Science Live: To the Moon and Beyond Cloud .Tube 2019-03-05 | Welcome to the first episode of NASA Science Live, an opportunity for you to come behind-the-scenes and get to know your space agency.In this episode, we discuss the Earth's Moon. It's the 5th largest in the solar system and the only place beyond Earth where humans have set foot.Credit:NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
World’s Largest Array of Gamma Ray Telescope Cloud .Tube 2018-12-30 | The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based instrument designed to detect very high energy gamma rays, with sites in both the southern and northern hemispheres. Gamma rays are electromagnetic radiation of very high energy, emitted by the hottest and most extreme objects in the Universe — supermassive black holes, supernovae and maybe even remnants of the Big Bang.On 19 December 2018, Federico Ferrini, Managing Director of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), met with ESO’s Director General, Xavier Barcons, at the ESO offices in Santiago, Chile. Together with ESO’s Director for Operations, Andreas Kaufer, and other ESO members of personnel, they signed the agreement for the construction and operation of CTA’s southern array within ESO’s Paranal site in northern Chile.Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations of Chile Carolina Valdivia Torres and ESO’s Director General also signed the agreement that enables ESO to host CTA-South at the Paranal Observatory site, as an ESO Programme.A third agreement was already signed on 17 December 2018 between the Chilean National Commission for Science and Technology (CONICYT) and CTAO. This cooperation agreement aims at fostering astronomical research in Chile, capitalising on the opening of a new observational window as enabled by CTA-South.Credit:European Southern Observatory (ESO).Directed by: Nico Bartmann.Editing: Nico Bartmann.Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.Written by: Lauren Fuge and Calum Turner.Music: Colin Rayment & Stan Dart – Less Gravity.Footage and photos: ESO, M-A. Besel, G. Perez, IAC (G.P. Diaz), CTAO, NAOJ, L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser.Scientific consultant: Paola Amico.Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
How does Hubble orientate itself in space? Cloud .Tube 2018-12-20 | To obtain crystal clear images of distant galaxies and faint nebulae, Hubble relies on sophisticated hardware to keep its gaze locked onto its target. Hubble’s precise Fine Guidance Sensors, massive Reaction Wheels and state-of-the-art gyroscopes work together to make sure Hubble’s exquisite eye always points at its remote targets with the utmost accuracy.Credit:Directed by: Mathias Jäger.Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser.Written by: Ivana Kurecic.Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa.Images: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI).Videos: NASA, ESA, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser, L. Calçada, N. Bartmann.Music: Johan B. Monell (www.johanmonell.com).Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
This Year @NASA, 2018 Cloud .Tube 2018-12-19 | Jim Bridenstine took office as our 13th administrator in April, to oversee implementation of Space Policy Directive-1, which calls for sustainable and long-term human and robotic exploration of the Moon as a precursor to eventual human missions to Mars.Our InSight lander touched down on Mars in November, kicking off a mission to study the Red Planet’s interior.Within its first week, InSight recorded vibrations caused by the Martian wind – the very first sounds ever sensed directly from the surface of Mars.We also selected a landing site for Mars 2020, and announced that rover will carry the first helicopter to the Red Planet.In June a massive dust storm on Mars sent our solar-powered Opportunity rover –which has far exceeded its expected lifespan on Mars -- into hibernation.After traveling through space for more than two years and two billion kilometers, our OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, on Dec. 3. OSIRIS-REx will study the asteroid and return a sample to Earth in September 2023.Our New Horizons spacecraft made its first detection of Ultima Thule, the Kuiper Belt object it is scheduled to fly by on New Year’s Day, 2019 -- the farthest exploration of any planetary body in history.Our next planet hunter, TESS launched in April and sent back this first image in May. TESS is expected to cover more than 400 times as much sky as shown in the image during its initial two-year search for exoplanets.Our Parker Solar Probe launched in August to “touch the Sun” to gather data that could help us better understand space weather. It has already made the closest approach to the Sun by a human-made object.And two groundbreaking spacecraft ended science operations in 2018. Dawn, which became the first mission to orbit two destinations beyond Earth.In August, we introduced the next astronauts that will launch from American soil on the first flight tests and missions of American-made, commercial spacecraft flying to and from the International Space Station. Those flights are set to begin in 2019.2018’s space station crews supported more than 120 new U.S. science investigations, with a record-setting 100 hours of research in one week in February.Our astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, who were forced to abort their planned mission to the orbital laboratory, were reassigned to the Expedition 59 mission, targeted to launch Feb. 28, 2019.Credit:nasa.gov--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
You Light Up Our Night Cloud .Tube 2018-12-18 | People around the world have the opportunity to participate in the study of a comet in December of 2018, when a hyperactive comet that orbits between Jupiter and the Sun will be closest to Earth.Wirtanen’s orbital period is around 5 and 1/2 years. As the comet and the Earth travel in their different orbits around the Sun, there are times when Wirtanen is observable from Earth, depending on how close it gets to us. Its appearance in 2013, for instance, was very faint, and only a few distant measurements were obtained.Credit:science.nasa.gov--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Enjoying the Geminids From Above and Below Cloud .Tube 2018-12-17 | ky watchers on the Earth will be sprawled flat on their backs, scanning the skies for fleeting streaks of light or “meteors” from small particles or “meteoroids” burning up as they plunge into the atmosphere.While most of those viewers won’t be pondering what the shooting stars are made of, astronomers and planetary scientists will be. The Meteor camera on the space station will provide clues.Meteor records HD video from inside the Window Observational Research Facility (WORF) – looking through thehighest optical-quality window ever installed on a human space vehicle.Credit:science.nasa.gov--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Dancing with the Enemy Cloud .Tube 2018-12-17 | While testing a new subsystem on the SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on ESO’s Very Large telescope, astronomers were able to capture dramatic details of the turbulent stellar relationship in the binary star R Aquarii with unprecedented clarity — even compared to observations from Hubble.Credit:European Southern Observatgory (ESO).Directed by: Nico Bartmann.Editing: Nico Bartmann.Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.Written by: Sara Rigby and Calum Turner.Music: tonelabs – Orion Fog (http://www.tonelabs.com).Footage and photos: ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), Schmid et al., ESA, Hubble, M. Kornmesser, T. Liimets et al.Scientific consultant: Paola Amico.Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
