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Monday, January 13, 2025

Day in Review: How Many Black Holes Are Hiding? | NASA Awards 2025 Innovative Technology Concept Studies | Space Trivia

An effort to find some of the biggest, most active black holes in the universe provides a better estimate for the ratio of hidden 
 
Day in Review

January 13, 2025

Stars and Galaxies
A supermassive black hole surrounded by a torus of gas and dust is depicted in four different wavelengths of light in this artist's concept
An effort to find some of the biggest, most active black holes in the universe provides a better estimate for the ratio of hidden to unhidden behemoths. Full Story and Animation
A collage of artist concepts highlighting the novel approaches proposed by the 2025 NIAC awardees

Technology

Two researchers at NASA JPL are among those who will be leading studies of futuristic mission concepts. Full Story

QUIZ


Space Trivia


After touching down in November 2018, NASA's retired InSight Mars lander was the first to detect what on Mars?


A) Solid water ice

B) Methane gas

C) Marsquakes

D) An ancient ocean


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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Day in Review: What's Up - January 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

What are some skywatching highlights in January 2025? 
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December 31, 2024

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A night sky with Mars shining brightly just above the horizon. The landscape below is a desert with sand dunes and rocky outcrops. Text overlays announce
What are some skywatching highlights in January 2025?

This month, four bright planets greet you in the early evening. Venus and Saturn cozy up on the 17th and 18th, while Mars is at its brightest in the past two years. The Moon occults Mars for those in the U.S. and Eastern Canada on Jan. 13. Plus, the Quadrantid meteors peak on the morning of Jan. 3 before dawn.

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Friday, December 20, 2024

Day in Review: NASA’s New Deep Space Network Antenna Has Its Crowning Moment | Avalanches, Icy Explosions, and Dunes: NASA Is Tracking New Year on Mars | Lab Work Digs Into Gullies Seen on Giant Asteroid Vesta by NASA’s Dawn

Deep Space Station 23's 133-ton reflector dish was recently installed, marking a key step in strengthening NASA's Deep Space... 
 
Day in Review

December 20, 2024

Technology
A large crane lifts a massive white dish antenna into place against a clear blue sky. The antenna's intricate framework is visible as it is carefully positioned.  In the background, a smaller antenna and desert hills complete the scene.
Deep Space Station 23's 133-ton reflector dish was recently installed, marking a key step in strengthening NASA's Deep Space Network. Read More
Surrounded by frost, these Martian dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere were captured from above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its HiRISE camera on Sept. 8, 2022.

Mars

Instead of a winter wonderland, the Red Planet's northern hemisphere goes through an active — even explosive — spring thaw. Read More

Solar System

Known as flow formations, these channels could be etched on bodies that would seem inhospitable to liquid because they are exposed to the extreme vacuum conditions of space. Read More
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