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SPHEREx, an anagram for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, will create a map of the cosmos like no other. Using a technique called spectroscopy to image the entire sky in 102 wavelengths of infrared light, SPHEREx will gather information about the composition of and distance to millions of galaxies and stars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/BAE Systems
May 2025 INSIGHT Now Available

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Podcast Episode 154: NASA’s Air Traffic Management-eXploration Project

NASA’s Air Traffic Management-eXploration Project aims to accommodate the growing demand of traditional and emerging aircraft that share the friendly skies. 

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These dark streaks, also known as "slope streaks," are in an area of Mars known as Acheron Fossae. The source of these features is a topic of a recent machine learning research project. Credit: NASA
New Study Uses AI to Examine Dark Streaks on Mars

Researchers cross-check curious features with temperature, geological features, and wind speed data to check key theory. 

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An artist's concept of NASA's Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA
Parker Solar Probe Making Closest Passes to the Sun

Team wins prestigious award for mission that has rewritten scientific understanding of solar processes. 

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Podcast graphic showing the name of the podcast and the episode title in white text. The text says #153: The Universe in Living Color with SPHEREx. Credit: NASA
Podcast Episode 153: The Universe in Living Color with SPHEREx

NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory will use 102 color filters to collect data on more than 450 million galaxies along with more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way in order to explore the origins of the universe. It will also study the abundance of water ice and organic molecules throughout the galaxy.

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This photograph of Skylab, taken by the final crew to live and work there, shows the parasol sunshade that was deployed by the first crew to protect the orbiting workshop from the Sun and lower the internal temperature. Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: Skylab Takes Shape

Debates about what would follow the Moon landing lead to the development of NASA’s first space station.

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April 2025 INSIGHT Now Available

Don’t miss the latest issue of INSIGHT, APPEL Knowledge Services’ online publication featuring our new podcast episodes, columns, articles, lessons learned and more. We invite you to read it today on our website.

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Podcast episode graphic showing the title of the podcast on the left third of the image. The rest of the graphic is an illustration of the EZIE mission, showing one of the three suitcase-sized satellites orbiting above Earth's green aurorae.
Podcast Episode 152: EZIE Does It

What can the auroras tell us about our planet’s relationship with the Sun? NASA’s EZIE mission looks into it. 

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The asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI) on NASA’s Lucy spacecraft during its flyby on April 20, 2025. The spacecraft’s closest approach distance was 600 miles. The image has been sharpened and processed to enhance contrast. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab
NASA Spacecraft Takes Images of Asteroid

50 years after Donald Johanson makes pivotal discovery of Lucy skeleton, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft studies Donaldjohanson.

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