Emission Nebula Sh2-140 in Cepheus | Schulman Telescope

Emission Nebula Sh2-140 in Cepheus | Schulman Telescope

Sh2-140 is an HII emission nebula on the southwest edge of the Lynds 1204 darn nebula located in the constellation Cepheus. This nebula is also on the edge the Cephus Ring, a ring of molecular gas and dust.

Image Data: Schulman 32-inch RCOS Telescope, Camera SBIG STX16803

The 0.81 m (32 in) Schulman Telescope is a Ritchey-Chrétien reflector built by RC Optical Systems and installed in 2010. It is operated by the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter and is Arizona's largest dedicated public observatory. The Schulman Telescope was designed from inception for remote control over the Internet by amateur and professional astrophotographers worldwide. It is currently the world's largest telescope dedicated for this purpose.

Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

Release Date: July 1, 2014

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Swarm Technology in Space with NASA's Starling Mission

Swarm Technology in Space with NASA's Starling Mission

NASA has sent a team of four CubeSats into orbit around Earth to see if they are able to cooperate on their own, without real-time updates from mission control. While that kind of autonomous cooperation may not sound too difficult for humans, this team will be robotic—composed of small satellites to test out key technologies for the future of deep space missions.

The Rocket Labs ‘Baby Come Back’ Electron rocket mission lifted off successfully from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand on July 18 (NZST), 2023, with NASA’s Starling Mission.

Starling is funded by NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology program based at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley and within the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate in Washington.

Learn more about NASA's Starling Mission: 

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/small_spacecraft/starling/

Video Credit: NASA's Ames Research Center

Duration: 1 minute, 25 seconds

Release Date: July 13, 2023

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Rocket Lab's Electron Launches NASA Starling CubeSat Mission in New Zealand

Rocket Lab's Electron Launches NASA Starling CubeSat Mission in New Zealand

The ‘Baby Come Back’ Electron rocket mission lifted off successfully from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand on July 18 NZST, 2023, with NASA’s Starling Mission consisting of four CubeSats designed to advance technologies for cooperative groups of spacecraft—also known as swarms. Spacecraft swarms refer to multiple spacecraft autonomously coordinating their activities on orbit. Once positioned in orbit around Earth and spaced about 40 miles/64 km apart, Starling’s spacecraft will demonstrate the ability to autonomously fly together while keeping track of each other’s relative positions and trajectories. They also will demonstrate the ability to plan and execute activities as a group, without guidance from mission controllers, including responding to new information from onboard sensors. Starling’s spacecraft will also demonstrate creating and maintaining an inter-spacecraft communications network that automatically adjusts to changing conditions. The Starling mission will test whether the technologies work as expected, what their limitations are, and what developments are still needed for CubeSat swarms to be successful.

Learn more about NASA's Starling Mission: 

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/small_spacecraft/starling/

Baby Come Back launched a total of seven satellites to a sun synchronous orbit for three customers: NASA, Space Flight Laboratory and Spire Global. Baby Come Back is Rocket Lab’s seventh Electron launch of 2023, 39th Electron launch overall, and the Company’s second recovery mission this year.  After launch, Electron’s first stage returned to Earth under a parachute and completed a soft splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Rocket Lab’s marine recovery vessel then extracted the stage from the ocean and transported it back to Rocket Lab’s production complex for analysis.

This Electron first stage features new recovery upgrades including waterproofing systems to protect key engine and avionics components. Rocket Lab’s transition to marine recovery away from mid-air capture has been informed by previous recovery missions that showed Electron components and engines passed requalification testing following ocean splashdowns. This mission represents near final maturation of the marine recovery system in preparation for reflight of a booster.

Video Credit: Rocket Lab

Capture Date: July 17, 2023 (EST)

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Rocket Lab's Electron Launches NASA Starling CubeSat Mission in New Zealand

Rocket Lab's Electron Launches NASA Starling CubeSat Mission in New Zealand

The ‘Baby Come Back’ Electron rocket mission lifted off successfully from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand on July 18 NZST, 2023, with NASA’s Starling Mission consisting of four CubeSats designed to advance technologies for cooperative groups of spacecraft—also known as swarms. Spacecraft swarms refer to multiple spacecraft autonomously coordinating their activities on orbit. Once positioned in orbit around Earth and spaced about 40 miles/64 km apart, Starling’s spacecraft will demonstrate the ability to autonomously fly together while keeping track of each other’s relative positions and trajectories. They also will demonstrate the ability to plan and execute activities as a group, without guidance from mission controllers, including responding to new information from onboard sensors. Starling’s spacecraft will also demonstrate creating and maintaining an inter-spacecraft communications network that automatically adjusts to changing conditions. The Starling mission will test whether the technologies work as expected, what their limitations are, and what developments are still needed for CubeSat swarms to be successful.

