Star Formation Region NGC 6559 | ESO

Star Formation Region NGC 6559 | ESO

The Danish 1.54-meter telescope located at the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that reigns when stars form inside an interstellar cloud. This region of sky includes glowing red clouds of mostly hydrogen gas, blue regions where starlight is being reflected from tiny particles of dust and also dark regions where the dust is thick and opaque.

Distance: about 5,000 light-years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/U.G. Jørgensen

Release Date: May 2, 2013

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The Gum 15 Star Formation Region: Wide-field View | ESO

The Gum 15 Star Formation Region: Wide-field View | ESO

This relatively unknown wide-field view captures the spectacular celestial landscape around the central object Gum 15. Among many other objects the star cluster NGC 2671 is visible a little to the lower left of center and at the lower right of the image some of the filaments forming part of the Vela Supernova Remnant can be seen. This view was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

Distance: about 3,000 light-years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: November 3, 2014

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Scarlet and Smoke in The Gum 15 Nebula | ESO

Scarlet and Smoke in The Gum 15 Nebula | ESO

The smokey black silhouette in this image is part of a large, sparse cloud of partially ionized hydrogen—an HII region—known as Gum 15. In wide-field images this nebula appears as a striking reddish purple clump dotted with stars and slashed by opaque, weaving dust lanes. This image homes in on one of these dust lanes, showing the central region of the nebula.

These dark chunks of sky have seemingly few stars because lanes of dusty material are obscuring the bright, glowing regions of gas beyond. The occasional stars that do show up in these patches are actually between us and Gum 15, but create the illusion that we are peering through a window out onto the more distant sky.

Gum 15 is shaped by the aggressive winds flowing from the stars within and around it. The cloud is located near to several large associations of stars including the star cluster ESO 313-13. The brightest member of this cluster, named HD 74804, is thought to have ionized Gum 15’s hydrogen cloud. This ionized hydrogen content is the cause of the red hue permeating the frame.

This image was taken as part of the ESO Cosmic Gems program using the FORS instrument on the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. This project has actually produced multiple images of this target—back in July 2014, ESO released a stunning wide-field image of Gum 15 with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory that showed the nebula’s sculpted clouds, murky dust, and brightly shining stars in extraordinary detail.

Notes:

The ESO Cosmic Gems program is an initiative to produce images of interesting, intriguing or visually attractive objects using ESO telescopes, for the purposes of education and public outreach. The program makes use of telescope time that cannot be used for science observations.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: November 3, 2014

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SpaceX Starlink Mission: Aug. 9, 2022 | NASA Kennedy

SpaceX Starlink Mission: Aug. 9, 2022 | NASA Kennedy

On Tuesday, August 9, 2022, at 10:14 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched 52 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

This was the third flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched SES-22 and now two Starlink missions.

Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)

Image Date: August 9, 2022

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Panning across the Star Formation Region Gum 15 | ESO

Panning across the Star Formation Region Gum 15 | ESO

This richly detailed pan video from the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the star formation region Gum 15. This little-known object is located in the constellation of Vela (The Sails), some 3,000 light-years from Earth. The glowing cloud is a stunning example of an HII region. 

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Music: movetwo

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: July 14, 2014

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Zooming in on Gum 15 | ESO

Zooming in on Gum 15 | ESO

This zoom sequence shows the location of the star formation region Gum 15 in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sails). This little known object is located in a spectacular part of the Milky Way. The final detailed view comes from the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.

Distance: about 3,000 light-years

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

Music: movetwo

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: July 25, 2014

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The Gum 15 Star Formation Region | ESO

The Gum 15 Star Formation Region | ESO

This richly detailed new view from the MPG/European Southern Observatory 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the star formation region Gum 15. This little-known object is located in the constellation of Vela (The Sails), some 3,000 light-years from Earth. The glowing cloud is a stunning example of an HII region. 

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: July 2, 2014

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The Countdown to Our Artemis I Moon Mission | This Week @NASA

The Countdown to Our Artemis I Moon Mission | This Week @NASA 

Week of August 12, 2022: The countdown to our Artemis I Moon mission, a Moon-observing small satellite hitching a ride on Artemis I, and some other tiny satellites that could help us better prepare for space weather . . . a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 4 minutes, 11 seconds

Release Date: August 13, 2022

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A Galactic Starscape with Rho Ophiuchi and Antares | ESO

A Galactic Starscape with Rho Ophiuchi and Antares | ESO

The second of three images of ESO’s GigaGalaxy Zoom project is a new and wonderful 340-million-pixel vista of the central parts of our galactic home, a 34 by 20-degree wide image that provides us with a view as experienced by amateur astronomers around the world. Taken by Stéphane Guisard, an ESO engineer and world-renowned astrophotographer, from Cerro Paranal, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope, this second image directly benefits from the quality of Paranal’s sky, one of the best on the planet. The image shows the region spanning the sky from the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer) to Scorpius (the Scorpion). The very colorful Rho Ophiuchi and Antares region features prominently to the right, as well as much darker areas, such as the Pipe and Snake Nebulae. 

