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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

NASA's SPHEREx & PUNCH Science Missions on SpaceX Falcon 9 at Vandenberg

NASA's SPHEREx & PUNCH Science Missions on SpaceX Falcon 9 at Vandenberg

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) observatory and Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) satellites, is vertical at Space Launch Complex 4 East from Vandenberg in California. SpaceX is now targeting Tuesday, March 11, 2025, with liftoff targeted for 8:10 pm Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)/11:10 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). SPHEREx will use its telescope to provide an all-sky spectral survey, creating a 3D map of the entire sky to help scientists investigate the origins of our universe. PUNCH will study origins of the Sun’s outflow of material, or the solar wind, capturing continuous 3D images of the Sun’s corona and the solar wind’s journey into the solar system.

Learn more about the SPHEREx Mission:

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

Learn more about the PUNCH Mission:
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/punch/

Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
Image Date: March 8, 2025

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NASA's SpaceX Falcon 9 & Crew-10 Dragon Pre-launch | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's SpaceX Falcon 9 & Crew-10 Dragon Pre-launch | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 is targeted to launch at 7:48 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The four crew members are preparing for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Commander Anne McClain and Pilot Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov of Russia will join astronauts and cosmonauts at the orbiting laboratory.

The flight is the 10th crew rotation with SpaceX to the station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). While aboard, the international crew will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare humans for future missions and benefit people on Earth.

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.

Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
Release Dates: March 9 & 11, 2025

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Europe's Solar Orbiter Spots a Solar Flare in High Resolution | ESA

Europe's Solar Orbiter Spots a Solar Flare in High Resolution | ESA

This dazzling solar flare was captured by the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission on September 30, 2024. Never before has a space mission been able to observe solar flares in such high resolution in space and time. The video is sped up. In reality the flare lasted about 15 minutes. A solar flare is a tremendous explosion on the Sun that happens when energy stored in ‘twisted’ magnetic fields is suddenly released. In a matter of just a few minutes a solar flare heats material to many millions of degrees and produces bursts of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays.

The radiation from solar flares directly affects Earth’s upper atmosphere and radio communications. This is why it is so important that we watch and monitor flares to better understand them. This flare was classified as a medium-sized or ‘M-class’ flare, which can cause brief radio blackouts that affect Earth's polar regions.

The video uses images taken by Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument. It was made by scientists at the Royal Observatory of Belgium using the JHelioviewer software that anyone can use to make their own solar flare movies. All EUI data is accessible through the JHelioviewer application.

Learn more about the Solar Orbiter Mission:
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter

Solar Orbiter’s instruments: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2020/01/Solar_Orbiter_s_instruments

Video Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)
Duration: 19 seconds
Release Date: March 11, 2025

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Monday, March 10, 2025

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10: Preparing for Launch | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10: Preparing for Launch | Kennedy Space Center

From left: mission specialist Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA astronauts Anne McClain, commander and Nichole Ayers, pilot, along with mission specialist Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos (Russia)

From left: mission specialist Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos (Russia), NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, pilot, and Anne McClain, commander, along with mission specialist Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Mission emblem signed by each crew member at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

NASA astronaut Anne McClain signs her name inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, March 7, 2025, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission.

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers signs her name inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, March 7, 2025, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission.

Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia signs his name inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, March 7, 2025, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi signs his name inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, March 7, 2025, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 crew members participate in a countdown dress rehearsal at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, March 9, 2025, to prepare for their upcoming launch.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 is targeted to launch at 7:48 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Release Dates: March 7 & 9, 2025

Shenzhou-19 Crew: New Breathtaking Earth Views | China Space Station

Shenzhou-19 Crew: New Breathtaking Earth Views | China Space Station

Video footage shot through a window of China's Tiangong Space Station offers examples of stunning views of our Earth far below.

The Shenzhou-19 crew, including the country's first female space engineer, was sent into space on October 30, 2024, for a six-month mission. Their mission work includes 86 space science research and technology experiments.

