Listen to The Sun! Transforming Heliophysics Data into Sound | NASA

Listen to The Sun! Transforming Heliophysics Data into Sound | NASA

Explore how data about the Sun from NASA's Parker Solar Probe, Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) and Wind spacecraft has been transformed into sound with NASA’s Coordinated Data Analysis Web (CDAWeb). Observe how audification can benefit heliophysics data analysis and uncover spectral features that the eyes overlook.

Heliophysics (from the prefix "helio", from Attic Greek hḗlios, meaning Sun, and the noun "physics": the science of matter and energy and their interactions) is the physics of the Sun and its connection with the Solar System. NASA defines heliophysics as "(1) the comprehensive new term for the science of the Sun—Solar System Connection, (2) the exploration, discovery, and understanding of Earth's space environment, and (3) the system science that unites all of the linked phenomena in the region of the cosmos influenced by a star like our Sun."

Sponsored by NASA's Heliophysics Digital Resource Library (HDRL) and Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas (HARP) citizen science. 

For more information about data audification, visit:  

NASA’s CDAWeb: https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/audification_readme.html

HARP Citizen Science: https://listen.spacescience.org/

00:12 Parker Solar Probe Encounters a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME)

ApJ Publication: Near-Sun In Situ and Remote-sensing Observations of a Coronal Mass Ejection and its Effect on the Heliospheric Current Sheet, O.M. Romeo et al., 2023

Data Audification: Robert Alexander

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00:57 Ultra-Low Frequency Waves in Earth's Magnetosphere

 Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences Publication: Listening to the Magnetosphere: How Best to Make ULF Waves Audible, M.O. Archer et al., 2022

Data Sonification: The HARP Citizen Science Project

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01:24 Binaural Audification of MMS Search Coil Magnetometer Data

International Conference on Auditory Display 2024: Auralization of Magnetic Multiscale Satellite Data: Toward Integrated Audification in Space Science

Authors:
Kristina Collins
Robert L. Alexander 
Jaye Verniero 
Robert M. Candey 
Video Production:
Robert L. Alexander 
Kristina Collins 

MMS Visualization: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio 

Visualizer: Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)

Scientist: Tai Phan (University of California at Berkeley) 

Producer: Joy Ng (USRA)

Writer: Mara Johnson-Groh (Wyle Information Systems) 

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02:40 Parker Solar Probe Crossing the Heliospheric Current Sheet (HCS)

Apj Publication: Parker Solar Probe Observations of Proton Beams Simultaneous with Ion-scale Waves,

J.L. Verniero et al., 2020 

Verniero et al. 2025 in prep 

Data Audification & Visualization: Robert Alexander 

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04:07 Parker Solar Probe Captures a CME Interacting With the HCS

 Publications: 

Near-Sun In Situ and Remote-sensing Observations of a Coronal Mass Ejection and its Effect on the Heliospheric Current Sheet, O.M. Romeo et al., 2023

Parker Solar Probe Observations of Solar Wind Energetic Proton Beams Produced by Magnetic Reconnection in the Near-Sun Heliospheric Current Sheet, T.D. Phan et al., 2022 

Strong Perpendicular Velocity-space Diffusion in Proton Beams Observed by Parker Solar Probe,

J.L. Verniero et al., 2022

Verniero et al. 2025 in prep 

Data Audification: Robert Alexander 

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04:43 Giant Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) Waves at the Boundary Layer of the Mother’s Day CME

GRL Publication: The Giant Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) Waves at the Boundary Layer of the Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) Responsible for the Largest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years, Katariina Nykyri, 2024 

Data Audification: Robert Alexander 

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05:12 The Wind Spacecraft Encounters a Proton Cyclotron Wavestorm

ApJ Publication: A Proton-Cyclotron Wave Storm Generated by Unstable Proton Distribution Functions in the Solar Wind, R.T. Wicks, R.L. Alexander et al., 2016

Data Audification & Visualization: Robert Alexander 

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Video production: Robert Alexander 

Transition Audio:

Dawn Chorus Observed by the MMS Satellite Filtered OMNI Solar Wind Plasma Speed Measurements

Audified data from NASA’s CDAWeb

Video Credit: NASA
Duration: 5 minutes, 44 seconds
Release Date: Jan. 21, 2025

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Extreme Supersonic Winds Raging on WASP-127b | ESO

Extreme Supersonic Winds Raging on WASP-127b | ESO

Astronomers have measured supersonic jet winds on WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth. It is the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured in the Universe with speeds up to 9 km per second. The team mapped the weather of WASP-127b using the CRIRES+ instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT).

