Our Milky Way Galaxy: How Big is Space? | NASA/JPL

Our Milky Way Galaxy: How Big is Space? | NASA/JPL

When we talk about the enormity of the cosmos, it is easy to toss out big numbers—but far more difficult to wrap our minds around just how large, how far, and how numerous celestial bodies really are. How big is our Milky Way Galaxy and how far away are exoplanets, the planets beyond our solar system? 

Learn more: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/faq/26/what-is-a-light-year/

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Duration: 1 minute, 46 seconds

Release Date: April 2, 2019
 

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Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Mission: Launch Prep | European Space Agency

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Mission: Launch Prep | European Space Agency

The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, JUICE, will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large ocean-bearing moons—Ganymede, Callisto and Europa—with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments. The mission will characterize these moons as both planetary objects and possible habitats, explore Jupiter’s complex environment in depth, and study the wider Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giants across the Universe.
The launch is scheduled for no earlier than April 13, 2023.

Follow the JUICE Mission: www.esa.int/juice

Launch location: Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, South America

Launch vehicle: Ariane 5 rocket

NASA's Europa Clipper Mission will complement the European Space Agency's JUICE Mission. JUICE will fly-by Europa twice and Callisto multiple times before moving into orbit around Ganymede.

Image Credits: European Space Agency/M. Pédoussaut/CNES/Arianespace 

Image Dates: March 24-April 6, 2023

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The Overview Effect: Seeing Earth in Perspective | NASA's Artemis II Moon Crew

The Overview Effect: Seeing Earth in Perspective | NASA's Artemis II Moon Crew

NASA astronaut Christina Koch, appearing with her Artemis II mission crewmates Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen of Canada, tells Stephen about the flood of emotions that can accompany an astronaut’s view of Earth from space, a sensation that is known as The Overview Effect.

Credit: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Duration: 3 minutes, 20 seconds
Release Date: April 6, 2023 

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Multi-Generational Globular Star Cluster NGC 2419 | Hubble

Multi-Generational Globular Star Cluster NGC 2419 | Hubble

This image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope shows the globular star cluster NGC 2419. Globular clusters are both beautiful and fascinating. They are spherical groups of stars that orbit the center of a galaxy, and in the case of NGC 2419, that galaxy is our own Milky Way. NGC 2419 is around 300,000 light-years from the solar system, in the constellation Lynx.

Image Description: Black background. Image is filled with a spherical grouping of blue-white, orange, and red stars. The density of stars is greatest at the center of the sphere. Star numbers taper off toward the image's edges.

The stars populating globular clusters are very similar because they formed at roughly the same time. Astronomers can determine a star’s relative age by its chemical makeup, a property called its metallicity. Because stars in a globular cluster all formed at around the same time, they tend to display similar properties. Astronomers believed this similarity included their stellar helium content. They thought that all stars in a globular cluster would contain similar amounts of helium.

However, Hubble’s observations of NGC 2419 revealed that this is not always the case. This globular cluster holds two separate populations of red giant stars, and one is unusually helium rich. NGC 2419’s stars hold other elements that vary too. In particular, their nitrogen content varies. To make things even more interesting, the helium-rich stars are predominantly in the center of the globular cluster and are rotating. Hubble’s observations raised questions about the formation of globular clusters; did these two drastically different groups of stars form together? Or did this globular cluster come into being by a different route entirely?

Image Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, S. Larsen et al.

Text Credit: ESA

Release Date: Feb. 25, 2019

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Russian Soyuz MS-23 Crew Ship Relocation | International Space Station

Russian Soyuz MS-23 Crew Ship Relocation | International Space Station

The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, with Expedition 69 crew members Frank Rubio of NASA, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev (Russia) and Dmitri Petelin (Russia) aboard, successfully docked to the Prichal module on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station at 5:22 a.m. EDT on April 6, 2023.

This was the 26th spacecraft relocation in space station history. The move makes room for the arrival of the uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 84 cargo spacecraft (Russia) later this year and frees the Poisk airlock for the upcoming Roscosmos spacewalks in April and May.

Rubio, Prokopyev, and Petelin are scheduled to return to Earth aboard the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft upon undocking Sept. 27.

