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More #RealGravity images tonight as #Gravity is up for awards at the #Oscars2014: The Hubble Space Telescope is seen in a picture snapped by a Servicing Mission 4 crewmember just after the Space Shuttle Atlantis captured Hubble with its robotic arm on May 13, 2009, beginning the mission to upgrade and repair the telescope. Hubble is a national asset and an invaluable international scientific resource that has revolutionized modern astronomy. To achieve its full potential, the telescope will continue to conduct extensive, integrated scientific observations, including follow-up work on its many discoveries. Although the telescope has numerous redundant parts and safemode systems, such a complex spacecraft could not be designed with sufficient backups to handle every contingency during a mission lasting more than 24 years. Orbital servicing was the key to keeping Hubble in operating condition to this very day. Image credit: NASA #nasa #space #iss #spacepix #gravity #oscars2014 #oscars #realgravity #oscarceremony; -
More #RealGravity images tonight as #Gravity is up for awards at the #Oscars2014: Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, is seen further away from the confines and safety of his ship than any previous astronaut has ever been on Feb. 12, 1984. This space first was made possible by the Manned Manuevering Unit or MMU, a nitrogen jet propelled backpack. After a series of test maneuvers inside and above Space Shuttle Challenger's payload bay, McCandless went "free-flying" to a distance of 320 feet away from the Orbiter. This stunning orbital panorama view shows McCandless out there amongst the black and blue of Earth and space. Image credit: NASA #nasa #space #iss #spacepix #gravity #oscars2014 #oscars #realgravity #oscarceremony; -
More #RealGravity images tonight as #Gravity is up for awards at the #Oscars2014: This unique photographic angle, features the International Space Station's Cupola and crew activity inside it, other hardware belonging to the station, city lights on Earth and airglow. It was captured by one of the Expedition 28 crew members. The major urban area on the coast is Brisbane, Australia. The station was passing over an area southwest of Canberra. Image credit: NASA #nasa #space #iss #spacepix #gravity #oscars2014 #oscars #realgravity #oscarceremony; -
Tonight, #Gravity is up for awards at the #Oscars2014 & we're sharing #RealGravity images from living & working in space. First up is this stunning picture where the bright sun greets the International Space Station in this Nov. 22, 2009 scene from the Russian section of the orbital outpost. Image credit: NASA #nasa #space #iss #spacepix #gravity #oscars2014 #oscars #realgravity #oscarceremony; -
A major winter storm is poised to wallop the Mid-Atlantic and bring large amounts of snow to cities including Baltimore, Md., Washington, D.C. area on March 2 and 3, according to NOAA's National Weather Service. NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured this image of the clouds associated with the winter storm as it continued moving east toward those cities. The clouds are associated with a cold from that stretches from eastern Maine through Maryland and west into the Tennessee Valley. The low pressure center associated with the front was located over Arkansas. At NASA/NOAA's GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. the cloud data from NOAA's GOES-East satellite were overlaid on a true-color image of land and ocean created by data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites. Together, those data created the entire picture of the position of this major winter storm. IMAGE CREDIT: NASA/NOAA #science #noaa #nasa #space #satellite #storm #rain #weather;
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A mock-up of NASA’s Orion spacecraft recently took an east coast journey from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., in preparation for future testing at Langley’s Landing and Impact Research Facility. Testing will give engineers insight into how the capsule performs under a variety of ocean and landing conditions. This fall, the Orion spacecraft will fly on its first uncrewed mission, known as Exploration Flight Test-1, where it will travel 3,600 miles above Earth before reentering the atmosphere at a speed of approximately 20,000 mph (32,187 kph) and temperatures of close to 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,204 degrees Celsius) for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Credit: NASA/David C. Bowman #orion #space #nasa #test #ksc #langley #kennedy #eft1 #spacecraft; -
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;
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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; -
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;
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