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Monday, September 25, 2023

Reflection Nebula NGC 7129 in Cepheus | Schulman Telescope

Reflection Nebula NGC 7129 in Cepheus | Schulman Telescope

NGC 7129 is a reflection nebula located 3,300 light years away in the constellation Cepheus. A young open cluster is responsible for illuminating the surrounding nebula. The nebula is rosebud-shaped. The young stars have blown a large, oddly shaped bubble in the molecular cloud that once surrounded them at their birth. The rosy pink color comes from glowing dust grains on the surface of the bubble being heated by the intense light from the young stars within. Ultraviolet and visible light produced by the young stars is absorbed by the surrounding dust grains.

Optics: Schulman 32-inch RCOS Telescope

Camera: SBIG STL11000

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

Caption Acknowledgements: Wikipedia

Release Date: Sept. 1, 2011

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Asteroid Bennu Sample Processed for Study | NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission

Asteroid Bennu Sample Processed for Study | NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx curation teams process the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in a cleanroom, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

The clean room team has finished disassembling the sample capsule and packaging its components, including the unopened sample canister. Now packed in shipping containers—along with the environmental samples the recovery team collected around the capsule’s landing site this—the items are scheduled to be delivered on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, to their permanent home at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Follow sample-delivery updates on NASA's OSIRIS-REx blog:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/

OSIRIS-REx NASA page: https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex

University of Arizona's OSIRIS-REx Mission Page: http://www.asteroidmission.org

Image Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber

Image Capture Date: Sept. 24, 2023

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Aurora Borealis over Scotland

Aurora Borealis over Scotland

Astrophotographer Alan Tough: "This was the scene around local midnight. At times, the reds were so intense the colour could be picked up by the unaided eye."

On Earth, auroras are mainly created by particles originally emitted by the Sun in the form of solar wind. When this stream of electrically charged particles gets close to our planet, it interacts with the magnetic field, which acts as a gigantic shield. While it protects Earth’s environment from solar wind particles, it can also trap a small fraction of them. Particles trapped within the magnetosphere—the region of space surrounding Earth in which charged particles are affected by its magnetic field—can be energized and then follow the magnetic field lines down to the magnetic poles. There, they interact with oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the upper layers of the atmosphere, creating the flickering, colorful lights visible in the polar regions here on Earth.

Earth auroras have different names depending on which pole they occur at. Aurora Borealis, or the northern lights, is the name given to auroras around the north pole and Aurora Australis, or the southern lights, is the name given for auroras around the south pole.

Learn more:
The Colors of the Aurora (National Park Service)
https://www.nps.gov/articles/-articles-aps-v8-i1-c9.htm

NASA - About Aurora
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/aurora-news-stories/index.html

Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Tough
Location: Scotland, United Kingdom
Image Date: Sept. 24, 2023

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Sunday, September 24, 2023

Asteroid Bennu Sample Retrieved for Study | NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission

Asteroid Bennu Sample Retrieved for Study | NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission

On Scene Commander of Recovery, Jasmine Nakayama, attaches the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to a helicopter for transport to the cleanroom, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed in the Utah desert.

The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen en route to the cleanroom, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed in the Utah desert.

The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is lowered into the parking lot in front of the cleanroom hangar by helicopter, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023.

From left to right, Lockheed Martin Mission Operations Assurance Lead Graham Miller, Lockheed Martin Recovery Specialist Michael Kaye, and Lockheed Martin Recovery Specialist Levi Hanish, prepare the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission for transport, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed.

A capsule containing a sample of asteroid Bennu from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission is seen en route to a local cleanroom, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed in the Utah desert.

At 12:37 p.m. EDT (10:37 a.m. MDT), a helicopter gently placed NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample capsule, attached to the end of a 100-foot cable, on the ground outside a hangar on the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. Two technicians on the ground helped guide the capsule down.

