Happy Fourth of July Wishes! | International Space Station

Happy Fourth of July Wishes! | International Space Station

Top row left to right: Flight Engineer Alexey Zubritsky of Roscosmos (Russia), Flight Engineer Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos (Russia), NASA Flight Engineer Jonny Kim of the United States

Bottom row left to right: Flight Engineer Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos (Russia), NASA Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers of the United States, NASA Flight Engineer Anne McClain of the United States, Station Commander and Flight Engineer Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Takuya Onishi

Left to right: Station Commander and Flight Engineer Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Takuya Onishi, Flight Engineer Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos (Russia), NASA Flight Engineer Jonny Kim of the United States, Flight Engineer Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos (Russia), NASA Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers of the United States, Flight Engineer Alexey Zubritsky of Roscosmos (Russia), NASA Flight Engineer Anne McClain of the United States

Left to right: NASA Flight Engineer Jonny Kim of the United States, Station Commander and Flight Engineer Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Takuya Onishi, NASA Flight Engineer Anne McClain of the United States, NASA Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers of the United States

Expedition 73 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Jonny Kim: "Picture day! 📸 It was a great day to get together as friends and crewmates to take fun photos around the International Space Station."

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Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy

NASA Flight Engineers: Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim

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.

Image Credits: NASA/JSC/Jonny Kim

Release Date: July 2, 2025

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Russian Progress MS-31 Cargo Spacecraft Launch | International Space Station

Russian Progress MS-31 Cargo Spacecraft Launch | International Space Station

An unpiloted Roscosmos Progress MS-31 cargo spacecraft (Russian) was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Soyuz 2.1a rocket at 3:32pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) Thursday, July 3, 2025 (12:32am, local Baikonur time, Friday, July 4). It carries 2625 kg of cargo to the International Space Station, including equipment for scientific experiments, food, clothing, 950 kg of fuel, 420 kg of drinking water and 50 kg of nitrogen. After a two-day, in-orbit journey to the station, the Roscosmos Progress spacecraft will dock autonomously to the space-facing port of the orbiting laboratory’s Poisk module at approximately 5:27 p.m. EDT on Saturday, July 5.

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Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy

NASA Flight Engineers: Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim

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: Roscosmos/NASA/JSC

Duration: 31 seconds

Capture Date: July 3, 2025

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¿Qué pasa en el cielo en julio? | NASA

¿Qué pasa en el cielo en julio? | NASA

¡Atención, exploradores del cielo! Entre planetas, constelaciones y aniversarios espaciales, este mes la galaxia nos muestra todo su esplendor.  🔭✨ 

• Durante la primera semana de julio, Mercurio será visible por un breve periodo después del atardecer, mientras que Marte podrá observarse durante una o dos horas tras la puesta del sol. 

•  Desde julio y hasta agosto, es un buen momento para buscar la constelación Aquila, o el Águila, desde ambos hemisferios. Para encontrarla, comienza por ubicar su estrella más brillante: Altair. 

Aprende más sobre nuestro cielo y encuentra más consejos para disfrutarlo en nuestro sitio web ciencia.nasa.gov/ObservacionDelCielo/  

Créditos: Laboratorio de Propulsión a Chorro (JPL) de la NASA / Preston Dyches
Duration: 4 minutes
Release Date: July 3, 2025

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Sprite Discovered over North America | International Space Station

Sprite Discovered over North America | International Space Station

Expedition 73 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers: "Just. Wow. As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. We have a great view above the clouds, so scientists can use these types of pictures to better understand the formation, characteristics, and relationship of TLEs to thunderstorms."

Red Sprites: These mysterious bursts of light in the upper atmosphere momentarily resemble gigantic jellyfish. One unusual feature of sprites is that they are relatively cold. They operate more like long fluorescent light tubes than hot compact light bulbs. In general, red sprites take only a fraction of a second to occur and are best seen when powerful thunderstorms are visible from the side.

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Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: JAXA Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy

NASA Flight Engineers: Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim

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.

