The Horsehead Nebula in Orion

The Horsehead Nebula in Orion

Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape. Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is about 1,500 light-years distant, embedded in the vast Orion cloud complex. About five light-years "tall," the dark cloud is cataloged as Barnard 33 and is visible only because its obscuring dust is silhouetted against the glowing red emission nebula IC 434. Stars are forming within the dark cloud. Contrasting blue reflection nebula NGC 2023, surrounding a hot, young star, is at the lower left of the full image. The featured gorgeous color image combines both narrowband and broadband images recorded using several different telescopes.

Image Credit & Copyright: Mark Hanson & Martin Pugh, SSRO, PROMPT, CTIO, NSF

Mark's website:

https://www.hansonastronomy.com/bio

Martin's website:

https://www.martinpughastrophotography.space/about

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Airlocks & Robots | International Space Station

Airlocks & Robots | International Space Station

The Nauka science module's experiment airlock

The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft docked to the Rassvet module

The Canadarm2 robotic arm and Dextre

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Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (Denmark)

Roscosmos (Russia): Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Konstantin Borisov

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furuk

awa (Japan)

NASA: 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.

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Dates: Nov. 14-15, 2023

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Pan of The Milky Way Galaxy's Center: Sagittarius C | Webb Telescope

Pan of The Milky Way Galaxy's Center: Sagittarius C | Webb Telescope

The full view of the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals a 50 light-years-wide portion of the Milky Way’s dense center. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, along with as-yet unidentified features.

A vast region of ionized hydrogen, shown in cyan, wraps around an infrared-dark cloud. This is so dense that it blocks the light from distant stars behind it. Intriguing needle-like structures in the ionized hydrogen emission lack any uniform orientation. Researchers note the surprising extent of the ionized region, covering about 25 light-years.

A cluster of protostars—stars that are still forming and gaining mass—are producing outflows that glow like a bonfire at the base of the large infrared-dark cloud, indicating that they are emerging from the cloud’s protective cocoon and will soon join the ranks of the more mature stars around them. Smaller infrared-dark clouds dot the scene, appearing like holes in the starfield.

Researchers say they have only begun to dig into the wealth of unprecedented high-resolution data that Webb has provided on this region, and many features bear detailed study. This includes the rose-colored clouds on the right side of the image, which have never been seen in such detail.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, Canadian Space Agency, STScI, S. Crowe (UVA), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 20, 2023

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The Milky Way Galaxy's Center: Sagittarius C | James Webb Space Telescope

The Milky Way Galaxy's Center: Sagittarius C | James Webb Space Telescope

The full view of the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals a 50 light-years-wide portion of the Milky Way’s dense center. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, along with as-yet unidentified features. 

A vast region of ionized hydrogen, shown in cyan, wraps around an infrared-dark cloud. It is so dense that it blocks the light from distant stars behind it. Intriguing needle-like structures in the ionized hydrogen emission lack any uniform orientation. Researchers note the surprising extent of the ionized region, covering about 25 light-years. 

A cluster of protostars—stars that are still forming and gaining mass—are producing outflows that glow like a bonfire at the base of the large infrared-dark cloud, indicating that they are emerging from the cloud’s protective cocoon and will soon join the ranks of the more mature stars around them. Smaller infrared-dark clouds dot the scene, appearing like holes in the starfield. 

Image Description: In a field crowded with stars, a funnel-shaped region of space appears darker than its surroundings with fewer stars. It is wider at the top edge of the image, narrowing towards the bottom. Toward the narrow end of this dark region a small clump of red and white appears to shoot out streamers upward and left. A large, bright cyan-colored area surrounds the lower portion of the funnel-shaped dark area, forming a rough U shape. The cyan-colored area has needle-like, linear structures and becomes more diffuse in the center of the image. The right side of the image is dominated by clouds of orange and red, with a purple haze.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, S. Crowe (UVA)

Release Date: Nov. 20, 2023

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NASA Astronauts Moghbeli & O’Hara: New Photos | International Space Station

NASA Astronauts Moghbeli & O’Hara: New Photos | International Space Station

Astronauts Loral O'Hara and Jasmin Moghbeli work on spacesuits

Loral O'Hara and Jasmin Moghbeli configure spacewalking tools

Astronaut Moghbeli poses with a spacesuit

Astronaut O'Hara replaces components on a biological printer

Moghbeli sets up the Cell Gravisensing-2 experiment

Moghbeli installs a new hydrogen sensor

Moghbeli configures spacewalking tools

Spacesuits are pictured inside the Quest airlock

NASA astronauts Moghbeli and O’Hara are in the midst of a science mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions, including lunar missions through NASA’s Artemis program.

