Research by Lily Wang, associate professor of architectural engineering, was featured Oct. 18 on ScienceDaily. Funded by NASA, Wang’s work with graduate student Christopher Ainley explored how noise bursts affect the performance and perceptions of test subjects. The UNL team worked to “find a threshold value under which the noise would not significantly affect” the […]

Astronaut and U.S. Navy Capt. Mark Kelly, who flew four missions aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, including one as commander on its last mission, will reveal insights from the remarkable journeys he has made in his career and personal life when he speaks Jan. 23 at UNL. His appearance is part of the Peter J. Hoagland […]

Mueller Planetarium is featuring a tribute to NASA’s space shuttle program. The tribute shows with “Dawn of the Space Age,” 7 p.m., Thursdays and 3 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays. “Dawn of the Space Age” traces the history of space exploration. For more information, go to www.museum.unl.edu.

A team of UNL engineering students will travel to Houston’s Johnson Space Center to conduct research for NASA that will have them floating on board reduced gravity missions, March 31 through April 9. The team was chosen in December to participate in NASA’s 2011 Microgravity University. According to NASA, the program engages selected college and […]

Composite image from three telescopes is part of International Year of Astronomy celebration Two new mural-sized images are taking University of Nebraska State Museum visitors on a journey to the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The photographs, unveiled during a Nov. 15 ceremony in the museum’s Mueller Planetarium lobby, commemorate the 2009 International Year […]

Great Observatories explore Milky Way’s ‘heart of darkness’ The Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory are NASA’s premiere space astronomy missions, known collectively as the Great Observatories. In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, the three telescopes have collaborated to produce the unprecedented image of the central region of […]

Since the beginning of time, people have been entranced by the night sky and by our nearest planetary neighbor – Mars. From the early missions to Mars (Viking in 1975 and Pathfinder in 1996-97) through the more recent missions, Mars has been – and is – a challenging destination. Nagin Cox of NASA’s Jet Propulsion […]

Mueller Planetarium’s new fulldome show will be a “big hit” – for science. The planetarium is featuring “Flight to the Moon,” a show exploring NASA’s LCROSS mission. The purpose of the mission is to search for the presence of water on the moon by essentially taking a two-part sledgehammer to the moon’s surface. “Flight,” along […]

Two teams from the College of Engineering conducted experiments at NASA’s Microgravity University in the spring. Both projects involved students in a series of parabolic reduced-gravity flights that depart from Ellington Field in Houston, Texas, and reach 35,000 feet above the Earth’s surface.

It’s a scene straight out of a Jerry Bruckheimer film – a monster asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, and unless it’s stopped, it will hit with a 500-megaton blast and spawn a series of disasters. Fires will rage across continents. Thick dust will launch into the atmosphere and blot out the sun. […]