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/JSC/Nichole Ayers
Release Date: July 3, 2025

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The Andromeda Galaxy: View over 200 million stars | Hubble Space Telescope

The Andromeda Galaxy: View over 200 million stars | Hubble Space Telescope

This video features the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away. It took over 10 years to make this vast and colorful portrait of the galaxy, requiring over 600 Hubble snapshots. The galaxy is so close to us, that in angular size it is six times the apparent diameter of the full Moon, and can be seen with the unaided eye. For Hubble’s pinpoint view, that is a lot of celestial real estate to cover. 

This stunning, colorful mosaic captures the glow of 200 million stars still a fraction of Andromeda’s population. And the stars are spread across about 2.5 billion pixels. The detailed look at the resolved stars will help astronomers piece together the galaxy’s past history that includes mergers with smaller satellite galaxies.

Video description: This spiral disk galaxy is inclined to our view, making it look elliptical. Young blue stars are around the outer rim. Yellowish older stars are toward the center. The bright hub of the galaxy looks like the center of a fried egg. It took over 10 years to make this vast and colorful portrait of the galaxy, requiring over 600 Hubble snapshots. This stunning mosaic captures the glow of 200 million stars. The camera zooms into the central portion of the galaxy, resolving a sea of myriad older stars. The camera pans along the galaxy’s vast disk that is over 200,000 light-years across. The view is etched with dark dust clouds. The stellar population looks bluer as we move toward the galaxy’s outer rim, rich in bright blue star clusters.

Credits:
NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), B. Williams (University of Washington), G. Bacon (STScI)

Duration: 2 minutes
Release Date: March 27, 2025

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Close-up: Spiral Galaxy NGC 4651 in Coma Berenices | "Feeding Time" | Hubble

Close-up: Spiral Galaxy NGC 4651 in Coma Berenices | "Feeding Time" | Hubble

This remarkable spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651, may look serene and peaceful as it swirls in the vast, silent emptiness of space, but do not be fooled—it keeps a violent secret. It is believed that this galaxy consumed another smaller galaxy to become the large and beautiful spiral that we observe today.

Although only a telescope like the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope that captured this image could give us a picture this clear. NGC 4651 can also be observed with an amateur telescope—so if you have a telescope at home and a star-gazing eye, look out for this glittering carnivorous spiral.

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Leonard
Release Date: March 30, 2020

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The Umbrella Galaxy: NGC 4651 in Coma Berenices

The Umbrella Galaxy: NGC 4651 in Coma Berenices

"It is raining stars." What appears to be a giant cosmic umbrella is now known to be a tidal stream of stars stripped from a small satellite galaxy. The main galaxy, spiral galaxy NGC 4651, is about the size of our Milky Way, while its stellar parasol appears to extend around 100 thousand light-years above this galaxy's bright disk. A small galaxy was likely torn apart by repeated encounters as it swept back and forth on eccentric orbits through NGC 4651. The remaining stars will surely fall back and become part of a combined larger galaxy over the next few million years.

The featured deep image was captured in long exposures from Saudi Arabia. The Umbrella Galaxy lies about 50 million light-years distant toward the well-groomed northern constellation of Berenice's Hair (Coma Berenices).

Image Credit: Rabeea Alkuwari & Anas Almajed
Rabeea Alkuwari's website: https://www.instagram.com/bolahdan/
Anas Almajed website: 

https://www.instagram.com/anas_almajed/
Release Date: June 30, 2025

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Planet Mars Images: June 29-July 2, 2025 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers

Planet Mars Images: June 29-July 2, 2025 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers

MSL - sol 4585

MSL - sol 4585

Mars 2020 - sol 1549

MSL - sol 4584

MSL - sol 4584

Mars 2020 - sol 1550

MSL - sol 4586

MSL - sol 4584

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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: June 29-July 2, 2025

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NASA Astronaut & Scientist Zena Cardman | Johnson Space Center

NASA Astronaut & Scientist Zena Cardman | Johnson Space Center

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman inspects her spacesuit’s wrist mirror in this portrait taken at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on March 22, 2024. Cardman will launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission. This will be her first spaceflight.

The flight is the 11th crew rotation with SpaceX to the station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The crew will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare humans for future missions to the Moon, as well as to benefit people on Earth.

Cardman was selected by NASA as a member of the 2017 “Turtles” Astronaut Class. The Virginia native holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s degree in marine sciences from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focused primarily on geobiology and geochemical cycling in subsurface environments, from caves to deep sea sediments. Cardman’s experience includes multiple Antarctic expeditions. Since completing initial training, Cardman has supported real-time station operations and lunar surface exploration planning.

