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Hubble Catches Cosmic Cloak of Red - This stunning new Hubble image shows a small part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest galaxies to our own. This collection of small baby stars, most weighing less than the sun, form a young stellar cluster known as LH63. This cluster is still half-embedded in the cloud from which it was born, in a bright star-forming region known as the emission nebula LHA 120-N 51, or N51. This is just one of the hundreds of star-forming regions filled with young stars spread throughout the Large Magellanic Cloud. The burning red intensity of the nebulae at the bottom of the picture illuminates wisps of gas and dark dust, each spanning many light-years. Moving up and across, bright stars become visible as sparse specks of light, giving the impression of pin-pricks in a cosmic cloak. Looking for and at low-mass stars can help us to understand how stars behave when they are in the early stages of formation, and can give us an idea of how the Sun might have looked billions of years ago. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Gouliermis (University of Heidelberg) #hubble #hst #nasa #science #astronomy #galaxy #stars; -
A swirling Eastern Pacific Ocean storm system headed for California was spotted by NOAA's GOES-West satellite on Feb. 28. According to the National Weather Service, this storm system has the potential to bring heavy rainfall to the drought-stricken state. The storm was captured using visible data from NOAA's GOES-West or GOES-15 satellite on Feb. 28 at 1430 UTC/6:30 a.m. PST was made into an image by NASA/NOAA's GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The storm's center appeared as a tight swirl, with bands of clouds and showers already sweeping over the state extending from northern California to Baja California, Mexico. CREDIT: NASA/NOAA #science #noaa #nasa #space #satellite #storm #rain #weather; -
In space, things don’t always behave the way we expect them to. In the case of cancer, researchers have found that this is a good thing: some tumors seem to be much less aggressive in the microgravity environment of space compared to their behavior on Earth. This observation could help scientists understand the mechanism involved and develop drugs targeting tumors that don’t respond to current treatments. This work is the latest in a large body of evidence on how space exploration benefits those of us on Earth. This image is of a thyroid cancer cell line FTC-133 after four hours of exposure to simulated microgravity. Nuclei are stained blue, components of the cytoskeleton stained green and red. CREDIT: NASA #iss #science #nationallab #nasa #space #casis #cancer; -
Off into space - A set of NanoRacks CubeSats is photographed by an Expedition 38 crew member after deployment by the NanoRacks Launcher attached to the end of the Japanese robotic arm. The CubeSats program contains a variety of experiments such as Earth observations and advanced electronics testing. International Space Station solar array panels are at left. Earth's horizon and the blackness of space provide the backdrop for the scene. Two sets of CubeSats were deployed late Wednesday, Feb. 26, and early Thursday, Feb. 27, leaving just two more launches to go of the 33 CubeSats that were delivered to the station in January by Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus cargo ship. The latest CubeSats were sent on their way at 8:50 p.m. EST Wednesday and 2:40 a.m. Thursday. CubeSats are a class of research spacecraft called nanosatellites and have small, standardized sizes to reduce costs. Two final batches of CubeSats are set for deployment at 11:20 p.m. Thursday and 2:30 a.m. Friday, but more are scheduled to be delivered to the station on the second Orbital commercial resupply mission in May. Image Credit: NASA #iss #nasa #space #exp38 #cubesats #science #nanoracks; -
Astronaut Mike Hopkins aboard the International Space Station tweeted this image of the aurora in the Southern Hemisphere earlier this evening, saying the "southern lights were absolutely stunning tonight!" On the #ISS on Thursday, more CubeSats were deployed, while the crew prepped for the arrival of a cargo craft and the departure of three cremates. Image credit: NASA #southernlights #aurora #earth #nasa #iss #exp38 #space #auroraaustralis #spacestation #station;
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Lighting up the night sky! A Japanese H-IIA rocket with the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard, is seen launching from the Tanegashima Space Center on Friday, Feb. 28, 2014 (Japan Time), in Tanegashima, Japan. The GPM spacecraft will collect information that unifies data from an international network of existing and future satellites to map global rainfall and snowfall every three hours. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls #gpm #nasa #jaxa #rocket #rocketlaunch #launch #satellite #space #science #earth; -
A Japanese H-IIA rocket with the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard, is seen launching from the Tanegashima Space Center, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, Tanegashima, Japan. The GPM spacecraft will collect information that unifies data from an international network of existing and future satellites to map global rainfall and snowfall every three hours. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) #gpm #nasa #jaxa #rocket #rocketlaunch #launch #satellite #space; -
Counting down toward liftoff! A Japanese H-IIA rocket with the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard, is seen on launch pad 1 of the Tanegashima Space Center, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, Tanegashima, Japan. Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission that will set a new standard for precipitation measurements from space, providing the next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours. The GPM mission data will advance our understanding of the water and energy cycles and extend the use of precipitation data to directly benefit society. Launch is set for 1:37 p.m. EST today! Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) #nasa #gpm #nasarain #jaxa #japan #launch#rocket #launchpad #satellite; -
Today is our first Photo #NASASocial at @NASAGoddard. Be sure to check out all the great images from the #NASASocial here on @Instagram. Attendees today are getting a behind-the-scenes tour of NASA Goddard's world-class spacecraft integration and test facilities that ensure that hardware and other spacecraft and instruments successfully survive the rigors of launch and space. They are also hearing how engineers at Goddard and JAXA overcame the challenge of building, shipping and testing the GPM satellite instruments built in two different countries, and which successfully withstood two natural disasters. #instameet #nasa #space #gpm #nasasocial; -
