A total solar eclipse seen against a black sky. The next one reaches the United States on April 8, 2024.New NASA astronaut Andre Douglas used to study the sun's behavior for a living.
Artist's impression of the parts of the heliosphere, or the region of influence of Earth's sun. Shown also are the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft from NASA, which are now in interstellar space and perform heliospheric studies on their extended missions.While Douglas' work won't fly on IMAP, he did write some of the software for another spectacular NASA venture called DART ormoonlet in 2022.
Christopher Williams, an astrophysicist and medical physicist before he joined NASA, said he's excited about the solar eclipse because it will give us unique views of the. Using the Very Large Array to study these supernovas"was an awesome experience" that forged the long path that eventually brought Williams to NASA, he explained. His love of radio astronomy next allowed him to join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he shifted his focus to cosmology or the universe's history., which uses more than 4,000 individual antennas spreading their view across a wide swath of sky.