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NASA's Space Launch System: America's New Deep Space Rocket!
How does it compare to the Space Shuttle and the Apollo Saturn V?
NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) will be the most powerful rocket in history for deep-space missions, including to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars. The first flight test of the SLS will feature a configuration for a 70-metric-ton (77-ton) lift capacity and carry an uncrewed Orion spacecraft beyond low-Earth orbit to test the performance of the integrated system. As the SLS evolves, it will provide an unprecedented lift capability of 130 metric tons (143 tons) to enable missions even farther into our solar system—greater than the Apollo Saturn V (maximum capacity of 130 tons to low Earth orbit).
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How does it compare to the Space Shuttle and the Apollo Saturn V?
NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) will be the most powerful rocket in history for deep-space missions, including to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars. The first flight test of the SLS will feature a configuration for a 70-metric-ton (77-ton) lift capacity and carry an uncrewed Orion spacecraft beyond low-Earth orbit to test the performance of the integrated system. As the SLS evolves, it will provide an unprecedented lift capability of 130 metric tons (143 tons) to enable missions even farther into our solar system—greater than the Apollo Saturn V (maximum capacity of 130 tons to low Earth orbit).
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NASA Marshall (Redstone Arsenal): "Follow Me" 1960 US Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGtQdFjU7O8 #MSFC #NASAMarshall #history
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SLS Core Stage Pathfinder Arrives at NASA Michoud
The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage pathfinder, which is similar in similar in size, shape and weight to the 212-foot-tall core stage, arrived at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility early in the morning on September 27, 2017. To reduce the risk of first-time operations with one-of-a-kind spaceflight hardware for SLS, the agency built a core stage pathfinder. Like SLS, the core stage pathfinder will be doing something that's never been done—testing new shipping and handling equipment and procedures from the manufacturing site to the test site to the launch site.
Credit: NASA/MSFC/MAF/Steven Seipel
Release Date: September 27, 2017
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The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage pathfinder, which is similar in similar in size, shape and weight to the 212-foot-tall core stage, arrived at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility early in the morning on September 27, 2017. To reduce the risk of first-time operations with one-of-a-kind spaceflight hardware for SLS, the agency built a core stage pathfinder. Like SLS, the core stage pathfinder will be doing something that's never been done—testing new shipping and handling equipment and procedures from the manufacturing site to the test site to the launch site.
Credit: NASA/MSFC/MAF/Steven Seipel
Release Date: September 27, 2017
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A Tour of Star RW Aur A | NASA Chandra
July 18, 2018: Since 1937, astronomers have puzzled over the curious variability of a young star named RW Aur A, which is located about 450 light years from Earth. Every few decades, the star's optical light has faded briefly before brightening again. In recent years, astronomers have observed the star dimming more frequently, and for longer periods.
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of scientists may have uncovered what caused the star's most recent dimming event: a collision of two infant planetary bodies. Once the planets were destroyed, the debris would have fallen onto the star, generating a thick veil of dust and gas. This would have temporarily obscured the star's light, explaining the dimming astronomers have seen.
Computer simulations have long predicted that planets can fall into a young star, but scientists have never before observed that before now. If this most recent study is correct, it would be the first time that astronomers have directly observed a young star devouring a planet.
Because the X-rays come from the hot outer atmosphere of the star, changes in the X-ray spectrum—the intensity of X-rays measured at different wavelengths—over these three observations were used to probe the density and composition of the absorbing material around the star.
The team found that the dips in both optical and X-ray light are caused by dense gas obscuring the star's light. The observation in 2017 showed strong emission from iron atoms, indicating that the disk contained at least 10 times more iron than in the 2013 observation during a bright period.
The researchers think the excess iron was created when two planetesimals, or infant planetary bodies, collided. If one or both planetary bodies are made partly of iron, their smash-up could release a large amount of iron into the star's disk and temporarily obscure its light as the material falls into the star.
This discovery gives insight into the processes affecting the development of infant planets. Undoubtedly, astronomers will continue to study this fascinating object with Chandra and other telescopes.
Credit: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Duration: 3 minutes, 6 seconds
Release Date: July 18, 2018
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July 18, 2018: Since 1937, astronomers have puzzled over the curious variability of a young star named RW Aur A, which is located about 450 light years from Earth. Every few decades, the star's optical light has faded briefly before brightening again. In recent years, astronomers have observed the star dimming more frequently, and for longer periods.
