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Space: Submission
A month of moons 🌘🌗🌕🌓🌒
“If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty—and do much more.”
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Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
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Graphic - Jeremy Geddes
celestial bodies
Christianus Prolianus, Astronomia, Naples 1478
Manchester, John Rylands University Library, Latin MS 53, fol. 58v
Questa sequenza di immagini a colori avanzati mostra come la geometria di visualizzazione cambia velocemente per la sonda JUNO della NASA mentre si avvicina a Giove. Le immagini sono state ottenute da JunoCam.
Image Credit: NASA/SWRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran
The most amazing and inspiring vision of the future I’ve ever seen! This is a must watch video!
We don’t have any real pictures of the Milky Way galaxy. Most non-illustrated images of the entire Milky Way spiral are actually of another spiral galaxy called Messier 74. It’s impossible to take a full photo of the Milky Way’s spiral structure because it’s about 100,000 light-years across, and we’re stuck on the inside. Source Source 2 Source 3
This is about as good as we can get:
This picture of the Milky Way was captured by NASA’s COBE satellite. This photograph was taken using the infrared spectrum, which allows astronomers to peer through the gas and dust that normally obscures the center of the Milky Way.
Image Credit: The COBE Project, DIRBE, NASA
Collage delle ultime foto dalla sonda Cassini, negli ultimi passaggi ravvicinati prima del fatidico Grand Finale, previsto per settembre, dopo 20 anni di attività.
Inmarsat-5 F4 successfully launched from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center at 7:21pm EDT May 15. The Falcon 9 deployed the satellite into Geostationary Transfer Orbit 31 minutes and 48 seconds after liftoff. Since the rocket was flying in its expandable configuration, following main engine cutoff the first stage fell into the Atlantic ocean and was not recovered. The launch of the Inmarsat mission marked the first time SpaceX began testing countdown procedures for their next major upgrade of the Falcon 9 rocket, the Block IV. Normally, the rocket’s liquid oxygen propellant is loaded into the rocket 45 minutes before launch, ten minutes after RP-1. For Inmarsat, the LOX was loaded 35 minutes before liftoff. The Block IV variant will see this procedure occur during every countdown. Check out or Inmarsat-5 F4 launch archive here.
P/c: SpaceX.
45 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Apollo 16 mission blasts off from Cape Canaveral on April 16, 1972.
Andromeda (M31) e Triangolo (M33), le due galassie giganti più vicine alla nostra Via Lattea. Queste, insieme ad una trentina di più "piccole" fanno parte del Gruppo Locale (si stima che il suo diametro sia di 4 milioni di anni luce!)
Solar System: Things to Know This Week
10 Tools for the Armchair Astronaut, or How to Explore the Solar System from Home
At this very moment, spacecraft are surveying the solar system, from Mars, to Saturn, to Pluto and beyond. Now you can ride along to see the latest discoveries from deep space. For this week’s edition of 10 Things, we’ve assembled a toolkit of 10 essential resources for the desktop astronaut.
1. It’s Like Facebook, but for Planets
Or is it more of a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Solar System? Whatever one calls it, our planets page offers quick rundowns, as well as in-depth guides, for all the major bodies in the solar system. Explore from the sun all the way to the Oort Cloud.
+ Peruse the planets + See how objects in the solar system stack up against each other
2. Keep Your Eyes on This One
If you still haven’t tried Eyes on the Solar System, you’re missing out. This free, downloadable simulation app lets you tour the planets and track the past, current and future positions of spacecraft–all in 3D. Eyes on the Solar System uses real NASA data to help you take a virtual flight across both space and time.
+ Prepare for departure
3. Dateline: Deep Space
With so much exploration underway, discoveries and new insights into the solar system come at a pace that borders on bewildering. NASA is rewriting the textbooks, literally, on a regular basis. Relax, though: there are several easy ways to stay up to date with what’s happening in space.
+ See the latest headlines + Stay connected on social media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram + Find more top NASA social media accounts
4. Space? There’s an App for That
NASA offers phone and tablet apps for star gazing, pictures, news, 3D tours, satellite tracking, live NASA TV and many other kinds of info.
+ Start downloading + See other cool apps
5. A (Very) Long Distance Call
We’re in constant communication with spacecraft all over the solar system. The Deep Space Network is a global network of giant antenna dishes that makes it possible. With this online app, you can learn how it works – and even see which spacecraft are phoning home right now.
