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NASA Goddard The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, instrument launches aboard a commercial communications satellite in January 2018 to inspect the dynamic intermingling of space and Earth’s uppermost atmosphere. Together, GOLD and another NASA mission, Ionospheric Connection Explorer spacecraft, or ICON, will provide the most comprehensive of Earth’s upper atmosphere we’ve ever had.

Above the ozone layer, the ionosphere is a part of Earth’s atmosphere where particles have been cooked into a sea of electrically-charged electrons and ions by the Sun’s radiation. The ionosphere is co-mingled with the very highest — and quite thin — layers of Earth’s neutral upper atmosphere, making this region an area that is constantly in flux undergoing the push-and-pull between Earth’s conditions and those in space. Increasingly, these layers of near-Earth space are part of the human domain, as it’s home not only to astronauts, but to radio signals used to guide airplanes and ships, and satellites that provide our communications and GPS systems. Understanding the fundamental processes that govern our upper atmosphere and ionosphere is crucial to improve situational awareness that helps protect astronauts, spacecraft and humans on the ground.

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Why NASA Is Exploring The Edge Of Our Planets Atmosphere

NASA Goddard 2018-01-17 | The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, instrument launches aboard a commercial communications satellite in January 2018 to inspect the dynamic intermingling of space and Earth’s uppermost atmosphere. Together, GOLD and another NASA mission, Ionospheric Connection Explorer spacecraft, or ICON, will provide the most comprehensive of Earth’s upper atmosphere we’ve ever had.

Above the ozone layer, the ionosphere is a part of Earth’s atmosphere where particles have been cooked into a sea of electrically-charged electrons and ions by the Sun’s radiation. The ionosphere is co-mingled with the very highest — and quite thin — layers of Earth’s neutral upper atmosphere, making this region an area that is constantly in flux undergoing the push-and-pull between Earth’s conditions and those in space. Increasingly, these layers of near-Earth space are part of the human domain, as it’s home not only to astronauts, but to radio signals used to guide airplanes and ships, and satellites that provide our communications and GPS systems. Understanding the fundamental processes that govern our upper atmosphere and ionosphere is crucial to improve situational awareness that helps protect astronauts, spacecraft and humans on the ground.

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Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Joy Ng

Music credits: ‘Faint Glimmer’ by Andrew John Skeet [PRS], Andrew Michael Britton [PRS], David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS], ‘Ocean Spirals’ by Andrew John Skeet [PRS], Andrew Michael Britton [PRS], David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS] from Killer Tracks.

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Hubble’s Inside the Image: Herbig-Haro Jet HH 24

NASA Goddard 2024-05-03 | NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed what looks like a cosmic, double-bladed lightsaber.

In the center of the image, partially obscured by a dark, Jedi-like cloak of dust, a newborn star shoots twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe.

In this video, Dr. Ken Carpenter explains this breathtaking image and how important Hubble is to exploring the mysteries of the universe, even if it is far far away!

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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer, Director & Editor: James Leigh
Director of Photography: James Ball
Executive Producers: James Leigh & Matthew Duncan
Production & Post: Origin Films

Video Credits:
Hubble Space Telescope Animation:
ESA/Hubble - M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen

Music Credits:
"Transcode" by Lee Groves [PRS], and Peter George Marett [PRS] via Universal Production Music

"The Search" by Northern Points via PREMIUM BEAT BY SHUTTERSTOCK

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It’s Time to Change Hubble’s Clock

NASA Goddard 2024-05-03 | Remember that Y2K thing a few years ago? Where everyone was afraid the world was going to end because computer programmers saved space by putting dates as… 77 for 1977, 85 for 1985, Or 90 for 1990? But then it became clear that when the year 2000 finally rolled around all of the computers would think it was actually 00. Or the year 1900.

Well, it turns out Hubble has something similar, only Hubble’s clock restarts every 6,213 days, 18 hours, 48 minutes, and 31.875 seconds. Or roughly every 17 years for those of you who like counting.

That’s because Hubble’s computers have a different way of tracking time than we have here on the ground. You’d think it would be as simple as synching our ground clocks with Hubble’s personal timepiece, but you’d be surprised!

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Music Credit:
"Auld Lang Syne" by Benjamin Peter McAvoy [PRS] and Traditional [DP] via Sound Pocket Music [PRS], and Universal Production Music.

“Ace of Faces” by Justin D. Thompson [BMI] via Emperia Beta Publishing [BMI], and Universal Production Music.

Video Credit:
2000 Millennium Celebrations On A 80S 90S Retro Television by Vulk via POND5

2000 To 2024 Year Countdown Spiral Time Tunnel Animation Video by Shurshart via POND5

Flip Calendar - 365 Days Video by BeauPhoto via POND5

Calendar Month Red Video by EnchantedStudios via POND5

Time-Lapse Of Milky Way Stars Over Mountain Tops by BlackBoxGuild via POND5

Green Digital Code On Monitor Seamless Loop Video by gonin via POND5

Paper Animation Texture by vistoff via MotionArray

Retro Computer Hacking by RelativeMedia via MotionArray

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Mistake Sound by PashaStriker via MotionArray

Motion Whoosh Swipe by Beison via MotionArray

Spinning by StudioZonet via MotionArray

Plop by WarpEFX via MotionArray

Buzzer by victorysound via MotionArray

Bacon Sizzle by Gfx Sounds Studios via MotionArray

Plop SFX by WARP EFX via MotionArray

Energy Wave Cue by Audio Planet via MotionArray

Pencil Foley Part 2 by Woozle via MotionArray

Pencil Line by Sound Design via MotionArray

Party Horn Noise Maker by Woozle via MotionArray

Car Door by Warp EFX via MotionArray

Random Numbers Generator by dauzkobza via MotionArray

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XRISM Mission Captures Unmatched Data With Just 36 Pixels

NASA Goddard 2024-04-30 | At a time when phone cameras are capable of taking snapshots with millions of pixels, an instrument on the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) captures revolutionary science with just 36 of them.

That may sound impossible, but it’s true.