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of scientists may have uncovered what caused the star's most recent dimming event: a collision of two infant planetary bodies. Once the planets were destroyed, the debris would have fallen onto the star, generating a thick veil of dust and gas. This would have temporarily obscured the star's light, explaining the dimming astronomers have seen.
Computer simulations have long predicted that planets can fall into a young star, but scientists have never before observed that before now. If this most recent study is correct, it would be the first time that astronomers have directly observed a young star devouring a planet.
Because the X-rays come from the hot outer atmosphere of the star, changes in the X-ray spectrum—the intensity of X-rays measured at different wavelengths—over these three observations were used to probe the density and composition of the absorbing material around the star.
The team found that the dips in both optical and X-ray light are caused by dense gas obscuring the star's light. The observation in 2017 showed strong emission from iron atoms, indicating that the disk contained at least 10 times more iron than in the 2013 observation during a bright period.
The researchers think the excess iron was created when two planetesimals, or infant planetary bodies, collided. If one or both planetary bodies are made partly of iron, their smash-up could release a large amount of iron into the star's disk and temporarily obscure its light as the material falls into the star.
This discovery gives insight into the processes affecting the development of infant planets. Undoubtedly, astronomers will continue to study this fascinating object with Chandra and other telescopes.
Credit: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Duration: 3 minutes, 6 seconds
Release Date: July 18, 2018
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Eagle Nebula: A Quick Look | NASA Chandra
July 16, 2018: New stars form in clusters containing large amounts of dust and gas, including structures like the Pillars of Creation. A newly forming star is located near the tip of the largest Pillar.
The atmospheres of young stars produce X-ray emission, and disks of dust and gas surrounding many of them produce infrared light. Astronomers combine X-ray and infrared data to study the behavior of young stars.
X-ray activity in young stars with disks is, on average, a few times less intense that in young stars without disks.
Credit: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Duration: 1 minute, 8 seconds
Release Date: July 16, 2018
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July 16, 2018: New stars form in clusters containing large amounts of dust and gas, including structures like the Pillars of Creation. A newly forming star is located near the tip of the largest Pillar.
The atmospheres of young stars produce X-ray emission, and disks of dust and gas surrounding many of them produce infrared light. Astronomers combine X-ray and infrared data to study the behavior of young stars.
X-ray activity in young stars with disks is, on average, a few times less intense that in young stars without disks.
Credit: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Duration: 1 minute, 8 seconds
Release Date: July 16, 2018
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A Quick Look at Star RW Aur A | NASA Chandra
July 18, 2018: For decades, astronomers have watched as the star RW Aur A has faded and brightened in optical light. RW Aur A is a few million years old and relatively close to Earth at a distance of 450 light years.
Recently, they watched as the star dimmed more frequently and for longer periods of time.
To investigate this mystery, a team of scientists used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to study it using a different kind of light: X-rays.
The X-rays provided evidence that the most recent dimming was caused by the destruction of a young planet that was then devoured by a star.
This would be the first time that anyone has seen such an event and would help astronomers better understand how infant planets develop.
Credit: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Duration: 1 minute, 8 seconds
Release Date: July 18, 2018
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July 18, 2018: For decades, astronomers have watched as the star RW Aur A has faded and brightened in optical light. RW Aur A is a few million years old and relatively close to Earth at a distance of 450 light years.
Recently, they watched as the star dimmed more frequently and for longer periods of time.
To investigate this mystery, a team of scientists used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to study it using a different kind of light: X-rays.
The X-rays provided evidence that the most recent dimming was caused by the destruction of a young planet that was then devoured by a star.
This would be the first time that anyone has seen such an event and would help astronomers better understand how infant planets develop.
Credit: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Duration: 1 minute, 8 seconds
Release Date: July 18, 2018
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Symbiotic R Aquarii Star System | Hubble
You can see it change in brightness with just binoculars over the course of a year. Variable star R Aquarii is actually an interacting binary star system, two stars that seem to have a close, symbiotic relationship. About 710 light years away, this intriguing system consists of a cool red giant star and hot, dense white dwarf star in mutual orbit around their common center of mass. The binary system's visible light is dominated by the red giant, itself a Mira-type long period variable star. But material in the cool giant star's extended envelope is pulled by gravity onto the surface of the smaller, denser white dwarf, eventually triggering a thermonuclear explosion and blasting material into space. The featured image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the still-expanding ring of debris which spans less than a light year and originated from a blast that would have been seen in the early 1770s. The evolution of less understood energetic events producing high energy emission in the R Aquarii system has been monitored since 2000 using Chandra X-ray Observatory data.
