Spiral Galaxy NGC 298: Type II Supernova Host | Hubble

Spiral Galaxy NGC 298: Type II Supernova Host | Hubble

The spiral galaxy NGC 298 basks in this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 298 lies around 89 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus, and appears isolated in this image—only a handful of distant galaxies and foreground stars accompany the lonely galaxy. While NGC 298 seems peaceful, in 1986 it was host to one of astronomy's most extreme events: a catastrophic stellar explosion known as a Type II supernova. 

Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys captured NGC 298 as part of an investigation into the origins of Type II supernovae. All Type II supernovae are produced by the collapse and subsequent explosion of young, massive stars, but they can produce a spectacular diversity of brightnesses and spectral features.

Image Description: A spiral galaxy. It is tilted diagonally, and slightly towards the viewer, making its core and disc separately visible. Its disc is speckled by small stars, has threads of dark reddish dust and bubbles of bright, glowing gas. The core shines brightly in a warmer colour. Several tiny stars and small galaxies are included in the black background.

Astronomers suspect that the diversity of this cosmic firework show might be due to gas and dust being stripped from the stars that will eventually produce Type II supernovae. Observing the region surrounding supernova explosions can reveal traces of the progenitor star’s history preserved in this lost mass, as well as revealing any companion stars that survived the supernova. Hubble used the brief periods between scheduled observations to explore the aftermath of a number of Type II supernovae, hoping to piece together the relationship between Type II supernovae and the stellar systems which give rise to them.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick

Release Date: May 29, 2023

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The Vela Supernova Remnant: Giant Cosmic Networks of Filaments | ESO

The Vela Supernova Remnant: Giant Cosmic Networks of Filaments | ESO

Sometimes dramatic events are needed to create something stunning. This beautiful structure of filaments and clouds in the southern constellation of Vela are all that remains of a massive star that died in a powerful explosion known as supernova. 

Even though bright stars populate this image, it is hard to not be captivated by the pink gaseous clouds filling up the frame. Some tiny, others thicker, the filaments stretch outwards like tentacles. As they intertwine and cling together, an intricate network is formed which mixes with blurred clouds. However, how did they come to be like this?

Around 11,000 years ago, a massive star exploded as a supernova, ejecting its outer layers. The explosion also generated shock waves which traveled outwards, compressing the gas around the star and creating the intricate network visible in the image. The result of such explosions are called supernova remnants. At 800 light years away from Earth, the Vela supernova remnant is one of the closest known to us.

At the center of the image, there is a pink network of filaments, which extends towards the right. Around it, filamentary orange clouds fill the space. Spread all over the picture, bright yellow, blue and reddish stars populate the image. The dark background is almost completely hidden by all these features.

This is a small section of a larger image taken using the wide-field camera OmegaCAM at the VLT Survey Telescope (VST). Hosted at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in the Chilean desert, the VST is one of the best telescopes in the world to take large images of the sky in visible light.

Credit: European Southern Observatory/VPHAS+ team

Acknowledgement: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

Release Date: May 29, 2023

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Mars: Dune & Ripple Migration in Nili Patera | NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Mars: Dune & Ripple Migration in Nili Patera | NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Nili Patera is a region on Mars in which sand dunes and ripples are moving rapidly. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter continues to monitor this area every couple of months to see changes over seasonal and annual time scales.

Here we see obvious activity over a span of less than two Earth years. Three prominent changes are obvious: 1) the dunes are migrating, with position differences of a few meters in some areas; 2) the ripples on the surfaces of the dunes have undergone so much change that they cannot be reliably tracked over this time interval; and 3) the lee faces of the dunes exhibit new avalanches.

These results show that Nili Patera, and other regions on Mars, are areas of active sand migration and landscape erosion.

These images were acquired on August 31, 2012, by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) at an altitude of 271 km from the planet's surface. The image is less than 1 km across. 

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. 

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

“For 17 years, MRO has been revealing Mars to us as no one had seen it before,” said the mission’s project scientist, Rich Zurek of JPL.

Video Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Narration: Tre Gibbs

Duration: 51 seconds

Release Date: Oct. 1, 2014

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Mars: Dune & Ripple Migration in Nili Patera | NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Mars: Dune & Ripple Migration in Nili Patera | NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Nili Patera is a region on Mars in which sand dunes and ripples are moving rapidly. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter continues to monitor this area every couple of months to see changes over seasonal and annual time scales.

