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Stars are sometimes born in the midst of chaos. About 3 million years ago in the nearby galaxy M33, a large cloud of gas spawned dense internal knots which gravitationally collapsed to form stars. NGC 604 was so large, however, it could form enough stars to make a globular cluster.
Academy Brief: Embraer Benchmarking with NASA
December 20, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 12 How does knowledge work happen in an organization?

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BLAST project team with their payload at McMurdo Station in Antarctica.
View from Above: BLAST! the movie
December 20, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 12 How often do you need to wear sunglasses to do physics?

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Toward a History of the Space Shuttle
Academy Bookshelf: A History of the Space Shuttle, Part Deux
December 20, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 12 A new NASA History Office publication offers an annotated history of the Space Shuttle Programs final 20 years.

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Advanced Turboprop Project
This Month in NASA History: Advanced Turboprop Project
December 20, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 12 Twenty-five years ago, an old technology project earned Lewis Research Center the Collier Trophy.

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CKO Corner: SSC’s John Stealey
Knowledge Community Corner: SSC’s John Stealey
December 20, 2012 // by

Ask the Academy Vol. 5, Issue 12 John Stealey shares his insights about knowledge management at Stennis Space Center.

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The Sun erupted with two prominence eruptions, one after the other over a four-hour period on Nov. 16, 2012. The action was captured in the 304 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. It seems possible that the disruption to the Sun’s magnetic field might have triggered the second event since they were in relatively close proximity to each other. The expanding particle clouds heading into space do not appear to be Earth-directed.
Message from the Director: The Half-Life of Knowledge
November 29, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 11 Unlike physical elements, it is hard to guess the half-life of knowledge in advance.

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Langley CKO Manjula Ambur
CKO Corner: LaRC’s Manjula Ambur
November 29, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 11 Langley Research Center’s Manjula Ambur shares her insights about knowledge management at her center.

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Called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, the photo was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The XDF is a small fraction of the angular diameter of the full moon. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is an image of a small area of space in the constellation Fornax, created using Hubble Space Telescope data from 2003 and 2004. The new full-color XDF image is even more sensitive, and contains about 5,500 galaxies even within its smaller field of view. The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see.
Academy Brief: New Online APPEL Courses Now Available
November 29, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 11 Two of APPEL’s most popular courses are now available to NASA employees online.

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Project personnel inspect damage following a NASA scientific balloon launch mishap on April 28 at the Alice Springs Balloon Launching Center, near Alice Springs, Australia.
Knowledge Brief: Balloon Mishap in the Outback
November 29, 2012 // by

Vol. 5, Issue 11 A 2010 balloon mishap serves as a valuable case study.

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