Saturday 24 October 2020

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Globular Star Cluster 47 Tuc Globular star cluster 47 Tucanae is a jewel of the southern sky. Also known as NGC 104, it roams the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy along with some 200 other globular star clusters. The second brightest globular cluster (after Omega Centauri) as seen from planet Earth, it lies about 13,000 light-years away and can be spotted naked-eye close on the sky to the Small Magellanic Cloud in the constellation of the Toucan. The dense cluster is made up of hundreds of thousands of stars in a volume only about 120 light-years across. Red giant stars on the outskirts of the cluster are easy to pick out as yellowish stars in this sharp telescopic portrait. Tightly packed globular cluster 47 Tuc is also home to a star with the closest known orbit around a black hole. #NASA October 24, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/2IVXMlj


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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Saturday on October 24, 2020 at 07:07AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Saturday on October 24, 2020 at 07:07AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Collects Significant Amount of Asteroid

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Collects Significant Amount of Asteroid Two days after touching down on asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission team received on Thursday, Oct. 22, images that confirm the spacecraft has collected more than enough material to meet one of its main mission requirements – acquiring at least 2 ounces (60 grams) of the asteroid’s surface material. October 23, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/31EplGp

Two days after touching down on asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission team received on Thursday, Oct. 22, images that confirm the spacecraft has collected more than enough material to meet one of its main mission requirements – acquiring at least 2 ounces (60 grams) of the asteroid’s surfa...

NASA Invites Media to OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Collection Briefing

NASA Invites Media to Briefing on OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Collection NASA will host a media teleconference at 5:00 p.m. EDT today, Friday, Oct. 23, to provide an update on the status of the agency’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft and the sample it collected from asteroid Bennu. October 23, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/3joIhPz

NASA will host a media teleconference at 5:00 p.m. EDT today, Friday, Oct. 23, to provide an update on the status of the agency’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft and the sample it collected from asteroid Bennu.

Friday 23 October 2020

NASA Invites Media to Next SpaceX Space Station Cargo Launch

NASA Invites Media to Next SpaceX Space Station Cargo Launch Media accreditation is open for the launch of the next SpaceX delivery of NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. October 23, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/3dSQfPG

Media accreditation is open for the launch of the next SpaceX delivery of NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.

Hubble Views a Galactic Waterfall In this spectacular image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 2799 (on the left) is seemingly being pulled into the center of the galaxy NGC 2798 (on the right). #NASA October 23, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/35q2fV3


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Wishing Everyone a Very Happy, and Enjoyable Weekend! 👌 Cheers !! 👍😊👊

Wishing Everyone a Very Happy, and Enjoyable Weekend! 👌 Cheers !! 👍😊👊
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Supernova in NGC 2525 Big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy NGC 2525 lies 70 million light-years from the Milky Way. It shines in Earth's night sky within the boundaries of the southern constellation Puppis. About 60,000 light-years across, its spiral arms lined with dark dust clouds, massive blue stars, and pinkish starforming regions wind through this gorgeous Hubble Space Telescope snapshot. Spotted on the outskirts of NGC 2525 in January 2018, supernova SN 2018gv is the brightest star in the frame at the lower left. In time-lapse, a year long series of Hubble observations followed the stellar explosion, the nuclear detonation of a white dwarf star triggered by accreting material from a companion star, as it slowly faded from view. Identified as a Type Ia supernova, its brightness is considered a cosmic standard candle. Type Ia supernovae are used to measure distances to galaxies and determine the expansion rate of the Universe. #NASA October 23, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/31uiWxx


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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Friday on October 23, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Friday on October 23, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
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Thursday 22 October 2020

Studying Aircraft Noise An array of 960 microphones is seen here off the end of runway 11 at Boeing’s research facility near Glasgow, Montana. #NASA October 22, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/37x0BUc


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Tagging Bennu On October 20, after a careful approach to the boulder-strewn surface, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's arm reached out and touched asteroid Bennu. Dubbed a Touch-And-Go (TAG) sampling event, the 30 centimeter wide sampling head (TAGSAM) appears to crush some of the rocks in this snapshot. The close-up scene was recorded by the spacecraft's SamCam some 321 million kilometers from planet Earth, just after surface contact. One second later, the spacecraft fired nitrogen gas from a bottle intended to blow a substantial amount of Bennu's regolith into the sampling head, collecting the loose surface material. Data show the spacecraft spent approximately 5 more seconds in contact with Bennu's Nightingale sample site and then performed its back-away burn. Timelapse frames from SamCam reveal the aftermath. #NASA October 22, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/35jFHFq


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NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy, Crewmates Land Safely Back on Earth

NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy, Crewmates Land Safely Back on Earth After 196 days living and working in Earth’s orbit aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy returned from his third space mission Wednesday, Oct. 21, with cosmonauts Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. October 22, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/3dJQooE

After 196 days living and working in Earth’s orbit aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy returned from his third space mission Wednesday, Oct. 21, with cosmonauts Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Thursday on October 22, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Thursday on October 22, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
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Wednesday 21 October 2020

NASA to Announce New Science Results About Moon

NASA to Announce New Science Results About Moon NASA will announce an exciting new discovery about the Moon from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) at a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 26. October 21, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/3m6bRek

NASA will announce an exciting new discovery about the Moon from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) at a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 26.


