Around The Cat's Paw Nebula | ESO

Around The Cat's Paw Nebula | ESO

Wide view centered on the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334).

Distance: 5,500 light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Digitized Sky Survey 2

Release Date: January 20, 2010

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The Cat's Paw Nebula: MIPS & IRAC View | NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

The Cat's Paw Nebula: MIPS & IRAC View | NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

Before the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was the largest infrared telescope in space. The Cat's Paw Nebula, imaged here by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lies inside the Milky Way Galaxy and is located in the constellation Scorpius. Its distance from Earth is estimated to be between 1.3 kiloparsecs (about 4,200 light years) to 1.7 kiloparsecs (about 5,500 light years).

The bright, cloudlike band running left to right across the image shows the presence of gas and dust that can collapse to form new stars. The black filaments running through the nebula are particularly dense regions of gas and dust. The entire star-forming region is thought to be between 24 and 27 parsecs (80-90 light years) across.The stars that form inside the nebula heat up the pressurized gas surrounding them, such that the gas may expand and form "bubbles," which appear red in this image. Asymmetric bubbles may "burst," creating U-shaped features.

The green areas show regions where radiation from hot stars collided with large molecules and small dust grains called polycyclic aromatic hydocarbons (PAHs), causing them to fluoresce.

This image was compiled using data from two Spitzer instruments, the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and the Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS). The colors correspond with wavelengths of 3.6 microns (blue), 4.5 microns (cyan), 8 microns (green) and 24 microns (red).

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Release Date: October 23rd, 2018

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The Cat’s Paw Nebula: Infrared & Submillimeter Views | ESO VISTA

The Cat’s Paw Nebula: Infrared & Submillimeter Views | ESO VISTA

This video compares the near-infrared and submillimeter views of the star formation region NGC 6334, also known as the Cat's Paw Nebula. 

Credit: ArTeMiS team/Ph. André, M. Hennemann, V. Revéret et al./ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

Duration: 36 seconds

Release Date: October 1, 2013

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The Cat’s Paw Nebula: Infrared View | ESO VISTA

The Cat’s Paw Nebula: Infrared View | ESO VISTA

Infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) taken by VISTA. NGC 6334 is a vast region of star formation about 5,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius. The whole gas cloud is about 50 light-years across. NGC 6334 is one of the most active nurseries of young massive stars in our galaxy, some nearly ten times the mass of our Sun and most born in the last few million years. The images were taken through Y, J and Ks filters (shown as blue, green and red respectively) and the exposure time was five minutes per filter. The field of view is about one degree across.

Distance: 5,500 light years

Credit: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA

Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

Release Date: April 21, 2010

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Zooming in on ArTeMiS's View of The Cat's Paw Nebula

Zooming in on ArTeMiS's View of The Cat's Paw Nebula

In this zoom sequence, we start with a spectacular wide-field view of the Milky Way Galaxy, centered on the constellations of Scorpius and Sagittarius.

Credit: ArTeMiS team/Ph. André, M. Hennemann, V. Revéret et al./Digitized Sky Survey 2/J. Emerson/VISTA/S. Guisard/S.Brunier

Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit. Music: movetwo

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: October 1, 2013

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The Star-forming Cat’s Paw Nebula | ESO's ArTeMiS

The Star-forming Cat’s Paw Nebula | ESO's ArTeMiS

This image of the star formation region NGC 6334 is one of the first scientific images from the ArTeMiS instrument on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX). The picture shows the glow detected at a wavelength of 0.35 millimeters coming from dense clouds of interstellar dust grains. The new observations from ArTeMiS show up in orange and have been superimposed on a view of the same region taken in near-infrared light by ESO’s VISTA telescope at Paranal.

Credit:ArTeMiS team/Ph. André, M. Hennemann, V. Revéret et al./ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

Release Date: September 25, 2013

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The Cat's Paw Remastered | European Southern Observatory

The Cat's Paw Remastered | European Southern Observatory

The Cat’s Paw Nebula is revisited in a combination of exposures from the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope and expert amateur astronomers Robert Gendler and Ryan M. Hannahoe. The distinctive shape of the nebula is revealed in reddish puffy clouds of glowing gas against a dark sky dotted with stars.

