This fulldome view of the Very Large Telescope (VLT), at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, shows almost all of the telescope’s constituent units in one family photograph!
ESO's VLT comprises four large 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes (UTs), all of which can be seen here and are recognised by their boxy appearance, and four 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs), two of which are seen here flanking their bigger relatives (both with their rounded domes open). Alongside their standard designations—UT1, UT2, and so on—each of the four giant UTs has its own name in the local Chilean Mapuche language: Antu (The Sun), Kueyen (The Moon), Melipal (The Southern Cross), and Yepun (Venus).
The yellow laser streaking up into the night sky, launched by one of the UTs, creates an artificial star high in the atmosphere, fittingly known as a Laser Guide Star (LGS). This ‘star’ is part of the telescope’s adaptive optics system, which allows astronomers to compensate for the effects of atmospheric turbulence and achieve far clearer images.
The image was created by ESO Photo Ambassador Petr Horálek, and is a puzzle made up of numerous different pictures stitched together to form this high resolution panorama.
Credit: P. Horálek/ESO
Release Date: August 13, 2018
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Monday, August 13, 2018
Galactic treasure chest | Hubble
Galaxies abound in this spectacular Hubble image; spiral arms swirl in all colors and orientations, and fuzzy ellipticals can be seen speckled across the frame as softly glowing smudges on the sky. Each visible speck of a galaxy is home to countless stars. A few stars closer to home shine brightly in the foreground, while a massive galaxy cluster nestles at the very center of the image; an immense collection of maybe thousands of galaxies, all held together by the relentless force of gravity.
Galaxy clusters are some of the most interesting objects in the cosmos. They are the nodes of the cosmic web that permeates the entire Universe—to study them is to study the organisation of matter on the grandest of scales. Not only are galaxy clusters ideal subjects for the study of dark matter and dark energy, but they also allow the study of farther-flung galaxies. Their immense gravitational influence means they distort the spacetime around them, causing them to act like giant zoom lenses. The light of background galaxies is warped and magnified as it passes through the galaxy cluster, allowing astronomers insight into the distant—and therefore early—Universe.
This image was taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide-Field Camera 3 as part of an observing programme called RELICS (Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey). RELICS imaged 41 massive galaxy clusters with the aim of finding the brightest distant galaxies for the forthcoming NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, RELICS
Release Date: August 13, 2018
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Galaxy clusters are some of the most interesting objects in the cosmos. They are the nodes of the cosmic web that permeates the entire Universe—to study them is to study the organisation of matter on the grandest of scales. Not only are galaxy clusters ideal subjects for the study of dark matter and dark energy, but they also allow the study of farther-flung galaxies. Their immense gravitational influence means they distort the spacetime around them, causing them to act like giant zoom lenses. The light of background galaxies is warped and magnified as it passes through the galaxy cluster, allowing astronomers insight into the distant—and therefore early—Universe.
This image was taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide-Field Camera 3 as part of an observing programme called RELICS (Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey). RELICS imaged 41 massive galaxy clusters with the aim of finding the brightest distant galaxies for the forthcoming NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, RELICS
Release Date: August 13, 2018
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Sunday, August 12, 2018
Dr. Eugene Parker Watches NASA Parker Solar Probe Launch
First NASA Mission Named for a Living Person
In 1958, Dr. Parker published the first paper theorizing the solar wind, the Sun's constant outflow of material. Now, the Parker Solar Probe is on its way to the Sun to make novel measurements of the solar wind and help us uncover its secrets.