Learn more about NASA's Starling Mission: 

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/small_spacecraft/starling/

Baby Come Back launched a total of seven satellites to a sun synchronous orbit for three customers: NASA, Space Flight Laboratory and Spire Global. Baby Come Back is Rocket Lab’s seventh Electron launch of 2023, 39th Electron launch overall, and the Company’s second recovery mission this year.  After launch, Electron’s first stage returned to Earth under a parachute and completed a soft splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Rocket Lab’s marine recovery vessel then extracted the stage from the ocean and transported it back to Rocket Lab’s production complex for analysis.

This Electron first stage features new recovery upgrades including waterproofing systems to protect key engine and avionics components. Rocket Lab’s transition to marine recovery away from mid-air capture has been informed by previous recovery missions that showed Electron components and engines passed requalification testing following ocean splashdowns. This mission represents near final maturation of the marine recovery system in preparation for reflight of a booster.

Image Credit: Rocket Lab

Image Capture Date: July 17, 2023

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Recientemente: Celebramos el primer año de ciencia del telescopio espacial Webb

Recientemente: Celebramos el primer año de ciencia del telescopio espacial Webb

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, 34 seconds

Broadcast Date: July 14, 2023

Release Date: July 17, 2023

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Beaver Rewilding Impacts Measured by NASA in Idaho

Beaver Rewilding Impacts Measured by NASA in Idaho

When beavers build dams, the changes they make to their habitat can improve everything from biodiversity to drought resilience. Researchers at Boise State University and Utah State University, in collaboration with NASA’s Applied Sciences Ecological Conservation program area, are adding remote sensing data to a suite of tools to measure what happens when beaver are reintroduced to an area.

For people managing water resources and conservation efforts, predicting which streams can support beavers and monitoring how water and vegetation change once they return is critical. Using satellite data makes it possible to monitor large areas and track changes over time.

Learn more about how NASA helps strengthen ecosystems: https://bit.ly/3rAxThp

For more information about NASA Earth Science Division’s Applied Sciences Program, visit our website: https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/

Idaho is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Montana and Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington and Oregon to the west. The state's capital and largest city is Boise.

Video Credit: NASA Applied Sciences

Video Footage: Boise State University

Duration: 3 minutes, 38 seconds

Release Date: July 17, 2023

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Wide-field View of Monoceros R2 Molecular Cloud | ESO

Wide-field View of Monoceros R2 Molecular Cloud | ESO

This visible light wide-field image of the region around Monoceros R2 was created from photographs taken through red and blue filters and forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The nebula NGC 2170, the brightest reflection nebula in this region, appears just to the right of center. The field of view is approximately three degrees across.

Distance: 2,700 light years

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

Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin

Release Date: October 6, 2010

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Monoceros R2 Molecular Cloud | Victor Blanco Telescope

Monoceros R2 Molecular Cloud | Victor Blanco Telescope

This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic II camera on the 4-meter Victor Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile. It shows a portion of the giant Monceros R2 molecular cloud. It is a place of massive star formation, particularly in the area of the bright red nebula just below image center. This image was generated with observations in the Sulphur [SII] (blue) and Hydrogen-Alpha (red) filters. In this image, north is to the right, and east is up.

Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and N.S. van der Bliek (NOIRLab/National Science Foundation (NSF)/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)

Release Date: June 30, 2020

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Colorful Cosmic Reflections: Nebula NGC 2170 | Cerro Tololo Observatory

Colorful Cosmic Reflections: Nebula NGC 2170 | Cerro Tololo Observatory

This striking image, streaked with bright swathes of color, captures the beautiful reflection nebula NGC 2170. The diffuse clouds of interstellar dust in the nebula scatter and reflect light from nearby stars, creating this vividly colorful scene. Dust grains reflect blue light from hot stars embedded in the nebula. Warm hydrogen gas glows a deep red. Seen as dark tendrils, dust also absorbs the light from stars and gas behind it. 

This particular nebula lies in the constellation Monoceros (The Unicorn)—a faint constellation on the celestial equator. It was observed using the SMARTS 0.9-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab.

Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)

Acknowledgments: Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin

Release Date: Nov. 25, 2020

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Reflection Nebula NGC 2170 in Monoceros | Schulman Telescope

Reflection Nebula NGC 2170 in Monoceros | Schulman Telescope

NGC 2170 is a reflection nebula in the constellation Monoceros. The diffuse clouds of interstellar dust in the nebula scatter and reflect light from nearby stars, creating this vividly colorful scene. Dust grains reflect blue light from hot stars embedded in the nebula. And warm hydrogen gas glows a deep red. Seen as dark tendrils, dust also absorbs the light from stars and gas behind it. This particular nebula lies in the constellation Monoceros (The Unicorn)—a faint constellation on the celestial equator.

NGC 2170 was discovered on October 16, 1784 by William Herschel. 

Technical Details: 

Schulman 32-inch RCOS Telescope

Camera SBIG STL11000

Image Credit: Adam Block

Release Date: Dec. 1, 2010

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A Cosmic Master of Disguise: Chamaeleon Cloud IC 2631 | ESO

A Cosmic Master of Disguise: Chamaeleon Cloud IC 2631 | ESO

This image shows the Chamaeleon Cloud, or IC 2631. It is a reflection nebula made of dust clouds that reflect the light emitted from nearby stars. The nebula is mainly illuminated by one of the youngest, most massive and brightest stars in its neighborhood, HD 97300, visible to the center-right of the image. The Chamaeleon Cloud is in fact the brightest nebula in the Chamaeleon Complex, a vast region of gas and dust clouds––much larger than what this image shows––where numerous newborn and still-forming stars live.

The cloud you see here is packed full of star-making material: gas and dust. At optical wavelengths this region contains dark patches where dust completely blocks light from background sources. However, this image was captured in infrared light, which can pass through dust almost unimpeded, allowing scientists to peer into the core of this cloud.

Bigger or smaller, a lot of bright dots crowd this image, making the dark background almost disappear. They are stars of different colors; white, yellow and reddish. However, there is something more too: some very bright stars and some brown clouds cohabit the center of this astronomical picture. The brightest star is to the right of the clouds, and is surrounded by a blue/magenta halo.

In the southern hemisphere, this cloud is visible in the sky for most of the year, and in this image, captured by the European Southern Observatory’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), you can admire it in infrared light.

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

Release Date: July 17, 2023

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Starstruck Image of Irregular Galaxy Arp 263 | Hubble

Starstruck Image of Irregular Galaxy Arp 263 | Hubble

The irregular galaxy Arp 263 lurks in the background of this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope, but the view is dominated by a stellar photobomber; the bright star BD+17 2217. Arp 263—also known as NGC 3239—is a patchy, irregular galaxy studded with regions of recent star formation, and astronomers believe that its ragged appearance is due to its having formed from the merger of two galaxies. It lies around 25 million light-years away in the constellation Leo.

Image Description: An irregular galaxy that appears like a triangle-shaped patch of tiny stars. It is densest in the center and along one edge, growing faint out to the opposite corner. Several bright pink patches mark areas of star formation, and the galaxy’s brightest stars are around these. A large, bright star, with two sets of long spikes, stands between the viewer and the galaxy.

The interloping foreground star, BD+17 2217, is adorned with two sets of criss-crossing diffraction spikes. The interaction of light with Hubble’s internal structure means that concentrated bright objects such as stars are surrounded by four prominent spikes. Since this image of BD+17 2217 was created using two sets of Hubble data, the spikes from both images surround this stellar photobomber. The spikes are at different angles because Hubble was at different orientations when it collected the two datasets.

Two different Hubble investigations into Arp 263, using two of Hubble’s third-generation instruments, contributed data to this image. The first investigation was part of an effort to observe the sites of recent supernovae, such as the supernova SN 2012A that was detected just over a decade ago in Arp 263. Astronomers used Hubble’s powerful Wide Field Camera 3 to search for lingering remnants of the colossal stellar explosion. The second investigation is part of a campaign using Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys to image all the previously unobserved peculiar galaxies in the Arp catalogue, including Arp 263, in order to find promising subjects for further study using the James Webb Space Telescope.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, A. Filippenko 

Release Date: July 17, 2023

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The Cocoon Nebula IC 5146 Close-up

The Cocoon Nebula IC 5146 Close-up

The Cocoon Nebula (designated IC 5146 or Sh2-125) is a reflection/emission nebula of about 15 light-years across that surrounds the young, open star cluster Collinder 470. It lies some 4,000 light-years away in the northern constellation of Cygnus (the Swan).

This stellar nursery combines an emission nebula of red, glowing, hydrogen gas and a reflection nebula, seen as blue, dust-reflected starlight at the edge of an otherwise invisible molecular cloud, cut by long, dark, dusty filaments where stars are forming.