Moghbeli and O’Hara concluded their first spacewalk on Nov. 1, 2023, after 6 hours and 42 minutes. Moghbeli was designated extravehicular crew member 1 (EV1), was wearing a suit with red stripes. O’Hara, designated extravehicular crew member 2 (EV 2), was in an unmarked suit.

Moghbeli and O’Hara were able to complete one of the spacewalk’s two major objectives, replacing one of the 12 trundle bearing assemblies on the port solar alpha rotary joint. This allows the arrays to track the Sun and generate electricity to power the station. Mission Control told the station crew that the solar array is functioning well after the bearing replacement. The spacewalkers also removed a handling bar fixture to prepare for future installation of a roll-out solar array and properly configured a cable that was previously interfering with an external camera.

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Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (Denmark)

Roscosmos (Russia): Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Konstantin Borisov

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: 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)

Image Dates: Oct. 27-Nov. 13, 2023

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Irregular Galaxy NGC 2814 in Ursa Major | Hubble

Irregular Galaxy NGC 2814 in Ursa Major | Hubble

This Hubble picture features NGC 2814, an irregular galaxy that lies about 85 million light years from Earth. In this image, captured using Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the galaxy appears to be quite isolated. Visually, it looks like a stroke of bright paint across a dark background. However, looks can be deceiving. NGC 2814 actually has three close (in astronomical terms) galactic neighbors: a side-on spiral galaxy known as NGC 2820; an irregular galaxy named IC 2458; and a face-on non-barred spiral galaxy called NGC 2805. Collectively, the four galaxies make up a galaxy group known as Holmberg 124. In some literature these galaxies are referred to as a group of ‘late-type galaxies’.

The terminology ‘late-type’ refers to spiral and irregular galaxies, whilst ‘early-type’ refers to elliptical galaxies. This rather confusing terminology has led to a common misconception within the astronomy community. It is still quite widely believed that Edwin Hubble inaccurately thought that elliptical galaxies were the evolutionary precursors to spiral and irregular galaxies, and that that is the reason why ellipticals are classed as ‘early-type’ and spirals and irregulars are classed as ‘late-type’. This misconception is due to the Hubble ‘tuning fork’ of galactic classification. It visually shows galaxy types proceeding from elliptical to spiral, in a sequence that could easily be interpreted as a temporal evolution. However, Hubble actually adopted the terms ‘early-type’ and ‘late-type’ from much older astronomical terminology for stellar classifications, and did not mean to state that ellipticals were literally evolutionary precursors to spiral and irregular galaxies. In fact, he explicitly said in his 1927 paper that ‘the nomenclature . . . [early and late] . . . refers to position in the sequence, and temporal connotations are made at one’s peril’.

Despite Hubble himself being quite emphatic on this topic, the misunderstanding persists almost a hundred years later, and perhaps provides an instructive example of why it is helpful to classify things with easy-to-interpret terminology from the get-go!

Image Description: An irregular galaxy, a narrow streak of stars crossed by faint dust lanes. It is surrounded by a bright glow, appearing like a beam of light in the center of a dark background. A scatter of small, distant galaxies and a single, bright star surround the galaxy.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick

Release Date: Nov. 20, 2023

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Galaxy Cluster in Draco: NGC 6340, IC 1251 & IC 1254 | Schulman Telescope

Galaxy Cluster in Draco: NGC 6340, IC 1251 & IC 1254  | Schulman Telescope

NGC 6340 (center) is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco. The galaxy is approximately 55 million light years away. Its most prominent neighbors are the striking blue unbarred spiral IC1251 just to the north, and another unbarred spiral in IC1254 to the north-east of center (up-and-left) with odd dusty bends extending from its core.

