NASA Scientist Finds Predicted Companion Star to Betelgeuse A century-old hypothesis that Betelgeuse, the 10th brightest star in our night sky, is orbited by a very close companion star was proved true by a team of astrophysicists led by a scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The research published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters in the paper “Probable Direct […] The post NASA Scientist Finds Predicted Companion Star to Betelgeuse first appeared on VibeWire Magazine.

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By Air and by Sea: Validating NASA’s PACE Ocean Color Instrument In autumn 2024, California’s Monterey Bay experienced an outsized phytoplankton bloom that attracted fish, dolphins, whales, seabirds, and – for a few weeks in October – scientists. A team from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, with partners at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and the Naval Postgraduate School, spent two weeks […] The post By Air and by Sea: Validating NASA’s PACE Ocean Color Instrument first appeared on VibeWire Magazine.

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Tuning a NASA Instrument: Calibrating MASTER NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley houses a unique laboratory: the Airborne Sensor Facility (ASF). The engineers at the ASF are responsible for building, maintaining, and operating numerous instruments that get deployed on research aircraft, but one of their most important roles is instrument calibration. Think of calibration like tuning a piano between performances: […] The post Tuning a NASA Instrument: Calibrating MASTER first appeared on VibeWire Magazine.

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Earth Science Showcase – Kids Art Collection On April 16, 2025, the Earth Science Division at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley held an Earth Science Showcase to share its work with the center and their families. As part of this event, kids were invited to share something they like about the Earth. These are their masterpieces. Sora U. Age 9. […] The post Earth Science Showcase – Kids Art Collection first appeared on VibeWire Magazine.

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