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Satellite Events for Tonight

How a Johnson Mentor Shapes the Next Generation of NASA Talent 

Reported by NASA

When Rice University student Malvika Bhardwaj asked her mentor Daniel Cohen, a Guidance, Navigation & Control (GN&C) engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, whether he had time to keep teaching interns with his busy workload, he answered, “You...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:07 +0000

APOD: 2026 October 27 – Noctilucent Clouds over Sweden

Reported by NASA

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 27 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating univer...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:05 +0000

A-81 Reaches South Georgia

Reported by NASA

The Antarctic iceberg made a relatively quick exit from the Weddell Sea, only to slow at the edge of a remote island’s underwater shelf....
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:00 +0000

Asymmetric space waves map pressure on Earth's magnetic shield

Reported by Universe Today

The Earth’s magnetic field is responsible for shielding us from harmful space weather, including solar radiation from the Sun but also cosmic rays originating from outside our solar system. Cosmic rays can include deep space supernovas, so the magnetic f...
  • By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/laurencetognetti)
  • On: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 01:19 +0000

NASA’s Perseverance Views Dust at Neretva Vallis

Reported by NASA

Description This 360-degree look at Neretva Vallis within Mars’ Jezero Crater was stitched together using 217 images acquired by the rover’s Mastcam-Z on May 20, 2024, the 1,155th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. While it is a wind-swept dusty ...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:48 +0000

A Brief-ish History of METI. Part I: Early Ideas and Experiments

Reported by Universe Today

For as long as scientists have conducted SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) experiments, parallel efforts in Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) have also been mounted. In this series, we'll take a look at the major milestones in th...
  • By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
  • On: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:02 +0000