Erskine Astronomy

05/22/2024

05/22/2024

On a scale of 1-10, rate the Cartwheel galaxy’s neat trick! NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, GALEX, and Spitzer captured it in multiple types of light, revealing ripples of star formation from a collision with a smaller galaxy. https://go.nasa.gov/3JDPmer

05/06/2024

It’s okay if you don’t feel sparkly today. It's cool if you're not feeling it. Step back for a bit. There’s just one problem.

You already sparkle. Maybe you don’t see it, but others do. You belong, just like every star in this star cluster belongs.

02/23/2024

The IM-1 lunar lander Odysseus touched down successfully on Thursday, February 22, 2024. At first, there were questions as to whether the lander was upright on the moon. But, by Friday, February 23, its controllers announced it was.

12/28/2023

Send Your Name to Jupiter’s Moon Europa

Time is running out to send your name to deep space aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft! Submit your name by Dec. 31 to be etched on a microchip that will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.6 billion kilometers) to explore one of Jupiter’s moons, Europa.

Message in a Bottle Sign On - https://go.nasa.gov/3Rxkbq9

Europa Clipper is being assembled at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is set to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in October 2024 and by 2030, it will be in orbit around Jupiter. It will gather detailed measurements to determine if Europa has conditions suitable for life.

You're invited to to Jupiter's moon Europa by signing a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón that will travel aboard NASA's spacecraft.

06/08/2023

A daily update by email. Science news, great photos, sky alerts.

06/08/2023

A daily update by email. Science news, great photos, sky alerts.

05/05/2023

The moon will darken but not completely disappear as it slips into Earth's outer shadow on Friday (May 5), creating a penumbral lunar eclipse.

05/05/2023

🧐 Researchers! Are you interested in the field of space ? Do you want to learn how to prepare for spaceflight experiments? Then apply for our NASA's STAR course. This course facilitates entry into experiments by using and commercial platforms.

⏳ Deadline: June 2, 2023
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01/10/2023

11/15/2022

These women computers at the Muroc Flight Test Unit (now NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center ) took advantage of a rare snowy day in California on this date in 1949. ☃️ Their work: performing laborious calculations from long strips of aeronuatical data recorded by onboard aircraft instrumentation. Women at NASA