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ISS observation Your location New York City Observation of the International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) can easily be spotted with the naked eye. Because of its size (110m x 100m x 30m), it reflects a large amount of sunlight. The best time to observe the ISS is when it is nighttime at your location, and the Space Station is sunlit. Visible passes You find a list of the next sighting opportunities for your location below. Map Data Map data ©2016 Google, INEGI The grey circle indicates the area where the Space Station is at least 10° above the horizon. The red line shows where the ISS is sunlit and visible. On the blue line the ISS is in the Earth's shadow and invisible or it is less than 10° above the horizon or the sky is not dark enough to see the ISS.
Multiwavelength Milky Way Product Page Inspired by the warm reception to the original Multiwavelength Milky Way poster (26,000 copies distributed; requested by people in over 50 countries) we have created several related products and a new version of the poster. On this page: PosterPresentation imagesVideopresentation-quality imageVRML models Poster Maps of the Milky Way at ten wavelengths, from radio waves to gamma rays, and a finder diagram are available on a colorful poster. Low-resolution, low-color depth picture of the poster (112 kbytes). Back to top Presentation Images Images of the Milky Way are also available as a set of beautiful presentation images, which can be downloaded. Contact the NSSDC Coordinated Request and User Support Office for more information. Video "The Milky Way's Invisible Light" is a 28-minute film created to explain how our current understanding of the Milky Way was reached. Presentation-quality Image Image details: 8x10 inches, 300dpi, 2.5 MB jpeg file. Back to top VRML Models
Jupiter's 'dramatic atmosphere' creates stunning painting-like effect in new space photo Posted earlier today at 8:44amSun 3 Mar 2019, 8:44am The image above looks like an example of abstract art, but this is no painting. Key points: The photo was taken from NASA's Juno spacecraft as it passed the gas giantA software engineer enhanced the raw image, highlighting Jupiter's 'dramatic' atmosphereNASA's Junocam allows the public to take images from the spacecraft using their own processing techniques It is actually a photograph of the cloudy skies over Jupiter, taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 18th flyby of the solar system giant. A colossal storm can be seen sweeping across the planet, with the clouds resembling swirls of paint. The picture is a photograph taken from space which has been enhanced by Kevin M Gill, a NASA software engineer who has developed an online following for his stunning space images. It has since been shared across the internet, drawing comparisons to the work of Vincent Van Gough. "I don't really consider myself an artist," he said.
Four NASA Satellites Set Record for Formation Flying in Space | Space Four individual satellites of NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) recently set a record for the closest flying formation ever achieved by a multi-craft space mission to date. On Sept. 15, the satellite quartet flew only 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometers) apart, breaking the previous record of six miles (9.7 km) set by the MMS satellites in October 2015, according to a statement from NASA. You can see how the MMS satellites fly in this NASA video. MMS consists of four satellites, which weigh approximately 3,000 pounds (1,360 kilograms) each. Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic field lines break apart and reconnect. (Image: © NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Joy Ng, producer) The four satellites orbit Earth in a tetrahedron or pyramid shape with one probe at each corner. "MMS' new, closer formation will allow the spacecraft to measure magnetic reconnection at smaller scales, helping scientists understand this phenomenon on every level," NASA officials said in the statement.
Hubble Captures a Dozen Galaxy Doppelgangers This NASA Hubble Space Telescope photo reveals a cosmic kaleidoscope of a remote galaxy, which has been split into multiple images by an effect called gravitational lensing. Gravitational lensing means that the foreground galaxy cluster is so massive that its gravity distorts the fabric of space-time, bending and magnifying the light from the more distant galaxy behind it. This “funhouse mirror” effect not only stretches the background galaxy image, but also creates multiple images of the same galaxy. This recent picture from Hubble shows a galaxy nicknamed the Sunburst Arc that has been split into a kaleidoscope illusion of no fewer than 12 images formed by a massive foreground cluster of galaxies 4.6 billion light-years away. Credits: NASA, ESA and E. The lensing phenomenon produces at least 12 images of the background galaxy, distributed over four major arcs.
