Samantha Hill

Wisconsin

Editorial Assistant at Astronomy Magazine

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Articles

A dark, dusty pillar stretches across re-released Hubble image

6 days ago | astronomy.com | Samantha Hill

Looking like a bird ready to take flight from atop a post, this dusty filament within the Eagle Nebula was recently captured in intricate detail by the Hubble Space Telescope. Also known as M16, this nebula lies some 7,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens the Serpent and surrounds an open star cluster. This pillar of cold gas and dust stretches 9.5 light-years long and is composed of cold hydrogen gas, which serves as material to create new stars.
NASA faced with massive budget cuts in White House proposal

1 week ago | astronomy.com | Samantha Hill

NASA could see a 20 percent cut to its overall 2026 budget, with funding for its science division slashed in half, if a preliminary budget proposal from the White House is enacted. The cuts would, among other impacts, cancel several missions and shut down NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The proposed cuts were laid out in an internal document called a passback, sent from the White House Office of Management and Budget to NASA on Thursday.
Martian moon caught on camera during Hera flyby

1 month ago | astronomy.com | Samantha Hill

Hera, European Space Agency’s (ESA) flagship planetary defense mission that launched in October 2024, took images of Mars and Deimos, one of its two moons, yesterday. The mission’s flyby was used as a gravity assist to its final destination at the binary asteroid system Dimorphos and Didymos. The mission also used this journey past Mars as an opportunity to test some of its scientific equipment. Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons.
Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 Moon lander is lying dead in a crater

1 month ago | astronomy.com | Samantha Hill

Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission has ended after its lunar lander, Athena, came to rest on its side yesterday, the company announced. In a statement released this morning, the company said its batteries had run out and they did not expect the lander’s solar panels to be able to recharge the craft.
IM-2 lands on the Moon but status is uncertain

1 month ago | astronomy.com | Samantha Hill

After a successful launch last week aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission landed on the Moon on March 6 shortly after 11:30 a.m. EST. The craft is transmitting back to its control center and able to collect some level of solar power. However, its landing orientation and the status of other aspects of the mission remain unclear.
The growing odds of space junk hitting a plane

1 month ago | astronomy.com | Samantha Hill

In November 2022, a Chinese Long March 5B rocket reentered the atmosphere with no ability to control where it fell. As a precaution, France, Spain, and Monaco closed some of their airspace along the booster’s possible path. As it happened, the rocket reentered over the Pacific Ocean, not Europe. But the airspace closures still resulted in 645 planes being delayed by an average of nearly half an hour.
Boosting self-esteem: A guide for women

2 months ago | counselling-directory.org.uk | Samantha Hill

Low self-confidence I see many women in my private practice who are struggling with anxiety, low mood and low confidence. When we begin to explore and dig a little deeper, we see that the feelings of anxiety often stem from low self-esteem. How we can work with low self-esteemThough closely related, there is a difference between self-esteem and confidence. Confidence comes from the Latin word fidere which means to trust.
NASA releases new infrared images from retired NEOWISE mission

Dec 6, 2024 | astronomy.com | Samantha Hill

Although it completed its mission in July, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) still has interesting archival data covering the solar system thanks to the team at the Infrared Processing & Analysis Center (IPAC) at Caltech. After the spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere in November, IPAC completed a final data release of NEOWISE. This totaled more than 26 million images, which included its 21 complete sky surveys.
Under a Spell Everlasting

Dec 2, 2024 | theamericanscholar.org | Samantha Hill

There is only one way to reach the Berghotel Schatzalp, in Davos-Platz in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. You must switch trains at Landquart, a small municipality in the Alps, where you stand on an open-air platform in the wind without even the consolation of a view. From there, the train follows the Landquart River, leaving behind the villages and castles nestled in the valley, before beginning to ascend 3,907 feet up into the mountains, squeezing between sheets of rock and forest.
Winter 2025 - The American Scholar

Dec 2, 2024 | theamericanscholar.org | Samantha Hill |Jonathan A. Liebson |Megan Craig |Jonathan Weiner

Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil