Tag: space

A unique and exciting detail of Hubble’s snapshot appears at mid-northern latitudes as a bright, white, stretched-out storm traveling around the planet at 350 miles per hour. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/a-new-view-of-jupiters-storms September 17, 2020

NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image of the United States on Sep. 15, 2020, showing the fires in the West, the smoke from those fires drifting over the country, several hurricanes converging from different angles. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-image-shows-fires-hurricanes-across-the-us September 16, 2020

Dr. Frank Rubio was selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class. He reported for duty in August 2017 and having completed the initial astronaut candidate training is now eligible for a mission assignment. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/frank-rubio-from-pilot-to-doctor-to-astronaut September 15, 2020

During her first mission to space and to the International Space Station, Kate Rubins became the first person to sequence DNA in space. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/shes-back-kate-rubins-set-to-return-to-space-station September 14, 2020

Globular cluster NGC 1805, a tight grouping of thousands of stars is, located near the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. In the dense center of one of these clusters, stars are 100 to 1,000 times closer together than the nearest stars are to our Sun. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2020/hubble-stows-a-pocketful-of-stars September 11, 2020