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26-02-2025
- Science
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Mapping the universe and space weather; 2 NASA satellites launch on big science mission
SPACE (KXAN) — NASA is creating a map of the universe. On Friday, two satellites will launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket: SPHEREx and PUNCH. The pair will help us create a panoramic map of the universe and monitor space weather. 'We started to work on SPHEREx twelve years ago. So it's a long time,' said Dr. Olivier Dore, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. SPHEREx, a.k.a the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, is designed to take a panoramic map of the stars. It captures images in 102 colors, allowing it to get an image in greater detail than previous satellites. 'We do that to get new insight about the origin of the universe, the new insight about origin of galaxies, and also new insight about the origin of life,' Dore said. Finding one of the key building blocks of life is key to SPHEREx's mission. That block: water. 'People might not appreciate the fact that water we have on Earth come from space. So it was acquitted by space, mostly through bombardment of asteroids and comets,' Dore said. SPHEREx will help track this water down. It will scan young solar systems and search for ice, the form water takes in space. It will measure this ice content to generate a universal water cycle. Unlike the James Webb Space Telescope, which can observe the distant corner of the universe in great detail, SPHEREx is designed to take a grand look at the night sky. 'It has less details, less sensitivity, but it has this big picture ability,' Dore said. SPHEREx will perform four mappings over its two-year mission. Each mapping takes six months. The other mission launching on Friday is called PUNCH, a.k.a. the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere. This satellite, made up of four smaller satellites, has the ability to observe our sun. 'PUNCH makes artificial eclipses all the time so that we can see that Corona as it turns into the solar wind and fills our solar system with material,' said Dr. Nicholeen Viall, a PUNCH mission scientist, in an interview released by NASA. By creating this artificial eclipse, the satellite can absorb solar winds in greater detail. This will give us a better understanding of space weather. Solar winds can impact electronics on Earth. They can also impact our magnetosphere, the magnetic barrier around the planet, and pose safety risks to astronauts. This year it is especially important to monitor the sun. Solar activity works in cycles and is currently near one of those peaks. PUNCH will help us monitor this activity more accurately. 'We'll be able to tell if they're coming towards the Earth or going away from the Earth or in some other direction in the solar system,' Viall said. According to Viall, these two missions will give us a better understanding of the 'big picture' of the universe. 'SPHEREx is exploring the big picture of the cosmos, and PUNCH is exploring the big picture of the sun and how it fills our solar system,' she said. SPHEREx and PUNCH will launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on Friday, February 28. The launch window begins at 9:09 p.m. CST. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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29-01-2025
- Entertainment
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Nick Viall's Wife Reveals 'Heartbreaking' Family Update During Podcast Recording
Nick Viall's wife, Natalie Joy, is opening up about the loss of the couple's second child. The surgical technologist, who already shares 11-month-old daughter River Rose with the former Bachelor star, recently suffered a miscarriage while pregnant with their second baby. The couple used their podcast, The Viall Files, to share the "traumatic" and "personal" situation with their fans. 🎬 🎬 The two gathered together in their podcast studio without the other members of their team who are usually present, acknowledging that there's "no right way" to handle the story. Joy quickly broke down in tears as she described how hard it's been for her to continue going about life as normal, putting on a happy face for her toddler and continuing to record the podcast, for example, even though she was "actively miscarrying" while filming. The 26-year-old was 'spot bleeding for a while' with this pregnancy, something she didn't experience the first time around. Though spotting can be normal, she felt like she knew what was happening "from the jump." Sadly, it got "heavier and heavier." 'Just experiencing that is something I wouldn't wish upon anyone," she said candidly. "I just feel for these people so much because I was so mad at my body for letting it go,' calling it "the biggest my life." Joy also looked back on "feel[ing] sad" and wanting to "be there" for her friends and family members who have suffered miscarriages in the past, "but you don't really know the loss that they feel until you go through it yourself." Viall admitted that it was "a little different" for him, seeing as his wife was the one actually carrying, feeling, and hearing the baby, but they both knew it would "take a long time to heal." Joy expressed fear that as time goes on she might "forget" about the baby. 'I feel dead inside," she described, apologizing to her husband for not being able to be strong in front of him the way she is in front of their daughter. "I have this overwhelming guilt...I'm sad that the only version you get right now is this broken person,' she said. She expressed gratitude for Viall's support, noting, 'It was the worst experience I've been through but you made it as easy as it could have been to go through." 'You did everything right, which I feel is impossible to do in those situations," she told him. "Yet, you managed and you still continue to.' Next:
