NASA is increasing the cadence of future Artemis missions. The Artemis III mission, now in 2027, will be designed to test out systems and operational capabilities in low Earth orbit as preparation for an Artemis IV landing in 2028. This new mission will endeavor to include a rendezvous and docking with one or both commercial landers from SpaceX and Blue Origin. This change will accelerate the flight rate of the Artemis missions and enable a safer and more reliable launch cadence. There will be no changes to the Artemis II mission. In this video, we see a timelapse of the Artemis II rocket and spacecraft rolling back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at @NASAKennedy atop of the crawler-transporter on Wednesday, Feb. 25. Teams will conduct work and repairs on the Artemis II vehicle before returning it to Launch Pad 39B to launch on its crewed mission around the Moon no earlier than April 2026. Credit: NASA Thumbnail Credit: NASA/John Kraus
Missed the eclipse? Want to relive it? Like the Moon in front of the Sun, we’ve got you covered. On Oct. 14, 2023, an annular, or “ring of fire,” solar eclipse passed over parts of North, Central, and South America. An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun. Unlike in a total solar eclipse, where the Moon covers up the Sun completely, the Moon is just distant enough during an annular eclipse to allow a thin bright ring of Sun to shine through. This clip shows the ring of fire as it passes over Albuquerque, New Mexico. Our 2023 annular eclipse show featured live views from California to Texas, interviews with scientists and NASA astronauts, and a sneak preview at the total solar eclipse set to cross over North America in April 2024. Watch the full program at youtube.com/NASA. Visual description: A telescope view of the annular solar eclipse shows the Moon as a black sphere moving across the slightly larger gold disc of the Sun, blocking most of the Sun, leaving only a thin crescent and then ring of light. An inset video feed shows the reactions of two NASA commentators, both wearing solar-safe glasses, and looking up at the eclipse. Credit: NASA #NASA #Space #Eclipse #AnnularEclipse #Eclipse2023 #SolarEclipse #EclipseSolar #ringoffire
So let's take a minute and just be quiet and enjoy the view.
Ready to plunge into a black hole? NASA supercomputers produced this immersive visualization that allows you to dive in without it becoming a one-way trip. The destination: a black hole, similar in size to the one at the heart of the Milky Way. As you get closer to the black hole, your speed climbs until it approaches the speed of light — the cosmic speed limit! The glow from the stars in the background and from the disk of hot material surrounding the black hole becomes amplified, growing brighter and whiter. The effect is similar to how the sound of an oncoming racecar rises in pitch. Along the way, the black hole’s disk and the night sky become increasingly distorted and even form multiple images as their light crosses the increasingly-warped space-time. This 400-million-mile (640-million-km) trip would take you about 3 hours. It’s quite a ride — and you’d only get to do it once if this wasn’t a simulation! If you’d like more content like this, be sure to follow our new @NASAUniverse account. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. Powell Music: “Tidal Force,” Thomas Daniel Bellingham [PRS], Universal Production Music Video description: A black hole with a glowing orange disk of material sits near the center of a starry background. Light from the disk is distorted by the black hole’s strong gravity, with the far side of the disk visible above and below it. The camera approaches the black hole, making almost two trips around before crossing the event horizon. As the camera loops around, the screen is black toward the black hole’s location at the bottom. The orange disk appears to stretch and arc into a thin line that breaks off into a loop that passes overhead several times. Once inside the event horizon, the screen becomes increasingly black. The orange disk makes one more loop before becoming a thin ribbon across the top. The starry sky crams together just above the ribbon. Finally, the camera shakes, indicating its destruction. #BlackHoleWeek #Warped #BlackHoles #Gravity #Space #NASA
An eclipse is worth marveling at. But don’t be silly, folks – play it safe and wear protective eyewear.
