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APOD: 2026 November 3 – Comet PanSTARRs and Rainbow Meteor

Reported by NASA

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 November 3 –… 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, 03 Nov 2026 05:05 +0000

The Pacific’s Busy Storm Season

Reported by NASA

Super Typhoon In-fa developed an unusually large eye, and the remnants of Typhoon Champi transitioned into an extratropical storm that targeted Alaska....
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 05:01 +0000

The Vera Rubin Has Found Two More of the Milky Way's Dim Satellites

Reported by Universe Today

The Vera Rubin Observatory has detected two more of the Milky Ways' dim, hard to see satellites. One is an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, and one is a globular cluster. Each one is a missing piece of the puzzle in the Milky Way's merger history. By finding more...
  • By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
  • On: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 01:33 +0000

Happy 65 Years: NASA’s Johnson Space Center Then and Now

Reported by NASA

Sixty-five years ago, a bold vision took root in Houston: a NASA center dedicated to human spaceflight. Since its founding, NASA’s Johnson Space Center has helped lead the nation’s human spaceflight program, supporting missions from Project Mercury thr...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 02 Nov 2026 21:35 +0000

TB 26-09 Measured Hammer-Tap Inputs

Reported by NASA

For more information, contact Joel W. Sills, Langley Research Center, joel.w.sills@nasa.gov. Download the PDF version An instrumented hammer test does not require an idealized single half-sine waveform. When the complete force and response are measured acc...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:47 +0000

The JWST May Have Found Where Heavy Black Hole Seeds Formed

Reported by Universe Today

Astrophysicists think that black holes grow through a hierarchical merger framework. But the elusive Intermediate Mass Black Holes are the missing link between stellar mass black holes, and the gargantuan supermassive black holes like the one at the center...
  • By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
  • On: Mon, 02 Nov 2026 19:28 +0000