Technical Details

Optics: 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

Caption Acknowledgements: UA/Wikipedia/CloudyNights.com

Image Date: May 1, 2014

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NASA’s X-59 Supersonic Aircraft: The Quiet Crew | A Profile of Brian Griffin

NASA’s X-59 Supersonic Aircraft: The Quiet Crew | A Profile of Brian Griffin

In this episode of The Quiet Crew, you will meet Brian Griffin, the NASA flight test lead for phase one of the Quesst mission. His role on the mission is the planning, coordination, and execution of all ground and flight testing of the X-59 aircraft. He is part of the crew on a mission to transform aviation as NASA and communities work together to verify that the X-59’s quiet, supersonic design can turn a sonic boom into a sonic thump. This new technology, along with a potential change in regulations, will allow airliners to fly faster over land, cutting passenger travel time in half without disturbing people on the ground.

For more information about NASA's quiet supersonic mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/Quesst

Credit: NASA Video

Duration: 1 minute, 52 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 17, 2023

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Spiral Galaxy NGC 4151 in Canes Venatici | Schulman Telescope

Spiral Galaxy NGC 4151 in Canes Venatici | Schulman Telescope

NGC 4151 is an intermediate spiral Seyfert galaxy with a weak inner ring structure. It is located around 52 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. Seyfert galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centers that are surrounded by accretion discs of in-falling material. NGC 4151 has an active galactic nucleus (AGN)—a compact region at the center of a galaxy that emits a significant amount of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum with characteristics indicating that the luminosity is not produced by stars. This galaxy was first mentioned by William Herschel on March 17, 1787. 

Technical Details

Optics: 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

Caption Acknowledgements: UA/Wikipedia

Image Date: March 1, 2016

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SpaceX Starship Second Launch: Image Collection | SpaceX Starbase in Texas

SpaceX Starship Second Launch: Image Collection | SpaceX Starbase in Texas

SpaceX: "Starship successfully lifted off under the power of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy Booster and made it through stage separation."

For the second flight test of a fully integrated Starship, SpaceX used a Super Heavy rocket booster to launch a Starship upper stage, from Starbase in Texas, on November 18, 2023, at 8am EST. According to SpaceX, Starship is a fully reusable transportation system, designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond.

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/29.5ft

Payload to LEO: 100 – 150 t (fully reusable)

Capabilities:

Satellites: "Starship is designed to deliver satellites further and at a lower marginal cost per launch than our current Falcon vehicles. With a payload compartment larger than any fairing currently in operation or development, Starship creates possibilities for new missions, including space telescopes even larger than the James Webb."

Raptor Engine Parameters:

Diameter: 1.3m/4ft

Height: 3.1m/10.2ft

Thrust: 230tf/500 klbf

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF): 

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

Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Release Date: Nov. 18, 2023

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SpaceX Starship Second Launch | SpaceX Starbase in Texas

SpaceX Starship Second Launch | SpaceX Starbase in Texas

For the second flight test of a fully integrated Starship, SpaceX used a Super Heavy rocket booster to launch a Starship upper stage, from Starbase in Texas, on November 18, 2023 at 8am EST. According to SpaceX, Starship is a fully reusable transportation system, designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond.

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/29.5ft

Payload to LEO: 100 – 150 t (fully reusable)

Capabilities:

Satellites: "Starship is designed to deliver satellites further and at a lower marginal cost per launch than our current Falcon vehicles. With a payload compartment larger than any fairing currently in operation or development, Starship creates possibilities for new missions, including space telescopes even larger than the James Webb."

