites to advance understanding of Earth???s nearest neighbor.
NASA's Roman Space Telescope Selects 24 Flight-Quality Heat-Vision 'Eyes'

NASA's Roman Space Telescope Selects 24 Flight-Quality Heat-Vision 'Eyes'

06.09.2021
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently approved all 24 of the detectors the mission needs. These devices will convert starlight into electrical signals, which will then be decoded into 300-megapixel images of large patches of the sky.
Image of a new metasurface material developed by Harvard researchers to develop new lightweight polarimeters.

NASA Collaboration Using Harvard Technology Could Advance Earth Science from Orbit

06.09.2021
Measuring the polarization of scattered sunlight lets scientists extrapolate what is in the atmosphere.
Research Vessel FG Walton Smith

NCCS User Spotlight: Robin Kovach

06.08.2021
To celebrate World Ocean Day, the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) spoke with one of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s ocean scientists, Robin Kovach.
aurora image

Lab Experiments Shed New Light on NASA Satellite Observations

06.07.2021
New research confirms how particles from space can be sent careening down into Earth???s atmosphere to create the aurora, filling in a missing piece in how this stunning natural phenomenon is generated.
Hubble Images a Galaxy in Dazzling Detail

Hubble Images a Galaxy in Dazzling Detail

06.04.2021
This image features the spiral galaxy NGC 691, imaged in fantastic detail using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).
Tropical Cyclone graphic

From our partners at Earthdata: Tropical Cyclone Data Resources

06.04.2021
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season shattered records in the number of named storms (30) and was the fifth year in a row with above-average hurricane activity. The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season starts today, and this new page provides links to NASA data, tools, articles, and other resources to help you better understand these tremendous storms.
image of Arp 299, a galaxy

AAS Names New NASA-Affiliated Fellows, Legacy Fellows

06.04.2021
Thirteen scientists working at or affiliated with NASA have been recently named Fellows of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the major organization of professional astronomers in North America.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Celebrates Perfect Departure Maneuver from Asteroid Bennu

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Celebrates Perfect Departure Maneuver from Asteroid Bennu

06.03.2021
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is 328,000 miles, or 528,000 kilometers, away from the asteroid Bennu, having fired its engines on May 10 to initiate a return trip to Earth.

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