Shenzhou-19 Crew:
Commander Cai Xuzhe (蔡旭哲)
Mission Specialist Wang Haoze (王浩泽)
Mission Specialist Song Lingdong (宋令东)

Video Credit: China National Space Administration (CNSA)/CCTV

Duration: 50 seconds
Release Date: March 10, 2025

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The Flame Nebula in Orion: Hubble & Webb Views Compared | NASA

The Flame Nebula in Orion: Hubble & Webb Views Compared | NASA

This video alternates between a Hubble Space Telescope and a James Webb Space Telescope observation of the Flame Nebula, a nearby star-forming nebula less than 1 million years old. In this comparison, three low-mass objects are highlighted. In Hubble’s observation, the low-mass objects are hidden by the region’s dense dust and gas. However, the objects are brought out in the Webb observation due to Webb's sensitivity to faint infrared light. The Flame Nebula is located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth. Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores will never be able to fuse hydrogen like full-fledged stars—brown dwarfs.

Video Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
Duration: 10 seconds
Release Date: March 10, 2025

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The Flame Nebula in Orion: Visible & Infrared Light Views | Hubble & Webb

The Flame Nebula in Orion: Visible & Infrared Light Views | Hubble & Webb

A collage of three images showing a dusty nebula. The left two-thirds of the collage is taken up by an image of the nebula in visible light. The remaining third is taken up by two other images, one atop the other, in near-infrared. Wispy plumes appear to fly off from the pillar toward the sides amid blue clouds of the same material that are whiter near the pillar. There are many white stars spread throughout. Two separate, white squares, tilted about 30 degrees, outline two areas in the pillar. Both images contain a mixture of reds, blues and browns, and show red, blue, and white stars.

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years old. Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores will never be able to fuse hydrogen like full-fledged stars—brown dwarfs.

This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a visible light view from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on the left, while the two insets at the right show the near-infrared view taken by the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope. Much of the dark, dense gas and dust, as well as the surrounding white clouds within the visible light image, have been cleared in the near-infrared images, giving us a view into a more translucent cloud pierced by the infrared-producing objects within that are young stars and brown dwarfs. Astronomers used Webb to take a census of the lowest-mass objects within this star-forming region.

In this image, light at wavelengths of 1.15 microns and 1.4 microns (filters F115W and F140M) is represented in blue, 1.82 microns (F182M) as green, 3.6 microns (F360M) as orange, and 4.3 microns (F430M) as red.

Image Description: A collage of three images showing a dusty nebula. The left two-thirds of the collage is taken up by an image of the nebula in visible light. The remaining third is taken up by two other images, one atop the other, in near-infrared. Wispy plumes appear to fly off from the pillar toward the sides amid blue clouds of the same material that are whiter near the pillar. There are many white stars spread throughout. Two separate, white squares, tilted about 30 degrees, outline two areas in the pillar. Both images contain a mixture of reds, blues and browns, and show red, blue, and white stars.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, M. Meyer (University of Michigan), A. Pagan (STScI)
Release Date: March 10, 2025

Objects Detected Inside The Flame Nebula: View 2 | James Webb Space Telescope

Objects Detected Inside The Flame Nebula: View 2 | James Webb Space Telescope

There is an orange and yellow fang-like cloud of matter that cuts the image in two. The left side of the fang shows more clouds of a dark brown shade, while the right shows filaments of light brown. There are a number of bright blue and red points of light spread throughout.

A collage of four images showing a dusty nebula. Two-thirds of the collage is taken up by a single image of the nebula, while the remaining third shows three insets stacked on top of each other. In the largest image at left, there is an orange and yellow fang-like cloud of matter that cuts the image in two. There are a number of bright blue and red points of light spread throughout, three of which are circled in white and labeled with a number from one to three. Each circle magnifies an individual object and contains a single, fuzzy point of light in the middle.

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than a million years old. Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores will never be able to fuse hydrogen like full-fledged stars—brown dwarfs.

This near-infrared image of a portion of the Flame Nebula from the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope highlights three low-mass objects, seen in the insets to the right. These objects, which are much colder than protostars, require the sensitivity of Webb’s instruments to detect them. These objects were studied as part of an effort to explore the lowest mass limit of brown dwarfs within the Flame Nebula.

In this image, light at wavelengths of 1.15 microns and 1.4 microns (filters F115W and F140M) is represented as blue, 1.82 microns (F182M) as green, 3.6 microns (F360M) as orange, and 4.3 microns (F430M) as red.

Image 1 Description: There is an orange and yellow fang-like cloud of matter that cuts the image in two. The left side of the fang shows more clouds of a dark brown shade, while the right shows filaments of light brown. There are a number of bright blue and red points of light spread throughout.

