Pan over Galaxy Cluster ACO S520 in Pictor | Hubble

Pan over Galaxy Cluster ACO S520 in Pictor | Hubble

A menagerie of interesting astronomical finds fill this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. As well as several large elliptical galaxies, a ring-shaped galaxy is lurking on the right of this image. A pair of bright stars are also visible at the left of this image, notable for their colorful criss-crossing diffraction spikes. This collection of astronomical curiosities is the galaxy cluster ACO S520 in the constellation Pictor, which was captured by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys.

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: May 2, 2023

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Bowen & Alneyadi on Spacewalk | International Space Station

Bowen & Alneyadi on Spacewalk | International Space Station

NASA Astronaut Bowen during his eighth career spacewalk

Spacewalkers Bowen & Alneyadi

Spacewalker Alneyadi on his first career spacewalk

Astronaut Alneyadi begins his first career spacewalk

NASA astronaut Steve Bowen and United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi concluded their spacewalk at 4:12 p.m. EDT after 7 hours and 1 minute on Friday, April 28, 2023. This was the first spacewalk for a United Arab Emirates astronaut. Bowen and Alneyadi laid cables and installed insulation on mounting brackets on the starboard truss of the station for the installation of the next pair of International Space Station Roll Out Solar Arrays (iROSAs). The astronauts were unable to free up an electronics box located on the truss associated with a degraded S-band communications antenna. The antenna removal was deferred to a future spacewalk ahead of its planned return to Earth.

The installation is part of a series of spacewalks to augment the International Space Station’s power channels with new International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (iROSAs). Four iROSAs have been installed so far, and two more will be mounted to the platforms installed during this spacewalk in the future.

It was the 261st spacewalk in support of space station assembly, upgrades, and maintenance, the eighth spacewalk for Bowen, and the first for any UAE astronaut.

Bowen and Alneyadi 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 lunar missions through NASA’s Artemis program.

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:

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

Expedition 69 Crew (April 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

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

Release Date: April 28, 2023

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Introducing Europa Clipper | NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Introducing Europa Clipper | NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Join team members from NASA’s Europa Clipper mission behind the scenes in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to learn about the design of this spacecraft that will visit Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter. Europa Clipper Project Manager Jordan Evans and Deputy Science Manager Trina Ray explain how scientists’ questions translate into hardware, and they provide an update on the build in JPL’s clean room, pointing out hardware that will connect the spacecraft to the rocket, the main communication antenna, and cameras.

Europa Clipper will explore this icy moon of Jupiter to see if there are conditions suitable for life. The spacecraft needs to be hardy enough to survive a 1.6-billion-mile, six-year journey to Jupiter and sophisticated enough to perform a detailed science investigation of Europa once it arrives at the Jupiter system in 2030.

Europa Clipper is expected to launch in October 2024 from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. 

While Europa Clipper is not a life-detection mission, it will conduct detailed reconnaissance of Europa and investigate whether the icy moon, with its subsurface ocean, has the capability to support life. Understanding Europa’s habitability will help scientists better understand how life developed on Earth and the potential for finding life beyond our planet.

More information about Europa can be found here: europa.nasa.gov

Download Europa Clipper Ocean World poster: go.nasa.gov/3Gsjzt5

Viewers also can watch a 24-hour live feed of the spacecraft in the clean room here:   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk0X3Sh2gIE&t=0s

For more information on the mission go to: https://europa.nasa.gov/

Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Duration: 3 minutes, 46 seconds

Release Date: May 2, 2023

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What's Up for May 2023? | Skywatching Tips from NASA

What's Up for May 2023? | Skywatching Tips from NASA

What are some skywatching highlights in May 2023?

Venus reaches its highest point in the evening sky for the year, while Jupiter disappears behind the Moon for some U.S. observers. Plus, some key differences in the Southern Hemisphere's skies compared to those of the North.

