Space Sparks: Hubble Takes a Grand Tour of The Outer Solar System

Space Sparks: Hubble Takes a Grand Tour of The Outer Solar System

Space Sparks Episode 8: This is the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope's most recent annual grand tour of the outer Solar System. This is the realm of the giant planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—extending as far as 30 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. Unlike the rocky terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars that huddle close to the Sun’s warmth, these far-flung worlds are mostly composed of chilly gaseous soups of hydrogen, helium, ammonia, and methane around a packed, intensely hot, compact core.

Credit: Directed by: Bethany Downer and Nico Bartmann  

Editing: Nico Bartmann  

Web and technical support: Enciso Systems  

Written by: Bethany Downer  

Footage and photos: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team, N. Bartmann

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: Nov. 18, 2021

#NASA #ESA #Hubble #Astronomy #Space #Science #Planets #Jupiter #Saturn #Uranus #Neptune #SolarSystem #MilkyWay #Galaxy #Cosmos #Universe #SpaceTelescope #STScI #GSFC #UnitedStates #Europe #STEM #Education #HD #Video

Hubble Takes a Grand Tour of The Outer Solar System

Hubble Takes a Grand Tour of The Outer Solar System

This is the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope's most recent annual grand tour of the outer Solar System. This is the realm of the giant planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—extending as far as 30 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. Unlike the rocky terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars that huddle close to the Sun’s warmth, these far-flung worlds are mostly composed of chilly gaseous soups of hydrogen, helium, ammonia, and methane around a packed, intensely hot, compact core.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team  

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 18, 2021

#NASA #ESA #Hubble #Astronomy #Space #Science #Planets #Jupiter #Saturn #Uranus #Neptune #SolarSystem #MilkyWay #Galaxy #Cosmos #Universe #SpaceTelescope #STScI #GSFC #UnitedStates #Europe #STEM #Education #HD #Video

Planetary Portraits: Hubble’s Grand Tour of The Outer Solar System

Planetary Portraits: Hubble’s Grand Tour of The Outer Solar System

This is the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope's most recent annual grand tour of the outer Solar System. This is the realm of the giant planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—extending as far as 30 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. Unlike the rocky terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars that huddle close to the Sun’s warmth, these far-flung worlds are mostly composed of chilly gaseous soups of hydrogen, helium, ammonia, and methane around a packed, intensely hot, compact core.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team  

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date:  Nov. 18, 2021

#NASA #ESA #Hubble #Astronomy #Space #Science #Planets #Jupiter #Saturn #Uranus #Neptune #SolarSystem #MilkyWay #Galaxy #Cosmos #Universe #SpaceTelescope #STScI #GSFC #UnitedStates #Europe #STEM #Education #HD #Video

Hubble's Grand Tour of The Outer Solar System

Hubble's Grand Tour of The Outer Solar System

This is the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope's most recent grand tour of the outer Solar System. This is the realm of the giant planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—extending as far as 30 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. Unlike the rocky terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars that huddle close to the Sun’s warmth, these far-flung worlds are mostly composed of chilly gaseous soups of hydrogen, helium, ammonia, and methane around a packed, intensely hot, compact core.

Note: The planets are not shown to scale in this image.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team

Release Date: Nov. 18, 2021

#NASA #ESA #Hubble #Astronomy #Space #Science #Planets #Jupiter #Saturn #Uranus #Neptune #SolarSystem #MilkyWay #Galaxy #Cosmos #Universe #SpaceTelescope #STScI #GSFC #UnitedStates #Europe #STEM #Education

Galaxies in Fornax: One of a Pair | Hubble Space Telescope

Galaxies in Fornax: One of a Pair | Hubble Space Telescope

In this image, the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope peers into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax, more than 50 million light-years from Earth. This galaxy is one of a pair, but NGC 1317’s rowdy larger neighbor NGC 1316 lies outside Hubble’s field of view. Despite the absence here of its neighboring galaxy, NGC 1317 is accompanied in this image by two objects from very different parts of the Universe. The bright point ringed with a criss-cross pattern is a star from our own galaxy surrounded by diffraction spikes, whereas the redder elongated smudge is a distant galaxy lying far beyond NGC 1317.

