Merging Galaxy Pair II ZW 96 | James Webb Space Telescope

Merging Galaxy Pair II ZW 96 | James Webb Space Telescope

This video features the chaotic merging galaxies II ZW 96, which have been examined in two distinct wavelengths by the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope.

The image shown first was taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and gives a view over the visible-light spectrum of this merger, clearly showing the starburst systems that have formed between the two galactic cores with their older stars. 

This view transitions to the new Webb image from the Near-InfraRed Camera instrument, which shines particularly brightly in infrared light. The star-forming regions which have been activated by the galactic tumult are particularly luminous in the infrared, which placed ZW II 96 as one of Webb’s first targets. 

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, L. Armus, A. Evans, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 30, 2022

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Zoom into Merging Galaxy Pair II ZW 96 | James Webb Space Telescope

Zoom into Merging Galaxy Pair II ZW 96 | James Webb Space Telescope

This video takes the viewer to space to finish at Webb’s view of the galaxy merger II ZW 96. This pair of galaxies is roughly 500 million light-years from Earth and lies in the constellation Delphinus, close to the celestial equator. As well as the wild swirl of the merging galaxies, a menagerie of background galaxies are dotted throughout the image. 

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Webb, NASA, Canadian Space Agency (CSA), L. Armus, A. Evans, SDSS, E. Slawik, N. Risinger, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Nov. 30, 2022

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Pan of Merging Galaxy Pair II ZW 96 | James Webb Space Telescope

Pan of Merging Galaxy Pair II ZW 96 | James Webb Space Telescope

A merging galaxy pair cavort in this image captured by the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope. This pair of galaxies, known to astronomers as II ZW 96, is roughly 500 million light-years from Earth and lies in the constellation Delphinus, close to the celestial equator. As well as the wild swirl of the merging galaxies, a menagerie of background galaxies are dotted throughout the image. 

Image Description: A galaxy merger lies in the center of this image. The cores of the galaxies, colored blue, are below-center. They are surrounded by red star-forming regions which stretch up through and above the center. Faint yellow diffraction spikes appear in the middle. The lower galaxy is a mostly regular spiral shape, while the upper galaxy has been distorted heavily. The background is black, and covered with many tiny galaxies throughout the scene.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Webb, NASA, Canadian Space Agency (CSA), L. Armus, A. Evans, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)  

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 30, 2022

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Merging Galaxy Pair II ZW 96 | James Webb Space Telescope

Merging Galaxy Pair II ZW 96 | James Webb Space Telescope

A merging galaxy pair cavort in this image captured by the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope. This pair of galaxies, known to astronomers as II ZW 96, is roughly 500 million light-years from Earth and lies in the constellation Delphinus, close to the celestial equator. As well as the wild swirl of the merging galaxies, a menagerie of background galaxies are dotted throughout the image.

Image Description: A galaxy merger lies in the center of this image. The cores of the galaxies, colored blue, are below-center. They are surrounded by red star-forming regions which stretch up through and above the center. Faint yellow diffraction spikes appear in the middle. The lower galaxy is a mostly regular spiral shape, while the upper galaxy has been distorted heavily. The background is black, and covered with many tiny galaxies throughout the scene.

The two galaxies are in the process of merging and as a result have a chaotic, disturbed shape. The bright cores of the two galaxies are connected by bright tendrils of star-forming regions, and the spiral arms of the lower galaxy have been twisted out of shape by the gravitational perturbation of the galaxy merger. It is these star-forming regions that made II ZW 96 such a tempting target for Webb; the galaxy pair is particularly bright at infrared wavelengths thanks to the presence of the star formation.

This observation is from a collection of Webb measurements delving into the details of galactic evolution, in particular in nearby Luminous Infrared Galaxies such as II ZW 96. These galaxies, as the name suggests, are particularly bright at infrared wavelengths, with luminosities more than 100 billion times that of the Sun. An international team of astronomers proposed a study of complex galactic ecosystems—including the merging galaxies in II ZW 96—to put Webb through its paces soon after the telescope was commissioned. Their chosen targets have already been observed with ground-based telescopes and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which will provide astronomers with insights into Webb’s ability to unravel the details of complex galactic environments.

