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The Planetary Science Institute is bringing back the CosmoAcademy program! Sign-up today to get a small class experience that makes sitting online feel more like sitting around a shared table. Programs start March 20.
- Mars 101: How to live on Mars (and not die)
with Dr Nick Castle, Saturdays March 20 – Apr 24, 3pm – 4:30pm EDT - Streaming 101: Intro to OBS for streaming & virtual cameras
with Dr Pamela Gay Saturday Apr 3, 11am-2:30pm EDT - Video 101a: Recording & Editing Better Presentations
with Dr Pamela Gay Saturday Apr 3, 11am-2:30pm EDT
Other Future Events
- July 16-18, 2021
CosmoQuest-a-Con
A celebration at the Intersection of Space and Creativity - October 23-24
Hangout-a-thon
(Tentative)
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We have a diverse community of folks here to talk science, write code, and just share memes and play games. Join the conversation on Discord and find a Geeky community welcoming to all. Want to do more? Join our opensource community on Github and be part of creating tomorrow’s citizen science.
Citizen Science
CosmoQuest invites you to help NASA scientists make maps of scientifically interesting features in our Solar System. You can map craters on the Moon, and trace the splatter of asteroid impacts on Vesta. All these worlds are yours to explore!
Currently we’re rebuilding all our citizen science projects with a new interface. We’ll get you sciencing again as soon as we can.
If it takes a village to raise a child, it will take a global-community to understand the universe.
We are part of that community. You are part of it with us.
Blog
What’s Up: Full Snow Moon on February 26
What’s Up: The full Moon is taking over the sky this weekend, so here’s how to photograph it and break the illusion of its size.
What Killed the Dinosaurs? An Asteroid or a Comet?
Two papers examine if the object that impacted the Earth, created the Chicxulub crater, and wiped out the dinosaurs was a comet or an asteroid.
Neutron Star in SN1987A May Have Been Found
Using the ALMA telescope, scientists have found potential evidence of the as-yet-undiscovered neutron star at the center of supernova 1987A.
News Roundup: Mars, Venus, Moon Rocks, and Galaxies
A quick roundup of images from Mars and Venus, plus a new study of Moon rocks, and cold gas forming early galaxies.
Random Space Fact: Gamma Cassiopeiae Named by Gus Grissom
Your random space fact of the week comes community member UncWilly who told us about a visible star in Cassiopeia that had no traditional Arabic or Latin name until the mid-twentieth century.
This Week in Rocket History: Friendship 7
On February 20, 1962, John Glenn was launched into space from Cape Canaveral in the Friendship 7Mercury capsule, sitting on top of an Atlas LV-3B launch vehicle.
Cygnus NG-15 Resupply Mission Lifts Off From Wallops
The Cygnus NG-15 spacecraft was launched on February 20 at 17:36 UTC aboard a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket from the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island in Virginia.
Another 60 Starlink Satellites in Orbit, Booster Lost
On February 16 at 03:59 UTC, SpaceX’s Booster 1059 made its sixth flight from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with another sixty Starlink satellites onboard.
Roscosmos Launches Progress MS-16 Resupply Mission to ISS
Progress MS-16 is an ISS resupply mission that launched on February 15 at 04:45 UTC from Site 31-6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.