The data presented in this image are from a vast observing campaign of hundreds of observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. Combined with data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) research facility in the Atacama desert, these observations help astronomers chart the connections between vast clouds of cold gas and the fiercely hot young stars that form within them. ALMA’s unparalleled sensitivity at long wavelengths identified vast reservoirs of cold gas throughout the local Universe, and Hubble’s sharp vision pinpointed clusters of young stars, as well as measuring their ages and masses. 

Often the most exciting astronomical discoveries require this kind of telescope teamwork, with cutting-edge facilities working together and providing astronomers with information across the electromagnetic spectrum. The same applies to future telescopes, with Hubble’s observations laying the groundwork for future science with the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope.

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

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 29, 2021

#NASA #ESA #ESO #Hubble #ALMA #Astronomy #Space #Science #Star #NGC1316 #NGC1317 #Fornax #Constellation #MilkyWay #Galaxy #Cosmos #Universe #SpaceTelescope #STScI #GSFC #UnitedStates #Europe #STEM #Education #HD #Video

A Long-Armed Spiral Galaxy ESO 415-19 | Hubble

A Long-Armed Spiral Galaxy ESO 415-19 | Hubble

The peculiar spiral galaxy ESO 415-19, which lies around 450 million light-years away, stretches lazily across this image from the NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope. While the center of this object resembles a regular spiral galaxy, long streams of stars stretch out from the galactic core like bizarrely elongated spiral arms. These are tidal streams caused by some chance interaction in the galaxy’s past, and give ESO 415-19 a distinctly peculiar appearance.

Image description: A spiral galaxy. It has a bright core with patches of dark dust, and fuzzier, dimmer spiral arms in cooler colors, with spots of bright blue. Long, faint tidal streams stretch from the galaxy’s arms: one up to the top of the frame, one curving down to the bottom-left corner. In the top-right there is a smaller, orange elliptical galaxy. The background is studded with many tiny stars and galaxies.

ESO 415-19’s peculiarity made it a great target for Hubble. This observation comes from an ongoing campaign to explore the Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, a menagerie of some of the weirdest and most wonderful galaxies that the Universe has to offer. These galaxies range from bizarre lonesome galaxies to spectacularly interacting galaxy pairs, triplets, and even quintets. These space oddities are spread throughout the night sky, which means that Hubble can spare a moment to observe them as it moves between other observational targets.

This particular observation lies in a part of the night sky contained by the Fornax constellation. This constellation was also the site of a particularly important Hubble observation; the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Creating the Ultra Deep Field required almost a million seconds of Hubble time, and captured nearly 10,000 galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colors. Just as climate scientists can recreate the planet’s atmospheric history from ice cores, astronomers can use deep field observations to explore slices of the Universe’s history from the present all the way to when the Universe was only 800 million years old!

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Release Date: Dec. 26, 2022

#NASA #Hubble #Astronomy #Space #Science #Galaxy #ESO41519 #Galaxies #Arp143 #NGC2444 #NGC2445 #Fornax #Constellation #Stars #Cosmos #Universe #Telescope #ESA #Goddard #GSFC #STScI #STEM #Education

NASA's Espacio a Tierra | Resumen del año 2022 | Johnson Space Center

NASA's Espacio a Tierra | Resumen del año 2022 | Johnson Space Center

Espacio a Tierra, la versión en español de las cápsulas Space to Ground de la NASA, te informa semanalmente de lo que está sucediendo en la Estación Espacial Internacional. 

Ultima novedad en el 21 de diciembre 2022: La caminata espacial para instalar los paneles solares programada para hoy fue aplazada debido al rastreo de desechos orbitales cerca de la estación espacial. La tripulación no está en peligro inmediato y se está evaluando una fecha nueva para la caminata espacial.

Exploration en Espanol | NASA

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/home/espanol.html

NASA's Space to Ground: Year 2022 in Review

2022 was another transformational year on the International Space Station. We broke some records, welcomed new space travelers, and took a major step at expanding the space fleet!  Thanks to everyone around the world that makes the work done on the Space Station possible.