WASP-127 b orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 0.1647 Jupiters, it takes 4.2 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.0484 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2016.

Science paper: "CRIRES+ transmission spectroscopy of WASP-127b. Detection of the resolved signatures of a supersonic equatorial jet and cool poles in a hot planet":
https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso2502/eso2502a.pdf

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin Wallner
Editing: Angelos Tsaousis
Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida
Written by: Alejandro Izquierdo Lopez , Hanna Huysegoms
Footage and photos: ESO / Luis Calçada, Angelos Tsaousis, Cristoph Malin, Babak Tafreshi
Scientific consultant: Paola Amico, Mariya Lyubenova
Release Date: Jan. 21, 2025

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GoPro camera view: Blue Origin's New Glenn Flight NG-1 Rocket Launch

GoPro camera view: Blue Origin's New Glenn Flight NG-1 Rocket Launch

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket successfully lifted off at 2:03 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 16, 2025. It safely reached its intended orbit during the NG-1 mission, accomplishing its primary objective.

About New Glenn

New Glenn stands more than 320 feet (98 meters) high and features a seven-meter payload fairing, enabling twice the volume of standard five-meter class commercial launch systems. Its reusable first stage aims for a minimum of 25 missions and will land on Jacklyn, a sea-based platform located several hundred miles downrange. Reusability is integral to radically reducing cost-per-launch.   

The vehicle is powered by seven of Blue Origin’s BE-4 engines, the most powerful liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fueled, oxygen-rich staged combustion engine ever flown. LNG is cleaner-burning and higher-performing than kerosene-based fuels, and the seven BE-4s generate over 3.8 million lbf of thrust. The vehicle’s second stage is powered by two BE-3Us, liquid oxygen (LOX)/liquid hydrogen (LH2) engines designed to together yield over 320,000 lbf of vacuum thrust.   

In addition to the BE-4 and BE-3U, Blue Origin manufactures BE-7 engines for our Blue Moon lunar landers and New Shepard’s BE-3PM engine. 

Learn more: https://www.blueorigin.com/new-glenn

Image Credit: Blue Origin

Duration: 23 seconds
Image Date: Jan. 16, 2025

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The Boogeyman Nebula: LDN 1622 in Orion

The Boogeyman Nebula: LDN 1622 in Orion

The silhouette of an intriguing dark nebula inhabits this cosmic scene. Lynds' Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622 appears against a faint background of glowing hydrogen gas only visible in long telescopic exposures of the region. In contrast, the brighter reflection nebula vdB 62 is more easily seen, just above and right of center. LDN 1622 lies near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, close on the sky to Barnard's Loop, a large cloud surrounding the rich complex of emission nebulae found in the Belt and Sword of Orion. 

With swept-back outlines, the obscuring dust of LDN 1622 is thought to lie at a similar distance, perhaps 1,500 light-years away. At that distance, this 1 degree wide field of view would span about 30 light-years. Young stars do lie hidden within the dark expanse and have been revealed in Spitzer Space telescope infrared images. Still, the foreboding visual appearance of LDN 1622 inspires its popular name, the Boogeyman Nebula.

Image Credit & Copyright: Pete_Xl

Pete's website: 

https://www.astrobin.com/users/pete_xl/

Image Date: Jan. 6, 2022

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Blue Origin's New Glenn Launch: Flight NG-1 Rocket Engine Exhaust

Blue Origin's New Glenn Launch: Flight NG-1 Rocket Engine Exhaust

Seven of Blue Origin New Glenn's first stage BE-4 rocket engines "cutting diamonds in the sky." The New Glenn rocket successfully lifted off at 2:03 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 16, 2025. It safely reached its intended orbit during the NG-1 mission, accomplishing its primary objective.

About New Glenn

New Glenn stands more than 320 feet (98 meters) high and features a seven-meter payload fairing, enabling twice the volume of standard five-meter class commercial launch systems. Its reusable first stage aims for a minimum of 25 missions and will land on Jacklyn, a sea-based platform located several hundred miles downrange. Reusability is integral to radically reducing cost-per-launch.   

