NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 Suit-Up Operations | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 Suit-Up Operations | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 crew members go through last minute suit leak checks at the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 31, 2025. 

[Weather-related delay] The four crew members of Crew-11 are now scheduled no earlier than Friday, August 1, 2025, for the launch of their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A.

Commander Zena Cardman and Pilot Mike Fincke, both NASA astronauts, and Mission Specialists Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos (Russia) will ride inside the Dragon spacecraft atop Falcon 9 for an automated, day-and-a-half long trip to the orbital outpost’s space-facing port on the Harmony module. Once there, the four Crew-11 members will join Expedition 73 beginning a seven-month research mission in low Earth orbit.

Meanwhile, the seven-member Expedition 73 crew is gearing up to welcome four new crewmates at the end of the week. Shortly after that, another quartet that has been living and working aboard the International Space Station since March will return to Earth.

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Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Duration: 28 seconds
Release Date: July 31, 2025

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 Depart for Launchpad | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 Depart for Launchpad | Kennedy Space Center

Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov of Russia, left, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-11 mission launch

NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building

NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, right, Mike Fincke, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov of Russia, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, talk to family and friends as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building

NASA astronauts Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov of Russia, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, talk to family and friends as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, wearing a SpaceX spacesuits, waves to NASA leadership as she and fellow crewmates NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov of Russia, prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy, left, his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy, acting NASA Associate Administrator Vanessa Wyche, and acting Kennedy Space Center Director Kelvin Manning, wave as NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov of Russia, depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program employees pose for a photo following the raising of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission flag near the countdown clock at the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center.

Crew-11 Emblem

Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov of Russia, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-11 mission launch, Thursday, July 31, 2025, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 

The four crew members of Crew-11 are scheduled to liftoff no earlier than 12:09 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 31, from Launch Complex 39A.

Commander Zena Cardman and Pilot Mike Fincke, both NASA astronauts, and Mission Specialists Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos (Russia) will ride inside the Dragon spacecraft atop Falcon 9 for an automated, day-and-a-half long trip to the orbital outpost’s space-facing port on the Harmony module. Once there, the four Crew-11 members will join Expedition 73 beginning a seven-month research mission in low Earth orbit.

Meanwhile, the seven-member Expedition 73 crew is gearing up to welcome four new crewmates at the end of the week. Shortly after that, another quartet that has been living and working aboard the International Space Station since March will return to Earth.

Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky/Kim Shiflett
Date: July 31, 2025

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Planet Mars Images: July 27-30, 2025 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers

Planet Mars Images: July 27-30, 2025 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers

MSL - sol 4611

Mars 2020 - sol 1577

Mars 2020 - sol 1578

MSL - sol 4614

MSL - sol 4611

This is the Curiosity rover’s Dust Removal Tool (DRT). The tool is a motorized, wire-bristle brush on the turret at the end of the rover’s arm.

MSL - sol 4611

This is the Curiosity rover’s Dust Removal Tool (DRT). The tool is a motorized, wire-bristle brush on the turret at the end of the rover’s arm.

MSL - sol 4611

MSL - sol 4609

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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: July 27-30, 2025

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Close-up: Globular Star Cluster NGC 1786—A Galactic Time Capsule | Hubble

Close-up: Globular Star Cluster NGC 1786—A Galactic Time Capsule | Hubble

In this Hubble picture, we gaze upon the field of stars that is NGC 1786. This object is a globular cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy that is approximately 160,000 light-years away from Earth. NGC 1786 itself is in the constellation Dorado. It was discovered in the year 1835 by John Herschel.

The data for this image comes from an observing program comparing old globular clusters in nearby dwarf galaxies—the LMC, the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy—to the globular clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. Our galaxy contains over 150 of these old, spherical collections of tightly-bound stars. They have been studied in depth—especially with Hubble Space Telescope images like this one, showing them in previously-unattainable detail. Being very stable and long-lived, they act as galactic time capsules, preserving stars from the earliest stages of a galaxy’s formation.

