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2022-08-24 07:18:06 #NewImage from #Nasa: "The Cartwheel Galaxy from Webb " To some, it looks like a wheel of a cart. In fact, because of its outward appearance, the presence of a central galaxy, and its connection with what looks like the spokes of a wheel, the galaxy on the right is known as the Cartwheel Galaxy. To others, however, it looks like a complicated interaction between galaxies awaiting explanation. Along with the two galaxies on the left, the Cartwheel is part of a group of galaxies about 500 million light years away in the constellation Sculptor. The large galaxy's rim spans over 100,000 light years and is composed of star forming regions filled with extremely bright and massive stars. The Cartwheel's ring-like shape is the result of gravitational disruption caused by a smaller galaxy passing through a large one, compressing the interstellar gas and dust and causing a star formation wave to move out like a ripple across the surface of a pond. The featured recent image of the Cartwheel Galaxy by the Webb Space Telescope reveals new details not only about where stars are forming, but also about activity near the galaxy's central black hole. [August 24, 2022] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2208/Cartwheel_Webb_960.jpg Open / Comment

2022-08-24 00:11:35 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA, Rice University Mark 60th Anniversary of John F. Kennedy Speech" NASA and Rice University in Houston will host multiple events in September to celebrate the 60th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s historic speech at Rice Stadium, rallying the nation to land astronauts on the Moon before the end of the decade and bring the crew safely back to Earth. [August 23, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-rice-university-mark-60th-anniversary-of-john-f-kennedy-speech Open / Comment

2022-08-23 23:07:19 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Three Companies to Help NASA Advance Solar Array Technology for Moon" NASA has selected three companies to further advance work on deployable solar array systems that will help power the agency's human and robotic exploration of the Moon under Artemis. [August 23, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/three-companies-to-help-nasa-advance-solar-array-technology-for-moon Open / Comment

2022-08-23 22:58:47 #NewReport from #ISS : "ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/22/2022" Payloads: AstroPi: After reviewing the big picture words, the AstroPi Vis unit was moved to the Node 2 window and set up for night-time photography. Max360 imagery was also captured of both AstroPi units to help student teams develop frames of reference for use with the sensors on the AstroPi units. Two augmented Raspberry Pi Open / Comment

2022-08-23 20:01:46 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "La NASA invita a la prensa a la primera prueba de defensa planetaria" La misión Prueba de redireccionamiento del asteroide doble (DART, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA, la primera en el mundo que pone a prueba una tecnología para defender a la Tierra de posibles peligros de asteroides o cometas, impactará con su objetivo, un asteroide que no supone ninguna amenaza para la Tierra, a las 7:14 pm EDT del lunes 26 d [August 23, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/la-nasa-invita-a-la-prensa-a-la-primera-prueba-de-defensa-planetaria Open / Comment

2022-08-23 20:01:46 #BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Invites Media to Witness World’s First Planetary Defense Test" NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, will impact its target asteroid—which poses no threat to Earth—at 7:14 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 26. [August 23, 2022] Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-invites-media-to-witness-world-s-first-planetary-defense-test Open / Comment

2022-08-23 18:29:12 #NewPhoto from #Nasa: "The Historic X-1E Looks Forward" The supersonic X-1E research aircraft was the last of NASA's experimental X-1 series of aircraft. [August 23, 2022] http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/afrc2021-0149-02_orig.jpg Open / Comment

2022-08-23 07:26:14 #NewImage from #Nasa: "Meteor and Milky Way over the Mediterranean " Careful planning made this a nightscape to remember. First, the night itself was chosen to occur during the beginning of this year's Perseid Meteor Shower. Next, the time of night was chosen to be before the bright Moon would rise and dominate the night sky's brightness. The picturesque foreground was selected to be a rocky beach of the Mediterranean Sea in Le Dramont, France, with, at the time, à le d†Or island situated near the ominously descending central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. Once everything was set and with the weather cooperating, all of the frames for this seemingly surreal nightscape were acquired within 15 minutes. What you can't see is that, on this night, the astrophotographer brought along his father who, although unskilled in modern sky-capture techniques, once made it a point to teach his child about the sky. [August 23, 2022] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2208/MeteorGalaxy_Looten_1000.jpg Open / Comment

2022-08-22 19:14:14 #NewPhoto from #Nasa: "NASA's Europa Clipper in High Bay 1" The core of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has taken center stage in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. [August 22, 2022] http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/1-main-europa-clipper-module.jpg Open / Comment

2022-06-24 07:16:31 #NewImage from #Nasa: "Filaprom on the Western Limb" A solar filament is an enormous stream of incandescent plasma suspended above the active surface of the Sun by looping magnetic fields. Seen against the solar disk it looks dark only because it's a little cooler, and so slightly dimmer, than the solar photosphere. Suspended above the solar limb the same structure looks bright when viewed against the blackness of space and is called a solar prominence. A filaprom would be both of course, a stream of magnetized plasma that crosses in front of the solar disk and extends beyond the Sun's edge. In this hydrogen-alpha close-up of the Sun captured on June 22, active region AR3038 is near the center of the frame. Active region AR3032 is seen at the far right, close to the Sun's western limb. As AR3032 is carried by rotation toward the Sun's visible edge, what was once a giant filament above it is now partly seen as a prominence, How big is AR3032's filaprom? For scale planet Earth is shown near the top right corner. [June 24, 2022] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2206/AR3038_Filaprom_HA_DS_150mmF20_IMX174_Color_06222022_1024.jpg Open / Comment