The image was made by combining existing observations from the 2.2-meter MPG/ESO telescope of the La Silla Observatory in Chile with 60 hours of exposures on a 0.4-meter telescope taken by Gendler and Hannahoe.

The resolution of the existing 2.2-meter MPG/ESO telescope observations was combined (by using their “luminance” or brightness) with the color information from Gendler and Hannahoe’s observations to produce a beautiful combination of data from amateur and professional telescopes. For example, the additional color information brings out the faint blue nebulosity in the central region, which is not seen in the original European Southern Observatory (ESO) image, while the ESO data contribute their finer detail. The result is an image that is much more than the sum of its parts.

The well-named Cat’s Paw Nebula (also known as NGC 6334) lies in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). Although it appears close to the center of the Milky Way on the sky, it is relatively near to Earth, at a distance of about 5,500 light-years. It is about 50 light-years across and is one of the most active star formation regions in our galaxy, containing massive, young brilliant blue stars, which have formed in the last few million years. It is host to possibly tens of thousands of stars in total, some of them visible and others still hidden in the clouds of gas and dust.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/R. Gendler & R.M. Hannahoe

Release Date: July 9, 2012

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Panning across The Cat’s Paw and Lobster Nebulae | ESO

Panning across The Cat’s Paw and Lobster Nebulae | ESO

This video sequence takes a close look at a spectacular image from the VLT Survey Telescope. It shows the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) and the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357). These are regions of active star formation where the hot young stars are causing the surrounding hydrogen gas to glow red. The very rich field of view also includes dark clouds of dust.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/N. Bartmann

Music Credit: Johan B. Monell

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: February 1, 2017

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Zooming in on The Cat’s Paw and Lobster Nebulae | ESO

Zooming in on The Cat’s Paw and Lobster Nebulae | ESO

This video sequence takes the viewer deep into the bright constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion) and finishes on a new and very detailed view of the star formation regions NGC 6334 and NGC 6357, known as the Cat’s Paw and Lobster Nebulae respectively.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/N. Risinger 

Music: Nuclearmetal/New Horizons

Duration: 55 seconds

Release Date: February 1, 2017

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The Cat’s Paw and Lobster Nebulae | ESO

The Cat’s Paw and Lobster Nebulae | ESO

This spectacular image from the VLT Survey Telescope shows the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334, upper right) and the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357, lower left). These dramatic objects are regions of active star formation where the hot young stars are causing the surrounding hydrogen gas to glow red. The very rich field of view also includes dark clouds of dust. With around two billion pixels this is one of the largest images ever released by the European Southern Observatory. 

Note: The circular features in the image around bright stars are not real. They are due to reflections within the optics of the telescope and camera.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: February 1, 2017

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NASA's Juno Mission Spies Vortices Near Jupiter's North Pole | JPL

NASA's Juno Mission Spies Vortices Near Jupiter's North Pole | JPL

As NASA's Juno mission completed its 43rd close flyby of Jupiter on July 5, 2022, its JunoCam instrument captured this striking view of vortices—hurricane-like spiral wind patterns—near the planet's north pole. These powerful storms can be over 30 miles (50 kilometers) in height and hundreds of miles across. Figuring out how they form is key to understanding Jupiter's atmosphere, as well as the fluid dynamics and cloud chemistry that create the planet's other atmospheric features. Scientists are particularly interested in the vortices' varying shapes, sizes, and colors. For example, cyclones, which spin counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern, and anti-cyclones, which rotate clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere, exhibit very different colors and shapes. 

A NASA citizen science project, Jovian Vortex Hunter, seeks help from volunteer members of the public to spot and help categorize vortices and other atmospheric phenomena visible in JunoCam photos of Jupiter. This process does not require specialized training or software, and can be done by anyone, anywhere, with a cellphone or laptop. 