The dusty lane of our Milky Way runs obliquely through the image, dotted with remarkable bright, reddish nebulae, such as the Lagoon and the Trifid Nebulae, as well as NGC 6357 and NGC 6334. This dark lane also hosts the very center of our Galaxy, where a supermassive black hole is lurking. 

The image was obtained by observing with a 10-cm Takahashi FSQ106Ed f/3.6 telescope and a SBIG STL CCD camera, using a NJP160 mount. Images were collected through three different filters (B, V and R) and then stitched together. This mosaic was assembled from 52 different sky fields made from about 1200 individual images totalling 200 hours exposure time, with the final image having a size of 24 403 x 13 973 pixels.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/S. Guisard

Release Date: September 21, 2009

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Rho Ophiuchi Star-forming Region: Wide-field View | ESO

Rho Ophiuchi Star-forming Region: Wide-field View | ESO

This wide-field view shows the star-forming region Rho Ophiuchi in the constellation of Ophiuchus (The Serpent Bearer), as seen in visible light. This view was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

Distance: 400 light years

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

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: November 30, 2012

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The Rho Ophiuchi Star Formation Region | Steward Observatory

The Rho Ophiuchi Star Formation Region | Steward Observatory

This wide-field view shows a spectacular region of dark and bright clouds, forming part of a region of star formation in the constellation of Ophiuchus (The Serpent Bearer).

Credit: Adam Block/Steward Observatory/University of Arizona

Image Date: July 2, 2019

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NASA's Artemis I Moon Mission: The Rocket | Path to the Pad

NASA's Artemis I Moon Mission: The Rocket | Path to the Pad

Have you ever wondered what it takes to assemble the most powerful rocket NASA has ever built? Watch documentary footage of our Space Launch System (SLS) rocket's transformation into the over-300-foot-tall launch vehicle that will return humanity to the Moon.

Starting with manufacturing and ending with stacking operations inside NASA Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building, this is only the beginning of SLS's path to the pad.

All about Artemis I: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-i

Video Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 

Writer: Danielle Sempsrott

Editor: Francisco Martin

Producers: John Sackman, Michael Justice & Madison Tuttle

Music courtesy of Gothic Storm Music

Credit: NASA

Duration: 13 minutes, 12 seconds

Release Date: August 12, 2022

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The Rho Ophiuchi Cloud | NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

The Rho Ophiuchi Cloud | NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

One of the most striking nearby star-forming regions is the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud. Images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal its infrared wonders.

Credit: NASA JPL/Caltech

Duration: 2 minutes, 32 seconds

Release Date: September 12, 2008

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Rho Ophiuchi: Young Stars in Their Baby Blanket of Dust | NASA's Spitzer

Rho Ophiuchi: Young Stars in Their Baby Blanket of Dust | NASA's Spitzer

Newborn stars peek out from beneath their natal blanket of dust in this dynamic image of the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Called "Rho Oph" by astronomers, it is one of the closest star-forming regions to our own solar system. Located near the constellations Scorpius and Ophiuchus, the nebula is about 407 light years away from Earth.

Rho Oph is a complex made up of a large main cloud of molecular hydrogen, a key molecule allowing new stars to form from cold cosmic gas, with two long streamers trailing off in different directions. Recent studies using the latest X-ray and infrared observations reveal more than 300 young stellar objects within the large central cloud. Their median age is only 300,000 years, very young compared to some of the universe's oldest stars, which are more than 12 billion years old.

This false-color image of Rho Oph's main cloud, Lynds 1688, was created with data from Spitzer's infrared array camera, which has the highest spatial resolution of Spitzer's three imaging instruments, and its multiband imaging photometer, best for detecting cooler materials. Blue represents 3.6-micron light; green shows light of 8 microns; and red is 24-micron light. The multiple wavelengths reveal different aspects of the dust surrounding and between the embedded stars, yielding information about the stars and their birthplace.

The colors in this image reflect the relative temperatures and evolutionary states of the various stars. The youngest stars are surrounded by dusty disks of gas from which they, and their potential planetary systems, are forming. These young disk systems show up as red in this image. Some of these young stellar objects are surrounded by their own compact nebulae. More evolved stars, which have shed their natal material, are blue.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

Release Date: February 11, 2008

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The Rho Ophiuchi Star-forming Region: Infrared View | NASA's WISE

The Rho Ophiuchi Star-forming Region: Infrared View | NASA's WISE

This image shows the Rho Ophiuchi star-forming region in infrared light, as seen by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WISE). Blue and cyan represent light emitted at wavelengths of 3.4 and 4.6 micrometers, which is predominantly from stars. Green and red represent light from 12 and 22 micrometers, respectively, which is mostly emitted by dust.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team 

Release Date: August 29, 2012

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Zooming in on The Rho Ophiuchi Star Formation Region | ESO

Zooming in on The Rho Ophiuchi Star Formation Region | ESO

Zooming in on the Rho Ophiuchi star formation region in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

Distance: about 360 light-years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO), S. Guisard, N. Risinger 

Music: Johan B. Monell

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: October 2, 2017

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