Shenzhou-16 Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk | China Space Station

Shenzhou-16 Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk | China Space Station

The Shenzhou-16 astronauts aboard China's space station Tiangong completed their first spacewalk on Thursday, July 20, 2023, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). Astronauts Jing Haipeng and Zhu Yangzhu, together with Gui Haichao, China's first civilian astronaut who supported his crewmates from inside the space station, collaborated to accomplish all set tasks. Jing opened the hatch of the airlock cabin at 13:45 after receiving an order from the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center. Jing and Zhu returned safely to the Wentian lab module as of 21:40, after around eight hours of extravehicular activities. During the extravehicular activities, they completed several tasks, including installing and lifting the support frame for a panoramic camera outside the Tianhe core module, and unlocking and lifting two panoramic cameras outside the Mengtian lab module. The whole process went smoothly and successfully.

This was the first spacewalk for Jing, who is on his fourth spaceflight. Zhu has become China's first flight engineer to take part in extravehicular activities.

During the about-eight-hour spacewalk, Jing docked at more than 30 locations with the support of the robotic arm and Zhu climbed over 100 handrails on the module wall.

"This mission involved a relatively high workload due to the presence of four work sites, which were distributed in the core and Mengtian lab modules. As a result, the travel distance was also relatively long, particularly for the astronaut tasked with conducting autonomous transfer in the extravehicular activity, as the route he would take outside the spacecraft will be very long," said Wang Yanlei, director of the astronauts selection and training department of the China Astronaut Research and Training Center.

The Shenzhou-16 crew, as planned, will carry out a large number of space science experiments and complete multiple extravehicular installation tasks of application loads in the future.

Credit: CCTV Video News Agency

Duration: 2 minutes 48 seconds

Release Date: July 21, 2023

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Lynds’ Dark Nebula 673 in Aquilla | Mayall Telescope

Lynds’ Dark Nebula 673 in Aquilla | Mayall Telescope

This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the 4-meter Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. LDN 673 is part of a giant cloud of dust and gas in the constellation of Aquilla. This dark nebula is at a distance of about 600 light years. It is fragmented into many pieces, inside of which are forming stars. Some of these stars are illuminating parts of the nebula, such as in the upper-left and upper-right corners. The image was generated with observations in B (blue), V (cyan), I (orange) and H-alpha (red) filters. In this image, North is left, East is down.

The Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope is a four-meter (158 inches) reflector telescope in Arizona named after Nicholas U. Mayall. It saw first light on February 27, 1973, and was the second-largest telescope in the world at that time.

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

Release Date: June 30, 2020

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Dark Nebula LDN 673 in Aquila | Schulman Telescope

Dark Nebula LDN 673 in Aquila | Schulman Telescope

Lynds’ Dark Nebula 673 (or LDN 673) is located in the constellation Aquila, the Eagle. This dark nebula is at a distance of about 600 light years. Expansive molecular clouds in the Aquila rift make the distant stars appear reddish, while the very dense LDN 673 nebula completely blocks the starlight. You can find LDN 673 in the summer skies near bright star Altair and the Summer Triangle (Coordinates: RA 19h 20m 55s) in the northern hemisphere.

Sometimes it is what you do not see that makes a picture interesting. In this case, starlight in the thick of the Milky Way is being obliterated by dust and soot that makes up the dark lanes of our galaxy.  LDN673 is a molecular cloud of gigantic proportions—it is around 67 trillion kilometers across. Such molecular clouds are places where stars are born, and there may be enough matter in this regions to form hundreds of thousands of new stars.

The Aquila Rift forms a great mass of dark molecular clouds along the summer Milky Way through the constellations Aquila, Serpens, and eastern Ophiuchus. Many of them have been identified and catalogued in 1962 by B.T. Lynds in his "Catalogue of dark nebulae". 

Together with the Vulpecula Rift and the Cygnus Rift or Northern Coalsack, the Aquila Rift is part of the so-called Great Rift (also Dark Rift, or Dark River), which is a series of overlapping, non-luminous, molecular dust clouds that are located between the Solar System and the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy.

The Great Rift appears as a dark lane that obscures the bright star fields behind it, splitting the crowded plane of our Milky Way galaxy into two as seen from Earth. These clouds are estimated to contain about 1 million solar masses of plasma 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: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

Release Date: April 1, 2012

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Galactic Neighbors: Galaxies M81 & M82 in Ursa Major | NOIRLab

Galactic Neighbors: Galaxies M81 & M82 in Ursa Major | NOIRLab

This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the KPNO 0.9m-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. M81 (the spiral galaxy on the left) and M82 (the galaxy on the right) are two relatively nearby galaxies that are gravitationally interacting with each other. This interaction is triggering the formation of new stars in M82 at a massive rate, which can be seen from the filaments of red hydrogen gas in the galaxy. The very faint irregular dwarf galaxy Holmberg IX can barely be seen above M81. The image was generated with observations in B (blue), V (cyan), R (green), I (orange) and Hydrogen-Alpha (red). In this image, North is right, East is up.

