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2024 Solar Eclipse
Eclipses
For Kids and Students
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Science Mission Directorate
Skywatching
Solar Eclipses
On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will be visible to over 30 million people across North America. To help kids learn about solar eclipses, NASA is launching Snap It! An Eclipse Photo Adventure. The Snap It! game – designed for kids ages 7 and up – lets players help out the Traveler, an enthusiastic character who […]
Posted March 8, 2024
“Nunca me hubiera imaginado que estaría aquí en la NASA. Soy inmigrante. Originalmente era ciudadana mexicana. De hecho, nací en México, pero mis padres vinieron a Estados Unidos [y obtuve mi tarjeta de residencia] cuando tenía dos años de edad. … Mis padres llegaron con una visa de trabajo, por lo que éramos trabajadores migrantes […]
Posted March 8, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
The Universe
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 4423, a galaxy that lies about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. In this image, NGC 4423 appears to have quite an irregular, tubular form, so it might be surprising to find out that it is in fact a spiral galaxy. Knowing this, we can make out the […]
Posted March 8, 2024
International Space Station (ISS)
Commercial Resupply
Humans in Space
ISS Research
Missions
Space Operations Mission Directorate
SpaceX Commercial Resupply
In preparation for NASA’s SpaceX 30th commercial resupply mission, the agency will stream an International Space Station National Lab science webinar at 1 p.m. EST Friday, March 8, to discuss the hardware, technology demonstrations, and science experiments headed to the space station.
Posted March 8, 2024
Humans in Space
Astronauts
In-flight Education Downlinks
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Learning Resources
Loral O'Hara
Missions
The San Antonio River Authority and students from the Advanced Learning Academy in San Antonio, Texas, will have an opportunity Friday, March 8, to hear from NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara aboard the International Space Station. The space to Earth call will air live at 12:30 p.m. EST March 8, on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and […]
Posted March 7, 2024
“Where I grew up [on my family farm] 100% shaped who I am. In fact, my son and I were talking about high schools and how big his is. His high school population is double the population of the town I grew up in. I had 20 kids in my graduating class, and three of […]
Posted March 7, 2024
NASA History
On March 8, 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took the first image of Earth from the surface of another planet. The Earth appearing as nothing more than a bright star provided a new perspective on our home planet, a perspective reshaped over the past eight decades as cameras aboard rockets and spacecraft traveled farther […]
Posted March 7, 2024
Exoplanet Discoveries
Exoplanets
Gas Giant Exoplanets
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
Two recently discovered exoplanets, gas giants possibly similar to Saturn, could be candidates for further atmospheric investigation.
Posted March 7, 2024
STEM Engagement at NASA
For Kids and Students
Celebrate one of the world’s most famous numbers with a set of math problems involving real space missions, courtesy of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. March 14 marks the annual celebration of the mathematical constant pi, aka the Greek letter π. Its infinite number of digits is usually rounded to 3.14, hence the date of […]
Posted March 7, 2024
General
Ames Research Center
Commercial Space
Commercial Space Programs
Flight Opportunities Program
Langley Research Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Space Technology Mission Directorate
The Future of Commercial Space
Things are heating up in the atmosphere, and NASA is helping space start-ups stay cool.   NASA has decades of expertise in creating technology that protects spacecraft from the intense heat generated when entering an atmosphere. As emerging companies develop innovative ways to do business in space, they know where to turn – and the […]
Posted March 7, 2024
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