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Satellite Events for Tonight

NASA’s Webb Reveals Black Hole That Formed Before Its Galaxy

Reported by NASA

Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don’t know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing galaxy consume their fuel and collapse to form black holes, which can gobble up surrounding material a...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Wed, 27 May 2026 15:00 +0000

National Institutes of Health Nutrition Education Challenge

Reported by NASA

NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of NASA and...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Wed, 27 May 2026 14:09 +0000

NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics: Winning Student Teams Engineering Lunar Future

Reported by NASA

Resilient. Efficient. Autonomous. These are qualities NASA demands of its hardware, especially as the agency accelerates plans for a permanent Moon Base. NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge put those traits on full display, as college student engineers from...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Wed, 27 May 2026 13:02 +0000

Hubble Spies Faint Irregular Galaxy

Reported by NASA

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 490-017, roughly 12,000 light-years in diameter and some 23 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. The galaxy’s low surface brightness makes it appear as ...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Wed, 27 May 2026 12:09 +0000

Moon base update! NASA unveils next steps

Reported by Space | EarthSky

NASA has unveiled exciting new plans for its moon base, including timelines and details of hopping drones, landers and vehicles. The post Moon base update! NASA unveils next steps first appeared on EarthSky....
  • By: Space | EarthSky
  • On: Wed, 27 May 2026 11:57 +0000

NASA TESS Reveals Epic All-Sky Map of Distant Worlds

Reported by Universe Today

You’re on a camping trip with your family and your parents tell you to turn off all the lights. But, of course, your little brother wants to shine his flashlight directly at the sky saying aliens will see it. You finally get him to shut off his flashligh...
  • By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/laurencetognetti)
  • On: Wed, 27 May 2026 07:10 +0000