When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts
as with creating images.

— Niels Bohr

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab ending remote work policy for nearly 5,500 employees. 'Employees who do not return by their required date will be considered to have resigned.'

Space.com - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 5:16pm
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has told more than 5,500 hybrid and telework employees that they must return to on-site work or resign.
Categories: Astronomy

Why Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Won’t Shield the U.S. from Nuclear Strikes

Scientific American.com - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 4:30pm

The White House’s $175-billion plan to protect the U.S. from nuclear annihilation will probably cost much more—and deliver far less—than has been claimed, says nuclear arms expert Jeffrey Lewis

Categories: Astronomy

New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 4:00pm
The unusual orbit of a possible dwarf planet, known as 2017 OF201, makes it less likely that our solar system contains a hidden ninth “Planet X”
Categories: Astronomy

New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 4:00pm
The unusual orbit of a possible dwarf planet, known as 2017 OF201, makes it less likely that our solar system contains a hidden ninth “Planet X”
Categories: Astronomy

Messier 101

APOD - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 4:00pm

Big, beautiful spiral galaxy M101 is one of the last entries in


Categories: Astronomy, NASA

Ultracold atoms have been 'hyperentangled' for the first time

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 3:00pm
By exerting unprecedented control over extremely cold atoms, researchers have put them in a state with several simultaneously quantum-entangled properties
Categories: Astronomy

Ultracold atoms have been 'hyperentangled' for the first time

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 3:00pm
By exerting unprecedented control over extremely cold atoms, researchers have put them in a state with several simultaneously quantum-entangled properties
Categories: Astronomy

Giant ground sloths evolved three different times for the same reason

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 3:00pm
An analysis of the sloth family tree suggests three different groups of the animals evolved to gigantic sizes in response to cold and dry conditions
Categories: Astronomy

Giant ground sloths evolved three different times for the same reason

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 3:00pm
An analysis of the sloth family tree suggests three different groups of the animals evolved to gigantic sizes in response to cold and dry conditions
Categories: Astronomy

NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in Washington State

NASA - Breaking News - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 3:00pm
NASA astronaut Anne McClain points a camera at herself and takes a “space-selfie” during a May 1, 2025, spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

NASA astronaut and Spokane, Washington, native Anne McClain will participate in an event with students from the Mobius Discovery Center located in her hometown. McClain will answer prerecorded questions submitted by students from aboard the International Space Station.

Watch the 20-minute Earth-to-space call on the NASA STEM YouTube Channel.

The event will take place at 1:25 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 27. Media interested in covering the event must RSVP no later than 5 p.m. EDT on Friday, May 23, to Karen Hudson at 509-321-7125 or via email at: mkhudson@mobiusspokane.org.

The Mobius Discovery Center will host the event for elementary, middle, and high school students from various schools across the region, nonprofit organizations, and the Kalispel Tribe. This event is designed to foster imagination among students through exploration of hands-on exhibits and science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics learning opportunities while inspiring students to consider McClain’s career path.

For more than 24 years, astronauts have continuously lived and worked aboard the space station, testing technologies, performing science, and developing skills needed to explore farther from Earth. Astronauts aboard the orbiting laboratory communicate with NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston 24 hours a day through SCaN’s (Space Communications and Navigation) Near Space Network.

Important research and technology investigations taking place aboard the space station benefit people on Earth and lays the groundwork for other agency missions. As part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, the agency will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future human exploration of Mars, inspiring Artemis Generation explorers, and ensuring the United States continues to lead in space exploration and discovery.

See videos of astronauts aboard the space station at:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

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Gerelle Dodson
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
gerelle.q.dodson@nasa.gov

Sandra Jones
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov

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NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in Washington State

NASA News - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 3:00pm
NASA astronaut Anne McClain points a camera at herself and takes a “space-selfie” during a May 1, 2025, spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

NASA astronaut and Spokane, Washington, native Anne McClain will participate in an event with students from the Mobius Discovery Center located in her hometown. McClain will answer prerecorded questions submitted by students from aboard the International Space Station.

Watch the 20-minute Earth-to-space call on the NASA STEM YouTube Channel.

The event will take place at 1:25 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 27. Media interested in covering the event must RSVP no later than 5 p.m. EDT on Friday, May 23, to Karen Hudson at 509-321-7125 or via email at: mkhudson@mobiusspokane.org.

The Mobius Discovery Center will host the event for elementary, middle, and high school students from various schools across the region, nonprofit organizations, and the Kalispel Tribe. This event is designed to foster imagination among students through exploration of hands-on exhibits and science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics learning opportunities while inspiring students to consider McClain’s career path.

For more than 24 years, astronauts have continuously lived and worked aboard the space station, testing technologies, performing science, and developing skills needed to explore farther from Earth. Astronauts aboard the orbiting laboratory communicate with NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston 24 hours a day through SCaN’s (Space Communications and Navigation) Near Space Network.

Important research and technology investigations taking place aboard the space station benefit people on Earth and lays the groundwork for other agency missions. As part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, the agency will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future human exploration of Mars, inspiring Artemis Generation explorers, and ensuring the United States continues to lead in space exploration and discovery.