As of July 2022, 2,404 volunteers had made 376,725 classifications using the Jovian Vortex Hunter project web site at:

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ramanakumars/jovian-vortex-hunter

Another citizen scientist, Brian Swift, created this enhanced color and contrast view of vortices using raw JunoCam image data. At the time the raw image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was about 15,600 miles (25,100 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops, at a latitude of about 84 degrees.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) manages the Juno mission for NASA. The mission's principal investigator is Scott Bolton of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. The mission is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, managed at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver built the spacecraft.

Learn more about the Juno mission, and get an up-to-date schedule of events, at: www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.org

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)/Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS)

Image Processing: Brian Swift © CC

Release Date: July 26, 2022

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Spacewalker Samantha: More Photos! | International Space Station

Spacewalker Samantha: More Photos! | International Space Station

Can you sense Samantha's excitement just before her first spacewalk outside the International Space Station? She can be seen here putting on a Russian Orlan spacesuit. Expedition 67 Commander Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy) of the European Space Agency (ESA) concluded their spacewalk or extravehicular activity (EVA) at 5:55 p.m. EDT, July 21, 2022, after 7 hours and 5 minutes.

Artemyev and Cristoforetti completed all but one of their major objectives, which included the deployment of 10 nanosatellites designed to collect radio electronics data during the spacewalk and installing platforms and workstation adapter hardware near the 37-foot-long manipulator system mounted to Nauka. The spacewalkers also relocated the arm’s external control panel and replaced a protective window on the arm’s camera unit. The last planned activity, to extend a Strela telescoping boom from Zarya to Poisk, will be completed on a future spacewalk.

Additional spacewalks are planned to continue outfitting the European robotic arm and to activate Nauka’s airlock for future spacewalks. The work on the European robotic arm will be used to move spacewalkers and payloads around the Russian segment of the station.

This was the sixth spacewalk in Artemyev’s career, and the first for Cristoforetti. It was the sixth spacewalk at the station in 2022 and the 251st spacewalk for space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades.

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)

Release Date: July 21, 2022

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Stars and Skulls | ESO

Stars and Skulls | ESO

ESOcast 232 Light: Captured in astounding detail by ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the eerie Skull Nebula is showcased in a new image in beautiful pink and red tones. This planetary nebula is the first known to be associated with a pair of closely bound stars orbited by a third outer star. This video offers stunning views of this object and tells the story of the three stars at its center.

Video Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Directed by: Herbert Zodet

Editing: Herbert Zodet

Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida

Written by: Justin Tabbett, Emma Foxell, Stephanie Rowlands and Bárbara Ferreira

Music: tonelabs (www.tonelabs.com) – Expect The Unexpected

Footage and photos: ESO, C. Malin (christophmalin.com), Digitized Sky Survey 2/N. Risinger and P. Horálek 

Scientific consultants: Paola Amico and Mariya Lyubenova

Duration: 1 minute, 25 seconds

Release Date: October 30, 2020

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Zooming in on The Skull Nebula | ESO

Zooming in on The Skull Nebula | ESO

This video sequence starts from a wide field of the region of the sky around NGC 246, the Skull Nebula, and closes in on the planetary nebula. This detailed view comes from European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/N. Risinger

Music: Astral Electronic

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: October 30, 2020

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The Skull Planetary Nebula | ESO

The Skull Planetary Nebula | ESO

Captured in astounding detail by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the eerie Skull Nebula is showcased in this image in beautiful pink and red tones. This planetary nebula, also known as NGC 246, is the first known to be associated with a pair of closely bound stars orbited by a third outer star.

Distance: approximately 1,600 light-years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: October 30, 2020

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Earth from Space – Expedition 65 Edition (4K) | International Space Station

Earth from Space – Expedition 65 Edition (4K) | International Space Station

The people who get to see the Earth from space marvel at its beauty, the colors, the fragility they feel about the planet 250 miles below them. Now it is your turn. This ultra-high definition video, captured during the International Space Station’s Expedition 65 Mission, allows you an extended, appreciative view of our home planet in all its glory.  Hit play, and go into orbital mode.

This footage was shot from the International Space Station between April 17, 2021 – Oct. 17, 2021.

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)

Duration: 50 minutes

Release Date: August 8, 2022

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