Friday, September 30, 2022

Artist’s Impression of Star-forming Region S106 | Hubble

Artist’s Impression of Star-forming Region S106 | Hubble

This animation shows an artist's impression of star forming region Sh 2-106 (S 106 for short) and its surrounding area.

Distance: 3,300 light years


Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA) and M. Kornmesser

Duration: 31 seconds

Release Date: February 17, 2016


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Star-forming Region S106: Fulldome View | Hubble

Star-forming Region S106: Fulldome View | Hubble

This fulldome video is of an emission nebula in the star-forming region Sh 2-106, found in the constellation Cygnus. A massive young star at the center of the scene is responsible, in its tempestuous youth, for the wonderful, bipolar structure of dust and gas.

Distance: 3,300 light years

Note: The full dome video display format is designed for projection systems in planetariums.


Credit: NASA & European Space Agency (ESA)

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: February 17, 2016


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Pan over Star-forming Region S106 | Hubble

Pan over Star-forming Region S106 | Hubble

This video pans over star-forming region Sh 2-106, or S106 for short. This is a compact star forming region in the constellation Cygnus (The Swan). A newly-formed star called S106 IR is shrouded in dust at the center of the image, and is responsible for the the surrounding gas cloud’s hourglass-like shape and the turbulence visible within. Light from glowing hydrogen is colored blue in this image.

Distance: 3,300 light years


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

Duration: 36 seconds

Release Date: December 15, 2011


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Zooming in on Star-forming Region S106 | Hubble

Zooming in on Star-forming Region S106 | Hubble

This video zooms in on star-forming region Sh 2-106, also known as S106. This is a compact star forming region in the constellation Cygnus (The Swan). A newly-formed star called S106 IR is shrouded in dust at the center of the image, and is responsible for the the surrounding gas cloud's hourglass-like shape and the turbulence visible within.

Distance: 3,300 light years


Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Digitized Sky Survey 2, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and Nick Risinger

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: Feb 17, 2016


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New Views of Jupiter's Icy Ocean Moon Europa | NASA's Juno Mission

New Views of Jupiter's Icy Ocean Moon Europa | NASA's Juno Mission


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Observations from the Juno spacecraft’s passes of Juputer's moon Europa have provided new views of this ocean world, resulting in remarkable imagery and unique science. Jupiter’s moon Europa has an icy crust covering a vast, global ocean.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott J. Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built and operates the spacecraft.

More information about Juno is available at:

https://www.nasa.gov/juno

and

https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu


Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Release Date: September 29, 2022


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Star-forming Region S106 | Hubble

Star-forming Region S106 | Hubble


This image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope shows Sh 2-106, or S106 for short. This is a compact star forming region in the constellation Cygnus (The Swan). A newly-formed star called S106 IR is shrouded in dust at the center of the image, and is responsible for the surrounding gas cloud’s hourglass-like shape and the turbulence visible within. Light from glowing hydrogen is colored blue in this image.

Distance: 3300 light years


Credit: NASA & European Space Agency (ESA)

Release Date: December 15, 2011


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NASA's Space to Ground: Samantha Assumes Command | Week of Sept. 30, 2022

NASA's Space to Ground: Samantha Assumes Command | Week of Sept. 30, 2022

Week of September 30, 2022: NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy is the new Commander of the International Space Station. “Cristoforetti will lead the new Expedition 68 crew until she and three of her SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom crewmates depart the space station in October.”

Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov of Russia landed on Earth, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in Kazakhstan. The trio returned after 195 days in space that spanned 3,120 orbits of Earth and over 78 million miles.

During the mission, Artemyev completed five spacewalks totaling 33 hours, 12 minutes. He has now logged 561 days in space on his three flights.

Matveev completed four spacewalks totaling 26 hours, 7 minutes during the mission. He logged 195 days in space on his first flight.

Korsakov also logged 195 days in space on his first flight.

Remaining aboard the station is the seven-person crew of Expedition 66 with Station Commander Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, Frank Rubio, and Jessica Watkins, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin.