Image Credit: Hubble, NASA, ESA;
Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
Release Date: July 11, 2018
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You can see it change in brightness with just binoculars over the course of a year. Variable star R Aquarii is actually an interacting binary star system, two stars that seem to have a close, symbiotic relationship. About 710 light years away, this intriguing system consists of a cool red giant star and hot, dense white dwarf star in mutual orbit around their common center of mass. The binary system's visible light is dominated by the red giant, itself a Mira-type long period variable star. But material in the cool giant star's extended envelope is pulled by gravity onto the surface of the smaller, denser white dwarf, eventually triggering a thermonuclear explosion and blasting material into space. The featured image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the still-expanding ring of debris which spans less than a light year and originated from a blast that would have been seen in the early 1770s. The evolution of less understood energetic events producing high energy emission in the R Aquarii system has been monitored since 2000 using Chandra X-ray Observatory data.
Image Credit: Hubble, NASA, ESA;
Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
Release Date: July 11, 2018
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Yes, Pluto has a lot of secrets and surprieses😏
Should you care about Pluto? | PBS NewsHour
We asked NASA's Alan Stern and astrobiologist David Grinspoon.
It’s been more than 12 years since NASA’s New Horizons probe left Earth on an expedition to Pluto, which at the time was the solar system’s ninth planet, and nearly three years since we saw the first images of the “planetary wonder.”
Yet there’s a bevy of details we’re only now still learning from New Horizons, according to those leading the mission—including the fact that visiting the dwarf planet almost never happened.
“There were many defeats along the way.”
In their new book “Chasing New Horizons,” mission leader Alan Stern and astrobiologist David Grinspoon divulge the most intimate accounts of the decades of planning needed for the Pluto probe.
The book recounts the mission’s emotional turbulence and seemingly endless roadblocks, such as when officials zeroed out funding for the project right when its proposal took off or when New Horizons went offline right before its flyby.
Learn about five aspects of New Horizons that you might not have known:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/5-things-you-never-knew-about-the-new-horizons-mission-to-pluto
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New Horizons Spacecraft
Launched: Jan. 19, 2006
Pluto Flyby: July 14, 2015
Goal: Answer questions about Pluto, its moons, and Kuiper Belt objects
Credit: PBS NewsHour
Duration: 3 minutes, 56 seconds
Release Date: May 10, 2018
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We asked NASA's Alan Stern and astrobiologist David Grinspoon.
It’s been more than 12 years since NASA’s New Horizons probe left Earth on an expedition to Pluto, which at the time was the solar system’s ninth planet, and nearly three years since we saw the first images of the “planetary wonder.”
Yet there’s a bevy of details we’re only now still learning from New Horizons, according to those leading the mission—including the fact that visiting the dwarf planet almost never happened.
“There were many defeats along the way.”
In their new book “Chasing New Horizons,” mission leader Alan Stern and astrobiologist David Grinspoon divulge the most intimate accounts of the decades of planning needed for the Pluto probe.
The book recounts the mission’s emotional turbulence and seemingly endless roadblocks, such as when officials zeroed out funding for the project right when its proposal took off or when New Horizons went offline right before its flyby.
Learn about five aspects of New Horizons that you might not have known:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/5-things-you-never-knew-about-the-new-horizons-mission-to-pluto
NASA New Horizons website
http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons
New Horizons Spacecraft
Launched: Jan. 19, 2006
Pluto Flyby: July 14, 2015
Goal: Answer questions about Pluto, its moons, and Kuiper Belt objects
Credit: PBS NewsHour
Duration: 3 minutes, 56 seconds
Release Date: May 10, 2018
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NASA ScienceCasts: New Horizons Discoveries Keep Coming
[Re-post] Sept. 27, 2017: New Horizons is on its way to new discoveries deep in the Kuiper Belt—a region inhabited by ancient remnants from the dawn of the solar system.
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more.
Credit: NASA
Duration: 4 minutes
Release Date: September 29, 2017
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[Re-post] Sept. 27, 2017: New Horizons is on its way to new discoveries deep in the Kuiper Belt—a region inhabited by ancient remnants from the dawn of the solar system.
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more.
Credit: NASA
Duration: 4 minutes
Release Date: September 29, 2017
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+JHU Applied Physics Laboratory
+Lunar and Planetary Institute
+American Astronomical Society
+National Science Teachers Association
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Experience The Mighty Auroras of Jupiter | NASA JPL
Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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