Expedition 68 Crew

Station Commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Anna Kikina & Dmitri Petelin

NASA: Flight Engineers Nicole Mann, Frank Rubio & Josh Cassada

JAXA (Japan): Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata

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)

Duration: 6 minutes, 48 seconmds

Release Date: Dec. 27, 2022

#NASA #Space #NASAenespañol #español #ISS #ESA #Artemis #SpaceXCrewDragon #BoeingStarliner #NorthrupGrummanCygnus #RussianSoyuz #Spacecraft #Spacewalks #Astronauts #Cosmonauts #FlightEngineers #Science #Technology #HumanSpaceflight #Expedition68 #UnitedStates #Roscosmos #Russia #Japan #JAXA #Canada #CSA #STEM #Education #HD #Video

Best of 2022: The Pillars of Creation | James Webb Space Telescope

Best of 2022: The Pillars of Creation | James Webb Space Telescope

Compare NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope mid-infrared light image of the Pillars of Creation to its near-infrared light image in this short video tour. Thousands of stars have formed in this region, but interstellar dust cloaks the scene in mid-infrared light, which is why the majority of the stars appear to be missing. A quick dissolve to the near-infrared image proves they are still there, of course.

While mid-infrared light specializes in detailing where dust is—and these pillars are flush with dust and gas—many stars in this region aren’t dusty enough to appear at these wavelengths. 

Instead, mid-infrared light reveals which of the young stars still have their dusty “cloaks.” These are the crimson orbs toward the fringes of the pillars. In contrast, the blue stars that dot the scene are aging, which means they have already shed most of their layers of gas and dust.

How vast is this landscape? This bright red star and its dusty shroud are larger than the size of our entire solar system.

Credits:

VIdeo: Danielle Kirshenblat (STScI)

Design: Leah Hustak (STScI)

Narration: Danielle Kirshenblat (STScI)

Script: Claire Blome (STScI), Danielle Kirshenblat (STScI)

Science: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

Duration: 1 minute, 15 seconds

Release Date: Oct. 28, 2022

#NASA #Astronomy #Space #Science #Stars #Nebula #EagleNebula #PillarsOfCreation #Infrared #SerpensCauda #Constellation #JamesWebb #SpaceTelescope #JWST #NIRCam #Cosmos #Universe #UnfoldTheUniverse #ESA #Europe #CSA #Canada #GSFC #STScI #UnitedStates #STEM #Education #HD #Video

Putting a Telescope on the Moon?! | Discovery Files KIDS

Putting a Telescope on the Moon?! | Discovery Files KIDS

What are the benefits of putting a telescope on the moon? How could we do it? How would it all work?

Dr. Joe Pesce is a Program Director at the NSF, Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Division of Astronomical Sciences. An Astrophysicist with 30 years of experience, his primary areas of interest is in the external environments of galaxies hosting super massive black holes (Active Galactic Nuclei—AGN—in particular blazars); formation and evolution of AGN and galaxies; intergalactic medium in clusters of galaxies; imaging and spectroscopy of AGN (optical, IR, UV, X-ray); multiwavelength (radio to gamma) monitoring studies of blazars; cool stars and stellar atmospheres (AGB stars, supernovae progenitors).

Credit: National Science Foundation (NSF)

Duration: 2 minutes, 28 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 21, 2022

#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #Moon #Telescope #SpaceTelescope #Astrophysicist #JoePesce #NSF #UnitedStates #STEM #Education #HD #Video

New Mars Images: Dec. 2022 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers | JPL

New Mars Images: Dec. 2022 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers | JPL

Mars2020 - sol 657 - Mastcam-Z

MSL - sol 3689 - MAHLI - Stretched

MSL - sol 3687 - Mastcam

MSL - sol 3687 - Mastcam

MSL - sol 3689 - MAHLI

MSL - sol 3690 - Mastcam

MSL - sol 3688 - Mastcam

MSL - sol 3688 - Mastcam (APXS Checkout)

Read the Dec. 21, 2022, Curiosity Rover Update here:

https://bit.ly/3Z35qx9

Celebrating 10 Years on Mars! (2012-2022)

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life. 

Launch: Nov. 6, 2011

Landing Date: Aug. 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.

