United States Air Force Thunderbirds Flight Team at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility

United States Air Force Thunderbirds Flight Team at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility

The United States Air Force Thunderbirds arrive at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. The flight teams are stationed at Wallops while they participate in the Ocean City Air Show scheduled for June 11 and 12 in Ocean City, Maryland.

The United States Air Force Thunderbirds flight team prepares for practice flights at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. The Thunderbird F-16 jets are lined up in a row on the tarmac at Wallops Flight Facility's airfield. The Thunderbirds are mostly white, with a red tip and blues stripes.

On June 9, 2023, Wallops hosted a tailgate party for employees, friends, and family to watch practice demonstrations and meet pilots staging for the Ocean City Airshow.

An award-winning principal from Pocomoke High School has been selected to fly with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds as part of their “Hometown Hero” program that honors deserving local people. On Friday, June 9, at 11 a.m. (from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia) Jenifer Rayne will get to experience the ride of her life in the backseat of an F-16 with Thunderbird No. 8 Capt. Jeffrey “Simmer” Downie as her pilot. Principal Rayne gives a thumbs up from the cockpit of No. 8 Thunderbird before her 45-minute flight.

A United States Air Force Thunderbird takes off for the Hometown Hero flight at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. This year's Hometown Hero was Pocomoke High School Principal Jenifer Rayne flying with Thunderbird No. 8 Capt. Jeffrey “Simmer” Downie.

The United States Air Force Thunderbirds arrived at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia this week. The flight teams are stationed at Wallops while they participate in the Ocean City Air Show scheduled for June 11 and 12, 2023, in Ocean City, Maryland. Other teams being hosted at Wallops are the A-10 Thunderbolt IIS, F-18 Rhino team, and the F-35 II Demo team.

On Friday, June 9, Pocomoke High School Principal Jenifer Rayne flew with the Thunderbirds from Wallops as part of their Hometown Hero flights. She was chosen for receiving the Maryland State Education Association Human and Civil Rights Award for her work with the student-centered club Speak Up.

Learn more about The Thunderbirds:

https://www.airforce.com/thunderbirds/overview

Image Credits: NASA/Danielle Johnson/Patrick Black/Terry Zaperach

Release Date: June 9, 2023

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NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli in New SpaceX Crew Dragon Spacesuit

NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli in New SpaceX Crew Dragon Spacesuit

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli poses for portraits taken at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California during crew training. Moghbeli will be the spacecraft commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission—the agency’s seventh rotational mission to the International Space Station. Moghbeli is a naval aviator and aerospace engineer. This will be the first spaceflight for Moghbeli, who became a NASA astronaut in 2017.

Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli Official NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jasmin-moghbeli

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jasmin-moghbeli/biography

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli will join European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen and astronaut Satoshi Furukawa from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). An additional crew member will be assigned at a later date.

This will be the first long-duration mission for Mogensen. He previously served as a flight engineer on a 10-day mission to the space station in 2015. Crew-7 will be his second trip to space.

Furukawa spent 165 days aboard the orbiting laboratory in 2011 as a flight engineer with Expeditions 28 and 29. As part of his duties, he helped support the final space shuttle mission, STS-135.

Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Capture Date:  May 29, 2023

Release Date: June 8, 2023

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Nearly Two Million Galaxies, Quasars & Stars in Early Dark Energy Data | NOIRLab

Nearly Two Million Galaxies, Quasars & Stars in Early Dark Energy Data | NOIRLab

Nearly two million objects, including distant galaxies, quasars, and stars, comprise the early data release from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a Program of the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab. These data will help researchers study the expansion history of the Universe in unprecedented detail and explore other frontier areas of astrophysical research. DESI is funded by the US Department of Energy and managed by Berkeley Lab.

Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/DOE/LBL/N. Bartmann/D. Kirkby/DESI collaboration

Duration: 1 minute, 24 seconds

Release Date: June 12, 2023

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La NASA renueva los paneles solares de la Estación Espacial Internacional

La NASA renueva los paneles solares de la Estación Espacial Internacional

Recientemente en la NASA, la versión en español de las cápsulas This Week at NASA, te informa semanalmente de lo que está sucediendo en la NASA.

Para obtener más información sobre la ciencia de la NASA, suscríbete al boletín semanal: https://www.nasa.gov/suscribete 

Ciencia de la NASA: https://ciencia.nasa.gov/

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 2 minutes, 32 seconds

Original Broadcast Date: June 9, 2023

Release Date: June 12, 2023

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Woody & Stephen on Spacewalk | International Space Station

Woody & Stephen on Spacewalk  | International Space Station

Spacewalker Woody Hoburg rides Canadarm2 robotic arm

Spacewalker Stephen Bowen works to release a roll-out solar array

Two SpaceX Dragon vehicles docked to the International Space Station

Spacewalker Woody takes an out-of-this-world "space-selfie"

NASA Astronauts Frank Rubio and Woody Hoburg

Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg of NASA concluded their spacewalk June 9, 2023, after 6 hours and 3 minutes.

Bowen and Hoburg completed all of their objectives to install an IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) to augment power generation for the 1A power channel on the station’s starboard truss structure. The crew members also completed several get ahead tasks setting the stage for the duo to go back outside Thursday, June 15, to install the sixth in the series of IROSAs on the starboard 6 truss of the station for the 1B power channel.

The new arrays are 60 feet long by 20 feet wide (18.2 meters by 6 meters) and will shade a little more than half of the original arrays, which are 112 feet long by 39 feet wide. Each new IROSA will produce more than 20 kilowatts of electricity, and once all are installed, will enable a 30% increase in power production over the station’s current arrays.

It was the 264th spacewalk in support of space station assembly, upgrades, and maintenance, and was the third spacewalk for both astronauts.

Bowen and Hoburg are in the midst of a 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 (June 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)

Image Date: June 9, 2023

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The Tadpoles Nebula: IC 410 | Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

The Tadpoles Nebula: IC 410 | Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

IC 410 is a dusty emission nebula located in the constellation of Auriga around 12,000 light years from Earth. It is part of a larger star forming region that also contains the Flaming Star Nebula. The gas structures in this picture are lit by the radiation from the open star cluster NGC1893 that lies in the center of the nebula. This star cluster is about 4 million years old, but in astronomical terms it is still very young, with hot, massive stars. At the center of the star cluster, two dense structures are visible. These are similar to the famous Pillar of Creation and they are composed of dust and gas leftover from the formation of the star cluster and are very likely to give birth to more stars in the future. As can be seen in the picture, these structures point away from the center of the nebula. This is because of the stellar winds and radiation pressure from the stars in NGC 1893. Due to these structure's shape, the nebula is also called the Tadpoles Nebula.

Credit & Copyright © 2022: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)/Coelum

Caption Credit: Sky & Telescope magazine

Image by Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT) & Giovanni Anselmi (Coelum)

Release Date: Aug. 2022

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View Quasar J0100+2802 and over 20,000 Galaxies | James Webb Space Telescope

View Quasar J0100+2802 and over 20,000 Galaxies | James Webb Space Telescope

More than 20,000 tiny galaxies appear across the black background of space in this new James Webb Space Telescope image. At the center is a pink object with six diffraction spikes. This is quasar J0100+2802. A quasar is an extremely luminous active supermassive black hole that acts like an enormous flashlight. This one appears slightly smaller than the blue foreground stars. The galaxy colors here vary. Some of the smallest galaxies are shades of orange and pink. Most galaxies are so distant they appear as single points of light. Slightly larger, fuzzier galaxies appear whiter. Some have distinct spiral arms. In front of the galaxies are several foreground stars, though none appear larger than the largest galaxies. The foreground stars are scattered around the image, appear blue and have eight prominent diffraction spikes. 

