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To dig into the mysteries of our planet Earth, NASA has a fleet of satellites in orbit, gathering data around the clock. Join one of these satellites – the Plankton, Aerosol, ocean Ecosystem Satellite (PACE), which launched in February 2024 – to explore its unique views of our home planet’s ocean, atmosphere, and land surfaces.
To explore and download data from the PACE mission, visit pace.gsfc.nasa.gov
Music: "Swells," "Aurora Borealis," "Birth," "Stormlights," "Cumulonimbus," "Rippling Rain," "Spiral Galaxy," Universal Production Music
Ryan Fitzgibbons (eMITS/AMA): Lead Producer, Editor
Kel Elkins (eMITS): Lead Visualizer
Kirk Knobelspiesse (NASA/GSFC): Lead Scientist, Narrator, Writer
Jeremy Werdell (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Ivona Cetinic (Morgan State): Scientist
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To dig into the mysteries of our planet Earth, NASA has a fleet of satellites in orbit, gathering data around the clock. Join one of these satellites – the Plankton, Aerosol, ocean Ecosystem Satellite (PACE), which launched in February 2024 – to explore its unique views of our home planet’s ocean, atmosphere, and land surfaces.
To explore and download data from the PACE mission, visit pace.gsfc.nasa.gov
Music: "Swells," "Aurora Borealis," "Birth," "Stormlights," "Cumulonimbus," "Rippling Rain," "Spiral Galaxy," Universal Production Music
Ryan Fitzgibbons (eMITS/AMA): Lead Producer, Editor
Kel Elkins (eMITS): Lead Visualizer
Kirk Knobelspiesse (NASA/GSFC): Lead Scientist, Narrator, Writer
Jeremy Werdell (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Ivona Cetinic (Morgan State): Scientist
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![Coming together: Roman’s Spacecraft Integrated Payload Assembly
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s core elements have been installed onto the spacecraft bus — the observatory’s powerhouse that will transport it a million miles away to Lagrange Point 2.
This combination of the spacecraft bus with the Optical Telescope Assembly, Wide Field Instrument, and Coronagraph Instrument creates the Spacecraft Integrated Payload Assembly, or SCIPA.
These components equip Roman to investigate the universe’s many mysteries, like dark energys role in cosmic history, dark matter’s properties, and planets outside of our solar system.
Music credit: “Your Intensity of Spirit,” Jay Price [PRS], Universal Production Music
Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
Sophia Roberts (eMITS): Lead Producer, Editor
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![Can You Solve NASA’s #3point8 Puzzles?
On Dec. 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will fly approximately 3.8 million miles from the solar surface — the closest solar approach in history. To celebrate, join Parker’s journey with a digital quest of your own: Each day from Dec. 17 - 24, 2024, we’re hiding a new custom “3.8” digital sticker on a secret NASA webpage. Solve our puzzles to find them!
In addition to being closest to the Sun, Parker Solar Probe is also the fastest human-made object in history. Think you are the fastest puzzle solver? Join the leaderboard and find out! On each day’s secret webpage, enter your preferred username to join the contest. At 9 p.m. EST each day, we’ll post the leaderboard so everyone can see who solved the puzzles fastest.
Learn more at go.nasa.gov/3point8
Music Credit: “Laser Cycle Launch Party” by Aaron Michael Wittrock [ASCAP], Julian Daniel Anderson [BMI], & Forrest Reed [ASCAP] via Universal Production Music
Additional Graphics: vecteezy.com
Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: Beth Anthony (eMITS)
Writer: Miles Hatfield (eMITS)
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![NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory Will Search for Life
Finding signs of life on planets outside our solar system will require a more powerful space telescope than any ever built. NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory will draw on technologies proven by the agency’s Hubble, Webb and upcoming Roman Space Telescopes to peer into the cosmos and find the unique signatures of planets that can support life as well as possibly life itself.
Actor John Rhys-Davies narrates this short video about the mission and its objectives.