Launch: July 30, 2020    

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit: mars.nasa.gov

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Image Release Dates: Dec. 22-26, 2022

#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #Mars #RedPlanet #Planet #Astrobiology #Geology #CuriosityRover #MSL #MountSharp #GaleCrater #PerseveranceRover #Mars2020 #JezeroCrater #Robotics #Technology #Engineering #JPL #UnitedStates #JourneyToMars #MoonToMars #CitizenScience #KevinGill #STEM #Education

Earth Observation: Landsat's Next Chapter | NASA Goddard

Earth Observation: Landsat's Next Chapter | NASA Goddard

With a trio of smaller satellites that can each detect 26 wavelengths of light, the Landsat Next mission is expected to look very different from its predecessors that have been observing Earth for 50 years. This new plan for Landsat Next, a joint mission of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, is designed to provide more frequent, and finer resolution, data of the changing surface of Earth.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio

Chris Burns (KBRWyle): Lead Producer

Kate Ramsayer (Telophase): Lead Writer

Ginger Butcher (SSAI): Lead Writer

Ross Walter (Freelance): Lead Animator

Duration: 1 minute, 28 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 21, 2022

#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #Earth #Planet #USGS #Satellite #Landsat #LandsatNext #LightWavelengths #ClimateChange #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #GSFC #UnitedStates #STEM #Education #HD #Video

Earth: Landsat and Our Tilted Planet | United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Earth: Landsat and Our Tilted Planet | United States Geological Survey (USGS)

"We would not have seasons here on Earth if not for the planet's 23.5 degree axial tilt. Axial tilt is also known as obliquity. Earth's obliquity and its relationship with the sun give us two solstice points and two equinox points. As we orbit through each solstice and equinox, the amount and angle of daylight change. A 12-month sequence of Landsat imagery shows how much each month can differ, especially away from the equator. In extreme northern latitudes, sunlight during the winter solstice is so limited that daytime Landsat imagery is not available, while Antarctica receives long hours of daylight in the extreme southern latitudes. This multi-path swath of Landsat imagery in the Western Hemisphere shows the big picture. It contains only cloudy Landsat images, which are brighter and help show the change from north to south as the seasonal angle of the sun changes."

Credit: United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Duration: 1 minute, 15 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 21, 2022

#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #Sun #Earth #Planet #Obliquity #WinterSolstice #Daylight #Atmosphere #Meteorology #Seasons #Climate #AxialTilt #USGS #Satellite #Landsat #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #GSFC #UnitedStates #STEM #Education #HD #Video

Introducing: NASA's Earth System Observatory | Goddard Space Flight Center

Introducing: NASA's Earth System Observatory | Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA is developing the Earth System Observatory, the core of which is five satellite missions providing critical data on climate change, severe weather and other natural hazards, wildfires, and global food production. These observations will address the most pressing questions about our changing planet.

Taken together as a single Observatory, NASA will have a holistic, 3D view of Earth to better understand how our planet’s complex systems work together and improve our capability to predict how our climate may change. NASA’s Open Source Science strategy is the key to bringing the data from these missions together into a single observatory to help understand the earth as a system and accelerate our ability to use this understanding. These observations will better inform decision-makers on how our planet is changing, with greater precision on previously unimaginable scales—from entire continents down to individual trees, from atmosphere to bedrock.

For more information about NASA's Earth System Observatory, visit: 

https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/earth-system-observatory

Video Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Producer: Katie Jepson (KBRwyle)

Producer: LK Ward (KBRwyle)

Producer: Ellen T. Gray (NASA)

Editor: Katie Jepson (KBRwyle)

Narrator: LK Ward (KBRwyle)

Animator: Chris Burns (KBRWyle)

Project Support: Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBRwyle)

Duration: 1 minute, 52 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 15, 2022

#NASA #Earth #Planet #Science #Satellites #EarthScience #Atmosphere #Oceans #Land #Climate #ClimateChange #GreenhouseGases #GlobalWarming #EarthSystemObservatory #ESO #GSFC #UnitedStates #STEM #Education #HD #Video

2022: un año astronómico e histórico - Lo que hicimos este año en la NASA

2022: un año astronómico e histórico - Lo que hicimos este año en la NASA

En 2022, lanzamos nuestro mega cohete lunar por primera vez, enviando la nave Orion sin tripulación alrededor de la Luna, iniciamos una nueva era en la astronomía con nuevas imágenes históricas del Telescopio Espacial Webb, movimos un asteroide en la primera demostración de defensa planetaria de la humanidad y mucho más... Aquí tienes un vistazo a esas y otras actividades de este año en la NASA.