The Webb Telescope team analyzed 117 galaxies that all existed approximately 900 million years after the big bang—focusing on 59 that lie in front of the quasar. The researchers could study not only the galaxies themselves, but also the illuminated gas surrounding them.   

These galaxies existed just before the end of the Era of Reionization, when the universe contained a patchwork of gas—some opaque and some transparent (or ionized). “As we look back into the teeth of reionization, we see a very distinct change,” explained Simon Lilly of ETH Zürich in Switzerland, who leads this team of researchers. “Galaxies, which are made up of billions of stars, are ionizing the gas around them, effectively transforming it into transparent gas.”

Researchers have long sought evidence to explain what happened during this period, when the universe experienced dramatic changes. After the big bang, gas in the universe was incredibly hot and dense. Over hundreds of millions of years, the gas cooled. Then, the universe hit “repeat.” The gas again became hot and ionized—and transparent.

The team’s results more concretely define the conditions at this specific “stop” in the universe’s history. “Not only does Webb clearly show that these transparent regions exist around galaxies, we’ve also measured how large they are,” explained Daichi Kashino of Nagoya University in Japan and the lead author of the team’s first paper. Think of the transparent regions of gas like hot air balloons, with galaxies the size of peas clearing that space.

Webb showed that galaxies have fully ionized the gas within a 2 million light-year radius. That’s approximately the same distance as the space between our Milky Way galaxy and our nearest neighbor, Andromeda. Over the next hundred million years, the bubbles went on to grow larger and larger, eventually merging and causing the entire universe to become transparent.

Image Credits:

NASA, ESA, CSA, Simon Lilly (ETH Zurich), Daichi Kashino (Nagoya University), Jorryt Matthee (ETH Zurich), Christina Eilers (MIT), Rob Simcoe (MIT), Rongmon Bordoloi (NCSU), Ruari Mackenzie (ETH Zurich)

Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Ruari Mackenzie (ETH Zurich)

Release Date: June 12, 2023

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How Does Fire Behave in Microgravity? | International Space Station

How Does Fire Behave in Microgravity? | International Space Station

Fire can be a catastrophic hazard for crewed spacecraft. NASA is developing effective fire suppression techniques critical to ensuring crew safety on future missions. The Solid Fuel Ignition and Extinction (SoFIE) Growth and Extinction Limits (GEL) experiment shows a flame appearing to spin itself into extinction within the microgravity environment of the International Space Station (ISS). Scientists speculate that the flame appears to spin because that is the most effective way for it to consume oxygen. When the flow speed and oxygen concentration get too low, there is not enough oxygen to consume all the available fuel. As a result, a flame can only exist over a portion of the hot fuel causing the flame to appear to chase itself, or spin, around the fuel.

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)

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 46 seconds

Release Date: May 5, 2023

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Earth Satellites: The International Space Station & The Moon

Earth Satellites: The International Space Station & The Moon

What’s that near the Moon? It is the International Space Station (ISS). Although the ISS may appear to be physically near the Moon, it is not—it is physically closer to the Earth. In low Earth orbit and circulating around our big blue marble about every 90 minutes, the ISS was captured photographically as it crossed nearly in front of the Moon. The Moon, itself in a month-long orbit around the Earth, shows a crescent phase as only a curving sliver of its Sun-illuminated half is visible from the Earth. The featured image was taken in late March 2023 from Shanghai, China and shows not only details of Earth's largest human-made satellite, but details of the cratered and barren surface of Earth's largest natural satellite. Over the next few years, humanity is planning to send more people and machines to the Moon than ever before.

Image Credit & Copyright: Tianyao Yang

Image Date: March 2023

Capture Location: Shanghai, China

Release Date: June 12, 2023

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A Dishevelled Irregular Galaxy in Pegasus: NGC 7292 | Hubble

A Dishevelled Irregular Galaxy in Pegasus: NGC 7292 | Hubble

The galaxy NGC 7292 billows across this image from the NASA/European Space Agency  Hubble Space Telescope, accompanied by a handful of bright stars and the indistinct smudges of extremely distant galaxies in the background. It lies around 44 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.

