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nasa...Hubble bubble The Bubble Nebula is seven light-years across: big enough that it could comfortably hold our solar system, the nearest star system to ours (Alpha Centauri), and all the space in between. It's being blown up by a seething star, 45 times more massive than our Sun—the big purple one near the center of this image. As hot gas escapes from the star as stellar wind, it runs into cold, interstellar gas around it, forming the outer edge of the bubble like a snowplow piling up snow. This nebula was first spotted in 1787 by William Herschel, a prominent astronomer who also discovered the planet Uranus. More than 200 years later, our @NASAHubble telescope captured this image of the Bubble Nebula; it was released in 2016 to mark the 26th anniversary of Hubble's time in orbit. Visit https://go.nasa.gov/4ev4h9I to learn more about the space telescope's ongoing mission—and how you can take part this year in Hubble's Night Sky Challenge! Image description: A big, translucent, blue bubble floats amid a cosmic landscape. A bright purple star shines near its 10 o'clock position, with a few other smaller stars scattered inside and outside the bubble. The background is filled with an orange-yellow haze, with a bright cloud near the top-left corner. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) #NASA #Universe #Hubble #Astronomy #Nebula
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![We’ve got our shades on for summer 😎☀️
NASA technicians recently installed our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s solar array Sun shield — the set of solar panels that will travel with Roman a million miles away into space! These panels will power the entire observatory and help keep the instruments cool by shading them from sunlight.
Together with Roman’s visor-like sunshade and outer barrel assembly — which will house the telescope and instruments — the solar array Sun shield will soon undergo testing to ensure a successful launch.
The team is on track to connect Roman’s two halves in November, resulting in a complete observatory by the end of the year. Roman remains on schedule for launch by May 2027, with the team aiming for as early as fall 2026.
Once in space, Roman’s large, crisp view will unveil more than 100,000 distant worlds, 100 million stars, more than a billion galaxies, and countless other cosmic objects, gathering clues to mysteries like dark energy and dark matter. We stand poised at the brink of unfathomable scientific discovery.
Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts
Music: “Turbulent Grace,” Tom Samson [PRS], Nick Reeves [PRS], and Graham Harding [PRS], Universal Production Music
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