Thursday, August 11, 2022

Artemis I Moonikin Campos | NASA

Moonikin Campos, named after former NASA engineer Arturo Campos, will be on Artemis I, an uncrewed flight test of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket as an integrated system ahead of crewed flights to the Moon. Moonikin Campos, along with two phantom manikins, Helga and Zohar, will allow us to measure radiation, acceleration, and vibration data throughout the mission; the information gathered from these human body replicas will inform future crewed missions.









Teams from Johnson Space Center, Exploration Ground Systems, and Jacobs TOSC conduct final inspections of Moonikin “Campos” inside the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Moonikin “Campos” will be installed into the Orion crew spacecraft. Technicians checked connectivity and performed fit checks on his flight suit to ensure he is ready for flight aboard the Artemis flight test. Artemis I will be an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket as an integrated system ahead of crewed flights to the Moon. Under Artemis, NASA aims to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon and establish sustainable lunar exploration.

Learn more about NASA's Artemis I Mission: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

Image Date: November 9, 2021


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Planetary Nebula NGC 2899: Wide-field View | ESO

Planetary Nebula NGC 2899: Wide-field View | ESO


This image shows the sky around the location of NGC 2899, which is visible at the very center of the frame. This picture was created from images in the Digitized Sky Survey 2.


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

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: July 30, 2020


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Planetary Nebula NGC 2899: Stunning Space Butterfly | ESO

Planetary Nebula NGC 2899Stunning Space Butterfly ESO


ESOcast 227 Light: Astronomers using European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have imaged a 'space butterfly', a planetary nebula known as NGC 2899. This video offers stunning views of this object and the science behind it.


Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Directed by: Herbert Zodet

Editing: Herbert Zodet

Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida

Written by: Stephanie Rowlands, Emma Foxell and Bárbara Ferreira

Music: Stan Dart—The Long Way

Footage and photos: ESO, C. Malin, Digitized Sky Survey 2 and Nick Risinger

Scientific consultants: Paola Amico and Mariya Lyubenova

Duration: 1 minute, 26 seconds

Release Date: July 30, 2020


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Zooming in on Planetary Nebula NGC 2899 | ESO

Zooming in on Planetary Nebula NGC 2899 | ESO

This video sequence starts from a wide field of the region of the sky around NGC 2899 and closes in on the planetary nebula. The final very detailed view comes from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.


Credits: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Digitized Sky Survey 2/N. Risinger  

Music: Astral Electronic

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: July 30, 2020


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NGC 2899 Planetary Nebula | ESO

NGC 2899 Planetary Nebula  | ESO

This highly detailed image of the fantastic NGC 2899 planetary nebula was captured using the FORS instrument on European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in northern Chile. This object has never before been imaged in such striking detail, with even the faint outer edges of the planetary nebula glowing over the background stars.


Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: July 30, 2020


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Planetary Nebula Fleming 1: Wide-field View | ESO

Planetary Nebula Fleming 1: Wide-field View | ESO


This wide-field view shows the sky around planetary nebula Fleming 1 in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). This view was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

Distance: 10,000 light years


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

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: November 8, 2012


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A Close-up View of Planetary Nebula Fleming 1 | ESO

A Close-up View of Planetary Nebula Fleming 1 | ESO

The planetary nebula Fleming 1 seen with European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope.

Distance: 10,000 light years


Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/H. Boffin

Music: delmo "acoustic"

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: November 8, 2012


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Expedition 67 Crew Photos: Summer 2022 | International Space Station

Expedition 67 Crew Photos: Summer 2022 | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins holding a Plate Habitat (PHAB) at -20°C prior to insertion into the Space Automated Bioproduct Laboratory (SABL) incubator aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The goal of the Protein Manufacturing project is to demonstrate the use of a novel bioreactor technology for growing high-protein food on the International Space Station (ISS).

Image Date: July 22, 2022

Expedition 67 Flight Engineer and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti packs experiment containers for the Biofilms investigation aboard the International Space Station. The biotechnology study explores ways to protect astronaut health and maintain spacecraft safety from microbes living in the orbiting's lab environment.

Image Date: August 2, 2022

NASA astronaut Bob Hines is shown performing Genes in Space-9 aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Cell-free technology is a platform for protein production that does not include living cells. GIS-9 evaluates two approaches for using this technology in microgravity: cell-free protein production and biosensors that can detect specific target molecules. The technology could provide a portable, low-resource, and low-cost tool with potential applications for medical diagnostics, on-demand production of medicine and vaccines, and environmental monitoring on future space missions.

Image Date: July 21, 2022


NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren is seen performing Forward Osmosis Membrane operations. Assessing the Performance of Urease-phospholipid Reactive Forward Osmosis Membranes for Water Reclamation Aboard the ISS (Forward Osmosis Membrane) tests reactive membranes for water reclamation in microgravity as compared to 1g on Earth.
Image Date: July 19, 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.