Astronomers once thought that the stars in a globular cluster all formed together at about the same time, but study of the old globular clusters in our galaxy has uncovered multiple populations of stars at a rnage of ages. In order to use globular clusters as historical markers, we must understand how they form and where these stars of varying ages come from. This observing program examined old globular clusters like NGC 1786 in these external galaxies to see if they, too, contain multiple populations of stars. This research can tell us more not only about how the LMC was originally formed, but the Milky Way Galaxy, too.

Image Description: A cluster of stars in space. It is bright in the center, where the stars are densely packed together in the cluster’s core, and grows dimmer and more diffuse out to the edges, as the stars give way to the dark background of space. A few orange stars are spread across the cluster, but most are pale, bluish-white points of light. Three large stars with cross-shaped spikes around them lie between us and the cluster.

Credit:
ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Monelli, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble)
Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç

Duration: 30 seconds
Release Date: July 14, 2025

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Close-up: Swirling Spiral Galaxy NGC 3285B in Hydra | Hubble

Close-up: Swirling Spiral Galaxy NGC 3285B in Hydra | Hubble

The swirling spiral galaxy in this NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope picture is NGC 3285B. It resides 137 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra (The Water Snake). Hydra has the largest area of the 88 constellations that cover the entire sky in a celestial patchwork. It is also the longest constellation, stretching 100 degrees across the sky. It would take nearly 200 full Moons, placed side by side, to reach from one side of the constellation to the other.

NGC 3285B is a member of the Hydra I cluster, one of the largest galaxy clusters in the nearby Universe. Galaxy clusters are collections of hundreds to thousands of galaxies that are bound to one another by gravity. The Hydra I cluster is anchored by two giant elliptical galaxies at its center. Each of these galaxies is about 150,000 light-years across, making them about 50% larger than our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

NGC 3285B sits on the outskirts of its home cluster, far from the massive galaxies at the center. This galaxy drew Hubble’s attention because it hosted a Type Ia supernova in 2023. Type Ia supernovae happen when a type of condensed stellar core called a white dwarf detonates, igniting a sudden burst of nuclear fusion that briefly shines about 5 billion times brighter than the Sun. The supernova, named SN 2023xqm, is visible here as a blue-ish dot on the left edge of the galaxy’s disc.

Hubble observed NGC 3285B as part of an observing program that targeted 100 Type Ia supernovae. By viewing each of these supernovae in ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared light, researchers aim to disentangle the effects of distance and dust that can make a supernova appear redder than it actually is. This program will help refine cosmic distance measurements that rely on observations of Type Ia supernovae.

Image Description: A spiral galaxy with a disc made up of several swirling arms. Patchy blue clouds of gas are speckled over the disc, where stars are forming and lighting up the gas around them. The core of the galaxy is large and shines brightly gold, while the spiral arms are a paler and faint reddish color. Neighboring galaxies—from small, elongated spots to larger swirling spirals—can be seen across the black background.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. J. Foley (UC Santa Cruz), N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble)

Duration: 30 seconds
Release Date: July 21, 2025

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Roscosmos (Russian) Officials Meet Crew-11 | NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Roscosmos (Russian) Officials Meet Crew-11 | NASA's Kennedy Space Center

🚀Roscosmos chief Dmitry Bakanov and former cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev (veteran of six space flights and over 800 days in space) met with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov and other members of Crew-11 ahead of their launch scheduled no earlier than 12:09 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 31, 2025, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. launch scheduled no earlier than 12:09 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 31, 2025, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Crew-11 mission will be Platonov’s first spaceflight. Before his selection as a cosmonaut in 2018, Platonov earned a degree in Engineering from Krasnodar Air Force Academy in Aircraft Operations and Air Traffic Management. He also earned a bachelor’s degree in State and Municipal Management in 2016 from the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, Russia. Assigned as a test cosmonaut in 2021, he has experience in piloting aircraft, zero gravity training, scuba diving, and wilderness survival.

