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Thursday, October 31, 2024

NASA SpaceX Crew-8 Dragon After Splashdown | International Space Station

NASA SpaceX Crew-8 Dragon After Splashdown | International Space Station

After 235 days in space, SpaceX Dragon Endeavour and Crew-8 NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin of Russia returned to Earth and splashed down off the coast of Florida at 3:29 a.m. ET on Friday, October 25.

During its return to Earth, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft executed a normal entry and splashdown. Recovery of the crew and the spacecraft was without incident.

Expedition 72 Updates:

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

Expedition 72 Crew

Station Commander: Suni Williams

Roscosmos (Russia): Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Aleksandr Gorbunov

NASA: Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit, Nick Hague

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)

Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Release Date: Oct. 25, 2024

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Highlights of The Dark Wolf Nebula: SL 17 in Scorpius | ESO VLT Survey Telescope

Highlights of The Dark Wolf Nebula: SL 17 in Scorpius | ESO VLT Survey Telescope

This image shows a dark nebula at the center of the picture, against a background of reddish fumes. The shape of the dark nebulous cloud can appear to resemble a wolf’s head, looking to the right. Surrounding the dark nebula are bright white stars of a variety of sizes appearing as tiny dots and bigger gassy spheres.

This collage highlights details within the huge Dark Wolf Nebula, such as the wolf’s “head”, seen here in the top-center image. The pillars in the images to the right form when intense radiation from young stars encounters dense pockets of dust and gas. This radiation erodes and blows away the lighter material around these dense pockets, creating these pillar-like structures.

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5,300 light-years from Earth, the cold clouds of cosmic dust create the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colorful backdrop of glowing gas clouds.

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

Release Date: Oct. 31, 2024

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A Tour of The Dark Wolf Nebula: SL 17 in Scorpius | ESO

A Tour of The Dark Wolf Nebula: SL 17 in Scorpius | ESO

This video takes you on a tour of the Dark Wolf Nebula, captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5,300 light-years from Earth, the cold clouds of cosmic dust create the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colorful backdrop of glowing gas clouds.

Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team

Duration: 1 minute and 5 seconds

Release Date: Oct. 31, 2024

The Dark Wolf Nebula: SL 17 in Scorpius | ESO VLT Survey Telescope

The Dark Wolf Nebula: SL 17 in Scorpius | ESO VLT Survey Telescope

Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team

Release Date: Oct. 31, 2024

Tour The Galactic 'Eyes' of IC 2163 & NGC 2207 | NASA Webb & Hubble

Tour The Galactic 'Eyes' of IC 2163 & NGC 2207 | NASA Webb & Hubble

This video tours a pair of spiral galaxies, IC 2163 at left and NGC 2207 at right, that reside 114 million light-years from Earth. The journey begins and ends on a new image that combines mid-infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light from the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes, and includes brief fades to Webb’s mid-infrared image and Hubble’s visible and ultraviolet light image.

Watch as these spellbinding observations are pulled apart, and then presented again as a combined observation.

The tour features star formation in chilling detail, blood-red shock fronts, and traces of ancient supernova explosions that “echo” through the cosmic landscape.

Both galaxies have increased star formation rates. Combined, they are estimated to form the equivalent of two dozen new stars that are the size of the Sun annually. Our Milky Way galaxy forms the equivalent of two or three new Sun-like stars per year.

Both galaxies have hosted seven known supernovae, each of which may have cleared space in their arms, rearranging gas and dust that later cooled, and allowed new many stars to form.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Danielle Kirshenblat (STScI)

Duration: 3 minutes, 18 seconds

Release Date: Oct. 31, 2024

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Look into The Eyes of Galactic Pair IC 2163 & NGC 2207 | NASA Webb & Hubble

Look into The Eyes of Galactic Pair IC 2163 & NGC 2207 | NASA Webb & Hubble

The gruesome palette of these galaxies is owed to a mix of mid-infrared light from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, and visible and ultraviolet light from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The pair grazed one another millions of years ago. The smaller spiral on the left, cataloged as IC 2163, passed behind NGC 2207, the larger spiral galaxy at right.

