Galactic Pyrotechnics From 23 Million Light Years Away
A galaxy about 23 million light years away is the site of impressive, ongoing fireworks. Rather than paper, powder and fire, this galactic light show involves a giant black hole, shock waves and vast reservoirs of gas. A new composite image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4258 was created in part from X-rays captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, managed by the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
2019: The Year at NASA
Take a look back at highlights and advances from NASA’s Moon to Mars plans, exploration in the solar system and beyond, humans in space, Earth science, space technology and flight.
What’s Next For NASA?
In 2020, NASA will be taking long strides toward returning astronauts to the Moon, continuing the exploration of Mars and developing new technology to make supersonic aircraft fly more quietly.
NASA Prepares Artemis I SLS Rocket Stage for Move to Pegasus Barge
Teams at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans moved the core stage, complete with all four RS-25 engines, for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket to Building 110 for final shipping preparations Jan. 1. The completed stage will be shipped via the agency’s Pegasus barge from Michoud to NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, later this month.
What We Learned From the Space Station in 2019
It can take years before research results based on data collected in microgravity are published. Therefore, much of the International Space Station research results published in 2019 came from experiments performed and data collected over the past 20 years of continuous human habitation on the orbiting laboratory.
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