Sculpture Garden of Gas and Dust: Core of The Lagoon Nebula

Sculpture Garden of Gas and Dust: Core of The Lagoon Nebula

This video zooms into the core of a rich star-birth region called the Lagoon Nebula, located in the constellation Sagittarius in the direction of our Milky Way galaxy’s central bulge. The sequence then dissolves to a series of imagined three-dimensional flights past striking structures of this gaseous landscape. Viewers examine dark, dusty clouds silhouetted against a colorful background of luminous gas that has been heated by a massive star. Pillars of dense gas and bow shocks around newborn stars are shaped by the strong winds from the brightest stars. The intense high-energy emission from these same stars creates the glowing ridges of gas in ionization fronts. These features are some of the highlights of this vibrant region where new stars and planets are born.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, and G. Bacon, D. Player, J. DePasquale, F. Summers, and Z. Levay/Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Music: J. DePasquale

Acknowledgement: A. Fujii, Digitized Sky Survey, European Southern Observatory (ESO)/VPHAS, and R. Crisp

Duration: 2 minutes, 15 seconds

Release Date: April 19, 2018

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The Veil Nebula (Ground-based View)

The Veil Nebula (Ground-based View)

This image shows the Veil supernova remnant and the surrounding sky. Due to the size of the Nebula the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope was able to only observe a small part of it in detail.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Digitized Sky Survey 2

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: September 24, 2015

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The Veil Nebula: Wide-field Ground-based Astrophoto

The Veil Nebula: Wide-field Ground-based Astrophoto

A wide-field image of the Veil Nebula, made as a color composite from individual exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The field of view is 4.2 x 4.4 degrees.

Distance: 1,500 light years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: J. Hester (Arizona State University) and Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

Release Date: July 31, 2007

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SpaceX Starlink Mission: July 22, 2022

SpaceX Starlink Mission: July 22, 2022

    

On Friday, July 22, 2022, at 10:39 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 46 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.

This was the fourth flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched NROL-87, NROL-87 and SARah-1.

Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)

Image Date: July 22, 2022

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SpaceX Cargo Spacecraft Arrives at International Space Station | This Week @NASA

SpaceX Cargo Spacecraft Arrives at International Space Station | This Week @NASA

Week of July 22, 202: A commercial cargo spacecraft safely arrives at the space station, space station crewmembers conduct a spacewalk, and an update on plans to launch our Artemis I mission … a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 4 minutes, 31 seconds

Release Date: July 23, 2022

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Uncovering The Veil Nebula | Hubble

Uncovering The Veil Nebula | Hubble

Hubblecast 07: The NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered magnificent sections of the Veil Nebula—the shattered remains of a supernova that exploded some 5-10,000 years ago. These Hubble images provide beautiful views of the delicate, wispy structure resulting from this cosmic explosion.

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

Presented by: Dr Joe Liske (Dr J)  

Narration: Dr. Robert Fosbury  

Design: Martin Kornmesser  

Web Technical Support: Lars Holm Nielsen, Raquel Yumi Shida  

Cinematographer: Peter Rixner

Script: Lars Lindberg Christensen, Ana Margarida Lopes  

Director: Lars Lindberg Christensen

Duration: 6 minutes, 17 seconds

Release Date: June 22, 2010

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Vibrant Gaseous Ribbons: The Veil Supernova Remnant (3D View) | Hubble

Vibrant Gaseous Ribbons: The Veil Supernova Remnant (3D View) | Hubble

This 3-D visualization flies across a small portion of the Veil Nebula as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. This region is a small part of a huge expanding remnant from a star that exploded many thousands of years ago. Hubble resolves tangled rope-like filaments of glowing gases. They have been shocked and heated by colliding with cooler, denser interstellar gas. 

