NASA CRS-19 Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Arrival | International Space Station

NASA CRS-19 Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Arrival | International Space Station

Cygnus captured by the Canadarm2 robotic arm

Cygnus moments from being captured by the Canadarm2 robotic arm

Cygnus approaches the station above Turkmenistan

Cygnus approaches the station above the Red Sea

Cygnus approaches the station above the Euphrates River

NASA Astronauts Frank Rubio and Woody Hoburg in the cupola with Cygnus outside

Astronaut Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates is pictured in the cupola with Cygnus outside

NASA Astronauts Woody Hoburg and Frank Rubio practice robotics maneuvers

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft docking at the International Space Station was completed on Friday, August 4, 2023. Cygnus, carrying over 8,200 pounds of cargo and science experiments, launched atop the company’s Antares rocket at 8:31 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. At 5:52 a.m., Aug. 4, NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg, along with NASA astronaut Frank Rubio as backup, captured Cygnus using the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm.

Highlights of space station research facilitated by delivery aboard this Cygnus are:

- The final iteration of a series of spacecraft fire protection experiments

- A new potable water dispenserthat provides hot water and improved sanitization

- Neural cells that will be cultured into 3D cell models for gene therapy testing

- A probe that measures plasma density of the upper atmosphere

- A memory card that contains creative works from students around the world

Cygnus will remain at the space station until October before it departs for a destructive re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.

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: July 31-Aug. 4, 2023

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The Rosy Glow of a Cosmic Seagull: Nebula Sh2-296 | ESO

The Rosy Glow of a Cosmic Seagull: Nebula Sh2-296 | ESO

ESOcast 205 Light: Colorful and wispy Sharpless 2-296 forms the “wings” of an area of sky known as the Seagull Nebula—named for its resemblance to a gull in flight. This celestial bird contains a fascinating mix of intriguing astronomical objects. Glowing clouds weave amid dark dust lanes and bright stars. The Seagull Nebula—made up of dust, hydrogen, helium and traces of heavier elements—is the hot and energetic birthplace of new stars.

Distance: 3,500 light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Directed by: Herbert Zodet

Editing: Herbert Zodet

Web and technical support: Javier Enciso and Raquel Yumi Shida

Written by: Laura Hiscott and Calum Turner

Footage and photos: ESO, Nick Risinger, M. Kornmesser and Y. Beletsky (LCO)

Scientific consultants: Paola Amico and Mariya Lyubenova

Duration: 1 minute, 16 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 7, 2019

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How Images are Composed from Astronomical Data | James Webb Space Telescope

How Images are Composed from Astronomical Data | James Webb Space Telescope

Want to know how the James Webb Space Telescope’s observations are transformed from black-and-white data into full-color images? Follow along as Joe DePasquale and Alyssa Pagan, science visuals developers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, explain how they process the telescope’s images from start to finish.

Joe shares what happens before the data are downloaded (hint: a lot!) and why its raw images appear almost black. He goes on to explain how stretching and compression are techniques they use to reveal the bulk of what Webb captured.

Alyssa shares how they assign color and compose Webb’s final images to emphasize scientifically valuable details. She also explains how infrared light is different than visible light, and how she and Joe compose the final full-color images.

Video Credits:

Producer: NASA, European Space Agency, Canadian Space Agency, Danielle Kirshenblat (STScI)

Video: Greg Bacon (STScI), Jackie Barrientes (STScI), Claire Blome (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Quyen Hart (STScI), Leah Hustak , Joyce Kang (STScI), Danielle Kirshenblat (STScI), Kelly Lepo (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Yessi Perez (STScI)

Acknowledgment: Macarena Garcia Marin (ESA), Christine Klicka Warfield (STScI)

Illustration: NASA, STScI

Duration: 6 minutes

Release Date: Aug. 7, 2023

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Zooming into The Cosmic Seagull: Nebula Sh2-296 | ESO

Zooming into The Cosmic Seagull: Nebula Sh2-296 | ESO

This zoom video starts from a wide view of the Milky Way and zooms in to the colorful and wispy Sharpless 2-296. This nebula forms the “wings” of an area of sky known as the Seagull Nebula—named for its resemblance to a gull in flight. This celestial bird contains a fascinating mix of intriguing astronomical objects. Glowing clouds weave amid dark dust lanes and bright stars. The Seagull Nebula—made up of dust, hydrogen, helium and traces of heavier elements—is the hot and energetic birthplace of new stars.