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 69 Crew (March 2023)
Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey Fedyaev
Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

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

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)

Capture Date: April 6, 2023


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Introducing NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission Crew | This Week @NASA

Introducing NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission Crew | This Week @NASA

Introducing the crew of NASA's Artemis II Moon mission, lighting up an Artemis rocket engine, and a new image of a distant planet. A few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Learn more about the Artemis II mission: https://nasa.gov/specials/artemis-ii

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Video Producer, Editor, Narrator: Andre Valentine

Duration: 2 minutes, 36 seconds

Release Date: April 7, 2023

 

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Crew Announcement & Celebrations | NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Astronauts

Crew Announcement & Celebrations | NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Astronauts

 

From left: NASA astronauts Artemis II Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Commander Reid Wiseman, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen
 

 From left: NASA astronauts Artemis II Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Commander Reid Wiseman, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen. 

 

From left: NASA astronauts Artemis II Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Commander Reid Wiseman, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen.

 

 NASA astronaut Artemis II Pilot Victor Glover greets fans while attending the NCAA Men’s Final Four national championship game at NRG Stadium in Houston.

 

Houston students from Davila Elementary and Wesley Elementary attend the Monday, April 3, 2023, announcement of the Artemis II crew at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

 Houston students from Davila Elementary and Wesley Elementary attend the Monday, April 3, 2023, Artemis II crew announcement.

 

NASA's international astronaut corps poses for a group photo on stage during a Monday April 3, 2023, Artemis II crew announcement.

 

 

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, are announced as members of the Artemis II crew.

"The crew of NASA’s Artemis II moon mission, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen of Canada, join Stephen Colbert to discuss how they are preparing for their mission, and why they have their sights set on Mars as the next frontier for human exploration."

NASA announced on Monday, April 3, 2023, in Houston, Texas, that four astronauts have been selected for NASA’s Artemis II Mission: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency.

Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon to verify today’s capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface.

Learn more about the Artemis II mission: https://nasa.gov/specials/artemis-ii

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Release Date: April 6, 2023


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NASA Artemis II Moon Mission Overview

NASA Artemis II Moon Mission Overview

The approximately 10-day Artemis II flight test will launch on the agency’s powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, prove the Orion spacecraft’s life-support systems, and validate the capabilities and techniques needed for humans to live and work in deep space.

The astronauts will launch from NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39B atop the SLS rocket as it generates 8.8 million pounds of thrust, beginning their 600,000 mile journey. Once out of our atmosphere, these star sailors will conduct a targeting demonstration and check the Orion spacecraft’s systems near Earth before they head around the Moon and back to Earth, reentering our atmosphere at 30 times the speed of sound, before gently splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.
 
Artemis II's crew is comprised of NASA astronauts commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch; and Canadian Space Agency astronaut and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen.

Learn more about the Artemis II mission: https://nasa.gov/specials/artemis-ii

 

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Producer: Sami Aziz
Editor: Matt Murray
Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: April 7, 2023 

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Zoom into Cassiopeia A | James Webb Space Telescope

Zoom into Cassiopeia A | James Webb Space Telescope

This video takes the viewer on a journey to Cassiopeia A (Cas A), a supernova remnant located about 11,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. It spans approximately 10 light-years. This new image uses data from Webb’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) to reveal Cas A in a new light.

On the remnant’s exterior, particularly at the top and left, lie curtains of material appearing orange and red that are due to emission from warm dust. This marks where ejected material from the exploded star is ramming into surrounding circumstellar material.

Interior to this outer shell lie mottled filaments of bright pink studded with clumps and knots. This represents material from the star itself, and likely shines by the light produced by a mix of heavy elements and dust emission. The stellar material can also be seen as fainter wisps near the cavity’s interior.

A loop represented in green extends across the right side of the central cavity. Its shape and complexity are unexpected and challenging for scientists to understand.

