The Story of Hubble’s Servicing Mission 1 with Dr. Ed Weiler | NASA Goddard

The Story of Hubble’s Servicing Mission 1 with Dr. Ed Weiler | NASA Goddard

Dive into the fascinating saga of Hubble's Servicing Mission 1 with Ed Weiler, one of the driving forces behind its success. In this exclusive interview, Weiler unveils the challenges and triumphs that revitalized the Hubble Space Telescope, turning it into a cosmic marvel. 

Experience the mission's impact firsthand as Weiler shares his insights, recounting the dedication and innovation that fueled Hubble's transformation. Join us on a celestial journey through the stars, exploring the remarkable achievements that cemented Hubble's legacy as a beacon of human exploration. 

Discover the cosmic wonders captured by Hubble, and witness the enduring legacy of Ed Weiler and the team behind Servicing Mission 1. Get ready for an exploration of the cosmos that will leave you in awe of the incredible journey that reshaped our understanding of the universe.

For more information, visit: https://nasa.gov/hubble

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

Paul Morris: Lead Producer 

Rob Andreoli: Lead Camera Operator

Ed Weiler: Interviewee

Video Credits:

Spherical Aberration Animation Credit: ESA/Hubble

Duration: 8 minutes

Release Date: Dec. 3, 2023

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A Martian Sunrise | NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover | JPL

A Martian Sunrise | NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover | JPL

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Celebrating 2+ Years on Mars

Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for return to Earth.

Mars Helicopter (Ingenuity)

Launch: July 30, 2020    

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit: mars.nasa.gov

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

Processing: Kevin M. Gill

Image Release Dates: Nov. 13-28, 2023

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Star Glint Beams on The Earth's South Atlantic Ocean | International Space Station

Star Glint Beams on The Earth's South Atlantic Ocean | International Space Station

The sun's glint beams in between a cloudy stretch of the south Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina.

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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In Search of Cleaner Fuel for Aviation on Earth | This Week @NASA

In Search of Cleaner Fuel for Aviation on Earth | This Week @NASA

 

Week of December 1, 2023: In search of cleaner fuel for aviation, a scientific balloon campaign in Antarctica, and a key engine test for our Artemis Moon rocket . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Narrator: Emanuel Cooper

Video Producer & Editor: Andre Valentine

Duration: 2 minutes, 37 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 2, 2023

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The Strangest Stars | European Southern Observatory

The Strangest Stars | European Southern Observatory

ChasingStarlight 7: There are pretty strange stellar characters out there . . . Join European Southern Observatory astronomer, Suzanna Randall, in the latest episode of Chasing Starlight, as she explores three of the wackiest, weirdest, most wonderful stars in our Universe. 

00:00 Introduction

01:00 The "Kissing" Stars

03:06 The Eta Carinae "Monster Couple"

04:39 The "WTF" star

Video Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Directed by: L. Calçada   

Hosted by: S. Randall   

Written by: Thomas Howarth, Claudia Sciarma, Bárbara Ferreira 

Editing: L. Calçada   

Videography: A. Tsaousis

Animations & Footage: L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser, C. Malin, INAF-Padua/S. Zaggia,  University of Warwick, spaceengine.org,  NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; NASA/ESA/N. Smith (University of Arizona, Tucson), J. Morse (BoldlyGo Institute, New York), G. Brammer, Videvo 

Release Date: Nov. 29, 2023

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Tonight's Sky: December 2023 (Northern Hemisphere)

Tonight's Sky: December 2023 (Northern Hemisphere)

Step outside on a cold December night when the stars shine bright to find the Big Dipper, Cassiopeia, and Cepheus. They will help you locate a binary star system, a fan-shaped open star cluster, and a variable star. Stay tuned for space-based views of a ragged spiral galaxy, an open star cluster, and an edge-on galaxy. 

“Tonight’s Sky” is a monthly video of constellations you can observe in the night sky. The series is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute, home of science operations for the Hubble Space Telescope, in partnership with NASA’s Universe of Learning. 

The Space Telescope Science Institute works in partnership with Caltech/IPAC, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and Sonoma State University. 

Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Duration: 4 minutes, 39 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 13, 2023

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What's Up: December 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA

What's Up for December 2023? | Skywatching Tips from NASA | JPL

What are example skywatching highlights for December 2023 (Northern Hemisphere)?

Clear skies will make for ideal viewing of the Geminid meteor shower, and grab your binoculars to search for asteroid Vesta.