Distance: 3,500 light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO), Nick Risinger 

Duration: 55 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 7, 2019

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Panning across The Cosmic Seagull: Nebula Sh2-296 | ESO

Panning across The Cosmic Seagull: Nebula Sh2-296 | ESO

This pan video explores the colorful and wispy Sharpless 2-296. This nebula forms the “wings” of an area of sky known as the Seagull Nebula—named for its resemblance to a gull in flight. This celestial bird contains a fascinating mix of intriguing astronomical objects. Glowing clouds weave amid dark dust lanes and bright stars. The Seagull Nebula—made up of dust, hydrogen, helium and traces of heavier elements—is the hot and energetic birthplace of new stars.

Distance: 3,500 light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/VPHAS+ team/N.J. Wright (Keele University)

Duration: 1 minute, 10 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 7, 2019

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Chandrayaan-3 Moon Mission: Lunar Orbit Insertion Successful | ISRO

Chandrayaan-3 Moon Mission: Lunar Orbit Insertion Successful | ISRO

Chandrayaan-3 Mission Update: These are images of the Moon as viewed by India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft during its successful  Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) on Aug. 5, 2023. A soft lunar landing in the South Polar region is currently scheduled for Aug. 23, 2023. The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA's Deep Space Network are assisting India's Deep Space Network with tracking and communications for Chandrayaan-3.  

Chandrayaan-3 is India's effort to become the fourth country, after the United States, Russia and China, to successfully soft-land on the Moon.

The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft would also be the first to land at the lunar south pole, an area of special interest for space agencies and private space companies because of the presence of water ice that could support future surface activities.

Video Credit: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

Acknowledgement: TheBHP

Duration: 45 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 6, 2023

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The Rosy Glow of a Cosmic Seagull: Sh2-296 | ESO

The Rosy Glow of a Cosmic Seagull: Sh2-296 | ESO

Colorful and wispy Sharpless 2-296 forms the “wings” of an area of sky known as the Seagull Nebula—named for its resemblance to a gull in flight. This celestial bird contains a fascinating mix of intriguing astronomical objects. Glowing clouds weave amid dark dust lanes and bright stars. The Seagull Nebula—made up of dust, hydrogen, helium and traces of heavier elements—is the hot and energetic birthplace of new stars.

Distance: 3,500 light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/VPHAS+ team/N.J. Wright (Keele University)

Release Date: Aug. 7, 2019

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Portrait of a Ghostly Galaxy: NGC 6684 | Hubble

Portrait of a Ghostly Galaxy: NGC 6684 | Hubble

The lenticular galaxy NGC 6684 bathes this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope in a pale light. Captured with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, this lenticular galaxy is around 44 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pavo. Pavo—whose name is Latin for peacock—is a constellation in the southern sky and one of four constellations collectively known as the Southern Birds.

Lenticular galaxies like NGC 6684 (lenticular means lens-shaped) possess a large disc but lack the prominent spiral arms of galaxies like the Andromeda Galaxy. This leaves them somewhere between elliptical galaxies and spiral galaxies, and lends these galaxies a diffuse, ghostly experience. NGC 6684 also lacks the dark dust lanes that thread through other galaxies, adding to its spectral, insubstantial appearance.

Image Description: A galaxy, large and occupying most of the view from the center. The whole galaxy is made of smooth, diffuse light. The galaxy is surrounded by a smoky grey halo. Many stars shine around the galaxy, on a black background.

The data in this image were captured during a census of the nearby Universe entitled Every Known Nearby Galaxy which aims to observe all galaxies within 10 megaparsecs (32.6 million light-years) that the telescope has not already visited. Before this program began Hubble had observed roughly 75% of these nearby galaxies, and completing this census will reveal insights into the stars making up a wide variety of galaxies, in a wide variety of environments.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully

Release Date: Aug. 7, 2023

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SpaceX Fires Up Starship Super Heavy Booster 9 in Texas

SpaceX Fires Up Starship Super Heavy Booster 9 in Texas

[Ignition starts at ~2 minute and 20 second mark] SpaceX conducted a static-fire test of their Starship Super heavy booster 9 on Aug. 6, 2023. The test was conducted at the Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. SpaceX briefly ignited the booster's 33 Raptor engines while anchored to the orbital launch mount at its Starbase site in South Texas.