Commander Zena Cardman and Pilot Mike Fincke, both NASA astronauts, and Mission Specialists Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos (Russia) will ride inside the Dragon spacecraft atop Falcon 9 for an automated, day-and-a-half long trip to the orbital outpost’s space-facing port on the Harmony module. Once there, the four Crew-11 members will join Expedition 73 beginning a seven-month research mission in low Earth orbit.

Meanwhile, the seven-member Expedition 73 crew is gearing up to welcome four new crewmates at the end of the week. Shortly after that, another quartet that has been living and working aboard the International Space Station since March will return to Earth.

Following the new crew’s arrival, four Expedition 73 crew members representing NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission will begin handing over their science and maintenance responsibilities in preparation for their departure about a week later.

Video Credits: NASA/KSC, Roscosmos

Duration: 2 minutes
Date: July 30, 2025

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 & Rocket are "GO" for Launch | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 & Rocket are "GO" for Launch | Kennedy Space Center

NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Crew-11 Commander, and Mike Fincke, Crew-11 Pilot, pose for a photo with the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew-11 Dragon spacecraft at Launch Pad 39A in Florida

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Crew-11 Pilot, poses for a photo at Launch Pad 39A in Florida

Crew-11 Mission Specialist and astronaut Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) at Launch Pad 39A in Florida

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew-11 Dragon spacecraft at Launch Pad 39A in Florida

Crew-11 Emblem

NASA and SpaceX teams completed the final major review—the Launch Readiness Review—for the agency’s Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station with mission leaders polling “go” to proceed into the launch count. The four crew members of Crew-11 are scheduled to liftoff no earlier than 12:09 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 31, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Commander Zena Cardman and Pilot Mike Fincke, both NASA astronauts, and Mission Specialists Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos (Russia) will ride inside the Dragon spacecraft atop Falcon 9 for an automated, day-and-a-half long trip to the orbital outpost’s space-facing port on the Harmony module. Once there, the four Crew-11 members will join Expedition 73 beginning a seven-month research mission in low Earth orbit.

Meanwhile, the seven-member Expedition 73 crew is gearing up to welcome four new crewmates at the end of the week. Shortly after that, another quartet that has been living and working aboard the International Space Station since March will return to Earth.

Following the new crew’s arrival, four Expedition 73 crew members representing NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission will begin handing over their science and maintenance responsibilities in preparation for their departure about a week later.

Image Credits: SpaceX, NASA, Kimiya Yui/JAXA
Dates: July 29-30, 2025

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-10: Preparing for Departure | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10: Preparing for Departure | International Space Station

From left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia, mission specialist; NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, pilot and Anne McClain, Crew-10 Commander; plus Expedition 73 Commander and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut/mission specialist Takuya Onishi

From left, Expedition 73 Commander and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut/mission specialist Takuya Onishi; NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, pilot and Anne McClain, Crew-10 Commander; Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, mission specialist

Expedition 73 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Anne McClain: "Hard to believe we are a week from our scheduled return, but we are! Crew-10 is scheduled to undock NET 1800 GMT on August 6, splashing down 6.5 hours later off the coast of California. We are busy in preparations for Crew-11 arrival and our departure. Yesterday, we checked out our suits and comm systems to make sure we do not have any surprises next week. Good checks all around, and it was fun to be back with the crew in Dragon."

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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/Johnson Space Center

Release Date: July 30, 2025

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Liftoff: NISAR India-US Earth Science Satellite | ISRO/NASA/JPL

Liftoff: NISAR India-US Earth Science Satellite | ISRO/NASA/JPL

🚀The NISAR Earth science satellite lifted off successfully aboard an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) F16 rocket at 8:10 a.m. EDT (5:10 p.m. IST), Wednesday, July 30, 2025 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. The ISRO ground controllers began communicating with NISAR about 20 minutes after launch, at just after 8:29 a.m. EDT and confirmed it is operating as expected.