0:00 Intro 

0:14 Moon & planet highlights

0:59 Geminid meteors peak

2:05 Observing asteroid Vesta

4:08 December Moon phases

Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Duration: 4 minutes, 30 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 1, 2023

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Russian Progress MS-25 Cargo Spacecraft Launch | International Space Station

Russian Progress MS-25 Cargo Spacecraft Launch | International Space Station

A Soyuz-2.1a rocket launched the Progress MS-25 spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station (ISS Progress 86 mission) on December 1, 2023, at 09:25:11 UTC (14:25:11 local time; 04:25:11 EST) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Progress MS-25 will deliver about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 70 crew aboard the International Space Station, being scheduled for a two-day, 34-orbit journey to the station, with docking on December 3, 2023, at 11:14 UTC (06:14 EDT). 

The Roscosmos Progress 86 space freighter is on a two-day delivery mission carrying nearly 5,600 pounds of cargo to resupply the Expedition 70 crew. Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub will be on duty Sunday morning monitoring the cargo craft’s automated docking to the Poisk module planned for 6:14 a.m.

Video Credit: NASA/Roscosmos

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 5 minutes

Release Date: Dec. 1, 2023

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NASA's Space to Ground: Hot News About Cold Atoms | Week of Dec. 1, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground: Hot News About Cold Atoms | Week of Dec. 1, 2023

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. A cargo craft is in orbit today, on its way to the International Space Station following its Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, morning launch. Meanwhile, advanced space biology is underway aboard the orbital outpost to improve life on Earth and in space.

The Roscosmos 86 space freighter is in Earth orbit and racing toward the space station after launching at 4:25 a.m. EDT today from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Progress 86 is on a two-day delivery mission carrying nearly 5,600 pounds of cargo to resupply the Expedition 70 crew. Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub will be on duty Sunday morning monitoring the cargo craft’s automated docking to the Poisk module planned for 6:14 a.m.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

Follow Expedition 70 Updates:

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

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)

Duration: 3 minutes

Release Date: Dec. 1, 2023

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Festive Northern Lights | International Space Station

Festive Northern Lights | International Space Station

The spectacular aurora borealis, or the “northern lights,” over Canada is sighted from the space station near the highest point of its orbital path. The station’s main solar arrays are seen in the left foreground.

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 Credit: NASA

Image Date: Sept. 15, 2017

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The Fate of Colliding Galaxies | European Southern Observatory

The Fate of Colliding Galaxies | European Southern Observatory

This video is a crash course on galaxy clashes (pun intended!), explaining that the collision between two galaxies is not as violent a process as one could imagine.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO) , A. Milani, J. C. Muñoz, Tubín et al.

Script: J. C. Muñoz

Editing: M. Wallner

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Dec. 1, 2023

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Planet Earth's Southernmost Active Volcano: Mount Erebus, Antarctica | Landsat-9

Planet Earth's Southernmost Active Volcano: Mount Erebus, Antarctica | Landsat-9 

The summit crater of Mount Erebus, the world’s southernmost active volcano, appeared above the clouds on a late-spring day in 2023. The OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) on Landsat 9 captured this view of the stratovolcano on Nov. 25, 2023.

Mount Erebus is one of several volcanoes forming Ross Island off the coast of West Antarctica. At 3,794 meters (12,450 feet) above sea level, it looms over McMurdo Station, located just 35 kilometers (22 miles) away. These volcanoes occur in a rift zone where extension has caused the crust to thin and allowed magma to migrate up through faults to the surface.

This Landsat image includes the shortwave infrared signal (red) produced by heat from a lava lake in the summit crater. The lake has been active since at least 1972 and is one of only a few long-lived lava lakes on Earth. It constantly churns and occasionally spews bombs of molten rock in Strombolian eruptions. Geologists want to learn why an active lava lake has persisted here for so long. Recent research suggests one reason could be the magma’s low water content, which makes it less volatile as it approaches the surface.

Erebus was active prior to the emergence of this lava lake, including in 1841 when British Royal Navy officer James Clark Ross first sighted it during his Antarctic exploration. Mount Erebus and neighboring Mount Terror were named for warships retrofitted for use in that expedition and numerous other polar voyages.

Landsat Data Access

https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions/landsat-data-access

Landsat 9 was launched on Sept. 27, 2021, and the mission team then tested and calibrated the new satellite and its instruments.

The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Landsat satellites have been consistently gathering data about our planet since 1972. They continue to improve and expand this unparalleled record of Earth's changing landscapes for the benefit of all.

Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey

Caption Credit: Story by Lindsey Doermann

Image Date: Nov. 25, 2023

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NASA's Espacio a Tierra | Para todo hay una primera vez: 22 de noviembre de 2023

NASA's Espacio a Tierra | Para todo hay una primera vez: 22 de noviembre 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. 

