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Nasa

Parker Solar Probe

Behind howls of solar wind, quiet chirps reveal its origins

Published Jan 15, 2020

Small chirps, squeaks, and rustles recorded by the Parker Solar Probe hint at the origin of mysterious solar wind

Composite image shows candy cane structure

Astronomy

New image reveals cosmic 'candy cane'

Published Dec 18, 2019

Johns Hopkins scientist stitches together wavelength data to create composite image of the center of the Milky Way galaxy

Picture perfect

How APL helped the world see the first man on the moon

Published July 19, 2019

As a young engineer at APL, Gary Whitworth played a pivotal role in improving the broadcast image of Neil Arstrong's first steps on the moon

Artist's rendering of Dragonfly rotorcraft in a hilly dune

Outer space

Destination: Titan

Published June 27, 2019

NASA will send 'cutting-edge' APL-led mission to study Saturn's large, exotic moon

Mark Shelhamer in the zero-gravity rocket

As NASA prepares to send humans back to the moon and beyond, Mark Shelhamer and fellow Hopkins scientists want to ensure that future space travelers survive and thrive out there / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Feinberg and Rizzardi aboard the Vomit Comet

Study looks at how astronaut's body changed in space

Published April 11, 2019

JHU's Andrew Feinberg finds that after year-long NASA mission to the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly had no lingering, major epigenetic differences from his earthbound twin, Mark