Evaporating Peaks 3D: Pillars in The Monkey Head Nebula | Hubble

Evaporating Peaks 3D: Pillars in The Monkey Head Nebula | Hubble

Get your 3D glasses! This video is the stereo 3D version of "Evaporating Peaks: Pillars in the Monkey Head Nebula". Note that the zoom is 2D, and only the second part of the sequence has stereo 3D.

The Monkey Head Nebula (also known as NGC 2174) is a star-forming region in which bright, newborn stars near the center of the nebula illuminate the surrounding gas with energetic radiation. This radiation, along with strong stellar winds, erodes away the lower density gas. Pockets of higher density gas resist this erosion, and form pillars and peaks along the inner edge of the roughly circular cloud.

This video showcases visible and infrared light views of a collection of pillars along one edge of the nebula. The sequence begins with a view of the night sky near the constellation of Gemini and Orion. The view zooms through observations from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 to reveal a Hubble Space Telescope visible light view of the top of this region of pillars.

A cross-fade transitions not only between Hubble's visible and infrared light views, but also from a two-dimensional image to a three-dimensional sculpted model of the region. The camera then pulls back to reveal the landscape of evaporating peaks of gas and dust surrounded by stars. Note that the visualization is intended to be a reasonable interpretation (not scientifically accurate) and that distances within the model are significantly compressed.

Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Duration: 1 minute, 17 seconds

Release Date: May 20, 2014

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Evaporating Peaks: Pillars in The Monkey Head Nebula | Hubble

Evaporating Peaks: Pillars in The Monkey Head Nebula | Hubble

The Monkey Head Nebula (also known as NGC 2174) is a star-forming region in which bright, newborn stars near the center of the nebula illuminate the surrounding gas with energetic radiation. This radiation, along with strong stellar winds, erodes away the lower density gas. Pockets of higher density gas resist this erosion, and form pillars and peaks along the inner edge of the roughly circular cloud.

This video showcases visible and infrared light views of a collection of pillars along one edge of the nebula. The sequence begins with a view of the night sky near the constellation of Gemini and Orion. The view zooms through observations from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 to reveal a Hubble Space Telescope visible light view of the top of this region of pillars.

A cross-fade transitions not only between Hubble's visible and infrared light views, but also from a two-dimensional image to a three-dimensional sculpted model of the region. The camera then pulls back to reveal the landscape of evaporating peaks of gas and dust surrounded by stars. Note that the visualization is intended to be a reasonable interpretation (not scientifically accurate) and that distances within the model are significantly compressed.

Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Duration: 1 minute, 17 seconds

Release Date: April 25, 2014

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Monkey Head Nebula: Location of the Hubble Infrared Image

Monkey Head Nebula: Location of the Hubble Infrared Image

This image shows the region of NGC 2174, also known as the Monkey Head Nebula, taken in infrared and released for Hubble's 24th birthday in 2014, within its wider context. On the left is a ground based image taken by an amateur astrophotographer of the star-forming nebula in visible light, with an outline showing the area of the detailed Hubble image. On the right is a small detail of a star-forming column in the nebula, made by Hubble's WFC3 infrared camera.

Credit: NASA and European Space Agency

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

Release Date: March 17, 2014

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Monkey Head Nebula: Visible & Infrared Comparison | Hubble

Monkey Head Nebula: Visible & Infrared Comparison | Hubble

This image compares two views of the same detailed area in the star-forming nebula NGC 2174 from the Hubble Space Telescope. On the left is a visible-light image made by WFPC2 observations taken in 2001—and released in 2011—and on the right is an image made by the WFC3 infrared camera. Infrared light penetrates more dust and gas than visible light, allowing details to become visible. A jet of material from a newly forming star is visible in one of the pillars, just above and left of center in the right-hand image. Several galaxies are seen in the infrared view, much more distant than the columns of dust and gas.

Credit: NASA and European Space Agency

Acknowledgment: NASA, European Space Agency, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and J. Hester

Release Date: March 17, 2014

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Hubble Revisits The Monkey Head Nebula

Hubble Revisits The Monkey Head Nebula

Hubblecast 73: In April 2014, the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope celebrated 24 years of observing. To mark this milestone, the observatory released a brand new image of part of NGC 2174, otherwise known as the Monkey Head Nebula. This Hubblecast episode showcases this beautiful image, which views a colorful region filled with young stars embedded within bright wisps of cosmic gas and dust.

Credits: European Space Agency/Hubble

Directed by: Georgia Bladon

Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser

Written by: Nicola Guttridge/Georgia Bladon & Nikita Marwaha

Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa

Images: NASA, ESA

- New image of NGC 2174: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Videos: Zoom video: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

Music: Steve Buick

Web and technical support: Mathias Andre and Raquel Yumi Shida

Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen

Duration: 5 minutes, 30 seconds

Release Date: March 17, 2014

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Panning across The Monkey Head Nebula | Hubble

Panning across The Monkey Head Nebula | Hubble

This video sequence pans across NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope observations of part of NGC 2174, also known as the Monkey Head Nebula.