0:00 Intro

0:12 Moon & planet pairings

1:16 Venus at its highest

1:38 Skies of the Southern Hemisphere

3:48 May Moon phases

Skywatching resources from NASA: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/skywatching

NASA's Night Sky Network: https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/

Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: May 1, 2023

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Carina Nebula North | NASA's Astronomy Picture of The Day

Carina Nebula North | NASA's Astronomy Picture of The Day

"The Great Carina Nebula is home to strange stars and iconic nebulas. Named for its home constellation, the huge star-forming region is larger and brighter than the Great Orion Nebula but less well known because it is so far south—and because so much of humanity lives so far north. The featured image shows in great detail the northernmost part of the Carina Nebula. On the bottom left is the Gabriela Mistral Nebula consisting of an emission nebula of glowing gas (IC 2599) surrounding the small open cluster of stars (NGC 3324). Above the image center is the larger star cluster NGC 3293, while to its right is the emission nebula Loden 153. The most famous occupant of the Carina Nebula, however, is not shown. Off the image to the lower right is the bright, erratic, and doomed star known as Eta Carinae—a star once one of the brightest stars in the sky and now predicted to explode in a supernova sometime in the next few million years."

Astronomy Picture of the Day (APoD): https://apod.nasa.gov

Image Credit & Copyright: Carlos Taylor

Carlos Taylor's Website: https://www.capturingancientphotons.com

Release Date: May 1, 2023

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Ghostly Galactic Jellyfish Galaxy JO175 | Hubble

Ghostly Galactic Jellyfish Galaxy JO175 | Hubble

The jellyfish galaxy JO175 appears to hang suspended in this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies over 650 million light-years from Earth in the appropriately-named constellation Telescopium, and was captured in crystal-clear detail by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. A handful of more distant galaxies are lurking throughout the scene, and a bright four-pointed star lies to the lower right side.

Jellyfish galaxies get their unusual name from the tendrils of star-forming gas and dust that trail behind them, just like the tentacles of a jellyfish. These bright tendrils contain clumps of star formation and give jellyfish galaxies a particularly striking appearance. Unlike their ocean-dwelling namesakes, jellyfish galaxies make their homes in galaxy clusters, and the pressure of the tenuous superheated plasma that permeates these galaxy clusters is what draws out the jellyfish galaxies’ distinctive tendrils.

Image Description: A spiral galaxy. Its spiral arms are studded with many pink spots, especially around the top of the galaxy. One arm is sticking out below the galaxy. From it and around the bottom of the galaxy, faint gas streams away, while little gas is visible above the galaxy. The galaxy is quite small in the centre of a dark background, where a few smaller galaxies of various shapes and sizes hang.

Hubble recently completed a deep dive into jellyfish clusters, specifically the star-forming clumps of gas and dust that stud their tendrils. By studying the origins and fate of the stars in these clumps, astronomers hoped to better understand the processes underpinning star formation elsewhere in the Universe. Interestingly, their research suggests that star formation in the discs of galaxies is similar to star formation in the extreme conditions found in the tendrils of jellyfish galaxies.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team

Release Date: May 1, 2023

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Gum 10 Nebula: A Scarlet Cosmic Sea | European Southern Observatory

Gum 10 Nebula: A Scarlet Cosmic Sea | European Southern Observatory

In this colorful picture, we see a portion of the Gum 10 nebula through the eyes of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. Gum 10 was discovered by the Australian astronomer Colin Stanley Gum, who in 1955 published a catalogue with more than 80 similar diffuse nebulae.

The energetic ultraviolet radiation from the hot blue stars in Gum 10 ionize the gas in the nebula, stripping electrons away from their atoms. When these electrons combine again with the atoms, they emit light at very specific colors or wavelengths. The red shade in this image comes from hydrogen, the most abundant element in the Universe. The dark areas are dense clouds of dust that partially block our view of the objects behind them.

This image, taken with the FORS2 instrument, was created as part of the ESO Cosmic Gems program, an outreach initiative to produce images of interesting, intriguing or visually attractive objects using ESO telescopes, for the purposes of education and public outreach. The program makes use of telescope time that cannot be used for science observations. All data collected may also be suitable for scientific purposes, and are made available to astronomers through ESO’s science archive.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: May 1, 2023

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Saturn's Moon Helene | NASA Cassini Mission

Saturn's Moon Helene | NASA Cassini Mission

Although its colors may be subtle, Saturn's moon Helene is an enigma in any light. The moon was imaged in unprecedented detail in 2012 as the robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn swooped to within a single Earth diameter of the diminutive moon. Although conventional craters and hills appear, the above image also shows terrain that appears unusually smooth and streaked. Planetary astronomers are inspecting these detailed images of Helene to glean clues about the origin and evolution of the 30-km across floating iceberg. Helene is also unusual because it circles Saturn just ahead of the large moon Dione, making it one of only four known Saturnian moons to occupy a gravitational well known as a stable Lagrange point. Saturn has 83 moons. Sixty-three moons are confirmed and named, and another 20 moons are awaiting confirmation of discovery and official naming by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

The Cassini-Huygens mission was a cooperative project of NASA, European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed, developed and assembled the Cassini orbiter. The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the U.S. and several European countries.

