Here is a summary of what we went over in our first meeting!
Are you interested in hands-on education experience at NASA? Apply for NCAS on February 19th! NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) gives community college STEM students an authentic NASA experience and encourages them to finish a 2-year degree or transfer to a 4-year university to pursue a NASA-related field or career. For more info, watch the video below (1:16):
You can apply for a session in Fall of this year or in Spring of 2021. Here are some important dates to keep in mind!
I strongly encourage you all to apply! :)
In recent news, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has been decommissioned after sixteen years of exploring the sky infrared light. The Spitzer Space Telescope is NASA’s final telescope in their Great Observatories Program. The Program includes 4 telescopes that observe different light from each other. These include the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and the visible light Hubble Space Telescope.
For more information about Spitzer, its images, and its discoveries, visit its webpage or watch this video(6:39):
In addition, here are some images Spitzer captured of our night sky:
In other news, these first images from the DKIST( 4-meter solar ground-based telescope in Hawaii) show a close-up view of the sun’s surface, notably a pattern of turbulent “boiling” plasma that covers the entire star. The cell-like structures are violent motions that transport heat from the inside of the sun to its surface. The hot solar plasma rises in the bright centers of these cells, cools off, then sinks below the surface in dark lanes in a process known as convection.