Here we see obvious activity over a span of less than two Earth years. Three prominent changes are obvious: 1) the dunes are migrating, with position differences of a few meters in some areas; 2) the ripples on the surfaces of the dunes have undergone so much change that they cannot be reliably tracked over this time interval; and 3) the lee faces of the dunes exhibit new avalanches.

These results show that Nili Patera, and other regions on Mars, are areas of active sand migration and landscape erosion.

This image was acquired on August 31, 2012, by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) at an altitude of 271 km from the planet's surface. The image is less than 1 km across. 

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates  the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. 

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

“For 17 years, MRO has been revealing Mars to us as no one had seen it before,” said the mission’s project scientist, Rich Zurek of JPL.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

Image Date: August 31, 2012

Release Date: May 28, 2023

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May 2023: Wildflowers & Wildlife | NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida

May 2023: Wildflowers & Wildlife | NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida

Two black-bellied whistling ducks walk through a field of wildflowers

Framed by wildflowers, a tricolored heron wades in a waterway

A great egret wades through a marsh filled with wildflowers

Wildflowers and palm trees are in view near the Central Campus Headquarters Building at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 19, 2023. The center shares a border with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. More than 330 native and migratory bird species, along with 65 amphibian and reptile species, call Kennedy and the wildlife refuge home.

Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

https://www.fws.gov/refuge/merritt-island

Image Credit: NASA/Franki Michaux

Capture Date: May 19, 2023

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Russian Soyuz Rocket Launches Kondor Earth Observation Satellite | Roscosmos

Russian Soyuz Rocket Launches Kondor Earth Observation Satellite | Roscosmos

A Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle launched the Kondor-FKA No.1 satellite from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia, on May 26, 2023, at 21:14 UTC (27 May, at 06:14 local time). According to Roscosmos, Kondor-FKA No.1 (Кондор-ФКА №1) is a civilian Earth observation satellite. 

The Vostochny Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport above the 51st parallel north in the Amur Oblast, in the Russian Far East.

Credit: Roscosmos

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 3 minutes, 43 seconds

Release Date: May 26, 2023

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NASA Aeronautics Hypersonic Project | Glenn Research Center

NASA Aeronautics Hypersonic Project | Glenn Research Center

The NASA Fundamental Aeronautics Hypersonic Project is focused on technologies for combined cycle, air-breathing propulsions systems to enable reusable launch systems for access to space. Turbine Based Combined Cycle (TBCC) propulsion systems offer specific impulse improvements over rocket-based propulsion systems in the subsonic takeoff and return mission segments and offer improved safety. The potential to realize more aircraft-like operations with expanded launch site capability and reduced system maintenance are additional benefits.

Read more: 

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20090037583/downloads/20090037583.pdf

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19990053005/downloads/19990053005.pdf

Image Credit: Quentin Schwinn

Location: Cleveland, Ohio

Image Date: Jan. 29, 2011

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Martian Vistas: May 2023 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers | JPL

Martian Vistas: May 2023 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers | JPL

MSL - Sol 3793 - NavRight

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Doug Ellison/Kevin M. Gill

Mars2020 - Sol 805 - MastCam-Z - Decorrelated Color

NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill

Mars2020 - Sol 805 - MastCam-Z

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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/Arizona State University/Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS)

Processing: Kevin M. Gill

Image Release Dates: May 26-27, 2023

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'Castell Henllys' from Above | NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter | JPL

'Castell Henllys' from Above | NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter | JPL

This color-enhanced image of the “Castell Henllys” region in Jezero Crater was taken by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during the rotorcraft’s 48th flight on March 21, 2023, the 741st Martian day, or sol, of the Perseverance rover’s mission. At the time the image was taken, the helicopter was at an altitude of about 40 feet (12 meters).

This image and others taken during the flight provided advanced reconnaissance to Perseverance scientists and planners roughly two weeks before the rover reached this area.

Ingenuity's rotors measure 1.2 m (4 ft), and its entire body is 0.49 m (1 ft 7 in) tall. Its fuselage measures 13.6 cm × 19.5 cm × 16.3 cm (5.4 in × 7.7 in × 6.4 in), with four landing legs of 0.384 m (1 ft 3.1 in) each. It is operated by solar-charged batteries that power dual counter-rotating rotors mounted one above the other.