Learn about Saturn and its moons here:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/saturn/overview/

More information about the Cassini Mission (1997-2017):

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/cassini

Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute (SSI)

Processing: Daniel Macháček

Image Date: 2012

Release Date: April 30, 2023

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Planet Mars: Ancient Rivers in Mawrth Vallis | NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Planet Mars: Ancient River in Mawrth Vallis | NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Billions of years ago, a river flowed across this scene in Mawrth Vallis. Like on Earth, these river beds can get filled up with rocks that are cemented together. After Mars became a colder, drier place and the river disappeared, the rocky river bed remained.

This image was taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument.

Black and white images are less than 5 km across; enhanced color is less than 1 km.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a spacecraft designed to study the geology and climate of Mars, to provide reconnaissance of future landing sites, and to relay data from surface missions back to Earth. It was launched on August 12, 2005, and reached Mars on March 10, 2006. 

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The HiRISE camera was built by Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation and is operated by the University of Arizona.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Narration: Tre Gibbs

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date:  Dec 13, 2021

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The Raspberry Nebula: LBN 867 | Kitt Peak National Observatory

The Raspberry Nebula: LBN 867 | Kitt Peak National Observatory

Observing the night sky has never been so delightful as with this image of LBN 867, the Raspberry Nebula. Captured here by the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope using the Mosaic-3 detector at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, this nebula is located in the constellation Orion. LBN 867’s overall structure, though, is more like an onion than a raspberry: it hosts three different celestial objects in one. The characteristic red bloom of LBN 867 is an emission nebula. It glows as a result of the ionization of hydrogen gas by the light from the star HD 34989. From the center of the image, this main sequence star shines prominently, though it is about as bright as the planet Uranus as seen from Earth. The last object is hidden in plain sight. Notice the subtle bluish glow around HD 34989? This is the reflection nebula vdB 38, which reflects the blue-white light of its host star off local interstellar dust. Combined, the nebulae and star become a cosmic treat for any keen astronomer.

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

Release Date: April 19, 2023

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A Cosmic Overpass over Chile: Magellanic Clouds & Milky Way Galaxies

A Cosmic Overpass over Chile: Magellanic Clouds & Milky Way Galaxies

Above the peaks of Cerro Pachón lies a bridge made of stars, intangible yet visible to the naked eye. This beautiful arch, composed of the Milky Way with its network of nebulae and interstellar clouds, seemingly connects the Rubin Auxiliary Telescope (AuxTel) (left) with the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory (right), a Program of the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab. Some spectacles of the Universe dot around the Milky Way, from the Magellanic Clouds (center bottom) to the crimson emission nebulae (upper left and bottom right) to the green and red airglow on the horizon. Although it is possible to catch a glimpse of these treasures elsewhere on Earth, only in remote locations such as the highly elevated Andes can one truly bask in all their splendor.

Rubin Observatory is a joint initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US Department of Energy (DOE). Once completed, Rubin will be operated jointly by NSF’s NOIRLab and DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).

Credit: Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)

Release Date: April 26, 2023

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Aurora over Nantes in Northwestern France | Earth Science

Aurora over Nantes in Northwestern France | Earth Science

Learn more:

The Colors of the Aurora (U.S. National Park Service)

https://www.nps.gov/articles/-articles-aps-v8-i1-c9.htm

NASA - About Aurora

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/aurora-news-stories/index.html

Credit & Copyright: Frankastro

Location, France, near Nantes

Release Date: April 23, 2023

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China's Shenzhou-15 Space Station Crew: Steady Progress in Scientific Experiments

China's Shenzhou-15 Space Station Crew: Steady Progress in Scientific Experiments

The Shenzhou-15 crew members have made steady progress in various scientific experiments and space station maintenance work since they entered orbit on November 30, 2022. Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu have completed tasks involving maintaining and repairing the China Space Station with support from ground headquarters. They are currently busy with maintenance work on the environmental control and life support systems onboard the space station, and also with different space experiments. So far, they have completed four extravehicular (spacewalk) tasks, installing an expansion pump set and a load platform exposed to space to lay the foundations for more large-scale experiments outside the space station. 

