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Location of Star Formation Region N11B in The Large Magellanic Cloud | NASA

Location of Star Formation Region N11B in The Large Magellanic Cloud | NASA

This panel is composed of three images of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) with increasing magnification. To the upper left is a ground-based image take by the German astrophotographer Eckhard Slawik. It spans 10 x 10 degrees. Just to the left of the middle of this image the largest star-forming region in the Local Group of galaxies, 30 Doradus, is seen as a red patch. N11B itself is seen in the upper right part of the LMC. The rectangle indicates the field of the Digitized Sky Survey 2 image.

To the upper right is a ground-based image zoomed closer on N11B in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The image spans a square of one degree and was constructed from two images from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 taken through infrared and red filters (shown as blue and red respectively). The frame indicates the field of Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 seen at the bottom of the panel.

Distance: ~160,000 light-year

Credit: NASA/European Space Agency (ESA), the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)/HEIC, Eckhard Slawik and Digitized Sky Survey 2

Release Date: July 1, 2004

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3D Animation: Star Formation Region N11B in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

3D Animation: Star Formation Region N11B in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

3D animation showing motion of the nebula N11B.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

Duration: 20 seconds

Release Date: February 16, 2016

NASA Astronaut Michael E. López-Alegría | Space Shuttle Flight STS-92

NASA Astronaut Michael E. López-Alegría | Space Shuttle Flight STS-92

Astronaut Michael E. López-Alegría, mission specialist, is photographed in this close-up view during one of the STS-92 spacewalks on Oct. 18, 2000. During his NASA career, López-Alegría logged more than 257 days in space and performed 10 spacewalks totaling 67 hours and 40 minutes. He flew on the STS-73, STS-92 and STS-113 space shuttle missions and spent seven months on the International Space Station (ISS) as commander of Expedition 14. In 2022, he served as commander of Axiom Mission 1, the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.

López-Alegría holds the record for the most extravehicular activities (spacewalks) ever performed, at 10 different excursions. His various NASA achievements earned him an induction in the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2020.

López-Alegría is a former president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, a former member of the Human Exploration and Operations Committee of the NASA Advisory Council, and former part of the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Another of his many affiliations is past president of the Association of Space Explorers USA.

Throughout National Hispanic Heritage Month, the contributions of the brilliant Hispanic people of NASA are being celebrated.

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: October 18, 2000

Release Date: September 15, 2022

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Panning on Star Formation Region N11B in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

Panning on Star Formation Region N11B in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

While the camera moves along the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope image, the full beauty of this star-forming region is revealed.

Distance: ~160,000 light-year

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

Release Date: February 16, 2016

Zooming on Star Formation Region N11B in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

Zooming on Star Formation Region N11B in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

Hubble observes the constellation Dorado and we zoom on the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We fade to Eckhard Slawik's ground-based image of the LMC and then fade to the Digitized Sky Survey 2 image of N11, and finally fade to the Hubble Space Telescope image of N11B.

Distance: ~160,000 light-years

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

Duration: 38 seconds

Release Date: February 16, 2016

Star Formation Region N11B in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

Star Formation Region N11B in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

The NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope captured the iridescent tapestry of star birth in a neighboring galaxy in this panoramic view of glowing gas, dark dust clouds, and young, hot stars. The star-forming region, catalogued as N11B lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), located only 160,000 light-years from Earth. With its high resolution, the Hubble Space Telescope is able to view details of star formation in the LMC as easily as ground-based telescopes are able to observe stellar formation within our own Milky Way galaxy.

Our neighborhood galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) lies in the Constellation of Dorado and is sprinkled with a number of regions harboring recent and ongoing star formation. One of these star-forming regions, N11B, is shown in this Hubble image. It is a subregion within a larger area of star formation called N11. N11 is the second largest star-forming region in LMC. It is only surpassed in the size and activity by "the king of stellar nurseries", 30 Doradus, located at the opposite side of LMC.

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

Release Date: July 1, 2004

Friday, September 16, 2022

Nebula NGC 604 in Far Away Galaxy M33 | Hubble

Nebula NGC 604 in Far Away Galaxy M33 | Hubble

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image (right) of a vast nebula called NGC 604, which lies in the neighboring spiral galaxy Messier 33, located 2.7 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum. It was discovered by German-born British astronomer and composer William Herschel on September 11, 1784.

Distance: ~3 million light years

Credit: Hui Yang (University of Illinois) and NASA/European Space Agency (ESA)

Release Date: August 7, 1996

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Orbital Sunrise over Pacific Ocean | International Space Station

Orbital Sunrise over Pacific Ocean | International Space Station

An orbital sunrise begins to illuminate the cloud tops in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above the Pacific Ocean south of the Hawaiian island chain.

