Globular Star Cluster NGC 6544 in Sagittarius | Hubble

Globular Star Cluster NGC 6544 in Sagittarius | Hubble

The teeming stars of the globular cluster NGC 6544 glisten in this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. This cluster of tightly bound stars lies more than 8,000 light-years away from Earth and is—like all globular clusters—a densely populated region of tens of thousands of stars.

Image Description: A cluster of stars in warm and cool colors. The whole view is filled with small stars, which become much denser and brighter around a core just right of center. Most of the stars are small, but some are larger with a round, brightly-colored glow and four sharp diffraction spikes. Behind the stars, a dark background can be seen.

This image of NGC 6544 combines data from two of Hubble’s instruments—the Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3—as well as two separate astronomical observations. The first observation was designed to find a visible counterpart to the radio pulsar discovered in NGC 6544. A pulsar is the rapidly spinning remnant of a dead star, emitting twin beams of electromagnetic radiation like a vast astronomical lighthouse. This pulsar rotates particularly quickly, and astronomers turned to Hubble to help determine how this object evolved in NGC 6544. 

The second observation which contributed data to this image was also designed to find the visible counterparts of objects detected at other electromagnetic wavelengths. Instead of matching up sources to a pulsar, however, astronomers used Hubble to search for the counterparts of faint X-ray sources. Their observations could help explain how clusters like NGC 6544 change over time.

NGC 6544 lies in the constellation Sagittarius, close to the vast Lagoon Nebula, a hazy labyrinth of gas and dust sculpted by the fierce winds of newly born stars. 

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble & NASA, W. Lewin, F. R. Ferraro

Release Date: June 19, 2023

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NASA Astronaut Sally Ride: First American Woman in Space—40th Anniversary

NASA Astronaut Sally Ride: First American Woman in Space—40th Anniversary

NASA Astronaut Sally Ride - Official NASA Portrait (July 10, 1984)

Sally Ride with Launch & Entry Helmet

(Sept. 24, 1985)

Sally Ride—first American woman in space—during STS-7 mission (June 24, 1983)

Sally K. Ride, STS-7 Mission Specialist in a T-38 jet aircraft, Houston, Texas (June 15, 1983)

Astronaut Sally K. Ride, STS-7 mission specialist stands in mid deck of orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger (June 21, 1983)

Sally K. Ride displays the array of tools at her disposal during STS-7 mission (June 18-24, 1983)

Sally Ride floating freely on the flight deck while performing several functions simultaneously (June 21, 1983)

Sally Ride on the flight deck of the space shuttle Challenger (June 18, 1983)

On June 18, 1983, NASA Astronaut Sally K. Ride became the first American woman in space, when she launched with her four crewmates aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-7. Ride and five other women had been selected in 1978 for NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first American selection class to include women. With the advent of the space shuttle, NASA expanded astronaut selection from only pilots to scientists and engineers, and women became eligible for selection. NASA announced Ride and her classmates to the public on Jan. 16, 1978.

Ride served as Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) for STS-2 and STS-3 in late 1981 and early 1982, and became an expert in the use of the shuttle’s robotic arm. On April 30, 1982, NASA announced that Ride would serve as a Mission Specialist on STS-7, a satellite deployment and retrieval mission on board the Space Shuttle Challenger. Her crewmates were Commander Robert L. Crippen, Pilot Frederick H. “Rick” Hauck, and Mission Specialist John M. Fabian. NASA added physician-astronaut Norman E. Thagard to the crew in January 1983. Thagard’s addition then marked the largest crew flown in a single spacecraft to date.

During the six-day mission, the most complex in the shuttle program at that time, the crew launched two commercial communications satellites, Anik C3 for Canada’s Telesat and Palapa B2 for Indonesia. Ride used the Shuttle’s robotic arm to deploy the first Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS-01) and retrieve it two days later, the first time the Shuttle was used to return a spacecraft to Earth. 

Ride’s launch on STS-7 occurred almost to the day of the 20th anniversary of the launch of the first woman in space, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova. Tereshkova launched into space June 16, 1963, aboard Vostok-6 using the call sign Chaika (чайка), or Seagull. She circled the Earth 48 times over three days and made a successful parachute landing June 19, 1963.

