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In her latest blog, Higher Orbits Stellar Student Eva Estrada shares her thoughts and excitement ahead of the @astrosociety 2026 Von Braun Space Exploration Symposium.
🌠 Read Eva’s blog and follow her journey:
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The universe has a musical side. 🎶
Meet the Treble Clef, an unusual radio structure stretching more than 2 million light-years across space. Its shape is striking, but the science behind it is even more fascinating.
Studying structures like this can reveal how galaxy clusters interact and evolve. In this composite, radio emission appears in red, X-rays in blue, and infrared data in white: go.nasa.gov/3WCV89U
ALT Composite image of the Treble Clef, a giant radio structure in space. Bright pink filaments resembling a musical treble clef stretch through a diffuse blue cloud, surrounded by scattered stars against a black background.
As we get ready for the @astrosociety Von Braun Space Exploration Symposium, we’re excited to share Tori’s Thoughts with the Higher Orbits community about her journey & the upcoming conference.
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It's the final countdown 🎶
We're one step closer to Roman's first images! The observatory is now fully functional and the team is performing their final checks and calibrations before starting science observations.
go.nasa.gov/4A9menV
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I launched into space for the first time #OTD in 1995 as part of STS-73. There is nothing quite like the energy and anticipation of your first spaceflight!
Just over 2 weeks until Go For Launch! lands in Albuquerque! Don't miss your chance to work with @Astro_Box, earn #SpaceSwag, & compete to have YOUR ideas sent to space!
REGISTER TODAY!
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We’re 3 for 3 in orbit this October. This time, it’s space drugs. W-7 carries pharmaceutical hardware and a promising new type of cancer medicine known as a protein degrader. Microgravity will help overcome one of its biggest limitations: poor solubility.
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The 2026 Orionid meteor shower peaks on the night between October 21 and October 22! Here's how to watch ☄️
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It's #MissionPatchMonday and #NationalKentuckyDay so we thought we'd celebrate both! We wanted to share with you the out of this world patch created by our cosmic colleagues at @Space_tango to represent all the experiments they worked with on CRS-27!
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NEW MEXICO!!! Higher Orbits is bringing Go For Launch! back to Albuquerque in November at @newspace_nexus
Students in grades 8-12 JOIN US! Work with an @Astro_Box! Compete to have YOUR ideas launched to space!
Register today - higherorbits.org/events/go-f…
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It'a #NationalMulliganDay and we have some out of this world mulligans at our Galactic Golf Outing! You don't want to miss it... so save the date!
The 2027 Galactic Golf Outing will be held May 11th at The Glen Club!
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Announcing the 2026 Higher Orbits Stars in Orbit cohort!!
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2026.
Roman continues its journey in space to its final orbit, completing critical milestones along the way. We expect first images by early 2027.
go.nasa.gov/4yQuwkb
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Midland students are taking their ideas to space!🚀 Five MISD students who participated in the past Higher Orbits Go for Launch! Midland series will prepare experiments for the International Space Station, with launch planned in late 2027.
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Last week we had the privilege of working with the stellar students of Midland, TX for our 14th Go For Launch! in their cosmic community.
From team challenges to experiment design work, the students showed that they all have The Right Stuff!
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It's #MissionPatchMonday Check out a few of the student designed team mission patches from last week's #GoForLaunch Midland event
Such cosmic creativity!
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Go For Launch! lands in Albuquerque next month at the @newspace_nexus LaunchPad! Sponsorships available! Message us for more information. Support the next generation of STEMists & Explorers... YOUR future workforce!
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Our @DoADoubleGood Popcorn fundraiser is in the last 24 hours for @WorldSpaceWeek!
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#NASAWebb has pinpointed the host galaxy of the most distant fast radio burst ever seen. The galaxy proved surprisingly small and young, which provides a clue to the source of the burst: news.stsci.edu/4hEmZip 🔭
ALT A field full of small galaxies of all shapes against the blackness of space. A few bright white stars show 8 prominent diffraction spikes. A small galaxy at lower right is highlighted with a white box. A shaded triangle extends upward to the corners of a larger box showing a zoom in of the region. Two fuzzy, light blue blobs are at center of the box, with a larger and brighter one at top. Just above the top blob is a white crosshair showing the location where a fast radio burst was detected.