Distance: 114 million light-years

Both have increased star formation rates. Combined, they are estimated to form the equivalent of two dozen new stars that are the size of the Sun annually. Our Milky Way galaxy forms the equivalent of two or three new Sun-like stars per year.

Both galaxies have hosted seven known supernovae, each of which may have cleared space in their arms, rearranging gas and dust that later cooled, and allowed new many stars to form.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: Oct. 31, 2024

Like 'Blood-Soaked' Eyes: Galactic Pair IC 2163 & NGC 2207 | Webb & Hubble

Like 'Blood-Soaked' Eyes: Galactic Pair IC 2163 & NGC 2207 | Webb & Hubble

Distance: 114 million light-years

Both galaxies have hosted seven known supernovae, each of which may have cleared space in their arms, rearranging gas and dust that later cooled, and allowed new many stars to form.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

Release Date: Oct. 31, 2024

The Cosmic Bat Nebula: LDN 43 in Ophiuchus

The Cosmic Bat Nebula: LDN 43 in Ophiuchus

Image Description: A starfield is shown with a large brown dust nebula in the center. The nebula can appear to be shaped like a bat. One of the stars in the dust nebula can resemble a bat's eye.

What is the most spook-tacular nebula in the galaxy? One contender is LDN 43. Glowing with eerie light, this nebula is lit up from inside by dense gaseous knots that have just formed young stars. It bears an astonishing resemblance to a vast cosmic bat flying amongst the stars on a dark Halloween night. Located about 1,400 light years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, the LDN 43 molecular cloud is dense enough to block light not only from background stars, but from wisps of gas lit up by the nearby reflection nebula LBN 7. Far from being a harbinger of death, this 12-light year-long filament of gas and dust is actually a stellar nursery.

Image Credit & Copyright: Mark Hanson & Mike Selby

Mark Hanson's website: https://www.hansonastronomy.com/bio

Mike Selby: https://throughlightandtime.com/about/

Caption Credit: NASA Astronomer Michelle Thaller (GSFC)

Michelle Thaller: https://science.nasa.gov/people/michelle-thaller/

Release Date: October 27, 2024

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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Shenzhou-19 Long March-2F Y19 Rocket Launch | Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Shenzhou-19 Long March-2F Y19 Rocket Launch | Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Shenzhou-19 Mission Emblem

China successfully launched the Shenzhou-19 crewed spacecraft on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, sending three astronauts—including the country's first female space engineer—to its orbiting space station for a six-month mission. Mission specialist, Wang Haoze, is the third Chinese woman to take part in a crewed space flight, after Liu Yang who was in the Shenzhou-9 and 14 crews, and Wang Yaping, of Shenzhou-10 and 13.

The spacecraft, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, blasted off at 4:27 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, said the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).

About 10 minutes after the launch, the Shenzhou-19 spacecraft separated from the rocket and entered its designated orbit. The crew members, consisting of mission commander Cai Xuzhe and crew members Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze, are in good shape and the launch was a complete success, the CMSA announced.

The crew reached their destination after their spacecraft made a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the China space station's core module Tianhe at 11:00 Wednesday (Beijing Time).

Shenzhou-19 is the 33rd flight mission of China's crewed space program, and the fourth manned mission during the application and development stage of China's space station.