Supernovae like the one that formed Cas A are crucial for life as we know it. They spread elements like the calcium we find in our bones and the iron in our blood across interstellar space, seeding new generations of stars and planets.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University), T. Temim (Princeton University), I. De Looze (UGent), J. DePasquale (STScI), ESA/Hubble, ESA/Webb, E. Slawik, N. Risinger, D. de Martin (ESA/Webb), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), M. Zimani (ESA/Webb)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: April 7, 2023

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Pan of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A | James Webb Space Telescope

Pan of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A | James Webb Space Telescope

Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is a supernova remnant located about 11,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. It spans approximately 10 light-years. This new image uses data from Webb’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) to reveal Cas A in a new light.

On the remnant’s exterior, particularly at the top and left, lie curtains of material appearing orange and red that are due to emission from warm dust. This marks where ejected material from the exploded star is ramming into surrounding circumstellar material.

Interior to this outer shell lie mottled filaments of bright pink studded with clumps and knots. This represents material from the star itself, and likely shines by the light produced by a mix of heavy elements and dust emission. The stellar material can also be seen as fainter wisps near the cavity’s interior.

A loop represented in green extends across the right side of the central cavity. Its shape and complexity are unexpected and challenging for scientists to understand.

Supernovae like the one that formed Cas A are crucial for life as we know it. They spread elements like the calcium we find in our bones and the iron in our blood across interstellar space, seeding new generations of stars and planets.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University), T. Temim (Princeton University), I. De Looze (UGent), J. DePasquale (STScI), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), M. Zimani (ESA/Webb) 

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: April 7, 2023

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Cassiopeia A: New Details Revealed | James Webb Space Telescope

Cassiopeia A: New Details Revealed | James Webb Space Telescope

Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is a supernova remnant located about 11,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. It spans approximately 10 light-years. This new image uses data from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) to reveal Cas A in a new light.

The explosion of a star is a dramatic event, but the remains that the star leaves behind can be even more dramatic. A new mid-infrared image from NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope provides one stunning example. It shows the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A), created by a stellar explosion 340 years ago. The image displays vivid colors and intricate structures begging to be examined more closely. Cas A is the youngest known remnant of an exploding, massive star in our galaxy, offering astronomers an opportunity to perform stellar forensics to understand the star’s death.

Cassiopeia A is a prototypical supernova remnant that has been widely studied by a number of ground-based and space-based observatories. The multi-wavelength observations can be combined to provide scientists with a more comprehensive understanding of the remnant.

The striking colors of the new Cas A image, in which infrared light is translated into visible-light wavelengths, hold a wealth of scientific information that researchers are just beginning to tease out. On the bubble’s exterior, particularly at the top and left, lie curtains of material appearing orange and red that are due to emission from warm dust. This marks where ejected material from the exploded star is ramming into surrounding circumstellar gas and dust.

Interior to this outer shell lie mottled filaments of bright pink studded with clumps and knots. This represents material from the star itself, which is shining by the light produced by a mix of heavy elements, such as oxygen, argon, and neon, as well as dust emission. The stellar material can also be seen as fainter wisps near the cavity’s interior.

Among the science questions that Cas A may help answer is: where does cosmic dust come from? Observations have found that even very young galaxies in the early Universe are suffused with massive quantities of dust. It is difficult to explain the origins of this dust without invoking supernovae, which spew large quantities of heavy elements (the building blocks of dust) across space.

However, existing observations of supernovae have been unable to conclusively explain the amount of dust we see in those early galaxies. By studying Cas A with Webb, astronomers hope to gain a better understanding of its dust content, which can help inform our understanding of where the building blocks of planets—and ourselves—are created.

Supernovae like the one that formed Cas A are crucial for life as we know it. They spread elements like the calcium we find in our bones and the iron in our blood across interstellar space, seeding new generations of stars and planets.

The Cas A remnant spans about 10 light-years and is located 11,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.

Webb is the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. Under an international collaboration agreement, ESA provided the telescope’s launch service, using the Ariane 5 launch vehicle. Working with partners, ESA was responsible for the development and qualification of Ariane 5 adaptations for the Webb mission and for the procurement of the launch service by Arianespace. ESA also provided the workhorse spectrograph NIRSpec and 50% of the mid-infrared instrument MIRI, which was designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (The MIRI European Consortium) in partnership with JPL and the University of Arizona.

