A Martian Sunrise | NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover | JPL
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Saturday, December 02, 2023
A Martian Sunrise | NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover | JPL
Star Glint Beams on The Earth's South Atlantic Ocean | International Space Station
Star Glint Beams on The Earth's South Atlantic Ocean | International Space Station
The sun's glint beams in between a cloudy stretch of the south Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina.
Expedition 70 Crew
Station Commander: Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (Denmark)
Roscosmos (Russia): Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Konstantin Borisov
JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)
NASA: Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara (USA)
An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.
Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Image Date: Nov. 13, 2023
#NASA #Space #ISS #Earth #AtlanticOcean #SouthAtlanticOcean #Argentina #SouthAmerica #Science #Astronauts #Cosmonauts #HumanSpaceflight #UnitedStates #Russia #Россия #Japan #Expedition70 #SpaceLaboratory #MicrogravityResearch #InternationaCooperation #STEM #Education
In Search of Cleaner Fuel for Aviation on Earth | This Week @NASA
In Search of Cleaner Fuel for Aviation on Earth | This Week @NASA
Week of December 1, 2023: In search of cleaner fuel for aviation, a scientific balloon campaign in Antarctica, and a key engine test for our Artemis Moon rocket . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!
Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Narrator: Emanuel Cooper
Duration: 2 minutes, 37 seconds
Release Date: Dec. 2, 2023
#NASA #Space #Artemis #ArtemisV #Moon #Rocket #SpaceLaunchSystem #SLS #RS25Engines #Engineering #Technology #NASAStennis #Mississippi #MSFC #AviationFuel #ScientificBalloons #Antarctica #UnitedStates #SolarSystem #SpaceExploration #STEM #Education #HD #Video
The Strangest Stars | European Southern Observatory
The Strangest Stars | European Southern Observatory
ChasingStarlight 7: There are pretty strange stellar characters out there . . . Join European Southern Observatory astronomer, Suzanna Randall, in the latest episode of Chasing Starlight, as she explores three of the wackiest, weirdest, most wonderful stars in our Universe.
00:00 Introduction
01:00 The "Kissing" Stars
03:06 The Eta Carinae "Monster Couple"
04:39 The "WTF" star
Video Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Directed by: L. Calçada
Hosted by: S. Randall
Written by: Thomas Howarth, Claudia Sciarma, Bárbara Ferreira
Editing: L. Calçada
Videography: A. Tsaousis
Animations & Footage: L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser, C. Malin, INAF-Padua/S. Zaggia, University of Warwick, spaceengine.org, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; NASA/ESA/N. Smith (University of Arizona, Tucson), J. Morse (BoldlyGo Institute, New York), G. Brammer, Videvo
Release Date: Nov. 29, 2023
#NASA #Astronomy #Space #Science #ESO #Stars #BinaryStars #EtaCarinae #Carina #Constellation #MilkyWayGalaxy #Cosmos #Universe #Chile #Europe #Astronomer #SuzannaRandall #STEM #Education #HD #Video
Friday, December 01, 2023
Tonight's Sky: December 2023 (Northern Hemisphere)
Tonight's Sky: December 2023 (Northern Hemisphere)
Step outside on a cold December night when the stars shine bright to find the Big Dipper, Cassiopeia, and Cepheus. They will help you locate a binary star system, a fan-shaped open star cluster, and a variable star. Stay tuned for space-based views of a ragged spiral galaxy, an open star cluster, and an edge-on galaxy.
“Tonight’s Sky” is a monthly video of constellations you can observe in the night sky. The series is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute, home of science operations for the Hubble Space Telescope, in partnership with NASA’s Universe of Learning.
The Space Telescope Science Institute works in partnership with Caltech/IPAC, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and Sonoma State University.
Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Duration: 4 minutes, 39 seconds
Release Date: Nov. 13, 2023
#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #Earth #Planets #SolarSystem #Galaxies #Stars #StarClusters #BigDipper #Cassiopeia #Cepheus #Constellations #MilkyWayGalaxy #Skywatching #STScI #JPL #Caltech #SSU #UnitedStates #Canada #Mexico #NorthernHemisphere #STEM #Education #HD #Video
What's Up: December 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA
What's Up for December 2023? | Skywatching Tips from NASA | JPL
What are example skywatching highlights for December 2023 (Northern Hemisphere)?
Clear skies will make for ideal viewing of the Geminid meteor shower, and grab your binoculars to search for asteroid Vesta.
0:00 Intro
0:14 Moon & planet highlights
0:59 Geminid meteors peak
2:05 Observing asteroid Vesta
4:08 December Moon phases
Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Duration: 4 minutes, 30 seconds
Release Date: Dec. 1, 2023
#NASA #Astronomy #Space #Science #Skywatching #Earth #Moon #Planets #Jupiter #Meteors #GeminidMeteors #Geminids #Asteroids #AsteroidVesta #SolarSystem #Stars #Constellations #MilkyWayGalaxy #JPL #Caltech #Skywatching #UnitedStates #Canada #Mexico #NorthernHemisphere #STEM #Education #HD #Video
Russian Progress MS-25 Cargo Spacecraft Launch | International Space Station
Russian Progress MS-25 Cargo Spacecraft Launch | International Space Station
A Soyuz-2.1a rocket launched the Progress MS-25 spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station (ISS Progress 86 mission) on December 1, 2023, at 09:25:11 UTC (14:25:11 local time; 04:25:11 EST) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Progress MS-25 will deliver about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 70 crew aboard the International Space Station, being scheduled for a two-day, 34-orbit journey to the station, with docking on December 3, 2023, at 11:14 UTC (06:14 EDT).
The Roscosmos Progress 86 space freighter is on a two-day delivery mission carrying nearly 5,600 pounds of cargo to resupply the Expedition 70 crew. Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub will be on duty Sunday morning monitoring the cargo craft’s automated docking to the Poisk module planned for 6:14 a.m.
Video Credit: NASA/Roscosmos
Acknowledgement: SciNews
#NASA #Space #ISS #Earth #Science #Roscosmos #Роскосмос #CargoSpacecraft #SoyuzRocketLaunch #Progress86Mission #ProgressMS25Spacecraft #Cosmonauts #Astronauts #HumanSpaceflight #UnitedStates #Russia #Россия #Japan #Expedition70 #SpaceLaboratory #InternationaCooperation #STEM #Education #HD #Video
NASA's Space to Ground: Hot News About Cold Atoms | Week of Dec. 1, 2023
NASA's Space to Ground: Hot News About Cold Atoms | Week of Dec. 1, 2023
NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. A cargo craft is in orbit today, on its way to the International Space Station following its Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, morning launch. Meanwhile, advanced space biology is underway aboard the orbital outpost to improve life on Earth and in space.
The Roscosmos 86 space freighter is in Earth orbit and racing toward the space station after launching at 4:25 a.m. EDT today from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Progress 86 is on a two-day delivery mission carrying nearly 5,600 pounds of cargo to resupply the Expedition 70 crew. Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub will be on duty Sunday morning monitoring the cargo craft’s automated docking to the Poisk module planned for 6:14 a.m.
Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science
For more information about STEM on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Follow Expedition 70 Updates:
Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 3 minutes
Release Date: Dec. 1, 2023
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Festive Northern Lights | International Space Station
Festive Northern Lights | International Space Station
An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.
Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Image Credit: NASA
Image Date: Sept. 15, 2017
#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #ISS #Planet #Earth #Atmosphere #Aurora #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights #HumanSpaceflight #Astronauts #UnitedStates #Russia #Roscosmos #Роскосмос #Canada #CSA #Japan #JAXA #SpaceLaboratory #Expedition53 #STEM #Education
The Fate of Colliding Galaxies | European Southern Observatory
The Fate of Colliding Galaxies | European Southern Observatory
This video is a crash course on galaxy clashes (pun intended!), explaining that the collision between two galaxies is not as violent a process as one could imagine.