In 2022, we launched our mega Moon rocket for the first time—sending the uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon, we kicked off a new era in astronomy with record-breaking new imagery from the Webb Space Telescope, we moved an asteroid in humanity’s first ever planetary defense demonstration and much more. Here’s a look back at those and other things we did, this year @NASA!

Crédito: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Productor: Andre Valentine

Editora: Sonnet Apple

Narrador y editor: Pedro Cota

Duration: 5 minute, 40 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 23, 2022

#NASA #NASAenespañol #español #Space #Astronomy #JWST #Earth #Year2022 #Moon #Mars #MoonToMars #Artemis #ArtemisI #SLS #Rocket #Orion #Spacecraft #ISS #Astronauts #Science #HumanSpaceflight #Universe #SpaceTelescope #UnitedStates #Europe #ESA #SolarSystem #STEM #Education #HD #Video

The Milky Way Galaxy at Northam, Western Australia

The Milky Way Galaxy at Northam, Western Australia

Astrophotographer Trevor Dobson: "This is a 31 shot panorama of the Milky Way setting above a lone tree near Northam, 1.5 hours east of Perth in Western Australia."

"This was one of multiple lone tree compositions I shot this night, but unfortunately, I couldn't quite get a full panorama out of this one due to the northern edge of the Milky Way core going beyond the field the tree is located in. I would have gotten an ugly bit of gravel road and an intrusive tree on that side of the foreground cluttering up the image. So I ended up doing just a three quarter pano but I do like how the arc of the Milky Way complements the arc of the horizon. :)"

The light pollution is from Northam, one of the largest towns in the Wheatbelt region.

The Fading Milky Way

Light pollution is a growing environmental problem that threatens to erase the night sky before its time. A recent study revealed that perhaps two-thirds of the world's population can no longer look upwards at night and see the Milky Way—a hazy swath of stars that on warm summer nights spans the sky from horizon to horizon.

The Milky Way is dimming, not because the end of the Universe is near, but rather as a result of light pollution: the inadvertent illumination of the atmosphere from street lights, outdoor advertising, homes, schools, airports and other sources. Every night billions of bulbs send their energy skyward where microscopic bits of matter—air molecules, airborne dust, and water vapor droplets—reflect much of the wasted light back to Earth. 

(Source: NASA)

Learn more:

International Dark-Sky Association

https://www.darksky.org/light-pollution

Globe at Night

https://www.globeatnight.org

Night Sky Network (NASA JPL)

https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

Tourism Australia: https://www.australia.com

Technical data:

Nikon d810a, 50mm, ISO 6400, f/2.8

Foreground: 7 x 20 seconds

Sky: 24 x 30 seconds

iOptron SkyTracker

Hoya Red Intensifier filter

Image Credit: Trevor Dobson

Trevor Dobson's Flickr page: https://bit.ly/3hNqjeW

Image Date: Sept. 26, 2022

#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #MilkyWay #Stars #LightPollution #CitizenScience #Astrophotographer #TrevorDobson #Astrophotography #Skywatching #Cosmos #Universe #SolarSystem #Earth #Northam #WesternAustralia #Australia #STEM #Education

James Webb Space Telescope Launch Anniversary | Northrop Grumman

James Webb Space Telescope Launch Anniversary | Northrop Grumman

"One year ago today, the James Webb Space Telescope launched from French Guiana to expand our understanding of the universe.🌌 Celebrate with us by watching this one-year anniversary time-lapse video. 🎉"

Learn more about the James Webb Space Telescope:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/webb/main/index.html

https://jwst.nasa.gov/

https://esawebb.org

Credit: Northrop Grumman

Duration: 5 minutes

Release Date: Dec. 25, 2022

#NASA #Astronomy #Space #Science #Arianespace #Rocket #FrenchGuiana #SouthAmerica #Planets #Exoplanets #Stars #Galaxies #Nebulas #Infrared #Constellations #JamesWebb #SpaceTelescope #JWST #Cosmos #Universe #UnfoldTheUniverse #ESA #Europe #CSA #Canada #GSFC #STScI #UnitedStates #STEM #Education #HD #Video