Jovian Vortex View NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this stunningly detailed look at a cyclonic storm in Jupiter’s atmosphere during its 23rd close flyby of the planet (also referred to as “perijove 23”). Juno observed this vortex in a region of Jupiter called the “north north north north temperate belt,” or NNNNTB, one of the gas giant planet’s many persistent cloud bands. These bands are formed by the prevailing winds at different latitudes. The vortex seen here is roughly 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide. Jupiter is composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, but some of the color in its clouds may come from plumes of sulfur and phosphorus-containing gases rising from the planet's warmer interior. Citizen scientist Kevin M. JunoCam's raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at More information about Juno is at and Image credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
NASA probe OSIRIS-REx leaking asteroid samples after bountiful collection on Bennu - ABC News A probe NASA sent into space to take a sample of asteroid material has retrieved so much that its container can't close properly, allowing rocks to spill out into the void. Key points: The asteroid NASA has targeted is one of 500,000 between Earth and MarsIt is one of only 26 that rotates slowly enough for a probe to safely touchdownJapan is the only country to have brought pristine asteroid material back to Earth The robotic arm of the probe, OSIRIS-REx, on Tuesday night kicked up a debris cloud of rocks on Bennu, a skyscraper-sized asteroid some 320 million kilometres from Earth. It then successfully trapped at least 60 grams of the material — a mix of loose, unconsolidated rock, glass and minerals known as regolith — in a collection device for the return to Earth. But images of the spacecraft's collection head beamed back to ground control revealed it had caught more material than scientists anticipated and was spewing an excess of flaky asteroid rocks into space. ABC/Reuters
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter set to take historic flight on Mars today NASA's Ingenuity helicopter will attempt to make its first flight from the surface of Mars today. Key points: Ingenuity is all set to become the first powered craft to fly on another planetNASA is planning four more flights, should the first one be successfulThe first flight was originally scheduled for last week, but delayed due to a software glitch If it succeeds, it will make history as the first powered craft to take off from another planet other than Earth. "Each world only gets one first flight," said NASA's MiMi Aung, project lead of Ingenuity. "The Wright Brothers achieved the first flight on Earth; Ingenuity is poised to be the first for Mars." The chopper was set to take its maiden flight last week, but was delayed by a last-minute software glitch. After further testing over the weekend, Ms Aung said NASA was optimistic the helicopter will take off later this afternoon. "But this is a test, so we are prepared it might not happen," Ms Aung said in the project's latest update.
SpaceX launches 3rd crew with recycled rocket and capsule CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit Friday using a recycled rocket and capsule, the third crew flight in less than a year for Elon Musk’s rapidly expanding company. The astronauts from the U.S., Japan and France should reach the International Space Station early Saturday morning, following a 23-hour ride in the same Dragon capsule used by SpaceX’s debut crew last May. It was the first time SpaceX reused a capsule and rocket to launch astronauts for NASA, after years of proving the capability on station supply runs. Embracing the trend, spacecraft commander Shane Kimbrough and his crew weeks ago wrote their initials in the rocket’s soot, hoping to start a tradition. “If you have rapid and complete reusability, then that is the gateway to the heavens. Flying in a recycled capsule Friday provided a bit of deja vu for NASA astronaut Megan McArthur. “You’re seeing a piece of history happening here,” said Lance Bryan, visiting from Burnsville, Minnesota.
NASA's Mars helicopter soars higher, longer on 2nd flight CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s little Mars helicopter aced its second test flight Thursday, soaring even higher and longer than before. The 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) chopper, named Ingenuity, hovered longer and also flew side to side this time, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. It achieved the intended altitude of 16 feet (5 meters) and even accelerated sideways 7 feet (2 meters). This hop lasted 52 seconds, 13 seconds longer than the first one. “Go big or go home!” The success came just three days after Ingenuity made the first powered flight by an aircraft on another planet. Flight controllers had to wait four hours before learning Thursday’s outcome. “It sounds simple, but there are many unknowns regarding how to fly a helicopter on Mars,” Ingenuity’s chief pilot, Havard Grip, said from JPL in a statement. One of the challenges is the planet’s extremely thin atmosphere — 1% that of Earth’s.
First fully civilian crew set to blast off on historic trip to the International Space Station Private space travel is about to go to a new level — literally — as the first civilian crew prepares to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS). The Ax-1 mission, which is a collaboration between SpaceX and another company Axiom Space, is due to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida around 1:17am (AEST) tomorrow morning (April 9) at the earliest. On board the SpaceX Dragon capsule will be a veteran astronaut and three billionaire entrepreneurs from the US, Canada and Israel, who've each paid an estimated $US55 million ($71 million) for the ride. The all-male crew will spend eight days at the ISS before returning to Earth. The ISS has previously welcomed a few civilian visitors. And it's a taste of things to come as countries make way for companies in space and the ISS is replaced with commercial space stations. The low-Earth orbit economy is booming, says Phil McAlister, director of NASA's commercial spaceflight division. Astronauts or tourists? Loading Yes and no.