The Martian atmosphere is extremely thin—at the surface just about one percent of the pressure of Earth’s atmosphere at sea level.

Learn more about Ingenuity:

go.nasa.gov/ingenuity

Ingenuity Fact Sheet:

https://mars.nasa.gov/files/mars2020/MarsHelicopterIngenuity_FactSheet.pdf

The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which also manages this technology demonstration project for NASA Headquarters. It is supported by NASA’s Science, Aeronautics, and Space Technology mission directorates. NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley and NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, provided significant flight performance analysis and technical assistance during Ingenuity’s development. AeroVironment Inc., Qualcomm, and SolAero also provided design assistance and major vehicle components. Lockheed Martin Space designed and manufactured the Mars Helicopter Delivery System.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Release Date: May 26, 2023

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The Pleiades: Closest Star Cluster to Earth | Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

The Pleiades: Closest Star Cluster to Earth | Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

The Pleiades, also known as The Seven Sisters, is an open cluster of stars located approximately 440 light-years away towards the constellation of Taurus (The Bull), making it the nearest star cluster to Earth. The cluster’s central region spans about eight light-years, with the diameter of The Pleiades as a whole estimated at 43 light-years. The Pleiades is a very prominent sight to the unaided eye during winter in the Northern Hemisphere, while in summer the cluster is best seen by observers in southern latitudes.

Most of the cluster’s members are very young, hot blue stars formed within the last 100 million years. So far, about 1,000 stars have been confirmed. The hint of bluish nebulosity around the brightest stars originates from a cloud of interstellar gas and dust that the cluster is passing through at the moment. The tiny particles of dust scatter the blue light from the nearest stars more favorably than other colors, so the region appears to twinkle in blue. The cluster contains many brown dwarfs, or failed stars. These objects, though more massive than planets, do not possess enough mass to ignite nuclear fusion reactions in their cores and burst into life as bright stars.

Cultures all over the world have marveled at The Pleiades since early times, including the Maori from New Zealand, the Persians, the Indians, the Chinese, and the Maya and the Aztec in Central and South America. The Japanese call The Pleiades Subaru. Of the many ancient references to this remarkable and dazzling star assembly, among the most notable are those of the ancient Greek poets Hesiod and Homer, who included the Pleiades in his epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey circa 750 BC. The Bible also contains three mentions of The Pleiades.

The French comet hunter Charles Messier determined the position of the cluster and included it as the entry number 45 (Messier 45) in his famous catalogue from 1771.

Image Credit & Copyright © 2022 Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope/Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT) & Giovanni Anselmi (Coelum)

Caption Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: December 2022

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The Flaming Star Nebula: Another View

The Flaming Star Nebula: Another View

"The Flaming Star Nebula (also known as IC 405, SH 2-229, or Caldwell 31) is an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Auriga. The nebula lies about 1,500 light-years away from Earth and spans about 5 light-years. The variable star AE Aurigae is the brightest star in the bright part of the nebula, and is emitting the energy that is causing the surrounding gas to glow. Most of the nebula is dominated by the red glow of hydrogen gas, and there is a blue reflection nebula patch near its core. This diffuse nebula gives the impression that the star is burning, hence its name. The red and blue colors of the nebula are present in different regions and are created by different processes."

Technical details:

Telescope: 16″ f3.75 Dream Scope

Camera: FLI ML16803

Mount: ASA DDM85

Exposure: 8 hours (42x300s L + 3x18x300s RGB)

Image Copyright & Credit: Bart Delsaert

Caption Credit: Bart Delsaert

Bart's website: https://delsaert.com

Capture Location: Southern Alps, France

Image Date: Date: Sept. 2020

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Portrait of Veteran NASA Astronaut Raja Chari

Portrait of Veteran NASA Astronaut Raja Chari

NASA astronaut candidate Raja Chari poses for a portrait, Friday, July 12, 2019, at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas. 