XRISM (pronounced “crism”) is led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) in collaboration with NASA, along with contributions from ESA (European Space Agency). It launched into orbit last September and has been scrutinizing the cosmos ever since. The mission detects “soft” X-rays, which have energies up to 5,000 times greater than visible light. It will probe the universe’s hottest regions, largest structures, and objects with the strongest gravity, like supermassive black holes in the cores of distant galaxies.

XRISM accomplishes this with an instrument named Resolve. Resolve's detector takes the temperature of each X-ray that strikes it. Astronomers call Resolve a microcalorimeter spectrometer because each of its 36 pixels measures the tiny amount of heat delivered by each incoming X-ray. This lets astronomers see the chemical fingerprints of elements making up the sources in unprecedented detail.

In order to accomplish this, the entire detector must be chilled to 459.58 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (minus 273.1 degrees Celsius), just a whisker above absolute zero.

The instrument is so precise it can detect the motions of elements within a target, effectively providing a 3D view. Gas moving toward us glows at slightly higher energies than normal, while gas moving away from us emits slightly lower energies. This will, for example, allow scientists to better understand the flow of hot gas within clusters of galaxies and to track the movement of different elements in the debris of supernova explosions.

Resolve is taking astronomers into a new era of cosmic exploration — and with only three-dozen pixels.

Music credit: "Wading Through" and “Stop and Hide” from Universal Production Music

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Science writer: Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park)
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Moving Roman: Propulsion

NASA Goddard 2024-04-26 | Many space telescopes, including NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, require fuel to move. Propellant is, however, a finite resource. Watch how the NASA team carefully installs this mission-limiting resource into the telescope’s spacecraft bus.

Music Credits: "Black Nebula" by Thomas Daniel Bellingham
"Maelstrom Dream" by Lucie Rose
"Evolution of Life" by David Stephen Goldsmith
"Maximist" by Michael Blainey
"Greatness Takes Time" by Beth Perry and Chris Doney
Sound FX: "Asthma inhaler" by natty23 and "Compressed Air" by thompsonman

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animator: Jonathan North (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Photographers: Christopher Gunn (InuTeq, LLC);
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Hubble’s Highlights from its 34th Year in Orbit

NASA Goddard 2024-04-24 | The Hubble Space Telescope celebrated its 34th year in orbit by premiering a stunning new Hubble image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula.

Located approximately 3,400 light-years away the Little Dumbbell Nebula is a planetary nebula, which is an expanding shell of gas around an aging or dying star.

Even after all these years, Hubble continues to uncover the mysteries of the universe. These are a few science achievements from Hubble’s latest year in orbit.

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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul Morris: Lead Producer

Music Credit:
"Slide" by Timothy Paul Handels [SABAM] via Pedigree Cuts [PRS], and Universal Production Music.

Video Credit:
Exoplanet K2-18b (Artist’s Impression)
Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser

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Moving Roman: Reaction Wheels

NASA Goddard 2024-04-23 | Reaction wheels are an essential part of pointing most space telescopes. They are basically flywheels driven by electric motors, which makes them more precise than thrusters and capable of running indefinitely on solar power. They spin to store angular momentum. By slowing or speeding the rotation of a given wheel, changing the amount of momentum, a computer can precisely adjust how the spacecraft points around its center of mass in one plane. With three wheels set at specific angles, a satellite can control its pitch, roll and yaw to point in any direction and then hold that position without any change.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has added its set of reaction wheels to the main spacecraft body, or bus. Roman has six reaction wheels, rather than the necessary three, to give it more angular momentum for faster pointing, as well as complete redundancy should any one wheel fail.

Each of Roman’s wheels is 18 inches across, weighs roughly 45 pounds, and spins up to 4,000 rpm.

Music credit: "Breaking the Code" from Universal Production Music

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Hubbles 34th Anniversary Image: The Little Dumbbell Nebula

NASA Goddard 2024-04-23 | On April 24, 2024, the Hubble Space Telescope celebrated its 34th year in orbit by premiering a never-before-seen view of the Little Dumbbell Nebula.

Hubble’s Senior Project Scientist Dr. Jennifer Wiseman takes us on a tour of this stunning new image, describes the telescope's current health, and summarizes some of Hubble's contributions to astronomy during its 34-year career.

For more information, visit nasa.gov/hubble.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul Morris: Lead Producer
Jennifer Wiseman: Narrator

Music Credit:
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Data in Harmony: NASAs Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Project

NASA Goddard 2024-04-22 | NASA's Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) project is a groundbreaking initiative that combines data from Landsats 8 & 9 with the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2A & 2B satellites. Let's take a look at how HLS data is revolutionizing Earth observation, from aiding search and rescue operations in the aftermath of hurricanes to helping farmers optimize crop yields. Join us on a journey through the cutting-edge world of remote sensing and explore the future of monitoring our planet's health with HLS.

Music Credits:
"Searching the Plains" Lester Frances, Mike Fraumeni [ASCAP] - ELIAS Music
"No Clouds Today" Nicolas Montazaud [SACEM] - Koka
"Progress and Perfection" Chieli Minucci [ASCAP], Emanuel Kallins [BMI] - Gotham Music
"Natural Response" Jonathan Elias, Sarah Trevino [ASCAP] - EVO

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NASA’s Fermi Mission Sees No Gamma Rays from Nearby Supernova

NASA Goddard 2024-04-16 | A nearby supernova in 2023 offered astrophysicists an excellent opportunity to test ideas about how these types of explosions boost particles, called cosmic rays, to near light-speed. But surprisingly, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected none of the high-energy gamma-ray light those particles should produce.

On May 18, 2023, a supernova erupted in the nearby Pinwheel galaxy (Messier 101), located about 22 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The event, named SN 2023ixf, is the most luminous nearby supernova discovered since Fermi launched in 2008.

Astrophysicists previously estimated that supernovae convert about 10% of their total energy into cosmic ray acceleration. Using Fermi observations of SN 2023ixf, scientists calculated an energy conversion as low as 1% within a few days after the explosion. This doesn’t rule out supernovae as cosmic ray factories, but it does mean we have more to learn about their production.

Scientists have been investigating cosmic ray origins since the early 1900s, but the particles can’t be traced back to their sources. Because they’re electrically charged, cosmic rays change course as they travel to Earth thanks to magnetic fields they encounter.