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

Para obtener más información sobre la ciencia de la NASA, suscríbete al boletín semanal: https://www.nasa.gov/suscribete

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 2 minutes, 54 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 30, 2023

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Recientemente: Astronautas de Artemis II inspeccionan parte del equipo para su vuelo

Recientemente: Astronautas de Artemis II inspeccionan parte del equipo para su vuelo

Recientemente en la NASA, la versión en español de las cápsulas This Week at NASA, te informa semanalmente de lo que está sucediendo en la NASA.

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

Para obtener más información sobre la ciencia de la NASA, suscríbete al boletín semanal: https://www.nasa.gov/suscribete

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 2 minutes, 33 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 30, 2023

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Jupiter's Moon Ganymede: The Solar System's Largest | NASA Juno Mission

Jupiter's Moon Ganymede: The Solar System's Largest | NASA Juno Mission

What does the largest moon in the Solar System look like? Jupiter's moon Ganymede, larger than even Mercury and Pluto, has an icy surface speckled with bright young craters overlying a mixture of older, darker, more cratered terrain laced with grooves and ridges. The cause of the grooved terrain remains a topic of research, with a leading hypothesis relating it to shifting ice plates. Ganymede is thought to have an ocean layer that contains more water than Earth—and might contain life. Ganymede’s ocean is estimated to be 60 miles (100 kilometers) thick—10 times deeper than Earth's ocean—and is thought to be buried under a 95-mile- (150-kilometer-) thick crust of mostly ice. Identifying liquid water is crucial in the search for habitable worlds beyond Earth and in the search for life as we know it. 

Like Earth's Moon, Ganymede keeps the same face towards its central planet, in this case Jupiter. The featured image was captured in 2021 by NASA's robotic Juno spacecraft when it passed by the immense moon. This close pass reduced Juno's orbital period around Jupiter from 53 days to 43 days. Juno continues to study the giant planet's high gravity, unusual magnetic field, and complex cloud structures. Ganymede is also the only moon in the Solar System to have a magnetosphere. 

The European Space Agency's JUICE Mission will arrive at Ganymede in 2031 to conduct investigations. 

Learn more about Europe's JUICE Mission: https://bit.ly/JuiceESAScience

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott J. Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built and operates the spacecraft.

More information about NASA's Juno Mission:

https://www.nasa.gov/juno

and

https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu

Image Credit & Copyright: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

Image Processing & License: Kevin M. Gill

Kevin's Page on X: https://twitter.com/kevinmgill

Release Date: Nov. 28, 2023

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Stellar Disc Discovered in Neighboring Galaxy | European Southern Observatory

Stellar Disc Discovered in Neighboring Galaxy | European Southern Observatory

ESOCast 268 Light: Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) astronomers have for the first time found a disc around a young star outside our own galaxy. This video summarizes the discovery. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an ALMA partner. 

“When I first saw evidence for a rotating structure in the ALMA data I could not believe that we had detected the first extragalactic accretion disc, it was a special moment,” says Anna McLeod, an associate professor at Durham University in the UK and lead author of the study published today in Nature. “We know discs are vital to forming stars and planets in our galaxy, and here, for the first time, we’re seeing direct evidence for this in another galaxy.” 

Read the article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06790-2

As matter is pulled towards a growing star, it cannot fall directly onto it; instead, it flattens into a spinning disc around the star. Closer to the center, the disc rotates faster, and this difference in speed shows astronomers an accretion disc is present.

The detailed frequency measurements from ALMA allowed the authors to distinguish the characteristic spin of a disc, confirming the detection of the first disc around an extragalactic young star.

Massive stars, like the one observed here, form much more quickly and live far shorter lives than low-mass stars like our Sun. In our galaxy, these massive stars are notoriously challenging to observe and are often obscured from view by the dusty material they formed from at the time a disc is shaping around them. However, in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a galaxy 160,000 light-years away, the material new stars are being born in is fundamentally different from that of the Milky Way Galaxy. Thanks to the lower dust content, HH 1177 is no longer cloaked in its natal cocoon, offering astronomers an unobstructed, if far away, view of stellar and planetary formation.

Video Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin Wallner

Editing: Angelos Tsaousis

Written by: Pamela Freeman and Tom Howarth

Footage and Photos: ESO / L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), A McLeod et al. 

Scientific Consultants: Paola Amico, Mariya Lyubenova

Release Date: Nov. 29, 2023

Duration: 1 minute, 29 seconds

#NASA #ESO #Astronomy #Space #Science #Stars #AccretionDisc #ProtoplanetaryDisc #Star #HH1177 #Mensa #Constellation #LMC #Galaxy #Cosmos #Universe #ALMA #Chile #Europe #STEM #Education #HD #Video