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/zena-cardman/

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cardman-z.pdf

This photo was one of the winners of NASA’s 2024 Photos of the Year.

Image Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel
Release Date: June 24, 2025

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Planetary Defense 101: Tracking Dangerous Asteroids | ESO

Planetary Defense 101: Tracking Dangerous Asteroids | ESO

Remember asteroid 2024 YR4? Earlier this year, its odds of impacting Earth in 2032 rose to around 3%, the highest impact probability ever reached for a sizable asteroid. How did we end up ruling out such an impact? And what can we do if we ever find another dangerous asteroid? In this episode of Chasing Starlight we give you a crash course on planetary defense.

Learn about NASA's planetary defense efforts: 
https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Directed by: L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser
Hosted by: S. Randall
Written by: S. Bromilow, A. I. López
Editing: M. Kornmesser, L. Calçada
Videography: A. Tsaousis
Animations & footage: ESO, ESA, NASA, M. Kornmesser, L. Calçada, O. Hainaut et al., NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, BBC, P. Horálek, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA/University of Arizona/CSA/York University/Open University/MDA
Scientific consultant: O. Hainaut
Filming Locations: ESO Supernova

Duration: 7 minutes

Release Date: June 30, 2025

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Q&A with Ax-4 Commander Peggy Whitson | International Space Station

Q&A with Ax-4 Commander Peggy Whitson | International Space Station

Axiom Space Ax-4 Mission Commander Peggy Whitson led an insightful on-orbit event that brought together an inspiring group of women shaping the future of space exploration. Representing Mexico, Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom, these women are aspiring or current astronauts representing the growing global presence of women in human spaceflight. Their conversation explored themes of leadership, empowerment, and purpose, highlighting how diverse backgrounds and bold ambitions are redefining what it means to lead beyond Earth. 

Peggy Whitson (United States)

https://www.axiomspace.com/astronaut/peggy-whitson

Partcipants: 
Mexico- Katya Echazaretta, Electrical Engineer, Citizen
Astronaut
Spain- Sara Garcia Alonso, Spanish Astronaut Scientist
Germany- Amelie Schoenenwald, Reserve Astronaut, European Space Agency
UK- Meganne Christian, Reserve Astronaut and Commercial Exploration Lead, UK Space Agency; Reserve Astronaut, European Space Agency 

Former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland, and astronaut Tibor Kapu of Hungary are now aboard the International Space Station after launching June 25, 2025, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the fourth private astronaut mission to the orbiting laboratory, Axiom Mission 4.

The private astronauts plan to spend about two weeks aboard the orbiting laboratory, conducting a mission of science, outreach, and commercial activities.

The Ax-4 Mission “realizes the return” to human spaceflight for India, Poland, and Hungary, with each nation’s first government-sponsored flight in more than 40 years. While Ax-4 marks these countries' second human spaceflight mission in history, it will be the first time all three nations will execute a mission on board the International Space Station.

The Ax-4 research complement includes around 60 scientific studies and activities representing 31 countries.

Learn more about Ax-4: 

https://www.axiomspace.com/missions/ax4

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.

Video Credit: Axiom Space
Duration: 12 minutes
Release Date: July 2, 2025

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Launch of European Earth Science Missions | SpaceX Falcon 9

Launch of European Earth Science Missions | SpaceX Falcon 9

Two meteorological missions—Meteosat Third Generation Sounder-1 (MTG-S1) and the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission—have launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, United States. Both Earth observation missions were developed with European partners to address scientific and societal challenges.

The MTG-S1 satellite will generate a new type of data product, especially suited to severe weather events with three-dimensional views of the atmosphere. It is the second in the MTG constellation to be prepared for orbit and is equipped with the first European operational Infrared Sounder instrument.

Copernicus Sentinel-4 will be the first mission to monitor European air quality from geostationary orbit, providing hourly information that will forecast air pollution across Europe using its ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared light (UVN) spectrometer.

The MTG mission is a cooperation between Eumetsat and the European Space Agency (ESA). ESA is responsible developing and procuring the MTG satellites.

