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A storm of stars is brewing in the Trifid nebula, located 5,400 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, as seen in this view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The stellar nursery, where baby stars are bursting into being, is the yellow-and-orange object dominating the picture. Yellow bars in the nebula appear to cut a cavity into three sections, hence the name Trifid nebula. Colors in this image represent different wavelengths of infrared light detected by WISE. The main green cloud is made up of hydrogen gas. Within this cloud is the Trifid nebula, where radiation and winds from massive stars have blown a cavity into the surrounding dust and gas, and presumably triggered the birth of new generations of stars. Dust glows in infrared light, so the three lines that make up the Trifid, while appearing dark in visible-light views, are bright when seen by WISE. The blue stars scattered around the picture are older, and they lie between Earth and the Trifid nebula. The baby stars in the Trifid will eventually look similar to those foreground stars. The red cloud at upper right is gas heated by a group of very young stars. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA #nasa #space #nebula #astronomy #wise #cloud #dust #stars #infrared #science #gas; -
Astronaut Mike Hopkins aboard the International Space Station tweeted from @AstroIllini this image and wrote, "Beautiful sunrise with a hint of moon." Mike is taking photos from the orbiting outpost some 240 miles up circling the Earth every 90 minutes. The International Space Station (ISS) continues the NASA tradition of Earth observation from human-tended spacecraft. Operational since November 2000, the ISS is well suited for documenting Earth features and provides an excellent stage for observing most populated areas of the world. Images coming down from the International Space Station are processed on a daily basis and include over 1.2 million images through Nov. 1, 2013. Image credit: NASA #nasa #space #iss #astronauts #astropix #spacestation #earth #sun #sunrise #moon #exp38; -
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden participates in a wreath laying ceremony as part of NASA's Day of Remembrance, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, at Arlington National Cemetery. The wreathes were laid in memory of those men and women who lost their lives in the quest for space exploration. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls #NASARemembers #NASA #wreathlaying #ArlingtonNationalCemetary #ArlingtonCemetary; -
Today we pause in our normal routines and reflect on the contributions of those who lost their lives trying to take our nation farther into space. On our annual Day of Remembrance, please join us in giving thanks for the legacy of the STS-107 Columbia crew; the STS-51L Challenger crew; the Apollo 1 crew; and Mike Adams, the first in-flight fatality of the space program as he piloted the X-15 No. 3 on a research flight. These men and women were our friends, family and colleagues, and we will never forget their lives and passion to push us farther and achieve more. They have our everlasting love, respect and gratitude. Today, their legacy lives on as the International Space Station fulfills its promise to help us learn to live and work in space and move farther into the solar system. We see our lost friends in the strivings of so many missions to take humans to new destinations and to unlock the secrets of our universe. And we honor them by making our dreams of a better tomorrow reality and by acting to improve life for all of humanity. Let us join together as one NASA Family, along with the entire world, in paying our respects, and honoring the memories of our dear friends. They are with us still on this grand journey. Image credit: NASA #NASARemembers #Tribute #Honor #FallenHeros #FallenHero #Heros #Space #NASA #Science #Discovery #Challenger #Apollo #Columbia #Explorers; -
Astronaut Candidates Promote STEM Education at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum - NASA associate administrator for education and former astronaut Leland Melvin gives a thumbs up to International Space Station (ISS) crew members, Rick Mastracchio, screen left, and Michael Hopkins, during a live downlink at an event where they and eight astronaut candidates talked with Washington-area students and the public about the value of education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls #astroclass2013 #astroclass #astronauts #stem #nasa #space #iss #education;
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Solar Dynamics Observatory Sees Lunar Transit - On Jan. 30, 2014, beginning at 8:31 a.m. EST, the moon moved between NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, and the sun, giving the observatory a view of a partial solar eclipse from space. Such a lunar transit happens two to three times each year. This one lasted two and one half hours, which is the longest ever recorded. When the next one will occur is as of yet unknown due to planned adjustments in SDO's orbit. SDO is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun and its dynamic behavior. It provides images 10 times clearer than high definition television and more comprehensive science data faster than any solar observing spacecraft in history. Image Credit: NASA/SDO #nasa #space #solar #sun #moon #transit #eclipse #sdo; -
