In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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NASA’s IXPE Sends First Science Image
NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer, which launched Dec. 9, 2021, has delivered its first imaging data since completing its month-long commissioning phase. All instruments are functioning well aboard the observatory, which is on a quest to study some of the most mysterious and extreme objects in the universe.
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NASA Telescope Spots Highest-Energy Light Ever Detected From Jupiter
Scientists have been studying Jupiter up close since the 1970s, but the gas giant is still full of mysteries. New observations by NASA’s NuSTAR space observatory have revealed the highest-energy light ever detected from Jupiter. The light, in the form of X-rays that NuSTAR can detect, is also the highest-energy light ever detected from a solar system planet other than Earth.
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Photons Received: Webb Sees Its First Star – 18 Times
The James Webb Space Telescope is nearing completion of the first phase of the months-long process of aligning the observatory’s primary mirror using the Near Infrared Camera instrument. The team’s challenge was twofold: confirm that the instrument was ready to collect light from celestial objects, and then identify starlight from the same star in each of the 18 primary mirror segments.
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NASA’s InSight Sees Power Levels Stabilize After Martian Dust Storm
Several weeks after the end of a dust storm on Mars, the solar panels of NASA’s InSight lander are producing almost as much power as they did before the storm. That power level should enable the lander to continue science operations into the summer. Read more about the measures InSight took to endure the storm.
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Hubble Views a Cosmic Interaction
An image from the Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space imagery. The image shows Arp 282, an interacting galaxy pair composed of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 169 and the galaxy IC 1559. Interestingly, both galaxies have monumentally energetic cores known as active galactic nuclei.
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