Science
Detecting methane emissions during COVID-19
Methane concentrations over the Permian Basin.
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NASA Supercomputers Power COVID-19 Research
Pleiades' rack-based architecture allows NASA to continually increase the system's computing capability through hardware upgrades without needing to expand its physical footprint. The current configuration of Pleiades is nearly 15 times more powerful than it was when the system was originally installed in 2008.
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New Sunspots Potentially Herald Increased Solar Activity
On the upper left side of this image from May 29, 2020, from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory — shown here in the 171-angstrom wavelength, which is typically colorized in gold — one can see a spot of light hovering above the left horizon. This light emanates from solar material tracing out magnetic field lines that are hovering over a set of sunspots about to rotate over the left limb of the Sun.
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Hubble Finds that "Distance" From the Brightest Stars is Key to Preserving Primordial Discs
The star cluster Westerlund 2
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Ames Contributions to SpaceX Commercial Crew Missions
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard as it is rolled to the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A for NASA’s SpaceX Demo-1 mission on Feb. 28, 2019 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Third European Service Module for mission to land astronauts on the Moon
Orion and European Service Module orbiting the Moon.
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Site of LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Search Project Carefully Ramps Up Science Work
A photomultiplier tube array that is part of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The photomultiplier tubes are designed to detect signals produced by dark matter particle interactions.
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Galactic Crash May Have Triggered Solar System Formation
Sagittarius collisions trigger star formation in Milky Way.
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Astronomers See "Cosmic Ring of Fire" 11 Billion Years Ago
An artist’s impression of the ring galaxy.
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Human Rights
Fostering a More Humane World: The 28th Eurasian Economic Summi
Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020