In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

	November 22, 2019  RELEASE In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Week of Nov. 18-22   A Weakened Black Hole Allows Its Galaxy to Awaken Astronomers have confirmed the first example of a galaxy cluster where large numbers of stars are being born at its core. Using data from NASA space telescopes and a National Science Foundation radio observatory, researchers have gathered new details about how the most massive black holes in the universe affect their host galaxies. One of the space telescopes involved was NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, which is managed by the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.   Hinode Watches from Orbit as Mercury Crosses Sun The solar-observing satellite, Hinode, captured the transit of Mercury as it passed between Earth and the Sun on Nov. 11. Transits like this can be used to measure the distance between Earth and the Sun. Marshall manages Hinode’s science operations for the agency.   NASA Certifies SLS Rocket Laboratory To Test Flight Software for Artemis I To launch the Artemis I Moon mission, NASA’s powerful Space Launch System rocket must go from zero to more than 17,000 miles per hour. The rocket’s flight software and avionics systems control all that power. The SLS avionics and flight software came a step closer to the Artemis I mission when NASA certified the Systems Integration Laboratory for final integrated avionics and flight software testing Nov. 14.   50 Years Ago: Apollo 12 on the Moon – “Whoopee!” Launched less than four months after Apollo 11 put the first astronauts on the Moon, Apollo 12 was more than a simple encore. After being struck by lightning on launch -- with no lasting damage -- Apollo 12 headed for a rendezvous with a spacecraft that was already on the Moon. The mission would expand the techniques used to explore the Moon and show the coordination between robotic and human exploration.   NASA’s Fermi, Swift Missions Enable a New Era in Gamma-ray Science A pair of distant explosions, discovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, have produced the highest-energy light yet seen from these events called gamma-ray bursts. The record-setting detections provide new insights into the mechanisms driving gamma-ray bursts. For more information or to learn about other happenings at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, visit NASA Marshall. For past issues of the ICYMI newsletter, click here.
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