Image 2 Description: A collage of four images showing a dusty nebula. Two-thirds of the collage is taken up by a single image of the nebula, while the remaining third shows three insets stacked on top of each other. In the largest image at left, there is an orange and yellow fang-like cloud of matter that cuts the image in two. There are a number of bright blue and red points of light spread throughout, three of which are circled in white and labeled with a number from one to three. Each circle magnifies an individual object and contains a single, fuzzy point of light in the middle.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Michael Meyer (University of Michigan), Matthew De Furio (UT Austin), Massimo Robberto (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
Release Date: March 10, 2025

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Inside The Flame Nebula: View 1 | James Webb Space Telescope

Inside The Flame Nebula: View 1 | James Webb Space Telescope

The Flame Nebula lies in the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex and is home to cosmic objects, called brown dwarfs, that are not quite planets, but are also so small their cores cannot sustain fusing hydrogen like full-fledged stars do.

Decades of Hubble data was crucial in identifying candidates for further study, essentially handing the baton to Webb to take an in-depth look at this region using its infrared sensitivity.

Webb took a look at the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, looking for the faintest and the smallest of brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are very dim and much cooler than stars, making them hard to detect. When they are young, they are a bit warmer and brighter and easier to observe, making the Flame Nebula star-forming region (within this molecular cloud complex) a good place to look for them.

Webb’s ability to see warm objects through dense dust is allowing Webb not only to find brown dwarf candidates, but also to explore their lowest mass limits. Though Webb has the infrared sensitivity to potentially see brown dwarfs as low-mass as half that of Jupiter, the lowest-mass objects scientists found are about 2-3 times the mass of Jupiter. The current hypothesis that this might be at or near the lower limit for the mass of brown dwarfs. This also takes into account the dynamics at play within the molecular clouds where these objects are born.

Image Description: A Webb view of part of the Flame Nebula. The image contains a mixture of reds, blues and browns, and shows red, blue, and white stars.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Michael Meyer (University of Michigan), Matthew De Furio (UT Austin), Massimo Robberto (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
Release Date: March 10, 2025

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10: Ready for Launch | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10: Ready for Launch | Kennedy Space Center

Anne McClain - Crew-10 commander

Nichole Ayers - Crew-10 pilot

Kirill Peskov - mission specialist

Takuya Onishi - mission specialist

Static fire test of Falcon 9 rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Release Dates: March 7, 9 & 10, 2025

Galaxy NGC 4900: A Spiral and a Star in Virgo | Hubble Space Telescope

Galaxy NGC 4900: A Spiral and a Star in Virgo | Hubble Space Telescope

This NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope picture features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the constellation Virgo. While the galaxy and the star appear to be close to one another, even overlapping, they are actually a great distance apart. The star, marked with four long diffraction spikes, is in our own galaxy. It is just 7,109 light-years away from Earth. The galaxy, named NGC 4900, lies about 45 million light-years from Earth.

This image combines data from two of Hubble’s instruments: the Advanced Camera for Surveys, installed in 2002 and is still in operation today, and the older Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2—in use from 1993 to 2009. The data used here were taken more than 20 years apart for two different observing programs—a real testament to Hubble’s long scientific lifetime.

Both programs aimed to understand the demise of massive stars. In one, researchers studied the sites of past supernovae, aiming to estimate the masses of the stars that exploded and investigate how supernovae interact with their surroundings. NGC 4900 was selected for study because it hosted a supernova named SN 1999br.

In the other program, researchers laid the groundwork for studying future supernovae by collecting images of more than 150 nearby galaxies. After a supernova is detected in one of these galaxies, researchers can examine these images, searching for a star at the location of the supernova. Identifying a supernova progenitor star in pre-explosion images gives valuable information about how, when and why supernovae occur.

Image Description: A spiral galaxy seen face-on. Broken spiral arms made of blue patches of stars and thin strands of dark dust swirl around the galaxy’s center, forming a broad, circular disc. An extended circular halo surrounds the disc. The center is a brightly-glowing, stubby bar-shaped area in a pale yellow color. A bright star in our own galaxy, with long cross-shaped diffraction spikes, is visible atop the distant galaxy.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. J. Smartt, C. Kilpatrick
Release Date: March 10, 2025

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Sunday, March 09, 2025

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Departing Houston for Florida | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Departing Houston for Florida | International Space Station

The crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station (from left) mission specialist Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos (Russia), NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, pilot, and Anne McClain, commander, along with mission specialist Takuya Onishi of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), pose for a picture before flying from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission (from left): NASA astronauts Anne McClain, commander and Nichole Ayers, pilot, along with Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and mission specialist Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos (Russia)

NASA astronaut and Crew-10 commander, Anne McClain

A Special Message from Crew-10 Commander Anne McClain: "Departure Day" from Houston to Florida. When people think about spaceflight, they usually think most about launch day, and how it must be the day when we think most deeply about the magnitude of what we are doing. It is, of course, the day with the biggest bang—its not super normal to wake up in the morning and yeet yourself off the planet.

