NASA’s The Quiet Crew | Profile of Engineer Matthew Zu

NASA’s The Quiet Crew | Profile of Engineer Matthew Zu

In this episode of The Quiet Crew, you will meet Matthew Zu, NASA's life support systems lead for the Quesst mission. Matthew immigrated to the U.S. from China when he was seven. In addition to being an engineer, he recently discovered oil painting and says it helps him build inspiration for his technical work. 

Matthew is part of the crew on a mission to transform aviation as NASA and communities work together to verify that the X-59’s quiet, supersonic design can turn a sonic boom into a sonic thump.

This new technology, along with a potential change in regulations, will allow airliners to fly faster over land, cutting passenger travel time in half without disturbing people on the ground.

For more information about NASA's quiet supersonic mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/Quesst

Hablas español? Visita: https://ciencia.nasa.gov/el-x-59-se-asemeja-una-aeronave-real para aprender mas sobre la mision Quesst

X-59 Free Maker Bundle (STEM Education):

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/x-59-maker-bundle-v8.pdf

The NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) is an aeronautical research center. Its primary campus is located inside Edwards Air Force Base in California and is considered NASA's premier site for aeronautical research. 

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: May 4, 2023

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Panning across Lenticular Galaxy NGC 1316 | European Southern Observatory

Panning across Lenticular Galaxy NGC 1316 | European Southern Observatory

This video pans across an image from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) Survey Telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. It shows a galaxy that still bears the marks of a dynamic history, NGC 1316, which was formed by the merger of multiple smaller galaxies. 

Distance: 60 million light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: May 5, 2023

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Contrasting Galaxies NGC 1316 & 1317 | European Southern Observatory

Contrasting Galaxies NGC 1316 & 1317 | European Southern Observatory

This image from the MPG/European Southern Observatory 2.2-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla Observatory in Chile shows a contrasting pair of galaxies: NGC 1316, and its smaller companion NGC 1317 (right). Although NGC 1317 seems to have had a peaceful existence, its larger neighbor bears the scars of earlier mergers with other galaxies. 

Distance: 60 million light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: April 2, 2014

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Planet Mars Images: May 2023 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers | JPL

Planet Mars Images: May 2023 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers | JPL

MSL - sol 3815

MSL - sol 3815

Mars2020 - sol 781

Mars2020 - sol 782

MSL - sol 3817

MSL - sol 3817

Mars2020 - sol 784

MSL - sol 3818

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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

Celebrating 2+ Years on Mars (2021-2023)

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

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

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

Processing: Kevin M. Gill

Image Release Dates: May 2-5, 2023

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Another Artemis Partner for Moon Exploration | This Week @NASA

Another Artemis Partner for Moon Exploration | This Week @NASA

Another partner for space exploration, a Mars experience right here on Earth, and a promising find outside our solar system . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Video Producer: Andre Valentine, Haley Reed

Video Editor & Narrator: Andre Valentine

Duration: 2 minutes, 31 seconds

Release Date: May 5, 2023

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Planetary Nebula Abell 33: Wide-field View | ESO

Planetary Nebula Abell 33: Wide-field View | ESO

This wide-field view shows the sky around the planetary nebula Abell 33, which appears as the ghostly blue circle near the center of the picture. This picture was created from photographic material forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Many faint galaxies are also visible and the bright orange star at the top is Iota Hydri, which is bright enough to be seen with the naked eye.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Digitized Sky Survey 2

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: April 9, 2014

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Zooming in on Planetary Nebula Abell 33 | European Southern Observatory

Zooming in on Planetary Nebula Abell 33 | European Southern Observatory

This zoom sequence starts with a broad view showing part of the long thin constellation of Hydra (The Female Water Snake). Towards the end a ghostly blue bubble can be seen, with a bright star on its edge, making it look like a diamond ring. This is the planetary nebula Abell 33. 

