The Dragon's Egg Nebula & HD 148937 Binary Star System | ESO

The Dragon's Egg Nebula & HD 148937 Binary Star System | ESO

Nebula NGC 6164/6165 surrounding the HD 148937 star system as seen in visible light. Most of the image is taken up by a cloud-like structure shaped like an egg, slightly tilted to the right. It is colored in shades of orange and pink, with certain areas brighter than others. In a gap at its center, a white sphere shines brightly, with white, blue and green rays coming out of it. Surrounding the cloud are stars of different sizes and colors over a dark background. Distance: 4,000 light years

This image, taken with the VLT Survey Telescope hosted at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory, shows the beautiful nebula NGC 6164/6165, also known as the Dragon’s Egg. The nebula is a cloud of gas and dust surrounding a pair of stars called HD 148937. 

In a new study using ESO data, astronomers have shown that the two stars are unusually different from each other—one appears much younger and, unlike the other, is magnetic. Moreover, the nebula is significantly younger than either star at its heart, and is made up of gases normally found deep within a star and not on the outside. These clues together helped solve the mystery of the HD 148937 system—there were most likely three stars in the system until two of them clashed and merged, creating a new, larger and magnetic star. This violent event also created the spectacular nebula that now surrounds the remaining stars. 

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/VPHAS+ team

Acknowledgement: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (CASU)

Release Date: April 11, 2024

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Artemis II Moon Mission: Orion Spacecraft Testing | NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

Artemis II Moon Mission: Orion Spacecraft Testing | NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

On April 4, 2024, a team lifts the Artemis II Orion spacecraft into a vacuum chamber inside the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it will undergo electromagnetic compatibility and interference testing.

The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis II mission is photographed inside the Final Assembly and System Testing cell at the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, March 15, 2024. 

NASA's Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II Moon Mission is undergoing altitude chamber testing at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This puts the spacecraft through conditions as close as possible to the environment it will experience in the vacuum of deep space.

Four astronauts will venture around the Moon in the Orion spacecraft on Artemis II. It will be the first crewed mission on NASA's path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through the Artemis campaign.

Check the NASA Artemis II Mission page for updates:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/

Image Credit: NASA/Amanda Stevenson/Isaac Watson

Image Dates: March 15 & April 4, 2024

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The Changing Ion Tail of Comet Pons-Brooks

The Changing Ion Tail of Comet Pons-Brooks

How does a comet tail change? It depends on the comet. The ion tail of Comet 12P/Pons–Brooks has been changing markedly, as detailed in the featured image sequenced over nine days from March 6 to 14, 2024 (top to bottom). On particular days, the comet's ion tail was relatively long and complex, but not every day. Reasons for tail changes include the rate of ejection of material from the comet's nucleus, the strength and complexity of the passing solar wind, and the rotation rate of the comet. Over the course of a week, apparent changes even include a change of perspective from the Earth. In general, a comet's ion tail will point away from the Sun, as gas expelled is pushed out by the Sun's wind. 

12P/Pons–Brooks is a periodic comet with an orbital period of 71 years. It fits the classical definition of a Halley-type comet with an orbital period between 20 and 200 years. It is also one of the brightest known periodic comets, reaching an absolute visual magnitude ~5 in its approach to perihelion.

Comet Pons-Brooks was discovered at Marseilles Observatory in July 1812 by Jean-Louis Pons.

The greenish coma of this comet has become relatively easy to observe in small telescopes.

Image Credit & Copyright: Shengyu Li & Shaining

Image Dates: March 6-14, 2024

Release Date: April 8, 2024

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Black Brant IX Sounding Rockets Fire for Solar Eclipse Science | NASA Wallops

Black Brant IX Sounding Rockets Fire for Solar Eclipse Science | NASA Wallops

NASA Engineer Cindy Fuentes Rosal waves goodbye to a Black Brant IX sounding rocket launching from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. The rocket was part of a series of three launches for the Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission to study the disturbances in the electrified region of Earth’s atmosphere known as the ionosphere created when the Moon eclipses the Sun. The rockets launched before, during, and after peak local eclipse time on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Three Black Brant IX sounding rocket launches at Wallops are presented in the images here.

Black Brant IX sounding rockets are produced by Magellan Aerospace in Canada.

