Sunday, September 01, 2024

Tonight's Sky: September 2024 (Northern Hemisphere)

Tonight's Sky: September 2024 (Northern Hemisphere)

In September 2024, Pegasus becomes increasingly prominent in the southeastern sky, allowing stargazers to locate globular star clusters and a nearby double star, Alpha Capricorni. Keep watching for space-based views of densely packed, spherical collections of ancient stars in visible and X-ray light.

“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: Caltech/IPAC, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and Sonoma State University. 

Video Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute

Duration: 5 minutes

Release Date: Aug. 26, 2024


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Saturday, August 31, 2024

San Francisco Bay Area of California by Night | International Space Station

San Francisco Bay Area of California by Night | International Space Station


NASA Astronaut Matthew Dominick: "So many cool little things in this short timelapse . . .

- a cosmonaut turns off the lights inside the Soyuz

- the lights of San Francisco reflect off the Soyuz solar arrays before we see San Francisco

- San Francisco Bay Area

- different layers of the atmosphere are seen in green and orange

- Milky Way core

 . . . I got greedy with ISO to see Milky Way core and the cities ended up being way over exposed."

Technical details: 28mm, f1.4, ISO12800, 0.8s exposure, timelapse 1 sec intervals

Expedition 71 Updates:

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

Expedition 71 Crew
Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)
NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore

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.

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

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)


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

Duration: 19 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 30, 2024


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Zooming in on The Wild Duck Star Cluster: Messier 11 | MPG/ESO Telescope

Zooming in on The Wild Duck Star Cluster: Messier 11 | MPG/ESO Telescope

This video takes you on a journey to the open cluster Messier 11 as seen with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the Max Planck Gesellschaft/European Southern Observatory 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory. The blue stars in the center of the final image are the young, hot stars of the cluster. The surrounding redder stars are older, cooler background stars.

Distance: 6,000 light years

Messier 11 is one of the richest and most compact open clusters currently known. By investigating the brightest, hottest main sequence stars in the cluster astronomers estimate that it formed roughly 220 million years ago. Open clusters tend to contain fewer and younger stars than their more compact globular cousins, and Messier 11 is no exception.

The lifespans of open clusters are also relatively short compared to those of globular ones; stars in open clusters are spread further apart and are thus not as strongly bound to each other by gravity, causing them to be more easily and quickly drawn away by stronger gravitational forces. As a result Messier 11 is likely to disperse in a few million years as its members are ejected one by one, pulled away by other celestial objects in the vicinity.

The 2.2m telescope at La Silla has been in operation since early 1984 and is on indefinite loan to the European Southern Observatory from the Max Planck Gesellschaft. The telescope time is shared between Max Planck Institute and ESO Observers. Operation and maintenance of the telescope is the responsibility of ESO.

Learn more about the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope:

https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/


Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/N. Risinger

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Oct. 1, 2014


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Close-up View of Wild Duck Star Cluster: Messier 11 | MPG/ESO Telescope

Close-up View of Wild Duck Star Cluster: Messier 11 | MPG/ESO Telescope

This video gives a close-up view of an image of the open cluster Messier 11 as seen with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the Max Planck Gesellschaft/European Southern Observatory 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory. The blue stars in the center of the image are the young, hot stars of the cluster. The surrounding redder stars are older, cooler background stars.

Distance: 6,000 light years

Messier 11 is one of the richest and most compact open clusters currently known. By investigating the brightest, hottest main sequence stars in the cluster astronomers estimate that it formed roughly 220 million years ago. Open clusters tend to contain fewer and younger stars than their more compact globular cousins, and Messier 11 is no exception.

The lifespans of open clusters are also relatively short compared to those of globular ones; stars in open clusters are spread further apart and are thus not as strongly bound to each other by gravity, causing them to be more easily and quickly drawn away by stronger gravitational forces. As a result Messier 11 is likely to disperse in a few million years as its members are ejected one by one, pulled away by other celestial objects in the vicinity.