Distance between M81 & M82: 150,000 light years

M81 & M82 Distance to Earth: 12 million light years

 

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

Release Date: June 30, 2020

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Starburst Galaxy Messier 82 | Kitt Peak National Observatory

Starburst Galaxy Messier 82 | Kitt Peak National Observatory

Messier 82 (M82) is one of the most irregular galaxies in our galactic neighborhood. Due to a recent interaction with the neighboring M81 galaxy, M82 has tremendous amounts of star formation taking place. The image shows reddened outflows of material that extend hundreds and thousands of light years away from core of the galaxy. Curiously, this galaxy is exceedingly bright in visible wavelengths of light, but even brighter in emissions at radio wavelengths.

Distance: 13 million light years

Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/National Science Foundation (NSF)/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)/Steve Peterson/ Katy Garmany

Release Date: Feb. 20, 2014

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NASA's "Espacio a Tierra" | Momento decisivo: 14 de julio de 2023

NASA's "Espacio a Tierra" | Momento decisivo: 14 de julio 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: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: July 19, 2023

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NASA OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission: Preparing for Sample Return to Earth

NASA OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission: Preparing for Sample Return to Earth

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, will return to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, with material from asteroid Bennu. When it arrives, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will release the sample capsule for a safe landing in the Utah desert. The primitive material from Bennu—rocks and dust collected from the asteroid’s surface in 2020—will offer generations of scientists a window into the time when the Sun and planets were forming about 4.5 billion years ago. 

Follow sample-delivery updates on the OSIRIS-REx blog: https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/

OSIRIS-REx Mission: http://www.asteroidmission.org

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio

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Duration: 36 seconds

Release Date: July 20, 2023

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How NASA Unlocks The Moon's Mysteries | NASA Goddard

How NASA Unlocks The Moon's Mysteries | NASA Goddard

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft continues gathering a wide variety of data on our Moon using its suite of scientific instruments. The information collected has led to many scientific discoveries that have shed light on the Moon's history, composition, and potential for future exploration with the upcoming Artemis missions. This video highlights some of those recent discoveries that involve impact craters, volcanic activity, and the Moon's South Pole.

Video Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Produced and Edited by: David Ladd (AIMM) 

Data Visualizations by: Ernie Wright (USRA) 

LRO spacecraft animations by: Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBRwyle)

Credit: NASA Goddard (GSFC)

Duration: 3 minutes, 46 seconds

Release Date: July 20, 2023

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Boulders from NASA DART Spacecraft Impact with Asteroid Dimorphos | Hubble

Boulders from NASA DART Spacecraft Impact with Asteroid Dimorphos | Hubble

This NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope image of the asteroid Dimorphos was taken on December 19, 2022, nearly four months after the asteroid was impacted by NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission. Hubble’s sensitivity reveals a few dozen boulders knocked off the asteroid by the force of the collision. These are among the faintest objects Hubble has ever photographed inside the Solar System. The ejected boulders range in size from 1 meter to 6.7 meters across, based on Hubble photometry. They are drifting away from the asteroid at around a kilometer per hour. The discovery yields invaluable insights into the behavior of a small asteroid when it is hit by a projectile for the purpose of altering its trajectory.

Image Description: The bright white object at lower left is the asteroid Dimorphos. It has a blue dust tail extending diagonally to the upper right. A cluster of blue dots surrounds the asteroid. These are boulders that were knocked off the asteroid when, on September 26, 2022, NASA deliberately slammed the half-ton DART impactor spacecraft into the asteroid as a test of what it would take to deflect some future asteroid from hitting Earth. Hubble photographed the slow-moving boulders in December 2022.

Dimorphos is a natural satellite or moon of the near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos, with which it forms a binary system. Dimorphos has a diameter of 177 meters (581 ft) across its longest extent. Before the impact with NASA's DART spacecraft, Dimorphos had a shape of an oblate spheroid with a surface covered in boulders, but virtually no craters.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), D. Jewitt (UCLA)

Release Date: July 20, 2023

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Messier 82: The Cigar Galaxy in Ursa Major | Hubble

Messier 82: The Cigar Galaxy in Ursa Major | Hubble

This a mosaic image of the magnificent starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (M82). This galaxy is remarkable for its webs of shredded clouds and flame-like plumes of glowing hydrogen blasting out from its central regions where young stars are being born 10 times faster than they are inside in our Milky Way Galaxy.

Distance: 13 million light years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA) and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI) and P. Puxley (NSF)

Release Date: April 24, 2006

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Carbon-rich Dust Grains Found in First Billion Years of Universe | Webb Telescope

Carbon-rich Dust Grains Found in First Billion Years of Universe | Webb Telescope

This image highlights the location of the galaxy JADES-GS-z6 in a portion of an area of the sky known as GOODS-South, which was observed as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES. 

The galaxy JADES-GS-z6, along with others in this region, were part of a Webb study by an international team of astronomers, who observed the chemical signature of carbon-rich dust grains at redshift ~7. This is roughly equivalent to one billion years after the birth of the Universe. Similar observational signatures have been observed in the much more recent Universe, attributed to complex, carbon-based molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). It is not thought likely, however, that PAHs would have developed within the first billion years of cosmic time. Therefore, this observation suggests the exciting possibility that Webb may have observed a different species of carbon-based molecule: possibly minuscule graphite- or diamond-like grains produced by the earliest stars or supernovae. This observation suggests exciting avenues of investigation into both the production of cosmic dust and the earliest stellar populations in our Universe, and was made possible by Webb’s unprecedented sensitivity.

