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“Here’s some of the stories trending This
Week at NASA!”

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New NASA astrophysics findings highlighted
at the 227th American Astronomical Society

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meeting, Jan. 4-8 in Kissimmee, Florida included
the detection of some extremely fast moving

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stars by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.

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The so-called runaway stars, which create
bow shocks ahead of themselves, may have been

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put into motion by the explosion of other
stars.

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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has seen
one of the nearest supermassive black holes

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to Earth expelling gas, or burping.

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The black hole is part of a galaxy about 26
million light years away that is merging with

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a larger galaxy.

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Astronomers believe the interaction between
the two galaxies is causing the black hole’s

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outbursts of gas.

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And NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope
Array, or NuSTAR, has captured the best high-energy

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X-ray view yet of a portion of Andromeda – Earth’s
nearest large, neighboring galaxy.

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The "X-ray binaries" observed by NuSTAR will
help researchers better understand their role

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in the evolution of our universe.

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During a Jan. 7 news conference at the Johnson
Space Center in Houston, the Expedition 47/48

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crew, featuring NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams,
discussed its upcoming mission to the International

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Space Station.

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Williams, who will serve as Commander of Expedition
48, is serving on his third long-duration

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mission to the space station.

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He, and Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin
and Oleg Skripochka, will launch to the station

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on March 18 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan.

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Green-related technologies developed and refined
over the past six-years through a NASA aeronautics

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research program could mean future savings
for the airline industry – while also helping

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to “save” the environment.

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The new technologies, developed through NASA’s
Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA)

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project, could significantly reduce fuel use,
pollution and noise – and help the industry

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realize over $250 billion in operational savings
between 2025 and 2050.

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A new three-year NASA field expedition gets
underway this year that will use advanced

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instruments on airplanes and in the water
to survey more of the world’s coral reefs

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in far greater detail than has ever been assessed
before.

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The COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL)
will measure the condition of these threatened

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ecosystems and create a unique database of
uniform scale and quality.

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During a Jan. 6 visit to Goddard Space Flight
Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Senator Barbara

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Mikulski talked with Director Chris Scolese
and the Goddard workforce about some of the

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programs being developed at the Center.

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2016 will be a busy year for Goddard – with
involvement in several launches as well as

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testing of technologies and operational procedures
to support NASA’s science and exploration

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missions – including the Journey to Mars.

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And that’s what’s up this week @NASA …