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Lettuce Find Healthy Space Food! Citizen Scientists Study Space Salads

Missions to the Moon and Mars pose nutritional challenges for astronauts, but volunteers from NASA’s Open Science Data Repository Analysis Working Groups ...
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NASA’s Hubble Sees White Dwarf Eating Piece of Pluto-Like Object

Hubble caught a feast in action. A dense, nearby white dwarf star is snacking on a fragment of an icy Pluto-like object.
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NASA’s IMAP Mission to Study Boundaries of Our Home in Space

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 23 to study the heliosphere, a giant shield created by the Sun.
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New NASA Mission to Reveal Earth’s Invisible ‘Halo’

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth’s invisible “halo,” the faint light given off by our planet’s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Sails Through 25th Sun Flyby

NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its 25th close approach to the Sun on Sept. 15, matching its record distance of 3.8 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) ...
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AWG Symposium 2023 – The Year of Open Science: Summary and Recordings

On Thursday, March 16th, Open Science hosted the 2023 Analysis Working Group (AWG) Symposium from 10 am – 2:30 pm Pacific Time. The theme focused around The ...
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Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI)

Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) has both a camera and a spectrograph that sees light in the mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. As the only ...