Image Description: This image shows a deep galaxy field, featuring thousands of galaxies of various shapes and sizes. A cutout indicates a particular galaxy, known as JADES-GS-z6, which was a research target for this result. It appears as a blurry smudge of blue, red and green.

The team’s research indicates that this particular galaxy showed significant dust obscuration and has undergone substantial metal enrichment relative to galaxies with similar mass at the same redshift. The team also believes the galaxy's visible color gradient may indicate a peculiar geometrical alignment of stars and dust.

The galaxy is shown zoomed in on a region measuring roughly 1x1 arcseconds, which is a measure of angular distance on the sky. One arcsecond is equal to 1/3600 of one degree of arc (the full Moon has an angular diameter of about 0.5 degrees). The actual size of an object that covers one arcsecond on the sky depends on its distance from the telescope.

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, ESA, CSA, B. Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), B. Johnson (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian), S. Tacchella (University of Cambridge, M. Rieke (Univ. of Arizona), D. Eisenstein (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian), A. Pagan (STScI)

Release Date: July 19, 2023

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Meet the Samples: Ha'ahóni and Atsá (Samples 8 & 9) | NASA/JPL

Meet the Samples: Ha'ahóni and Atsá (Samples 8 & 9) | 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. 8 and 9—“Ha'ahóni” and “Atsá,” two rock samples collected by Perseverance near its original landing site in Jezero Crater. These rock cores were drilled from a boulder that is among the more pristine igneous rocks the rover has sampled. Perseverance found igneous rocks, which form as lava or magma solidifies, throughout the crater floor. Samples No. 8 and 9 potentially represent a unique chapter in the history of Jezero Crater and were the last samples the rover collected on the crater floor before moving on to explore the nearby ancient river delta.

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/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)-Caltech

Duration: 1 minute 22 seconds 

Release Date: July 19, 2023

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Orbital Sunrise above Earth's Pacific Ocean | International Space Station

Orbital Sunrise above Earth's Pacific Ocean | International Space Station

The International Space Station was soaring into an orbital sunrise 259 miles above the U.S. territory of Guam in the Pacific Ocean at the time of this photograph.

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.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: July 15, 2023

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The Final Pre-launch Tests | High Above Down Under | NASA Goddard

The Final Pre-launch Tests | High Above Down Under | NASA Goddard

Episode 4: The Final Tests | Follow two NASA rocket teams as they launch from Australia to study our nearest stellar neighbors—Alpha Centauri A & B—on a quest to understand how stars make the planets around them suitable for life

In this episode, we will answer that question and check in on the rockets as they make their final preparation to launch into space.

Learn more about NASA’s Sounding Rockets Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/soundingrockets

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

Additional footage: Office of the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory government, Equatorial Launch Australia

Additional graphics: Vecteezy

Host: Miles Hatfield (NASA/GSFC) 

Writers/Videographers: 

Miles Hatfield (NASA/GSFC) 

Mara Johnson-Groh (NASA/GSFC) 

Producers: 

Beth Anthony (NASA/GSFC) 

Joy Ng (NASA/GSFC) 

Lacey Young (NASA/GSFC) 

Animators: 

Walt Feimer (NASA/GSFC) 

Jenny McElligott (NASA/GSFC) 

Scientific Advisor: 

Kevin France (CU Boulder/LASP/SISTINE)

Special thanks to:

Equatorial Launch Australia

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Office of the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory government

Release Date: July 19, 2023

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What's Going on with the Hole in the Earth's Ozone Layer? We Asked a NASA Expert

What's Going on with the Hole in the Earth's Ozone Layer? We Asked a NASA Expert

What's going on with the hole in the ozone layer?

Thanks to a global effort to regulate ozone-depleting substances, the ozone hole is showing signs of recovery and is projected to return to a healthy level by mid-century. Well done, world.

However, at NASA, scientists continue to monitor its progress. NASA Goddard’s Qing Liang explains more. Background info:

https://go.nasa.gov/3DhEBvp

 

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Producers: Scott Bednar, Jessica Wilde

Editor: James Lucas

Duration: 1 minute, 42 seconds

Release Date: July 19, 2023

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Zooming in on PDS 70 System: Host to Planet PDS 70b & Possible Trojan | ESO

Zooming in on PDS 70 System: Host to Planet PDS 70b & Possible Trojan | ESO

This sequence takes the viewer towards the southern constellation of Centaurus. We zoom in on the orange dwarf star PDS 70, which is located about 400 light-years away and has at least two planets orbiting it. The final shot shows the spectacular new image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of the PDS 70 system, where the planet PDS 70b and its Trojan cloud of debris are in the same orbit around the central star.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/L. Calçada/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Balsalobre-Ruza et al.

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: July 19, 2023

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