🌍This new Earth science satellite will soon provide insights into natural hazards, ecosystems, agriculture, and other fields of study that affect communities around the globe. The NISAR mission is a collaboration between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It will use radar to track Earth’s changing surface in fine detail.

Short for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), NISAR features an advanced radar system with two instrumentsone from ISRO and one built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Using radar enables NISAR to map Earth’s land and ice surfaces day or night, regardless of whether skies are cloudy or clear. 

🛰️ NISAR will scan the entire globe every 12 days, providing high-resolution, all-weather, day-and-night data. It can detect even subtle changes in Earth’s surface—like ground deformation, ice sheet shifts, and vegetation dynamics.

The mission will support many critical applications including sea ice monitoring, ship detection, storm tracking, soil moisture changes, surface water mapping, and disaster response.

🤝 This represents a milestone in over a decade of collaboration between ISRO & NASA/JPL.

Follow https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/nisar for the latest updates.

For more information on the NISAR mission, visit: 
https://nisar.jpl.nasa.gov/

https://nasa.gov/nisa

NISAR is the first-ever collaboration between NASA and ISRO on an Earth-observing mission. JPL, managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, leads the U.S. component of the project and is providing the mission’s L-band SAR. NASA is also providing the radar reflector antenna, the deployable boom, a high-rate communication subsystem for science data, GPS receivers, a solid-state recorder, and payload data subsystem. ISRO is providing the spacecraft bus, the S-band SAR, the launch vehicle, and associated launch services and satellite mission operations.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ISRO

Duration: 41 seconds
Image Date: July 30, 2025

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NISAR India-US Earth Science Satellite Rocket Liftoff | ISRO/NASA/JPL

NISAR India-US Earth Science Satellite Rocket Liftoff | ISRO/NASA/JPL

Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) F16 Rocket—NISAR liftoff

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Mission Control Center in Pasadena, California, during NISAR launch

Eating “lucky peanuts” before launches and other major mission events is a longstanding tradition at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

India-US Space Cooperation: NISAR—Earth Science Satellite

🚀The NISAR Earth science satellite lifted off aboard an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) F16 rocket at 8:10 a.m. EDT (5:10 p.m. IST), Wednesday, July 30, 2025 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. The ISRO ground controllers began communicating with NISAR about 20 minutes after launch, at just after 8:29 a.m. EDT and confirmed it is operating as expected.

🌍This new Earth science satellite will soon provide insights into natural hazards, ecosystems, agriculture, and other fields of study that affect communities around the globe. The NISAR mission is a collaboration between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It will use radar to track Earth’s changing surface in fine detail.

Short for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), NISAR features an advanced radar system with two instrumentsone from ISRO and one built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Using radar enables NISAR to map Earth’s land and ice surfaces day or night, regardless of whether skies are cloudy or clear. 

🛰️ NISAR will scan the entire globe every 12 days, providing high-resolution, all-weather, day-and-night data. It can detect even subtle changes in Earth’s surface—like ground deformation, ice sheet shifts, and vegetation dynamics.

The mission will support many critical applications including sea ice monitoring, ship detection, storm tracking, soil moisture changes, surface water mapping, and disaster response.

🤝 This represents a milestone in over a decade of collaboration between ISRO & NASA/JPL.

Follow https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/nisar for the latest updates.

