Location of Dwarf Galaxy Bedin 1 in Star Cluster NGC 6752 | Hubble

Location of Dwarf Galaxy Bedin 1 in Star Cluster NGC 6752 | Hubble

This composite image shows the location of the accidentally discovered dwarf galaxy Bedin 1 behind the globular cluster NGC 6752. The lower image, depicting the complete cluster, is a ground-based observation from the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The upper right image shows the full field of view of the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. The upper left one highlights the part containing the galaxy Bedin 1.

Distance: 30 million light years

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble, NASA, Bedin et al., Digitized Sky Survey 2

Release Date: Jan. 31, 2019

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Bedin I: "The Accidentally Discovered Dwarf Galaxy" | Hubble

Bedin I: "The Accidentally Discovered Dwarf Galaxy" | Hubble

This image, taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, shows a part the globular cluster NGC 6752. Behind the bright stars of the cluster a denser collection of faint stars is visible—a previously unknown dwarf spheroidal galaxy. This galaxy, nicknamed Bedin 1, is about 30 million light-years from Earth.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble, NASA, Bedin et al.

Release Date: Jan. 31, 2019

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Prepares for Launch | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Prepares for Launch | International Space Station

Astronaut Stephen Bowen of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, SpaceX Crew-6 Commander, poses for a portrait in his pressure suit at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California

Astronaut Sultan Alneyadi from the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, SpaceX Crew-6 Mission Specialist

Cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Roscosmos, SpaceX Crew-6 Mission Specialist

Astronaut Warren "Woody" Hoburg of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, SpaceX Crew-6 Pilot

A SpaceX launch and entry suit bears an American flag, and the name of NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen, who will serve as the commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station

A SpaceX launch and entry suit bears a United Arab Emirates flag, and the name of Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre astronaut Sultan Alneyadi

A SpaceX launch and entry suit bears a Russian flag, and the name of Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev

A SpaceX launch and entry suit bears an American flag, and the name of NASA astronaut Warren "Woody" Hoburg

The four crew members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station are Mission Specialist Sultan Al Nedayi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev of Roscosmos (Russia), Pilot William Hoburg (NASA), and Commander Stephen Bowen (NASA). Launch is scheduled for no earlier than Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023.

Image Credit: SpaceX

Image Date: Jan. 30, 2023

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Globular Star Cluster NGC 6752 in Pavo | Hubble

Globular Star Cluster NGC 6752 in Pavo | Hubble

This image, taken with the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope, shows a part of the globular cluster NGC 6752. The observations were made to study white dwarfs within it and to use these stars to measure the age of the globular cluster.

Analyzing the data, astronomers discovered a previously unknown galaxy behind the globular cluster. The galaxy, nicknamed Bedin 1, is visible as a collection of faint stars at the top left of the image.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble, NASA, Bedin et al.

Release Date: January 31, 2019

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A Hypnotizing Galaxy: NGC 4303 | European Southern Observatory

A Hypnotizing Galaxy: NGC 4303 | European Southern Observatory

Fall deeper into the entrancing NGC 4303, a spiral galaxy located approximately 55 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. This image combines data taken at radio and visible wavelengths, and is helping astronomers understand how stars form in galaxies.

The hypnotizing golden glow drawing you into the image corresponds to clouds of molecular gas, the raw material out of which stars form. The data was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), co-operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the Chilean Andes. The blueish regions in the background, on the other hand, were imaged with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), also in Chile, and they reveal already formed stars. By comparing the distribution of gas and stars astronomers are able to study what triggers, enhances or hampers the birth of new stars. 

This image is part of the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) project, which is using ground-based and space telescopes to make detailed observations of nearby galaxies across the electromagnetic spectrum.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/PHANGS

Release Date: Feb. 6, 2023

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Open Star Cluster NGC 6791 in Lyra | Hubble

Open Star Cluster NGC 6791 in Lyra | Hubble

This Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) field image is full of stars from the open star cluster NGC 6791 estimated to be 8 billion years old. Two background galaxies can be seen at upper left.

Distance: 13,000 light years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and L. Bedin (STScI)

Release Date: July 10, 2008

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NASA Kennedy’s Swamp Works Celebrates a Decade of Discoveries

NASA Kennedy’s Swamp Works Celebrates a Decade of Discoveries

This year, we are celebrating the tenth anniversary of NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Swamp Works. Swamp Works was developed as a space devoted to innovation and collaboration across Kennedy’s research facilities, which include the granular mechanics and regolith operations (GMRO), applied chemistry, electrostatics and surface physics, and applied physics laboratories.