Sally Ride and Valentina Tereshkova made their marks on history.  Despite the camaraderie between astronauts and cosmonauts even during the height of the Cold War and the thaw afterwards, there’s no indication that the two ever met.  In their own ways, the two were trailblazers for women who followed their footsteps.

For more information, read Sally Ride’s oral histories with the JSC History Office: 

https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/RideSK/RideSK_10-22-02.htm

Image & Story Credit:  NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

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Galaxy ESO 137-001: Wide-field View

Galaxy ESO 137-001: Wide-field View

This wide-field view shows the sky around the galaxy ESO 137-001, which appears near the bottom-right of this picture. This part of the sky is in the southern Milky Way and huge numbers of stars are visible in the foreground. This picture was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2

Release Date: Nov. 10, 2014

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A busy patch of The Great Attractor | Hubble

A busy patch of The Great Attractor | Hubble

A busy patch of space has been captured in this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. Scattered with many nearby stars, the field also has numerous galaxies in the background.

Located on the border of Triangulum Australe (The Southern Triangle) and Norma (The Carpenter’s Square), this field covers part of the Norma Cluster (Abell 3627) as well as a dense area of our own galaxy, The Milky Way.

The Norma Cluster is the closest massive galaxy cluster to the Milky Way, and lies about 220 million light-years away. The enormous mass concentrated here, and the consequent gravitational attraction, mean that this region of space is known to astronomers as The Great Attractor, and it dominates our region of the Universe.

The largest galaxy visible in this image is ESO 137-002, a spiral galaxy seen edge on. In this image from Hubble, we see large regions of dust across the galaxy’s bulge. What we do not see here is the tail of glowing X-rays that has been observed extending out of the galaxy—but which is invisible to an optical telescope like Hubble.

Observing The Great Attractor is difficult at optical wavelengths. The plane of The Milky Way—responsible for the numerous bright stars in this image—both outshines (with stars) and obscures (with dust) many of the objects behind it. There are some tricks for seeing through this—infrared or radio observations, for instance—but the region behind the center of the Milky Way, where the dust is thickest, remains an almost complete mystery to astronomers.

This image consists of exposures in blue and infrared light taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA 

Release Date: Jan. 14, 2013

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Zooming in on Spiral Galaxy ESO 137-001 | Hubble

Zooming in on Spiral Galaxy ESO 137-001 | Hubble

This video zooms in on spiral galaxy ESO 137-001, which is undergoing ram pressure stripping. The sequence begins with a view of the night sky near the constellation of Triangulum Australe (The Southern Triangle). It then zooms through observations from the Digitized Sky Survey 2, and ends with a view of the galaxy obtained by Hubble.

Distance: 220 million light years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Digitized Sky Survey 2

Acknowledgements: Ming Sun (UAH) and Serge Meunier

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Nov. 12, 2014

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Panning across Spiral Galaxy ESO 137-001 | Hubble

Panning across Spiral Galaxy ESO 137-001 | Hubble

This video pans across the sky near to spiral galaxy ESO 137-001 in the constellation of Triangulum Australe (The Southern Triangle), ending on a view of the galaxy itself. This delicate and beautiful spiral galaxy is undergoing ram pressure stripping, where streaks of bright gas are being dragged out into space by the cluster it is moving through. 

Distance: 220 million light years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA)

Acknowledgements: Ming Sun (UAH) and Serge Meunier

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: March 4, 2014

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Spiral Galaxy ESO 137-001 | NASA Hubble & Chandra

Spiral Galaxy ESO 137-001 | NASA Hubble & Chandra

This image combines NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope observations with data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. As well as the electric blue ram pressure stripping streaks seen emanating from ESO 137-001, a giant gas stream can be seen extending towards the bottom of the frame, only visible in the X-ray part of the spectrum. Distance: 200 million light years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Chandra X-ray Center (CXC)

Release Date: Nov. 10, 2014

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Spiral Galaxy ESO 137-001 | Hubble Space Telescope

Spiral Galaxy ESO 137-001 | Hubble Space Telescope

This Hubble image shows spiral galaxy ESO 137-001, framed against a bright background as it moves through the heart of galaxy cluster Abell 3627. Distance: 220 million light years

This image not only captures the galaxy and its backdrop in stunning detail, but also something more dramatic—intense blue streaks streaming outwards from the galaxy, seen shining brightly in ultraviolet light.