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)

Image Date: Sept. 15, 2022

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Planet Saturn: The Farewell | NASA Cassini Mission

Planet Saturn: The Farewell | NASA Cassini Mission

The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017. Cassini's end involved a series of close Saturn passes, approaching within the rings, then an entry into Saturn's atmosphere to destroy the spacecraft. This method was chosen because it is necessary to ensure protection and prevent biological contamination to any of the moons of Saturn thought to offer potential habitability.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and www.nasa.gov/cassini

The Cassini-Huygens mission was a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, managed the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center was based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Processing: Elisabetta Bonora & Marco Faccin

Release Date: September 3, 2022

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Star Formation Region LHA 120-N11 in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

Star Formation Region LHA 120-N11 in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. As the Milky Way’s gravity gently tugs on its neighbor’s gas clouds, they collapse to form new stars. In turn, these light up the gas clouds in a kaleidoscope of colors, visible in this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA)

Acknowledgement: Josh Lake

Release Date: January 17, 2013

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Commemorating an Historic Event for Human Spaceflight | This Week @NASA

Commemorating an Historic Event for Human Spaceflight | This Week @NASA

Week of September 16, 2022: Commemorating an historic event for human spaceflight, an update on plans for Artemis I, and what our Perseverance rover is up to on Mars . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Producer: Andre Valentine

Editor: Shane Apple

Music: Universal Production Music

Credit: NASA

Duration: 4 minutes, 28 seconds

Release Date: September 16, 2022

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Bubbles & Baby Stars in The Large Magellanic Cloud: A Closer Look | Hubble

Bubbles & Baby Stars in The Large Magellanic Cloud: A Closer Look | Hubble

This Hubblecast features a spectacular NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope image—one of the largest ever released of a star-forming region. It highlights N11, part of a complex network of gas clouds and star clusters within our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This region of energetic star formation is one of the most active in the nearby Universe.

Distance: 170,000 light years

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble

Visual design & Editing: Martin Kornmesser

Animations: Martin Kornmesser

Web Technical Support: Lars Holm Nielsen & Raquel Yumi Shida

Written by: Richard Hook, Colleen Sharkey & Eric Schwartz

Narration: Gaitee Hussain

Additional images: Akira Fujii, Eckhard Slawik & Digitized Sky Survey 2

Directed by: Colleen Sharkey

Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen

Acknowledgement: Davide de Martin

Duration: 4 minutes, 37 seconds

Release Date: June 22, 2010

Mexico City at Night | International Space Station

Mexico City at Night | International Space Station

Mexico City at night as seen by the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy aboard the International Space Station for her Minerva Mission. Mexico City is the capital and largest city of Mexico. It is the most populous city in North America.

This image is dedicated to Friends of NASA member Amanda Rodriguez Valdés.

Learn about Samantha's Minerva Mission: https://bit.ly/MissionMinerva

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)

Learn more about the important research being operated on ISS: https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science

Credit: ESA/NASA-S.Cristoforetti

Image Date: June 25, 2022

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"The Tarantula Zone" | James Webb Space Telescope/Hubble/ESO

"The Tarantula Zone" | James Webb Space Telescope/Hubble/ESO

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star forming region within nearby satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud. About 180 thousand light-years away, it is the largest, most violent star forming region known in the whole Local Group of galaxies. The cosmic arachnid sprawls across this magnificent view, an assembly of image data from large space- and ground-based telescopes. Within the Tarantula (NGC 2070), intense radiation, stellar winds, and supernova shocks from the central young cluster of massive stars cataloged as R136 energize the nebular glow and shape the spidery filaments.

Around the Tarantula are other star forming regions with young star clusters, filaments, and blown-out bubble-shaped clouds. In fact, the frame includes the site of the closest supernova in modern times, SN 1987A, at lower right. The rich field of view spans about 2 degrees or 4 full moons, in the southern constellation Dorado. If the Tarantula Nebula was closer, say 1,500 light-years distant like the Milky Way's own star forming Orion Nebula, it would take up half the sky.

Image Credit & Copyright: Processing - Robert Gendler, Roberto Colombari

Robert Gendler's website: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com

Roberto Colombari's website: https://www.fast-aio.net/tarantula-jwst

Data - Hubble Tarantula Treasury, European Southern Observatory, James Webb Space Telescope, Amateur Sources

Release Date: September 16, 2022

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Surveying Star Formation Region N11 in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

Surveying Star Formation Region N11 in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

This panning sequence gives a close-up view of the Hubble image of the star forming region LHA 120-N 11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Rich detail can be seen in the clouds of gas and dust and many hot young stars, often in clusters, can be seen.

Distance: 170,000 light years

Credit: NASA/European Space Agency (ESA)

Duration: 36 seconds

Release Date: February 17, 2016

Bubbles & Baby Stars in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

Bubbles & Baby Stars in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

This image is one of the largest ever released of a star-forming region. It highlights N11, part of a complex network of gas clouds and star clusters within our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This region of energetic star formation is one of the most active in the nearby Universe.

Distance: 170,000 light years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA) and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)

Release Date: June 22, 2010

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