Tag Archive for 'NASA'

Solar Orbiter Sends Back Spectacular Images of the Sun

May 20, 2022 by News Staff

On March 26, 2022, the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft made the first of its close perihelion passages. The spacecraft flew closer to the Sun than the...

This Hubble image shows the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 474. Image credit: NASA / ESA / D. Carter, Liverpool John Moores University / G. Kober, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Catholic University of America.

Hubble Captures Stunning Image of Giant Elliptical Galaxy

May 19, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The subject of the new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is NGC 474, a gigantic elliptical galaxy located some 100 million light-years from...

InSight captured this image of one of its dust-covered solar panels on April 24, 2022. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

InSight is Gradually Losing Solar Power, NASA Says

May 18, 2022 by News Staff

By December 2022, NASA expects its InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) lander to have become inoperative,...

This Hubble image shows Hickson Compact Group 31, a group of four galaxies located some 166 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus. The bright, distorted object is actually two colliding dwarf galaxies. The bluish star clusters have formed in the streamers of debris pulled from the galaxies and at the site of their head-on collision. The cigar-shaped object to the right is another member of the group. A bridge of star clusters connects the trio. A longer rope of bright star clusters points to the fourth member of the group. The bright object in the center is a foreground star. Image credit: NASA / ESA / J. Charlton, Pennsylvania State University / G. Kober, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / Catholic University of America.

Hubble Images Four Merging Dwarf Galaxies

May 18, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released a stunning new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of a quartet of galaxies called Hickson Compact Group 31. This Hubble...

This Hubble image shows NGC 6558, a globular cluster located 23,000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the visible and near-infrared regions of the spectrum with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instrument. It is based on data obtained through two filters. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / R. Cohen.

Hubble Space Telescope Observes NGC 6558

May 16, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured the brilliance of a globular cluster called NGC 6558. This Hubble image shows NGC 6558,...

This Hubble image shows the elliptical galaxy UGC 10143 in the center of the galaxy cluster Abell 2147. Image credit: NASA / ESA / W. Harris, McMaster University / G. Kober, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / Catholic University of America.

Hubble Focuses on Central Galaxy of Abell 2147

May 16, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new photo of UGC 10143, a giant elliptical galaxy located in the center...

This Hubble image shows the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 7814. The color image was taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). Several filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / R. de Jong, Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam / G. Kober, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / Catholic University of America.

Hubble Space Telescope Spots Cosmic Sombrero

May 13, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Hubble team has released a beautiful image of part of the Little Sombrero galaxy (also known as NGC 7814). This Hubble image shows the edge-on spiral...

Arabidopsis thaliana in the lunar regolith. Image credit: Paul et al., doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03334-8.

Plants Can Germinate and Grow in Lunar Soil: Study

May 12, 2022 by News Staff

Using samples brought back from NASA’s Apollo 11, 12, and 17 missions, University of Florida biologists showed that a model terrestrial plant, Arabidopsis...

This Hubble image shows IC 342, a spiral galaxy 8.9 million light-years away in the constellation of Camelopardalis. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / P. Sell, University of Florida / P. Kaaret, University of Iowa / G. Kober, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / Catholic University of America.

Hubble Looks at Spiral Galaxy IC 342

May 12, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

IC 342 resides approximately 8.9 million light-years away in the constellation of Camelopardalis. This Hubble image shows IC 342, a spiral galaxy 8.9 million...

An artist’s impression of the InSight lander on Mars. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

InSight Records Most Powerful Marsquake Yet

May 11, 2022 by News Staff

On May 4, 2022, NASA’s InSight lander detected a magnitude 5 quake on Mars — the strongest ever detected on another planet. The largest previously...

An artist’s impression of the two-planet system HD 260655. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Two Rocky Exoplanets Found Orbiting Bright Red Dwarf

May 10, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered a transiting multi-planetary system around a nearby red dwarf (M-dwarf)...

These Spitzer and Webb images show part of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ESA / CSA / STScI.

