Pan across Galaxy Pair Arp 116 | Hubble

Pan across Galaxy Pair Arp 116 | Hubble

This video shows Hubble observations of Arp 116, a pair of galaxies in the constellation of Virgo. It is made up of M60, a large elliptical galaxy, and a smaller, bluer spiral galaxy, NGC 4647. It has long been unclear whether the two galaxies are actually interacting, or whether they simply appear close together from our distant vantage point. However, detailed studies of Hubble pictures suggest that the pair are beginning to experience tidal forces.

Distance: 50 million light years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: September 6, 2012

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Zoom into Galaxy Pair Arp 116 | Hubble

Zoom into Galaxy Pair Arp 116 | Hubble

This video zooms in from a view of the night sky, through the constellation of Virgo, and into a Hubble view of galaxy pair Arp 116.

Distance: 50 million light years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, A. Fujii, Digitized Sky Survey 2

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: September 6, 2012

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Galaxy Pair Arp 116 | Hubble

Galaxy Pair Arp 116 | Hubble

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the peculiar galaxy pair called Arp 116. 

Distance: 50 million light years

Arp 116 is composed of a giant elliptical galaxy known as Messier 60, and a much smaller spiral galaxy, NGC 4647.

Astronomers have long tried to determine whether these two galaxies are actually interacting. Although they overlap as seen from Earth, there is no evidence of new star formation, which would be one of the clearest signs that the two galaxies are indeed interacting. However, recent studies of very detailed Hubble images suggest the onset of some tidal interaction between the two.

Also included in the image, just below and to the right of M60, is their even smaller neighbor M60-UCD1.

M60-UCD1 is a very tiny galaxy, just 1/500th of the diameter of our Milky Way, that lies about 50 million light-years away. Despite its size, it is pretty crowded, with about 140 million stars crammed into its diameter of just 300 light-years.

An international team of astronomers have found a supermassive black hole at the centre of M60-UCD1 with the mass of 20 million Suns.

Credit: European Space Agency, NASA

Release Date: September 6, 2012

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Zoom in on Glowing Nebula NGC 248 | Hubble

Zoom in on Glowing Nebula NGC 248 | Hubble

This zoom video starts with a wide-field view of both the Small and the Large Magellanic Clouds before zooming into the emission nebula NGC 248, located on the southern end of the Small Magellanic Cloud, as it is seen with the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope.

Distance: 200,000 light years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency/Hubble, A. Fujii and Digitized Sky Survey 2 

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: December 20, 2016

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Glowing Nebula NGC 248 in The Small Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

Glowing Nebula NGC 248 in The Small Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

This glowing nebula, named NGC 248, is located within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and about 200,000 light-years from Earth. The nebula was observed with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys in September 2015, as part of a survey called the Small Magellanic cloud Investigation of Dust and Gas Evolution (SMIDGE).

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, Space Telescope Science Institute, K. Sandstrom (University of California, San Diego), and the SMIDGE team

Release Date: December 20, 2016

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Light and Dark in Taurus | Hubble

Light and Dark in Taurus | Hubble

This NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope image shows a variety of intriguing cosmic phenomena.

Surrounded by bright stars, towards the upper middle of the frame we see a small young stellar object (YSO) known as SSTC2D J033038.2+303212. Located in the constellation of Perseus, this star is in the early stages of its life and is still forming into a fully grown star. In this view from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) it appears to have a murky chimney of material emanating outwards and downwards, framed by bright bursts of gas flowing from the star itself. This fledgling star is actually surrounded by a bright disc of material swirling around it as it forms—a disc that we see edge-on from our perspective.

However, this small bright speck is dwarfed by its cosmic neighbor towards the bottom of the frame, a clump of bright, wispy gas swirling around as it appears to spew dark material out into space. The bright cloud is a reflection nebula known as [B77] 63, a cloud of interstellar gas that is reflecting light from the stars embedded within it. There are actually a number of bright stars within [B77] 63, most notably the emission-line star LkHA 326, and its very near neighbor LZK 18.

These stars are lighting up the surrounding gas and sculpting it into the wispy shape seen in this image. However, the most dramatic part of the image seems to be a dark stream of smoke piling outwards from [B77] 63 and its stars—a dark nebula called Dobashi 4173. Dark nebulae are incredibly dense clouds of pitch-dark material that obscure the patches of sky behind them, seemingly creating great rips and eerily empty chunks of sky. The stars speckled on top of this extreme blackness actually lie between us and Dobashi 4173.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Release Date: August 25, 2014

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Panning across The XZ Tauri Star System

Panning across The XZ Tauri Star System

This video pans over NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope observations of multiple star system XZ Tauri.