This Week @NASA, December 7, 2018 Cloud .Tube 2018-12-08 | The International Space Station’s three newest crew members, including our Anne McClain, are adjusting to life aboard the orbital outpost. McClain, Oleg Konenenko of Roscosmos, and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency docked their Soyuz spacecraft to the station at 2:33 p.m. EST on Dec. 3.On Dec. 5, a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida to deliver supplies to the space station – including critical materials to directly support dozens of the more than 250 science and research investigations onboard.After traveling through space for more than two years and two billion kilometers, our OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, on Dec. 3. The spacecraft will spend almost a year surveying Bennu to select a location on the asteroid that is safe and scientifically interesting to collect a sample.Credit:nasa.gov--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Telescopes devoted to the search for habitable planets Cloud .Tube 2018-12-07 | The SPECULOOS Southern Observatory (SSO) has been successfully installed at the Paranal Observatory and has obtained its first engineering and calibration images — a process known as first light. After finishing this commissioning phase, this new array of planet-hunting telescopes will begin scientific operations, starting in earnest in January 2019.SSO is the core facility of a new exoplanet-hunting project called Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars (SPECULOOS), and consists of four telescopes equipped with 1-metre primary mirrors. The telescopes — named Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto after the four Galilean moons of Jupiter — will enjoy pristine observing conditions at the Paranal site, which is also home to ESO’s flagship Very Large Telescope (VLT).These telescopes have a momentous task — SPECULOOS aims to search for potentially habitable Earth-sized planets surrounding ultra-cool stars or brown dwarfs, whose planetary populations are still mostly unexplored. Only a few exoplanets have been found orbiting such stars, and even fewer lie within their parent star’s habitable zone.Even though these dim stars are hard to observe, they are abundant — comprising about 15% of the stars in the nearby universe. SPECULOOS is designed to explore 1000 such stars, including the nearest, brightest, and smallest, in search of Earth-sized habitable planets.Credit:European Southern Observatory (ESO).Directed by: Nico Bartmann.Editing: Nico Bartmann.Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.Written by: Sara Rigby and Calum Turner.Music: John Stanford - The Edge (http://www.johnstanfordmusic.com).Footage and photos: ESO, tau-tec GmbH, M. Ruder, P. Horálek, M. Kornmesser, L. Calçada, spaceengine.org.Scientific consultant: Paola Amico.Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Whats Up: December 2018 Cloud .Tube 2018-12-03 | December's Geminid meteors peak on the morning of the 14th at 7:30 a.m. Eastern StandardTime or 4:30 a.m. Pacific and are active from December 4th through the 17th. The peak lasts fora full 24 hours, meaning meteor watchers around the globe will get to see this spectacle.If you can see the familiar winter constellations Orion and Gemini in the sky, you'll see some Geminids. Expect to see up to 120 meteors per hour from a dark sky location but only after thefirst quarter moon sets around midnight your local time. From the Southern Hemisphere,observers should see fewer but still plenty of medium-speed meteors once Gemini rises above the horizon after midnight local time.The best observing equipment for meteor watching is a comfortable chair and your eyes.Comet 46P/Wirtanen started to brighten last month but it will be easier to see in December. It's a short-period comet with an orbital period of only 5.4 years. It's diameter is estimated to be 3/4 of a mile or 1.2 kilometers across.On December 16, 46P will be only 7.2 million miles or 11.7 million kilometers from Earth and will reach an estimated naked-eye magnitude of 3 to 7.5.Catch your last view of Saturn for several months when it's near the Moon at sunset December 8 through the 10th. Then Mars meets up with the Moon December 13th through the 15th.From December 24th to the 26th catch the Moon above, near, and below Leo's bright white star Regulus. Year-end brings the Moon near Virgo's pretty white star Spica from the 29th through the 31st.It's been an honor to write and host these monthly stargazing shows for you since 2007. What's Up has covered the day and nighttime sky, from sunsets to eclipses, planets, comets, and everything in our amazing solar system and beyond--and will continue to do so next year with a new voice.Credit:NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).jpl.nasa.gov--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
This Week @NASA, November 30, 2018 Cloud .Tube 2018-12-03 | That confirmation at 11:52 a.m. PST on Nov. 26 – that our InSight lander survived the plunge through Mars’ atmosphere and was safely on the Martian surface, triggered waves of relief and elation from InSight team members at our Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.While inside, the mission was recognized during the closing bell. Even the crew aboard the International Space Station paid close attention. InSight will be the first mission to study the deep interior of Mars – which is expected to help us learn more about how Mars and other rocky celestial bodies formed – including Earth and our Moon.At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, our Anne McClain and her Expedition 58 crewmates – Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency – wrapped up their final week of activities in preparation for a targeted Dec. 3 launch to the International Space Station.Credit:nasa.gov--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