For more information on the NISAR mission, visit: 
https://nisar.jpl.nasa.gov/

https://nasa.gov/nisa

NISAR is the first-ever collaboration between NASA and ISRO on an Earth-observing mission. JPL, managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, leads the U.S. component of the project and is providing the mission’s L-band SAR. NASA is also providing the radar reflector antenna, the deployable boom, a high-rate communication subsystem for science data, GPS receivers, a solid-state recorder, and payload data subsystem. ISRO is providing the spacecraft bus, the S-band SAR, the launch vehicle, and associated launch services and satellite mission operations.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ISRO
Image Date: July 30, 2025

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Planetary Nebula NGC 6072: NIRCam & MIRI infrared images | Webb Telescope

Planetary Nebula NGC 6072: NIRCam & MIRI infrared images | Webb Telescope

Webb’s newest look at planetary nebula NGC 6072 in the near- and mid-infrared shows what may appear as a very messy scene resembling splattered paint. However, the unusual, asymmetrical scene hints at more complicated mechanisms underway, as the star central to the scene approaches the very final stages of its life and expels shells of material, losing up to 80 percent of its mass.

Credit:

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Duration: 30 seconds
Release Date: July 30, 2025

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Close-up: Planetary Nebula NGC 6072 in Scorpius | James Webb Space Telescope

Close-up: Planetary Nebula NGC 6072 in Scorpius | James Webb Space Telescope

The NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope’s view of planetary nebula NGC 6072 in the near-infrared shows a complex scene of multiple outflows expanding out at a variety of angles from a dying star at the center of the scene. These outflows push gas toward the equatorial plane, forming a disc.

Astronomers suspect there is at least one other star interacting with the material cast off by the central dying star, creating the abnormal appearance of this planetary nebula.

In this image, the red areas represent cool molecular gas, for example, molecular hydrogen.

Image Description: "Colorful mostly red image of near-infrared light from a glowing cloud with a distorted, asymmetrical shape, illuminated from within by a bright central star. The asymmetrical shape resembles paint splattered on the ground. In the center of this image, a light blue glow casts over areas of dark pockets that appear dark blue and are traced with orange material. It has a clumpy appearance. The shells become a deeper red with distance from the center. The shells appear as lobes that push gas toward the equatorial plane, forming a disc. The background of the image is black and speckled with tiny bright stars and distant galaxies."

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Duration: 30 seconds
Release Date: July 30, 2025

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Planetary Nebula NGC 6072 in Scorpius | James Webb Space Telescope

Planetary Nebula NGC 6072 in Scorpius | James Webb Space Telescope

The NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope’s view of planetary nebula NGC 6072 in the near-infrared shows a complex scene of multiple outflows expanding out at a variety of angles from a dying star at the center of the scene. These outflows push gas toward the equatorial plane, forming a disc.

Astronomers suspect there is at least one other star interacting with the material cast off by the central dying star, creating the abnormal appearance of this planetary nebula.

In this image, the red areas represent cool molecular gas, for example, molecular hydrogen.

Image Description: "Colorful mostly red image of near-infrared light from a glowing cloud with a distorted, asymmetrical shape, illuminated from within by a bright central star. The asymmetrical shape resembles paint splattered on the ground. In the center of this image, a light blue glow casts over areas of dark pockets that appear dark blue and are traced with orange material. It has a clumpy appearance. The shells become a deeper red with distance from the center. The shells appear as lobes that push gas toward the equatorial plane, forming a disc. The background of the image is black and speckled with tiny bright stars and distant galaxies."

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Release Date: July 30, 2025

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Close-up: Galaxy NGC 1309—A Supernova-rich Spiral in Eridanus | Hubble

Close-up: Galaxy NGC 1309—A Supernova-rich Spiral in Eridanus | Hubble

Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope picture. NGC 1309 is situated about 100 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. Hubble shows NGC 1309’s bluish stars, dark brown gas clouds, and pearly white center, as well as hundreds of distant background galaxies. Nearly every smudge, streak and blob of light in this image is an individual galaxy. The only exception to the extragalactic ensemble is a star that can be identified near the top of the frame by its diffraction spikes. It is positively neighborly, just a few thousand light-years away in the Milky Way galaxy.