NGC 2174 lies about 6,400 light-years away. Hubble previously viewed this part of the sky back in 2011, and the space telescope revisited the region to celebrate its 24th year of operation in 2014.

This image was created using infrared observations from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.

Credit: European Space Agency

Duration: 27 seconds

Release Date: March 17, 2014

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The Journey of New Shepard NS-22 | Blue Origin

The Journey of New Shepard NS-22 | Blue Origin

A life-changing journey . . . Blue Origin successfully completed its sixth human spaceflight and the 22nd flight for the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included: Coby Cotton, Mário Ferreira, Vanessa O’Brien, Clint Kelly III, Sara Sabry, and Steve Young.  

The crew achieved three historic firsts: 

-Sara Sabry became the first person from Egypt to fly to space. 

-Mário Ferreira became the first person from Portugal to fly to space. 

-Vanessa O’Brien became the first woman to reach extremes on land (Mt. Everest), sea (Challenger Deep), and air (pass the Kármán line), completing the Explorers’ Extreme Trifecta, a Guinness World Record.  

Learn more at BlueOrigin.com

Credit: Blue Origin

Duration: 2 minutes, 19 seconds

Release Date: August 5, 2022

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Zoom into The Monkey Head Nebula | Hubble

Zoom into The Monkey Head Nebula | Hubble

This video sequence begins by zooming through the constellation of Orion (The Hunter), finishing on NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope observations of part of NGC 2174, also known as the Monkey Head Nebula.

Distance: about 6,400 light-years away

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, and G. Bacon of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Acknowledgment: A. Fujii, the Digitized Sky Survey 2, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: December 31, 2014

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The Monkey Head Nebula | Hubble

The Monkey Head Nebula | Hubble

To celebrate its 24th year in orbit, the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope released this beautiful new image of part of NGC 2174, also known as the Monkey Head Nebula.

NGC 2174 lies about 6,400 light-years away in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter). Hubble previously viewed this part of the sky back in 2011—the colorful region is filled with young stars embedded within bright wisps of cosmic gas and dust.

This portion of the Monkey Head Nebula was imaged in the infrared using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Release Date: March 17, 2014

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NASA Curiosity Mars Rover 10th Anniversary (2012-2022) Poster!

NASA Curiosity Mars Rover 10th Anniversary (2012-2022) Poster!

Stay curious with NASA and celebrate the agency’s Curiosity Mars rover’s 10th anniversary (2012-2022) on the Red Planet. This image shows the first side of a two-sided poster. The second side lists some of Curiosity's accomplishments to celebrate its anniversary. Download it for free:

One-sided version: 

https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/26910/curiosity-10th-anniversary-poster/

Double-sided version: 

https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/26888/curiosity-10-years-of-martian-mountain-climbing/

Stay curious with NASA and celebrate the agency’s Curiosity Mars rover’s 10th anniversary on the Red Planet with a two-sided poster that lists some of the intrepid explorer’s inspiring accomplishments. 

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life. 

Launch: Nov. 6, 2011

Landing Date: Aug. 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Release Date: August 5, 2022

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The Crab Nebula: Wide View | European Southern Observatory

The Crab Nebula: Wide View | European Southern Observatory

The Crab Nebula, which also goes by the names Messier 1, NGC 1952 and Taurus A, is one of the best studied astronomical objects in the sky. It is the remnant of a supernova explosion which was observed by Chinese astronomers in 1054. The tangled filaments visible in this image are the remains of the exploded star, which are still expanding outwards at about 1500 kilometers per second.

Although not visible to the naked eye due to foreground filaments of helium and hydrogen the heart of the nebula hosts two faint stars. It is one of these that is responsible for the nebula that we see today—a star that is known as the Crab Pulsar, or CM Tau. This is the small, dense, corpse of the original star that caused the supernova. It is now only about 20 kilometers in diameter and rotates around its axis 30 times every second!

The star emits pulses of radiation in all wavelengths, ranging from gamma rays—for which it is one of the brightest sources in the sky—to radio waves. The radiation from the star is so strong that it is creating a wave of material that is deforming the inner parts of the nebula. The appearance of these structures changes so fast that astronomers can actually observe how they reshape. This provides a rare opportunity as cosmic timescales are usually much too long for change to be observed to this extent.