Distance: 450 light years

XZ Tauri is blowing a hot bubble of gas into the surrounding space, which is filled with bright and beautiful clumps that are emitting strong winds and jets. These objects illuminate the region, creating a truly dramatic scene.

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble and NASA

Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: November 6, 2014

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The XZ Tauri Star System: Wide-field View (ground-based image)

The XZ Tauri Star System: Wide-field View (ground-based image)

This image from the Digitized Sky Survey shows the area around multiple star system XZ Tauri.

XZ Tauri is blowing a hot bubble of gas into the surrounding space, which is filled with bright and beautiful clumps that are emitting strong winds and jets.

Distance: 450 light years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, Digitized Sky Survey 2 

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: November 6, 2014

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Zooming in on XZ Tauri | Hubble

Zooming in on XZ Tauri Star System | Hubble

This video begins with a ground-based view of the night sky, before zooming in on multiple star system XZ Tauri as the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope sees it.

Distance: 450 light years

XZ Tauri is blowing a hot bubble of gas into the surrounding space, which is filled with bright and beautiful clumps that are emitting strong winds and jets. These objects illuminate the region, creating a truly dramatic scene.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, Digitized Sky Survey 2, N. Risinger

Duration: 59 seconds

Release Date: November 6, 2014

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Jets, Bubbles and Bursts of Light in Taurus | Hubble

Jets, Bubbles and Bursts of Light in Taurus | Hubble

The NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a striking view of a multiple star system called XZ Tauri, its neighbor HL Tauri and several nearby young stellar objects. XZ Tauri is blowing a hot bubble of gas into the surrounding space, which is filled with bright and beautiful clumps that are emitting strong winds and jets. These objects illuminate the region, creating a truly dramatic scene.

Distance: 450 light years

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble and NASA

Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt

Release Date: November 6, 2014

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Brilliant Aurora Streams above Earth's Indian Ocean | International Space Station

Brilliant Aurora Streams above Earth's Indian Ocean | International Space Station

A brilliant aurora streams above Earth's horizon in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 270 miles above the Indian Ocean northeast of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.

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 Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) Education

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Release Date: August 17, 2022

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China Space Station's Robotic Arm in Action

China Space Station's Robotic Arm in Action

The China Manned Space Agency released video shot from the country's space station and shows its robotic arm inspecting the exterior, along with magnificent views of Earth.

The robotic arm inspected the space station to ensure that it is ready to move the Wentian lab module from its temporary docking bay to its permanent port.

Credit: China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Duration: 3 minutes, 36 seconds

Release Date: August 24, 2022

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Wide-field View of Galaxy NGC 3256 (ground-based image)

Wide-field View of Galaxy NGC 3256 (ground-based image)

This ground-based image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 3256 and its surroundings.

Distance: 100 million light years

Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2; Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: May 31, 2018

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NASA's Artemis I Moon Rocket Mission: We Are Ready

NASA's Artemis I Moon Rocket Mission: We Are Ready

The journey of half a million miles—the first flight of the Artemis Generation—is about to begin. The uncrewed Artemis I mission will jump-start humanity’s return to the Moon with the thunderous liftoff of NASA’s powerful new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. This critical flight test will send Orion farther than any human-rated spacecraft has ever flown, putting new systems and processes to the test and lighting the way for the crew missions to come. Artemis I is ready for departure—and, together with our partners around the world, we are ready to return to the Moon, with our sights on Mars and beyond.

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

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 

Producer: Lisa Allen, Barbara Zelon, Alysia Lee

Writer & Director: Paul Wizikowski

Duration: 4 minutes, 43 seconds

Release Date: Aug 24, 2022

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Pan on Peculiar Galaxy NGC 3256 | Hubble

Pan on Peculiar Galaxy NGC 3256 | Hubble

This video pans over NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope observations of the starburst galaxy NGC 3256, located about 100 million light-years from Earth. The galaxy is the result of a merger between galaxies with similar masses. Although the collision is estimated to have happened 500 million years ago, the galaxy still bears the marks of this event—luminous tails of gas and dust surround the galaxy and in its center, new stars are born at a rapid rate.

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble; Risinger/Digitized Sky Survey 2

Duration: 25 seconds

Release Date: June 27, 2018

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Zoom-in on Peculiar Galaxy NGC 3256 | Hubble

Zoom-in on Peculiar Galaxy NGC 3256 | Hubble

This video zooms in on the spiral galaxy NGC 3256, about 100 million light-years away. It starts with a view of the night sky focused on the constellation of Vela (The Sails), as seen from the ground. It then zooms through observations from the Digitized Sky Survey 2, and ends with a view of the galaxy obtained with the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope.

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble, NASA, Digitized Sky Survey 2

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: May 31, 2018

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