Gamma rays, however, do travel directly to us. And cosmic rays produce gamma rays when they interact with matter in their environment. Fermi is the most sensitive gamma-ray telescope in orbit, so when it doesn’t detect an expected signal, scientists must explain the absence.

In 2013, Fermi measurements showed that supernova remnants in our own Milky Way galaxy were accelerating cosmic rays, which generated gamma-ray light when they struck interstellar matter. But astronomers say the remnants aren’t producing enough high-energy particles to match scientists’ measurements on Earth.

One theory proposes that supernovae may accelerate the most energetic cosmic rays in our galaxy in the first few days and weeks after the initial explosion.

But supernovae are rare, occurring only a few times a century in a galaxy like the Milky Way. Out to distances of around 32 million light-years, a supernova occurs, on average, just once a year.

After a month of observations, starting when visible light telescopes first saw SN 2023ixf, Fermi had not detected gamma rays.

The researchers propose a few scenarios that may have affected Fermi’s ability to see gamma rays from the event, like the way the explosion distributed debris and the density of material surrounding the star.

Fermi’s observations provide the first opportunity to study conditions right after the supernova explosion. Additional observations of SN 2023ixf at other wavelengths, new simulations and models based on this event, and future studies of other young supernovae will help astronomers home in on the mysterious sources of the universe’s cosmic rays.

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Our Oceans from Space

NASA Goddard 2024-04-12 | NASA's exploration of our oceans from space spans a rich history. Delving into the depths of our oceans unveils the mysteries of our own planet, our home. Therefore, NASA remains steadfast in leading the way in oceanic research.

Music credit: "Across the Golden Sky by Dan Thiessen [ BMI ]" from Universal Production Music

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
Grace Weikert (AMA): Lead Producer
Katie Jepson (KBR): Lead Writer
Kathleen Gaeta (AMA): Support
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Total Solar Eclipse 2024: Lets Get Ready to Rumble

NASA Goddard 2024-04-06 | On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America! It’s going to be a BIG DAY – but whose big day is it?

It’s eclipse season, and the competition is heating up! We’re just two days away from the total solar eclipse, and the fate of the solar system hangs in the balance. Whose team are YOU on?

Use #TeamEarth, #TeamMoon, and #TeamSun on social media to support your team, and cast your votes in LIVE polls at instagram.com/nasasolarsystem and twitter.com/NASASolarSystem beginning at 9am ET on April 8.

Music: Spin Rise Release by Alfie Solo [PRS]; Darkroom Girl by Brian Colin Burrows [PRS]; Volta SD2 Hard hit 07 by Enrico Cacace [BMI] from Universal Production Music

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Miles S. Hatfield (Telophase): Producer, Sun
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Total Solar Eclipse 2024: Time to Get in Line

NASA Goddard 2024-04-05 | On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America! It’s going to be a BIG DAY – but whose big day is it?

Earth, Moon, and Sun each want the spotlight, but it takes all three to make a total solar eclipse. Can they get aligned in time for April 8th, or is it going to be every celestial body for themselves?

Use #TeamEarth, #TeamMoon, and #TeamSun on social media to support your team, and cast your votes in LIVE polls at instagram.com/nasasolarsystem and twitter.com/NASASolarSystem beginning at 9am ET on April 8.

Music: Big Shoe Ballet by Benjamin William Castle [PRS], Danny Fromajio [PRS] and Will Grove-White [PRS]; Sound Design Digital Positive Texture by Christopher Lesley William Ketley [PRS] and David Thomas Connolly [PRS]; Volta SD2 Hard Hit 07 by Enrico Cacace [BMI] from Universal Production Music

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Miles S. Hatfield (Telophase): Producer, Sun
Molly Wasser (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Producer, Moon
Sofie Bates (KBR Wyle Services, LLC): Producer, Earth
Kathleen Gaeta (eMITS): Spectator
Angel Kumari (NASA/GSFC): Spectator
Julia Tilton (NASA Interns): Spectator

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Total Solar Eclipse 2024: Behind the Scenes with Earth

NASA Goddard 2024-04-04 | On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America! It’s going to be a BIG DAY – but whose big day is it?

Earth has the best view of a total solar eclipse, but Sun thinks they’re the star of the show. And of course Moon is the center of attention!

Use #TeamEarth, #TeamMoon, and #TeamSun on social media to support your team, and cast your votes in LIVE polls at instagram.com/nasasolarsystem and twitter.com/NASASolarSystem beginning at 9am ET on April 8.

Music: Volta SD2 Hard hit 07 by Enrico Cacace [BMI] from Universal Production Music

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Chasing the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse With NASA Jets

NASA Goddard 2024-04-03 | The April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse will produce stunning views across North America. While anyone along the eclipse path with a clear sky will see the spectacular event, the best view might be 50,000 feet in the air, aboard NASA’s WB-57 jet planes. That’s where a trio of NASA-funded teams are sending their scientific instruments to take measurements of the eclipse.

Two teams will image the Sun’s outer atmosphere – the corona – and a third will measure the ionosphere, the upper electrically charged layer of Earth’s atmosphere. This information will help scientists better understand the structure and temperature of the corona, the effects of the Sun on Earth’s atmosphere, and even aid in the search of asteroids that may orbit near the Sun.

Read more: science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/scientists-pursue-the-total-solar-eclipse-with-nasa-jet-planes

Music credits: “Prophecies”, “The City in the Clouds”, “Rodin Museum” by Laurent Dury [SACEM]; “Depths Unseen” by Grant Fisher [PRS]; “Simple Story” by Fred Dubois [SACEM]

Credit: NASA
Producer: Joy Ng (NIA)
Scientist: Amir Caspi (Southwest Research Institute)
Scientist: Shadia Habbal (Uni. of Hawaii)
Scientist: Bharat Kunduri (Virginia Tech)
Cinematographer: Josh Valcarcel (eMITS), Joy Ng (NIA)
Support: Lacey Young ((MORI Associates)
Support: Peter Layshock (JSC)

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Total Solar Eclipse 2024: Whose Big Day Is It?

