Inside NASA’s Johnson Space Center Ahead Of The Artemis Launch - NBC News
August 26, 2022
NASA’s most powerful rocket yet, Artemis I, will launch on a historic mission to the moon. The rocket will orbit the moon for 42 days uncrewed to study the potential effects of the mission on future astronauts. Lester Holt got an exclusive look inside NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where he spoke with the Artemis team and went inside the Orion capsule training simulator.
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Sturgeon Super Moon
August 11, 2022
August’s full moon was seen on Thursday, August 11, 2022. It was the last supermoon of the year.
August’s full moon was traditionally called the Sturgeon Moon by Native American because the giant sturgeon of the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain were most readily caught during this part of summer.
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James Webb Space Telescope
July 13, 2022
July 13, 2022, NASA finally released James Webb's first full-color images. We are able to see 5 amazing photos of different regions of space sent from JWST.
JWST’s cameras can look deep into space and far into the past. JWST can look into more than 13billion light years back, which is the farthest distance we’ve ever seen into space.
Image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 - the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago, with many more galaxies in front of and behind the cluster.
Image of Southern Ring planetary nebula that were previously hidden from astronomers. Planetary nebulae are the shells of gas and dust ejected from dying stars.
WASP-96b (spectrum) - Distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star.
Image of galaxy group "Stephan's Quintet" - interacting galaxies trigger star formation in each other and how gas in galaxies is being disturbed. The image also shows outflows driven by a black hole in Stephan’s Quintet.
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Hubble Space Telescope spots most distant single star ever seen (space.com)
March, 31/2022
Meet Earendel, a star 12.9 billion light-years from Earth.
The most distant star yet seen, called Earendel, is indicated by an arrow in the inset of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope that captured the star from 12.9 billion light-years away using a gravitational lens. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, B. Welch (JHU), D. Coe (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI) )
The most distant single star seen yet dates back to less than 1 billion years after the universe's birth in the Big Bang, and may shed light on the earliest stars in the cosmos, a new study finds.
The scientists nicknamed the star "Earendel," from an Old English word meaning "morning star" or "rising light." Earendel, whose technical designation is WHL0137-LS, is at least 50 times the mass of the sun and millions of times as bright.
This newfound star, detected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is so far away that its light has taken 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, appearing to us as it was when the universe was about 900 million years old, just 7% of its current age. Until now, the most distant single star detected, discovered by Hubble in 2018, existed when the universe was about 4 billion years old, or 30% of its current age.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope:
The ultimate guide (space.com)
March, 30/2022
Waning Gibbous Moon and Apollo Landing Sites
- Partial lunar eclipse of February 18, 1440: 3:28:46
- Partial lunar eclipse of November 18/19, 2021: 3:28:23
- Partial lunar eclipse of February 8, 2669, 3:30:02
Geminids Meteor Shower 2020
December 13, 2020
Hayabusa 2 Capsule Returns to Earth
December 6, 2020
Halloween Blue Moon - October 31, 2020
Beautiful Halloween Blue Moon is seen with Mars tonight. Blue Moon is the second full moon of the same month. The last Halloween Blue Moon appeared in 1944. The next one will come in 2039! It is, indeed, “once in a blue moon”! 🎃🌝
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