In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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Rare Blast’s Remains Discovered in Milky Way Center
Astronomers may have found the Milky Way galaxy’s first example of an unusual kind of stellar explosion. This discovery, made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, adds to the understanding of how some stars shatter and seed the universe with elements critical for life on Earth.
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx to Fly a Farewell Tour of Asteroid Bennu
On April 7, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission will give asteroid Bennu one last glance before saying farewell. Before departing for Earth, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will perform a final flyby of Bennu – capturing its last images of sample collection site Nightingale to look for transformations on Bennu’s surface after the Oct. 20, 2020, sample collection event.
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NASA’s First Mission to Trojan Asteroids Installs Final Scientific Instrument
With less than a year to launch, the third and final scientific instrument has been integrated onto NASA’s Lucy spacecraft. Once launched, Lucy will be first to explore the Trojan asteroids, a population of small bodies that share an orbit with Jupiter.
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Deep Jet Streams in Jupiter’s Atmosphere
A new view of Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere from NASA’s Juno spacecraft includes several of the planet’s southern jet streams. Using data from Juno’s instruments, scientists discovered that Jupiter’s powerful atmospheric jet streams extend far deeper than previously imagined.
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Nervous System Research Fills Space Station Science Schedule
Human research was the main science focus aboard the International Space Station on Feb. 10. The space-exposed human nervous system may impact how an astronaut grips and manipulates objects during a mission. The Expedition 64 crew members also worked on spacesuit maintenance.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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