NASA Goddard 2024-04-03 | On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America! It’s going to be a BIG DAY – but whose big day is it? 🤔

Earth, Moon and Sun each think April 8th should be their big day. Whose team are YOU on?

Use #TeamEarth, #TeamMoon, and #TeamSun on social media to support your team, and cast your votes in LIVE polls at instagram.com/nasasolarsystem and twitter.com/NASASolarSystem beginning at 9am ET on April 8.

Music: Rain Shower by Laurent Dury [PRS]; Mister Liar by Jerome Coullet [SACEM] and Ruban Sonore [SACEM]; Volta SD2 Hard hit 07 by Enrico Cacace [BMI] from Universal Production Music

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Miles S. Hatfield (Telophase): Producer, Sun
Molly Wasser (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Producer, Moon
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Christina Koch Followed Her Dream Job to Become a NASA Astronaut

NASA Goddard 2024-03-27 | Christina Koch's dream job as an electrical engineer at NASA Goddard helped set her up to become an astronaut. Where can your dreams take you?

NASA is searching for their next explorers to train, fly, and go beyond for the benefit of all of humanity. We look forward to finding the next space pioneers that will venture further than ever before. Astronaut applications are open through April 16, 2024!
Learn more: go.nasa.gov/astro2024

Music: "Anticipation Instrumental" from Universal Production Music

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Katy Mersmann (NASA/GSFC): Lead Producer
Wade Sisler (NASA/GSFC): Producer

Video Description:
0:00 Christina Koch sits in her blue astronaut flight suit, talking to the camera.
0:34 On a black screen, white text reads "Christina Koch's dream job -- Goddard electrical engineer -- was one step on her journey to become an astronaut.
0:34 White text fades on that reads "Where could your dreams take you?"
0:40 Back to Christina.

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Volunteers Help ESA & NASA Mission to Discover 5,000 Comets

NASA Goddard 2024-03-27 | The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint mission of ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA, has discovered its 5,000th comet, thanks to the help of volunteer comet hunters participating in the NASA-funded Sungrazer Project.

The sungrazing comet was spotted in SOHO images on March 25, 2024, by Hanjie Tan in the Czech Republic, who has participated in the Sungrazer Project since he was 13 years old. The comet is small and has a short orbital period around the Sun. It belongs to the “Marsden group” of comets, which are thought to be related to the larger comet 96P/Machholz. The group is named after the late scientist Brian Marsden, who first recognized the group using SOHO observations.

To learn more about the discovery and SOHO, visit: science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/esa-nasa-solar-observatory-discovers-its-5000th-comet

Since the early 2000s, the Sungrazer Project has allowed anyone with a computer to search for comets in images taken by the SOHO spacecraft.

To learn more about the Sungrazer Project, visit: science.nasa.gov/citizen-science/the-sungrazer-project

Music credit: "Machines Made This" by Brian Colin Burrows [PRS] from Universal Production Music

Sound effects: Pixabay

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: Lacey Young (MORI Associates)
Editor: Lacey Young (MORI Associates)
Videographer: Joy Ng (National Institute of Aerospace)
Advisor: Beth Anthony (MORI Associates)
Scientist: Karl Battams (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)

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NASAs Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Propulsion Intergration

NASA Goddard 2024-03-21 | Propulsion tanks 🤝 primary structure

These two Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope components have been integrated at the NASA Goddard Space Flight center clean room. While this video may be a minute long, the process took several hours to ensure the fit is just right!

Music: Prove Myself by Christian James Walker [BMI], John K. Sands [BMI], Marc Ferrari [BMI], Trevor Roy Lewallen [BMI] via Universal Production Music

Video Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Writer: Ashley Balzar
Videographers: Sophia Roberts and Scott Wiessinger
Photographers: Jolearra Tshiteya and Chris Gunn

How to Photograph a Total Solar Eclipse

NASA Goddard 2024-03-21 | On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will soar over the heads of more than 30 million people across North America. This astronomical event is a unique opportunity for scientists studying in the shadow of the Moon, but it’s also a perfect opportunity to capture unforgettable images. Whether you’re an amateur photographer or a selfie master, try out these tips for photographing the eclipse.

Music Credit: “Corals Instrumental” by Marc Burh [GEMA], Marek Nichel [GEMA] via Universal Production Music

Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: Beth Anthony (eMITS)
Writer: Mara Johnson-Groh (Wyle Information Systems)
Photographers: Bill Ingals (NASA), Aubrey Gemignani (NASA)

Additional photographs and footage: Unsplash, Videvo

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ExtraDimensional - The Fusion of Landsat & GEDI Data

NASA Goddard 2024-03-21 | We live amongst an intricate tapestry of ecosystems - ecosystems that, for the last 50 years, Landsat has kept close watch on from orbit. Landsat's vast decades-long archive provides researchers a unique opportunity to study the surface of our planet back across space and time. And when combined with data from other instruments, such as NASA's GEDI mission, Landsat data can provide amazing insight into how our world is evolving with us and around us. So let's take a look into some of the ways Landsat and GEDI data are being harnessed to help us better understand the complex relationship between humanity and nature.

Music Credits:

“A Child’s Journey” Matthew Nicholson [PRS], ELIAS Music
“Pretty Particles” Fritz Doddy [ASCAP], EVO
“Neutral Thinking” Nicolas Montazaud [SACEM], Koka
“The Idealists” Fred Dubois [SACEM], Koka
“Marimba Enigma” Fred Dubois [SACEM], Koka
“Building Happiness” Florian Moenks [GEMA] & Matthew Anderson [PRS], Sketch Music

Credits:

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
Chris Burns [ROTHE ARES Joint Venture]: Lead Producer
Chris Burns [ROTHE ARES Joint Venture]: Lead Writer

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Hubble Tracks Jupiter’s Stormy Weather

NASA Goddard 2024-03-14 | The giant planet Jupiter, in all its banded glory, takes the spotlight in these new images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope that capture both sides of the planet.

Big enough to swallow Earth, the classic Great Red Spot storm stands out prominently in Jupiter’s atmosphere. To its lower right, at a more southerly latitude, is a feature sometimes dubbed Red Spot Jr. This giant storm, called an anticyclone, was the result of other storms merging in 1998 and 2000, and it first appeared red in 2006.

