Speeding up exoplanet discovery with AI.
NASA’s artificial intelligence tool ExoMiner++ has identified hundreds of exoplanets using data from Kepler and TESS missions.
Traditionally, exoplanet scientists analyzed data from these missions one star at a time. Now, they can use this AI tool to process thousands of stars at once and achieve highly accurate results.
The lead ExoMiner machine learning scientist, Hamed Valizadegan, breaks down how this tech works and why it’s transforming how we search for exoplanets.
Read more: go.nasa.gov/4uTWbhP
Video credit: NASA
#NASA #Exoplanets #AI #TESSMission
Oh look! It’s NASA’s Moon Lab.
NASA’s Lunar Lab and Regolith Testbeds is a simulated lunar environment. It features large boxes filled with simulated lunar dust, along with custom lighting and terrain features that create realistic conditions to test science instruments, robots, and rover designs for future Moon missions.
Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3RomDBw
Video credit: NASA
#NASA #Moon #Robotics #SiliconValley
Wind tunnel testing? We’ve been at it for decades. 💁
Seen here in the ‘60s is an Apollo Command Module model being tested in our Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel.
Generations of air and spacecraft have had their critical safety checks here to ensure they’re ready to take to the skies to fly. Explore more: go.nasa.gov/4rPeao1
Credit: NASA
#NASA #WindTunnel #Apollo #Spacecraft
One single thread of gold tied me to you 💫
Seen here by @NASAHubble is NGC 7714, a spiral galaxy located about 100 million light-years from Earth. The golden haze is made up of millions of stars stretching from the galaxy’s center and bridging to a nearby galactic companion.
Credit: NASA/ESA/A. Gal-Yam/Weizmann Institute of Science
#NASA #Galaxy #Hubble
As air flows around iced wings ✈️🧊
Using NASA’s LAVA framework, engineers created this simulation to visualize how air flows around ice buildup on a Common Research Model wing. Particles are colorized here by velocity—the lighter the color, the higher the velocity. Researchers have used models like this to predict how ice formation could impact aircraft performance.
For years, engineers have turned to LAVA to solve airflow challenges and understand how new aircraft wing designs will perform, and now, the tool is available to the aerospace community.
Explore more: go.nasa.gov/4eOEImf
Credit: NASA/David Craig Penner/ Timothy A. Sandstrom
#NASA #Simulation #Aircraft #Visualization
Cosmic lightsaber.
The Hubble Space Telescope once captured a photo of a newborn star shooting out two bright jets into space. Much more energetic than a sci-fi lightsaber, these narrow beams are blasting across space at over 100,000 miles per hour.
This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away but rather inside our own Milky Way.
Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3QIYYvv
Credit: NASA and ESA; Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)/Hubble-Europe (ESA) Collaboration, D. Padgett (GSFC), T. Megeath (University of Toledo), and B. Reipurth (University of Hawaii)
#NASA #StarWars
Full moon in bloom 🌕🌸
Look up tonight to see the first full moon of May, the Flower Moon, in the night sky!
Where will you be moongazing from?
Credit: NASA
#NASA #FullMoon #FlowerMoon #Lunar
Even the cosmos has a green thumb 💐
Located 160,000 light-years away, 30 Doradus is in full bloom, displaying a stellar bouquet of thousands of stars.
This composite image combines data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue and green), the Hubble Space Telescope (yellow), and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (orange).
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ./L. Townsley et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL-CalTech/SST; Optical: NASA/STScI/HST; Radio: ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/ALMA; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt, N. Wolk, K. Arcand
#NASA #Stars #Space
Turn up the heat 🔥
At our Arc Jet Complex, NASA engineers test heat shield designs and materials using intense heat that mimics the conditions spacecraft experience when entering a planetary atmosphere.
In this video, hot and fast‑moving gases pass over a sample of Orion’s spacecraft thermal material, a couple of years ago. The results from multiple tests helped certify the heat shield for the Artemis I mission.
Read more about this facility: go.nasa.gov/3QxcvWR
Video credit: NASA
#NASA #Orion #heatshield #Artemis
Our TechEdSat-23 technology tests are underway in low Earth orbit!
What we learn will advance small spacecraft in radiation shielding, satellite communications, and space weather monitoring for future missions to the Moon and Mars.
Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/4vQ1U9B
#NASA #LowEarthOrbit #satellites #moon #mars
Same galaxy, different perspective.
Seen here are two views of our Milky Way galaxy: One above Earth aboard the @ISS and one traveling back home during Artemis II.
Credit: NASA
#NASA #Stars #MilkyWay #Galaxy
NASA’s X-59 is helping the nation celebrate the 250th anniversary of its independence with an update to its livery – its official paint job and insignia. 💫 As of its second flight, the X-59 sported a @freedom250 logo on its engine, and it will be showing off the new detail with every upcoming test flight.
NASA's Quesst mission, which features the one-of-a-kind X-59 aircraft, will demonstrate technology to fly supersonic, or faster than the speed of sound, without generating loud sonic booms. More: nasa.gov/x59