Webb captured this merging galaxy pair with a pair of its cutting-edge instruments; NIRCam—the Near-InfraRed Camera—and MIRI, the Mid-InfraRed Instrument. If you are interested in exploring the differences between Hubble and Webb’s observations of II ZW 96, you can do so here.

MIRI was contributed by ESA and NASA, with the instrument designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (The MIRI European Consortium) in partnership with JPL and the University of Arizona. The University of Arizona also provided the NIRCam instrument.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. Evans

Release Date: Nov. 30, 2022

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Is There Water on the Moon? We Asked a NASA Scientist

Is There Water on the Moon? We Asked a NASA Scientist

Is there water on the Moon? Yes! But you won’t find pools of liquid H2O on the lunar surface— water on the Moon is mostly in the form of ice. 

Harvesting this water is a critical component of future human deep space exploration, which is why our golf cart-sized VIPER, or the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, will be traveling to the Moon’s South Pole to search for ice and other potential resources to determine where they came from. 

Explore more about this first-of-its-kind rover: https://www.nasa.gov/viper

 

Credit: NASA

Producers: Jessica Wilde, Scott Bednar

Editor: Seth Robinson 

Duration: 1 minute, 39 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 30, 2022

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Launch Camera Footage | NASA's Artemis I Moon Rocket

Launch Camera Footage | NASA's Artemis I Moon Rocket

Experience the Artemis I rocket launch from engine ignition to Orion's separation on its journey to the Moon. NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launched on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I mission is the first integrated flight test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and ground systems. 

The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration. It will demonstrate NASA's commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond. Orion is completing a 25-day test of all key systems. It will travel 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon. Orion will stay in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.

On the Artemis III Mission, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars. 

Learn more about Artemis I at:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 1 minute, 42 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 29, 2022

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Leaving Earth: Upper Stage Separation Burn | NASA's Artemis I Orion Spacecraft

Leaving Earth: Upper Stage Separation Burn | NASA's Artemis I Orion Spacecraft

Shortly after separating from the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) less than two hours into the Artemis I mission on Nov. 16, 2022, the thrusters on Orion’s service module conducted the upper stage separation burn, distancing the spacecraft from the expended ICPS.

The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration. It will demonstrate NASA's commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond. Orion is completing a 25-day test of all key systems. It will travel 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon. Orion will stay in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.

On the Artemis III Mission, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars. 

Learn more about Artemis I at:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 6 minutes

Capture Date: Nov. 16, 2022

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A Family Portrait: The Earth, The Moon & Orion | NASA's Artemis I Mission

A Family Portrait: The Earth, The Moon & Orion | NASA's Artemis I Mission

NASA's Artemis I Orion spacecraft looks back at the Earth and the Moon on Nov. 28, 2022, after surpassing the maximum distance of any other spacecraft built for humans. Orion is continuing to orbit the Moon in a distant retrograde orbit and will splash down in the Pacific Ocean on December 11, 2022.

The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration. It will demonstrate NASA's commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond. Orion is completing a 25-day test of all key systems. It will travel 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon. Orion will stay in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.

On the Artemis III Mission, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars. 

Learn more about Artemis I at:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/Thomas Appéré

Thomas' Flickr Page: http://bit.ly/3AQuRaD 

Capture Date: Nov. 28, 2022

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Viewing The Moon & Earth | NASA's Artemis I Orion Spacecraft

Viewing The Moon & Earth | NASA's Artemis I Orion Spacecraft

In this video taken on flight day 14 of the 25.5 day Artemis I mission, Orion looks back at the Earth and the Moon after surpassing the maximum distance of any other spacecraft built for humans. Orion is continuing to orbit the Moon in a distant retrograde orbit and will splash down in the Pacific Ocean on December 11, 2022.

