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NGC 4380. While beautiful, spiral galaxies like the one in this 2019 Hubble image are common throughout our universe. Spiral galaxies are colossal collections of stars, often numbering in the hundreds of billions. Graceful spiral arms outlined by dark lanes of dust wind around the galaxy’s core, which glows brightly and contains the highest concentration of stars in the galaxy. The hazy white core of a spiral galaxy shines at image center, surrounded by spiral arms full of dark brown dust and stars. Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, P. Erwin

The Mars gravity assist maneuver represents a vital achievement for the Europa Clipper mission, demonstrating the power of celestial mechanics in enabling deep space exploration. Listen to our deep dive: https://lnkd.in/djzerXHi By capitalizing on Mars’ gravitational pull, mission planners have paved the way for a more efficient journey to Jupiter and its intriguing moon, Europa. The successful execution of this maneuver marks another step forward in humanity’s quest to understand the potential for life beyond Earth.

NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar. Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, featured here, was captured in spectacular detail in an image taken by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. Visible are dark filamentary dust lanes, young clusters of bright blue stars, red emission nebulas of glowing hydrogen gas, a long bright bar of stars across the center, and a bright active nucleus that likely houses a supermassive black hole. Light takes about 60 million years to reach us from NGC 1672, which spans about 75,000 light years across. NGC 1672, which appears toward the constellation of the Dolphinfish (Dorado), has been studied to find out how a spiral bar contributes to star formation in a galaxy's central regions. Image Copyright: Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, O. Fox, L. Jenkins, S. Van Dyk, A. Filippenko, J. LeImage and thImage PHANGS-HST Team, D. dImage Martin (ESA/Hubble), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)

Goodnight Moon Know more about next Lunar Eclipse in a couple of days, march 2025. We talked about this! NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres’ south polar region on May 17, 2017. Launched on Sept. 27, 2007, Dawn was NASA’s first truly interplanetary spaceship. The mission featured extended stays at two extraterrestrial bodies: giant asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres, both in the debris-strewn main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft’s name was meant to present a simple view of the mission’s purpose: to provide information on the dawn of the solar system. The three principal scientific drivers for the mission were to capture the earliest moments in the origin of the solar system, determine the nature of the building blocks from which the terrestrial planets formed, and contrast the formation and evolution of two small planets that followed very different evolutionary paths. Dawn completed the first order exploration of the inner solar system, addressed NASA’s goal of understanding the origin and evolution of the solar system, and complemented investigations of Mercury, Earth, and Mars. Dawn’s mission ended on Nov. 1, 2018, after two extended missions. Follow Dawn’s journey from Earth to deep space through the words of mission director and chief engineer, Dr. Marc Rayman. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

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The total lunar eclipse of March 14, 2025, promises to be a stunning celestial event, offering a rare opportunity to witness the Moon immersed in Earth's shadow. Here's our deep dive you can listen to: https://lnkd.in/djzerXHi As the Moon takes on its characteristic reddish hue during totality, it will serve as a vivid reminder of our planet's dynamic relationship with its natural satellite. Whether viewed casually or through telescopic lenses, this "Blood Moon" will undoubtedly captivate observers across the globe.

Like two feathers The two protostars lie in the center of the hourglass shape, ejecting gas and dust. When more recent cosmic material clashes with old, the varying densities cause the shimmering twists and twirls you see in this image. There are black “voids” where stars don’t shine through (particularly to the left of the bottom part of the hourglass)—this is where dust is so thick that little starlight penetrates. Even Webb, which is designed to see through dust and gas, only perceives the background stars as dim pinpoints of light. Above and below the flattened disk at the center, the dust is thinner and the bright light from the stars shines through, forming the large semi-transparent orange cones that glow around the outline of the hourglass. Millions of years from now, when the stars have finished forming, and have swept the area clean, they may each be about the mass of our Sun. All that may remain is a tiny disk of gas and dust where planets may eventually form. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

Starburst Galaxy Messier 94 Beautiful island universe Messier 94 lies a mere 15 million light-years distant in the northern constellation of the hunting dogs, Canes Venatici. A popular target for earth-based astronomers, the face-on spiral galaxy is about 30,000 light-years across, with spiral arms sweeping through the outskirts of its broad disk. But this Hubble Space Telescope field of view spans about 7,000 light-years or so across M94's central region. The sharp close-up examines the galaxy's compact, bright nucleus and prominent inner dust lanes, surrounded by a remarkable bluish ring of young, massive stars. The massive stars in the ring appear to be less than about 10 million years old, indicating the galaxy experienced a corresponding well-defined era of rapid star formation. As a result, while the small, bright nucleus is typical of the Seyfert class of active galaxies, M94 is also known as a starburst galaxy. Because M94 is relatively nearby, astronomers can explore in detail reasons for the galaxy's burst of star formation. Image Copyright: Image Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA

While the test achieved a major milestone in booster recovery, it also experienced a significant failure when the Starship upper stage was lost midflight due to an "energetic event."