As NASA prepares to return to the Moon, the technologies developed at Swamp Works are playing a major role across multiple programs at the agency. These advancements will help provide humans with the capabilities that will be needed for living and exploring on the surfaces of the Moon, and one day, Mars.

Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

Duration: 1 minute, 18 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 3, 2023

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New Mars Images: Feb. 2023 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers | JPL

New Mars Images: Feb. 2023 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers | JPL

MSL - Sol 3727 - Mastcam

Mars2020 - Sol 693 - Mastcam

Mars2020 - Sol 693 - Mastcam-Z

MSL - Sol 3730 - MastCam

MSL - Sol 3728 - Mastcam

MSL - Sol 3730 - MastCam

MSL - Sol 3730 - MAHLI

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Celebrating 10 Years+ on Mars! (2012-2023)

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.

Mars Helicopter (Ingenuity)

Launch: July 30, 2020    

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

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

Processing: Kevin M. Gill

Image Release Dates: Feb. 2-3, 2023

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Prepares for Launch | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Prepares for Launch | International Space Station

The four crew members that comprise the SpaceX Crew-6 mission are pictured in front of the SpaceX Dragon crew ship during a crew equipment integration test at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left, in their pressure suits are, Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev of Roscosmos; Pilot Warren "Woody" Hoburg and Commander Stephen Bowen, both from NASA; and Mission Specialist Sultan Alneyadi from the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre.

Roscosmos cosmonaut and SpaceX Crew-6 Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev is pictured during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California

Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre astronaut and SpaceX Crew-6 Mission Specialist Sultan Alneyadi is pictured during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California

The four crew members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station are Mission Specialist Sultan Al Nedayi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev of Roscosmos (Russia), Pilot William Hoburg (NASA), and Commander Stephen Bowen (NASA). Launch is scheduled for no earlier than Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023.

Credit: SpaceX

Image Date: Jan. 30, 2023

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Work to Do Outside the International Space Station | This Week @NASA

Work to Do Outside the International Space Station | This Week @NASA

Week of  Feb. 3, 2023: Work to do outside the International Space Station, honoring a pair of former astronauts, and a milestone on Mars . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Video Producer: Andre Valentine

Video Editor: Haley Reed

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: Feb. 3, 2023

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Training Astronauts for Moon Exploration | European Space Agency

Training Astronauts for Moon Exploration | European Space Agency

Astronauts with their sights on the Moon receive world-class geology training during the fifth edition of European Space Agency’s Pangaea campaign.

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA’s Stephanie Wilson joined the course to learn how to read a landscape, collect scientifically relevant rocks and effectively communicate their geological observations. From choosing landing sites for a future Artemis mission, to designing science operations for a moonwalk, the course challenges space explorers to become field scientists.

The astronauts gather a wealth of geological knowledge and learn how to be the eyes and ears of scientists on the ground through a balanced mix of theory and field trips across Europe. A crew of leading European planetary scientists and engineers make sure the trainees work in tandem using the best geology observation techniques.

The course began in September 2022 in the Italian Dolomites with lessons on martian geology and asteroids at the Bletterbach canyon.

During the second leg of the training, Alexander and Stephanie followed the footsteps of Apollo astronauts to study the Ries crater in Germany, one of the best-preserved impact craters on Earth, where American crews trained before their flight to the Moon.

The astronauts travelled to the Spanish Canary Island of Lanzarote for an intense week of training in November 2022, where they learned about the geological interactions between volcanic activity and water—two key factors in the search for life.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: Feb. 3, 2023

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Expedition 68: New 2023 Crew Photos | International Space Station

Expedition 68: New 2023 Crew Photos | International Space Station

Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin and Anna Kikina, and Nicole Mann

Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, and Anna Kikina

Cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Anna Kikina work on eye scans

Astronaut Nicole Mann organizes spacewalk tools in the Quest airlock

Astronaut Koichi Wakata organizes spacewalk tools in the Quest airlock

Astronaut Josh Cassada installs a biological 3-D printer

Cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev jogs while tethered to a station treadmill

Cosmonaut Anna Kikina works on orbital plumbing tasks

Follow Expedition 68 crew updates at:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

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.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Dates: Jan. 26-31, 2023

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NASA's Space to Ground: Flame On | Week of Feb. 3, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground: Flame On | Week of Feb. 3, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata concluded their spacewalk at 2:26 p.m. EST after six hours and 41 minutes on Feb. 2, 2023.

