A 3D Panning on Massive Star Cluster NGC 3603 (Artist's Impression) | Hubble
A pan on NGC 3603 (artist's impression).
Distance: 20,000 light years
Credit: European Space Agency (ESA) /Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
Duration: 38 seconds
Release Date: February 17, 2016
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Zooming in on Massive Compact Star Cluster in NGC 3603 | Hubble
Starting from the magnificent vista of the southern Milky Way we gradually zoom in on the huge star formation region NGC 3603 ending with an extreme close-up of the core of the central star cluster taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) camera on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: NASA, ESA and Wolfgang Brandner (MPIA), Boyke Rochau (MPIA) and Andrea Stolte (University of Cologne)
Acknowledgement: Robert Gendler, Martin Pugh, Astromania de Yave
Duration: 1 minute
Release Date: February 17, 2016
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Extreme Star Cluster NGC 3603 Bursts into Life | Hubble
Credit: NASA, European Space Agency and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
Release Date: October 2, 2007
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Pan of Massive Star Cluster NGC 346 | Hubble
Astronomers have been bemused to find young stars spiralling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The outer arm of the spiral in this huge, oddly shaped stellar nursery—called NGC 346—may be feeding star formation in a river-like motion of gas and stars. The massive star cluster NGC 346, located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, has long intrigued astronomers with its unusual shape. Only 150 light-years in diameter, NGC 346 boasts the mass of 50,000 Suns. Its intriguing shape and rapid star formation rate has puzzled astronomers.
Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), N. Bartmann
Release Date: September 8, 2022
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NASA's Space to Ground: Flying Turtles | Week of Sept. 23, 2022
NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. Ten people are now living aboard the International Space Station with the arrival of three new crewmates inside a Soyuz crew ship on Wednesday. The new crew members from NASA and Roscosmos will spend the next several days getting up to speed with living and working in space.
New flight engineers Frank Rubio from NASA and Dmitri Petelin from Roscosmos are beginning their first space mission with veteran cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, who is on his second space station mission. The trio blasted off at 9:54 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, to the orbiting lab inside the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft from Kazakhstan. The threesome docked to the Rassvet module less than three-and-a-half hours later. They waited a couple of more hours after leak and pressure checks before opening the spacecraft hatch and entering the station to begin lab familiarization activities ahead of a six-month mission.
Late next week, three cosmonauts who have been residing on the space station since March 18, will end their mission and return to Earth. Commander Oleg Artemyev and Flight Engineers Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov will board the Soyuz MS-21 crew ship, undock from the Prichal module, reenter Earth’s atmosphere, and parachute to a landing in Kazakhstan.
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will take over as station commander from Artemyev before he departs during the traditional Change of Command ceremony next week. The leadership change will be seen live on NASA TV, the agency’s app, and its website at 9:35 a.m. on Sept. 28.
Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 3 minutes
Release Date: September 23, 2022
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Star Cluster in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble
The Large Magellanic Cloud only contains about one hundredth as much mass as the Milky Way, but it still contains billions of stars. The open cluster NGC 2164 is in good company in the Large Magellanic Cloud—the satellite galaxy is home to roughly 700 open clusters, alongside about 60 globular clusters. This image of NGC 2164 was taken by the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), which has previously imaged many other open clusters, including NGC 330 and Messier 11.
Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, J. Kalirai, A. Milone
Release Date: August 23, 2021
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Capturing the Spectacular Outflow from Spiral Galaxy Markarian 817 | Hubble
Observations by the new Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) aboard the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope captured the powerful outflow of material from this galaxy.
The COS spectrum of Markarian 817 highlights the outflow's dynamic nature. A gas cloud containing hydrogen that was detected in Hubble data taken in 1997 does not appear in the COS observation because the cloud has apparently been driven out by an outflow of material from the galaxy.
This discharge is being powered by a huge disc of matter encircling the supermassive black hole, which is 40 million times more massive than our Sun. The disc is driving the material out of the galaxy through powerful winds, produced by streams of charged particles. Some of the outflow rains back onto the galaxy. The rest settles into the intergalactic gas.
Astronomers want to know how much of the outflow lands in the galaxy and how much escapes into intergalactic space. To achieve this, they need high-quality spectroscopic observations to detect the signatures of the outflowing material, which includes carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. This will allow them to determine the composition, location and dynamics of the winds that distribute the material.