Learn more about the Wallops Flight Facility:

https://www.nasa.gov/wallops/

Image Credit: NASA/Garon Clark/Chris Pirner

Image Date: April 8, 2024

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EPIC Solar Eclipse View (GIF): The Deep Space Climate Observatory | NOAA/NASA

EPIC Solar Eclipse View (GIF): The Deep Space Climate Observatory | NOAA/NASA

Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR): Celebrating The 9-Year Anniversary (2015-2024)

From one million miles away, NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s DSCOVR satellite captured these spectacular views of the total solar eclipse that swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada on April 8, 2024. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of Central America and Europe. 

Learn more on NASA's Eclipse page: 

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/

This is NOAA's first operational deep space satellite and became its primary system of warning Earth in the event of solar magnetic storms.

On Feb. 11, 2015, DSCOVR was finally lofted into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. After a journey of about 1.6 million kilometers (1 million miles) to the L1 Lagrange Point, the satellite and its Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC). At L1—four times farther than the orbit of the Moon—the gravitational pull of the Sun and Earth cancel out, providing a stable orbit and a continuous view of Earth. These images were made by combining information from EPIC’s red, green, and blue bands. (Bands are narrow regions of the electromagnetic spectrum to which a remote sensing instrument responds. When EPIC collects data, it takes a series of 10 images at different bands—from ultraviolet to near-infrared.)

Image Credit: The DSCOVR EPIC team

Duration: 10 seconds

Capture Date: April 8, 2024

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Top Astronomical Discoveries of The World’s Largest Telescope Array (ALMA) | ESO

Top Astronomical Discoveries of The World’s Largest Telescope Array (ALMA) | ESO

Chasing Starlight 9: Celebrating ALMA's 10th Anniversary! Travel to the world’s largest telescope array. Made up of 66 antennas, the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been observing the sky at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths for 10 years now.

Join European Southern Observatory astronomer, Suzanna Randall, in the latest episode of Chasing Starlight, to find out about some of the greatest discoveries of this telescope.

00:00 Introduction

00:21 Trip to Chile

01:28 What does ALMA observe?

02:11 Taking the first image of a black hole

03:48 Looking at the birthplace of stars

04:50 Studying nearby galaxies

05:33 Revealing the details of planet formation

06:51 Doing astrochemistry

07:26 What else are scientists observing with ALMA?

08:17 The future of ALMA

Video Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Duration: 9 minutes

Release Date: April 5, 2024  

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NASA's Next-Generation Solar Sail Mission | Ames Research Center

NASA's Next-Generation Solar Sail Mission | Ames Research Center

NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACSSS) could advance future space travel and expand our understanding of our Sun and Solar System.  

Learn more about the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System:

https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-next-generation-solar-sail-boom-technology-ready-for-launch/

NASA's Ames Research Center is located in California's Silicon Valley.

Video Credit: NASA's Ames Research Center

Duration: 1 minute, 32 seconds

Release Date: April 10, 2024

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EPIC Solar Eclipse Views: The Deep Space Climate Observatory | NOAA/NASA

EPIC Solar Eclipse Views: The Deep Space Climate Observatory | NOAA/NASA

Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR): Celebrating The 9-Year Anniversary (2015-2024)

From one million miles away, NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s DSCOVR satellite captured these spectacular views of the total solar eclipse that swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada on April 8, 2024. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of Central America and Europe. 

Learn more on NASA's Eclipse page: 

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/

This is NOAA's first operational deep space satellite and became its primary system of warning Earth in the event of solar magnetic storms.

On Feb. 11, 2015, DSCOVR was finally lofted into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. After a journey of about 1.6 million kilometers (1 million miles) to the L1 Lagrange Point, the satellite and its Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC). At L1—four times farther than the orbit of the Moon—the gravitational pull of the Sun and Earth cancel out, providing a stable orbit and a continuous view of Earth. These images were made by combining information from EPIC’s red, green, and blue bands. (Bands are narrow regions of the electromagnetic spectrum to which a remote sensing instrument responds. When EPIC collects data, it takes a series of 10 images at different bands—from ultraviolet to near-infrared.)

Image Credit: The DSCOVR EPIC team 

Capture Date: April 8, 2024

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Pan of Arp 122: A "Herculean" Galactic Merger | Hubble Space Telescope

Pan of Arp 122: A "Herculean" Galactic Merger | Hubble Space Telescope

This Hubble image features Arp 122, a peculiar galaxy that is made up of two galaxies—NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642, the round, face-on spiral—that are in the middle of a collision in the constellation Hercules. This dramatic cosmic encounter is located at the very safe distance of roughly 570 million light-years from Earth. Peeking in at the corner is the elliptical galaxy NGC 6041, a central member of the galaxy cluster that Arp 122 resides in, but otherwise not participating in this monster merger.