Not all of the engines performed perfectly; four of them shut down prematurely, SpaceX representatives said during a webcast of today's test. 

"A big congrats to the Starship team for getting through today's test," SpaceX's John Insprucker said during today's webcast. "That moves us another step closer to our next flight test."

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket—collectively referred to as Starship—represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond. Starship will be the world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, with the ability to carry up to 150 metric tonnes to Earth orbit reusable, and up to 250 metric tonnes expendable.

Starship is essential to both SpaceX’s plans to deploy its next-generation Starship system as well as for NASA, which will use a lunar lander version of Starship for landing astronauts on the moon during the Artemis III mission through the Human Landing System (HLS) program.

Key Starship Parameters:

Height: 120m/394ft

Diameter: 9m/30ft

Payload to LEO: 100 – 250+ t (orbit dependent)

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF): 

https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Video Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Duration: 7 minutes, 45 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 6, 2023

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Emission Nebula vdB93 in Monoceros | Schulman Telescope

Emission Nebula vdB93 in Monoceros | Schulman Telescope

This image of emission nebula vdB93 shows you a close up of the round diffused nebula in the head of the larger Seagull Nebula (IC 2177) bathed in the Milky Way galaxy constellation of Monoceros. Emission nebulae are bright, diffuse clouds of ionized gas that emit their own light.

Optics Schulman 32-inch RCOS Telescope

Camera SBIG STL11000

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

Image Date: Feb. 26, 2011

Release Date: Jan. 1, 2011

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Boulder Patterns on Planet Mars | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Boulder Patterns on Planet Mars | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

This image of a crater floor at high southern latitude reveals many boulders ranging from 1 to 10 meters in diameter. The boulders are not distributed randomly or uniformly but are often arranged in linear or circular patterns.

This image was taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a spacecraft designed to study the geology and climate of Mars, to provide reconnaissance of future landing sites, and to relay data from surface missions back to Earth. It was launched on August 12, 2005, and reached Mars on March 10, 2006. 

Image Date:

Latitude (centered)

-63.697°

Longitude (East)

22.287°

Spacecraft altitude

250.8 km (155.9 miles)

Image Date: Nov. 21, 2022

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument, 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 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.

Video Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

Narration: Tre Gibbs

Caption Credit: Alfred McEwen

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Aug. 2, 2023

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Comet Lovejoy: C/2014 Q2 | Schulman Telescope

Comet Lovejoy: C/2014 Q2 | Schulman Telescope

Comet Lovejoy or C/2014 Q2 is a long-period comet discovered on August 17, 2014, by amateur astronomer, Terry Lovejoy, from Queensland, Australia using a 0.2-meter (8 in) Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope. It was discovered at apparent magnitude 15 in the southern constellation of Puppis. It is the fifth comet discovered by Terry Lovejoy. The blue-green glow of C/2014 Q2 is the result of organic molecules (mostly Diatomic carbon) and water released by the comet fluorescing under the intense ultraviolet (UV) and optical light of the Sun as it passes through space.

Image Details:

Optics: 32-inch Schulman Telescope (RCOS)

Camera:  SBIG STX16803 CCD Camera 

Learn more from Jan. 20, 2015, Time Magazine article:

https://time.com/3674582/lovejoy-comet-green-space/

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

Image Date: Jan. 21, 2015

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NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps | Artemis Crewed Moon Landing Program Interview

NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps | Artemis Crewed Moon Landing Program Interview

Replay of live interviews with NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps from the Johnson Space Center with Syracuse, New York area media. Epps discusses NASA’s plans to put the first woman and next man on the Moon through the agency’s Artemis program and the significance of New York to the mission, as well as her recent experience with a CAVES underground expedition for astronaut training. The interviews were conducted on October 4, 2019. 

Four crew members are now assigned to launch on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station, including Mission Specialist Jeanette Epps. She will join Expedition 70 and 71 crew members aboard the station in early 2024 to conduct a wide-ranging set of operational and research activities.

This also will be Epps’ first trip to the International Space Station. She is from Syracuse, New York, and earned a bachelor’s in physics from LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York, and a master’s in science and a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to joining NASA, she worked at Ford Motor Company and the Central Intelligence Agency. She was selected as an astronaut in July 2009, and has served on the Generic Joint Operation Panel working on space station crew efficiency, as a crew support astronaut for two expeditions, and as lead capsule communicator in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Epps previously was assigned to NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission. NASA reassigned Epps to allow Boeing time to complete development of Starliner while also continuing plans for astronauts to gain spaceflight experience for future mission needs.

NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps Official NASA Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jeanette-j-epps

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jeanette-j-epps/biography

CAVES Underground Expeditions for Astronaut Training

The Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising Human Behavior and Performance Skills (CAVES) expedition is a simulation of a space mission and an extreme training session, which is held four kilometers underground, in a cave. This one-week underground adventure was designed by the European Space Agency (ESA) to train astronauts to live and work together as a team. 

Through Artemis, NASA aims to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, heralding a new era for space exploration and utilization. 

Learn more about NASA's Artemis Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 19 minutes

Release Date: Oct. 4, 2019

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NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps Assigned to International Space Station Mission

NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps Assigned to International Space Station Mission

Portrait of NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Crew Portrait (from left to right): Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Alexander Grebenkin (Russia), NASA astronaut & Pilot Michael Barratt, NASA astronaut Commander Matthew Dominick, and Mission Specialist Jeanette Epps, will join Expedition 70 and 71 crew members aboard the International Space Station

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps trains in a U.S. spacesuit at NASA's Johnson Space Center

NASA astronaut Jeanette in ISS EVA Prep & Post #2 training in the ISS Airlock mockup at Johnson Space Center with JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata (Japan)

NASA astronaut Jeanette in ISS EVA Prep & Post #2 training in the ISS Airlock mockup at Johnson Space Center

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps, a crew member for Boeing’s Starliner-1 mission, arrives aboard a T-38 jet aircraft at the Launch and Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center

Astronaut Jeanette Epps of NASA was a backup crew member for Expedition 54-55

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 54-55 backup crewmembers Jeanette Epps of NASA (left), Sergey Prokopyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (right)

Four crew members are now assigned to launch on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station, including Mission Specialist Jeanette Epps. She will join Expedition 70 and 71 crew members aboard the station in early 2024 to conduct a wide-ranging set of operational and research activities.

This also will be Epps’ first trip to the International Space Station. She is from Syracuse, New York, and earned a bachelor’s in physics from LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York, and a master’s in science and a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to joining NASA, she worked at Ford Motor Company and the Central Intelligence Agency. She was selected as an astronaut in July 2009, and has served on the Generic Joint Operation Panel working on space station crew efficiency, as a crew support astronaut for two expeditions, and as lead capsule communicator in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Epps previously was assigned to NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission. NASA reassigned Epps to allow Boeing time to complete development of Starliner while also continuing plans for astronauts to gain spaceflight experience for future mission needs.

NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps Official NASA Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jeanette-j-epps

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jeanette-j-epps/biography

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.

Image Credits: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/Robert Markowitz/James Blair/Kim Shiflett/Elizabeth Weissinger

Image Dates: 2009-2023

Release Date: Aug. 4, 2023

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Star Cluster NGC 2244: Inside The Rosette Nebula—Detailed view | NASA Chandra

Star Cluster NGC 2244: Inside The Rosette Nebula—Detailed view | NASA Chandra

This composite image shows a close-up detailed view of the Rosette star formation region, located about 5,000 light years from Earth. Data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are colored red. The x-rays reveal hundreds of young stars in the central star cluster, called NGC 2244, and fainter clusters on either side. 

Image Credits: X-ray (NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Wang et al), Optical (DSS & NOAO/AURA/NSF/KPNO 0.9-m/T. Rector et al)

Caption Credit: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Release Date: Sept. 8, 2010

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Star Cluster NGC 2244 in The Rosette Nebula

Star Cluster NGC 2244 in The Rosette Nebula

"In the heart of the Rosette Nebula lies a bright open cluster of stars that lights up the nebula. The stars of NGC 2244 formed from the surrounding gas only a few million years ago. This image was taken using multiple exposures and very specific colors of sulfur (shaded red), hydrogen (green), and oxygen (blue). It captures the central region in tremendous detail. A hot wind of particles streams away from the cluster stars and contributes to an already complex menagerie of gas and dust filaments while slowly evacuating the cluster center. The Rosette Nebula's center measures about 50 light-years across, lies about 5,200 light-years away, and is visible with binoculars towards the constellation of the Unicorn (Monoceros)."

Image Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman

Dan's Website: https://astrodonimaging.com

Release Date: Feb. 21, 2021

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