In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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The Recipe for Powerful Quasar Jets
Some supermassive black holes launch powerful beams of material, or jets, away from them, while others do not. Astronomers may now have identified why. Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, researchers have studied more than 700 quasars – rapidly growing supermassive black holes – to isolate the factors that determine why these black holes launch jets.
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Hatches Open, Space Station Crew Expands to 6
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos joined Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy of NASA and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner aboard the International Space Station when the hatches between the Soyuz spacecraft and the orbiting laboratory opened Oct. 14.
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OSIRIS-REx Unlocks More Secrets from Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission now knows much more about the material it’ll be collecting Oct. 20. In a special collection of six papers published in two journals, scientists on the OSIRIS-REx mission present new findings on asteroid Bennu’s surface material, geological characteristics, and dynamic history.
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A ‘Flight’ Over Jupiter
A new video uses images from NASA’s Juno mission to recreate what it might have looked like to ride along with the Juno spacecraft as it performed its 27th close flyby of Jupiter on June 2.
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Faces Behind NASA's Artemis Gateway: Marshall's Lindsey Ingram
Sometimes the path to success is determined not only by past experiences, but also by the people who shape those experiences. For Lindsey Ingram, it was her grandfather and the people she met at her first job at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, that helped shape her career. Ingram is now the acting deputy manager and manager for program, planning and control for the Gateway’s Habitation and Systems Development Office at Marshall.
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