The vehicle is powered by seven of Blue Origin’s BE-4 engines, the most powerful liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fueled, oxygen-rich staged combustion engine ever flown. LNG is cleaner-burning and higher-performing than kerosene-based fuels, and the seven BE-4s generate over 3.8 million lbf of thrust. The vehicle’s second stage is powered by two BE-3Us, liquid oxygen (LOX)/liquid hydrogen (LH2) engines designed to together yield over 320,000 lbf of vacuum thrust.   

In addition to the BE-4 and BE-3U, Blue Origin manufactures BE-7 engines for our Blue Moon lunar landers and New Shepard’s BE-3PM engine. 

Learn more: https://www.blueorigin.com/new-glenn

Image Credit: Blue Origin
Image Date: Jan. 16, 2025

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Construction of The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in Chile: January 2025 | ESO

Construction of The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in Chile: January 2025 | ESO

The European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is a monumental project. Green light for the construction of the largest optical telescope on Earth started in 2006. As this image, taken in early January 2025 shows, the telescope is nearing its completion, step-by-step. 

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) has been appropriately dubbed the "Colosseum of Atacama". This mega-structure is seen in this picture under construction as of early 2025. The evening's sunlight traverses the ELT's dome, illuminating the altitude structure. This 50-meter-tall feat of engineering will carry all 5 mirrors of the ELT, including the giant M1 mirror on its base. The semicircular plate in the image is part of a hydrostatic frame that supports the altitude structure. It is perforated to allow air to flow from the mirror to the ambient air, preventing temperature differences. The ELT is not only a true Colosseum, but everything has been designed in extreme detail. 

This drone shot, dating from early January 2025, peers right into the dome of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). The dome is not yet fully covered in this image. Once finished, the ELT will be the world's biggest eye on the sky, thanks to its 39 meter diameter main mirror. It will be supported by the polygon structure inside the dome. The 'spider' on top of it will hold the telescope's secondary mirror at its center.

This image shows the inner frame of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the main structure of the telescope. It will contain all five mirrors of the ELT. Taken in January 2025, the skeleton is completed but still needs to receive all the segments that make up the main 39-meter mirror, set on its honey-comb-shaped base and the other, smaller mirrors. It will be set inside the central tower. Once completed, the ELT will be a leading optical-to-infrared telescope.

The evening sun bathes the construction site of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in red light. This drone image, taken early January 2025, reveals the metal altitude structure inside the dome. It is 50 meters high and will carry the ELT's five mirrors. It rotates so that it can be pointed at different parts of the sky. The 'spider' on top will hold the telescope's secondary mirror, the perforated structure below carries the main mirror, and the central tower supports the ELT's remaining three mirrors.

The European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is truly a massive building. These images show the construction stage of the ELT's dome and main structure on January 8, 2025. Despite their massive size, these structures are able to rotate and tilt the mirrors to the targeted observation with great precision. The ELT is almost as tall as London's Big Ben clock tower and larger than Rome's Colosseum. The construction materials used for the ELT include: 10,000 tonnes of steel, 30 million bolts or 500 km of cables. Even compared to other large telescopes, the ELT is a one-of-a-kind.

The ELT can be seen including its dome, central structure, and base of the M1 mirror. The ELT stands at Cerro Armazones in Chile's Atacama Desert and will be one of the main flagships of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) for the next two decades. 

Altitude: 3,046 meters

Planned year of technical first light: 2027

Learn more about ESO’s ELT at:

https://elt.eso.org/ 

In 2006, approval was given for the construction of the largest optical telescope on Earth. 

Image Credit: ESO/G. Vecchia

Image Date: Jan. 8, 2025

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Shenzhou-19 Crew Completes Second Spacewalk | China Space Station

Shenzhou-19 Crew Completes Second Spacewalk | China Space Station

Members of the Shenzhou-19 crew aboard China's orbiting space station completed their mission's second series of extravehicular activities (EVAs) at 1:12 a.m. (Beijing Time) on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).

Shenzhou-19 astronauts arrived at the Tiangong Space Station in late October 2024.

In their first EVAs on December 17, 2024, Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong set a new world record for the longest single spacewalk, spending nine hours outside the Tiangong space station. They worked on several tasks including the installation of protection devices against space debris. This feat exceeded the previous spacewalk record set by two American astronauts two decades ago.

