Astrophysics Branch
Marshall Space Flight Center's Astrophysics Branch uses space and ground-based observatories to peer back to the earliest epochs of the universe, unravel its mysteries, and study the most violent explosions in our galaxy and beyond. Our goal is to help discover how the universe works, explore how it began and evolved, and search for life on planets around other stars.
A Chandra issued image, “Huge Rings Around a Black Hole”, was featured as NASA’s Image of the Day on 6/2/22. This image features a spectacular set of rings around a black hole, captured using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels …
The NASA Science Mission Directorate conducts comparative reviews of operating missions within each division to maximize the scientific return from these missions within finite resources. NASA uses the findings from the Senior Reviews to define an implementation strategy and give …
The most recent Chandra image release, “Colossal Collisions Linked to Solar System Science” was issued on 6/7/22, and featured as NASA’s Image of the Day on 6/9/22. A shock wave about 1.6 million light years long is stretching along the …
Chandra: Abell 2146: Colossal Collisions Linked to Solar System Science Read More »
The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) Project was given general notice on 6/10/22, that the 2022 Senior Review Panel had conveyed a highly favorable review of Fermi. The Fermi mission has been approved for another period of extended operations and …
Senior Review Approves Fermi Mission Continuance Read More »
Colleen Wilson-Hodge (ST12) was interviewed about her long-term role in developing the STROBE-X probe concept, which ties back to SPIE meetings and earlier mission concepts. The Spectroscopic Time-Resolved Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X) is an X-ray probe concept for …
Strobe-X Article Published in SPIE Photonics Focus Read More »