Raptor Engine Parameters:

Diameter: 1.3m/4ft

Height: 3.1m/10.2ft

Thrust: 230tf/500 klbf

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF): 

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

Video Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: Nov. 18, 2023

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Science & Supplies Delivered to International Space Station | This Week @NASA

Science & Supplies Delivered to International Space Station | This Week @NASA

Week of November 17, 2023: Science and supplies delivered to the International Space Station, another early discovery by our Lucy mission, and celebrating the one-year anniversary of Artemis I . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Video Producer: Andre Valentine

Video Editor: Andre Valentine

Narrator: Emanuel Cooper

Duration: 2 minutes, 32 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 18, 2023

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Earthglow | International Space Station

Earthglow | International Space Station

Earth's glow just barely shines above city lights off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, as the International Space Station soared through orbital nighttime 260 miles above. Earth's airglow outlines the planet's horizon in this photograph.

Airglow occurs when atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, excited by sunlight, emit light to shed their excess energy. Or, it can happen when atoms and molecules that have been ionized by sunlight collide with and capture a free electron. In both cases, they eject a particle of light—called a photon—in order to relax again. The phenomenon is similar to auroras, but where auroras are driven by high-energy particles originating from the solar wind, airglow is energized by ordinary, day-to-day solar radiation.

Unlike auroras, which are episodic and fleeting, airglow constantly shines throughout Earth’s atmosphere, and the result is a tenuous bubble of light that closely encases our entire planet. (Auroras, on the other hand, are usually constrained to Earth’s poles.) Just a tenth as bright as all the stars in the night sky, airglow is far more subdued than auroras, too dim to observe easily except in orbit or on the ground with clear, dark skies and a sensitive camera. However, it is a marker nevertheless of the dynamic region where Earth meets space. 

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Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (Denmark)

Roscosmos (Russia): Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Konstantin Borisov

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: 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)

Image Date: Nov. 13, 2023

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Auroral 'Curtains' over Qeqertaq

Auroral 'Curtains' over Qeqertaq

Light pollution is usually not a problem in Qeqertaq. In western Greenland, this remote coastal village boasted a population of 114 in 2020. Lights still shine in its dark skies though. During planet Earth's recent intense geomagnetic storm, on November 6, 2023, these beautiful curtains of aurora borealis fell over the arctic realm. On the eve of the coming weeks of polar night at 70 degrees north latitude, the inspiring display of Northern Lights is reflected in the waters of Disko Bay. In this view from the isolated settlement a lone iceberg is illuminated by shore lights as it drifts across the icy sea.

The Colors of the Aurora (National Park Service)

https://www.nps.gov/articles/-articles-aps-v8-i1-c9.htm

Image Credit & Copyright: Dennis Lehtonen

Dennis' website: https://denniina.com

Release Date: Nov. 17, 2023

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NASA Mission Catching AWEsome Waves in Earth’s Airglow | NASA Goddard

NASA Mission Catching AWEsome Waves in Earth’s Airglow | NASA Goddard

Attached to the International Space Station, NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment, or AWE, is studying airglow, an ethereal radiance at the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space, to look for an invisible phenomenon called atmospheric gravity waves.

Learn more: https://www.awemission.org

Caused by winds rushing over mountain ranges or severe weather events such as hurricanes, thunderstorms, and tornadoes, atmospheric gravity waves can grow and reach all the way to space, where it interacts with space weather. 

Find out more about the AWE mission and how it will help us better understand the connection between weather on Earth and weather in space.

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

Producer: Beth Anthony (KBRwyle)

Writer: Vanessa Thomas (KBRwyle)

Duration: 2 minutes

Release Date: Nov. 17, 2023

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NASA's SpaceX CRS-29 Falcon 9 Launch | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX CRS-29 Falcon 9 Launch | International Space Station

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, on the company’s 29th commercial resupply services mission for the agency to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 8:28 p.m. EST. Dragon will deliver 6,500 pounds of scientific research, technology demonstrations, crew supplies, and hardware to the space station to support its Expedition 70 crew, including NASA’s Integrated Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Low Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal (ILLUMA-T) and Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE). 

Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage (B1081) landed on Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, having previously supported the Crew-7 mission.

The spacecraft is expected to spend about a month attached to the orbiting outpost before it returns to Earth with research and return cargo, splashing down off the coast of Florida. 

Image Credits: NASA/Francisco Martin/Kevin O’Connell/Kevin Davis/SpaceX

Image Date: Nov. 9, 2023

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