The open cluster it surrounds is made up of mostly young, hot stars which clear out a cavity in the molecular cloud’s star forming dust and gas. One of them, the bright star near the center of this nebula has a surface temperature of 30,000 to 35,000 degrees and is primarily responsible for lighting up the nebula. This star is likely only a few hundred thousand years old, while the two or three hundred other stars in the area have a range of ages averaging a million or so years, suggesting that several episodes of star formation took place in the region, continuing to the present day.

This view of the Cocoon Nebula traces remarkably subtle features within and surrounding the dusty stellar nursery. Surrounding the bright nebula is the end of a dark (absorption) nebula, Barnard 168, which separates the emission nebula from the surrounding starry background.

 

Image Credit: Adam Block

Image Date: Phillips 24-inch RCOS Telescope, Camera: SBIG STL11000

Location: Mount Lemmon Skycenter, University of Arizona

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Expedition 69 Crew Photos: June-July 2023 | International Space Station

Expedition 69 Crew Photos: June-July 2023 | International Space Station

The seven-member Expedition 69 crew poses for a portrait during dinner time inside the International Space Station's Unity module. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev (Russia); NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Stephen Bowen; Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev (Russia); United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi; Roscosmos cosmonaut Dmitri Petelin (Russia); and NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg. June 10, 2023

NASA astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio poses for a photo as he inspects blankets and blanket covers in crew quarters for future replacements. July 13, 2023

United Arab Emirates Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi poses for a selfie while taking photos of Earth. July 11, 2023

United Arab Emirates astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi peers into the International Space Station while working inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft. June 23, 2023

United Arab Emirates astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi is pictured in between a pair of spacesuits while working on hardware maintenance inside the Quest airlock. July 6, 2023

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:

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

Expedition 69 Crew (July 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey FedyaevSpaceX Dragon cargo vehicle approaches International Space Station

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 Dates: June 10-July 13, 2023

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Expedition 69: New Earth & Station Views | International Space Station

Expedition 69: New Earth & Station Views | International Space Station

The Soyuz MS-23 crew ship and Prichal and Nauka modules

From top to bottom, the Soyuz MS-23 crew ship is docked to the Prichal docking module, which is attached to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module. Other elements pictured, include the European robotic arm extending out from Nauka and an experiment airlock attached to a port on Nauka. July 7, 2023 

Clouds painted pink off the coast of Guatemala

Clouds are painted pink and white at orbital sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above the coast of Guatemala. The Soyuz MS 23 spacecraft docked to the station s Prichal module can be seen to the right of the image. July 11, 2023

Laguna Verde, Chile's high-altitude lake in the Andes mountains

Laguna Verde, a high-altitude lake in the Andes mountains of Chile near the world's highest volcano Ojos del Salado, is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles above. July 7, 2023

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:

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

Expedition 69 Crew (July 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)

Image Dates: July 7-11, 2023

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The Cocoon Nebula IC 5146: Three Views

The Cocoon Nebula IC 5146: Three Views

IC 5146, commonly known as the Cocoon Nebula, glows red due to hydrogen gas being illuminated by the young interior stars. It is about 4,000 light years away and about 15 light years across. Informally known as the 'little Trifid Nebula' and the 'Cocoon Nebula', Sh2-82 is a relatively small emission nebula (seen as red) surrounded by a blue reflection nebula. A long dust lane runs diagonally through the image, blocking the light of most of the stars behind it.

Image 1 Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Adam Block

Image 1 Info: This image was taken as part of Advanced Observing Program (AOP) program at Kitt Peak Visitor Center in 2014.

Release Date: June 7, 2014

Image 2 Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

Image 2 Info: This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The image was generated with observations in B (blue), V (green), I (orange) and Hydrogen-Alpha (red) filters. In this image, North is right, East is up.

Release Date: June 30, 2020

Image 3 Credit: Uwe Kamin

Image 3 Info: Montage HaR VO3B, 70 R V et B de 3 minutes, 65 Ha et, 35 O3 de 5 minutes

Exposition totale: 18H50

Lunette Askar FRA 600

Réducteur 0.79

Focale 420mm à F3.9

Imageur ZWO ASI2600MM Pro

Roue à Filtre ZWO 7*36MM

Filtre Baader L, R, V, B ,S2, Ha et O3

Monture EQ6 Pro

Guidescope UltraGuide MKII 60mm ARTESKY

Camera Guidage ASI ZWO 224MC

Sky Quality 19.95

Magnitude CLASS 5 Bortle

Image Date: July 16, 2023

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