The Shenzhou-15 crew will return to Earth in June 2023, after the arrival of the Tianzhou-6 cargo spacecraft at the China Space Station and when they have completed handover of their work.

Shenzhou-15 Crew Members: 

Fei Junlong (commander), Zhang Lu (taikonaut), and Deng Qingming (taikonaut) 

Credit: China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Duration: 1 minute, 18 seconds

Release Date: April 29, 2023

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Canadarm2: Timelapse Views | International Space Station

Canadarm2: Timelapse Views | International Space Station

Timelapse video made during the second mission (named "Alpha") by European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet of France to the International Space Station. His camera was setup to take pictures at intervals of two per second. The pictures were then edited into this video playing at 25 images a second. The video is about 12 times faster than actual speed.

Thomas shared this video on social media saying:

“We often mention robotics on the International Space Station, but it doesn’t mean we are playing with robots. We have a 17-meter long, fully-articulated robotic arm on the outside, proudly built by the Canadian Space Agency. It is hugely important to our operations here. It grabs visiting vehicles, moves astronauts around during spacewalks, and does a lot of outside maintenance and logistics. It is always a fun (and to be honest, a bit tense because it’s not easy) moment when we get to fly it though our control panels and joysticks from the Cupola or the Lab (there are no windows there but we have lots of outside cameras).”

Over 200 experiments were planned during Thomas’ time in space, including forty European ones with twelve experiments led by the French space agency, CNES.

Pesquet's second mission name "Alpha" was named after Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the Sun, following the French mission naming tradition.

The 17-meter-long (55+ feet) Canadarm2 robotic arm is fitted with the 3.7m (12 feet) high Dextre fine-tuned robotic hand.

Discover more about Canadian space robotics:

https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/iss/robotics/default.asp

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: ESA/NASA

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: April 29, 2023

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Tonight's Sky: May 2023 (Northern Hemisphere)

Tonight's Sky: May 2023 (Northern Hemisphere)

In May 2023, we are looking away from the crowded, dusty plane of our own galaxy toward a region where the sky is brimming with distant galaxies. Locate Virgo to find a concentration of roughly 2,000 galaxies and search for Coma Berenices to identify many more. Keep watching for space-based views of galaxies like the Sombrero Galaxy, M87, and M64.

About this Series

“Tonight’s Sky” is a monthly video of constellations you can observe in the night sky. The series is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute, home of science operations for the Hubble Space Telescope, in partnership with NASA’s Universe of Learning.

Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Duration: 5 minutes, 26 seconds

Release Date: April 28, 2023

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How do European Astronauts Prepare for Space? | ESA

How do European Astronauts Prepare for Space? | ESA

The European Space Agency (ESA) is currently training five astronaut candidates for future missions to the International Space Station and beyond. Their training program consists of three phases: The first phase is basic training, which covers medical exams, fitness assessments, and space program and systems. The second phase, the pre-assignment training, is advanced training in specific areas, such as systems training, vehicle training, robotics and extravehicular activity (EVA) training or spacewalks. The third phase is mission-specific training, which is tailored to the tasks and experiments that astronauts will perform during their mission. ESA's astronaut training program also includes training for exploration of the lunar surface, as astronauts will need to apply their skills and knowledge to new challenges in future space missions beyond Earth orbit.

The European Space Agency's newly selected astronaut candidates of the class of 2022 arrived at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany, on April 3, 2023, to begin their 12-month basic training.

The group of five candidates, Sophie Adenot (France), Pablo Álvarez Fernández (Spain), Rosemary Coogan (UK), Raphaël Liégeois (Belgium), and Marco Sieber (Switzerland), are part of the 17-member astronaut class of 2022, selected from 22,500 applicants from across European Space Agency (ESA) Member States in November 2022.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: April 28, 2023

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