The data from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla Observatory in Chile used to make this image were selected from our archive by Manu Mejias as part of the Hidden Treasures competition.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Manu Mejias

Release Date: June 8, 2015

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The Crab Nebula in Taurus | European Southern Observatory

The Crab Nebula in Taurus | European Southern Observatory

This photo shows a three color composite of the well-known Crab Nebula (also known as Messier 1), as observed with the FORS2 instrument in imaging mode on the morning of November 10, 1999. It is the remnant of a supernova explosion at a distance of about 6,000 light-years, observed almost 1,000 years ago, in the year 1054. It contains a neutron star near its center that spins 30 times per second around its axis (see below).

In this picture, the green light is predominantly produced by hydrogen emission from material ejected by the star that exploded. The blue light is predominantly emitted by very high-energy ("relativistic") electrons that spiral in a large-scale magnetic field (so-called synchrotron emission). It is believed that these electrons are continuously accelerated and ejected by the rapidly spinning neutron star at the center of the nebula and which is the remnant core of the exploded star. This pulsar has been identified with the lower/right of the two close stars near the geometric center of the nebula, immediately left of the small arc-like feature.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: November 17, 1999

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A New Image From Our James Webb Space Telescope | This Week @NASA

A New Image From Our James Webb Space Telescope | This Week @NASA 

Week of August 5, 2022: Previewing NASA's Artemis I mission to the Moon, a new image from our James Webb Space Telescope, and an anniversary for one of our explorers on Mars . . . a few of the stories to tell you about–This Week at NASA!

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Producer: Andre Valentine

Editor: Lacey Young

Music: Universal Production Music

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: August 5, 2022

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Artemis I Spacecraft Ready for Launch | European Space Agency

Artemis I Spacecraft Ready for Launch | European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA’s Artemis I spacecraft is cleared for launch after a series of final tests at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. ESA’s European Service Module (ESM) will provide electrical power and propel the uncrewed Orion capsule in an extended orbit around the Moon, setting the scene for future crewed missions. ESA has already delivered its second ESM for Artemis II and ESA contractor Airbus Defence and Space is currently building its third ESM. Eventually, Artemis III will return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time in 50 years with the ESM supplying their life support in the form of water, food and oxygen.

In interviews ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen and ESA’s director of Human and Robotic Exploration David Parker explain why the Artemis missions are so exciting and important for humankind’s exploration of our Universe.

ESA is also making a major contribution to the Gateway including refuelling and habitation modules and enhanced lunar communications. The Gateway will act as a permanently crewed space station in orbit around the Moon, a thousand times further away than the International Space Station from Earth, ushering in a new era of lunar exploration.

Learn more about Artemis: https://bit.ly/Artemis1ESA

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)

Duration: 3 minutes, 55 seconds

Release Date: August 5, 2022

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NASA Previews Artemis I Moon Mission

NASA Previews Artemis I Moon Mission

Mission experts for NASA's Artemis I mission around the Moon reviewed the details and mission timeline—from pre-launch to splashdown—of the four-to-six-week flight test that will demonstrate the capabilities of the Space Launch System (SLS) Moon rocket and Orion capsule. 

Briefing participants:

• Debbie Korth, Orion program deputy manager, NASA Johnson

• Rick LaBrode, lead Artemis I flight director, NASA Johnson

• Judd Frieling, Artemis I ascent/entry flight director, NASA Johnson

• Melissa Jones, Artemis I recovery director, NASA Kennedy

• Reid Wiseman, chief astronaut, NASA Johnson

• Philippe Deloo, Orion European Service Module program manager, ESA (European Space Agency)

Currently targeted to launch no earlier than Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, the SLS rocket will send the uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back to Earth to check out spacecraft systems before crew fly aboard on Artemis II. The Artemis I mission is one more step toward taking the next giant leap: sending the first astronauts to Mars.

More info on this historic mission: https://nasa.gov/specials/artemis-i

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 1 hour, 33 minutes

Release Date: August 5, 2022

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Turns 10: Here’s What It’s Learned

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Turns 10: Here’s What It’s Learned 

Mars News Report Aug. 5, 2022: NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover set out to answer a big question when it landed on the Red Planet 10 years ago: Could Mars have supported ancient life? Scientists have discovered the answer is yes and have been working to learn more about the planet’s past habitable environment.

In this Mars Report, Curiosity Deputy Project Scientist Abigail Fraeman provides an update on the rover’s capabilities a decade after landing in Gale Crater. Now, Curiosity is heading to an area that may help answer how long ancient life could have persisted on the Red Planet as Mars went through significant changes in the climate.

Some of the images in this video include color enhancement that exaggerate small changes in color from place to place in the Martian scene. This makes it easier for the science team to use their everyday experience to interpret the landscape. For instance, the sky on Mars would not actually look blue to a human explorer on the Red Planet, but pinkish.

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit mars.nasa.gov

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/JHU-APL

Duration: 3 minutes, 41 seconds

Release Date: August 5, 2022

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