Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The Ethereal - Provided to YouTube by Epidemic Sound - (P) 2022 Epidemic Sound

James Webb Space Telescope delivers amazing Horsehead Nebula imagery - Space.com - See in 4k - YouTube - astrophysics

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope captured the sharpest infrared imagery to date of the iconic Horsehead Nebula 1300 light years from Earth.*Credit:K. Misselt (University of Arizona),A. Abergl (IAS/University of Paris/Saclay)

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Moving Roman: Propulsion - YouTube - NASA Goddard - astrophysics/cosmology

The NASA Nancy Grace Roman Infrared Space Telescope is currently under construction.It is named for the visionary astronomer Nancy Grace Roman (1925-2018) who made significant contributions to stellar classification and motions.She was NASA's inaugural Chief Astronomer in the 1960s and 1970s.As such,she was the first female NASA executive.She was instrumental in the planning and development of the Hubble Space Telescope and was one of the key founders of the US civilian space program.In sum,she was a trailblazing scientest.The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is primed for discoveries in astrophysics and cosmology with its Wide Field capabilities.It is slated for launch by May 2027.*Cosmology is the study of the origin and structures of the universe.

Friday, April 26, 2024

Space to Ground: Outside the Hatch: April 26, 2024 - NASA Johnson Space Center

Roscosmos Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chubb conducted a spacewalk in which they installed a panel of a synthetic radar system on the Aoka module and an experiment that tests corrosion on the Poist module.The MISSE-18-NASA experiment exposes materials to the harshness of space to test them for uses on the Gateway lunar space station or lunar surface and a coating that could help prevent salt corrosion at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station before launch.A medical experiment tests magnetic nanoparticles that may kill melanoma skin cancer cells.Finally,SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts suited up to move their Crew Dragon spacecraft to another port to make way for the Boeing Crew Flight Test Starliner spaccraft.

NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test Crew Arrival - YouTube

Liftoff on a ULA Atlas V rocket will be no earlier than 10:49 pm 6 May 2024 from Space Launch Complex-41,Cape Canaveral Space Force Station,Florida.*United Launch Alliance is a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin. *Boeing (BA),Lockheed Martin (LMT)

Thursday, April 25, 2024