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO) , A. Milani, J. C. Muñoz, Tubín et al.
Script: J. C. Muñoz
Editing: M. Wallner
Duration: 1 minute
Release Date: Dec. 1, 2023
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Planet Earth's Southernmost Active Volcano: Mount Erebus, Antarctica | Landsat-9
Planet Earth's Southernmost Active Volcano: Mount Erebus, Antarctica | Landsat-9
The summit crater of Mount Erebus, the world’s southernmost active volcano, appeared above the clouds on a late-spring day in 2023. The OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) on Landsat 9 captured this view of the stratovolcano on Nov. 25, 2023.
Mount Erebus is one of several volcanoes forming Ross Island off the coast of West Antarctica. At 3,794 meters (12,450 feet) above sea level, it looms over McMurdo Station, located just 35 kilometers (22 miles) away. These volcanoes occur in a rift zone where extension has caused the crust to thin and allowed magma to migrate up through faults to the surface.
This Landsat image includes the shortwave infrared signal (red) produced by heat from a lava lake in the summit crater. The lake has been active since at least 1972 and is one of only a few long-lived lava lakes on Earth. It constantly churns and occasionally spews bombs of molten rock in Strombolian eruptions. Geologists want to learn why an active lava lake has persisted here for so long. Recent research suggests one reason could be the magma’s low water content, which makes it less volatile as it approaches the surface.
Erebus was active prior to the emergence of this lava lake, including in 1841 when British Royal Navy officer James Clark Ross first sighted it during his Antarctic exploration. Mount Erebus and neighboring Mount Terror were named for warships retrofitted for use in that expedition and numerous other polar voyages.
Landsat Data Access
https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions/landsat-data-access
Landsat 9 was launched on Sept. 27, 2021, and the mission team then tested and calibrated the new satellite and its instruments.
The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Landsat satellites have been consistently gathering data about our planet since 1972. They continue to improve and expand this unparalleled record of Earth's changing landscapes for the benefit of all.
Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey
Caption Credit: Story by Lindsey Doermann
Image Date: Nov. 25, 2023
#NASA #Space #Earth #Geology #Volcanoes #Volcano #ActiveVolcano #Stratovolcano #MountErebus #RossIsland #Antarctica #Satellite #EarthObservation #Landsat #Landsat9 #USGS #GSFC #SpaceTechnology #UnitedStates #STEM #Education
Thursday, November 30, 2023
NASA's Espacio a Tierra | Para todo hay una primera vez: 22 de noviembre de 2023
NASA's Espacio a Tierra | Para todo hay una primera vez: 22 de noviembre de 2023
Espacio a Tierra, la versión en español de las cápsulas Space to Ground de la NASA, te informa semanalmente de lo que está sucediendo en la Estación Espacial Internacional.
Ciencia de la NASA: https://ciencia.nasa.gov
Para obtener más información sobre la ciencia de la NASA, suscríbete al boletín semanal: https://www.nasa.gov/suscribete
Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 2 minutes, 54 seconds
Release Date: Nov. 30, 2023
#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #ISS #Earth #NASAenespañol #español #HumanSpaceflight #Astronauts #TracyDyson #LoralOHara #JasminMoghbeli #UnitedStates #AndreasMogensen #ESA #Europe #SatoshiFurukawa #JAXA #Japan #Cosmonauts #Russia #Роскосмос #SpaceLaboratory #Expedition70 #STEM #Education #HD #Video
Recientemente: Astronautas de Artemis II inspeccionan parte del equipo para su vuelo
Recientemente: Astronautas de Artemis II inspeccionan parte del equipo para su vuelo
Recientemente en la NASA, la versión en español de las cápsulas This Week at NASA, te informa semanalmente de lo que está sucediendo en la NASA.