These streaks are in fact hot, wispy streams of gas that are being torn away from the galaxy by its surroundings as it moves through space. This violent galactic disrobing is due to a process known as ram pressure stripping—a drag force felt by an object moving through a fluid. For this reason, ESO 137-001 is also described as a "jellyfish" galaxy.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA)

Acknowledgements: Ming Sun (UAH) and Serge Meunier

Release Date: March 4, 2014

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The Moon, Jupiter & Venus over Monte Pelmo, Italy

The Moon, Jupiter & Venus over Monte Pelmo, Italy

Featured here is the conjunction of Jupiter, Moon and Venus, aligned above Monte Pelmo—one of the most spectacular mountains in the Dolomites of northern Italy. Jupiter is at top, above the waxing crescent Moon. Monte Pelmo, also called the throne of God due to its characteristic shape, stands 10,394 ft (3168 m) above sea level and has an impressive prominence of 3,907 ft (1,191 m). The Dolomites Range is recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

Image Data:

Canon R6 camera; Canon 70/300 lens; 207 mm.

Panorama: 3 vertical photos for sky (ISO 640, 207 mm, f 6.3, 1 second exposure) and 3 vertical photos for Dolomites (ISO 125, 207 mm, f 7.1, 1.3 second exposure)

Image & Caption Credit: Alessandra Masi  

Location: Cadore, Dolomites, Monte Pelmo, Italy Coordinates: 46.41972, 12.13472

Image Date: Feb. 22, 2023

Release Date: June 14, 2023

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The Hunt for Space Rocks | NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and The Space Age

The Hunt for Space Rocks | NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and The Space Age

Asteroids and comets are among the oldest objects in our solar system. They mostly reside at safe distances from Earth, but some find their way into our planetary backyard.

Every day, the Earth receives visitors from outer space: tons of space debris that mostly goes unnoticed. Some of these “shooting stars,” however, do survive the fiery descent through the atmosphere. That’s what happened to the dinosaurs 65 million years ago when a massive asteroid—or comet—struck Earth. However, as the saying goes: "The dinosaurs didn't have a space agency. Fortunately, we do."

“The Hunt for Space Rocks” chronicles the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's pioneering work to understand asteroids and comets as part of NASA’s larger effort to protect our planet from cosmic marauders. From JPL’s effort to mount a mission to study the most famous comet of all—Halley’s comet—to the lab’s current role in planetary defense with its Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). The documentary drives home a clear message: We need to find the asteroids and comets before they find us.

This is the 16th episode in the documentary series “JPL and the Space Age,” which uses rare archival footage and interviews to help tell the story of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s trailblazing role in space exploration.

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

Documentary length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Release Date: June 15, 2023

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Planet Mars: A Dune Field near Nili Patera | NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Planet Mars: A Dune Field near Nili Patera | NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

The orientation of these dunes tell us the direction of the prevailing wind. This image was acquired on Sept. 29, 2018, by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument at an altitude of 270.5 km from the planet's surface. Black and white images are 5 km across; enhanced color images are 1 km.

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, 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 (MRO) 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 Data:

Latitude (centered)

8.714°

Longitude (East)

67.348°

Local Mars time

14:49

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Narration: Tre Gibbs

Duration: 49 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 6, 2019

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Life's Building Blocks Found on Saturn's Ocean Moon Enceladus | NASA Cassini

Life's Building Blocks Found on Saturn's Ocean Moon Enceladus | NASA Cassini

Enceladus - Jan. 31, 2011

Enceladus - Oct. 28, 2015

Enceladus - Oct. 28, 2015

Enceladus - Nov. 27, 2016

Enceladus - Oct. 4, 2007

Enceladus - Nov. 27, 2016

Enceladus - Nov. 27, 2016

Enceladus - Jan. 18, 2013: Plume visible on Enceladus (false color) 

Using data collected by NASA’s Cassini mission, an international team of scientists has discovered phosphorus—an essential chemical element for life—locked inside salt-rich ice grains ejected into space from Enceladus.