Learn more about NASA's Parker Solar Probe:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe
Image Credit: NASA/Glenn Benson
Release Date: August 12, 2018
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Liftoff of NASA's Parker Solar Probe
Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Duration: 4 minutes, 18 seconds
Release Date: August 12, 2018
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Parker Solar Probe Liftoff | NASA
The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018 from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Release Date: August 12, 2018
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Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Release Date: August 12, 2018
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Parker Solar Probe Liftoff | NASA
The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018 from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Release Date: August 12, 2018
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Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Release Date: August 12, 2018
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Parker Solar Probe Launch | NASA
The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018 from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Release Date: August 12, 2018
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Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Release Date: August 12, 2018
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Prelaunch
The Mobile Service Tower rolls back from the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission in preparation for launch on Aug. 12 from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
Image Credit: United Launch Alliance (ULA)
Image Date: August 11, 2018
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Image Credit: United Launch Alliance (ULA)
Image Date: August 11, 2018
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Parker Solar Probe Launch | ULA Delta IV Heavy Rocket
Liftoff of ULA's Delta IV Heavy rocket with NASA's Parker Solar Probe is planned for 3:31am EDT. Watch: http://nasa.gov/nasatv
Image Credit: United Launch Alliance (ULA)
Release Date: July 24, 2018
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Image Credit: United Launch Alliance (ULA)
Release Date: July 24, 2018
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Prelaunch
The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket that will launch NASA's Parker Solar Probe on a mission to study the Sun is seen as the Mobile Service Tower gantry at Space Launch Complex 37 rolls back on Friday, Aug. 10, 2018, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Parker Solar Probe will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize our understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection.
Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Image Date: August 10, 2018
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Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Image Date: August 10, 2018
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Saturday, August 11, 2018
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Prelaunch
The Mobile Service Tower is rolled back to reveal the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Parker Solar Probe onboard, Friday, Aug. 10, 2018, Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Image Date: August 10, 2018
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Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Image Date: August 10, 2018
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Friday, August 10, 2018
NASA's Space to Ground: A Star to Steer By | Week of Aug. 10, 2018
Christa’s Lost Lessons Brought to Life
http://challenger.org/christa
Challenger Center, in partnership with NASA and STEM on Station, worked to complete several of the lessons Christa McAuliffe had planned for the Challenger STS 51L Teacher in Space mission. Working with Astronauts Ricky Arnold and Joe Acaba, the demonstrations were filmed aboard the International Space Station and corresponding lessons were developed for classrooms.
Lesson topics include chromatography, effervescence, liquids in microgravity and Newton’s law. Several of the lessons were completed as originally planned by Christa and a few were reimagined based on materials available aboard the Space Station.
Sharon Christa McAuliffe (born Sharon Christa Corrigan; September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire and one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center
Duration: 2 minutes, 35 seconds
Release Date: August 10, 2018
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Thursday, August 09, 2018
English Channel and North Sea | International Space Statio
The International Space Station was orbiting above Germany when an Expedition 56 crew member photographed the English Channel and the North Sea, lit by the Sun's glint, separating the United Kingdom from the European countries of France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Credit: NASA/JSC
Image Date: August 6, 2018
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Credit: NASA/JSC
Image Date: August 6, 2018
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SpaceX Dragon Departure | International Space Station
ESA Astronaut Alexander Gerst: "We released a Dragon into the wild to return carrying unveiled secrets and solved mysteries."
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The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship, on its 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-15) for NASA, is seen after robotic flight controllers released the spacecraft using the International Space Station’s robotic arm. Expedition 56 Flight Engineer Serena Auñon-Chancellor of NASA monitored its departure.
Dragon’s thrusters were fired to move the spacecraft a safe distance from the station before SpaceX flight controllers in Hawthorne, California, commanded its deorbit burn. The capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, where the SpaceX recovery team retrieved the capsule and its more than 3,800 pounds of cargo, including a variety of technological and biological studies.
NASA and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the non-profit organization that manages research aboard the U.S. National Laboratory portion of the space station, receives time-sensitive samples and works with researchers to process and distribute them within 48 hours of splashdown.
Dragon is the only space station resupply spacecraft currently capable of returning cargo to Earth, and this was the second trip to the orbiting laboratory for this spacecraft. SpaceX launched its 15th NASA-contracted commercial resupply mission to the station June 29 from Space Launch Complex 40 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket that also previously launched NASA’s TESS mission to study exoplanets.
Credit: ESA/NASA-A.Gerst
Image Date: August 3, 2018
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The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship, on its 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-15) for NASA, is seen after robotic flight controllers released the spacecraft using the International Space Station’s robotic arm. Expedition 56 Flight Engineer Serena Auñon-Chancellor of NASA monitored its departure.