Distance: 2,500 light years 

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Digitized Sky Survey 2/M. Kornmesser

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 27, 2015

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Cosmic Gem: Panning across Planetary Nebula Abell 33 | ESO

Cosmic Gem: Panning across Planetary Nebula Abell 33 | ESO

    

This pan video gives a close-up look at an eye-catching image of planetary nebula Abell 33 captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. Distance: 2,500 light years 

Created when an aging star blew off its outer layers, this beautiful blue bubble is, by chance, aligned with a foreground star, and bears an uncanny resemblance to a diamond engagement ring. This cosmic gem is unusually symmetric, appearing to be almost perfectly circular on the sky.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Image Date: April 9, 2014

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Cosmic Gem: Planetary Nebula Abell 33 | European Southern Observatory

Cosmic Gem: Planetary Nebula Abell 33 | European Southern Observatory

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile captured this eye-catching image of planetary nebula Abell 33. Distance: 2,500 light years 

Created when an aging star blew off its outer layers, this beautiful blue bubble is, by chance, aligned with a foreground star, and bears an uncanny resemblance to a diamond engagement ring. This cosmic gem is unusually symmetric, appearing to be almost perfectly circular on the sky.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Image Date: April 9, 2014

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NASA's Space to Ground: On The Move | Week of May 5, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground: On The Move | Week of May 5, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:

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

Expedition 69 Crew (May 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.

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

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 3 minutes

Release Date: May 4, 2023

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Expedition 69 Crew & Station Photos: May 2023 | International Space Station

Expedition 69 Crew & Station Photos: May 2023 | International Space Station

Expedition 69 crewmates pose in SpaceX pressure suits. Clockwise from bottom, are NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen; United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi; NASA astronaut Woody (Russia) Hoburg; and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev (Russia).

Astronaut Frank Rubio works on a 3D bioprinter

The space station orbits above the Andes mountain range in Bolivia

Roscosmos components on the International Space Station

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:

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

Expedition 69 Crew (May 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 (JSC)

Capture Date: May 4, 2023

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Bowen & Alneyadi on Spacewalk | International Space Station

Bowen & Alneyadi on Spacewalk | International Space Station

Spacewalkers Stephen Bowen and Sultan Alneyadi

Spacewalkers Stephen Bowen and Sultan Alneyadi exit the Quest airlock

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

Image Date: April 28, 2023

#NASA #Space #Earth #Science #Astronauts #StephenBowen #SultanAlneyadi #UAE #UAESA #MBRSC #EVA #Spacewalk #HumanSpaceflight #Technology #Russia #Россия #Роскосмос #Microgravity #SpaceResearch #SpaceLaboratory #UNOOSA #UnitedStates #InternationalCooperation #Expedition69 #STEM #Education

Perseverance’s Backup Rock Sample Tubes Placed on Mars Surface | NASA/JPL

Perseverance’s Backup Rock Sample Tubes Placed on Mars Surface | NASA/JPL

Celebrate the completion of the first sample depot – or scientifically curated collection of rock and soil samples—on another world with NASA's Perseverance rover team. The diverse set of scientifically curated samples could help scientists answer the question of whether ancient life ever arose on the Red Planet. 

On Jan. 29, 2023, the Perseverance rover placed a 10th sample tube on the surface of Mars, providing the NASA-European Space Agency Mars Sample Return campaign a backup option to recover rock and soil samples for potential return to Earth in the future.

Note: In some clips, team members are wearing orange construction hats as a playful nod to the “sample depot construction” that was being undertaken on Mars.

Learn more about Perseverance: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

For details on each of the samples see: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-rock-samples/

Learn more about Mars Sample Return: https://mars.nasa.gov/msr

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech; ESA; WATSON images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS; Mastcam-Z images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: May 4, 2023

#NASA #ESA #Space #Astronomy #Science #Mars #RedPlanet #Planet #Astrobiology #Geology #PerseveranceRover #Mars2020 #MarsSampleReturn #MSR #JezeroCrater #Robotics #Technology #Engineering #JPL #UnitedStates #Europe #MoonToMars #STEM #Education #HD #Video

Elliptical Galaxy M84: 'H' is for Hot & Huge | NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

Elliptical Galaxy M84: 'H' is for Hot & Huge | NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

With a single letter seemingly etched in the X-ray glow around it, a giant black hole at the center of a massive elliptical galaxy is making a mark on its surroundings.

This “H”-shaped structure is found in a detailed new X-ray map of the multimillion-degree gas around the galaxy Messier 84, or M84 for short.

As gas is captured by the gravitational force of the black hole, some of it will fall into the abyss, never to be seen again. Some of the gas, however, avoids this fate and instead gets blasted away from the black hole in the form of jets of particles. These jets can push out holes, or cavities, in the hot gas surrounding the black hole. Given the orientation of the jets to Earth and the profile of the hot gas, the cavities form what appears to resemble the letter “H”.

Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to make a map of the hot gas in and around M84. In fact, Chandra was able see down to only about 100 light-years away from the black hole in the center of the galaxy. This gas radiates at temperatures in the tens of millions of degrees. The huge letter “H” is about 40,000 light-years tall, or about half the width of the Milky Way. The radio image from the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array, or VLA, in New Mexico reveals jets streaking away from the black hole.

Credit: NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

Duration: 3 minutes

Release Date: May 4, 2023

#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #Galaxy #Messier84 #M84 #EllipticalGalaxy #BlackHole #Constellation #Cosmos #Universe #NASAChandra #ChandraObservatory #Xray #SpaceTelescope #MSFC #UnitedStates#STEM #Education #HD #Video

Shadow Play around Planet-Forming Disk at Young Star TW Hydrae | Hubble

Shadow Play around Planet-Forming Disk at Young Star TW Hydrae | Hubble

The young star TW Hydrae is playing "shadow puppets" with scientists observing it with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Distance: ~200 light years away

In 2017, astronomers reported discovering a shadow sweeping across the face of a vast pancake-shaped gas-and-dust disk surrounding the red dwarf star. The shadow is not from a planet, but from an inner disk slightly inclined relative to the much larger outer disk—causing it to cast a shadow. One explanation is that an unseen planet's gravity is pulling dust and gas into the planet's inclined orbit.

Now, a second shadow—playing a game of peek-a-boo—has emerged in just a few years between observations stored in Hubble's MAST archive. This could be from yet another disk nestled inside the system. The two disks are likely evidence of a pair of planets under construction.

TW Hydrae is less than 10 million years old and resides about 200 light-years away. In its infancy, our solar system may have resembled the TW Hydrae system, some 4.6 billion years ago. The TW Hydrae system is tilted nearly face-on to our view from Earth. Thus, it is an optimum target for getting a bull's-eye-view of a planetary construction yard. 

The second shadow was discovered in observations obtained on June 6, 2021, as part of a multi-year program designed to track the shadows in circumstellar disks. 

The disks may be proxies for planets that are lapping each other as they whirl around the star. It is sort of like spinning two vinyl phonograph records at slightly different speeds. Sometimes labels will match up but then one gets ahead of the other.

The suspected planets are located in a region roughly the distance of Jupiter from our Sun. And, the shadows complete one rotation around the star about every 15 years—the orbital period that would be expected at that distance from the star. 

Any inner planets would be difficult to detect because their light would be lost in the glare of the star. 

The TW Hydrae data are from Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. The James Webb Space Telescope's infrared vision may also be able to show the shadows in more detail.

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).

Image 1 Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, John Debes (AURA/STScI for ESA)

Image 1 Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

Image 2 Credits: NASA, AURA/STScI for ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI)

Release Date: May 4, 2023

#NASA #Hubble #Astronomy #Space #Science #Star #TWHydrae #Exoplanets #Protoplanets #Planets #Hydra #Constellation #Cosmos #Universe #SpaceTelescope #HST #ESA #Europe #GSFC #STScI #UnitedStates #Art #Illustration #STEM #Education

The Most Earth-like Exoplanets | The Planetary Society

The Most Earth-like Exoplanets | The Planetary Society

These three planets beyond our Solar System have some important characteristics in common with Earth, like orbiting in the habitable zone of their star. By searching for Earth-like exoplanets, researchers hope to illuminate how ordinary and extraordinary our planet and its liquid water may be.

What makes an exoplanet Earth-like?

https://www.planetary.org/articles/earth-like-worlds

Featuring Dr. Moiya McTier, Astrophysicist

Narrated by Robert Picardo, Executive Board Member of The Planetary Society

Credit: The Planetary Society

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: May 4, 2023

#NASA #ESA #Astronomy #Space #Science #Hubble #JWST #NASAKeplerMission #Stars #Exoplanets #Planets #Atmospheres #Astrobiology #JamesWebb #WebbTelescope #UnfoldTheUniverse #Europe #CSA #Canada #GSFC #STScI #MSFC #TPS #ThePlanetarySociety #UnitedStates #STEM #Education #HD #Video