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Touching Down on Asteroid Bennu On Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample collection mission performed a successful “Touch-And-Go” (TAG) maneuver. #NASA October 21, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/34i8r1Z


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Touching Down on Asteroid Bennu via NASA https://ift.tt/34i8r1Z


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A Night Sky Vista from Sardinia via NASA https://ift.tt/2FQ9fBY


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A Night Sky Vista from Sardinia How many famous sky objects can you find in this image? The featured dark sky composite combines over 60 exposures spanning over 220 degrees to create a veritable menagerie of night sky wonders. Visible celestial icons include the Belt of Orion, the Orion Nebula, the Andromeda Galaxy, the California Nebula, and bright stars Sirius and Betelgeuse. You can verify that you found these, if you did, by checking an annotated version of the image. A bit harder, though, is finding Polaris and the Big Dipper. Also discernible are several meteors from the Quandrantids meteor shower, red and green airglow, and two friends of the astrophotographer. The picture was captured in January from Sardinia, Italy. You can see sky wonders in your own night sky tonight -- including more meteors than usual -- because tonight is near peak of the yearly Orionids meteor shower. #NASA October 21, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/2FQ9fBY


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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Wednesday on October 21, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Wednesday on October 21, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Successfully Touches Asteroid

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Successfully Touches Asteroid NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Tuesday, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched an asteroid to collect dust and pebbles from the surface for delivery to Earth in 2023. October 20, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/2HhpuIU

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Tuesday, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched an asteroid to collect dust and pebbles from the surface for delivery to Earth in 2023.

Tuesday 20 October 2020

NASA, Department of Energy Expand on 50 Years of Collaboration

NASA, Department of Energy Expand on More Than 50 Years of Collaboration NASA’s longstanding partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) has enabled notable space exploration, from revealing more about the Moon to propelling the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft into interstellar space. October 20, 2020 #NASA #Trending #News https://ift.tt/2HhdtmN

NASA’s longstanding partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) has enabled notable space exploration, from revealing more about the Moon to propelling the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft into interstellar space.

Neutron Stars Create Gold and Platinum in Their Wake This illustration shows the hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from neutron stars just before they collided. #NASA October 20, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/3m2Kvps


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Neutron Stars Create Gold and Platinum in Their Wake via NASA https://ift.tt/3m2Kvps


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Neutron Stars Create Gold and Platinum in Their Wake via NASA https://ift.tt/3m2Kvps


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Saturn and Jupiter over Italian Peaks Saturn and Jupiter are getting closer. Every night that you go out and check for the next two months, these two bright planets will be even closer together on the sky. Finally, in mid-December, a Great Conjunction will occur -- when the two planets will appear only 0.1 degrees apart -- just one fifth the angular diameter of the full Moon. And this isn't just any Great Conjunction -- Saturn (left) and Jupiter (right) haven't been this close since 1623, and won't be nearly this close again until 2080. This celestial event is quite easy to see -- already the two planets are easily visible toward the southwest just after sunset -- and already they are remarkably close. Pictured, the astrophotographer and partner eyed the planetary duo above the Tre Cime di Lavaredo (Three Peaks of Lavaredo) in the Italian Alps about two weeks ago. #NASA October 20, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/2HhOGP6


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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Tuesday on October 20, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Tuesday on October 20, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
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Monday 19 October 2020


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Orion’s Recently Installed Solar Array Wings Two of Orion’s four recently installed solar array wings are exposed and surrounded by the panels that will protect it during launch and ascent. #NASA October 19, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/3o4aQVW

Orion’s Recently Installed Solar Array Wings Two of Orion’s four recently installed solar array wings are exposed and surrounded by the panels that will protect it during launch and ascent. #NASA October 19, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/3o4aQVW
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Orion’s Recently Installed Solar Array Wings Two of Orion’s four recently installed solar array wings are exposed and surrounded by the panels that will protect it during launch and ascent. #NASA October 19, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/3o4aQVW


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A Flight over Jupiter Near the Great Red Spot Are you willing to wait to see the largest and oldest known storm system in the Solar System? In the featured video, Jupiter's Great Red Spot finally makes its appearance 2 minutes and 12 seconds into the 5-minute video. Before it arrives, you may find it pleasing to enjoy the continually changing view of the seemingly serene clouds of Jupiter, possibly with your lights low and sound up. The 41 frames that compose the video were captured in June as the robotic Juno spacecraft was making a close pass over our Solar System's largest planet. The time-lapse sequence actually occurred over four hours. Since arriving at Jupiter in 2016, Juno's numerous discoveries have included unexpectedly deep atmospheric jet streams, the most powerful auroras ever recorded, and water-bearing clouds bunched near Jupiter's equator. #NASA October 19, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/2IIT4HH


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A Flight over Jupiter Near the Great Red Spot via NASA https://ift.tt/2IIT4HH

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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Monday on October 19, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Monday on October 19, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
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Sunday 18 October 2020

UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble via NASA https://ift.tt/37iTSxk


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UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Although details remain uncertain, it surely has to do with an ongoing battle with its smaller galactic neighbor. The featured galaxy is labelled UGC 1810 by itself, but together with its collisional partner is known as Arp 273. The overall shape of UGC 1810 -- in particular its blue outer ring -- is likely a result of wild and violent gravitational interactions. This ring's blue color is caused by massive stars that are blue hot and have formed only in the past few million years. The inner galaxy appears older, redder, and threaded with cool filamentary dust. A few bright stars appear well in the foreground, unrelated to UGC 1810, while several galaxies are visible well in the background. Arp 273 lies about 300 million light years away toward the constellation of Andromeda. Quite likely, UGC 1810 will devour its galactic sidekick over the next billion years and settle into a classic spiral form. #NASA October 18, 2020 via NASA https://ift.tt/37iTSxk


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Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Sunday on October 18, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌

Another Awesome Day! Good Morning!! It's Sunday on October 18, 2020 at 07:00AM !!! Don't forget to Eat your Breakfast Guys! :) 🍵 👌
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