The 3-D model has been created for illustrative purposes and shows that the giant bubble of gas has a thin, rippled surface. It also highlights that the emission from different chemical elements arises from different layers of gas within the nebula. In the imagery, emission from sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen are shown in red, green, and blue, respectively.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and F. Summers, G. Bacon, Z. Levay, and L. Frattare (Viz 3D Team, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Duration: 58 seconds

Release Date: September 24, 2015

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Panning across The Veil Nebula | Hubble

Panning across The Veil Nebula | Hubble

This video pans over NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope observations of the Veil Nebula. The features of the nebula, shown in different colors, are caused by the shockwave of the dying star and the interstellar gas it was surrounded by.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, Hubble Heritage Team

Music: Johan Monell

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 24, 2015

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Zooming in on The Veil Nebula | Hubble

Zooming in on The Veil Nebula | Hubble

This video begins with a ground-based view of the night sky, before zooming in on the Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant, as the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope sees it.

Credit: ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey, Nick Risinger

Music: Johan Monell

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 24, 2015

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The Veil Nebula | Hubble

The Veil Nebula | Hubble

This object was featured in a previous Hubble photo release, but now new processing techniques have been applied, bringing out fine details of the nebula’s delicate threads and filaments of ionised gas. To create this colorful image, observations taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument through 5 different filters were used. The new post-processing methods have further enhanced details of emissions from doubly ionized oxygen (seen here in blues), ionized hydrogen and ionized nitrogen (seen here in reds).

The Veil Nebula lies around 2,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus (The Swan), making it a relatively close neighbour in astronomical terms. Only a small portion of the nebula was captured in this image.

The Veil Nebula is the visible portion of the nearby Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant formed roughly 10,000 years ago by the death of a massive star. The Veil Nebula’s progenitor star—which was 20 times the mass of the Sun—lived fast and died young, ending its life in a cataclysmic release of energy. Despite this stellar violence, the shockwaves and debris from the supernova sculpted the Veil Nebula’s delicate tracery of ionized gas—creating a scene of surprising astronomical beauty.

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble & NASA, Z. Levay

Release Date: March 29, 2021

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Tour: An Expanse of Light | NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

Tour: An Expanse of Light | NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

The recent launches of the James Webb Space Telescope and the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or "IXPE," by NASA and its international partners are excellent reminders that the universe emits light or energy in many different forms. To fully investigate cosmic objects and phenomena, scientists need telescopes that can detect light across what is known as the electromagnetic spectrum.

This gallery provides examples of the ways that different types of light from telescopes on the ground and in space can be combined. The common thread in each of these selections is data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, illustrating how X-rays—which are emitted by very hot and energetic processes—are found throughout the universe.

The collection contains objects ranging from a supernova remnant within our Galaxy to an enormous galaxy cluster millions of light years away. Each image contains X-rays from Chandra in combination with data from other telescopes that capture different types of light. The objects are the binary system R Aquarii, the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, the "Guitar Nebula" and its pulsar, the galaxy cluster Abell 2597, and the NGC 4490 galaxy.

In the coming weeks and months, we will hear much more about JWST and IXPE. It will be exciting to see what discoveries they make when their data are joined those other telescopes, including Chandra, in exploring our Universe.

Credit: Chandra X-ray Observatory

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: Feb. 2, 2022

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Bob & Jessica in Cupola Monitor Dragon Docking | International Space Station

Bob & Jessica in Cupola Monitor Dragon Docking | International Space Station

NASA astronauts Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins are pictured inside the cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world," after monitoring the successful rendezvous and docking of the SpaceX Dragon space freighter on its 25th Commercial Resupply Services mission. While the International Space Station was traveling more than 267 miles over the South Atlantic Ocean, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft autonomously docked to the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony module at 11:21 a.m. EDT, July 16, 2022.