Shenzhou-19 Crew:

Cai Xuzhe (commander)

Wang Haoze (mission specialist)

Song Lingdong (mission specialist)

Image Credits: Wang Heng, Wang Jiangbo, Sun Haiying/Xinhua

Capture Date: Oct. 30, 2024

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Drone Footage: Shenzhou-19 Long March-2F Y19 Rocket Launch

Drone Footage: Shenzhou-19 Long March-2F Y19 Rocket Launch

China successfully launched the Shenzhou-19 crewed spacecraft on a Long March-2F Y19 rocket on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, sending three astronauts—including the country's first female space engineer—to its orbiting space station for a six-month mission. Mission specialist, Wang Haoze, is the third Chinese woman to take part in a crewed space flight, after Liu Yang who was in the Shenzhou-9 and 14 crews, and Wang Yaping, of Shenzhou-10 and 13.

The spacecraft, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, blasted off at 4:27 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, said the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).

The crew reached their destination after their spacecraft made a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the China space station's core module Tianhe at 11:00 Wednesday (Beijing Time).

Shenzhou-19 is the 33rd flight mission of China's crewed space program, and the fourth manned mission during the application and development stage of China's space station.

Shenzhou-19 Crew:

Cai Xuzhe (commander)

Wang Haoze (mission specialist)

Song Lingdong (mission specialist)

Video Credit: Xinhua

Duration: 17 seconds

Release Date: Oct. 29, 2024

Shenzhou-19 Crewed Spacecraft Launched Successfully | China Space Station

Shenzhou-19 Crewed Spacecraft Launched Successfully | China Space Station

The spacecraft, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, blasted off at 4:27 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, said the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).

The crew reached their destination after their spacecraft made a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the China space station's core module Tianhe at 11:00 Wednesday (Beijing Time).

Shenzhou-19 is the 33rd flight mission of China's crewed space program, and the fourth manned mission during the application and development stage of China's space station.

Shenzhou-19 Crew:

Cai Xuzhe (commander)

Wang Haoze (mission specialist)

Song Lingdong (mission specialist)

Video Credit: CCTV

Duration: 49 seconds

Release Date: Oct. 29, 2024

Wide-field View of The Bubble Nebula: NGC 7635 in Cassiopeia | WIYN Telescope

Wide-field View of The Bubble Nebula: NGC 7635 in Cassiopeia | WIYN Telescope

This wide field view of NGC 7635 shows the nebulosity carved out by the winds of the massive central star and demonstrates the exquisite image quality of the new One Degree Imager camera on the WIYN 3.5-m telescope.

What created this huge space bubble? Blown by the wind from a star, this tantalizing, head-like apparition is cataloged as NGC 7635, but known simply as the Bubble Nebula. The featured striking view utilizes a long exposure to reveal the intricate details of this cosmic bubble and its environment. Although it looks delicate, the 10 light-year diameter bubble offers evidence of violent processes at work. Seen here above and right of the Bubble's center, a bright hot star is embedded in the nebula's reflecting dust. A fierce stellar wind and intense radiation from the star (that likely has a mass 10 to 20 times that of the Sun) has blasted out the structure of glowing gas against denser material in a surrounding molecular cloud. The Bubble Nebula lies a mere 11,000 light-years away toward the constellation Cassiopeia.

The Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOIRLab (WIYN) Observatory is situated atop Kitt Peak National Observatory, a partnership consisting of University of California Irvine, Purdue University, the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab, and NASA.

Learn more about the WIYN Observatory:

https://www.wiyn.org/0.9m/index.html

Image Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), WIYN ODI team & WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Caption Credit: NoirLab/NASA Goddard

Release Date: Dec. 4, 2012

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The Bubble Nebula: NGC 7635 in Cassiopeia | WIYN Telescope

The Bubble Nebula: NGC 7635 in Cassiopeia | WIYN Telescope

This central, cosmetically corrected view of NGC 7635 shows the nebulosity carved out by the winds of the massive central star and demonstrates the exquisite image quality of the One Degree Imager camera on the WIYN 3.5-m telescope.