Once the helicopter line was detached and the helicopter had departed, the clean room team removed the capsule from its metal transport cradle. They loaded the capsule onto a cart and wheeled it into the hangar where a temporary clean room had been set up. In the hangar, the capsule was fully unwrapped and cleaned, and then taken into the clean room for disassembly.   

To protect the clean room from contaminants, only six people are allowed inside. Covered from head to toe in bunny suits, hoods, nitrile gloves, shoe covers, plus hair and beard covers, their job is to disassemble the capsule and remove the unopened sample canister inside. They will package all the parts for transport by aircraft to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Monday morning.

Follow sample-delivery updates on NASA's OSIRIS-REx blog:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/

OSIRIS-REx NASA page: https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex

University of Arizona's OSIRIS-REx Mission Page: http://www.asteroidmission.org

Image Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber

Image Capture Date: Sept. 24, 2023

Asteroid Bennu Sample Lands on Earth Successfully | NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission

Asteroid Bennu Sample Lands on Earth Successfully | NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission

The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the Utah desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023.

Lockheed Martin System Safety Engineer Victoria Thiem performs preliminary checks on the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed.

From left to right, NASA Astromatierals Curator Francis McCubbin, NASA Sample Return Capsule Science Lead Scott Sandford, and University of Arizona OSIRIS-REx Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta, collect science data, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023.

The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

Follow sample-delivery updates on NASA's OSIRIS-REx blog:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/

OSIRIS-REx NASA page: https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex

University of Arizona's OSIRIS-REx Mission Page: http://www.asteroidmission.org

Image Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber

Image Capture Date: Sept. 24, 2023

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission Capsule from Asteroid Bennu Lands in Utah Desert

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission Capsule from Asteroid Bennu Lands in Utah Desert

The capsule containing asteroid Bennu samples, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission, has successfully landed at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range, on September 24, 2023, at 10:52 EDT.

Watch Live on NASA TV: nasa.gov/nasatv

10 a.m. EDT — Live coverage of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return

5 p.m. EDT — Media briefing on NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return

All times U.S. Eastern Daylight Time, which equates to UTC-4.

Follow sample-delivery updates on NASA's OSIRIS-REx blog:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/

OSIRIS-REx NASA page: https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex

University of Arizona's OSIRIS-REx Mission Page: http://www.asteroidmission.org

Credit: Gianluca Masi/The Virtual Telescope Project/NASA/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 2 minutes, 51 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 24, 2023

Preparing for Asteroid Bennu Samples: Earth Return Today! | NASA's OSIRIS-REx

Preparing for Asteroid Bennu Samples: Earth Return Today! | NASA's OSIRIS-REx

Stephen Lee, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Flight Operations team, performs preflight checks in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range.

Members of NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Flight Operations team are seen preparing for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range.

Members of NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Flight Operations team perform preflight checks in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range.

OSIRIS-REx is NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission. It launched in September 2016 on a journey to explore a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. In October 2020, the spacecraft ventured to the asteroid’s surface and collected about 250 grams of material for delivery to Earth. The mission’s thrilling finale is taking place today, September 24, 2023, as OSIRIS-REx releases a capsule containing the Bennu samples for touchdown in the Utah desert by parachute.

Watch Live on NASA TV: nasa.gov/nasatv

10 a.m. EDT — Live coverage of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return

5 p.m. EDT — Media briefing on NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return

All times U.S. Eastern Daylight Time, which equates to UTC-4.

Follow sample-delivery updates on NASA's OSIRIS-REx blog:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/

OSIRIS-REx NASA page: https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex

University of Arizona's OSIRIS-REx Mission Page: http://www.asteroidmission.org

Image Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber

Image Date: Aug. 29, 2023

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission Delivers Asteroid Bennu Samples to Earth Today!

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission Delivers Asteroid Bennu Samples to Earth Today!

Watch Live on NASA TV: nasa.gov/nasatv

10 a.m. EDT — Live coverage of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return

5 p.m. EDT — Media briefing on NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return

All times U.S. Eastern Daylight Time, which equates to UTC-4.