Webb is an international partnership between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University), T. Temim (Princeton University), I. De Looze (UGent), J. DePasquale (STScI)
Release Date: April 7, 2023

 

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NASA's Space to Ground: Before the Moon | Week of April 7, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground: Before the Moon | Week of April 7, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Axiom Space announced its next private astronaut mission to the ISS this week. The Axiom-2 crew is, retired NASA astronaut and Mission Commander Peggy Whitson, Pilot John Shoffner, and Mission Specialists Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi—the last three are first-time space flyers. Axiom-2 is targeting a launch to the station no earlier than 10:43 p.m. EDT on May 8, 2022, aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 2 minutes, 52 seconds

Release Date: April 6, 2023

 

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Why We’re Going Back to the Moon | NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Astronauts

Why We’re Going Back to the Moon | NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Astronauts

"The crew of NASA’s Artemis II moon mission, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen of Canada, join Stephen Colbert to discuss how they are preparing for their mission, and why they have their sights set on Mars as the next frontier for human exploration." 

NASA announced on Monday, April 3, 2023, in Houston, Texas, that four astronauts have been selected for NASA’s Artemis II Mission: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency.

Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon to verify today’s capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface.

Learn more about Artemis II: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii

 

Credit: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Duration: 8 minutes, 46 seconds

Release Date: April 6, 2023

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NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission Poster Samples

NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission Poster Samples 

Three examples of stylized Artemis II Mission posters were released on April 6, 2023. NASA announced on Monday, April 3, 2023, in Houston, Texas, that four astronauts have been selected for NASA’s Artemis II Mission: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency.  

Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon to verify today’s capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface.

Learn more about Artemis II: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Image Date: April 6, 2023



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Hubble Catches Possible Runaway Black Hole

Hubble Catches Possible Runaway Black Hole

There is an invisible monster on the loose! It’s barreling through intergalactic space fast enough to travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes. However, do not worry, luckily this beast is very, very far away!

This potential supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a never-before-seen 200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars. 

The streamer is twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy. It’s likely the result of a rare, bizarre game of galactic billiards among three massive black holes.

Video Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center 

Paul Morris: Lead Producer 

Black Hole Animation

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman

Image of Chandra X-Ray Observatory

NASA/CXC and J. Vaughan

3 Black Hole Orbits and Slingshots

Image from paper “A candidate runaway supermassive black hole identified by shocks and star formation in its wake” by PI Pieter Von Dokkum et al.

Schematic illustration of the runaway SMBH scenario as an explanation of the key observed features. Panels 1–5 show a “classical” slingshot scenario (e.g., Saslaw et al. 1974). The background of panel 6 is a frame from an Illustris TNG simulation (Pillepich et al. 2018)

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Duration: 1 minute, 56 seconds

Release Date: April 6, 2023

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Planet Uranus & The Uranian System | James Webb Space Telescope

Planet Uranus & The Uranian System | James Webb Space Telescope

This zoomed-in image of Uranus and its rings was captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on Feb. 6, 2023.

This annotated, zoomed-in image of Uranus and its rings was captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on Feb. 6, 2023.

This wider view of the Uranian system with Webb’s NIRCam instrument features the planet Uranus as well as six of its 27 known moons (most of which are too small and faint to be seen in this short exposure). A handful of background objects, including many galaxies, are also seen.

An annotated wider view of the Uranian system.

The NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope has taken stunning images of the Solar System’s other ice giant, the planet Uranus and its moons. These new images feature dramatic rings as well as bright features in the planet’s atmosphere. The new Webb data of Uranus offer exquisite sensitivity, revealing the faintest dusty rings.

The seventh planet from the Sun, Uranus is strange: it rotates on its side, at a nearly 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. This causes unusual seasons since the planet’s poles experience 42 years of constant sunlight and 42 years of complete darkness (Uranus takes 84 years to orbit the Sun). Currently, it is late spring at the northern pole, which is on the right side of this image; Uranus’s northern summer will be in 2028.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA)/Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI), N. Bartmann  

Release Date: April 6, 2023

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