Mann and Wakata completed their major objective for today, which was to complete the construction of a mounting platform on the 1A power channel that was started during a spacewalk on Jan. 20. In addition, they relocated an articulating portable foot restraint from the P6 truss for future spacewalk tasks and deployed cables for the installation of the next pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (iROSAs).

The installation was part of a series of spacewalks to augment the station’s power channels with new iROSAs. Four iROSAs have been installed so far, and two additional arrays will be mounted to the installed platforms during future spacewalks following their arrival later this year on SpaceX’s 28th commercial resupply services mission for NASA.

It was the 259th spacewalk in support of space station assembly, upgrades, and maintenance, the second spacewalk of 2023, and the second spacewalk for both astronauts.

Mann and Wakata are in the midst of a planned six-month science mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions, including to the Moon through NASA’s Artemis missions.

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: 3 minutes, 18 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 2, 2023

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Training for NASA's Artemis II Crewed Moon Mission | Kennedy Space Center

Training for NASA's Artemis II Crewed Moon Mission | Kennedy Space Center

Members of the Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) landing and recovery team gather for a group photograph in front of the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA) at the turn basin in the Launch Complex 39 area at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 1, 2023. The CMTA is being used to practice recovery after splashdown of the Orion spacecraft to prepare for the Artemis II crewed mission. EGS leads recovery efforts.

Liliana Villarreal, Artemis landing and recovery director with Exploration Ground Systems (EGS), stands in front of the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA) at the turn basin in the Launch Complex 39 area at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 1, 2023

Liliana Villarreal, Artemis landing and recovery director with Exploration Ground Systems (EGS), stands in front of the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA)

Liliana Villarreal, Artemis landing and recovery director with Exploration Ground Systems (EGS), christens the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA) with champagne during a naming ceremony at the turn basin in the Launch Complex 39 area at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 30, 2023

A crane lowers the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA) into water at the turn basin in the Launch Complex 39 area at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 30, 2023. The CMTA is being used to practice recovery after splashdown of the Orion spacecraft to prepare for the Artemis II crewed mission. Exploration Ground Systems leads recovery efforts

Landing and recovery team members secure the Crew Module Test Article (CMTA) in the water at the turn basin in the Launch Complex 39 area

The Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) landing and recovery team at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is training for recovery after splashdown of the Orion spacecraft to prepare for the Artemis II crewed mission. EGS leads recovery efforts. The Crew Module Test Article (CMTA) is being used to practice recovery after splashdown of the Orion spacecraft.

Learn more about the Artemis II Mission:

https://www.nasa.gov/subject/14152/artemis-ii-was-exploration-mission-2/

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Orion/Artemis_II

Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

Image Dates: Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 2023

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Pan of White Dwarf Star LAWD 37 | Hubble

Pan of White Dwarf Star LAWD 37 | Hubble

Hubble has used microlensing to measure the mass of a white dwarf star.

The dwarf, called LAWD 37, is a burned-out star in the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image that is featured in this pan video. Though its nuclear fusion furnace has shut down, trapped heat is sizzling on the surface at roughly 100,000 degrees Celsius, causing the stellar remnant to glow fiercely.

The white dwarf has a ‘spike’ because it is so bright that the light ‘bled’ into the Hubble camera’s CCD detector. This interfered with one of the observing dates for measuring that background star’s position on the sky.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), P. McGill (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz and University of Cambridge), K. Sahu (STScI), J. Depasquale (STScI), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)  

Duration: 20 seconds

Release Date: Feb 2, 2023

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Hubble Measures Deflection of Starlight by a Foreground Object

Hubble Measures Deflection of Starlight by a Foreground Object

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly measured the mass of a single, isolated white dwarf called LAWD 37—the surviving core of a burned-out Sun-like star. LAWD 37 has been extensively studied because it is only 15 light-years away in the constellation Musca.

This illustration shows how the gravity of a foreground white dwarf star warps space and bends the light from a distant star behind it. Astronomers using the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly measured the mass of a single, isolated star other than our Sun—thanks to this optical trick of nature. The target was a white dwarf—the surviving core of a burned-out Sun-like star. The greater the temporary, infinitesimal deflection of the background star’s image, the more massive the foreground star is. Researchers found that the dwarf is 56 percent the mass of our Sun.

This effect, called gravitational lensing, was predicted as a consequence of Einstein’s general theory of relativity from a century ago. Observations of a solar eclipse in 1919 provided the first experimental proof for general relativity. However, Einstein did not think the same experiment could be done for stars beyond our Sun because of the extraordinary precision required.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), A. Feild

Release Date: Feb. 2, 2023

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