NASA is inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission through a new website, DiskDetective.org. Disk Detective is NASA's largest crowdsourcing project whose primary goal is to produce publishable scientific results. It exemplifies a new commitment to crowdsourcing and open data by the United States government. Volunteers can help astronomers find disks through DiskDetective.org like this disk pictured here — the Herbig-Haro 30 -- which is the prototype of a gas-rich young stellar object disk. The dark disk spans 40 billion miles in this image, cutting the bright nebula in two and blocking the central star from direct view. Image Credit: NASA/ESA/C. Burrows (STScI) #nasa #diskdetective #astronomy #wise #neowise #crowdsourcing #crowdsource #space; -
With precise timing, the camera aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was able to take a picture of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft as it orbited our nearest celestial neighbor. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) operations team worked with its LADEE and LRO operations counterparts to make the imaging possible. LADEE is in an equatorial orbit (east-to-west) while LRO is in a polar orbit (south-to-north). The two spacecraft are occasionally very close and on Jan. 15, 2014, the two came within 5.6 miles (9 km) of each other. As LROC is a push-broom imager, it builds up an image one line at a time, so catching a target as small and fast as LADEE is tricky. Both spacecraft are orbiting the moon with velocities near 3,600 mph (1,600 meters per second), so timing and pointing of LRO must be nearly perfect to capture LADEE in an LROC image. LADEE passed directly beneath the LRO orbit plane a few seconds before LRO crossed the LADEE orbit plane, meaning a straight down LROC image would have just missed LADEE. The LADEE and LRO teams worked out the solution: simply have LRO roll 34 degrees to the west so the LROC detector (one line) would be in the right place as LADEE passed beneath. As planned at 8:11 p.m. EST on Jan. 14, 2014, LADEE entered LRO’s Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) field of view for 1.35 milliseconds and a smeared image of LADEE was snapped. LADEE appears in four lines of the LROC image, and is distorted righttoleft. LADEE was launched Sept. 6, 2013. LADEE is gathering detailed information about the structure and composition of the thin lunar atmosphere and determining whether dust is being lofted into the lunar sky. LRO launched Sept. 18, 2009. LRO continues to bring the world astounding views of the lunar surface and a treasure trove of lunar data. Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University #lro #ladee #spacecraft #moon #lunar #lunarpix #lunarpics #moonpics #moonpix #nasa; -
NASA's 2013 astronaut candidate class joined the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, John P. Holdren, and more than 100 students from Washington area schools for the annual White House State of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (SoSTEM) address on Jan. 29. This event celebrates President Obama's commitment to lifting America's game in STEM education as articulated in past State of the Union addresses and was held the day after this year's address. Pictured here is NASA Astronaut Joe Acaba, center, moderating a panel discussion with NASA's 2013 astronaut candidates, from left, Christina M. Hammock, Andrew R. Morgan, Victor J. Glover, Jessica U. Meir, Tyler N. "Nick" Hague, Josh A. Cassada, Anne C. McClain, and, Nicole Aunapu Mann, at the annual White House State of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (SoSTEM) address, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. The candidates are in a two-year training process, which includes technical activities at space centers and remote locations around the globe. The training is designed to prepare them for missions that will help the agency push the boundaries of exploration and travel to new destinations in the solar system, including an asteroid and Mars. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls #astroclass2013 #astroclass #astronauts #whitehouse #wh #stem #sostem #ostp #whitehouseostp; -
A high-precision radar instrument left Southern California for Iceland today to create detailed maps of how glaciers move in the dead of winter. This will help scientists better understand some of the most basic processes involved in melting glaciers, which are major contributors to rising sea levels. The image is on a small part of the Hofsjökull ice cap in Iceland, which encompasses several glaciers. The fan at upper left is part of a glacier called Múlajökull. Image credit: Caltech #nasa #science #earth #iceland #ice #earthrightnow #earthnow #climatechange;
