5th Annual Girls And Science Event At Denver Museum Of Nature & Science

January 26, 2019 – The Denver Museum of Nature & Science, along with CBS4, will be hosting the fifth annual Girls & Science event on Saturday, March 2. This one-day event is designed for girls and their families to explore diverse careers in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) by participating in activities with female scientists. Women in STEAM professions will be on hand to talk about what they do, who they are, and what inspires them. Read More
Making Hubble’s Deepest Images Even Deeper

January 26, 2019 – A group of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), led by Alejandro S. Borlaff, has used original images from the Hubble Space Telescope to produce the deepest image of the Universe from space. The group improved the process for combining several images and was able to recover a large quantity of light from the outer zones of the largest galaxies in the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF). Read More
Blue Origin Breaks Ground On BE-4 Rocket Engine Production Facility

January 25, 2019 – Blue Origin celebrated the official groundbreaking for its world-class rocket engine production facility today in Huntsville, Alabama. The plant will be built on 46 acres and employ more than 300 people to build the BE-4 engine. Read More
Ball Aerospace Tests Electronically-Steered Antenna With Telesat’s LEO Phase 1 Satellite, Streams Video

January 25, 2019 – Ball Aerospace has successfully completed the first communication demonstration between Telesat’s LEO Phase 1 satellite and Ball’s fully electronically-steered flat panel antenna at Telesat’s Allan Park ground station in Ontario, Canada. Ball and Telesat are collaborating on the development of satellite communications (SATCOM) terminals based on Ball’s advanced antenna technology. Read More
New Horizons’ Newest And Best-Yet View Of Ultima Thule

January 24, 2019 – The wonders – and mysteries – of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 continue to multiply as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft beams home new images of its New Year’s Day 2019 flyby target. Read More
Stellar Winds, The Source Material For The Universe, Are Clumpy

January 24, 2019 – Data recorded by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of a neutron star as it passed through a dense patch of stellar wind emanating from its massive companion star provide valuable insight about the structure and composition of stellar winds and about the environment of the neutron star itself. A paper describing the research, led by Penn State astronomers, appears January 15, 2019, in the journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Read More
Wings Over The Rockies Announces Apollopalooza Festival

January 23, 2019 – Denver-based Wings Over the Rockies will be hosting Apollopalooza, a regional celebration of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing and future of human space exploration on Saturday, July 13th through Saturday, July 20th, 2019. The event is being highlighted by NASA and will be one of the largest Apollo anniversary celebrations in the Rocky Mountain West. Read More
SwRI Scientist Sheds Light On Titan’s Mysterious Atmosphere

January 23, 2019 – A new Southwest Research Institute study tackles one of the greatest mysteries about Titan, one of Saturn’s moons: the origin of its thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. The study posits that one key to Titan’s mysterious atmosphere is the “cooking” of organic material in the moon’s interior. Read More
Winners Of The Space Foundation’s 9th Annual International Student Art Contest Announced

January 23, 2019 – The Space Foundation has announced the winners of its 9th Annual Space Foundation International Student Art Contest, co-sponsored by Firefly Aerospace. The 25 winners represent five U.S. states and 12 countries, with one entry chosen for the Space Achievement Award. Read More
Natalie Gosnell Publishes Paper, Receives NASA Grant

January 22, 2019 – A paper co-authored by Colorado College Assistant Professor of Physics Natalie Gosnell ’08 was highlighted recently in AAS Nova, which features recent papers from the American Astronomical Society journals, which comprise the premier journals in astrophysics. Additionally, Gosnell, who graduated cum laude from CC with a degree in physics, recently was awarded a $10,900 grant from NASA. Read More
United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches NROL-71 In Support Of National Security

January 22, 2019 – A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a critical payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) denoted NROL-71 lifted off from Space Launch Complex-6 on January 19 at 12:10 p.m. MST. Read More
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