Music credit: “Learning to Fly,” Andre Jesus Oliviera [PRS], Universal Production Music
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Narrator: John Rhys-Davies
Animators:
Chris Smith (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Jonathan North (eMITS)
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Producers:
Scott Wiessinger (eMITS)
Chris Smith (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Claire Andreoli (NASA/GSFC)
Editor: Scott Wiessinger (eMITS)
Audio engineer: Jacob Pinter (eMITS)
Writers:
Claire Andreoli (NASA/GSFC)
Chris Smith (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Yesenia Arroyo (Southeastern Universities Research Association)
Pat Brennan (JPL)
Scientists:
Aki Roberge (NASA/GSFC)
Giada Arney (NASA/GSFC)
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![NASA’s Illuminate: NASA Spacecraft Gets Photobombed!
A breathtaking moment captured by NASA’s STEREO spacecraft — but who is the real STAR here!?
In March 2013, STEREO, a spacecraft designed to monitor solar explosions, got photobombed by comet C/2011 L4 Pan-STARRS!
On the left, solar material erupts from the Sun, while Earth glows on the right. Then comet Pan-STARRS streaks right through the middle of the shot. We should treasure the interruption, though: This comet won’t be back for another 100,000 years!
NASA’s Illuminate: Out-of-this-world images shining light on our Sun and solar system.
Music Credit: “Everyday Stories” by Eric Chevalier [SACEM] via Universal Production Music
Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: Beth Anthony (eMITS)
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![From the Moon, NASA’s LEXI Will Reveal Earth’s Magnetic Shield
NASA’s next mission to the Moon will carry an instrument called LEXI (the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager), which will provide the first-ever global view of the magnetic environment that shields Earth from solar radiation.
From the surface of the Moon, LEXI will capture wide-field images of Earths magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, in low-energy (or soft) X-rays. LEXI will study changes in the magnetosphere and help us learn more about how it interacts with a stream of particles from the Sun called the solar wind, which can pose hazards for Artemis astronauts traveling to the Moon.
Learn more about LEXI and its CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) flight to the Moon from Hyunju Connor, LEXI co-investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
More on LEXI: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-lexi-will-provide-x-ray-vision-of-earths-magnetosphere/
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Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center
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Videographer: Beth Anthony (eMITS)
Writer: Vanessa Thomas (eMITS)
Talent: Hyunju Connor (NASA)
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![NASA’s NICER Studies Recurring Cosmic Crashes
For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other missions.
Scientists have only recently encountered this class of X-ray flares, called QPEs, or quasi-periodic eruptions. A galaxy astronomers have nicknamed Ansky is only the eighth QPE source discovered, and it produces the most energetic outbursts seen to date. Ansky also sets records in terms of timing and duration, with eruptions every 4.5 days or so that last approximately 1.5 days.
Ansky’s name comes from ZTF19acnskyy, the moniker of a visible-light outburst seen in 2019. It was located in a galaxy about 300 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. This event was the first indication that something unusual might be happening.
A leading theory suggests that QPEs occur in systems where a relatively low-mass object passes through the disk of gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that holds hundreds of thousands to billions of times the Sun’s mass.
When the lower-mass object punches through the disk, its passage drives out expanding clouds of hot gas that we observe as QPEs in X-rays.
Scientists think their quasi-periodicity occurs because the smaller object’s orbit is not perfectly circular and spirals toward the black hole over time. Also, the extreme gravity close to the black hole warps the fabric of space-time, altering the object’s orbits so they don’t close on themselves with each cycle. Scientists’ current understanding suggests the eruptions repeat until the disk disappears or the orbiting object disintegrates, which may take up to a few years.
Scientists think Ansky’s extreme properties may be due to the nature of the disk around its supermassive black hole, which may be much larger and therefore involve objects farther away than previous examples, creating longer timescales.
Astronomers used data from NICER and ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) XMM-Newton space telescope to map the rapid evolution of the ejected material driving the observed QPEs in unprecedented detail by studying variations in X-ray intensity during the rise and fall of each eruption.
The researchers found that each impact resulted in about a Jupiter’s worth of mass reaching expansion velocities around 15% of the speed of light.
NICER’s ability to frequently observe Ansky from the space station and its unique measurement capabilities also made it possible for researchers to measure the size and temperature of the roughly spherical bubble of debris as it expanded.
For more information about this story: https://science.nasa.gov/universe/nasas-nicer-maps-debris-from-recurring-cosmic-crashes/
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Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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Science Writer: Jeanette Kazmierczak (University of Maryland College Park)
Narrator: Scott Wiessinger (eMITS)
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