But before launch day, there are a series of other significant departures. The last day of training. The last time you see friends. When you leave the regular world and enter quarantine. When you get out of your own bed for the last time, and realize the adventure you will have before you are back again. When you leave home and see it in the rearview mirror. Hugging your loved ones for the last time.

Today was one of those poignant days. Today, Crew-10 left our homes (and temporary homes, for our international crewmembers) in Houston to travel to Kennedy Space Center. For us, it was a transition in the very definition of "home" and "family." We have transitioned to NASA housing, and soon our crew will rely most heavily on one another—we are as close as a family.

You have seen astronauts float through the hatches, giving hugs and high fives. But before each joyous arrival day, there are departure days.

"If you are going to go fast, go alone. If you are going to go far, go together." 50 years after Apollo-Soyuz redefined international space cooperation, Crew-10 is going together.

Go Crew-10!🚀

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/Crew-10 Commander Anne McClain
Release Date: March 7, 2025

Can you see the Blood Moon? Week of March 10 -16, 2025 | BBC Star Diary

Can you see the Blood Moon? Week of March 10 -16, 2025 | BBC Star Diary

This week sees a total lunar eclipse turn the moon blood red as it passes over the US. Unfortunately, the UK will only catch the partial phase. To find out exactly what you can see, listen to the latest episode of Star Diary, the podcast from the makers of Sky at Night Magazine.

Video Credit: BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Duration: 16 minutes
Release Date: March 9, 2025

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Mission: Dragon Spacecraft Rollout | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Mission: Dragon Spacecraft Rollout | Kennedy Space Center

SpaceX: "Falcon 9 and Dragon are vertical at pad 39A in Florida."

Veteran Astronaut Anne McClain NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/anne-c-mcclain/

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/anne-c-mcclain/

Astronaut Nichole Ayers NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/nasa-astronaut-nichole-ayers

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/nasa-astronaut-nichole-ayers/

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi Biography:

https://humans-in-space.jaxa.jp/en/astronaut/onishi-takuya/

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission will be the first spaceflight for Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov of Russia. Before his selection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he earned a degree in engineering from the Ulyanovsk Civil Aviation School and was a co-pilot on the Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft for airlines Nordwind and Ikar. Assigned as a test-cosmonaut in 2020, he has additional experience in skydiving, zero-gravity training, scuba diving, and wilderness survival.

Learn more about NASA's SpaceX Crew-10:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/nasas-spacex-crew-10/

NASA's Commercial Crew Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/commercial-space/commercial-crew-program/

Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Capture Date: March 9, 2025

¿Qué pasa en el cielo este mes? Marzo 2025 | NASA en Español

¿Qué pasa en el cielo este mes? Marzo 2025 | NASA en Español

¡Atención, exploradores del cielo! Este mes, la mayoría de la gente del hemisferio occidental podrá observar un eclipse lunar. Este espectáculo celestial se dará durante la madrugada del 14 de marzo (o la noche del 13 de marzo, según la zona horaria). Además, Mercurio hará una aparición especial en los cielos nocturnos del hemisferio norte del 7 al 9 de marzo.

Adaptación al español por el equipo de NASA en español

Créditos: Laboratorio de propulsión a chorro de la NASA (JPL)/NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Duration: 3 minutes
Release Date: March 7, 2025

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Planet Mars Images: March 6-9, 2025 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers

Planet Mars Images: March 6-9, 2025 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers

Mars 2020 - sol 1438

MSL - sol 4471

Mars 2020 - sol 1438

MSL - sol 4473

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Celebrating 12+ Years on Mars (2012-2024)

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life.

Launch: Nov. 6, 2011

Landing Date: Aug. 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

Celebrating 4+ 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 information on NASA's Mars missions, visit: mars.nasa.gov

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

Processing: Kevin M. Gill

Image Release Dates: March 6-9, 2025

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