+ Deep Space Network (DSN) Now
6. Collect ‘Em All
Spacecraft 3D is an augmented reality (AR) application that lets you learn about and interact with a variety of spacecraft that are used to explore our solar system, study Earth and observe the universe. Print out the AR target and your camera will do the rest, making the spacecraft appear in 3D right in front of you. Learn more about these robotic explorers as they pop up on your desk, in your hand, or on your dog’s head.
+ Download Spacecraft 3D + See more cool 3-D resources from NASA
7. Ever Wanted to Drive a Mars Rover?
This site will give you a 3D look at the Mars Curiosity rover, along with some of the terrain it has explored. It will even let you take the controls.
+ Experience Curiosity
8. More E-Ticket Attractions
But wait, there’s more. NASA offers a variety of other fascinating (and free) online experiences, all based on actual data from real missions. Here are a few to explore:
+ Mars Trek + Vesta Trek + Moon Trek
9. The Universe Is Our Classroom
Studying the solar system makes for a compelling route into learning and teaching science, engineering and math. We have some great places to start.
+ Find resources for teachers + Build your own solar system with your classroom
10. Bring It on Home
After you’ve toured the far reaches of the solar system, you can always come home again. When you have spent time studying the harsh conditions on our neighboring planets, the charms of a unique paradise come into sharp focus, the place we call Earth.
+ Watch a real-time video feed from Earth orbit + See a daily global view of our planet from a million miles away + Hold the earth in your hands with the Earth Now mobile app
Discover more lists of 10 things to know about our solar system HERE.
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On March 2, 1963 Engineer Thomas Byrdsong checks the Apollo/Saturn 1B Ground-wind-loads model in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Credit: NASA
February 24, 1969 – Apollo 11 moonwalkers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin train for the Moon by going on a geology field trip to the Sierra Blanca region in West Texas. (NASA)
X-15 Rocket Plane. Artist: Wilf Hardy by Atomic Scout on Flickr.
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, illustrated in the Houston Post, July 21, 1969.
View of Earth from Apollo 12 spacecraft window
via reddit
Got to control the cameras (minus robotics) at NASA Johnson Space Center Mission Control for today’s SpaceX Dragon capture and was 536% fangirling the entire time. 😍🌟🌎🚀🎉
Ricostruzione 3D dalla superficie del pianeta Trappist-1D. Gli altri sei pianeti sono vicini e tutti ben visibili all'orizzonte. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o2MgG6KhO1E&version=3&rel=0&autoplay=1
“Venice, city of gondoliers and the lovers they carry along the canals. Happy Valentine’s Day!” Thomas Pesquet from the International Space Station, Feb. 14, 2017 ⚘❤
Prima immagine di OSIRIS-REx dallo spazio profondo, giunta a noi terrestri il 15 febbraio 2017, dopo cinque mesi di "crociera". Se state per dire che l'immagine è sfocata, sappiate che la sonda si trova a 673 milioni di km da Giove. - During Earth-Trojan asteroid search operations, the PolyCam imager aboard NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter (center) and three of its moons, Callisto (left), Io, and Ganymede. The image, which shows the bands of Jupiter, was taken at 3:34 a.m. EST, on Feb. 12, when the spacecraft was 76 million miles (122 million kilometers) from Earth and 418 million miles (673 million kilometers) from Jupiter. PolyCam is OSIRIS-REx’s longest range camera, capable of capturing images of the asteroid Bennu from a distance of two million kilometers.
This image was produced by taking two copies of the same image, adjusting the brightness of Jupiterandnbsp;separately from theandnbsp;significantly dimmer moons, and compositing them back together so that all four objects are visible in the same frame.
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland provides overall mission management, systems engineering and the safety and mission assurance for OSIRIS-REx. Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona, Tucson, is the principal investigator, and the University of Arizona also leads the science team and the mission’s observation planning and processing. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver built the spacecraft and is providing flight operations. Goddard and KinetX Aerospace are responsible for navigating the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the agency’s New Frontiers Program for its Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
OSIRIS-REx
Enceladus striated surface as seen by Cassini .
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The nebulae of Orion
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IC1805 è una nebulosa diffusa in associazione ad un ammasso aperto, visibile nella costellazione di Cassiopea, verso il confine con la Giraffa. Fu scoperta nel 1787 da William Herschel ed è conosciuta come "Nebulosa Cuore".