This Week @NASA, November 23, 2018 Cloud .Tube 2018-11-24 | On Nov. 19, we announced that, after a five-year search that included more than 60 candidate locations on Mars, Jezero Crater has been selected as the landing site for our upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission.The mission is scheduled to launch in July 2020 as the next step in exploration of the Red Planet: It will not only look for signs of ancient habitable conditions and past microbial life, but will also collect rock and soil samples that could be retrieved for return to Earth by a potential future Mars mission.A series of news briefings on Nov. 21 focused on the upcoming landing on Mars of InSight, our next mission to the Red Planet, and our first Mars landing since the Curiosity rover in 2012. The InSight lander is scheduled to touch down on Nov. 26 at approximately 3 p.m. EST.We’ll carry live coverage of the event on NASA Television, on nasa.gov and on the agency’s social media platforms. InSight will be the first spacecraft to study the Red Planet’s deep interior to help us better understand the formation of all rocky worlds, including Earth.Credit:nasa.gov-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#RedPlanet #InSightMission #Mars2020 #MarsRover-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Engineers at ESO Cloud .Tube 2018-11-22 | ESO, the European Southern Observatory, designs, builds and operates some of the most advanced telescopes and instruments in the world. To achieve this, ESO needs a host of talented engineers who design, develop and maintain these sensitive machines.ESO designs, builds and operates some of the most advanced telescopes and instruments in the world. To achieve this, the organisation employs a host of talented engineers who design, develop and maintain these sensitive machines.ESO engineers excel in everything from traditional disciplines like mechanical, electrical and software engineering to more specific areas, such as optics, detector systems, and cryogenic engineering. But what exactly does all this involve?Credit:European Southern Observatory (ESO).Directed by: Herbert Zodet. Editing: Herbert Zodet. Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.Written by: Stephen Molyneux and Calum Turner. Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa. Music: Dimitris Polychroniadis — Feeling the Cosmos (soundcloud.com/dimitris-polychroniadis/sets) and STAN DART — Supernova (http://www.stan-dart.com). Footage and photos: ESO, Liam Young/Unknown Fields, F. Kamphues, Daniele Gasparri, G. Hüdepohl (http://www.atacamaphoto.com), C. Malin (http://www.christophmalin.com), B. Tafreshi (http://www.twanight.org), Alexandre Santerne (Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade do Porto) / Planetário do Porto - Centro Ciência Viva, ACe Consortium, H. Zodet, L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser and Naumann Film GmbH (http://www.naumann-film.de).Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#CryogenicEngineering #MechanicalEngineering #SoftwareEngineering-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Cosmic Serpent Cloud .Tube 2018-11-20 | The VISIR camera on ESO’s VLT captured this stunning image of a newly-discovered massive binary star system. Nicknamed Apep after an ancient Egyptian deity, it could be the first gamma-ray burst progenitor to be found in our galaxy.Credit:European Southern Observatory (ESO).Directed by: Nico Bartmann.Editing: Nico Bartmann.Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.Written by: Sara Rigby and Calum Turner.Music: tonelabs — Orion Fog (http://www.tonelabs.com).Footage and photos: ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2, F. Kamphues, N. Risinger (http://skysurvey.org), Callingham et al., NAOJ, L. Calçada, NASA, SDO, M. Kornmesser.Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#MilkyWay #Wolf-Rayet #VeryLargeTelescope-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
The In Space Refabricator Cloud .Tube 2018-11-20 | While 3D printers are technology that many people are familiar with, there’s one 250 miles above us on the International Space Station (ISS) that’s unlike anything currently found on Earth.It’s known as the Refabricator, a hybrid 3D printer that can recycle its hard, polymer plastic numerous times to make new items.About the size of a dorm room refrigerator, the device is controlled by operators on Earth who oversee its manufacturing via video cameras.Credit:science.nasa.gov--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Honoring a Legend Cloud .Tube 2018-11-18 | The S.S John Young, Northrop Grumman’s latest Cygnus commercial resupply spacecraft, will launch atop an Antares Rocket, beginning its journey to the Space Station this weekend.Cygnus is carrying over 7,500 pounds of crew supplies, station hardware and scientific research, including a new 3d printer and recycler to turn waste plastic materials into high-quality 3d printer filament.Cygnus isn’t the only spacecraft that’s station bound – the 71 Progress resupply craft is also scheduled for an upcoming journey with a destination of the Station.The russian resupply craft will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on friday, November 16. Progress is loaded with almost 6,000 pounds of food, fuel and supplies.The spacecraft will arrive at the station two days later on November 18 and remain docked for four months before departing in march 2019.Upon arrival to the International Space Station, the russian Soyuz stays docked until it’s time for the crew to return to earth. The capsule has a 200 day orbital lifetime, meaning the crew must return home within that time frame.The current crew aboard the Space Station – a trio consisting of an american astronaut, european astronaut and russian cosmonaut – are scheduled to return to earth in their soyuz on december 19.Credit:nasa.gov--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
This Week @NASA, November 17, 2018 Cloud .Tube 2018-11-18 | Satellites in space have captured imagery and data of wildfires that have continued to plague California — including the Woolsey Fire near Los Angeles and the Camp Fire in Northern California.On Nov. 17, our commercial partner, Northrop Grumman launched its Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station on the company’s 10th commercial resupply mission for NASA.A Nov. 16 event at our Kennedy Space Center, in Florida showcased the recently arrived European Service Module for our Orion spacecraft and highlighted our history of cooperation and collaboration with ESA for deep space exploration.Credit:nasa.gov--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Super Earth Orbiting Barnard’s Star Cloud .Tube 2018-11-15 | The nearest single star to the Sun hosts an exoplanet at least 3.2 times as massive as Earth — a so-called super-Earth. One of the largest observing campaigns to date using data from a world-wide array of telescopes, including ESO’s planet-hunting HARPS instrument, have revealed this frozen, dimly lit world.The planet, designated Barnard's Star b, now steps in as the second-closest known exoplanet to Earth [1]. The gathered data indicate that the planet could be a super-Earth, having a mass at least 3.2 times that of the Earth, which orbits its host star in roughly 233 days.Barnard’s Star, the planet’s host star, is a red dwarf, a cool, low-mass star, which only dimly illuminates this newly-discovered world. Light from Barnard’s Star provides its planet with only 2% of the energy the Earth receives from the Sun.Despite being relatively close to its parent star — at a distance only 0.4 times that between Earth and the Sun — the exoplanet lies close to the snow line, the region where volatile compounds such as water can condense into solid ice.This freezing, shadowy world could have a temperature of –170 ℃, making it inhospitable for life as we know it.Credit:European Southern Observatory (ESO).Directed by: Nico Bartmann.Editing: Nico Bartmann.Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.Written by: Sara Rigby and Calum Turner.Music: John Stanford - The Watchers (http://www.johnstanfordmusic.com).Footage and photos: ESO, L. Calçada, V.Romanyuk (http://www.spaceengine.org), J. Pérez, M. Kornmesser.Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#BarnardStar #MilkyWay #PlanetarySystem #Circumstellar #RedDwarf-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Stunning Exoplanet Time lapse Cloud .Tube 2018-11-15 | ESO's planet-hunting instrument SPHERE on the VLT has caught sight of the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b emerging from the bright halo of its parent star, 64 light-years away.Credit:European Southern Observatory (ESO).Directed by: Nico Bartmann.Editing: Nico Bartmann.Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.Written by: Ivana Kurecic and Calum Turner.Music: tonelabs – Noizefield (http://www.tonelabs.com).Footage and photos: ESO, Lagrange, SPHERE consortium, UHD Team, Digitized Sky Survey 2, L. Calçada, Nick Risinger (http://skysurvey.org/).Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#PlanetarySystem #MilkyWay #BetaPictoris-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
This Week @NASA, November 9, 2018 Cloud .Tube 2018-11-10 | Signals from our Parker Solar Probe indicate the spacecraft is alive and well after skimming by the Sun at just 15 million miles from our star's surface. A status beacon sent on Nov. 7 indicates all instruments are running and collecting science data.Our Kennedy Space Center, in Florida received the European Service Module for our Orion spacecraft from Germany on Nov. 6. The service module will propel, power and cool Orion during Exploration Mission-1, Orion’s first uncrewed flight test with our Space Launch System rocket that will demonstrate our capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond.We teamed with the U.S. Navy and others for the seventh in a series of tests off the California coast, to verify and validate procedures and hardware needed to recover Orion, after it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean when it returns from deep space exploration missions.On Nov. 5, our administrator, Jim Bridenstine gave keynote remarks at National Geographic Society Headquarters in Washington, D.C, before a showing of the Project Mars Competition's short films and National Geographic’s Mars series.A Nov. 7 Science Chat focused on upcoming encounters for two of our planetary missions -- OSIRIS-REx, and New Horizons. OSIRIS-REx, our first asteroid sample return mission, will arrive at asteroid Bennu on Dec. 3, and then deliver a sample from the asteroid to Earth in September 2023.These flight cable harnesses, assembled at our Langley Research Center in Virginia, will be used by the Mars Entry, Descent and Landing Instrumentation 2, or MEDLI2 during our Mars 2020 mission’s entry through the Red Planet’s atmosphere.Credit:nasa.gov--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Galactic Fountain Cloud .Tube 2018-11-07 | Observations by ALMA and data from the MUSE spectrograph on ESO’s VLT have revealed a colossal fountain of molecular gas powered by a black hole in the brightest galaxy of the Abell 2597 cluster — the full galactic cycle of inflow and outflow powering this vast cosmic fountain has never before been observed in one system.Credit:European Southern Observatory (ESO).Directed by: Nico Bartmann.Editing: Nico Bartmann.Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.Written by: Sara Rigby and Calum Turner.Music: written and performed by STAN DART(http://www.stan-dart.com/).Footage and photos: ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2, N. Risinger (hhtp://skysurvey.org), ALMA (NAOJ/NRAO), Tremblay et al, AUI/NSF, B. Saxton, NASA/Chandra, ESA/Hubble, L. Calçada.Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#Universe #Galaxy #Cluster-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Observations of Material Orbiting close to a Black Hole Cloud .Tube 2018-11-06 | ESO’s exquisitely sensitive GRAVITY instrument has added further evidence to the long-standing assumption that a supermassive black hole lurks in the centre of the Milky Way.New observations show clumps of gas swirling around at about 30% of the speed of light on a circular orbit just outside a four million solar mass black hole — the first time material has been observed orbiting close to the point of no return, and the most detailed observations yet of material orbiting this close to a black hole.Credit:European Southern Observatory (ESO).Directed by: Nico Bartmann.Editing: Nico Bartmann.Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.Written by: Sara Rigby and Calum Turner.Music: written and performed by STAN DART (http://www.stan-dart.com/).Footage and photos: ESO/Gravity Consortium/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser/N. Risinger (http://skysurvey.org)Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
The Pirate of the Southern Skies Cloud .Tube 2018-11-06 | This vivid picture of an active star forming region — NGC 2467, otherwise known as the Skull and Crossbones nebula — is as sinister as it is beautiful. This image of dust, gas and bright young stars, gravitationally bound into the form of a grinning skull, was captured with the FORS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT).Whilst ESO’s telescopes are usually used for the collection of science data, their immense resolving power makes them ideal for capturing images such as this — which are beautiful for their own sake.Credit:European Southern Observatory (ESO).Directed by: Nico Bartmann.Editing: Nico Bartmann.Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.Written by: Sara Rigby and Calum Turner.Music: Johan B. Monell (www.johanmonell.com).Footage and photos: ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org).Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