Markarian 817 is 430 million light-years away in the northern constellation of Draco. COS observed the galaxy on August 4, 2009, using its far-ultraviolet detector to distinguish the outflow from the galaxy’s core. NASA astronauts installed COS during Servicing Mission 4 in May 2009 to upgrade and repair the Hubble.
The Hubble image was taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on August 2, 2009. The composite image was made by using filters that isolate light from the blue, green and infrared portions of the spectrum, as well as emission from glowing hydrogen.
The Hubble observations are part of the Hubble Servicing Mission 4 Early Release Observations.
Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA) and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
Release Date: September 9, 2009
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Probing a Super-giant Shell of Gas and Stars: LH 72 | Hubble
Much of the star formation in the LMC occurs in super-giant shells. These regions of interstellar gas are thought to have formed due to strong stellar winds and supernova explosions that cleared away much of the material around the stars creating wind-blown shells. The swept-up gas eventually cools down and fragments into smaller clouds that dot the edges of these regions and eventually collapse to form new stars.
The biggest of these shells, home to LH 72, is designated LMC4. With a diameter of about 6,000 light-years, it is the largest in the Local Group of galaxies that is home to both the Milky Way and LMC. Studying gas-embedded young associations of stars like LH 72 is a way of probing the super-giant shells to understand how they formed and evolved.
This image was taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 using five different filters in ultraviolet, visible and infrared light. The field of view is approximately 1.8 by 1.8 arcminutes.
Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble, NASA and D. A. Gouliermis
Release Date: November 21, 2011
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Gets a Piggyback Ride | NASA's Johnson Space Center
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On its final flight to the California Science Center 10 years ago, Endeavour was escorted by a combination of F/A-18s and an F-15 from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Those aircraft were flown by NASA Armstrong pilots, while center photographers and videographers documented the orbiter’s final journey.
Image Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz
Caption Credit: Monika Luabeya
Release Date: September 22, 2022
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Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Last Flight 10 Years Ago | NASA Armstrong
People from communities all over California watched the skies in hopes of catching a glimpse of space shuttle Endeavour as it was ferried on the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to Los Angeles on Sept. 21, 2012.
On its final flight to the California Science Center, Endeavour was escorted by a combination of F/A-18s and an F-15 from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Those aircraft were flown by NASA Armstrong pilots, while center photographers and videographers documented the orbiter’s final journey.
Included on the space shuttle’s flight path were many California landmarks such as the California State Capitol Building, Disneyland, Dodger Stadium, the Getty Center, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Hollywood sign. Also on the route were the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, NASA’s Ames Research Center, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, and the Santa Monica Pier.
Credit: NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center
Duration: 5 minutes
Release Date: September 21, 2022
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Pan on the Star-forming Region LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble
This video shows a star forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). It reveals a large number of low-mass infant stars coexisting with young massive stars.
Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
Duration: 28 seconds
Release Date: August 14, 2006
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Zoom on the Star-forming Region LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble
This video shows a star forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). It reveals a large number of low-mass infant stars coexisting with young massive stars.
Revisiting Large & Small Stars in Harmonious Coexistence | ESO
Distance: 170,000 light years
Credit: Davide De Martin (European Space Agency/Hubble), the ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Liberator & Digitized Sky Survey 2
Release Date: August 14, 2006
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Expedition 68 Crew: Launch Day | International Space Station
Scenes from Launch Day: Expedition 68 astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA and his crewmates, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos successfully launched onboard their Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and safely arrived later at the International Space Station. Their Soyuz spacecraft bore the name of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the “father” of cosmonautics.
Rubio, Prokopyev, and Petelin will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex, returning to Earth in March 2023.
https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/frank-rubio/biography/
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Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls/Victor Zelentsov
Center of The Milky Way: Wide-field View | ESO
Distance: 25,000 light years
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO) and Digitized Sky Survey 2
Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin and S. Guisard
Release Date: May 12, 2022
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Hot Gas Bubble Swirling Around Our Supermassive Black Hole | ESO
ESOcast 256 Light: Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have found a hot bubble of gas that swirls around Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy, at 30% of the speed of light.
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Directed by: Herbert Zodet and Martin Wallner
Editing: Herbert Zodet
Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida
Written by: Rebecca Forsberg and Rory Harris
Footage and photos: ESO, Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, M. Kornmesser, L. Calçada (Acknowledgment: M. Wielgus), Jordy Davelaar et al./Radboud University/BlackHoleCam, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) and C. Malin
Scientific consultant: Mariya Lyubenova
Release Date: September 22, 2022
Duration: 1 minute, 27 seconds
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