The 2.2m telescope at La Silla has been in operation since early 1984 and is on indefinite loan to the European Southern Observatory from the Max Planck Gesellschaft. The telescope time is shared between Max Planck Institute and ESO Observers. Operation and maintenance of the telescope is the responsibility of ESO.

Learn more about the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope:

https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/


Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Oct. 1, 2014


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The Wild Duck Star Cluster in Scutum | MPG/ESO Telescope

The Wild Duck Star Cluster in Scutum MPG/ESO Telescope

The Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the Max Planck Gesellschaft/European Southern Observatory 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile has taken this beautiful image of the open Wild Duck Cluster, Messier 11, or NGC 6705. The blue stars in the center of the image are the young, hot stars of the cluster. The surrounding redder stars are older, cooler background stars.

Distance: 6,000 light years

Messier 11 is one of the richest and most compact open clusters currently known. By investigating the brightest, hottest main sequence stars in the cluster astronomers estimate that it formed roughly 220 million years ago. Open clusters tend to contain fewer and younger stars than their more compact globular cousins, and Messier 11 is no exception.

The lifespans of open clusters are also relatively short compared to those of globular ones; stars in open clusters are spread further apart and are thus not as strongly bound to each other by gravity, causing them to be more easily and quickly drawn away by stronger gravitational forces. As a result Messier 11 is likely to disperse in a few million years as its members are ejected one by one, pulled away by other celestial objects in the vicinity.

The 2.2m telescope at La Silla has been in operation since early 1984 and is on indefinite loan to the European Southern Observatory from the Max Planck Gesellschaft. The telescope time is shared between Max Planck Institute and ESO Observers. Operation and maintenance of the telescope is the responsibility of ESO.

Learn more about the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope:

https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla/mpg22/


Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: Oct. 1, 2014


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Wild Duck Star Cluster: Messier 11 in Scutum | Hubble

Wild Duck Star Cluster: Messier 11 in Scutum | Hubble


This star-studded image shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open star cluster in the southern constellation of Scutum (The Shield). Messier 11 is also known as the Wild Duck Cluster, as its brightest stars form a “V” shape that somewhat resembles a flock of ducks in flight.

Distance: 6,000 light years

Messier 11 is one of the richest and most compact open clusters currently known. By investigating the brightest, hottest main sequence stars in the cluster astronomers estimate that it formed roughly 220 million years ago. Open clusters tend to contain fewer and younger stars than their more compact globular cousins, and Messier 11 is no exception. At its center, lie many blue stars, the hottest and youngest of the cluster’s few thousand stellar residents.

The lifespans of open clusters are also relatively short compared to those of globular ones; stars in open clusters are spread further apart and are thus not as strongly bound to each other by gravity, causing them to be more easily and quickly drawn away by stronger gravitational forces. As a result Messier 11 is likely to disperse in a few million years as its members are ejected one by one, pulled away by other celestial objects in the vicinity.


Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, P. Dobbie et al.

Release Date: March 25, 2019


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NASA's ESCAPADE Mars Mission Twin Spacecraft: Built by Rocket Lab

NASA's ESCAPADE Mars Mission Twin Spacecraft: Built by Rocket Lab

Learn more about the two identical spacecraft designed, built, integrated, and tested by Rocket Lab for the University of California Berkeley’s Space Science Laboratory and NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) Mars Mission.

The ESCAPADE Mars Mission will study the planet's unique hybrid magnetosphere. ESCAPADE will investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. ESCAPADE is set to launch no earlier than late 2024 on Blue Origin's inaugural New Glenn rocket flight. It will take ESCAPADE about 11 months to arrive at Mars after leaving Earth’s orbit.

Learn more about NASA's ESCAPADE: 

https://www.rocketlabusa.com/missions/escapade/

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/escapade

https://escapade.ssl.berkeley.edu


Video Credit: Rocket Lab 

Duration: 2 minutes, 37 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 30, 2024


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Growing Space Crystals to Improve Medicine | International Space Station Science

Growing Space Crystals to Improve Medicine | International Space Station Science

The International Space Station could help develop new and better drugs for people on Earth, thanks to protein crystal growth, or PCG, on board.