NASA Astronaut Raja Chari Official Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/content/astronaut-raja-chari/

Chari served as commander of the NASA SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station, which launched on November 10, 2021. He served as a flight engineer aboard the space station for 177 days in orbit. During his time on the International Space Station he performed two spacewalks and helped in capturing and releasing three SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and two Cygnus cargo vehicles.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Image Date: July 12, 2019

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Crescent Planet Neptune and Moon Triton | NASA Voyager 2

Crescent Planet Neptune and Moon Triton | NASA Voyager 2

Gliding through the outer Solar System in 1989, the Voyager 2 spacecraft looked toward the Sun to find this view of most distant planet Neptune and its moon Triton together in a crescent phase. This elegant image of the ice-giant planet and its largest moon was taken from behind just after Voyager's closest approach. It could not have been taken from Earth because the most distant planet never shows a crescent phase to sunward eyes. Heading for the heliopause and beyond, Voyager 2's parting vantage point lacks Neptune's familiar blue hue. 

The nuclear-powered Voyager 2 spacecraft remains in contact with Earth through NASA's Deep Space Network. The Voyager 2 probe was launched on August 20, 1977.

Learn more about Planet Neptune:

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

Image Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Image Date: August 1989

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SpaceX Starship: First Integrated Flight Test | Recap

SpaceX Starship: First Integrated Flight Test | Recap

Starship gave us quite a show during the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship (S24) and Super Heavy rocket (B7) from Starbase in Texas.

On April 20, 2023, at 8:33 a.m. CT, Starship successfully lifted off from the orbital launch pad for the first time. The vehicle cleared the pad and beach as Starship climbed to an apogee of ~39 km over the Gulf of Mexico—the highest of any Starship to-date.

With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and we learned a tremendous amount about the vehicle and ground systems today that will help us improve on future flights of Starship.

"Starship is essential to both SpaceX’s plans to deploy its next-generation Starship system as well as for NASA, which will use a lunar lander version of Starship for landing astronauts on the moon during the Artemis III mission through the Human Landing System (HLS) program."

Key Starship Parameters:

Height: 120m/394ft

Diameter: 9m/29.5ft

Payload to LEO: 100 – 150t (fully reusable)

Satellites: "Starship is designed to deliver satellites further and at a lower marginal cost per launch than our current Falcon vehicles. With a payload compartment larger than any fairing currently in operation or development, Starship creates possibilities for new missions, including space telescopes even larger than the James Webb."

On April 20, 2023 at 8:33 a.m. CT, Starship successfully lifted off from the orbital launch pad for the first time. The vehicle cleared the pad and beach as Starship climbed to an apogee of ~39 km over the Gulf of Mexico – the highest of any Starship to-date.

With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and we learned a tremendous amount about the vehicle and ground systems today that will help us improve on future flights of Starship.

Starship's Engines: Raptors

"The Raptor engine is a reusable methalox staged-combustion engine that powers the Starship launch system. Raptor engines began flight testing on the Starship prototype rockets in July 2019, becoming the first full-flow staged combustion rocket engine ever flown."

Raptor Engine Parameters:

Diameter: 1.3m/4ft

Height: 3.1m/10.2ft

Thrust: 230tf/500 klbf

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):

https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: May 26, 2023

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Rocket Lab's Electron Launches NASA TROPICS CubeSats in New Zealand

Rocket Lab's Electron Launches NASA TROPICS CubeSats in New Zealand

Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle successfully launched the “Coming To A Storm Near You” mission, the second pair of CubeSats for NASA’s Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS), from Pad B at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, on May 26, 2023, at 03:46 UTC (15:46 NZST).

The NASA Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) Earth science mission is a constellation of state-of-the-science observing platforms that will measure temperature and humidity soundings and precipitation with spatial resolution comparable to current operational passive microwave sounders but with unprecedented temporal resolution (median revisit time of 50 minutes). Each SmallSat hosts a 12-channel passive microwave spectrometer. The primary mission objective of TROPICS is to relate temperature, humidity, and precipitation structure to the evolution of tropical cyclone intensity.

Learn more at: https://tropics.ll.mit.edu/CMS/tropics/Mission-Overview

Credit: Rocket Lab

Image Dates: May 25-26, 2023

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2nd All-Private Astronaut Mission to International Space Station | This Week @NASA

2nd All-Private Astronaut Mission to International Space Station | This Week @NASA

The second all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, completing the set of tiny severe weather trackers, and a robotic explorer—with a twist . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Video Producer, Editor, & Narrator: Andre Valentine

Duration: 2 minutes, 22 seconds

Release Date: May 26, 2023

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