This slightly dishevelled galaxy is irregular, meaning that it lacks the distinct spiral arms of galaxies like the Whirlpool Galaxy or the smooth elliptical shape of galaxies like Messier 59. Unusually, its core is stretched out into a distinct bar, a feature seen in many spiral galaxies. Alongside its hazy shape, NGC 7292 is remarkably faint. As a result, astronomers classify NGC 7292 as a low surface brightness galaxy, barely distinguishable against the backdrop of the night sky. Such galaxies are typically dominated by gas and dark matter rather than stars.

Image Description: A galaxy fills up most of the frame from the right. It is fuzzy and diffuse, but made up of numerous tiny stars. In the core, the stars merge into a glowing bar shape. The gas and stars in the galaxy vary between warm and cool colors. They are spread over a large area, the colors mixing like clouds. The glow of the galaxy fades into a black background, with a few stars and small, distant galaxies.

Astronomers directed Hubble to inspect NGC 7292 during an observational campaign studying the aftermath of Type II supernovae. These colossal explosions happen when a massive star collapses and then violently rebounds in a catastrophic explosion that tears the star apart. Astronomers hope to learn more about the diversity of Type II supernovae they have observed by scrutinising the aftermath and remaining nearby stars of a large sample of historical Type II supernovae.

NGC 7292’s supernova was observed in 1964 and accordingly given the identifier SN 1964H. Studying the stellar neighbourhood of SN 1964H helps astronomers estimate the initial mass of the star that went supernova, and could uncover surviving stellar companions that once shared a system with the star that would become SN 1964H.

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

Release Date: June 12, 2023

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The Clown-faced Nebula: NGC 2392 | Hubble Space Telescope

The Clown-faced Nebula: NGC 2392 | Hubble Space Telescope

The Clown-faced Nebula (NGC 2392) or Caldwell 39, is a bipolar double-shell planetary nebula (PN). It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel in 1787. It is surrounded by gas that composed the outer layers of a Sun-like star. The visible inner filaments are ejected by a strong wind of particles from the central star. The outer disk contains unusual, light-year-long filaments.

NGC 2392 lies about 6,500 light-years away, and is visible with a small telescope in the constellation of Gemini.

At the center of NGC 2392, there is an O-type star with a spectral type of O(H)6f.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Andrew Fruchter (STScI), and the ERO team (STScI + ST-ECF)

Release Date: Jan. 24, 2000

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Earth View (1969) | NASA Apollo 12 Moon Mission

Earth View (1969) | NASA Apollo 12 Moon Mission

Apollo 12 Hasselblad image of the Earth's limb from film magazine 51/R - Orbital Image#AS12-51-7587

Some of the most breathtaking views of Earth taken from space are those that capture our planet’s limb. When viewed from the side, the Earth looks like a flat circle, and the atmosphere appears like a halo around it. This edge of the atmosphere is known as the limb.

Apollo 12 (November 14–24, 1969) was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, by NASA from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit.

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/Project Apollo Archive

Processing: Kevin Gill

Kevin's Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/kevinmgill

Image Date: November 1969

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Saturn's Moon Titan: Thick Atmosphere with Rivers, Lakes & Seas | NASA Cassini

Saturn's Moon Titan: Thick Atmosphere with Rivers, Lakes & Seas | NASA Cassini

Titan at Saturn - May 2011

Titan at Saturn - May 2012

Titan & Dione at Saturn - May 2011

Titan & Dione at Saturn - May 2011

Tethys, Enceladus & Titan at Saturn - Oct. 2007

Saturn & Titan - May 2015

Saturn’s largest moon Titan is an extraordinary and exceptional world. Among our solar system’s more than 150 known moons, Titan is the only one with a substantial atmosphere. And of all the places in the solar system, Titan is the only place besides Earth known to have liquids in the form of rivers, lakes and seas on its surface.