Learn more about the WIYN Observatory:

https://www.wiyn.org/0.9m/index.html

Image Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), WIYN ODI team & WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Caption Credit: NoirLab/NASA Goddard

Release Date: Sept. 4, 2012

A "Colossal" Solar Prominence: The View from Argentina

A "Colossal" Solar Prominence: The View from Argentina

Astronomer & astrophotographer Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau: "On the morning of Tuesday, October 29, at 12:44 UTC, the sun put on a spectacular show. Through my Coronado Solarmax III 90mm Double Stack solar telescope, I captured a colossal prominence on the southwestern limb, stretching over 500,000 km. This impressive yet faint structure posed a challenge to capture in detail, set against a dynamic backdrop of filaments and active regions where sunspots stand out. This image is a clear reflection that we are currently experiencing the peak activity of this solar cycle."

Argentine astronomer Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau is a longtime observer of the sun, and he is not easily impressed. "Yesterday," he says, "I was impressed. On the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 29th, the sun put on a spectacular show. Through my Coronado solar telescope, I captured this colossal prominence."

"It stretched more than 500,000 km above the sun's southwestern limb (greater than the distance between Earth and the Moon)," he says. "This image is a clear reflection that we are currently experiencing Solar Maximum."

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) saw initial the stages of this explosion that quickly became too large for the spacecraft's cameras to capture fully. The debris could hit Earth on Nov. 1st, arriving in the form of a 'glancing-blow' coronal mass ejection (CME).

A solar prominence (also known as a filament when viewed against the solar disk) is a large, bright feature extending outward from the Sun’s surface. Prominences are anchored to the Sun’s surface in the photosphere, and extend outwards into the Sun’s hot outer atmosphere, called the corona. A prominence forms over timescales of about a day, and stable prominences may persist in the corona for several months, looping hundreds of thousands of miles into space. Scientists are still researching how and why prominences are formed.

The red-glowing looped material is plasma, a hot gas comprised of electrically charged hydrogen and helium. The prominence plasma flows along a tangled and twisted structure of magnetic fields generated by the sun’s internal dynamo. An erupting prominence occurs when such a structure becomes unstable and bursts outward, releasing the plasma.

Image Credit: Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau
Capture Location: Rafaela, Provincia de Santa Fe, Argentina

Eduardo's Website:

https://www.eduardoschaberger.ar
Caption Credit: NASA Goddard/Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau/SpaceWeather[dot]com
Image Date: Oct. 29, 2024

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NASA Perseverance Mars Rover Captures Solar Transit of Phobos Moon | JPL

NASA Perseverance Mars Rover Captures Solar Transit of Phobos Moon | JPL

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture the silhouette of Phobos, one of the two Martian moons, as it passed in front of the Sun on Sept. 30, 2024, the 1,285th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. This 32-second video shows the transit in real-time.

Perseverance has captured several Phobos transits since its landing at Mars' Jezero Crater in February 2021. By comparing the various recordings, scientists can refine their understanding of the potato-shaped moon's orbit, learning how it is changing. Eons from now, Phobos' orbit is expected to eventually send the moon toward the Red Planet's surface.

Arizona State University leads the operations of the Mastcam-Z instrument, working in collaboration with Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, on the design, fabrication, testing, and operation of the cameras, and in collaboration with the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen on the design, fabrication, and testing of the calibration targets.

A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).

Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.

The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA's Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed for the agency by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.

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Celebrating 3+ 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.

Launch: July 30, 2020

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

For more about Perseverance: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

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

Video Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Duration: 32 seconds

Release Date: Oct. 30, 2024

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NASA "Espacio a Tierra" | El regreso de Crew-8 : 25 de octubre de 2024

NASA "Espacio a Tierra" | El regreso de Crew-8 : 25 de octubre de 2024

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.

Aprende más sobre la ciencia a bordo de la estación espacial: https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/space-station-research-and-technology/ciencia-en-la-estacion/

Para obtener más información sobre la ciencia de la NASA, suscríbete al boletín semanal:

https://www.nasa.gov/suscribete

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

Video Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 3 minutes, 30 seconds

Release Date: Oct. 29, 2024

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