Hubble has turned its attention toward NGC 1309 several times; previous Hubble images of this galaxy were released in 2006 and 2014. Much of NGC 1309’s scientific interest derives from two supernovae, SN 2002fk in 2002 and SN 2012Z in 2012. SN 2002fk was a perfect example of a Type Ia supernova when the core of a dead star (a white dwarf) explodes.

SN 2012Z, on the other hand, was a bit of a renegade. It was classified as a Type Iax supernova. While its spectrum resembled that of a Type Ia supernova, the explosion was not as bright as expected. Hubble observations showed that in this case, the supernova did not destroy the white dwarf completely, leaving behind a ‘zombie star’ that shone even brighter than it did before the explosion. Hubble observations of NGC 1309 taken across several years also made this the first time the white dwarf progenitor of a supernova has been identified in images taken before the explosion.

Image Description: A top-down view of a spiral galaxy, showing its brightly shining center, its broad spiral arms and the faint halo around its disc, as well as distant galaxies and stars on a dark background. Large blue clouds of gas speckled with small stars and strands of dark dust swirl around the galaxy’s disc. A couple of the background galaxies are large enough that their own swirling spiral arms can be seen.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Galbany, S. Jha, K. Noll, A. Riess, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble)

Duration: 30 seconds
Release Date: July 28, 2025

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Earth Aurora to Starlight | International Space Station

Earth Aurora to Starlight | International Space Station

Expedition 73 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers: "As I went to close the cupola shutters Tuesday night, the robotic arm backlit by an aurora caught my eye! Our robotics team on the ground was busy at work while we headed to bed."

Notice the 17-meter (55+ foot) long Canadian Space Agency Canadarm2 robotic arm visible here.

Learn about Canadian space robotics:

https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/iss/robotics/default.asp

Follow Expedition 73:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

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)

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center
Duration: 8 seconds
Release Date: July 24, 2025

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New SpaceX Starship Moved to Launchpad: Pre-10th Test Flight | Starbase Texas

New SpaceX Starship Moved to Launchpad: Pre-10th Test Flight | Starbase Texas

A new Starship (a replacement spacecraft) was moved to the launch pad for testing at Starbase Texas on July 28th, 2025 with a flight expected in August.

SpaceX Update: On Wednesday, June 18, 2025, at approximately 11 p.m. CT, the Starship preparing for the tenth flight test experienced an anomaly while on a test stand at Starbase.

After completing a single-engine static fire earlier this week, the vehicle was in the process of loading cryogenic propellant for a six-engine static fire when a sudden energetic event resulted in the complete loss of Starship and damage to the immediate area surrounding the stand. The explosion ignited several fires at the test site which remains clear of personnel and will be assessed once it has been determined to be safe to approach. Individuals should not attempt to approach the area while safing operations continue.

As is the case before any test, a safety zone was established around the test site and was maintained throughout the operation. There are no reported injuries, and all personnel are safe and accounted for.

There are no hazards to the surrounding communities in the Rio Grande Valley. Previous independent tests conducted on materials inside Starship, including toxicity analyses, confirm they pose no chemical, biological, or toxicological risks. SpaceX is coordinating with local, state, and federal agencies, as appropriate, on matters concerning environmental and safety impacts.

Engineering teams are actively investigating the incident and will follow established procedures to determine root cause. Initial analysis indicates the potential failure of a pressurized tank known as a COPV, or composite overwrapped pressure vessel, containing gaseous nitrogen in Starship’s nosecone area, but the full data review is ongoing. There is no commonality between the COPVs used on Starship and SpaceX’s Falcon rockets.

The SpaceX team would like to thank officials and residents in the surrounding Rio Grande Valley communities for their support, particularly first responders who have assisted since shortly after the anomaly took place.

Read SpaceX's Ninth Test Flight Report: 

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-9

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket—collectively referred to as Starship—represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry 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)

Image Date: July 28, 2025

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