The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration. It will demonstrate NASA's commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond. Orion is completing a 25-day test of all key systems. It will travel 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon. Orion will stay in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.

On the Artemis III Mission, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars. 

Learn more about Artemis I at:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 5 minutes, 39 seconds

Capture Date: Nov. 28, 2022

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What would NASA's Artemis I Scientists take with them to Space?

What would NASA's Artemis I Scientists take with them to Space?

Under the Biological Experiment-01 (BioExpt-01) investigation aboard Artemis I, NASA’s Biological & Physical Sciences Division is studying the effects of deep space stressors on four organisms: yeast cells, plant seeds, algae, and fungi. In this video, the Principal Investigators for each of these studies describe what they would take with them to space!

Credit: ScienceAtNASA

Duration: 2 minutes, 13 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 28, 2022

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The Earth and The Moon | NASA's Artemis I Orion Spacecraft

The Earth and The Moon | NASA's Artemis I Orion Spacecraft

On flight day 13, Nov. 28, 2022, Orion continues to distance itself from Earth and the Moon, looking back on our home planet and lunar neighbor as the Moon prepares to eclipse the Earth as seen from Orion.

NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft reached the farthest distance from Earth it will travel during the Artemis I mission—268,563 miles from our home planet—just after 3 p.m. CST. The spacecraft also captured imagery of Earth and the Moon together throughout the day, including of the Moon appearing to eclipse Earth. 

Reaching the halfway point of the mission on Flight Day 13 of a 25.5 day mission, the spacecraft remains in healthy condition as it continues its journey in distant retrograde orbit, an approximately six-day leg of its larger mission thousands of miles beyond the Moon.  

The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration. It will demonstrate NASA's commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond. Orion is completing a 25-day test of all key systems. It will travel 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon. Orion will stay in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.

On the Artemis III Mission, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars. 

Learn more about Artemis I at:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Capture Date: Nov. 28, 2022

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Panning across the Unusual Galaxy Merger Arp-Madore 417-391 | Hubble

Panning across the Unusual Galaxy Merger Arp-Madore 417-391 | Hubble

The galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391 steals the spotlight in this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. The Arp-Madore catalog is a collection of particularly peculiar galaxies spread throughout the southern sky, and includes a collection of subtly interacting galaxies as well as more spectacular colliding galaxies. Arp-Madore 417-391, which lies around 670 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus in the southern celestial hemisphere, is one such galactic collision. The two galaxies have been distorted by gravity and twisted into a colossal ring, leaving the cores of the two galaxies nestled side by side.

Image Description: Two galaxies right of center form a ring shape. The ring is narrow and blue, and the cores of the two galaxies form a bulge on the ring’s side. A bright, orange star lies above the ring. Two smaller spiral galaxies appear left of center, as well as a few stars. The background is black and speckled with very small stars and galaxies.

Hubble used its Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) to capture this scene—the instrument is optimized to hunt for galaxies and galaxy clusters in the ancient Universe. Hubble’s ACS has been contributing to scientific discovery for 20 years, and throughout its lifetime it has been involved in everything from mapping the distribution of dark matter to studying the evolution of galaxy clusters.

This image comes from a selection of Hubble observations designed to create a list of intriguing targets for follow-up observations with the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope, as well as other ground-based telescopes. Astronomers chose a list of previously unobserved galaxies for Hubble to inspect between other scheduled observations. Over time, this lets astronomers build up a menagerie of interesting galaxies while using Hubble’s limited observing time as fully as possible.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, J. Dalcanton

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 26, 2022

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Panning across a Celestial Fireworks Display: DEM L 190 | Hubble

Panning across a Celestial Fireworks Display: DEM L 190 | Hubble

Shreds of the luridly colored supernova remnant DEM L 190 seem to billow across the screen in this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. The delicate sheets and intricate filaments are debris from the cataclysmic death of a massive star that once lived in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. DEM L 190—also known as LMC N49 — is the brightest supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud and lies approximately 160,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Dorado.

