‘Asteroid City’ Cast Asks NASA About OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission

‘Asteroid City’ Cast Asks NASA About OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission

In September 2023, scientists with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission will gather in the Utah desert for the arrival of the largest asteroid sample ever received on Earth. “Asteroid City” actors, including Scarlett Johansson, Jason Schwartzman, Maya Hawke, Rupert Friend and Jeffrey Wright, join NASA OSIRIS-REx sample expert Dr. Danny Glavin to discuss how studying the asteroid sample will give scientists insight into how the early solar system formed and how life began on Earth.

After a seven-year round trip journey that included mapping Bennu’s surface (a near-Earth asteroid that is no threat to our planet), identifying minerals and chemicals, and collecting a sample from the surface, OSIRIS-REx is on its way back to Earth with more than eight ounces of material. 

For more information on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission: https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Producers: Scott Bednar, Jessica Wilde, Emily Furfaro, Sami Aziz, Molly Wasser

Editor: Jessica Wilde

Movie Footage courtesy of Focus Features Asteroid City

Duration: 3 minutes, 41 seconds

Release Date: June 30, 2023

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Tonight's Sky: July 2023 (Northern Hemisphere)

Tonight's Sky: July 2023 (Northern Hemisphere)

In July, find the Scorpius constellation to identify the reddish supergiant Antares, which will lead you to discover a trio of globular star clusters. Keep watching for space-based views of these densely packed, spherical collections of ancient stars, as well as three nebulas: the Swan Nebula, the Lagoon Nebula, and the Trifid Nebula.

About this Series

“Tonight’s Sky” is a monthly video of constellations you can observe in the night sky in Earth's northern hemisphere. 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

Release Date: June 27, 2023

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

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

What are some skywatching highlights in July 2023 for the Northern Hemisphere?

Mars and Venus start the month close together, but part ways and head lower as July goes on. Mars appears very near Regulus in Leo on the 9th and 10th. Saturn and Jupiter rule the night, along with bright star Fomalhaut. And July is prime time for viewing the Milky Way core from dark sky locations.

0:00 Intro 

0:12 Mars & Venus in the evening

0:31 Mars close to Regulus

1:07 Saturn & Jupiter in the morning 

1:49 Fomalhaut's debris disk

2:38 Viewing the Milky Way

3:17 July Moon phases

Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Narrator: Preston Dyches

Duration: 3 minutes, 39 seconds

Release Date: June 29, 2023

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NASA's Space to Ground: Making a Splash | Week of June 30, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground: Making a Splash | Week of June 30, 2023

    

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down at 10:30 a.m. EDT Friday, June 30, 2023, off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, marking the return of the company’s 28th contracted cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA. The spacecraft carried approximately 3,600 pounds of valuable scientific experiments and other cargo back to Earth.

Scientific hardware and samples returning on the mission include the GRIP—Dexterous Manipulation in Microgravity chair used in the European Space Agency (ESA)-sponsored neurology experiments GRIP and GRASP (Gravitational References for Sensimotor Performance: Reaching and Grasping). GRIP studies how microgravity affects the manipulation of objects, while GRASP provides further insight into how the central nervous system adapts to the microgravity environment. The experiments have been on the space station almost six years, and the final in-orbit tests were completed in early 2023.

Samples from BioNutrients-2, Monoclonal Antibodies, and Myotones investigations also are returning to Earth for scientific analysis.

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: June 30, 2023

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Orbits of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids | NASA/JPL

Orbits of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids | NASA/JPL

Are asteroids dangerous? Some are, but the likelihood of a dangerous asteroid striking the Earth during any given year is low. Some past mass extinction events have been linked to asteroid impacts. However, humanity has made it a priority to find and catalog those asteroids that may one day affect life on Earth. Pictured here are the orbits of the over 1,000 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). These documented tumbling boulders of rock and ice are over 140 meters across and will pass within 7.5 million kilometers of Earth—about 20 times the distance to the Moon. Although none of them will strike the Earth in the next 100 years—not all PHAs have been discovered, and past 100 years, many orbits become hard to predict. Were an asteroid of this size to impact the Earth, it could raise dangerous tsunamis, for example. To investigate Earth-saving strategies, NASA successfully tested the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission last year. Of course, rocks and ice bits of much smaller size strike the Earth every day, usually pose no danger, and sometimes create memorable fireball and meteor displays.

