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Today, I got to have my first, first-authored, peer-reviewed article published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America! As NASA and partners move into the new era of quiet supersonic flight, we have to make sure our measurements accurately reflect what someone will hear. One important part of that is removing ambient/electronic noise from the recordings so we can focus only on the boom. My paper proposes two new methods for removing this noise and shows that they can work in real-world measurement campaigns. Link to paper: https://lnkd.in/gPy4jHpP Special thanks to the following groups and individuals who made this possible: Kent Gee, Brigham Young University, BYU Physics and Astronomy, NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA Langley Research Center, Acoustical Society of America

Hey STEM teachers! Are you familiar with NASA's Spinoff Website? It provides a collection of resources related to technological advancements and commercial products that were developed as spinoffs to NASA's work, made possible by NASA's Technology Transfer Program. Check out stories about the origin of common and/or really, really advanced, technologies. You can even search for innovations that were developed in your state and community. NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration #STEM #innovation #aerospace #spinoff #girlsinstem #womeninstem #scienceteacher #scienceteachers #engineer #engineering

Economic impact assessment of Earth observation involves Earth observation contribution to improved decision-making, resource management, disaster response, and environmental monitoring, leading to cost savings, enhanced productivity, and new economic opportunities. For instance, satellite data can optimize agricultural practices, forecast weather more accurately, manage water resources efficiently, and mitigate natural disasters, ultimately reducing economic losses. By quantifying these benefits, economic impact assessments help justify investments in Earth observation technologies and highlight their value in supporting sustainable economic growth. If you're interested to showcase your work related to the above, submit an abstract to the session below at AGU 2024 by 31st July. #AGU2024 #EconomicImpactAssessment #EarthObservations #Socioeconomicimpacts #DisasterManagement #WaterSecurity #ClimateResilience #Agricilturalpractices #AirQualityandMonitoring

Know Thy Star 2 focuses on the effects that stars have in limiting our ability to determine planetary masses, orbits, bulk compositions, and atmospheric abundances - and the state of the art knowledge and techniques that have been developed to mitigate the stellar effects. By Knowing thy Star, we can better Know Thy Planet! Important Dates: ■Deadline for in-person registration: 05 January 2025 ■(Optional) Deadline for conference dinner: 05 January 2025 ■Cancellation deadline for registration and/or conference dinner: 05 January 2025 ■Late in-person registration deadline is 31 January 2025. ■Deadline for Online-Only Registration: 31 January 2025. ●Students: We have a limited number of $75-off coupons for students. Please send an email (with "Student Registration Discount" in the subject line) to knowthystar2@ipac.caltech.edu to request a student registration discount before registering. For more information: https://lnkd.in/guEPUpEi NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration IPAC at Caltech

Our team had a blast taking in this week’s eclipse! 🌑☀️ Did you know over 36,000 people helped NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration collect 60,000 pieces of data during the eclipse? Here’s how they did it: 🤳 Smartphone Pictures of Baily’s Beads These photos capturing flashes of sunlight coming through lunar valleys will offer more insight on the precise size and shape of the sun. 📊 NASA Apps To determine how the eclipse effects our atmosphere, volunteers submitted more than 35,000 data points to NASA apps, documenting air temperatures, clouds, and more. 🔭 Specialized Gear Some volunteers used telescopes, DSLR cameras, Ham Radio sets, and other specialized gear to capture data for NASA projects. Their work will help trace plumes and ejections of matter in the solar corona, track waves in the ionosphere, and show how wildlife reacted to the eclipse. Learn more in this article from NASA: https://lnkd.in/eB2MEytA Shoutout to our team members who took the photos in this slideshow: Jericho McLeod, Eliot Voelker, Joe Parson, and Katherine Randall Tharmarajah.

I'm beginning a new passion project I am tentatively calling A Candle in the Dark, which is a reference to The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan. This will be a long-term project aimed at increasing scientific literacy and building public trust in and support for the scientific method as a means for determining truth. This is something I'm going to be working on in my spare time, which is nearly non-existent, so it will be a slow process. I will post my thoughts and insights on this project as I complete the different stages of research, planning, implementation, and evaluation. NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration #Science

📸This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features Arp 72, a galaxy group that includes two interacting galaxies. Both galaxies lie approximately 160 million light-years from Earth, and their cores are separated from each other by a distance of around 67 thousand light-years. 🌌 Moreover, the distance between the galaxies at their closest points is even smaller, closer to 40 thousand light-years. Whilst this might still sound vast, in galactic separation terms it is really very cosy! 👉https://lnkd.in/e4ijE_aH Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Galbany, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA ESA Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

🌘 As the world prepares for the upcoming solar eclipse, dive into the enchanting pages of "A Few Beautiful Minutes" by Kate Allen Fox (Author) and Khoa Le (Illustrator). 📚   🌟 Celebrate the wonder of the universe and inspire young minds to explore the magic of solar eclipses!   This captivating book encourages young readers to (safely) discover each stage of a solar eclipse, offering a beautiful journey that connects us to the cosmos. ✨   Educators, gear up for an unforgettable learning experience with "A Few Beautiful Minutes." Let's inspire curiosity and wonder in the classroom! To learn more about the upcoming eclipse, please visit NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration website. #solareclise #CurriculumBooks #EducatorResources #EducationalBooks

L&H Industrial, Inc. - One small step for Man. One giant leap for Infor ERP Back in 1999: - Infor ERP was chosen by L&H Industrial to streamline and schedule their complex equipment manufacturing processes. - L&H’s use of Infor played a pivotal role in building the Crawler, the vehicle that transported the Space Shuttle from the Kennedy Space Center hangar to the launch pad.   Today: - L&H Industrial is upgrading that monster machine to the Crawler Transporter 2, essential for #NASA's Artemis project, marking the return to the moon and paving the way for the first manned mission to Mars. And still uses Infor for streamlining and scheduling their now 8 facilities across North and South America.   Infor ERP continues to provide L&H unparalleled scheduling operations across multiple custom manufacturing shops.   No other ERP can claim the same. No other ERP on Earth, (or even on the Moon, or on Mars.)   We are Essential! #ERP #Manufacturing #SpaceManufacturing #Infor

M82 is a local galaxy, meaning that it’s relatively nearby and therefore representative of today’s population (because the further we look out into space, the further back in time we look). The rate that stars are forming in this galaxy is high for its total stellar mass compared to others like the Milky Way for example, and so we call it a “starburst” galaxy. ✨ Interestingly, M82 is a galaxy that I discuss in my new, soon-to-be submitted paper. In this work, I have been studying the conditions of the interstellar medium (ISM) in a population of dusty, highly star-forming galaxies, as seen as they were 8.8 billion years ago (high redshift), when the Universe was only 12% of its present age. We observe the submillimetre wavelength light from these galaxies because they are so dusty, so we call them submillimetre galaxies (SMGs). At this wavelength, we can also observe the molecular gas in the galaxies, which is what collapses to form stars. There is evidence that the high rates of star formation are triggered by different mechanisms in local galaxies compared to high redshift galaxies. 💡For now, I can say that it seems M82 in particular has more intense conditions — such as temperature and density — of the ISM than SMGs.