In October, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 members—NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina—will join the Expedition 68 members aboard the station. Crew-5 will be the fifth crew rotation mission of SpaceX’s human space transportation system, and its sixth flight with astronauts, to the International Space Station for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

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


Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Release Date: September 30, 2022


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Thursday, September 29, 2022

Moon Rocks: Meet NASA’s Rock Detectives | NASA Explorers

Moon Rocks: Meet NASA’s Rock Detectives | NASA Explorers

 

Meet NASA’s rock detectives. Using tiny samples of lunar rock brought back by Apollo astronauts, these NASA Explorers are looking into the origins of our Moon, our planet, and ourselves. They might be among the first scientists to study samples from the Moon’s South Pole that will be delivered to Earth by Artemis astronauts. 

In episode 2 of “NASA Explorers: Artemis Generation,” we’re joining scientists like Natalie Curran and Jose Aponte, who are looking at clues buried in Moon rocks.


Credit: NASA

Series Executive Producers: Katy Mersmann/Lauren Ward

Season Producers: Lonnie Shekhtman/Stephanie Sipila/James Tralie/Molly Wasser 

Explorers: Natalie Curran/Jose Aponte

Duration: 9 minutes

Release Date: Sept. 28, 2022


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Mysterious Dark Rays: IC 5063 | Hubble

Mysterious Dark Rays: IC 5063 | Hubble

Some of the most stunning views of our sky occur at sunset, when sunlight pierces the clouds, creating a mixture of bright and dark rays formed by the clouds’ shadows and the beams of light scattered by the atmosphere. Astronomers studying the nearby galaxy IC 5063 are tantalized by a similar effect in this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. In this case, a collection of narrow bright rays and dark shadows is seen beaming out of the blazingly bright center of the active galaxy, shooting across at least 36,000 light-years.

Astronomers have traced the rays back to the galaxy’s core, the location of an active supermassive black hole. The black hole is feeding on infalling material, producing a powerful gusher of light from superheated gas near it. Although the researchers have developed several plausible theories for the lightshow, the most intriguing idea suggests that the shadows are being cast into space by an inner tube-shaped ring, or torus, of dusty material surrounding the black hole.

IC 5063 resides 156 million light-years from Earth.


Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and W.P. Maksym (CfA)

Release Date: November 23, 2020


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A Flash of Life: Planetary Nebula Abell 78 | Hubble

A Flash of Life: Planetary Nebula Abell 78 | Hubble

Located around 5,000 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus (The Swan), Abell 78 is an unusual type of planetary nebula. 

After exhausting the nuclear fuel in their cores, stars with a mass of around 0.8 to 8 times the mass of our Sun collapse to form dense and hot white dwarf stars. As this process occurs, the dying star will throw off its outer layers of material, forming an elaborate cloud of gas and dust known as a planetary nebula. This phenomenon is not uncommon, and planetary nebulae are a popular focus for astrophotographers because of their often beautiful and complex shapes. However, a few like Abell 78 are the result of a so-called “born again” star. 

Although the core of the star has stopped burning hydrogen and helium, a thermonuclear runaway at its surface ejects material at high speeds. This ejecta shocks and sweeps up the material of the old nebula, producing the filaments and irregular shell around the central star seen in this image, which features data from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and PANSTARSS.


Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, M. Guerrero

Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt

Release Date: March 15, 2021


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Birds of a Feather: Spiral Galaxy NGC 2775 | Hubble

Birds of a Feather: Spiral Galaxy NGC 2775 | Hubble


The spiral pattern shown by the galaxy in this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope is striking because of its delicate, feathery nature. These "flocculent" spiral arms indicate that the recent history of star formation of the galaxy, known as NGC 2775, has been relatively quiet. There is virtually no star formation in the central part of the galaxy, which is dominated by an unusually large and relatively empty galactic bulge, where all the gas was converted into stars long ago.

NGC 2275 is classified as a flocculent spiral galaxy, located 67 million light-years away in the constellation of Cancer. 

Millions of bright, young, blue stars shine in the complex, feather-like spiral arms, interlaced with dark lanes of dust. Complexes of these hot, blue stars are thought to trigger star formation in nearby gas clouds. The overall feather-like spiral patterns of the arms are then formed by shearing of the gas clouds as the galaxy rotates. The spiral nature of flocculents stands in contrast to the grand design spirals, which have prominent, well defined-spiral arms.


Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team

Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)

Release Date: June 29, 2020


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Flyover of Tropical Storm Ian: Sept. 29, 2022 | International Space Station

Flyover of Tropical Storm Ian: Sept. 29, 2022 | International Space Station 

The International Space Station flew 260 miles over Tropical Storm Ian at 2:10 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. External cameras on the orbiting laboratory captured views of the storm as it began to move off of the east coast of Florida. Ian made landfall near Fort Myers, Florida Wednesday packing winds of 155 miles an hour as it moved to the northeast across the Florida peninsula.


Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 12 minutes

Release Date: September 29, 2022


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A Stately Spiral Galaxy in Hydra: NGC 5495 | Hubble

A Stately Spiral Galaxy in Hydra: NGC 5495 | Hubble


The stately sweeping arms of the spiral galaxy NGC 5495 are revealed by the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in this image. NGC 5495, which lies around 300 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra, is a Seyfert galaxy, a type of galaxy with a particularly bright central region. These luminous cores—known to astronomers as active galactic nuclei—are dominated by the light emitted by dust and gas falling into a supermassive black hole. 

This image is drawn from a series of observations captured by astronomers studying supermassive black holes lurking in the hearts of other galaxies. Studying the central regions of galaxies can be challenging, including the light created by matter falling into supermassive black holes, areas of star formation and the light from existing starsall contribute to the brightness of galactic cores. Hubble’s crystal-clear vision helped astronomers disentangle the various sources of light at the core of NGC 5495, allowing them to precisely weigh its supermassive black hole. 

As well as NGC 5495, two stellar interlopers are visible in this image. One is just outside the center of NGC 5495, and the other is very prominent alongside the galaxy. While they share the same location on the sky, these objects are much closer to home than NGC 5495: they are stars from our own Milky Way. The bright stars are surrounded by criss-cross diffraction spikes, optical artefacts created by the internal structure of Hubble interacting with starlight.


Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, J. Greene 

Acknowledgement: R. Colombari

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: September 29, 2022


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NASA’s Juno Shares First Image From Flyby of Jupiter’s Moon Europa | JPL

NASA’s Juno Shares First Image From Flyby of Jupiter’s Moon Europa | JPL


Closest view of Europa in over Twenty Years!

Sept. 29, 2022: Observations from the Juno spacecraft’s pass of Juputer's moon Europa provided the first close-up in over two decades of this ocean world, resulting in remarkable imagery and unique science.

The first picture NASA’s Juno spacecraft took as it flew by Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Europa has arrived on Earth. Revealing surface features in a region near the moon’s equator called Annwn Regio, the image was captured during the solar-powered spacecraft’s closest approach, on Thursday, Sept. 29, at 2:36 a.m. PDT (5:36 a.m. EDT), at a distance of about 219 miles (352 kilometers).

This is only the third close pass in history below 310 miles (500 kilometers) altitude and the closest look any spacecraft has provided at Europa since Jan. 3, 2000, when NASA’s Galileo came within 218 miles (351 kilometers) of the surface.

Europa is the sixth-largest moon in the solar system, slightly smaller than Earth’s moon. Scientists think a salty ocean lies below a miles-thick ice shell, sparking questions about potential conditions capable of supporting life underneath Europa’s surface.

This segment of the first image of Europa taken during this flyby by the spacecraft’s JunoCam (a public-engagement camera) zooms in on a swath of Europa’s surface north of the equator. Due to the enhanced contrast between light and shadow seen along the terminator (the nightside boundary), rugged terrain features are easily seen, including tall shadow-casting blocks, while bright and dark ridges and troughs curve across the surface. The oblong pit near the terminator might be a degraded impact crater.

With this additional data about Europa’s geology, Juno’s observations will benefit future missions to the Jovian moon, including the agency’s Europa Clipper. Set to launch in 2024, Europa Clipper will study the moon’s atmosphere, surface, and interior, with its main science goal being to determine whether there are places below Europa’s surface that could support life.

As exciting as Juno’s data will be, the spacecraft had only a two-hour window to collect it, racing past the moon with a relative velocity of about 14.7 miles per second (23.6 kilometers per second).

“It’s very early in the process, but by all indications Juno’s flyby of Europa was a great success,” said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. “This first picture is just a glimpse of the remarkable new science to come from Juno’s entire suite of instruments and sensors that acquired data as we skimmed over the moon’s icy crust.”