Image Description: A supernova remnant, in the shape of a flame, occupies the center and top. It is made of many long strands and thin layers of gas, that brightly glow orange and blue. Faint gas clouds outline its edges. It is surrounded by several scattered blue and red stars, and the background is black and filled with small red stars.

This striking image was created with data from two different astronomical investigations, using one of Hubble’s retired instruments, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). This instrument has since been replaced by the more powerful Wide Field Camera 3, but during its operational lifetime it contributed to cutting-edge science and produced a series of stunning public outreach images. The first of the two WFPC2 investigations used DEM L 190 as a natural laboratory in which to study the interaction of supernova remnants and the interstellar medium, the tenuous mixture of gas and dust that lies between stars. In the second project, astronomers turned to Hubble to pinpoint the origin of a Soft Gamma-ray Repeater, an enigmatic object lurking in DEM L 190 which repeatedly emits high-energy bursts of gamma rays. 

This is not the first image of DEM L 190 to be released to the public—a previous Hubble portrait of this supernova remnant was published in 2003. This new image incorporates additional data and improved image processing techniques, making this spectacular celestial fireworks display even more striking!

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Kulkarni, Y. Chu  

Duraton: 30 seconds

Release Date: November 28, 2022

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'Passengers' aboard NASA’s Artemis I Orion Spacecraft

'Passengers' aboard NASA’s Artemis I Orion Spacecraft

There may not be any humans traveling on Artemis I but that does not mean there are no travelers aboard NASA’s Orion Spacecraft! Meet the three "passengers" that are collecting data to help us keep future NASA astronauts safe and understand what they will be experiencing on upcoming Artemis missions to the Moon. 

Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3TDjPx5

The Artemis I mission consists of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that is sending the uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back to Earth to check out spacecraft systems before crew fly aboard on Artemis II. The Artemis I mission is one more step toward taking the next giant leap: sending the first astronauts to Mars. 

Keep up with this historic mission: https://nasa.gov/specials/artemis-i

Credits: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Producers: Jessica Wilde, Sami Aziz, Scott Bednar

Duration: 3 minutes, 43 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 28, 2022

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Watch Eclipse of The Moon & Earth: Part 2 | NASA's Artemis I Orion Spacecraft

Watch Eclipse of The Moon & Earth: Part 2 | NASA's Artemis I Orion Spacecraft

On flight day 13, Nov. 28, 2022, Orion continues to distance itself from Earth and the Moon, looking back on our home planet and lunar neighbor as the two begin to eclipse in this video taken at 10:41 a.m. CST. On this date, Orion reached its maximum distance from earth—approximately 270,000 miles!

The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration. It will demonstrate NASA's commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond. Orion is completing a 25-day test of all key systems. It will travel 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon. Orion will stay in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.

On the Artemis III Mission, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars. 

Learn more about Artemis I at:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 30 seconds

Capture Date: Nov. 28, 2022

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Watch Eclipse of The Moon & Earth: Part 1 | NASA's Artemis I Orion Spacecraft

Watch Eclipse of The Moon & Earth: Part 1 | NASA's Artemis I Orion Spacecraft

On flight day 13, Nov. 28, 2022, Orion continues to distance itself from Earth and the Moon, looking back on our home planet and lunar neighbor as the two begin to eclipse in this video taken at 10:34 a.m. CST. On this date, Orion reached its maximum distance from earth—approximately 270,000 miles!

The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration. It will demonstrate NASA's commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond. Orion is completing a 25-day test of all key systems. It will travel 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon. Orion will stay in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.

On the Artemis III Mission, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars. 

Learn more about Artemis I at:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 2 minutes

Capture Date: Nov. 28, 2022

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