Studying the planets in our solar system helps us understand our own weather patterns closer to home, and allows us to theorize what potential exoplanet weather is like in other star systems in our universe.

For more information, visit nasa.gov/hubble.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul Morris: Lead Producer

Music Credit:
"From Seedling to Something" by Matt Norman [PRS] via Freshworx Music Limited [PRS], and Universal Production Music.

Image Credit:
Hubble Captures Volcanic Eruption Plume From Io
Credit: John Spencer, Lowell Observatory, and NASA/ESA

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Using Infrared Light to Survey the Milky Way Galaxy

NASA Goddard 2024-03-12 | Observatories with smaller views of space have provided exquisite images of other galaxies, revealing complex structures. But studying our own galaxy’s anatomy is surprisingly difficult. The plane of the Milky Way covers such a large area on the sky that studying it in detail can take a very long time. Astronomers also must peer through thick dust that obscures distant starlight. Infrared light can pass through that dust and is a key tool for learning about the far side of our galaxy.

Music Credit: "Time Shift Equalibrium" from Universal Production Music

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Scott Wiessinger (KBR Wyle Services, LLC): Producer
Ashley Balzer (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Science Writer

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Hubble: Our Cosmic Time Machine

NASA Goddard 2024-03-10 | The Hubble Space Telescope is many things. It’s an observatory, a satellite, and an icon of cultural and scientific significance – but perhaps most interestingly, Hubble is also a time machine.

Hubble isn’t that far away, locked in a low-Earth orbit just a few hundred miles up that takes about 90 minutes to complete. But with its position just above Earth’s murky atmosphere, Hubble’s transformative view of our universe literally lets us witness our universe’s past. It allows us to effectively travel back in time.

The answer is simply light! Watch this video to learn more about Hubble: Humanity’s cosmic time machine!

For more information, visit nasa.gov/hubble.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul Morris: Lead Producer
Elizabeth Tammi: Script

Music Credit:
"Neon Dreamscape" by Craig Connelly [PRS] via Focus Music (Publishing) Ltd [PRS], and Universal Production Music.

Video Credit:
Big Sandwich Rotating On Yellow Background
bonjansen/Pond5

Eating Grilled Cheese And Ham Sandwich
BlackBoxGuild/Pond5

Woman Listening To Music On Headphones And Dancing To The Rhythm
paul_prescott/Pond5

Corporate Employees During Meeting In Office Discussing Topics Related To Sales
barracudamusic/Pond5

Teacher Teaching Mathematics On Chalkboard In Classroom
FancyStudio/Pond5

Time Lapse Of A Car On A Main Road Driving Home At Night
icsnaps/Pond5

Businessman Eating Sandwich And Smiling To Camera In The City
motion_poland/Pond5

Family Tree Animation With Text That Grows. Children And Future
BlackBoxGuild/Pond5

Tracking Shot Of Knight Fight In Court. Knight Blocking Punch
BlackBoxGuild/Pond5

Samurai Posing Towards Mt. Fuji
BlackBoxGuild/Pond5

The Night Sky Is A Showcase Of Twinkling Stars And Constellations
BlackBoxGuild/Pond5

Wide Shot Of An Ancient Hominid, Neanderthal, Homo Sapiens Is Sitting Near
BlackBoxGuild/Pond5

Majungasaurus Watches As A Meteor Approaches Prehistoric Earth
BlackBoxGuild/Pond5

Businessman Eating Sandwich During Break In The Park
motion_poland/Pond5

Scooping Peanut Butter Out Of The Jar With A Plastic Spoon
BlackBoxGuild/Pond5

Death Valley National Park Milky Way Galaxy Time Lapse Night Sky Above Telescope
lovemushroom/Pond5

Cosmic Speed Of Light Travel Between Nebula Clouds And Star System
BlackBoxGuild/Pond5

Group Of Primitive Savages Hunting Animals In Forest
FractalPictures/Pond5

3D Space Tardis Background Video
beatvideostock/Pond5

Sliced White Bread Falling. Slow Motion
soraphotography/Pond5

Detail showing Mansa Musa sitting on a throne and holding a gold coin
Attributed to Abraham Cresques - This file comes from Gallica Digital Library and is Public Domain

Sound Effect Credits:
Plop SFX Pack
WARP EFX/Motion Array

Medieval And Fantasy Battle
NargoMusic/Motion Array

Car Door Close
tuttkile/Motion Array

Space Age Flight Motions
livingroomClassics/Motion Array

Field Ambience
dauzkobza/Motion Array

Earthquake
NickoMusic/Motion Array

Deep Cinematic Whooshes
Out There Audio/Motion Array

Medieval Battlefield Ambience
Motion Audio/Motion Array

Glitch Whoosh
readsounds/Motion Array

Designed Drop Bass With Slow-mo
WOW SOUND/Motion Array

Classic Laser Shots
SFXpecial/Motion Array

Campfire
Bad Atmospheric/Motion Array

Fast Driving In Sport Car
Djsapa/Motion Array

Neon Lamp
Media_M/Motion Array

Pull String Light Switch
Audio Planet/Motion Array

Time Machine SFX
JiltedG/Motion Array

Motion Whoosh Swipe
Beison/Motion Array

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Welcome to The Lost Universe: NASA’s First Tabletop Role-playing Game

NASA Goddard 2024-03-04 | Calling all adventurers!

It’s time to gather your party and your favorite tabletop role-playing game system.

A dark mystery has settled over the city of Aldastron on the rogue planet of Exlaris. Researchers dedicated to studying the cosmos have disappeared, and the Hubble Space Telescope has vanished from Earth’s timeline. Only an ambitious crew of adventurers can uncover what was lost. Are you up to the challenge?

This adventure is designed for a party of 4-7 level 7-10 characters and is easily adaptable for your preferred TTRPG system.

NASA’s first TTRPG adventure invites you to take on a classic villain (while also using and learning science skills!) as you overcome challenges and embark on an exciting quest to unlock more knowledge about our universe. Download your game documents below and get ready to explore Exlaris!