Illustration Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech

Release Date: June 30, 2023

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Near-Earth Objects Discovered to Date | Here's the Count | NASA 360

Near-Earth Objects Discovered to Date | Here's the Count | NASA 360

June 30 may be International Asteroid Day, but at NASA, every day is asteroid day! So, what do we know about the asteroids that are in Earth's neighborhood? A whole lot. Planetary defense — which includes finding, tracking, and characterizing near-Earth objects—is part of our mission at NASA. Here's the count of what we've discovered so far. 

Information about NASA's planetary defense efforts: https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense

Learn about NASA's DART Mission:

https://dart.jhuapl.edu/

DART was the first-ever mission dedicated to investigating and demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection by changing an asteroid’s motion in space through kinetic impact.

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: June 30, 2023

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Smoke from Wildfires in Canada over Europe | EUMETSAT Weather Satellite

Smoke from Wildfires in Canada over Europe | EUMETSAT Weather Satellite

Take a look at this recent image from EUMETSAT's new MTG I1 weather satellite, showing how smoke from wildfires in Canada made its way to Europe on June ️29, 2023.

Credit: EUMETSAT

Release Date: June 30, 2023

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NASA's "Espacio a Tierra" | Cuatro por 7 : 23 de junio de 2023

NASA's "Espacio a Tierra" | Cuatro por 7 : 23 de junio de 2023

Espacio a Tierra, la versión en español de las cápsulas Space to Ground de la NASA, te informa semanalmente de lo que está sucediendo en la Estación Espacial Internacional. 

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: 3 minutes

Release Date: June 29, 2023

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China's FAST Telescope Finds Key Evidence for Nanohertz Gravitational Waves

China's FAST Telescope Finds Key Evidence for Nanohertz Gravitational Waves

China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) has found key evidence for the existence of nanohertz gravitational waves, facilitating important contemporary astrophysics studies. FAST is the "world's most sensitive radio telescope." Note: Pulsars are the dense, whirling remains of exploded stars.

Learn more about FAST: 

https://fast.bao.ac.cn/

Video Credit: GLOBALink

Duration: 1 minute, 44 seconds

Release Date: June 29, 2023

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NASA Artemis II Moon Spacecraft Heat Shield Installed | Kennedy Space Center

NASA Artemis II Moon Spacecraft Heat Shield Installed | Kennedy Space Center

Teams install the heat shield on the Artemis II Orion spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 22, 2023. The 16.5-foot-wide shield will ensure the safe return of the astronauts on board as the spacecraft travels at speeds of about 25,000 miles per hour and experiences outside temperatures of nearly 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon to verify today’s capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface.

Learn more about Artemis II: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii

Follow progress on Artemis II: https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/ 

Image Credit: NASA/Cory Huston

Image Date: June 22, 2023

Release Date: June 27, 2023

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Celebrating the Success of Virgin Galactic’s First Commercial Spaceflight: Galactic 01

Celebrating the Success of Virgin Galactic’s First Commercial Spaceflight: Galactic 01

Galactic 01—Virgin Galactic’s first commercial suborbital spaceflight—was launched from Spaceport America, New Mexico, on June 29, 2023, with VSS Unity being released from VMS Eve at 11:29am ET. VSS Unity, the second SpaceShipTwo, transported a full crew of two pilots, Michael Masucci (Commander) and Nicola Pecile (Pilot) and four mission specialists in the cabin: Col. Walter Villadei and Lt. Col. Angelo Landolfi from the Italian Air Force, Pantaleone Carlucci (Engineer, National Research Council of Italy - CNR), Colin Bennett (Astronaut Instructor, Virgin Galactic). VMS Eve was piloted by Kelly Latimer (Commander) and Jameel Janjua (Pilot)

The Galactic 01 mission was a research flight for the Italian Air Force and Italy’s National Research Council. Virgin Galactic and the Italian Air Force signed the contract for the flight in October 2019, agreeing to fly three Italian payload specialists on a dedicated research flight.

Credit: Illustration, images & video footage courtesy of Virgin Galactic

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 8 minutes

Release Date: June 29, 2023

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Earliest Strands of The Cosmic Web: The ASPIRE Cosmic Filament | NASA Webb

Earliest Strands of The Cosmic Web: The ASPIRE Cosmic Filament | NASA Webb

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a filament of ten galaxies seen just 830 million years after the birth of the universe. Woven across our universe is a weblike structure of galaxies called the cosmic web. Galaxies are strung along filaments in this vast web, which also contains enormous voids. Now, astronomers using Webb have discovered an early strand of this structure, a long, narrow filament of 10 galaxies that existed just 830 million years after the big bang. The 3 million light-year-long structure is anchored by a luminous quasar—a galaxy with an active, supermassive black hole at its core. The team believes this early thread of the cosmic web will eventually evolve into a massive cluster of galaxies.