Follow sample-delivery updates on NASA's OSIRIS-REx blog:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/

OSIRIS-REx NASA page: https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex

University of Arizona's OSIRIS-REx Mission Page: http://www.asteroidmission.org

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

Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC): Lead Animator

Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBR Wyle Services, LLC): Animator

Angeles Miron (Skillbridge Intern (U.S. Navy)): Animator

Jenny McElligott (AIMM): Animator

Jonathan North (KBR Wyle Services, LLC): Animator

Kim Dongjae (KBR Wyle Services, LLC): Animator

Michael Lentz (KBR Wyle Services, LLC): Lead Art Director, Animator

Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona): Lead Scientist

Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC): Lead Producer

Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Support

Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC): Public Affairs Officer

Duration: 2 minutes, 44 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 21, 2023

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Saturday, September 23, 2023

Artemis II Crew Transportation Vehicles (CTVs) | Kennedy Space Center

Artemis II Crew Transportation Vehicles (CTVs) | Kennedy Space Center

Artemis II crew members (from left) Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman walk out of Astronaut Crew Quarters inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to the Artemis crew transportation vehicles prior to traveling to Launch Pad 39B as part of an integrated ground systems test at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, to test the crew timeline for launch day.

Artemis II crew members (front to back) NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen walk out of Astronaut Crew Quarters inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to the Artemis crew transportation vehicles prior to traveling to Launch Pad 39B.

Artemis II NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen arrive to Launch Pad 39B and prepare to enter the mobile launcher and proceed to the crew access arm as part of an integrated ground systems test at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Sept. 20, to test the crew timeline for launch day.

Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, left, and NASA astronaut Christina Koch view the crew transport vehicles (CTVs) outside of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. The specially designed, fully electric, environmentally friendly vehicles were manufactured by Canoo Technologies, Inc. of Torrance California.

These are pictures related to the Launch Demonstration Test ISSV-1A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 19-20, 2023. The test ensures the ground systems team is ready to support the Artemis II crew timeline on launch day.

The Crew Transportation Vehicles (CTVs) are "engineered to carry fully-suited astronauts, flight support crew, and equipment to the launch pad. These zero-emission vehicles have an exclusive interior and exterior design that provide for astronaut crew comfort and safety while on the nine-mile journey to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center."

NASA’s Artemis II Crew:

Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, plus Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency.

Canoo's website: https://www.canoo.com/NASA

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

Artemis II will launch no earlier than December 2024.

Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett/Frankie Martin

Image Dates: Sept. 19-20, 2023

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Gretchen Morales-Valle Helps Make Aviation Safer: The First “A” in NASA

Gretchen Morales-Valle Helps Make Aviation Safer: The First “A” in NASA

Growing up in tropical Puerto Rico, Gretchen Morales-Valle never imagined that ice could build up on aircraft. After an interview at NASA, she learned about Glenn’s Icing Research Tunnel and the center’s work to simulate the icy atmospheric conditions that planes can encounter in flight. Today, she works as an electrical and test engineer in this facility and is proud to do impactful work that helps keep people safe when they fly.

Learn more about the Glenn Research Center: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/home/index.html

Video Credit: NASA's Glenn Research Center

Duration: 5 minutes, 34 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 22, 2023

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx: Returning Samples of Asteroid Bennu | Johns Hopkins APL

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx: Returning Samples of Asteroid Bennu | Johns Hopkins APL

Seven years ago, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft—short for Origins, Spectral interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer—set out for the small, top-shaped asteroid called Bennu to collect a sample from its surface. However, this simple concept in words belies the physical challenges of these small asteroids that scientists and engineers had to overcome.

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, along with colleagues in Canada and across the United States, played a critical part in developing a solution.

On Sunday, Sept. 24th, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx mission will release a capsule containing a 4.5-billion-year-old sample of an asteroid to Earth for curation and study. This is the first time that NASA has returned an asteroid sample and is the largest asteroid sample ever delivered to Earth. The asteroid is rich in organic material and the sample could tell us about the origins of life on Earth.