Find the module: ;science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/multimedia/online-activities/the-lost-universe

Want to share how your adventure unfolds? Share it with #NASATTRPG on social media.

For more information, visit nasa.gov/hubble.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul Morris: Lead Producer
Michelle Belleville: Artistic Designer

Music Credit:
"Sailing to Conquest" by Idriss-El-Mehdi Bennani [SACEM], Olivier Louis Perrot [SACEM], and Philippe Andre Vandenhende SACEM] via Sound Pocket Music [PRS] and Universal Production Music.

Audio Credits:
Designed Drop Bass With Slow-mo by WOW SOUND via Motion Array

Glitch Whoosh by readsounds via Motion Array

Medieval Battlefield Ambience by Motion Audio via Motion Array

Big Monster Roars by Woozle via Motion Array

Dragon Wings Flapping by dauzkobza via Motion Array

Video Credits:
Woman Rolls Grey Twenty Sided Die Across Game Table With Candles Lit
By BlackBoxGuild via Pond5

Throwing 20 Sided Dice In
By BlackBoxGuild via Pond5

Miniatures In Castle
By BlackBoxGuild via Pond5

Die Rolling On To Screen
By BlackBoxGuild via Pond5

Dragon Attack Green Screen 3D Animation And Rendering
By Razzy20800 via Pond5

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Leap Day: Its Not Just Earth

NASA Goddard 2024-02-29 | We get a whole extra day today!

But why?

We usually say that there are 365 days in a year, or how long it takes for Earth to orbit the Sun, but it’s really more like 365.25. (Where one day is one rotation of Earth on its axis.) To make up for the missing partial day, we add one day to our calendar about every 4 years. It turns out a few extra hours can really add up!

Leap years allow our calendar year to match the solar year. That accuracy is important for laser communications with spacecraft, long-term climate models of our planet, and more. If we subtracted 5 hours, 46 minutes and 48 seconds every year for many years, it would add up!

Learn more about leap years: spaceplace.nasa.gov/leap-year

Music: "The Most Beautiful Cupcake" by Damien Deshayes [SACEM] from Universal Production Music

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
Katy Mersmann (NASA/GSFC): Producer
Sofie Bates (eMITS): Social Media Support
Molly Wasser (AdNet Systems): Social Media Support

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0:00 A woman with brown hair wearing a NASA shirt and holding a calendar open to February. She is pointing to the 29.
0:05 She tosses the calendar aside. Behind her, a greenscreen shows orbit paths of Mercury, Venus, and Earth.
0:10 Dark blue animation of Earth rotating once, labeled 1 day.
0:14 The animation switches to Earth orbiting the Sun, once labeled 1 year.
0:23 Back to the woman talking.
0:27 Animation of Earth, tilted as it would be at the summer solstice. The Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward light coming from offscreen.
0:33 Back to the woman talking.
0:34 Hubble image of Mars, which is a reddish orange globe with white poles.
0:38 Animation of Earth and Mars orbiting the Sun, which pushes into the two labeled dots.
0:44 Back to the woman talking.

Antarctic Sea Ice Hits Annual Minimum, Second Lowest On Record

NASA Goddard 2024-02-28 | On February 20th, 2024, Antarctic sea ice officially reached its minimum extent for the year. This cycle of growth and melting occurs every year, with the ice reaching its smallest size during the Southern Hemisphere's summer. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, this marks the second-lowest sea ice extent recorded by satellites, reflecting a trend of declining coverage over time.

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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
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The Moon and the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

NASA Goddard 2024-02-28 | On April 8th, 2024, parts of the United States, Mexico and Canada will get to experience a total solar eclipse. This video tutorial takes a look at this unique event and explains what role the Moon plays in creating it. The video explains how the two parts of the Moon’s shadow, the umbra and penumbra, affect how we see a solar eclipse on Earth, and where the path of totality for the 2024 eclipse resides. In addition, this video highlights how data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter helps us more accurately depict the shape of the umbra when creating eclipse maps.

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Heliophysics Division Director Joe Westlake

NASA Goddard 2024-02-27 | Meet NASA’s new heliophysics division director, Joe Westlake.

Joe has more than 18 years of scientific, technical, management, and programmatic experience in heliophysics, astrophysics, and planetary science. Throughout his career he has made several significant contributions to NASA missions including the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, the Van Allen Probes, Parker Solar Probe, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, the Juno mission, Cassini, and the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission.

Prior to joining NASA, Joe served as a researcher and project scientist for the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe mission and principal investigator for the Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding instrument at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

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NASAs SDO Captures a February Solar Flare Triple Play

NASA Goddard 2024-02-26 | The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spotted three X-class flares on the Sun between February 21 and 22, 2024. Watch this video to see what those events looked like in several wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light that SDO captures. The first shot is a blend of 131 and 171-angstrom-light imagery, the second is 171 and 304, and the last is 171 and 1600. Each wavelength highlights different temperature plasma and reveals different layers and features of the Sun.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO

Music: "Serene Reverie" from Reflections. Written and produced by Lars Leonhard.

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NASAs SDO Captures a February Solar Flare Triple Play

NASA Goddard 2024-02-26 | The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spotted three X-class flares on the Sun between February 21 and 22, 2024. Watch this video to see what those events looked like in several wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light that SDO captures. The video opens with quick shots of the three flares in different wavelength blends. The first is a blend of 131 and 171-angstrom-light imagery, the second is 171 and 304, and the last is 171 and 1600. Each wavelength highlights different temperature plasma and reveals different layers and features of the Sun. 131 angstrom light shows both the extremely hot plasma of flares (6-10 million Kelvin) and cooler plasma (400,000 Kelvin).

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO

Music: "Serene Reverie" from Reflections. Written and produced by Lars Leonhard.

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Different Ways to Safely View a Solar Eclipse

NASA Goddard 2024-02-26 | Do you know how to safely view a solar eclipse? There are more ways than one!

To protect your eyes while looking at a solar eclipse, always use proper eye protection for solar viewing – such as solar viewing glasses (often called “eclipse glasses”) or a handheld solar viewer – when any part of the bright solar disk is visible.