Image Description: Two spiral galaxies are merging together at the right side of the image. One is seen face-on and is circular in shape. The other seems to lie in front of the first one. This galaxy is seen as a disc tilted away from the viewer and it is partially warped. In the lower-left corner, cut off by the frame, a large elliptical galaxy appears as light radiating from a point. Many small galaxies cover the background.

Galactic collisions and mergers are monumentally energetic and dramatic events, but they take place on a very slow timescale. For example, the Milky Way is on track to collide with its nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), but these two galaxies have a good four billion years to go before they actually meet. The process of colliding and merging will not be a quick one either. It may  take hundreds of millions of years to unfold. These collisions take so long because of the truly massive distances involved.

Galaxies are composed of stars and their solar systems, dust and gas. In galactic collisions, therefore, these constituent components may experience enormous changes in the gravitational forces acting on them. In time, this completely changes the structure of the two (or more) colliding galaxies, and sometimes ultimately results in a single, merged galaxy. This may well be what results from the collision pictured in this image. Galaxies that result from mergers are thought to have a regular or elliptical structure, as the merging process disrupts more complex structures (such as those observed in spiral galaxies). It would be fascinating to know what Arp 122 will look like once this collision is complete . . . but that will not happen for a long, long time. 

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, N. Bartmann  

Acknowledgement: L. Shatz

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: Jan. 24, 2024

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Eclipse Moon Shadow & Soyuz MS-24 Crew Departure | International Space Station

Eclipse Moon Shadow & Soyuz MS-24 Crew Departure | International Space Station

The Moon's shadow, or umbra, is pictured covering portions of the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick and the American state of Maine in this photograph from the International Space Station as it soared into the solar eclipse from 261 miles above.

The Moon's shadow, or umbra, is pictured covering portions of the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick and the American state of Maine in this photograph from the International Space Station as it soared into the solar eclipse from 261 miles above.

The Moon's shadow, or umbra, is pictured covering portions of the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick and the American state of Maine in this photograph from the International Space Station as it soared into the solar eclipse from 261 miles above.

The Moon's shadow, or umbra, is pictured covering portions of the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick and the American state of Maine in this photograph from the International Space Station as it soared into the solar eclipse from 261 miles above.

Orbiting 260 miles above the Northeastern coast of the United States, the Expedition 71 crew experienced the 2024 solar eclipse from space. Pictured here is the umbra, or the Moon's shadow, passing over Earth. Aboard the International Space Station to witness the celestial event was NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy Dyson of tyhe United States, as well as cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, and Alexander Grebenkin of Russia.

The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft is pictured moments after undocking from the International Space Station's Rassvet module. Aboard the Soyuz crew ship for the ride back to Earth were NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus. The orbital outpost was soaring 261 miles above northeast China at the time of this photograph.

The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft is pictured moments after undocking from the International Space Station's Rassvet module. Aboard the Soyuz crew ship for the ride back to Earth were NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus.

The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft is pictured docked to the International Space Station's Rassvet module as it soared into an orbital sunset 260 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Costa Rica. Aboard the Soyuz crew ship and waiting to undock from Rassvet for the ride back to Earth were NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus.

The Moon's shadow, or umbra, is pictured covering portions of the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick and the American state of Maine in these photographs from the International Space Station as it soared into the solar eclipse from 261 miles above.

The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft is also pictured moments before and after undocking from the International Space Station's Rassvet module. Aboard the Soyuz crew ship for the ride back to Earth were NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus.

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

Image Dates: April 6-8, 2024

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Solar Eclipse 2024: High-res Orbital View | NOAA GOES-East Weather Satellite

Solar Eclipse 2024: High-res Orbital View | NOAA GOES-East Weather Satellite

NOAA’s GOES-East weather satellite had a front row seat and unique view of the 2024 solar eclipse, sending back data and imagery every five minutes as the path of totality spanned across North America.

4K video version available here: https://youtu.be/MoDBHIlY9FA

This is a series of high-res images from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-16) capturing the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. Fifty-five images stitched together (with transitions) beginning at 16:10 UTC and ending at 20:35 UTC. 

The Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison SSEC tracked the eclipse in near real-time using GOES-East Advanced Baseline Imager and Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) instrument to view of the Earth as well as the Sun behind it: 

The GOES-East and GOES-West satellites provide continuous observation of the atmosphere and weather from Hawaii to Eastern Canada. These images were captured by the Advanced Baseline Imager instrument aboard GOES-East, sending images back to Earth every 5 minutes.