Ciencia de la NASA: https://ciencia.nasa.gov
Para obtener más información sobre la ciencia de la NASA, suscríbete al boletín semanal: https://www.nasa.gov/suscribete
Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 2 minutes, 33 seconds
Release Date: Nov. 30, 2023
#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #NASAenespañol #español #SPHEREXSpaceTelescope #PACEMission #Earth #Moon #ArtemisProgram #ArtemisII #OrionSpacecraft #EuropeanServiceModule #ESM #Astronauts #HumanSpaceflight #KSC #Florida #UnitedStates #Europe #ESA #STEM #Education #HD #Video
Jupiter's Moon Ganymede: The Solar System's Largest | NASA Juno Mission
Jupiter's Moon Ganymede: The Solar System's Largest | NASA Juno Mission
The European Space Agency's JUICE Mission will arrive at Ganymede in 2031 to conduct investigations.
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Image Processing & License: Kevin M. Gill
Kevin's Page on X: https://twitter.com/kevinmgill
Release Date: Nov. 28, 2023
#NASA #Astronomy #Space #Science #Jupiter #Planet #Ganymede #Moon #Ocean #Astrobiology #Biosignatures #Habitability #Radiation #JunoMission #JunoSpacecraft #SolarSystem #SpaceExploration #JPL #Caltech #UnitedStates #CitizenScience #KevinMGill #STEM #Education #APoD
Stellar Disc Discovered in Neighboring Galaxy | European Southern Observatory
Stellar Disc Discovered in Neighboring Galaxy | European Southern Observatory
ESOCast 268 Light: Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) astronomers have for the first time found a disc around a young star outside our own galaxy. This video summarizes the discovery. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an ALMA partner.
“When I first saw evidence for a rotating structure in the ALMA data I could not believe that we had detected the first extragalactic accretion disc, it was a special moment,” says Anna McLeod, an associate professor at Durham University in the UK and lead author of the study published today in Nature. “We know discs are vital to forming stars and planets in our galaxy, and here, for the first time, we’re seeing direct evidence for this in another galaxy.”
The detailed frequency measurements from ALMA allowed the authors to distinguish the characteristic spin of a disc, confirming the detection of the first disc around an extragalactic young star.
Massive stars, like the one observed here, form much more quickly and live far shorter lives than low-mass stars like our Sun. In our galaxy, these massive stars are notoriously challenging to observe and are often obscured from view by the dusty material they formed from at the time a disc is shaping around them. However, in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a galaxy 160,000 light-years away, the material new stars are being born in is fundamentally different from that of the Milky Way Galaxy. Thanks to the lower dust content, HH 1177 is no longer cloaked in its natal cocoon, offering astronomers an unobstructed, if far away, view of stellar and planetary formation.
Video Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin Wallner
Editing: Angelos Tsaousis
Written by: Pamela Freeman and Tom Howarth
Footage and Photos: ESO / L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), A McLeod et al.
Scientific Consultants: Paola Amico, Mariya Lyubenova
Release Date: Nov. 29, 2023
Duration: 1 minute, 29 seconds
#NASA #ESO #Astronomy #Space #Science #Stars #AccretionDisc #ProtoplanetaryDisc #Star #HH1177 #Mensa #Constellation #LMC #Galaxy #Cosmos #Universe #ALMA #Chile #Europe #STEM #Education #HD #Video
Solar Arrays and The Earth's Blue Glow | International Space Station
Solar Arrays and The Earth's Blue Glow | International Space Station
Image Date: Nov. 24, 2023
#NASA #Space #Astronomy #Science #ISS #SolarArrays #Planet #Earth #Atmosphere #China #中国 #Kazakhstan #Kyrgyzstan #HumanSpaceflight #Astronauts #JAXA #Japan #ESA #Europe #UnitedStates #Cosmonauts #Russia #SpaceLaboratory #Expedition70 #STEM #Education