To use telescopes or binoculars to look directly at the Sun, you must install a certified solar filter to the front of the instrument.

Don’t have eclipse glasses or other equipment? You can use an indirect viewing method to project sunlight onto another surface and see the shape of the Sun throughout the eclipse. There are many ways you can do this from using materials around your house, tree leaves, or even your hands.

To learn more about solar eclipse safety, visit: science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/safety

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How to Safely Watch a Total Solar Eclipse

NASA Goddard 2024-02-15 | On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. A total solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, completely blocking the face of the Sun.

When watching the partial phases of the solar eclipse it is not safe to look directly at the Sun without safe solar viewing glasses (eclipse glasses) or a safe handheld solar viewer. Eclipse glasses are NOT regular sunglasses; regular sunglasses, no matter how dark, are not safe for viewing the Sun. During the short time when the Moon completely obscures the Sun – known as the period of totality – it is safe to look directly at the star without eye protection. However, it’s crucial that you know when to both remove and put back on your safe solar viewing glasses.

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Why Did NASA Choose Asteroid Bennu?

NASA Goddard 2024-02-15 | OSIRIS-REx was the first U.S. mission to retrieve a sample from an asteroid and deliver it to Earth. So, of the more than one million known asteroids in our solar system, why did NASA choose the near-Earth asteroid Bennu for its target? Three factors made Bennu ideal: proximity to Earth, the right size and spin rate, and a carbon-rich composition. Now, scientists studying the Bennu samples are learning more about the history of our solar system and the origins of life – thanks to this one-in-a-million asteroid. Learn more about OSIRIS-REx and asteroid Bennu: science.nasa.gov/mission/osiris-rex

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40 Years of Non-stop Operations - The Space Telescope Operations Control Center

NASA Goddard 2024-02-14 | Dedicated 40 years ago, on February 14th 1984 at NASA Goddard’s Space Flight Center, the STOCC, or the Space Telescope Operations Control Center, operates the Hubble Space Telescope on its important mission.

The Operations Team members at the STOCC continue to operate the telescope, capturing data and images of the cosmos for all of us to enjoy, allowing Hubble to continue its mission of unravelling the mysteries of the universe.

For more information, visit nasa.gov/hubble.

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Landsat 2023 - A Year in Review

NASA Goddard 2024-02-13 | Let’s take a look at the Landsat program 2023, as we delve into studies revealing the environmental impact of river mining, the decline in global lake water levels, and the risks of rising sea levels on coastal habitats. Plus, a sneak peek at what the future of the Landsat program holds with the introduction of Landsat Next. Join us in celebrating these advances in space and environmental science, and stay tuned for what's on the horizon with Landsat in 2024.

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How NASA Uses Simple Technology to Track Lunar Missions

NASA Goddard 2024-02-13 | NASA is using a simple but surprisingly effective technology called Laser Retroreflective Arrays (LRAs) to determine the locations of lunar landers more accurately. They will be attached to landers sent to the Moon as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Service (CLPS) initiative. LRAs are inexpensive, small, and lightweight.

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Ocean Color Countdown with PACE

NASA Goddard 2024-02-02 | The color of our oceans, lakes and rivers can tell us a lot about what's going on just beneath the surface. With the new hyperspectral capabilities of the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, we'll know more about the health of aquatic ecosystems and those impacts on human health and climate studies. We explore just five different ocean colors around the globe and find out what those colors tell us.

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NASA to Study Effects of Radio Noise on Lunar Science

NASA Goddard 2024-02-01 | In February 2024, Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission will launch to the Moon’s South Pole as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative. Among the NASA provided payloads will be an instrument called the Radio wave Observation at the Lunar Surface of the photo-Electron Sheath (ROLSES) designed to observe the Moon’s surface environment in radio frequencies, to determine how natural and human-generated activity near the surface interacts with and could interfere with science conducted there.

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Sonification of the Mice Galaxies

NASA Goddard 2024-01-31 | The Mice Galaxies are a colliding pair of galaxies, that will eventually merge into a single galaxy. They’re located about 300 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.

In this data sonification, scientists represented brightness with volume and pitch – brighter light is louder and lower pitched. The vertical position of objects in the image is used to control the pitch of sustained musical strings, and cymbals swell following the brightness of the galaxy cores. Listen for a cymbal crash played for the foreground star with diffraction spikes, too!

Credit: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M. Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA; Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

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Goddard Year In Review 2023

NASA Goddard 2024-01-29 | From our home planet to the farthest reaches of the universe, review top highlights over 2023 from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the agency’s scientific nerve center.

Download a PDF of Goddard’s 2023 year in review booklet at: nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-gsfcannualreport-digital.pdf

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Goddard is NASA’s premiere space flight complex and home to the nation’s largest organization of scientists, engineers, and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments, and new technology to study Earth, the Sun, our solar system, and the universe.

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Hubble’s Inside The Image: Antennae Galaxies

NASA Goddard 2024-01-29 | The Hubble Space Telescope has taken over 1.5 million observations over the years. One of them is the incredible image of the Antennae Galaxies.

The Antennae Galaxies, officially designated as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, present a celestial ballet within the vast cosmic theater. Located approximately 68 million light-years away in the Corvus constellation, these interacting galaxies are entangled in a cosmic dance, their long tidal tails resembling the antennae of an insect, hence their name.

In this video, Dr. Jennifer Wiseman explains this breathtaking image and how important Hubble is to exploring the mysteries of the universe.

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Hubble Uncovers Water Vapor In Small Exoplanet’s Atmosphere

NASA Goddard 2024-01-25 | Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have observed water vapor in the atmosphere of the smallest exoplanet ever detected. Located 97 light-years away, planet GJ 9827d is approximately twice the size of Earth.

This finding raises the possibility of other planets with water-rich atmospheres in our galaxy. However, it remains uncertain whether the observed water vapor is in a hydrogen-rich atmosphere or if the planet's atmosphere is predominantly water.
Water on a planet this small is a landmark discovery, pushing us closer than ever to characterizing truly Earth-like worlds, and thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope we’ll be able to continue our search for more planets like our own.