Today, NASA is hosting an event for its photo-fanatic social media followers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. This NASA Social will bring 20 social media photo-gurus together to snap and share photos of where NASA's next great Earth science satellite was developed, built and tested. The Global Precipitation Measurement mission Core Observatory is the largest satellite ever built and tested at NASA Goddard. The launch of the GPM Core Observatory is proceeding at Tanegashima Space Center, Japan for a scheduled liftoff at 1:37 p.m. EST on Thurs., Feb. 27, 2014. This image from @kbasham1 shows one of the hyper wall talks experienced today by the attendees of the Photo #NASASocial. Follow along using hashtags #GPM and #NASASocial. #nasasocial #gpm #nasarain #goddard #nasagoddard;
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A Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory is seen as it rolls out to launch pad 1 of the Tanegashima Space Center, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, Tanegashima, Japan. The GPM Core Observatory is proceeding toward launch scheduled for 1:37 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. Final checks have been made for the operational conditions of the H-IIA launch vehicle, satellites, launch facilities, tracking and control systems, and weather conditions. Once launched, the GPM spacecraft will collect information that unifies data from an international network of existing and future satellites to map global rainfall and snowfall every three hours. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls #nasa #gpm #nasarain #jaxa #japan #launch #rocket #launchpad #satellite; -
The closest supernova of its kind to be observed in the last few decades has sparked a global observing campaign involving legions of instruments on the ground and in space, including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope. Seen here is supernova explosion SN 2014J in the galaxy M82 from these two different spacecraft. As a distance of approximately 11.5 million light-years from Earth, galaxy M82 is seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in the background of this composite image. Astronomers using a ground-based telescope discovered the explosion on January 21, 2014. On the left is Spitzer's view of the supernova on three separate dates: May 9, 2005; Feb. 7, 2014; and Feb. 12, 2014. The observations from February 7 reveal the presence of a bright spot -- the supernova -- not present in the prior observations. By Feb. 12, the supernova has started to dim somewhat from its peak brightness in the first week of February. The supernova is glowing very brightly in the infrared light that Spitzer sees. The telescope was able to observe the supernova before and after it reached its peak brightness. Such early observations with an infrared telescope have only been obtained for a few Type Ia supernovas in the past. On the right is the supernova seen by Hubble on Jan. 31, 2014 as the supernova approached its peak brightness. The Hubble image was taken in visible light with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3. Hubble credit: NASA, ESA, A. Goobar (Stockholm University), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Spitzer credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Carnegie Institution for Science #nasa #hubble #spitzer #universe #supernova #galaxy #m82 #explosion #space; -
NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system. Nearly 95 percent of these planets are smaller than Neptune, which is almost four times the size of Earth. This discovery marks a significant increase in the number of known small-sized planets more akin to Earth than previously identified exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system. The artist concept depicts multiple-transiting planet systems, which are stars with more than one planet. The planets eclipse or transit their host star from the vantage point of the observer. This angle is called edge-on. Image Credit: NASA #kepler #planets #exoplanets #solarsystem #newworlds #newplanets #science #discovery; -
On Feb. 19, 2014 the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite flew over the Great Lakes and captured this striking false-colored image of the heavily frozen Great Lakes – one of the hardest freeze-ups in four decades. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL), ice cover on North America’s Great Lakes peaked at 88.42% on Feb. 12-13 – a percentage not recorded since 1994. The ice extent has surpassed 80% just five times in four decades. The average maximum ice extent since 1973 is just over 50%. Unusually cold temperatures in the first two months of the year, especially in January, are responsible for the high ice coverage. Very cold air blowing over the surface of the water removes heat from the water at the surface. When the surface temperature drops to freezing, a thin layer of surface ice begins to form. Once ice formation begins, persistently cold temperatures, with or without wind, is the major factor in thickening ice. This false-color image uses a combination of shortwave infrared, near infrared and red (MODIS bands 7,2,1) to help distinguish ice from snow, water and clouds. Open, unfrozen water appears inky blue-black. Ice is pale blue, with thicker ice appearing brighter and thin, melting ice appearing a darker true-blue. Snow appears blue-green. Clouds are white to blue-green, with the colder or icy clouds appearing blue-green to blue. Image Credit: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC #nasa #space #earth #modis #greatlakes #ice #snow #snowcover #irpix; -
First Moments of a Solar Flare in Different Wavelengths of Light - On Feb. 24, 2014, the sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:49 p.m. EST. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which keeps a constant watch on the sun, captured images of the event. These SDO images from 7:25 p.m. EST on Feb. 24 show the first moments of this X-class flare in different wavelengths of light -- seen as the bright spot that appears on the left limb of the sun. Hot solar material can be seen hovering above the active region in the sun's atmosphere, the corona. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation, appearing as giant flashes of light in the SDO images. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. Image Credit: NASA/SDO #nasa #sun #solar #sdo #space #science #solarflare #gps #wavelengths;
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