During the flyby, the mission collected what will be some of the highest-resolution images of the moon (0.6 miles, or 1 kilometer, per pixel) and obtained valuable data on Europa’s ice shell structure, interior, surface composition, and ionosphere, in addition to the moon’s interaction with Jupiter’s magnetosphere.

“The science team will be comparing the full set of images obtained by Juno with images from previous missions, looking to see if Europa’s surface features have changed over the past two decades,” said Candy Hansen, a Juno co-investigator who leads planning for the camera at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. “The JunoCam images will fill in the current geologic map, replacing existing low-resolution coverage of the area.”

Juno’s close-up views and data from its Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument will provide new details on how the structure of Europa’s ice varies beneath its crust. Scientists can use all this information to generate new insights into the moon, including data in the search for regions where liquid water may exist in shallow subsurface pockets.

Building on Juno’s observations and previous missions such as Voyager 2 and Galileo, NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, slated to arrive at Europa in 2030, will study the moon’s atmosphere, surface, and interior—with a goal to investigate habitability and better understand its global subsurface ocean, the thickness of its ice crust, and search for possible plumes that may be venting subsurface water into space.

The close flyby modified Juno’s trajectory, reducing the time it takes to orbit Jupiter from 43 to 38 days. The flyby also marks the second encounter with a Galilean moon during Juno’s extended mission. The mission explored Ganymede in June 2021 and is scheduled to make close flybys of Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system, in 2023 and 2024.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott J. Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built and operates the spacecraft.


More information about Juno is available at:

https://www.nasa.gov/juno

and

https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu


Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Release Date: September 29, 2022


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Potential First Traces of the Universe’s Earliest Stars | NOIRLab

Potential First Traces of the Universe’s Earliest Stars | NOIRLab

Cosmoview Episode 53: Astronomers may have discovered the ancient chemical remains of the first stars to light up the Universe. Using an innovative analysis of a distant quasar observed by the 8.1-meter Gemini North telescope on Hawai‘i, operated by the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab, the scientists found an unusual ratio of elements that, they argue, could only come from the debris produced by the all-consuming explosion of a 300-solar-mass first-generation star.


Credits:

Images and Videos: International Gemini Observatory/National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab)/National Science Foundation (NSF)/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), S. Brunier/Digitized Sky Survey 2, E. Slawik, J. Pollard  

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

Duration: 1 minute, 12 seconds

Release Date: September 29, 2022


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Soyuz MS-21 Landing: Three Russian Cosmonauts | International Space Station

Soyuz MS-21 Landing: Three Russian Cosmonauts | International Space Station

Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov landed on Earth at 6:57 a.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 29 in Kazakhstan (4:57 p.m. Kazakhstan time), southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan. The trio departed the International Space Station in their Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft at 3:34 a.m.

The trio returns to Earth after 195 days in space that spanned 3,120 orbits of Earth and over 78 million miles.

During the mission, Artemyev completed five spacewalks totaling 33 hours, 12 minutes. He has now logged 561 days in space on his three flights.

Matveev completed four spacewalks totaling 26 hours, 7 minutes during the mission. He logged 195 days in space on his first flight.

Korsakov also logged 195 days in space on his first flight.

The trio will return by Russian helicopters to the recovery staging city in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, before boarding a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center aircraft to return to their training base in Star City, Russia.

Remaining aboard the station is the seven-person crew of Expedition 66 with Station Commander Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA (European Space Agency), NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, Frank Rubio, and Jessica Watkins, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin.

In October, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 members – NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina – will join the Expedition 68 members aboard the station. Crew-5 will be the fifth crew rotation mission of SpaceX’s human space transportation system, and its sixth flight with astronauts, to the space station for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

The International Space Station has surpassed 20 years of continuous human presence, providing opportunities for unique technological demonstrations and research that help prepare for long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars while also improving life on Earth. To date, 260 people from 20 countries have visited the orbiting laboratory that has hosted more than 3,000 research investigations from researchers in more than 100 countries and areas.

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 TV
Acknowledgement: SciNews
Duration: 5 minutes
Release Date: September 29, 2022

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