Expedition 67 Crew

Commander Oleg Artemyev (Russia)

Roscosmos Flight Engineers: Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov (Russia)

NASA Flight Engineers: Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins (USA)

European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer: Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy)

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: July 16, 2022

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The Lagoon Nebula: "A 370-million-pixel Starscape" | ESO

The Lagoon Nebula: "A 370-million-pixel Starscape" | ESO

The third image of ESO’s GigaGalaxy Zoom project is an amazing vista of the Lagoon Nebula taken with the 67-million-pixel Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The image covers more than one and a half square degree—an area eight times larger than that of the Full Moon—with a total of about 370 million pixels. It is based on images acquired using three different broadband filters (B, V, R) and one narrow-band filter (H-alpha).

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: September 28, 2009

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Webb Sneak Preview: The Lagoon Nebula (Infrared View) | Hubble

Webb Sneak Preview: The Lagoon Nebula (Infrared View) | Hubble

This star-filled image, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in near-infrared wavelengths of light, reveals a very different view of the Lagoon Nebula compared to its visible-light portrait. Making infrared observations of the cosmos allows astronomers to penetrate vast clouds of gas and dust to uncover hidden gems. Hubble’s view offers a sneak peek at the dramatic vistas NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will provide.

The most obvious difference between Hubble’s infrared and visible photos of this region is the abundance of stars that fill the infrared field of view. Most of them are more distant, background stars located behind the nebula itself. However, some of these pinpricks of light are young stars within the Lagoon Nebula. The brilliant star near the center of the frame, known as Herschel 36, is about 200,000 times brighter than our Sun.

This hefty star is 32 times more massive and eight times hotter than our Sun. Its powerful ultraviolet radiation and fierce stellar winds are carving away the surrounding nebula, removing the raw materials that smaller stars need to form. Dark smudges known as Bok globules mark the thickest parts of the nebula, where dust protects still-forming stars and their planets. While Hubble cannot penetrate these dusty clumps, Webb will be able to see through them.

Webb will probe young stars still in the process of forming. It also will examine the disks of dust and gas surrounding those stars, known as protoplanetary disks, in order to determine how far the planet formation process has proceeded. Webb will determine whether the inner regions of those disks have been cleared out, the dust either swept up by protoplanets or swept away by stellar winds.

Webb could take a stellar census of the Lagoon Nebula to determine not only how many massive stars it contains, but also how many Sun-like stars and how many failed stars known as brown dwarfs. This would enable astronomers to get the big picture of the stellar population across the entire range of masses, particularly at the low end.

The image shows a region of the nebula measuring about 4 light-years across. The observations were taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 between Feb. 12 and Feb. 18, 2018.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, and Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Capture Dates: February 12-18, 2018

Release Date: April 19, 2018

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The Glow of The Lagoon Nebula | ESO

The Glow of The Lagoon Nebula | ESO

Gas and dust condense, beginning the process of creating new stars in this image of Messier 8, also known as the Lagoon Nebula. Located four to five thousand light-years away, in the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer), the nebula is a giant interstellar cloud, one hundred light-years across. It boasts many large, hot stars, whose ultraviolet radiation sculpts the gas and dust into unusual shapes. Two of these giant stars illuminate the brightest part of the nebula, known as the Hourglass Nebula, a spiralling, funnel-like shape near its center. Messier 8 is one of the few star-forming nebulae visible to the unaided eye, and was discovered as long ago as 1747, although the full range of colors was not visible until the advent of more powerful telescopes. The Lagoon Nebula derives its name from the wide lagoon-shaped dark lane located in the middle of the nebula that divides it into two glowing sections.

This image combines observations performed through three different filters (B, V, R) with the 1.5-meter Danish telescope at the ESO La Silla Observatory in Chile.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/IDA/Danish 1.5 m/ R. Gendler, U.G. Jørgensen, K. Harpsøe

Release Date: April 19, 2010

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Giant 'Twisters' in The Lagoon Nebula | Hubble

Giant 'Twisters' in The Lagoon Nebula | Hubble

This Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image reveals a pair of one-half light-year long interstellar 'twisters'—eerie funnels and twisted-rope structures—in the heart of the Lagoon Nebula, also known as Messier 8, which lies 5,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.

Credit: A. Caulet (ST-ECF, ESA) and NASA

Release Date: January 22, 1997

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