Find out how they used APL’s Small Body Mapping Tool and autonomous technology that together helped make the sampling mission possible. https://jhuapl.link/yqi

Learn more about Johns Hopkins APL: https://www.jhuapl.edu/

OSIRIS-REx NASA page: https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex

Follow sample-delivery updates on NASA's OSIRIS-REx blog:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/

University of Arizona's OSIRIS-REx Mission Page: http://www.asteroidmission.org

Credit: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL)

Duration: 4 minutes, 31 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 22, 2023

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Tracking a Mission’s Historic Return to Earth | This Week @NASA

Tracking a Mission’s Historic Return to Earth | This Week @NASA

Tracking a mission’s historic return to Earth, a year of science onboard the International Space Station, and the safe arrival of the station’s newest cosmonauts and resident astronaut . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Follow sample-delivery updates on NASA's OSIRIS-REx blog:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/

Learn more about the OSIRIS-REx Mission:

https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex

http://www.asteroidmission.org

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Video Producer, Video Editor & Narrator: Andre Valentine

Release Date: Sept. 23, 2023

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The Nile River and Red Sea | International Space Station

The Nile River and Red Sea | International Space Station

The Nile River and the Red Sea lead to the Mediterranean Sea and are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above the Arabian Peninsula. A pair of the space station's main solar arrays drapes across the left foreground.

The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The longest river in Africa, it has historically been considered the longest river in the world, though this has been contested by research suggesting that the Amazon River is slightly longer. Of the world's major rivers, the Nile is one of the smallest, as measured by annual flow in cubic meters of water. About 6,650 km (4,130 mi) long, its drainage basin covers eleven countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Republic of the Sudan, and Egypt. In particular, the Nile is the primary water source of Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan. Additionally, the Nile is an important economic river, supporting agriculture and fishing.

The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.

[Source: Wikipedia]

Follow Expedition 69 updates here:

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

Expedition 69 Crew (September 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin, Konstantin Borisov

European Space Agency: Flight Engineer Andreas Mogensen (Denmark)

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara (USA)

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)

Release Date: Sept. 20, 2023

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Friday, September 22, 2023

New Zealand's Snow-capped Southern Alps | International Space Station

New Zealand's Snow-capped Southern Alps | International Space Station

New Zealand, with its snow-capped Southern Alps mountain range, is pictured between two partly cloudy bodies of water, the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean, as the International Space Station orbited 271 miles above.

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Expedition 69 Crew (September 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin, Konstantin Borisov

European Space Agency: Flight Engineer Andreas Mogensen (Denmark)

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara (USA)

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: Sept. 12, 2023

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Esto es lo que necesitas saber sobre los asteroides troyanos | NASA en Español

Esto es lo que necesitas saber sobre los asteroides troyanos | NASA en Español

Has oído hablar de los asteroides... ¿Pero has oído hablar de los asteroides troyanos? Nuestra misión Lucy estudiará por primera vez estas cápsulas del tiempo del nacimiento de nuestro sistema solar. Esto es lo que necesitas saber sobre los asteroides troyanos.

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Ciencia de la NASA: https://ciencia.nasa.gov/

Credit: NASA en Español

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: Sept. 22, 2023

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NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio Peers Out SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Window

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio Peers Out SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Window

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio peers out of a window aboard the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft docked to the International Space Station during Expedition 67 on Oct, 6, 2022. Rubio was observing the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft, carrying four SpaceX Crew-5 crew members, approach the orbital lab for a docking to the Harmony module's forward port.

After arriving to the orbital outpost on Sept. 21, 2022, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio has surpassed a full year in space. His record-breaking mission has included dozens of scientific investigations that have helped researchers better understand how humans thrive while living and working in space.

Astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA, International Space Station Commander Sergey Prokopyev (Russia) and Flight Engineer Dmitiri Petelin of Roscosmos (Russia) are preparing for their departure next week on Sept. 27, 2023.

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Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: Oct. 6, 2022

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