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Lean Mean SLS Machine - A 5-percent scale model of the Space Launch System (SLS) is ignited for five seconds to measure the effects acoustic noise and pressure have on the vehicle at liftoff. The green flame is a result of the ignition fluid that is burned along with the propellant during this short-duration test. The tests will allow engineers to verify the design of the sound suppression system being developed for the agency's new deep space rocket. The first flight test of the SLS in 2017 will be configured for a 70-metric-ton (77-ton) lift capacity and carry an uncrewed Orion spacecraft beyond low-Earth orbit to test the performance of the integrated system. As the SLS is evolved, it will the most powerful rocket ever built and provide an unprecedented lift capability of 130 metric tons (143 tons) to enable missions even farther into our solar system. Image credit: NASA/MSFC/David Olive #nasa #sls #orion #space #test #rocket #launch #liftoff #engineering #machine; -
International Space Station Expedition 38 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) completed a 6-hour, 8-minute spacewalk at 3:08 p.m. EST on Monday. The spacewalkers installed a pair of high-fidelity cameras on a platform attached to the Zvezda Service Module. The cameras are part of a commercial endeavor between the Russian Federal Space Agency and a Canadian firm involving the downlink of Earth imagery. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata tweeted this image from @Astro_Wakata and wrote, ““Orlan” space suits that Oleg and Sergey used during yesterday’s successful spacewalk.” IMAGE CREDIT: NASA #iss #nasa #space #spacewalk #eva #spacestation #exploration #science #rsa #roscosmos #jaxa; -
Astronaut Mike Hopkins shows off the fully assembled Slosh hardware which endured its first tests last week aboard the International Space Station (ISS). This Space Technology Mission Directorate project is dedicated to improving our understanding of how liquids behave in little to no gravity environments. The red and blue spheres on either end of the experiment are robots that use small thrusters to move the experiment around as it free-floats inside the ISS. These thruster firings cause the liquid inside a pill shaped tank (not pictured) to move around in the same manner that liquid propellants would move inside the propellant tanks of space vehicles. Videos and measurements of this liquid in motion will help engineers at NASA design safer and more efficient vehicles. Data from the Slosh test is currently undergoing analysis at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Image Credit: NASA #slosh #iss #exp38 #experiment #issresearch #isssci #science #liquids #microgravity #astronaut #astronauts; -
Cloud Bands Over the Western Sahara Desert, Mauritania: This photograph of cloud bands over southern Mauritania was taken from the International Space Station with an oblique angle such that the cloud shadows are a prominent part of the view. Beneath the clouds, the plateau of dark sedimentary rocks appears as a ragged, near-vertical escarpment (image top right). Isolated remnants of the plateau appear as dark mesas (flat-topped hills) across the top and near the center of the image. The escarpment is about 250 meters high, with a field of orange-colored dunes at the base (image upper right). Prevailing winds in this part of the Sahara Desert blow from the northeast. (Note that north is to the right.) The wavy dunes are aligned transverse (roughly right angles) to these winds. The sand that makes the dunes is blown in from a zone immediately upwind (just out of the bottom of the image), where dry river beds and dry lakes provide large quantities of mobile sand. This pattern is typical in the western Sahara Desert, where plateau surfaces are mostly dune free and dune fields are located in the surrounding lowlands. Larger rivers deposit sandy sediment on the few occasions when they flow, sometimes only once in decades. Astronaut photograph ISS038-E-26862 was acquired on Jan. 8, 2014, with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 180 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 38 crew. It has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. Image Credit: NASA. Caption: M. Justin Wilkinson, Jacobs at NASA-JSC. #iss #astropix #exp38 #astronautpics #earth #desert #mauritania #clouds #earthpics #earthasart #spacestation; -
In its first 25 days of operations, the newly reactivated NEOWISE mission has detected 857 minor bodies in our solar system, including 22 near-Earth objects (NEOs) and four comets. Three of the NEOs are new discoveries; all three are hundreds of meters in diameter and dark as coal. More than 100 asteroids were captured in this view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, during its primary all-sky survey before it was put into hibernation in 2011. The mission was revived to hunt more asteroids, and renamed NEOWISE. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA #nasa #space #neowise #neo #asteroid #stars #sky #astronomy;
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