Double trouble this #BlackHoleFriday What would it look like if we could sit and watch two supermassive black holes colliding? This simulation using advanced computer modeling shows what might happen. Here we see two supermassive black holes, which are millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, heading for a collision. Video description: At the beginning of this animated GIF, we see the glowing gas surrounding two black holes. The gas is shaded orange and purple, and it is tightly wound around each individual black hole. They each have a tail of gas, looking like a comma. As the animation proceeds, the camera moves to see the two black holes nearly in line with each other and then back to see the bottom of the system. As the view tilts, the gravitational effects of the black holes at the center cause the light to bend like a funhouse mirror. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018 #BlackHole #BlackHoleFriday #Galaxy #Space #NASA #Star
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NASA is increasing the cadence of future Artemis missions. The Artemis III mission, now in 2027, will be designed to test out systems and operational capabilities in low Earth orbit as preparation for an Artemis IV landing in 2028. This new mission will endeavor to include a rendezvous and docking with one or both commercial landers from SpaceX and Blue Origin. This change will accelerate the flight rate of the Artemis missions and enable a safer and more reliable launch cadence. There will be no changes to the Artemis II mission. In this video, we see a timelapse of the Artemis II rocket and spacecraft rolling back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at @NASAKennedy atop of the crawler-transporter on Wednesday, Feb. 25. Teams will conduct work and repairs on the Artemis II vehicle before returning it to Launch Pad 39B to launch on its crewed mission around the Moon no earlier than April 2026. Credit: NASA Thumbnail Credit: NASA/John Kraus
Missed the eclipse? Want to relive it? Like the Moon in front of the Sun, we’ve got you covered. On Oct. 14, 2023, an annular, or “ring of fire,” solar eclipse passed over parts of North, Central, and South America. An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun. Unlike in a total solar eclipse, where the Moon covers up the Sun completely, the Moon is just distant enough during an annular eclipse to allow a thin bright ring of Sun to shine through. This clip shows the ring of fire as it passes over Albuquerque, New Mexico. Our 2023 annular eclipse show featured live views from California to Texas, interviews with scientists and NASA astronauts, and a sneak preview at the total solar eclipse set to cross over North America in April 2024. Watch the full program at youtube.com/NASA. Visual description: A telescope view of the annular solar eclipse shows the Moon as a black sphere moving across the slightly larger gold disc of the Sun, blocking most of the Sun, leaving only a thin crescent and then ring of light. An inset video feed shows the reactions of two NASA commentators, both wearing solar-safe glasses, and looking up at the eclipse. Credit: NASA #NASA #Space #Eclipse #AnnularEclipse #Eclipse2023 #SolarEclipse #EclipseSolar #ringoffire
So let's take a minute and just be quiet and enjoy the view.
Ready to plunge into a black hole? NASA supercomputers produced this immersive visualization that allows you to dive in without it becoming a one-way trip. The destination: a black hole, similar in size to the one at the heart of the Milky Way. As you get closer to the black hole, your speed climbs until it approaches the speed of light — the cosmic speed limit! The glow from the stars in the background and from the disk of hot material surrounding the black hole becomes amplified, growing brighter and whiter. The effect is similar to how the sound of an oncoming racecar rises in pitch. Along the way, the black hole’s disk and the night sky become increasingly distorted and even form multiple images as their light crosses the increasingly-warped space-time. This 400-million-mile (640-million-km) trip would take you about 3 hours. It’s quite a ride — and you’d only get to do it once if this wasn’t a simulation! If you’d like more content like this, be sure to follow our new @NASAUniverse account. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. Powell Music: “Tidal Force,” Thomas Daniel Bellingham [PRS], Universal Production Music Video description: A black hole with a glowing orange disk of material sits near the center of a starry background. Light from the disk is distorted by the black hole’s strong gravity, with the far side of the disk visible above and below it. The camera approaches the black hole, making almost two trips around before crossing the event horizon. As the camera loops around, the screen is black toward the black hole’s location at the bottom. The orange disk appears to stretch and arc into a thin line that breaks off into a loop that passes overhead several times. Once inside the event horizon, the screen becomes increasingly black. The orange disk makes one more loop before becoming a thin ribbon across the top. The starry sky crams together just above the ribbon. Finally, the camera shakes, indicating its destruction. #BlackHoleWeek #Warped #BlackHoles #Gravity #Space #NASA
An eclipse is worth marveling at. But don’t be silly, folks – play it safe and wear protective eyewear.
Double trouble this #BlackHoleFriday What would it look like if we could sit and watch two supermassive black holes colliding? This simulation using advanced computer modeling shows what might happen. Here we see two supermassive black holes, which are millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, heading for a collision. Video description: At the beginning of this animated GIF, we see the glowing gas surrounding two black holes. The gas is shaded orange and purple, and it is tightly wound around each individual black hole. They each have a tail of gas, looking like a comma. As the animation proceeds, the camera moves to see the two black holes nearly in line with each other and then back to see the bottom of the system. As the view tilts, the gravitational effects of the black holes at the center cause the light to bend like a funhouse mirror. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018 #BlackHole #BlackHoleFriday #Galaxy #Space #NASA #Star
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