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This galaxy has an edge on the rest 💫⁣ ⁣ @NASAHubble captured this nearly edge-on view of a lenticular galaxy, a galaxy that has an elliptical shape and lacks the well-defined arms of a spiral galaxy. This particular galaxy resides around 60 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Virgo.⁣ ⁣ This galaxy is likely the result of a galactic merger with a nearby galaxy roughly 1.3 billion years ago. The distinct dust lanes around its center may have resulted from this cosmic collision.⁣ ⁣ Image description: Lenticular galaxy NGC 4753 holds a bright-white core, surrounded by a tube of dust lanes that predominantly appear dark brown in color. A variety of faint stars fill the background of the image, which is suffused by a white glow.⁣ ⁣ Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Kelsey⁣ ⁣ #NASA #NASAHubble #Space #Cosmos #Galaxies #Virgo #Constellation #Edge

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Some give their children the world, others give them space. ⭐ Our Galileo spacecraft was named for a father of modern astronomy, Galileo Galilei. Galileo was the first mission to measure Jupiter’s atmosphere directly with a descent probe, and the first to conduct long-term observations of the jovian system from orbit. Galileo orbited Jupiter for almost eight years and made close passes by all its major moons. It found evidence of subsurface liquid layers of saltwater on Europa, Ganymede and Callisto and it examined a diversity of volcanic activity on Io. Its camera and nine other instruments sent back reports that allowed scientists to determine, among other things, that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa probably has a subsurface ocean with more water than the total amount found on Earth. They discovered that the volcanoes of the moon Io repeatedly and rapidly resurface the little world. They found that the giant moon Ganymede possesses its own magnetic field. Galileo even carried a small probe that it deployed and sent deep into the atmosphere of Jupiter, taking readings for almost an hour before the probe was crushed by overwhelming pressure. Image description: A portion of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is pictured in black-and-white. Crater impacts can be seen across Ganymede’s surface. The image was captured on July 15 1998. Credit: NASA/JPL/Brown University #NASA #Space #FathersDay24 #Fathers #Dad #Astronomy #Spacecraft
Stand out above the crowd ✨⁣ ⁣ This is NGC 2005. It’s a glittery star cluster – a globular cluster – and it’s kinda weird. NGC 2005’s stars have a chemical composition that is distinct from the stars around it in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the Milky Way’s largest satellite galaxy.⁣ ⁣ This suggests that the LMC underwent a merger with another galaxy somewhere in its history. That other galaxy has long-since merged and otherwise scattered, but NGC 2005 remains as an ancient witness to the merger.⁣ ⁣ Globular clusters are large and dense, containing several thousand to millions of stars all formed from a shared nebula. These clusters are stable and contain some of the oldest known stars in a galaxy, so they’re an excellent laboratory to study galaxy evolution.⁣ ⁣ Image description: A globular cluster that looks like a very dense, ball-shaped collection of many shining stars in colors of white, yellow-orange, and blue. Some stars appear a bit larger and brighter than others, with the brightest having faint cross-shaped diffraction spikes. The cluster’s stars are scattered mostly uniformly, with their density increasing toward the cluster’s core where they merge into a strong, bright-white glow.⁣ ⁣ Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Niederhofe⁣ ⁣ #NASA #Hubble #Stars #MilkyWay #Galaxy
Messier 94: a cosmic crossover that goes beyond the ice rink - and into space! Captured here by @NASAHubble, the spiral galaxy M94 is located about 16 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. It belongs to the Messier catalog, a stargazing resource first compiled by the French astronomer Charles Messier in the 1700s.⁣ ⁣ Hockey fans may remember another Messier 94 on this day. Thirty years ago, on June 14, 1994, legendary captain Mark Messier and the New York Rangers lifted the Stanley Cup. The trophy is primarily made of silver and nickel, both elements forged from stellar explosions and merging neutron stars. Like everything else in the @NASAUniverse, the Stanley Cup is indeed made of star stuff!⁣ ⁣ Astronomers suggest that the starburst ring in M94 was formed by a pressure wave moving outward from the galaxy’s center—reminiscent of the electrifying energy of fans in a packed arena.⁣ ⁣ While this year’s Stanley Cup champions have yet to be crowned, the universe may hold some clues.⁣ ⁣ Image description: A massive spiral galaxy fills the image. Its central, glowing core shines in pale yellow and is surrounded with spiral arms laced with dark brown dust. A ring of bright bluish-white stars surrounds the galaxy.⁣ ⁣ Credit: @EuropeanSpaceAgency, Hubble & NASA⁣ ⁣ #Galaxy #Messier #Hubble #Universe