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: Xinhua TV
Duration: 1 minute, 12 seconds
Release Date: Jan. 20, 2025

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Planet Saturn with Moons Tethys, Mimas, & Janus | NASA Cassini Mission

Planet Saturn with Moons Tethys, Mimas, & Janus | NASA Cassini Mission

Image of planet Saturn with moons Tethys, Mimas, and Janus captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on March 13, 2006.

Tethys is Saturn’s fifth largest moon. Its irregular shape is 331 miles (533 kilometers) in mean radius, with dimensions 669 x 657 x 654 miles (1076.8 x 1057.4 x 1052.6 kilometers). This cold, airless and heavily scarred body is very similar to sister moons Dione and Rhea except that Tethys is not as heavily cratered as the other two. This may be because its proximity to Saturn causes more tidal warming, and that warming kept Tethys partially molten longer, erasing or dulling more of the early terrain.

Tethys’ density is 0.97 times that of liquid water. This suggests that Tethys is composed almost entirely of water ice plus a small amount of rock.

Less than 123 miles (198 kilometers) in mean radius, crater-covered Mimas is the smallest and innermost of Saturn’s major moons. It is not quite large enough to hold a round shape, so it is somewhat ovoid with dimensions of 129 x 122 x 119 miles (207 x 197 x 191 kilometers, respectively). Its low density suggests that it consists almost entirely of water ice. It is the only substance detected on Mimas.

At a mean distance just over 115,000 miles (186,000 kilometers) from the massive planet, Mimas takes only 22 hours and 36 minutes to complete an orbit. Mimas is tidally locked: it keeps the same face toward Saturn as it flies around the planet, just as our Moon does with Earth.

Janus is an inner satellite of Saturn. It is also known as Saturn X. It is named after the mythological Roman god, Janus. This natural satellite was first identified by French astronomer Audouin Dollfus on December 15, 1966, although it had been unknowingly photographed earlier by French optical engineer, Jean Texereau. 

NASA's Cassini spacecraft arrived in the Saturn system in 2004 and ended its mission in 2017 by deliberately plunging into Saturn's atmosphere. This method was chosen because it is necessary to ensure protection and prevent biological contamination to any of the moons of Saturn thought to offer potential habitability.

The Cassini-Huygens mission was a cooperative project of NASA, European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed, developed and assembled the Cassini orbiter. The Cassini radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the U.S. and several European countries.

NASA's Cassini Mission: 
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/cassini

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS

Processing: Kevin M. Gill
Image Date: March 13, 2006
Release Date: Jan. 14, 2025

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Shenzhou-19 Astronauts Gear Up for Second Spacewalk | China Space Station

Shenzhou-19 Astronauts Gear Up for Second Spacewalk | China Space Station

China's Shenzhou-19 crew, currently aboard the Tiangong Space Station, is ramping up preparations for their second extravehicular activities (EVAs) set to take place within the coming days.

According to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), the three astronauts are in good health, and the space station is operating smoothly, creating optimal conditions for the upcoming spacewalk.

In a video released on Monday, January 20, 2025, the crew was seen making final preparations ahead of the mission. They have conducted thorough checks of their spacesuits and practiced mechanical arm operations in orbit. Two crew members assigned with spacewalk have been rehearsing their tasks in their spacesuits inside the space station.

The trio has also carried out a full-process simulation and reviewed contingency plans in preparation for the EVAs.

Shenzhou-19 astronauts arrived at Tiangong in late October 2024.

In their first EVAs on December 17, 2024, Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong set a new world record for the longest single spacewalk, spending nine hours outside the Tiangong space station. They worked on several tasks including the installation of protection devices against space debris. This feat beat the previous spacewalk record set by two American astronauts two decades ago.

Since their first spacewalk, the crew has undertaken a series of tasks, including inspections and maintenance of the space station's equipment, system-wide pressure emergency drills, and preparations for the second EVAs. In addition the CMSA noted that they made steady progress in experiments in fields such as space material science, space life sciences, and aerospace medicine.

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: CCTV
Duration: 1 minute, 22 seconds
Release Date: Jan. 20, 2025

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The Tarantula Nebula's Outskirts in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

The Tarantula Nebula's Outskirts in The Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

This NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope picture features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy situated about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa. 

