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When #Artemis I launches to the Moon and back, there will be plenty of science hitching a ride. From CubeSats designed to hunt for lunar surface water deposits, to experiments on how cells respond to space, here's more of what's aboard
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: go.nasa.gov/3w24ewL
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Saturn is currently in a great spot for skywatchers: close to Earth (relatively speaking) while directly opposite the Sun in our night sky. Though the full Moon may get in the way, a good telescope should still be enough to zoom in on the gas giant: go.nasa.gov/3bRqhiX
The gas giant Saturn, seen here in shades of yellow, yellow-green and light blue with faint swirling clouds, dominates this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Its rings are barely visible, bisecting the photo as a straight line at a slightly upward angle, but they cast a large, curved shadow on Saturn's southern hemisphere. Saturn's moon Titan is visible on the left side of this image, in front of both Saturn and its rings.
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Our #DARTMission will soon collide with a non-hazardous asteroid as a test of planetary defense. Know someone who should hang with us at
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for the main event, and share behind-the-scenes details? Tag them! Is it you? Apply by Aug. 15: go.nasa.gov/3dvI5kf
Animation of a square-shaped spacecraft with two long solar arrays extended, colliding with a small asteroid to demonstrate asteroid deflection technology. The space rock's sister asteroid is nearby as they both travel through space together.
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Oh, the places you'll go! Congratulations to all the student teams whose projects launched today from
@NASA_Wallops
. We wish you continued success. 🚀
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A sounding rocket carrying student experiments for the RockSat-X program launched from Wallops Aug. 11, 2022, at 6:09 pm ET. The rocket carried the experiments to an altitude of 99 miles before descending via a parachute and landing in the Atlantic Ocean. go.nasa.gov/3Qu7fxU
In the foreground, a line of people stand at a safe distance away from a sounding rocket launching in the background against a cloudy sky. The rocket is just off the pad with a plume of fire and smoke underneath.
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Building NASA's most powerful rocket. Rolling it out. Launching it to the Moon. It takes a team of thousands. Here are some of their stories. “Path to the Pad,” a five-part series about the #Artemis I flight test starts Aug. 12: youtu.be/EZkcmCX--ow
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Supergiant star Betelgeuse (Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse) blew off a huge chunk of surface material in 2019, data from
@NASAHubble
data shows. Astronomers have never seen anything like it, though it's not evidence the star will burst anytime soon: go.nasa.gov/3QDrKrX
An illustration plots changes in the brightness of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, following the titanic mass ejection of a large piece of its visible surface. The escaping material cooled to form a cloud of dust that temporarily made the star look dimmer, as seen from Earth. Four panels from left to right show the progression of the event, starting off as a bright outburst coming from the hot surface of the star, becoming stellar dust, and then obscuring the star so it appears blurry.
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Several small science & technology payloads will hitch a ride with #Artemis I, our uncrewed flight test around the Moon. They're seen here tucked into their dispensers, set to launch Aug. 29, 2022.
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& industry experts share what's in store: go.nasa.gov/3PjlmVQ
Seen from above is the upside-down, open interior of the Orion capsule that has 10 CubeSats secured onto its walls. The interior is yellowish-green and textured, and the exterior of the capsule segment is white with a few black panels. It sits in a processing facility with white walls and servicing platforms surrounding the spacecraft.
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A PeVatron isn't a robot from a 1950s sci-fi movie: it's a scientific term, a source for some of the highest-energy particles known to whip across our galaxy. PeVatrons are notoriously hard to pin down—but our Fermi telescope might be closing in on one: go.nasa.gov/3BVrhgy
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Creators: share a story with your audience like no other. Witness with us the planned collision of a spacecraft and an asteroid at the #DARTMission NASA Social. Talk with scientists, explore
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, and gather behind-the-scenes content. Apply by Aug. 15: go.nasa.gov/3bKgCe1
A hand is holding open a notebook with a detailed sketch of a media briefing for the James Webb Space Telescope. A small model of JWST is visible on the far left of the notebook, with two speakers on the left-hand page addressing a large, seated audience on the right-hand page. In the top third of the image, the media briefing being sketched can be seen, in the distance and out of focus.
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Is gravity the only thing keeping you together? You might be a globular cluster. Star clusters like this one, imaged by
@NASAHubble
, can contain millions of stars held together by gravity.
@NASAWebb
will give us a closer look at these cosmic objects: go.nasa.gov/3SIpT7c
A cluster of thousands of stars of varying sizes and temperatures glittering in blue, gold, and reddish tones. More stars are concentrated toward the middle where it's brighter.
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An overview of our #Artemis I mission to the Moon, a new image released from humanity's most powerful space telescope, and a celebration of
@MarsCuriosity
landing on the Red Planet 10 years ago today—all this and more This Week at NASA.
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