Image Description: This deep galaxy field from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) shows an arrangement of ten distant galaxies marked by eight white circles in a diagonal, thread-like line. (Two of the circles contain more than one galaxy.) The quasar, called J0305-3150, appears in the middle of the cluster of three circles on the right side of the image. Its brightness outshines its host galaxy. The team believes the filament will eventually evolve into a massive cluster of galaxies.

Credits: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA)/Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Feige Wang (University of Arizona)

Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

Release Date: June 29, 2023

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Star System R Aquarii: Closeup of a Stellar Couple's Orbital 'Embrace' | ESO

Star System R Aquarii: Closeup of a Stellar Couple's Orbital 'Embrace' | ESO

This image is from the SPHERE/ZIMPOL observations of R Aquarii, and shows the binary star itself, as well as the jets of material spewing from the stellar couple. R Aquarii (R Aqr) is a variable star in the constellation Aquarius. R Aquarii is a symbiotic star believed to contain a white dwarf and a Mira-type variable in a binary system. The orbital period is approximately 44 years. The main Mira-type star is a red giant. This star system is located over 1,300 light years away from Earth.

While testing a new subsystem on the SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers were able to capture dramatic details of the turbulent stellar relationship in the binary star R Aquarii with unprecedented clarity—even compared to observations from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Schmid et al.

Release Date: Dec. 12, 2018

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R Aquarii Star System Data Sonification | NASA Chandra & Hubble

R Aquarii Star System Data Sonification | NASA Chandra & Hubble

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope collected digital data on a system called R Aquarii, which contains two stars—a white dwarf and a red giant. The system is located over 1,300 light years away. The data was combined and transformed into this sonification, revealing evidence of outbursts and shock waves generated by the pair of stars.

Visual Description: In the sonification of R Aquarii, the piece evolves as the image is scanned clockwise starting at the 12 o’clock position. The volume changes in proportion to the brightness of sources in visible light and the distance from the center dictates the musical pitch. The deep thuds toward the four corners are “diffraction spikes”. Listeners can hear jets from the white dwarf as the cursor travels near the two o’clock and eight o’clock positions.

R Aquarii (R Aqr) is a variable star in the constellation Aquarius. R Aquarii is a symbiotic star believed to contain a white dwarf and a Mira-type variable in a binary system. The orbital period is approximately 44 years. The main Mira-type star is a red giant.

Sonification Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

Duration: 38 seconds

Release Date: June 28, 2023

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The Fate of Exoplanets around White Dwarf Stars | NOIRLab

The Fate of Exoplanets around White Dwarf Stars | NOIRLab

A short video explaining white dwarf stars and their evolution, and the resulting effects on their planetary systems. A white dwarf is what stars like the Sun become after they have exhausted their nuclear fuel. Near the end of its nuclear burning stage, this type of star expels most of its outer material, creating a planetary nebula. Only the hot core of the star remains. 

Credit: NOIRLab

Duration: 1 minute, 22 seconds

Release Date: June 28, 2023

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Meet the Mars Perseverance Rover's Samples: Montdenier & Montagnac | NASA/JPL

Meet the Mars Perseverance Rover's Samples: Montdenier & Montagnac | NASA/JPL

Meet two of the Martian samples that have been collected and are awaiting return to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign. As of late June 2023, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has collected and sealed 20 scientifically selected samples inside pristine tubes. The next stage is to get them back for study.

Considered one of the highest priorities by the scientists in the Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032, Mars Sample Return would be the first mission to return samples from another planet and provides the best opportunity to reveal the early evolution of Mars, including the potential for ancient life. NASA is teaming with the European Space Agency (ESA) on this important endeavor.

Learn more about Samples No. 2 and 3–“Montdenier” and “Montagnac”–the first pair of rock cores collected by Perseverance, which were taken from an igneous rock on the floor of Jezero Crater. Scientists believe that detailed analysis of these samples could help them piece together the timeline of the area’s past, which was marked by volcanic activity and periods of persistent water.

Read about all the carefully selected samples: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-rock-samples

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

A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, as well as be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Duration: 1 minute, 24 seconds

Release Date: June 28, 2023

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