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nasaSeeing stars from the International Space Station Our astronauts on the @ISS have a schedule full of science, learning how to live in space while making life better back on Earth, and private missions to the station stay busy with education, outreach, and other activities. In their free time, though, our space-dwellers find plenty of ways to have fun—like taking photographs of Earth and space, such as this image from astronaut Don Pettit. This high-resolution pic, captured from SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, is a 24-minute exposure of satellites and stars over Earth's Pacific Ocean. Image description: Star trails make white tracks, left-to-right, on the left side of this photo. A handful of Starlink satellites appear as brighter blurs. To the right, the orbital sunrise appears as a thin yellow band between space and Earth, a blurred white and blue world. Credit: NASA/Don Pettit #NASA #Space #Earth #Astrophotography
07.18 00:37
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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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