Learn more about the MTG-S1 satellite & Copernicus Sentinel-4: 
https://www.eumetsat.int/meteosat-third-generation-sounder-1-and-copernicus-sentinel-4

United Nations: What is Climate Change?
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/what-is-climate-change

Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
Release Dates: July 1-2, 2025

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Journey to a star that exploded twice | European Southern Observatory

Journey to a star that exploded twice | European Southern Observatory

  

This video zooms into the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5, the expanding remains of a star that died by detonating twice. This object is located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.

This zoom was made by blending together images taken at separate times with a range of telescopes. The video ends with an image captured with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT). It shows the distribution of different chemical elements ejected when the star died. Calcium is shown in blue, and it is arranged in two concentric shells. This indicates that the star exploded with a double detonation.

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)/Digitized Sky Survey 2/P. Das et al. Background stars (Hubble): K. Noll et al.
Duration: 1 minute
Release Date: July 2, 2025

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Double-detonation Supernova: SNR 0509-67.5 | European Southern Observatory

Double-detonation Supernova: SNR 0509-67.5 | European Southern Observatory

Supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5 located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy orbiting our own Milky Way.

This image marks the position on the sky of the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5, the expanding shells of a star that detonated twice. It is located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy orbiting our own Milky Way. The inset shows new observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). It shows that the original star died with two explosive blasts. The main image shows the VLT unit telescope used in these observations.

This artist’s impression illustrates the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. Observations from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) show that these are the expanding remains of a star that died with a double-detonation hundreds of years ago.

This image shows the distribution of calcium in the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. The data were captured with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The overlaid curves outline two concentric shells of calcium that were ejected in two separate detonations when the star died several hundred years ago.

The first image was taken with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding remains of a star that exploded hundreds of years ago in a double-detonation—the first photographic evidence that stars can die with two blasts.

The data were captured with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument at the VLT. MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of chemical elements, displayed here in  color. Calcium is shown in blue, and it is arranged in two concentric shells. These two layers indicate that the now-dead star exploded with a double-detonation.

Credit: ESO/P. Das et al. Background stars (Hubble): K. Noll et al.
Release Date: July 2, 2025

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First visual proof of a star destroyed by pair of explosions | ESO

First visual proof of a star destroyed by pair of explosions | ESO

Astronomers have found the first visual evidence that a star has died by detonating twice. Observations taken with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) revealed concentric shells of calcium in the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These features indicate that the now-dead star exploded with two detonations.    

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis & Martin Wallner
Editing: Angelos Tsaousis
Written by: Amy Briggs & Sean Bromilow
Footage and photos: ESO, Luis Calçada, Angelos Tsaousis, Martin Kornmesser, P. Das et al., K. Noll et al., Gerhard Hüdepohl, Daniele Gasparri
Scientific consultant: Paola Amico, Mariya Lyubenova

Duration: 1 minute, 30 seconds

Release Date: July 2, 2025

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Europe Launches Earth Science Satellites: MTG-S1 & Copernicus Sentinel-4

Europe Launches Earth Science Missions: MTG-S1 & Copernicus Sentinel-4

Two meteorological missions—Meteosat Third Generation Sounder-1 (MTG-S1) and the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission—have launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, United States on July 1, 2025. Both Earth observation missions were developed with European partners to address scientific and societal challenges.

The MTG-S1 satellite will generate a new type of data product, especially suited to severe weather events with three-dimensional views of the atmosphere. It is the second in the MTG constellation to be prepared for orbit and is equipped with the first European operational Infrared Sounder instrument.

Copernicus Sentinel-4 will be the first mission to monitor European air quality from geostationary orbit, providing hourly information that will forecast air pollution across Europe using its ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared light (UVN) spectrometer.

The MTG mission is a cooperation between Eumetsat and the European Space Agency (ESA). ESA is responsible developing and procuring the MTG satellites.

Learn more about the MTG-S1 satellite & Copernicus Sentinel-4: 
https://www.eumetsat.int/meteosat-third-generation-sounder-1-and-copernicus-sentinel-4

United Nations: What is Climate Change?
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/what-is-climate-change

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)
Duration: 3 minutes, 36 seconds
Release Date: July 2, 2025

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