The small moon is known to possess a subsurface ocean, and water from that ocean erupts through cracks in Enceladus' icy crust as geysers at its south pole, creating a plume. The plume then feeds Saturn's E ring (a faint ring outside of the brighter main rings) with icy particles.

During its mission at the gas giant from 2004 to 2017, Cassini flew through the plume and E ring numerous times. Scientists found that Enceladus' ice grains contain a rich array of minerals and organic compounds—including the ingredients for amino acids—associated with life as we know it.

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

Image Processing: Kevin Gill

Release Date: June 14, 2023

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Planet Mars: The Foothills of Mount Sharp | NASA's Curiosity Rover | JPL

Planet Mars: The Foothills of Mount Sharp | NASA's Curiosity Rover | JPL

Support FriendsofNASA.org: A sweep over the foothills of Mount Sharp in Gale Crater on Mars using a MastCam observation by NASA's Curiosity rover on sol 2287.

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

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

Video Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Dec. 21, 2019

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Tropical Cyclone Biparjoy over The Arabian Sea | International Space Station

Tropical Cyclone Biparjoy over The Arabian Sea | International Space Station

These are photos of Tropical Cyclone Biparjoy over the Arabian Sea captured by United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi this past week. Cyclone Biparjoy made landfall near the border of India and Pakistan on Thursday evening, June 15, 2023, with winds of up to 78 miles per hour. After lingering over the Arabian Sea for days, the storm brought heavy rain and flooding in coastal areas of both India and Pakistan.

The Arabian Sea is a region of sea in the northern Indian Ocean, bounded on the west by the Arabian Peninsula, Gulf of Aden, and Guardafui Channel, on the northwest by Gulf of Oman and Iran, on the north by Pakistan, on the east by India, and on the southeast by the Laccadive Sea and the Maldives, on the southwest by Somalia. [Source: Wikipedia]

UAE Astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi Official Biography: 

https://www.mbrsc.ae/team/sultan_saif/

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)/UAE astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi

Release Date: June 14, 2023

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NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli Prepares for First Spaceflight

NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli Prepares for First Spaceflight

Official portrait of NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli poses for a portrait in the Blue Flight Control Room at Johnson Space Center

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli wears a spacesuit prior to underwater spacewalk training at NASA Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli is helped into a spacesuit prior to underwater spacewalk training

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli wears a Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment prior to underwater spacewalk training. The cooling garment runs water throughout the suit to keep her cool during training.

These are portraits and views of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli during her astronaut 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, test pilot, 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.

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than mid-August 2023 for the launch of Crew-7, aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four astronauts will join an expedition crew aboard the International Space Station.

Image Credits: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/Bill Stafford/Bill Ingalls/Josh Valcarcel

Image Capture Dates: 2017-2020

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International Space Station Receives Major Power Boost | This Week @NASA

International Space Station Receives Major Power Boost | This Week @NASA

Equipping the International Space Station to produce more power, our newest experimental X-plane, and preparing to test a new laser communications system . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Woody Hoburg and Steve Bowen of NASA concluded their spacewalk on June 15, 2023, at 2:17 p.m. EDT after 5 hours and 35 minutes. Hoburg and Bowen completed their major objective to install an IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) to augment power generation for the 1B power channel on the station’s starboard truss structure. The new array is 60 feet long by 20 feet wide (18.2 meters by 6 meters) and is shading a little more than half of the original array, which is 112 feet long by 39 feet wide. Each new IROSA produces more than 20 kilowatts of electricity and together enable a 30% increase in power production over the station’s current arrays.

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Video Producer: Andre Valentine/Haley Reed

Video Editor: Haley Reed

Narrator: Jesse Carpenter

Duration: 2 minutes, 47 seconds

Release Date: June 16, 2023

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