Learn more: 

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/creating-new-and-better-drugs-with-protein-crystal-growth-experiments/


Video Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 2 minutes, 14 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 27, 2024


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Friday, August 30, 2024

The North America Nebula: NGC 7000 in Cygnus | Mayall Telescope

The North America Nebula: NGC 7000 in Cygnus | Mayall Telescope

This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. NGC 7000, also known as the North America Nebula, is a giant emission nebula in the constellation of Cygnus at a distance of about 1,800 light yearsThe reddish color is characteristic of hydrogen and it dominates.

This image shows only the southern tip of the nebula (the Mexico part of the nebula). The nebula is being energized by the light from stars embedded within. The image was generated with observations in B (blue), V (green), I (orange) and Hydrogen-Alpha (red) filters. A narrowband image part of the nebula is also available In this image, North is up, East is to the left.

The Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope is a four-meter (158 inches) reflector telescope in Arizona named after the American observational astronomer of the same name. The telescope saw first light on February 27, 1973, and was the second-largest in the world at that time.

Learn more about the Mayall Telescope: 

https://noirlab.edu/science/programs/kpno/telescopes/nicholas-mayall-4m-telescope


Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

Release Date: June 30, 2020


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NASA's OCEANOS Program in Puerto Rico

NASA's OCEANOS Program in Puerto Rico


NASA’s bilingual OCEANOS program gives graduating high school seniors and first-generation undergraduate students in Puerto Rico an opportunity to participate in NASA research. The goal of the program is to bring oceanography and STEM opportunities to the Hispanic/Latinos community.

Lear more about OCEANOS: 

https://www.nasa.gov/oceanos/


Video Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Producer: Katie Jepson (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)

Videographer: Milan Loiacono (NASA Ames) 

Narrator: Kathleen Gaeta Greer (NASA/GSFC/AMA)

Project support: Jefferson Beck (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)

Technical support: Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)

Duration: 1 minute, 29 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 28, 2024


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

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


In this episode of The Quiet Crew, you will meet Laura White, a mathematician working on the Commercial Supersonic Technology Project, supporting the Quesst mission. Her role is to help quantify statistics related to the loudness of the aircraft and the accuracy of simulations. She is part of the crew working to transform aviation as NASA and communities 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.  

The NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) is an aeronautical research center. Its primary campus is located inside Edwards Air Force Base in California and is considered NASA's premier site for aeronautical research. 

For more information about NASA's quiet supersonic mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/Quesst

Release Hablas español? Visita: https://ciencia.nasa.gov/el-x-59-se-asemeja-una-aeronave-real para aprender mas sobre la mision Quesst

X-59 Free Maker Bundle (STEM Education):

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/x-59-maker-bundle-v8.pdf


Credit: NASA Video

Duration: 2 minutes, 26 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 30, 2024


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Higher-Resolution Radio Astronomy Observations Key to Future Discoveries | NSF

Higher-Resolution Radio Astronomy Observations Key to Future Discoveries | NSF

The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, a global network of radio telescopes funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and international partners, has achieved the highest resolution radio observations of astronomical objects ever obtained. 

For this experiment, the researchers detected radio waves from distant galaxies at a wavelength of 0.87 mm, a substantial improvement from the 1.3 mm wavelength observations the collaboration previously used to image supermassive black holes in two galaxies.

Learn more about the Event Horizon Telescope:

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/eht-makes-highest-resolution-black-hole-detections-earth


Video Credit: National Science Foundation (NSF)

Duration: 33 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 30, 2024


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NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Assigned to First International Space Station Mission

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Assigned to First International Space Station Mission

Official portrait of NASA astronaut Jonny Kim posing in a spacesuit at NASA's Johnson Space Center
2017 NASA Astronaut Candidate Jonny Kim
2017 NASA astronaut candidate Jonny Kim wears a spacesuit prior to underwater spacewalk training at NASA Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston
2017 NASA astronaut candidate Jonny Kim prepares for underwater spacewalk training at NASA Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston

2017 NASA astronaut candidate Jonny Kim is lowered into the training pool for spacewalk training at NASA Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston
NASA portrait of 2017 Astronaut Candidate Jonny Kim in front of a T-38 trainer aircraft at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim wearing a high-altitude pressure suit worn in the WB-57 aircraft, which is capable of flying at altitudes over 60,000 feet

During his first mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will serve as a flight engineer and member of the upcoming Expedition 72/73 crew. Kim will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft in March 2025, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky. The trio will spend approximately eight months at the space station.