This Week @NASA, November 2, 2018 Cloud .Tube 2018-11-03 | Our Parker Solar Probe is the new record holder for closest approach to the Sun by a human-made object. According to calculations by the Parker Solar Probe team, on Oct. 29, the spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles from the Sun’s surface, set by the Helios 2 spacecraft in April 1976.After nine years in deep space, we are ending the science operations of our Kepler space telescope. Data collected by Kepler have helped us discover there are more planets than stars in our galaxy. The telescope has discovered more than 2,600 planets during its mission, many of which could be promising places for life.After our Dawn spacecraft missed several communications sessions with our Deep Space Network, mission managers ended the historic mission – concluding that the spacecraft has finally run out of the fuel it uses to orient itself in space.Mission managers previewed the InSight mission to Mars during an Oct. 31 briefing at NASA headquarters. The InSight lander is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet on Nov. 26.On Oct. 31, engineers at our Stennis Space Center in Mississippi conducted another ‘hot fire’ test of an RS-25 engine controller, for use on a future flight of our new Space Launch System or SLS rocket.Urban Air Mobility was the focus of an industry day on Nov. 1 in Seattle. Urban Air Mobility is defined as a safe and efficient system for passenger and cargo air transportation in and around an urban area.Engineers recently tested a sub-scale model of our X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane, in a wind tunnel at our Langley Research Center in Virginia. The X-59 will demonstrate quiet supersonic technologies in straight and level flight over a large area.Credit:nasa.gov-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#ParkerSolarProbe #Insight #DeepSpace #AirMobility-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
The Sun, Our Living Star Cloud .Tube 2018-11-02 | The Sun has shone on our world for four and a half billion years. The light that warms our skin today has been felt by every person who has ever lived.It is our nearest star and our planet’s powerhouse, the source of the energy that drives our winds, our weather and all life.The passage of the Sun’s fiery disc across the sky — day by day, month by month — was the only way to keep track of time for countless past civilisations.Don’t be fooled by the terminology; although it is a typical dwarf star, the Sun consumes 600 million tons of hydrogen each second and is 500 times as massive as all the planets combined.Discover the secrets of our star in this planetarium show and experience never-before-seen images of the Sun’s violent surface in immersive fulldome format.Our team has worked with some of the most talented planetarium producers to bring you this visually striking planetarium show about the most important star in our lives.Credit:Film Director: Theofanis Matsopoulos Music & Sound Effects: Konstantino Polizois 3D Animation and Graphics: Theofanis Matsopoulos, Luis Calçada & Martin Kornmesser Producer: Theofanis Matsopoulos & the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Executive Producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen. Script and Scientific Advice: Lars Lindberg Christensen, Ryan Wyatt, Nicolas Matsopoulos, Adam Hadhazy, Rebecca Davies, Carl Mundy & Paola Amico. Narration: Sara Mendes Da Costa. Audio mastering: George Deligiannis.USAGE AGREEMENT:The material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Serpens Nebula Video zoom Cloud .Tube 2018-11-02 | This animation compares the appearance of the Serpens Nebula as seen from the ground — with the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory, and from space — with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Both observatories used detectors and filters observing in the near-infrared to gather their data.Credit:NASA, ESA/Hubble, ESO.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Whats Up November 2018 Cloud .Tube 2018-11-01 | You can't miss bright #Venus in the predawn sky. It appears next to Spica, Virgo's brilliantly white star, all month.You can catch #Saturn at sunset this month. On the 11th the crescent #Moon is less than 2 degrees (or 4 Moon widths) away from the #RingedPlanet .For Northern Hemisphere observers, #Jupiter is visible at sunset for the first week of November. But then it becomes lost to view on November 26th as it reaches solar conjunction. #Solarconjunction is when the Sun is directly in between Earth and another planet. Next month Jupiter will reappear as a morning planet.Mars has its own meetup with the Moon. It continues to be brightly visible in the evening sky. As it moves farther from Earth in its orbit, it will fade in magnitude and shrink in apparent size. Mars will be easy to see on November 26th, when NASA's Insight mission lander touches down on the #RedPlanet .#AsteroidJuno the third asteroid ever discovered, but only the 11th brightest, is visible in telescopes this month, shining at magnitude 7.5.#Comet46P , also at magnitude 7.5, may brighten to naked eye visibility. Observers in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres should be able to see it.Finally, the Leonid #MeteorShower peaks November 17th as dust from comet 55P Tempel-Tuttle passes close to Earth. The Leonids are best seen after midnight your local time, once the Moon has set. You should also be able to see some Leonids on the 18th, 19th and 20th. The maximum for any of these nights is only 10 Leonids per hour.Next month we'll wrap up the year and I'll wrap up 12 years writing and presenting What's Up. A new presenter will resume the series in January.Credit:NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
#Hubble Technology Detected #Science Writers #BreastCancer Cloud .Tube 2018-10-29 | Ann Jenkins has been writing about the Hubble Space Telescope and its discoveries for most of her adult life. One of her earliest projects with the team was to write about a technology spinoff that used digital imaging technology developed for Hubble in breast biopsy systems to clearly and precisely image suspicious tissue and guide a needle to retrieve a sample.This saved patients from having to undergo a surgical incision, in turn reducing pain, scarring and recovery time. Years later, Jenkins benefitted from the very same technology when a mammogram revealed something suspicious and she had to have a biopsy herself.Credit:NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Waiting Far Away Cloud .Tube 2018-10-29 | An explorer of the #cosmos has traveled too far… And can’t find home.Follow in the footsteps of a cosmic traveler as he shares a wild story.Find out what grand mysteries he has uncovered while journeying deep into #intergalactic #space , searching...Credit:Charles Hayden Planetarium, Museum of Science, Boston.Visuals by Wade Sylvester & Jason Fletcher.Music & Narration by Wade Sylvester.USAGE AGREEMENT:The material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Testing a Parachute for Mars Cloud .Tube 2018-10-28 | On Sept. 7 NASA’s ASPIRE project broke a record when its rocket-launched parachute deployed in 4-10ths of a second - the fastest inflation of this size chute in history.CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