Learn more about the important research being operated on the station: 


For more information about STEM on Station: https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

STEM is an acronym for the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Image Date: July 31, 2022


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Zooming in on Planetary Nebula Fleming 1 | ESO

Zooming in on Planetary Nebula Fleming 1 | ESO

This video starts with a wide field view of the spectacular southern part of the Milky Way. We close in gradually on a small bubble of glowing gas in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). This is the planetary nebula Fleming 1, glowing gas shells and symmetrical jets around an aging pair of stars. The final detailed view comes from the FORS2 instrument on the Very Large Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile.


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

Music: delmo "acoustic"

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: November 8, 2012


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Planetary Nebula Fleming 1 | ESO’s Very Large Telescope

Planetary Nebula Fleming 1 | ESO’s Very Large Telescope


This European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope (VLT) image shows the planetary nebula Fleming 1 in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). This striking object is a glowing cloud of gas around a dying star. Observations have shown that it is likely that a very rare pair of white dwarf stars lies at the heart of this object. Their orbital motions can fully explain the remarkably symmetric structures of the jets in the surrounding gas clouds in this and similar objects.

Distance: 10,000 light years


Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/H. Boffin

Release Date: November 8, 2012


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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

The Merging Galaxy Pair NGC 4568 & NGC 4567 | NOIRLab

The Merging Galaxy Pair NGC 4568 & NGC 4567 | NOIRLab

Cosmoview Episode 50: A new image captured by the Gemini North telescope in Hawai‘i reveals a pair of interacting spiral galaxies—NGC 4568 and NGC 4567—as they begin to clash and merge. These galaxies are entangled by their mutual gravitational field and will eventually combine to form a single elliptical galaxy in around 500 million years. Also visible in the image is the glowing remains of a supernova that was detected in 2020.


Credit:

Images and Videos: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/F. Summers (STScI), G. Besla (Columbia University), and R. van der Marel (STScI)  

Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), J. Miller (Gemini Observatory/NSF's NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab)  

Music: Stellardrone - A Moment of Stillness

Duration: 1 minute, 26 seconds

Release Date: August 10, 2022


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Zooming in on Merging Spiral Galaxies | Gemini North Telescope

Zooming in on Merging Spiral Galaxies | Gemini North Telescope

Zoom in reveals a pair of interacting spiral galaxies—NGC 4568 and NGC 4567—as they begin to clash and merge. These galaxies are entangled by their mutual gravitational field and will eventually combine to form a single elliptical galaxy in around 500 million years. Also visible in the image is the glowing remains of a supernova that was detected in 2020.


Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/National Science Foundation (NSF)/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)

Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), J. Miller (Gemini Observatory/NSF's NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)

Music: Zero-project - Through the Looking Glass

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: July 30, 2022


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Merging Galaxy Pair NGC 4568 & NGC 4567 | Gemini North Telescope

Merging Galaxy Pair NGC 4568 & NGC 4567 | Gemini North Telescope

This image from the Gemini North telescope in Hawai‘i reveals a pair of interacting spiral galaxies—NGC 4568 (bottom) and NGC 4567 (top)—as they begin to clash and merge. The galaxies will eventually form a single elliptical galaxy in around 500 million years.


Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/National Science Foundation (NSF)/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)

Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF's NOIRLab), J. Miller (Gemini Observatory/NSF's NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)

Release Date: August 9, 2022


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Planetary Nebula ESO 378-1: Wide-field View | ESO

Planetary Nebula ESO 378-1: Wide-field View | ESO


This image shows the sky around the location of ESO 378-1. This planetary nebula shows up clearly as a blue disc at the center of the picture. This picture was created from images in the Digitized Sky Survey 2.


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

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: August 5, 2015


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Panning across Planetary Nebula ESO 378-1 | ESO

Panning across Planetary Nebula ESO 378-1 | ESO

This extraordinary bubble, glowing like the ghost of a star in the haunting darkness of space, may appear supernatural and mysterious, but it is a familiar astronomical object—a planetary nebula, the remnants of a dying star. This video pan sequence gives a close-up view of what is the best image of the little-known object ESO 378-1 yet obtained and was captured by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in northern Chile.

Distance: 3,500 light years


Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Duration: 25 seconds

Release Date: August 5, 2015


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Zooming in on Planetary Nebula ESO 378-1 | ESO

Zooming in on Planetary Nebula ESO 378-1 | ESO

This video sequence starts from a wide field of the Milky Way and closes in on a rather empty patch of sky in the huge constellation of Hydra. A strange blue disc becomes visible—the planetary nebula ESO 378-1. The final very detailed view comes from ESO’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.

Distance: 3,500 light years


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

Music: Johan B. Monell

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: August 5, 2015


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