Purple rain… purple rain ☂️⁣ ⁣ The purple color in this video shows auroras across Mars’ nightside as detected by the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph instrument aboard NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) orbiter. The brighter the purple, the more auroras were present. Taken as waves of energetic particles from a solar storm were arriving at Mars, the sequence pauses at the end, when the wave of the most energetic particles arrived and overwhelmed the instrument with noise.⁣ ⁣ The way these auroras occur is different than those seen on Earth. Our home planet is shielded from charged particles by a robust magnetic field, which normally limits auroras to regions near the poles. (Solar maximum is the reason behind the recent auroras seen as far south as Alabama.) Mars lost its internally generated magnetic field in the ancient past, so there’s no protection from the barrage of energetic particles. When charged particles hit the Martian atmosphere, it results in auroras that engulf the entire planet.⁣ ⁣ MAVEN took these images between May 14 and 20, 2024, as the spacecraft orbited below Mars, looking up at the nightside of the planet (Mars’ south pole can be seen on the right, in full sunlight). The MAVEN team is preparing to celebrate the spacecraft’s 10th year at Mars in September 2024.⁣ ⁣ Credit: NASA/University of Colorado/LASP⁣ ⁣ #NASA #Space #Mars #SolarSystem #Storm #Maven #Spacecraft
All that you change changes you. In a patch of the autumn sky that contains the constellations Perseus, Andromeda, and Triangulum, a beautiful interaction is happening. A larger spiral galaxy (UGC 1810) is pulled on by its smaller companion galaxy, distorting it into a rose-like shape. The uncommon spiral patterns in the larger galaxy are a telltale sign of interaction. The large, outer arm appears partially as a ring, a feature seen when interacting galaxies actually pass through one another. This suggests that the smaller companion dived deep, but off-center, through UGC 1810. UGC 1810 isn’t the only one changed, though. The smaller, S-shaped galaxy shows distinct signs of intense star formation at its nucleus, possibly triggered by the encounter with the larger galaxy. This image, released in 2011 to celebrate @NASAHubble’s 21st launch anniversary, is a composite of Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 data taken on December 17, 2010, with three separate filters that allow a broad range of wavelengths covering the ultraviolet, blue, and red portions of the spectrum. Image description: The way these two galaxies are aligned make them look like a rose. A larger, spiral galaxy makes up the petals of the flower, while the smaller galaxy looks like the stem. Intensely bright and hot young blue stars bathe the very top of the image in blue light. In the background of the image are other galaxies and stars. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) #NASA #Hubble #Rose #Galaxy #Anniversary #Stars #Space
Ring ring! @NASAWebb calling 👋 This image of the Southern Ring Nebula was one of the very first that the James Webb Space Telescope shared with the world back in 2022. Officially known as NGC 3132, the Southern Ring Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust surrounding a dying star 2,500 light-years from Earth. With its high-resolution, infrared vision, Webb is able to peer through the dust to study the glimmering details within. Observations like these are helping astronomers understand the life and death of the stars that make up our galaxy—and Webb's just getting started. Image description: A planetary nebula, seen by the Webb telescope's NIRCam instrument, against the blackness of space, with points of starlight behind it. The nebula itself is shaped like an irregular oval, with lacy, reddish orange plumes of gas and dust. Further inside the circle, the gas and dust glows bright blue. A glowing white ring separates the red and blue gases. In the center of the rings are two stars, one glowing much brighter than the other, with diffraction spikes radiating out from it. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI #NASA #Space #Universe #Astrophotography #Ring #Nebula #JamesWebb
