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Mission to Mars: @UNLV Scientist Gives Insider Glimpse at NASA’s 2020 Rover Mission

July 6, 2020 sarah Jonas Aliens, COVID-19, Extraterrestrial Life, Geoscience, MARS, mars 2020, Mars 2020 rover, mars rover, NASA, Outer Space, Pandemic, Space Travel, STEM and diversity, women in STEM

Silver, bug-eyed extraterrestrials zooming across the cosmos in bullet-speed spaceships. Green, oval-faced creatures hiding out in a secret fortress at Nevada’s Area 51 base. Cartoonish, throaty-voiced relatives of Marvin the Martian who don armor and Spartan-style helmets. We humans are fascinated with the possibility of life on the Red Planet.

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Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.14 C per decade

July 6, 2020 sarah Jonas Climate Change, Global temperature report, global warming, NASA, NOAA, Satellite Data, UAH, UAH Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Global Temperature Report: June 2020

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Hubble Sees a Cosmic Flapping ‘Bat Shadow’

June 25, 2020 sarah Jonas Hubble Space Telescope, NASA

A disk around a young star is casting a huge shadow resembling a pair of wings on a distant cloud. In 2018, Hubble astronomers nicknamed the phenomenon the Bat Shadow. Now, they see those “wings” flapping!

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Hubble Provides Holistic View of Stars Gone Haywire

June 18, 2020 sarah Jonas Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Planetary Nebulae, stellar evolution, Wide Field Camera 3

New images from the Hubble Space Telescope have helped researchers identify rapid changes in material blasting off stars at the centers of two planetary nebulas NGC 6302 and NGC 7027— causing them to reconsider what is happening at their cores.

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Nuclear thermal propulsion research wins UAH graduate student AAS Molly Macauley Award

June 10, 2020 sarah Jonas Mars Mission, NASA, nuclear thermal propulsion, UAH, UAH Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Research on seeded hydrogen in nuclear thermal rocket engines has won a graduate research assistant at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) one of two 2020 American Astronautical Society (AAS) Molly Macauley Awards for Science and Engineering.

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Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.14 C per decade

June 3, 2020 sarah Jonas Climate Change, Global temperature report, global warming, NASA, NOAA, Satellite Data, UAH, UAH Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Global Temperature Report: May 2020

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Intense Flash from Milky Way’s Black Hole Illuminated Gas Far Outside of Our Galaxy

June 2, 2020 sarah Jonas Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS), Hubble Space Telescope, Milky Way, NASA

Not long ago, the center of our galaxy exploded. Our primitive ancestors, already afoot in Africa, probably saw the resulting flare. Now Hubble detects that flash’s signature in a huge tail of gas orbiting the galaxy some 200,000 light-years away.

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UNH Space Science Center Offers Out of This World Experience

June 1, 2020 sarah Jonas cubesats, IMAP, NASA, Space

Scientists from the University of New Hampshire’s Space Science Center will use a $4.6 million grant from NASA to create the Student Collaboration Project that will offer a diverse group of college students from across the country hands-on research experience designing and building small satellites that will be launched into outer space and collect data for one of NASA’s space missions.

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Plasma science report co-chaired by UAH astrophysicist urges better federal agency coordination

May 28, 2020 sarah Jonas CSPAR, DoD, DOE, NAS, NASA, NOAA, NSF, UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Federal agencies should better coordinate their activities in plasma science and engineering (PSE) and jointly support new funding opportunities that take advantage of PSE’s overlaps with different science disciplines, according to a decadal report by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

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In Planet Formation, It’s Location, Location, Location

May 28, 2020 sarah Jonas Hubble Space Telescope, NASA

When it comes to the best region to form planets, it’s all about location. Planets in the nearby star cluster Westerlund 2 may have a rough time forming in the crowded core. Astronomers using Hubble find that energy from hefty stars is blowing away planet-forming dust clouds from smaller stars.

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At graduation, an astronaut’s thoughts on isolation

May 15, 2020 sarah Jonas Astronaut, Class of 2020, Commencement, Commencement Speaker, Graduation, Higher Education, Isolation, Liberal Arts, NASA

Astronaut Christina Koch, who set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman with a total of 328 days in space, was the surprise guest “speaker” on Ursinus’s commencement webpage on Friday, May 15.

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Telescopes and Spacecraft Join Forces to Probe Deep into Jupiter’s Atmosphere

May 7, 2020 sarah Jonas Hubble Space Telescope, Jupiter Atmosphere, Lightning, Multiwavelength, NASA, Storms, Wide Field Camera 3

Thanks to the teamwork of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Gemini Observatory, and the Juno spacecraft, scientists are able to probe deep into Jupiter’s storm systems and investigate sources of lightning outbursts, map cyclonic vortices, and unravel the nature of enigmatic features within the Great Red Spot.

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