NASA Catches Super #TyphoonYutu Making Landfall Cloud .Tube 2018-10-28 | NASA's GPM Core Observatory satellite captured an image of Super Typhoon Yutu when it flew over the powerful storm just as the center was striking the central Northern Mariana Islands north of Guam.Early Thursday, Oct. 25 local time, Super Typhoon Yutu crossed over the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. It was the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane. The National Weather Service in Guam said it was the strongest storm to hit any part of the U.S. this year.Credit:NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Space to Ground: Neutron Dance Cloud .Tube 2018-10-27 | Expedition 57 commander Alexander Gerst performed some needed maintenance on the ACME insert in the cir combustion chamber. CIR, or combustion integrated rack, enables safe combustion research in microgravity.Its “plug-and-play” approach supports a wide variety of studies on droplet, solid fuel, and gaeous fuel combustion.The ACME, advanced combustion via microgravity experiments project, investigates 5 different studies with the goals of improving fuel efficiency, reducing pollution byproducts from combustion, and preventing spacecraft fires by better understanding material flammibility.The neutron star interior composition explorer, or nicer, provides high-precision measurements of neutron stars, also known as pulsars. Pulsars are the incredibly dense, crushed cores that remain after a supernova.Because pulsars shine most brightly in narrow beams that sweep the sky as they rotate, they appear to pulse like a lighthouse beacon. This knowledge could revolutionize space navigation by using pulsars as beacons to guide our future exploration of space.The first astronauts slated to fly on new spacecraft from boeing and SpaceX were joined by a pair of future Space Station crew members from Japan for a marathon taste test in NASA’s Food Lab.All crew members bound for the station get a chance to sample the cosmic menu that will sustain them while they spend time in microgravity.Ham radio has been a part of human space exploration since 1983. Crewmembers have the option of making calls with ham radio amateurs on their personal time.Credit:nasa.gov--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
This Week @NASA, October 26, 2018 Cloud .Tube 2018-10-27 | On Oct. 23, our administrator, Jim Bridenstine participated in the fourth meeting of the National Space Council at the National War College in Washington, D.C. During the event, the administrator provided an update to U.S. Vice President and council chair, Mike Pence on the commercialization of low-Earth orbit – as called for in Space Policy Directive-2.Earlier that day, during a panel discussion at the “Transformers: Space” event – hosted by the Washington Post – Bridenstine talked about our plans for a long-term return to the Moon to gain knowledge and experience that is essential for even farther journeys, including to Mars.Hockey, anyone?? Our Operation IceBridge team spotted a couple of unusual-looking icebergs, during an aerial survey over the northern Antarctic Peninsula. A very sharp-angled and rectangular-shaped, tabular iceberg was seen floating among sea ice just off the Larsen C ice shelf.This image of Mars – seen in the dashed circle – is the first ever image of the Red Planet captured by a CubeSat – a class of tiny, low-cost spacecraft. The image was captured by one of the twin Mars Cube One, or MarCO CubeSats launched with our InSight spacecraft to Mars. After being put into safe mode on Oct. 10, our Chandra X-ray Observatory recently resumed science observations following the successful completion of a procedure to enable a new gyroscope configuration for the spacecraft.Credit:nasa.gov--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Superstar Eta Carinae Cloud .Tube 2018-10-26 | #EtaCarinae , the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is known for its surprising behavior, erupting twice in the 19th century for reasons scientists still don't understand. Located about 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina, Eta Carinae comprises two massive stars whose eccentric orbits bring them unusually close every 5.5 years.Both produce powerful gaseous outflows called stellar winds, which enshroud the stars and stymy efforts to directly measure their properties. During the past 11 years, astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have developed a model based on routine observations of the stars using ground-based telescopes and multiple NASA satellites. According to this model, the interaction of the two stellar winds accounts for many of the periodic changes observed in the system. Scientists will use information from the model to further explore the system's inner workings and unravel its tumultuous past.Credit:NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.Homunculus Nebula image courtesy of NASA/ESA/Hubble SM4 ERO Team.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Hubble Sees A Cosmic Lightsaber Cloud .Tube 2018-10-26 | Far, far away in our own galaxy, cosmic forces are awakening in a newborn star seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. On Friday, Dec. 18th, scientists will show you a new image of a newborn star right here in our Milky Way galaxy, shooting jets into space that resemble a cosmic “lightsaber.”Since Hubble’s launch in 1990, Hubble has given humankind an unobstructed view of the #universe that has rewritten the textbooks and profoundly transformed our understanding of the cosmos and our place among the stars. #Hubble has given us a closer look at galaxies far, far away, and the planets and moons right here in our #solarsystem .This is helping NASA in its quest to understand the solar system and beyond. Hubble continues to generate powerful images that show us the real ‘star wars,’ turning science fiction into science fact.Credit:NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Map a Killer #BlackHole Cloud .Tube 2018-10-25 | Some 3.9 billion years ago in the heart of a distant galaxy, the tidal pull of a monster black hole shredded a star that wanderd too close. X-rays produced in this event first reached Earth on March 28, 2011, when they were detected by NASA's Swift satellite. Within days, scientists concluded that the outburst, now known as Swift J1644+57, represented both the tidal disruption of a star and the sudden flare-up of a previously inactive black hole.Now astronomers using archival observations from Swift, the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton observatory and the Japan-led Suzaku satellite have identified the reflections of X-ray flares erupting during the event. Led by Erin Kara, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the University of Maryland, College Park, the team has used these light echoes, or reverberations, to map the flow of gas near a newly awakened black hole for the first time. Swift J1644+57 is one of only three tidal disruptions that have produced high-energy X-rays, and to date it remains the only event caught at the peak of this emission. While astronomers don't yet understand what causes flares near the black hole, when one occurs they can detect its echo a couple of minutes later as its light washes