GOES-EAST is the first of the GOES-R series of satellites operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).    

Credit: SSEC/CIMSS

Duration: 16 seconds

Capture Date: April 8, 2024

Release Date: April 9, 2024

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Panning over Spiral Galaxy IC 4633: Hidden in a Dark Cloud | Hubble

Panning over Spiral Galaxy IC 4633: Hidden in a Dark Cloud | Hubble

This is the spiral galaxy IC 4633, located 100 million light-years away from us in the constellation Apus. IC 4633 is a galaxy rich in star-forming activity, as well as hosting an active galactic nucleus at its core. From our point of view, the galaxy is tilted mostly towards us, giving astronomers a fairly good view of its billions of stars. However, we cannot fully appreciate the features of this galaxy—at least in visible light—because it is partially concealed by a stretch of dark dust. A vast, narrow trail of faint gas that snakes over the southern celestial pole, this cloud overlapping IC 4633 has been called the South Celestial Serpent.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble)  

Acknowledgement: L. Shatz

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: April 9, 2024

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Advancing Moon Mobility for Artemis Astronauts | This Week @NASA

Advancing Moon Mobility for Artemis Astronauts | This Week @NASA

Week of April 5, 2024: Advancing Moon mobility for Artemis astronauts, getting ready for the total solar eclipse, and a milestone engine test for our Artemis Moon rocket . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Video Credit: NASA

Video Producer & Editor: Andre Valentine

Narrator: Emanuel Cooper

Duration: 2 minutes, 54 seconds

Release Date: April 9, 2024

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Solar Eclipse Views: Texas, Ohio, Washington, DC & The International Space Station

Solar Eclipse Views: Texas, Ohio, Washington, DC & The International Space Station

This composite image of multiple exposures shows the progression of a total solar eclipse in Dallas, Texas on Monday, April 8, 2024.

Orbiting 260 miles above the Northeastern coast of the United States, the Expedition 71 crew experienced the 2024 solar eclipse from space. Pictured here is the umbra, or the Moon's shadow, passing over Earth. Aboard the International Space Station to witness the celestial event was NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy Dyson, as well as cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, and Alexander Grebenkin of Russia.

Eclipse composite over Cleveland, Ohio

This composite image of multiple exposures shows the progression of a partial solar eclipse over the Washington Monument, Monday, April 8, 2024, in Washington. 

Eclipse composite over NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio

This composite image of multiple exposures shows the progression of a total solar eclipse in Dallas, Texas on Monday, April 8, 2024.

Solar prominences are seen during a total solar eclipse in Dallas, Texas on Monday, April 8, 2024.

Eclipse view over Cleveland, Ohio

A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of Central America and Europe. 

Learn more on NASA's Eclipse page: 

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/

Image Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky/Bill Ingalls/Keegan Barber/Aubrey Gemignani/Jordan Salkin/Quentin Schwinn/Johnson Space Center

Image Date: April 8, 2024

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Total Solar Eclipse 2024 Earth Orbital View | NOAA GOES-16 Weather Satellite

Total Solar Eclipse 2024: Earth Orbital View | NOAA GOES-16 Weather Satellite

The United States GOES-EAST Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-16) captured the Moon’s shadow moving across North America on April 8, 2024. This weather satellite orbits the earth at around 22,000 miles (35,000 kilometers) above Earth and is centered on the Americas.

GOES-EAST is the first of the GOES-R series of satellites operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Video Credit: Images courtesy of European Space Agency (ESA)/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: April 9, 2024

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Welcome Home, Loral! | NASA's Johnson Space Center

Welcome Home, Loral! | NASA's Johnson Space Center

"All smiles after a successful mission and 204 days spent aboard the International Space Station. 🌎"

NASA astronaut Loral is seen here arriving back in Houston, Texas where the Johnson Space Center is located.

O’Hara ended her time in space with a parachute-assisted landing in the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan on Saturday, April 6, 2024.

O’Hara, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, began the journey back to Earth when the Soyuz undocked from the International Space Station earlier in the day.

O’Hara arrived at the International Space Station on Sept. 15, 2023, spending 204 days in low Earth orbit.

During her 204 days aboard the station, O’Hara experienced:

Approximately 3,264 orbits of Earth

Approximately 86,555,554 statute miles traveled

Eight spacecraft visiting the International Space Station, including two Roscosmos Progress cargo ships, one Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft, one Roscosmos Soyuz, two crewed SpaceX Dragons, and two uncrewed SpaceX Dragons.

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 Date: April 7, 2024

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