Webb’s MIRI Camera Focuses on Large Magellanic Cloud

May 10, 2022 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is aligned across all four of its science instruments, as seen in a previous engineering image. The Webb team...

A citizen scientist spotted the main-belt asteroid 2001 SE101 passing in front of the Crab Nebula. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / M. Thévenot, @AstroMelina.

Citizen Science Project Identifies 1,701 Asteroid Trails in Hubble Images

May 9, 2022 by News Staff

Large and publicly available astronomical archives open up new possibilities to search for and study small solar system objects such as asteroids and comets. A...

These dark slope streaks resulted from dust avalanches in Acheron Fossae, Mars. The HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured them on December 3, 2006. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona.

Planetary Scientists Crack Mystery of Martian Dust Avalanches

May 9, 2022 by News Staff

In the 2000s, planetary researchers spotted ghostly, blue-white morning frost on the Martian surface in visible light images from NASA’s Mars Odyssey...

This Hubble image shows DEM L 249, a remnant of Type Ia supernova located approximately 160,000 light-years away in the constellation of Mensa. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Y. Chu.

Hubble Spots Tattered Remnant of Ancient Supernova in Large Magellanic Cloud

May 9, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of a supernova remnant called DEM L 249. This Hubble image shows DEM L 249, a remnant...

Solar Orbiter Reveals Sun’s Surface in Unprecedented Detail

May 5, 2022 by News Staff

One of the new images, taken by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) aboard the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft on March 7, 2022, is the highest resolution...

An artist’s illustration shows SN 2013ge, with its companion star at lower right. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Leah Hustak, STScI.

Majority of Massive Stars Form and Evolve as Binary Systems, New Research Suggests

May 5, 2022 by News Staff

In some supernova cases, astronomers find no trace of the former star’s outermost layer of hydrogen. What happened to the hydrogen? Suspicions that companion...

An artist’s impression of a black hole X-ray binary. Image credit: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

NICER Detects Echoes from Eight Black Hole X-Ray Binaries

May 2, 2022 by News Staff

As a stellar-mass black hole pulls in gas and dust from an orbiting star, it can give off spectacular bursts of X-rays that bounce and echo off the inspiraling...

This Hubble image shows Messier 99, a spiral galaxy some 42 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices. The Hubble data was taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). The color composite was assembled from images taken in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light. It is based on data obtained through five filters. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / M. Kasliwal / J. Lee / PHANGS-HST Team.

Hubble Space Telescope Photographs Messier 99

May 2, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed fine details of the grand design spiral galaxy Messier 99. This Hubble image shows Messier 99, a spiral...

Engineering images of sharply focused stars in the field of view of each instrument demonstrate that the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is fully aligned and in focus. For this test, Webb pointed at part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, providing a dense field of hundreds of thousands of stars across all the observatory’s sensors. The sizes and positions of the images shown here depict the relative arrangement of each of Webb’s instruments in the telescope’s focal plane, each pointing at a slightly offset part of the sky relative to one another. Webb’s three imaging instruments are NIRCam (images shown here at a wavelength of 2 microns), NIRISS (image shown here at 1.5 microns), and MIRI (shown at 7.7 microns, a longer wavelength revealing emission from interstellar clouds as well as starlight). NIRSpec is a spectrograph rather than imager but can take images, such as the 1.1 micron image shown here, for calibrations and target acquisition. The dark regions visible in parts of the NIRSpec data are due to structures of its microshutter array, which has several hundred thousand controllable shutters that can be opened or shut to select which light is sent into the spectrograph. Lastly, Webb’s Fine Guidance Sensor tracks guide stars to point the observatory accurately and precisely; its two sensors are not generally used for scientific imaging but can take calibration images such as those shown here. This image data is used not just to assess image sharpness but also to precisely measure and calibrate subtle image distortions and alignments between sensors as part of Webb’s overall instrument calibration process. Image credit: NASA / STScI.

Webb Successfully Completes Alignment Phase

Apr 29, 2022 by News Staff

After full review, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has been confirmed to be capable of capturing well-focused images with each of its four...

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