While aboard the orbiting laboratory, Kim will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare the crew for future space missions and provide benefits to people on Earth.

NASA selected Kim as an astronaut in 2017. After completing the initial astronaut candidate training, Kim supported mission and crew operations in various roles including the Expedition 65 lead operations officer, T-38 operations liaison, and space station capcom chief engineer.

A native of Los Angeles, Kim is a United States Navy lieutenant commander and dual designated naval aviator and flight surgeon. Kim also served as an enlisted Navy SEAL. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of San Diego and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston, and completed his internship with the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

For more than two decades, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge, and making research breakthroughs not possible on Earth. The station is a critical testbed for NASA to understand and overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to expand commercial opportunities in low Earth orbit. As commercial companies focus on providing human space transportation services and destinations as part of a robust low Earth orbit economy, NASA is able to more fully focus its resources on deep space missions to the Moon and Mars.

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim's Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/jonny-kim/

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.


Article Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/JSC

Image Credits: NASA/Josh Valcarcel/Robert Markowitz/Norah Moran

Release Date: Aug. 28, 2024


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Moon Minute: NASA Artemis III Starship Human Landing System

Moon Minute: NASA Artemis III Starship Human Landing System

Here is the latest update for NASA's Artemis campaign. Learn about Artemis III's Starship Human Landing System (HLS) in this Moon Minute. NASA has selected SpaceX to provide the human landing system that will transport Artemis III astronauts from Orion in lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon and back again. SpaceX plans to use a unique concept of operations to increase the overall efficiency of their lander. After a series of tests, SpaceX will fly at least one uncrewed demo mission that lands Starship on the lunar surface. When Starship has met all of NASA’s requirements and high standards for crew safety, it will be ready for its first Artemis mission.

Learn more about NASA's Artemis III Mission+HLS:

Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Aug. 30, 2024


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NASA's Space to Ground: Mission Update | Week of Aug. 30, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground: Mission Update | Week of Aug. 30, 2024


NASA's Space to Ground is your weely update on what is happening aboard the International Space Station. NASA announced on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, that Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will return to Earth uncrewed, allowing the agency and Boeing to continue gathering testing data on Starliner during its upcoming flight home, while also not accepting more risk than necessary for its crew. Wilmore and Williams will continue their work aboard the orbiting laboratory through February 2025 and fly home aboard a Dragon spacecraft with two other crew members assigned to the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission. Starliner is expected to depart from the space station and make a safe, controlled autonomous re-entry and landing in early September. Since their arrival, the duo has been supporting station research, maintenance, Starliner system testing, and a host of other orbital activities.

Expedition 71 Updates:

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

Expedition 71 Crew
Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)
NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the eleme`nts 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.

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

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)


Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: Aug. 30, 2024


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Thursday, August 29, 2024

Shenzhou-18 Crew: Planet Earth Views | China Space Station

Shenzhou-18 Crew: Planet Earth Views | China Space Station





These are Earth photos by astronaut and crew commander, Ye Guangfu. The Shenzhou-18 crew began their six-month long duration mission on April 25, 2024. Shenzhou-18 represents the seventh crew of three astronauts to operate China's Tiangong space station.

Shenzhou-18 Crew:

Ye Guangfu (叶光富, commander)

Li Cong (李聪, mission specialist)

Li Guangsu (李广苏, mission specialist)


Image Credit: China Manned Space Agency (CMSA)/Ye Guangfu

Release Date: Aug. 19, 2024


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