Despite being only 10–20% as massive as the Milky Way galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud contains some of the most impressive star-forming regions in the nearby Universe. The scene pictured here is on the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula, the largest and most productive star-forming region in the local Universe. At its center, the Tarantula Nebula hosts the most massive stars known, which weigh in at roughly 200 times the mass of the Sun.

The section of the nebula shown here features serene blue gas, brownish-orange dust patches and a sprinkling of multicolored stars. The stars within and behind the dust clouds appear redder than those that are not obscured by dust. Dust absorbs and scatters blue light more than red light, allowing more of the red light to reach our telescopes and making the stars appear redder than they are. This image incorporates ultraviolet and infrared light as well as visible light. Using Hubble observations of dusty nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud and other galaxies, researchers will study these distant dust grains, helping to understand the role that cosmic dust plays in the formation of new stars and planets.

Image Description: A section of a nebula, made up of layers of colored clouds of gas of varying thickness. In the background are bluish, translucent and wispy clouds; on top of these are stretches of redder and darker, clumpy dust, mostly along the bottom and right. In the bottom left corner are dense bars of dust that block light and appear black. Small stars are scattered across the nebula.

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray
Release Date: Jan. 20, 2025

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Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket Launch: Flight NG-1 | International Space Station

Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket Launch: Flight NG-1 | International Space Station

International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 72 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Don Pettit: 

"New Glenn rocket launch photographed from ISS on Jan 16th. This shows New Glenn upper stage in coast phase following booster separation. In this 4 minute time exposure, New Glenn is seen as the faint streak moving from lower right to upper left as it crosses the brighter vertically oriented star trails. This was not an easy photograph to take. ISS was over Oklahoma at the beginning and over central Gulf of Mexico at the end of the exposure."

"To photograph New Glenn, I set up three cameras with wide angle lens in the Cupola, figuring one would catch its exo-atmospheric trajectory."

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket successfully lifted off at 2:03 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 16, 2025. It safely reached its intended orbit during today's NG-1 mission, accomplishing its primary objective.

About New Glenn

New Glenn stands more than 320 feet (98 meters) high and features a seven-meter payload fairing, enabling twice the volume of standard five-meter class commercial launch systems. 

Learn more: https://www.blueorigin.com/new-glenn

Expedition 72 Updates:

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

Expedition 72 Crew
Station Commander: Suni Williams
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Aleksandr Gorbunov
NASA Flight Engineers: 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.

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/D. Pettit
Image Date: Jan. 16, 2025

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SpaceX Starship: Flight Test#7 Super Heavy Booster Catch—January 16, 2025

SpaceX Starship: Flight Test#7 Super Heavy Booster Catch—January 16, 2025

The seventh flight test of Starship launched on Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 4:37pm Central Time (CT). The Mechazilla at Starbase Texas caught the Super Heavy booster for a second time. This flight test launched a new generation ship with significant upgrades, attempting to accomplish Starship’s first payload deployment test, to fly multiple reentry experiments geared towards ship catch and reuse, and to launch and return the Super Heavy booster.

Watch Starship Test Flight 7:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-7

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket—collectively referred to as Starship—represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond. Starship is the world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, capable of carrying up to 150 metric tonnes fully reusable and 250 metric tonnes expendable.

Key Starship Parameters:
Height: 123m/403ft
Diameter: 9m/29.5ft
Payload to LEO: 100–150t (fully reusable)

"Starship is essential to both SpaceX’s plans to deploy its next-generation Starship system as well as for NASA, which will use a lunar lander version of Starship for landing astronauts on the Moon during the Artemis III mission through the Human Landing System (HLS) program."

Learn more about Starship:

https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):

https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Video Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Duration: 32 seconds

Capture Date: Jan. 16, 2024

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SpaceX Starship: Flight Test#7 Super Heavy Booster Catch—January 16, 2025

SpaceX Starship: Flight Test#7 Super Heavy Booster Catch—January 16, 2025

The seventh flight test of Starship launched on Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 4:37pm Central Time (CT). The Mechazilla at Starbase Texas caught the Super Heavy booster for a second time. This flight test launched a new generation ship with significant upgrades, attempting to accomplish Starship’s first payload deployment test, to fly multiple reentry experiments geared towards ship catch and reuse, and to launch and return the Super Heavy booster.