Oh, Neptune. Our Voyager 2 spacecraft captured this image of Neptune’s south pole as it sped away from the planet in 1989. Here’s one cool fact about Neptune’s south pole: it’s hotter than the rest of the planet by about 10 degrees Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit). Voyager 2 has been in operation since 1977 and is the only spacecraft to have ever visited Uranus and Neptune. During its travels through the outer solar system, Voyager 2 visited all four gas giant planets, and discovered and photographed many of the planets' moons. In November 2018, Voyager 2 reached interstellar space, the region between stars filled with material ejected by the death of nearby stars millions of years ago. Its twin spacecraft, Voyager 1, has resided in interstellar space since August 2012. Voyager 1 and 2 are now exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. In their current mission, the Voyager Interstellar Mission, these two adventurers will explore the outermost edge of the Sun's domain. Image description: This image is mostly black. The southern pole of Neptune is all that’s visible. It curves along the bottom of the image, like a smile. From left to right along the curve, the planet is blue, fading into a pale yellow. Credit: NASA/JPL #NASA #Neptune #Voyager #SpaceExploration #Interstellar #Planet #Space
New whip, who this?⁣ ⁣ @Boeing’s Starliner pulls into the orbital driveway of the International Space Station (@ISS) carrying two @NASAAstronauts aboard, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. This is the spacecraft’s Crew Flight Test, which is testing the end-to-end capabilities of the spacecraft from liftoff to docking and the return to Earth.⁣ ⁣ After successfully launching on June 5 at 10:52 a.m. EDT (1452 UTC), the crew docked to the space station on June 6 at 1:34 p.m. EDT (1734 UTC). This was the first time humans have gone to space aboard a @ULAlaunch Atlas V rocket, and the first time astronauts launched on an Atlas-family class rocket since Gordon Cooper on the last Mercury program flight aboard Faith 7 in May 1963. It’s the same kind of rocket that launched the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers to Mars.⁣ ⁣ This is the first time in station history we’ve had three different spacecraft that carried crew to the orbiting lab docked at the same time. Even after more than 25 years of operation, we’re still experiencing so many exciting firsts. ⁣ ⁣ Stay tuned to nasa.gov/live over the next week for broadcast details on the many activities our astronauts will be up to on the orbital lab as they prepare for their return home.⁣ ⁣ Image description: Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on NASA’s Crew Flight Test approaches the International Space Station while orbiting 263 miles above Quebec, Canada. The spacecraft contrasts with the blackness of space as it floats above the haze of Earth’s atmosphere.⁣ ⁣ Credits: NASA⁣ ⁣ #NASA #Boeing #Space #InternationalSpaceStation #ISS #Spacecraft #Starliner
Chilling out in Brazil 🌊 Located to the east of Rio de Janeiro, Cabo Frio is Portuguese for "Cape Cold" — so named because the ocean that surrounds it is unusually chilly. Strong northeasterly winds that blow along Cabo Frio's coast push warm surface waters away from the shore, allowing cool water from deeper in the ocean to rise to the surface. This upwelled water is also rich in nutrients, helping feed the rich marine ecosystem off of Cabo Frio's shores. This image of Cabo Frio was taken from space on September 16, 2023, by the OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) instrument aboard Landsat 9, a partnership between NASA and @USGS. June 8 is #WorldOceansDay — follow @NASAEarth for more photos from around our home planet! Image description: A lush, green cape, as seen from space. The bottom and right borders are filled with deep blue water, but the land and various lagoons take up the rest of the image. Developed areas fill the bottom-right corner of the visible land, and stretch out across the beaches and lagoon shores beyond. Credit: Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and data from the Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution (MUR) project. #NASA #Earth #Brazil #CaboFrio #Travel #BeachLife
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