In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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Record-breaking Explosion by Black Hole Spotted
The biggest explosion seen in the universe has been found. This record-breaking, gargantuan eruption came from a black hole in a distant galaxy cluster hundreds of millions of light-years away. Astronomers made the discovery in part from using X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, which is managed by the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Rocket City Plays Role in Naming of New Mars Rover
NASA's next Mars rover has a new name -- Perseverance. Alexander Mather, a seventh grader from Virginia, submitted the winning entry in the agency's "Name the Rover" essay contest. Mather became interested in space two years ago after visiting Space Camp at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville.
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I Am Building SLS: Hansel Gill
How do blueprints turn into rocket hardware? Hansel Gill has a front seat for the process. He’s the subsystem manager for manufacturing and production of the exploration upper stage of NASA’s Space Launch System.
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Marshall Celebrates Contributions by Workforce Alums of HBCUs
For this year’s Black History Month event, Marshall turned its commemorative spotlight on a vital resource that is, per its 2020 theme, “fueling the mission”: Historically black colleges and universities. Marshall’s diverse workforce builds and tests the rockets, engines, space systems and technologies and science mission hardware that continue to expand humanity’s reach into the cosmos.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Students Catch Unexpected Glimpse of Newly Discovered Black Hole
University students and researchers working on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made an unexpected detection of a phenomenon 30 thousand light years away. Last fall, the student-built Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer onboard OSIRIS-REx detected a newly flaring black hole in the constellation Columba while making observations off the limb of asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program, which is managed by Marshall.
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An Early Look at Electrical Characteristics of Nashville Tornadic Storm
Overnight on March 2-3, several severe thunderstorms affected parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee, with the most notable damage occurring around the Nashville metropolitan area. NASA’s Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center at Marshall looked at electrical characteristics of the thunderstorms responsible for the damage.
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