Dragon’s thrusters were fired to move the spacecraft a safe distance from the station before SpaceX flight controllers in Hawthorne, California, commanded its deorbit burn. The capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, where the SpaceX recovery team retrieved the capsule and its more than 3,800 pounds of cargo, including a variety of technological and biological studies.
NASA and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the non-profit organization that manages research aboard the U.S. National Laboratory portion of the space station, receives time-sensitive samples and works with researchers to process and distribute them within 48 hours of splashdown.
Dragon is the only space station resupply spacecraft currently capable of returning cargo to Earth, and this was the second trip to the orbiting laboratory for this spacecraft. SpaceX launched its 15th NASA-contracted commercial resupply mission to the station June 29 from Space Launch Complex 40 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket that also previously launched NASA’s TESS mission to study exoplanets.
Credit: ESA/NASA-A.Gerst
Image Date: August 3, 2018
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SpaceX Dragon Departure | International Space Station
ESA Astronaut Alexander Gerst: "We released a Dragon into the wild to return carrying unveiled secrets and solved mysteries."
Follow Alexander and the Horizons mission:
http://bit.ly/AlexanderGerstESA and on http://bit.ly/HorizonsBlogESA
The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship, on its 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-15) for NASA, is seen before robotic flight controllers released the spacecraft using the International Space Station’s robotic arm. Expedition 56 Flight Engineer Serena Auñon-Chancellor of NASA monitored its departure.
Dragon’s thrusters were fired to move the spacecraft a safe distance from the station before SpaceX flight controllers in Hawthorne, California, commanded its deorbit burn. The capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, where the SpaceX recovery team retrieved the capsule and its more than 3,800 pounds of cargo, including a variety of technological and biological studies.
NASA and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the non-profit organization that manages research aboard the U.S. National Laboratory portion of the space station, receives time-sensitive samples and works with researchers to process and distribute them within 48 hours of splashdown.
Dragon is the only space station resupply spacecraft currently capable of returning cargo to Earth, and this was the second trip to the orbiting laboratory for this spacecraft. SpaceX launched its 15th NASA-contracted commercial resupply mission to the station June 29 from Space Launch Complex 40 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket that also previously launched NASA’s TESS mission to study exoplanets.
Credit: ESA/NASA-A.Gerst
Image Date: August 3, 2018
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The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship, on its 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-15) for NASA, is seen before robotic flight controllers released the spacecraft using the International Space Station’s robotic arm. Expedition 56 Flight Engineer Serena Auñon-Chancellor of NASA monitored its departure.
Dragon’s thrusters were fired to move the spacecraft a safe distance from the station before SpaceX flight controllers in Hawthorne, California, commanded its deorbit burn. The capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, where the SpaceX recovery team retrieved the capsule and its more than 3,800 pounds of cargo, including a variety of technological and biological studies.
NASA and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the non-profit organization that manages research aboard the U.S. National Laboratory portion of the space station, receives time-sensitive samples and works with researchers to process and distribute them within 48 hours of splashdown.
Dragon is the only space station resupply spacecraft currently capable of returning cargo to Earth, and this was the second trip to the orbiting laboratory for this spacecraft. SpaceX launched its 15th NASA-contracted commercial resupply mission to the station June 29 from Space Launch Complex 40 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket that also previously launched NASA’s TESS mission to study exoplanets.
Credit: ESA/NASA-A.Gerst
Image Date: August 3, 2018
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Wednesday, August 08, 2018
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Prelaunch
Is your alarm set? A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket will launch the Parker Solar Probe for NASA on Aug. 11. The launch window opens at 3:33am ET. Broadcast begins at 3am ET. Weather is currently 70% favorable for launch. Watch NASA TV: nasa.gov/nasatv
Image: The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket payload fairing is seen with the NASA and Parker Solar Probe emblems, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018 at Launch Complex 37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker Solar Probe will travel through the Sun’s atmosphere, closer to the surface than any spacecraft before it.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Image Date: August 8, 2018
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