Watch Starship Test Flight 7:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-7

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket—collectively referred to as Starship—represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond. Starship is the world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, capable of carrying up to 150 metric tonnes fully reusable and 250 metric tonnes expendable.

Key Starship Parameters:
Height: 123m/403ft
Diameter: 9m/29.5ft
Payload to LEO: 100–150t (fully reusable)

"Starship is essential to both SpaceX’s plans to deploy its next-generation Starship system as well as for NASA, which will use a lunar lander version of Starship for landing astronauts on the Moon during the Artemis III mission through the Human Landing System (HLS) program."

Learn more about Starship:

https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):

https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Capture Date: Jan. 16, 2024

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Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS over Chile

Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS over Chile

Astrophotographer Yuri Beletsky: "Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) has finally arrived in the Southern Sky! 🤩 It's clearly visible as a very bright object shortly after sunset. Although the tail is still quite short, the comet is truly beautiful. For planning the composition, I used Planit Pro."

C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a non-periodic comet. It reached perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on January 13, 2025, at a distance of 0.09 AU (13 million km) from the Sun. It is potentially the brightest comet of 2025, with an apparent magnitude reaching −3.8 on the day of its perihelion. The comet is visible in the southern hemisphere before and after perihelion. It can only be observed in the daytime sky around perihelion in the northern hemisphere.

Comet C/2024 G3 was found by the automated Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on April 5, 2024, in images obtained with a 0.5-m reflector telescope located in Río Hurtado, Chile. ATLAS is funded by NASA's planetary defense office, and developed and operated by the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy.

Image Credit: Yuri Beletsky
Yuri's website: https://www.instagram.com/yuribeletsky/
Image Date: Jan. 16, 2025 

Location: European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory, Chile, South America

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Shenzhou-19 Crew Work on Oxygen Production Technology | China Space Station

Shenzhou-19 Crew Work on Oxygen Production Technology | China Space Station

The Shenzhou-19 crew on board China's Tiangong Space Station has performed work related to experiments on the technology of artificial photosynthesis for extraterrestrial survival.

The crew used sampling cans to collect samples of reactants inside relevant devices and stored the samples to be brought down to the earth.

The technology simulates the natural photosynthesis of green plants through physical and chemical methods. It utilizes carbon dioxide resources in confined spaces and extraterrestrial atmospheres in situ to produce oxygen and carbon-containing fuels. It is expected to provide important technical support for human survival and exploration in outer space for the future.

In the field of microgravity physics science, the crew disassembled solid-liquid mesoscopic experiment units in the fluid physics experiment cabinet and installed experimental sample trays.

They also cleaned non-container experimental chambers, replaced experimental samples, and maintained axis mechanisms and electrodes.

Last week, the crew also participated in a number of in-orbit training programs.

For example, rendezvous and docking is one of the professional and technical training programs for astronauts during their stay in the space. The crew used the metacognitive training system to complete trainings on image recognition under varying initial conditions.

They also carried out medical rescue exercises, and emergency evacuation in the event of a fire at the space station.

Regarding equipment inspection and maintenance, the crew replaced circulation pumps of fluid loop system for space applications as planned, amongst other tasks.

The fluid loop system for space applications serves as a crucial mechanism within a space station for controlling and regulating the temperature of application system payloads. This ensures the operation of space science experiments.

Video Credit: CCTV
Duration: 1 minute, 49 seconds
Release Date: Jan. 19, 2025

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Meet NASA Manager Wanessa Priesmeyer | NASA's Flight Opportunities Progra

Meet NASA Manager Wanessa Priesmeyer | NASA's Flight Opportunities Program

Meet Wanessa Priesmeyer, Flight Test Campaign Manager for NASA’s Flight Opportunities program. Wanessa and her team offer opportunities for researchers to test their technologies for space applications using high altitude balloons, rocket launches, or parabolic flight research. She is also involved in an exciting student challenge called TechRise. 

For more information about NASA’s Flight Opportunities, visit:  

https://www.nasa.gov/stmd-flight-opportunities/

or to learn more about TechRise:  

https://www.nasa.gov/stmd-flight-opportunities/access-flight-tests/techrise/

Video Credit: NASA Space Tech
Duration: 1 minute, 36 seconds
Release Date:  Jan. 13, 2025

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