In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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Debris from Stellar Explosion Not Slowed After 400 Years
Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to record material blasting away from the site of an exploded star at speeds faster than 20 million miles per hour. The Kepler supernova remnant is the debris from a detonated star that is located about 20,000 light-years from Earth in the Milky Way galaxy.
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NASA, SpaceX Targeting October for Next Astronaut Launch
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Oct. 23 for the first operational flight with four astronauts of the Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as a part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission will be the first of regular rotational missions to the space station following completion of NASA certification.
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Space Station Crew Spending Weekend in Russian Segment
The three Expedition 63 crew members living aboard the International Space Station will spend the weekend inside the orbiting lab’s Russian segment, while mission controllers on Earth work to isolate, identify, and potentially repair the source of a cabin air leak. The leak is still within segment specifications and presents no immediate danger to the crew or the space station.
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Hubble Finds That Giant Star’s Mysterious Dimming Due to Traumatic Outburst
Observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are showing that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense amount of hot material ejected into space, forming a dust cloud that blocked starlight coming from Betelgeuse's surface.
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Tiny Asteroid Buzzes by Earth – the Closest Flyby on Record
Near-Earth Asteroids pass by Earth all the time. But last weekend, an SUV-size asteroid set the record for coming closer to Earth than any other known near-Earth asteroid, passing 1,830 miles above the southern Indian Ocean.
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