Computer Programmer and Mathematician Josephine Jue

Hired by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1963, Josephine Jue was a Chinese-American computer programmer and mathematician who worked for the agency for more than 30 years. via NASA https://ift.tt/OFzc2Z8

TROPICS Prepped to Track Storms

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket stands on Pad B, Launch Complex 1, in Māhia, New Zealand, just ahead of a successful launch on Friday, May 26, with NASA’s Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) CubeSats payload. via NASA https://ift.tt/t97mcPA

Hubble Captures a Drifting Galaxy

The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. via NASA https://ift.tt/9z7g42X

Strategic Partnerships Manager Anita Dey

"If I can advocate for all the groups that need equity, I'm glad to do it." – Anita Dey, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Outreach and Engagement, NASA Headquarters via NASA https://ift.tt/VRtkWjd

Whistling Through the Wildflowers

Two black-bellied whistling ducks walk through a field of wildflowers at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 19, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/fxKEtsZ

SpaceX Dragon Crew Ship Approaches the International Space Station

The SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft, named Freedom, is seen as it approaches the International Space Station with four Axiom Mission 2 private astronauts aboard on Monday, May 22, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/Fzc0MmD

Baby Stars in the Orion Constellation

Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in this infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174. via NASA https://ift.tt/3gtIH6h

Hubble Peers into a Glistening Star Cluster

The densely packed globular cluster NGC 6325 glistens in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. via NASA https://ift.tt/QwGu3zg

U.S. Senate Members Meet the Crew of Artemis II

The four astronauts who will fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II visited Washington on Wednesday, May 17, to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others. via NASA https://ift.tt/d08BFQm

Laguna San Rafael National Park Viewed from the Space Station

Laguna San Rafael National Park, photographed on May 9, 2023 as the space station orbited 268 miles above Chile. via NASA https://ift.tt/w1EOP5t

Moon Over the Southern Atlantic

The waxing gibbous Moon stands out against the stark darkness of space on May 3, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/gsMdwYH

Hearing and Seeing the Music of the Spheres

Maestro Piotr Gajewski conducts the National Philharmonic in the world premiere performance of Henry Dehlinger’s “Cosmic Cycles,” in this photo from Thursday, May 11, 2023, as an enhanced color image of Jupiter is displayed above. via NASA https://ift.tt/i2cperg

50th Anniversary of the Skylab 1 Launch

Clouds of smoke billow out over the surrounding area as the uncrewed Skylab 1/Saturn V space vehicle launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on May 14, 1973. via NASA https://ift.tt/05OPgnS

Stabilizing Shorelines with Mangroves

A team member from the Environmental Management Branch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center works to remove a mangrove seedling deposited by tropical winds on the shoreline of KARS Park at Kennedy in this image from April 12, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/v024nru

Vance Oyama, Searching for Life in Our Solar System

Vance I. Oyama holds a readout from the gas chromatograph in the life detection laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in this picture from April 22, 1965. via NASA https://ift.tt/MSH6QWP

Spacewalkers Stephen Bowen and Sultan Alneyadi Exit the Quest Airlock

Spacewalkers Stephen Bowen and Sultan Alneyadi are pictured in their Extravehicular Mobility Units, or spacesuits, exiting the International Space Station's Quest airlock and beginning a spacewalk. via NASA https://ift.tt/xuvYVpg

Plumes from Popocatépetl Volcano

Popocatépetl, one of Mexico’s most active volcanoes, has been erupting since 2005. via NASA https://ift.tt/o1dIgTE

Eyes on Ice

Curtis Flack (left) and Paul von Hardenberg inspect the ice formation on the spinner of an Advanced Air Mobility proprotor model tested in the Icing Research Tunnel at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. via NASA https://ift.tt/TqF7NmE

Exploring the Cosmos Together

Miloslav Stašek, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States (left), Foreign Affairs Minister for the Czech Republic, Jan Lipavský (second from left), NASA Administrator Bill Nelson (second from right), and Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Jennifer R. Littlejohn (right), via NASA https://ift.tt/BwRfgO6

Hubble Captures Extraordinarily Bright Interacting Galaxies

This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows interacting galaxies known as AM 1214-255. via NASA https://ift.tt/Mp82F96

Neutron Stars Collide

Two neutron stars begin to merge in this illustration, blasting a jet of high-speed particles and producing a cloud of debris. via NASA https://ift.tt/1OHPEZ9

Astronaut Kjell Lindgren

"I think that getting to be a crewmember on the International Space Station, and getting to serve there over the course of two long-duration stays, we really feel like we are bridge-builders." — Kjell Lindgren, Astronaut, NASA's Johnson Space Center via NASA https://ift.tt/nIV8TMK