See videos of astronauts aboard the space station at:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

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Gerelle Dodson
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
gerelle.q.dodson@nasa.gov

Sandra Jones
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov

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'Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow': Release date, plot, cast, and everything we know about Kara Zor-El's DCU movie

Space.com - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 3:00pm
Superman's Kryptonian cousin is set to soar in DC Studios' 2026 solo superhero flick.
Categories: Astronomy

HERMES-PF's 6 CubeSats Watch The Entire Sky For High-Energy Bursts

Universe Today - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 2:57pm

Multi-messenger astronomy has been all the rage lately. It involves capturing data on the gravitational and electromagnetic signals from catastrophic cosmic events. However, with that newfound interest comes required updates to infrastructure. Gravitational wave detectors have been upgraded and will be even more sensitive soon. But to realize the promise of multi-messenger astronomy, scientists must have a fleet of spacecraft watching the entire sky for high-energy signals indicative of the events that cause gravitational waves. At least, that is the team's long-term plan behind the High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites Pathfinder (HERMES-PF) mission, which successfully launched in March and is currently undergoing commissioning.

Categories: Astronomy

Our Solar System May Have a New Planetary Sibling: Another Dwarf Planet

Universe Today - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 2:53pm

Our understanding of our Solar System is still evolving. As our telescopes have improved, they've brought the Solar System's deeper reaches into view. Pluto was disqualified as a planet because of it. Now, new research says another dwarf planet may reside at the edge of the Solar System. Its presence supports the Planet X hypothesis.

Categories: Astronomy

Sols 4547-4548: Taking in the View After a Long Drive

NASA - Breaking News - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 2:44pm
Curiosity Navigation

2 min read

Sols 4547-4548: Taking in the View After a Long Drive NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image using its Left Navigation Camera on May 21, 2025 — Sol 4546, or Martian day 4,546 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission — at 05:05:33 UTC. NASA/JPL-Caltech

Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University

Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Monday’s single-sol plan included a marathon 45-meter drive (about 148 feet), which put us in position for two full sols of imaging. This means both sols have what we call “targeted” science blocks, in which we have images of the workspace down from the last plan and can carefully choose what we want to take a closer look at. This always means a lot of good discussion amongst the geology and mineralogy theme group (GEO) about what deserves this closer look. As an outsider on the environmental theme group (ENV), I don’t always grasp the complexities of these discussions, but it’s always interesting to see what GEO is up to and to learn new things about the geology of Mount Sharp.

GEO ended up picking “Big Bear Lake” as our contact science target, which is getting its typical treatment from APXS and MAHLI, as well as a LIBS observation from ChemCam. Aside from that there was plenty of room for remote sensing. ChemCam is also taking a LIBS observation of “Volcan Mountains” and a long-distance mosaic of the Texoli butte. Mastcam is also taking mosaics of a nearby trough, as well as two depressions known as “Sulphur Spring,” a more distant boxwork structure, and the very distant Mishe Mokwa butte.

All of ENV’s activities are remote sensing, and we managed to squeeze in a few of those too. We have a couple dust monitoring observations, looking for dust devils and checking the amount of dust in the atmosphere. And since we’re still in the cloudy season we always try to make room for cloud observations. Today that meant a suraphorizon movie looking for clouds just above the horizon to the south, and a phase function sky survey, which captures clouds all around the rover, to try to understand how these clouds scatter sunlight.

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Sols 4547-4548: Taking in the View After a Long Drive

NASA News - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 2:44pm
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Sols 4547-4548: Taking in the View After a Long Drive NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image using its Left Navigation Camera on May 21, 2025 — Sol 4546, or Martian day 4,546 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission — at 05:05:33 UTC. NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Monday’s single-sol plan included a marathon 45-meter drive (about 148 feet), which put us in position for two full sols of imaging. This means both sols have what we call “targeted” science blocks, in which we have images of the workspace down from the last plan and can carefully choose what we want to take a closer look at. This always means a lot of good discussion amongst the geology and mineralogy theme group (GEO) about what deserves this closer look. As an outsider on the environmental theme group (ENV), I don’t always grasp the complexities of these discussions, but it’s always interesting to see what GEO is up to and to learn new things about the geology of Mount Sharp.

GEO ended up picking “Big Bear Lake” as our contact science target, which is getting its typical treatment from APXS and MAHLI, as well as a LIBS observation from ChemCam. Aside from that there was plenty of room for remote sensing. ChemCam is also taking a LIBS observation of “Volcan Mountains” and a long-distance mosaic of the Texoli butte. Mastcam is also taking mosaics of a nearby trough, as well as two depressions known as “Sulphur Spring,” a more distant boxwork structure, and the very distant Mishe Mokwa butte.

All of ENV’s activities are remote sensing, and we managed to squeeze in a few of those too. We have a couple dust monitoring observations, looking for dust devils and checking the amount of dust in the atmosphere. And since we’re still in the cloudy season we always try to make room for cloud observations. Today that meant a suraphorizon movie looking for clouds just above the horizon to the south, and a phase function sky survey, which captures clouds all around the rover, to try to understand how these clouds scatter sunlight.

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Preflight Flower

NASA Image of the Day - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 2:41pm
A flower is seen in the foreground with a Soyuz rocket on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 7, 2025. Expedition 73 crewmembers including NASA astronaut Jonny Kim launched aboard their Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft on April 8.
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Preflight Flower

NASA - Breaking News - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 2:39pm
NASA/Joel Kowsky

A NASA photographer took this picture of a flower called Borshchov’s tulip near the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 7, 2025, ahead of NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky launching to the International Space Station. The flower is unique to Kazakhstan, attracting many to study and appreciate its beauty.

Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

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Preflight Flower

NASA News - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 2:39pm
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Scientists find rare double-star system where one star orbited inside the other

Space.com - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 2:00pm
Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner.
Categories: Astronomy