September 15, 2020 RELEASE 20-086*NASA Missions Spy First Possible ‘Survivor’ Planet Hugging White Dwarf Star* wd_1856.png In this illustration, WD 1856 b, a potential Jupiter-size planet, orbits its much smaller host star, a dim white dwarf. */Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/* An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and retired Spitzer Space Telescope has reported what may be the first ...Continue Reading

*NASA History Listserv Readers:* Please join us today, September 16, 2020 at 12:00pm Eastern time for our Virtual History Brown Bag talk: *Jennifer Levasseur*, “Through Astronaut Eyes: Photography from Early Human Spaceflight”  *Abstract:* /Through Astronaut Eyes/ presents the story of how human daring along with technological ingenuity allowed people to see the Earth and stars as they never had before. Photographs from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs tell power ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Sep 16 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 260 Issued at 0030Z on 16 Sep 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 15 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 15/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 15/2400Z Sep Nmbr Location Lo None ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (15 September 2020) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/topic/image-of-the-day * Where Ice Still Flows into Glacier Bay https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147264/where-ice-still-flows-into-glacier-bay/?src=eoa-iotd * A Slew of September Storms https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147283/a-slew-of-september-storms/?src=eoa-iotd * Cycles of Wet and Dry in Etosha Pan https://ear ...Continue Reading

  September 15, 2020  20-089*Solar Cycle 25 Is Here. NASA, NOAA Scientists Explain What That Means* ig_maxmin.jpg This split image shows the difference between an active Sun during solar maximum (on the left, captured in April 2014) and a quiet Sun during solar minimum (on the right, captured in December 2019). December 2019 marks the beginning of Solar Cycle 25, and the Sun’s activity will once again ramp up until solar maximum, predicted for 2025. */Credits: NASA/SDO/* Solar ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Sep 15 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 259 Issued at 0030Z on 15 Sep 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 14 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 14/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 14/2400Z Sep Nmbr Location Lo None ...Continue Reading

  September 14, 2020 RELEASE 20-088*NASA Kicks Off New School Year with Join Artemis Week* NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement is kicking off the new school year with Join Artemis Week, today through Sept. 18, with resources and opportunities to inspire and engage students of all ages in the future of space exploration. NASA’s Artemis program will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever b ...Continue Reading

Explore your backyard or the other side of the Earth with EO Explorer. For more than 20 years, the Earth Observatory has published stories from all over our planet. Now we encourage you to explore those stories in a different way: by location. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/map The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated event, 4 new images) -- 2020 FIRE SEASON IN THE WESTERN U.S. Fire season in the West c ...Continue Reading

Explore your backyard or the other side of the Earth with EO Explorer. For more than 20 years, the Earth Observatory has published stories from all over our planet. Now we encourage you to explore those stories in a different way: by location. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/map The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- 2020 FIRE SEASON IN THE WESTERN U.S. Fire season in the West ca ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #20-37 2020 September 13 at 7:46 p.m. MDT (2020 September 14 0146 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For September 7-13 No space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For September 14-20 No space weather storms are expected during the outlook period. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, ...Continue Reading