Titan is larger than the planet Mercury and is the second largest moon in our solar system. Jupiter's moon Ganymede is just a little bit larger (by about 2 percent). Titan’s atmosphere is made mostly of nitrogen, like Earth’s, but with a surface pressure 50 percent higher than Earth’s. Titan has clouds, rain, rivers, lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons like methane and ethane. The largest seas are hundreds of feet deep and hundreds of miles wide. Beneath Titan’s thick crust of water ice is more liquid—an ocean primarily of water rather than methane. Titan’s subsurface water could be a place to harbor life as we know it, while its surface lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons could conceivably harbor life that uses different chemistry than we are used to—that is, life as we do not yet know it. 

The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017. Cassini's end involved a series of close Saturn passes, approaching within the rings, then an entry into Saturn's atmosphere to destroy the spacecraft. This method was chosen because it is necessary to ensure protection and prevent biological contamination to any of the moons of Saturn thought to offer potential habitability.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and www.nasa.gov/cassini

The Cassini-Huygens mission was a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, managed the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. 

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Processing: Kevin M. Gill

Image Dates: 2007-2015

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Planet Jupiter's Underground Ocean Moon Ganymede Close-up | NASA Juno Mission

Planet Jupiter's Underground Ocean Moon Ganymede Close-up | NASA Juno Mission

Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is proving to be a fascinating world. Not only is it the largest moon in our solar system, bigger than the planet Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, but NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede. The ocean is thought to have more water than all the water on Earth's surface. Ganymede’s ocean is estimated to be 60 miles (100 kilometers) thick—10 times deeper than Earth's ocean—and is thought to be buried under a 95-mile- (150-kilometer-) thick crust of mostly ice. Identifying liquid water is crucial in the search for habitable worlds beyond Earth and in the search for life as we know it. Ganymede is also the only moon in the Solar System to have a magnetosphere. 

The European Space Agency's JUICE Mission will arrive at Ganymede in 2031 to conduct investigations. 

Learn more about Europe's JUICE Mission: https://bit.ly/JuiceESAScience

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott J. Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built and operates the spacecraft.

More information about Juno:
https://www.nasa.gov/juno
and
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu

Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/Caltech/Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)
Processing: Andrea Luck

Andrea's Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/andrluck
Release Dates: Jan. 1-2, 2022 

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Hubble’s Inside The Image: Eta Carinae—Great Eruption of a Massive Star

Hubble’s Inside The Image: Eta Carinae—Great Eruption of a Massive Star

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken over 1.5 million observations over the years. One of them is the breathtaking image of Eta Carinae. Eta Carinae was the site of a giant outburst about 150 years ago, when it became one of the brightest stars in the southern sky. Though the star released as much visible light as a supernova explosion, it survived the outburst. Somehow, the explosion produced two polar lobes and a large thin equatorial disk, all moving outward at about 1.5 million miles per hour.

In this video, Dr. Keith Noll explains this breathtaking image and explains how important Hubble is to exploring the mysteries of the universe.

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

Producer & Director: James Leigh

Editor: Lucy Lund

Director of Photography: James Ball

Additional Editing & Photography: Matthew Duncan

Executive Producers: James Leigh & Matthew Duncan

Production & Post: Origin Films 

Duration: 2 minutes, 54 seconds

Release Date: June 10, 2023

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Wide-field View: Star Cluster NGC 6520 & Dark Cloud Barnard 86 | ESO

Wide-field View: Star Cluster NGC 6520 & Dark Cloud Barnard 86 | ESO

This wide-field view shows the very rich star fields of the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud and the cluster NGC 6520 and the neighboring dark cloud Barnard 86. It was created from images from the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

Distance: 6,000 light years

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

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: Feb. 13, 2013

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