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29-01-2025
- Entertainment
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Natalie Joy Shares She's 'Actively Miscarrying' Her Second Baby with Husband Nick Viall: 'Biggest Heartbreak of My Life'
Natalie Joy and Nick Viall are opening up about a devastating loss. On a Wednesday, Jan. 29 episode of the podcast The Viall Files, which Joy and Viall cohost, the couple shared that Joy is actively experiencing a miscarriage. Joy and Viall, who are also parents to 11-month-old daughter River Rose, explained they recently found out they were pregnant with their second baby before the miscarriage. "I've been trying to be a good mom to River and come and do my job, whether it's on the podcast or on social media for the past week," Joy begins. "And currently, as I sit here today, I'm actively miscarrying our second child, and it has been the biggest heartbreak, I think, of my life." "I've never experienced something where I feel so empty inside," she continues. "My sister has had 12 miscarriages, and it's like you feel sad and you wanna be there for these people, but you don't really know the loss that they feel until you go through it yourself." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Related: Nick Viall and Natalie Joy Share Plane Selfies with Baby Daughter River as They Head Out on Their Honeymoon Sharing that although he feels like almost everyone has been touched by miscarriage, Viall says that he didn't know how to react when he heard the news. "I mean, especially for everyone involved except for the mother, even as a father, connecting with your unborn child is a process," Viall admits. "And I think especially Natalie's desire, and correct me if I'm wrong to share this, is just to express what it feels like, especially for all the women out there and all the moms and all the women who desire to be a mom, especially those who have had a challenge conceiving." Continuing, Viall explains that he thinks "every experience you have until you experience something, it's harder to empathize. And once you can, you sometimes feel a bit of guilt for not empathizing the way you feel like you should have now that it's happened to you." Joy says that although it will take her some time to heal from the pain of the miscarriage, she hopes that discussing her experience will show other people that they aren't alone. "I want River to be able to watch this back and see her parents' love for her sibling that could have been here," she says. "I just feel dead inside. And it sucks because I have to be so alive for River. You know? I have to be silly and goofy and funny and play with her" "And then I have this overwhelming guilt that when I'm with you, I can't also do that," Joy continues. "I'm sad that the only version of me you get right now is this broken person, and I'm sorry for that." She goes on to say that she's feeling "so tired" all the time and exhausted from "performing" and putting on a brave face to get through the pain. "It's also just a really confusing state, I think, for anyone who's going through this, you question everything," Joy continues. "I look at myself and I'm like, 'I just had a successful, non-complicated pregnancy and birth, and I'm 26 years old. And like, why? Why me? Why did this happen to me?'" Joy says she had been "spot bleeding" for a while and reached out to her sister for advice after thinking it might be a miscarriage. "I think I knew from the jump," she admits. "But I didn't wanna accept that. And then it just got heavier and heavier. I'm just so thankful that we were home and not traveling and not in a hotel or on an airplane, but we got home and I went to go pee. And it was like I gave birth." She says she began screaming and crying, which prompted Viall to come into the bathroom. "And you know, you just think like, 'How are you supposed to stand up and flush this baby down the toilet? Like how do you do that?' " Joy asks, sharing that she was unable to flush the toilet. Viall shares that after he discovered what happened, he took Joy out of the bathroom and went in by himself, recalling the "traumatic" experience of being able to "retrieve" what was in the toilet. "That was definitely the hardest night of my life," Joy says. "Just experiencing that is something I wouldn't wish upon anyone. And unfortunately, I know a lot of women do experience it, and I just feel for these people so much because I was so mad at my body for letting it go. You know? I was like, 'Why couldn't you just hold on to it?'" Eventually, Joy spoke with her doctor, who told her that the pregnancy would've been "unviable" outside of her body, which allowed her to start to heal. "I think it's the only thing that you have to hold on to to be able to heal, you know, is to have the doctors assuring you of like, this baby wasn't gonna live regardless," she says. "Our doctor being able to say it was unviable. It wasn't going to live outside of your body, it gives you some hope of like, okay." "Well, at least like, I don't know. If you focus on the scientific part, I think that's what gets you through it, which is incredibly hard to do." Read the original article on People