over structures in the developing accretion disk. The technique, called X-ray reverberation mapping, has been used before to explore stable disks around black holes, but this is time it has been applied to a newly formed disk produced by a tidal disruption.Swift J1644+57's accretion disk was thicker, more turbulent and more chaotic than stable disks, which have had time to settle down into an orderly routine. One surprise is that high-energy X-rays arise from the innermost regions of the disk instead of a narrow jet of accelerated particles, as originally thought.The researchers estimate the black hole has a mass about a million times that of the sun. They expect future improvements in understanding and modeling accretion flows will allow them to measure the black hole's spin using this data.Credit:NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Data Visualizations in Ultra-HD Cloud .Tube 2018-10-25 | When we feel The #Earth beneath our feet, see it with our eyes, hear it when the wind blows, we perceive only the most obvious filaments of a far more complex place. Only with exquisite machines #spacecraft in orbit and powerful computers on the ground--can humanity begin to uncover the elegant nature of our complex home.Presented here are a collection of data visualizations based on observations gathered by a fleet of spacecraft. In various depictions we see the currents of the world's oceans, changes in temperature and land cover over time, and precipitation as it cycles energy and water around our living planet.But The Earth is only one part of a dynamic sphere, and with its companion The Moon nearby, we cannot hlep but remeber that our whole planet travels in a wider ocean. This video presents Earth's #Moon with data gathered by the remarkable Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, an advanced probe designed to map our planetary companion in unprecedented detail.Finally, our place in space would be cold and lifeless if it were not for our omnipresent star, The Sun. Shining ceaselessly in the void, it bathes our home planet in life giving energy, and holds The Earth, The Moon, and everything else in the solar system in its gravitational thrall.The data used in the creation of this video come from a wide range of spacecraft, all part of NASA's broader Science Mission Directorate.Credit: Michael Starobin, Producer.NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio.NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.Music by Kevin MacLeod.Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Outer Planets Likely Neptune mass Cloud .Tube 2018-10-25 | A new statistical study of planets found by a technique called gravitational microlensing suggests that Neptune-mass worlds are likely the most common type of planet to form in the icy outer realms of planetary systems. The study provides the first indication of the types of planets waiting to be found far from a host star, where scientists suspect planets form most efficiently.Gravitational microlensing takes advantage of the light-bending effects of massive objects predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity. It occurs when a foreground star, the lens, randomly aligns with a distant background star, the source, as seen from Earth.As the lensing star drifts along in its orbit around the galaxy, the alignment shifts over days to weeks, changing the apparent brightness of the source. The precise pattern of these changes provides astronomers with clues about the nature of the lensing star, including any planets it may host.More than 50 exoplanets have been discovered using microlensing compared to thousands detected by other techniques, such as detecting the motion or dimming of a host star caused by the presence of planets.Because the necessary alignments between stars are rare and occur randomly, astronomers must monitor millions of stars for the tell-tale brightness changes that signal a microlensing event.However, microlensing holds great potential. It can detect planets hundreds of times more distant than most other methods, allowing astronomers to investigate a broad swath of our Milky Way galaxy.The technique can locate exoplanets at smaller masses and greater distances from their host stars, and it's sensitive enough to find planets floating through the galaxy on their own, unbound to stars.Credit:NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Hubble’s biggest discoveries: Part 2 Cloud .Tube 2018-10-24 | To many, #Hubble is best known for its stunning images of #celestialobjects but among astronomers it is admired for the valuable data it delivers.Hubble has helped revolutionise #astronomy , including shedding light on #darkmatter and dark energy, lifting the veil on #blackholes , and peering into the dusty regions around stars to image #exoplanets .Credit:Hubble Space Telescope.Directed by: Mathias Jäger.Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser.Written by: Lauren Fuge, Tom Barratt, Mathias Jäger.Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa.Images: NASA, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser, HST Frontier Fields team (STScI, Risinger, Guisard, Digitized Sky Survey 2, G. Bacon (STScI).Videos: NASA, ESA/Hubble, Hubble Heritage Team, CLUES - Constrained Local Universe Evolution Simulation.Animations: NASA, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser, L. Calçada, G. Bacon, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, F. Summers, J. Anderson.Music: Johan B. Monell (http://www.johanmonell.com).Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Hubble’s biggest discoveries: Part 1 Cloud .Tube 2018-10-24 | Since its launch in 1990, #Hubble has revolutionised our knowledge of astronomy. From imaging the most stunning phenomena in the cosmos, to the study of the invisible parts of the #Universe , to observing the most distant objects ever seen. Hubble’s sharp eye has been at the forefront of astronomical exploration. This is the first part of an exploration of some of Hubble’s most important discoveries in its almost 27-year history.Credit:Directed by: Mathias Jäger.Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser.Written by: Tom Barratt, Lauren Fuge, Mathias Jäger.Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa.Images: NASA, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser, HST Frontier Fields team (STScI), HUDF09 Team, HUDF Team, Hubble Deep Field Team (STScI).Videos: NASA, ESA/Hubble,CLUES - Constrained Local Universe Evolution Simulation.Animations: NASA, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser, L. Calçada, WordlWideTelescope, G. Bacon (STScI).Music: Johan B. Monell (www.johanmonell.com)Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Ultra High Definition views of Planet Earth Cloud .Tube 2018-10-24 | Can’t get enough of Earth? Then this is for you: an extended playback of Ultra High Definition views of #Planet #Earth .You’ll see the #FrenchRiviera and the #SaharaDesert , cross North America from Texas all the way to Canada, and more — this is your source for the view of your home planet from 250 miles up! Fire up the biggest screen you have.Credit: NASA.UHD download link:archive.org/details/NASA-Ultra-High-DefinitionMusic:http://chriszabriskie.com/darkglowhttp://chriszabriskie.com/honorCreative Commons License: Attribution 4.0http://chriszabriskie.com/licensing--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Lightning Across the Solar System Cloud .Tube 2018-10-24 | Lightning is as beautiful as it is powerful – a violent, hotter than the surface of the Sun electrical marvel. But might lightning on other planets be even more astonishing?New Horizons cameras captured lightning flashes on #Jupiter ten times as powerful as anything ever recorded on Earth. And recently #Juno , flying closer to Jupiter than any previous mission, found that most of Jupiter’s lightning is around the planet’s higher latitudes, unlike Earth, where lightning strikes primarily over land and most intensely at the equator.On #Earth , lightning forms because colliding ice crystals and water drops inside clouds create positive and negative electric charges which become separated by convective forces. When the charges become separated enough, a lightning bolt discharges. Something similar happens on Jupiter.Gases, including water vapor, rise from deep within the planet. As they freeze, ice particles become separated from the water drops by convection, building a charge, which is discharged as lightning. Credit:science.nasa.gov--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Ocean Worlds Cloud .Tube 2018-10-23 | We once thought #oceans made our #planet unique, but we’re now coming to realize that #oceanworlds are all around us.Credit:science.nasa.gov--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Satellite Sentinels Cloud .Tube 2018-10-23 | No planet is better studied than the one we actually live on. NASA's fleet of 18 #Earth #science missions in #space , supported by aircraft, ships and ground observations, measure aspects of the environment that touch the lives of every person around the world.They study everything from the air we breathe, to rain and snow that provide water for agriculture and communities, to #naturaldisasters such as droughts and floods, to the oceans, which cover 70 percent of Earth’s surface and provide food for many people around the world.#Satellites and instruments on the International Space Station circle the whole globe, seeing both where people live and those remote parts of deserts, mountains and the vast oceans that are difficult if not impossible to visit. With instruments in space, scientists can get data for the whole globe in detail that they can't get anywhere else.Credit:NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
The Secrets behind Earth’s Multi-colored Glow Cloud .Tube 2018-10-22 | What does our planet look like from space? Most are familiar with the beloved images of the blue marble or pale blue dot — Earth from 18,000 and 3.7 billion miles away, respectively. But closer to home, within the nearest region of space, you might encounter an unfamiliar sight.If you peer down on Earth from just 300 miles above the surface, near the orbit of the International Space Station, you can see vibrant swaths of red and green or purple and yellow light emanating from the upper atmosphere.Airglow occurs when atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, excited by sunlight, emit light in order to shed their excess energy. Or, it can happen when atoms and molecules that have been ionized by sunlight collide with and capture a free electron. In both cases, they eject a particle of light — called a photon — in order to relax again.The phenomenon is similar to auroras, but where auroras are driven by high-energy particles originating from the solar wind, airglow is energized by day-to-day solar radiation.Credit:NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX#EarthScience #Ionosphere #Magnetosphere #Atmosphere #AtmosphericRadiation #Airglow #Sun #Heliophysics
Deep Waters Cloud .Tube 2018-10-22 | What lies in the #deepwaters of National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa?Credit:http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Flight through the Orion Nebula in visible and infrared light Cloud .Tube 2018-10-22 | This version of Flight Through the #OrionNebula in Visible and #InfraredLight has been rendered onto a hemispherical format (azimuthal equidistant projection) for use in planetarium domes. The black circular mask in the images denotes the edge of the hemispherical dome projection.This visualization explores the Orion Nebula using both visible-light observations from the #HubbleSpaceTelescope and infrared-light observations from the #SpitzerSpaceTelescope. The contrast between visible and infrared views of the nebula are examined using two spatially matched three-dimensional models.As the camera flies into the star-forming region, the sequence cross-fades back and forth between the visible and infrared views. The glowing gaseous landscape has been illuminated and carved by the high energy radiation and strong stellar winds from the massive hot stars in the central cluster. The infrared observations generally show cooler temperature gas at a deeper layer of the nebula that extends well beyond the visible image.In addition, the infrared showcases many faint stars that shine primarily at longer wavelengths. The higher resolution visible observations show finer details including the wispy bow shocks and tadpole-shaped proplyds. In this manner, the movie illustrates the contrasting features uncovered by multi-wavelength astronomy.Credit:NASA, ESA, and F. Summers, G. Bacon, Z. Levay, J. DePasquale, L. Hustak, L. Frattare, M. Robberto, M. Gennaro (STScI), R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC). Acknowledgement: R. Gendler. Music: “Dvorak – Serenade for Strings Op22 in E Major larghetto”, performed by The Advent Chamber Orchestra, CC BY-SA.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Ingredients for Life at Enceladus Cloud .Tube 2018-10-22 | NASA's Cassini spacecraft discovered hydrogen in the plume of gas and icy particles spraying from Saturn's moon Enceladus.In 2015 #Cassini spacecraft made the deepest dive ever through a plume of gas and ice spraying from the south pole of Saturn's #moon #Enceladus . A Cassini science instrument "sniffed" the plume and detected hydrogen.Credit:jpl.nasa.gov--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
Sunstruck Cloud .Tube 2018-10-21 | Travel back to the beginning of time and experience the birth of the #Sun . Discover how it came to support life, how it threatens #life as we know it, and how its #energy will one day fade away.This NASA funded fulldome planetarium show is available for free to planetariums worldwide.Credit:Michigan Science Center.The material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.eso.org/public/outreach/copyright--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Twitter:twitter.com/Cloud_TubeGoogle +:plus.google.com/+CloudTubeFliX