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Sonification of Arp 140

NASA Goddard 2024-01-24 | This data sonification of Arp 140 shows a pair of interacting galaxies. The leftmost galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 275, and the right-side galaxy is a lenticular galaxy called NGC 274. In barred spiral galaxies, a bar of stars runs through the central bulge of the galaxy (seen here as a bright-white, vertical haze in NGC 275). Lenticular galaxies, on the other hand, are classified somewhere between elliptical and spiral galaxies, getting their name from the edge-on appearance that resembles a disk. They typically don’t have much gas and dust and are made up primarily of old stars.

Scientists sonified the data in this image, assigning pitch to color for the image as a whole (bluer light is higher, redder is lower). Pitch is mapped to brightness for the resolved stars and background galaxies, based on their apparent size – objects that appear bigger are lower, and smaller are higher in pitch. Brighter light is louder throughout the image.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Foley (University of California - Santa Cruz); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America); Sonification: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

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Galaxy Mergers: Past and Present

NASA Goddard 2024-01-22 | Galaxy mergers, hidden spectacles in our vast universe, play a crucial role in shaping cosmic landscapes. Unlock the secrets of these celestial events and the pivotal role of Hubble in capturing their essence.

Join us on a journey to explore the unseen forces that sculpt galaxies, unveiling the intricate tapestry of our cosmic existence.

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2023 Was the Hottest Year on Record

NASA Goddard 2024-01-12 | 2023 was Earth’s warmest year since 1880, and the last 10 consecutive years have been the warmest 10 on record. But why does NASA, a space agency, look at Earth’s temperature? And how do we even measure global temperature?

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Finding a New Galactic Fossil

NASA Goddard 2024-01-11 | Some 5 million years ago, a black hole eruption in the galaxy NGC 4945 set off a star-formation frenzy and shot a vast cloud of gas into intergalactic space. Watch and learn how two X-ray telescopes revealed the story.

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Hubble’s Inside The Image: Abell 2744

NASA Goddard 2024-01-07 | The Hubble Space Telescope has taken over 1.5 million observations over the years. One of them is the incredible image of Abell 2744.

Abell 2744, known as Pandora's Cluster, nestled in the Sculptor constellation, emerges as a celestial marvel. This cosmic spectacle showcases an intricate dance of galaxies, clusters, and dark matter, captivating astronomers and enthusiasts alike.

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Hubble’s Inside The Image: The Eagle Nebula

NASA Goddard 2024-01-05 | The Hubble Space Telescope has taken over 1.5 million observations over the years. One of them is the incredible image of The Pillars of Creation.

The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula, situated in the Serpens constellation, stand as celestial marvels. Composed of interstellar gas and dust, these towering structures captivate astronomers and stargazers alike. Shaped by the potent forces of stellar winds and radiation, the pillars, resembling cosmic sentinels, showcase vibrant hues. Functioning as crucibles for stellar birth, they facilitate the creation of new stars in a delicate dance of destruction and formation. The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula offer a captivating spectacle, inviting observers to contemplate the profound dynamics at play within our ever-evolving cosmic tapestry.

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Narrated Tour of Fermis 14-Year Gamma-Ray Time-Lapse

NASA Goddard 2023-12-20 | The cosmos comes alive in an all-sky time-lapse movie made from 14 years of data acquired by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Our Sun, occasionally flaring into prominence, serenely traces a path though the sky against the backdrop of high-energy sources within our galaxy and beyond.

Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of light. The movie shows the intensity of gamma rays with energies above 200 million electron volts (MeV) detected by Fermi’s Large Area Telescope (LAT) between August 2008 and August 2022. For comparison, visible light has energies between 2 and 3 electron volts. Brighter colors mark the locations of more intense gamma-ray sources.

The movie shows the sky in two different views. The rectangular view shows the entire sky with the center of our galaxy in the middle. This highlights the central plane of the Milky Way, which glows in gamma rays produced from cosmic rays striking interstellar gas and starlight. It’s also flecked with many other sources, including neutron stars and supernova remnants. Above and below this central band, we’re looking out of our galaxy and into the wider universe, peppered with bright, rapidly changing sources.

Most of these are actually distant galaxies, and they’re better seen in a different view centered on our galaxy’s north and south poles. Each of these galaxies, called blazars, hosts a central black hole with a mass of a million or more Suns. Somehow, the black holes produce extremely fast-moving jets of matter, and with blazars we’re looking almost directly down one of these jets, a view that enhances their brightness and variability.

Many of these galaxies are extremely far away. For example, the light from a blazar known as 4C +21.35 has been traveling for 4.6 billion years, which means that a flare up we see today actually occurred as our Sun and solar system were beginning to form. Other bright blazars are more than twice as distant, and together provide striking snapshots of black hole activity throughout cosmic time.

Not seen in the time-lapse are many short-duration events that Fermi studies, such as gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful cosmic explosions. This is a result of processing data across several days to sharpen the images.

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Fermis 14-Year Time-Lapse of the Gamma-Ray Sky

NASA Goddard 2023-12-20 | The entire gamma-ray sky is unwrapped into a rectangular map, with the center of our Milky Way galaxy located in the middle, in this 14-year time-lapse of the gamma-ray sky. A moving source, our Sun, can be seen following a curving path through the sky, a reflection of Earth’s annual orbital motion. Watch for strong flares that occasionally brighten the Sun. The central plane of our galaxy is on full display, glowing in gamma rays produced when accelerated particles (cosmic rays) interact with interstellar gas and starlight. Pulsars and supernova remnants, all bright gamma-ray sources for Fermi, also fleck the Milky Way band. Above and below the bright central plane, where our view of the broader cosmos becomes clearer, splotches of color brighten and fade. These sources are jets of particles moving at nearly the speed of light driven by supermassive black holes in distant galaxies. The jets happen to point almost directly toward Earth, which enhances their brightness and variability. Over a few days, these galaxies can erupt to become some of the brighest objects in the gamma-ray sky and then fade to obscurity. In these maps, brighter colors indicate greater numbers of gamma rays detected by Fermi’s Large Area Telescope from Aug. 10, 2008, to Aug. 2, 2022.

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