The Moon, with Earth’s shadow draping across it during the May 15, 2022, lunar eclipse, is pictured in between the International Space Station’s Nauka multipurpose laboratory module and the Rassvet module. Attached to Nauka is the new European robotic arm that was continuing checkouts and mobility tests. Image Credit: NASA 在2022年5月15日的月食期间，月球被地球的阴影笼罩着，这张照片拍摄于国际空间站的诺卡多用途实验室舱和拉斯韦舱之间。与诺卡相连的是新的欧洲机械臂，该机械臂正在继续进行检查和机动性测试。 影像来源：NASA
This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope looks at two spiral galaxies, collectively known as Arp 303. The pair, individually called IC 563 (bottom right) and IC 564 (top left), are 275 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sextans. The image holds data from two separate Hubble observations of Arp 303. The first used Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) to study the pair’s clumpy star-forming regions in infrared light. Galaxies like IC 563 and IC 564 are very bright at infrared wavelengths and host many bright star-forming regions. The second used Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) to take quick looks at bright, interesting galaxies across the sky. The observations filled gaps in Hubble’s archive and looked for promising candidates…
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft opens its main parachutes as it lands at White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in New Mexico. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 serves as an end-to-end test of the system’s capabilities. About four hours after departing the space station, Starliner touched down onto its airbags at 4:49 p.m. MDT, wrapping up the six-day flight, which tested the end-to-end capabilities of the crew-capable spacecraft. The landing followed a deorbit burn at 4:05 p.m., separation of the spacecraft’s service module, and successful deployment of its three main parachutes and six airbags. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls 2022年5月25日星期三，波音公司的CST-100星际客船在新墨西哥州白沙导弹靶场的太空港着陆时打开了主降落伞。 波音公司的轨道飞行试验-2（OFT-2）是星际客船第二次在国际空间站进行的无人驾驶飞行试验，是NASA商业宇航员计划的一部分。OFT-2作为系统功能的端到端测试。 离开空间站大约四个小时后，星际客船于美国东部时间下午4:49降落在安全气囊上，结束了为期六天的飞行，测试了载人航天器的端到端能力。当天下午4点05分，飞船脱离轨道燃烧，服务舱分离，3个主降落伞和6个安全气囊成功打开。 影像来源：NASA/Bill Ingalls
Since the days of NASA’s Apollo program, astronauts have documented (and contended with) how liquids behave differently in microgravity than they do on Earth – coalescing into floating spheres instead of bottom-heavy droplets. Now, researchers have demonstrated this effect with a much more exotic material: gas cooled to nearly absolute zero (minus 459 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 273 degrees Celsius), the lowest temperature matter can reach. Using NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, the first-ever quantum physics facility aboard the International Space Station, researchers took samples of atoms cooled to within a millionth of a degree above absolute zero and shaped them into extremely thin, hollow spheres. The cold gas starts out in a small, round blob, like an egg yolk, and is sculpted into something more…
NASA’s InSight Mars lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The lander is covered with far more dust than it was in its first selfie, taken in December 2018, not long after landing – or in its second selfie, composed of images taken in March and April 2019. The arm now needs to move several times in order to capture a full selfie. Because InSight’s dusty solar panels are producing less power, the team will soon put the lander’s robotic arm in its resting position (called the “retirement pose”) for the last time in May 2022. Learn More. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA的洞察号火星车在2022年4月24日拍摄了这张最后的自拍，这一天是该任务的第1211个火星日。与2018年12月着陆后不久拍摄的第一张自拍相比，火星车上的灰尘要多得多，也比2019年3月和4月拍摄的第二张自拍中的灰尘要多。 机械臂现在需要移动几次才能拍摄完整的自拍照。由于洞察号布满灰尘的太阳能电池板产生的电力较少，该团队很快将在2022年5月最后一次将火星车的机械臂置于静止位置（称为“退休姿势”）。 了解更多信息。 图片来源：NASA/JPL加州理工学院
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a section of the spiral galaxy nicknamed the Needle’s Eye – an appropriately diminutive name for a dwarf spiral galaxy. The Needle’s Eye, also known as NGC 247 and Caldwell 62, is located about 11 million light-years away in the Sculptor Group – the closest group of galaxies to our own (the Local Group). The galaxy was given its nickname because one end of it features a strange void of stars (not seen in this Hubble close-up). Learn more: Hubble Images a Dwarf Spiral with Multiple Mysteries Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and H. Feng (Tsinghua University); Image processing: G. Kober (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America) 这张哈勃太空望远镜图像显示了螺旋星系的一部分，绰号为针眼——矮螺旋星系的一个适当的小名称。针眼，也被称为NGC 247和考德威尔62，位于距离我们大约1,100万光年的雕刻家星系团——距离我们最近的星系群（本星系群）。这个星系被赋予了这个绰号，因为它的一端有一个奇怪的恒星空洞（在这张哈勃望远镜的特写镜头中没有显示）。 了解更多：哈勃拍摄到一个具有多重谜团的矮螺旋 影像来源：NASA、ESA和H.Feng（清华大学）；图像处理：G.Kober（NASA戈达德/美国天主教大学）
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard launched from Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 launched at 6:54 p.m. EDT, and will serve as an end-to-end test of the system’s capabilities. Get mission updates. Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky 2022年5月19日星期四，在佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角太空部队基地，联合发射联盟的阿特拉斯五号火箭搭载波音公司的CST-100星际客船从41号航天发射场发射升空。 波音公司的轨道飞行试验-2（OFT-2）是该公司的第二次无人飞行试验，将作为NASA商业宇航员计划的一部分，星际客船将与国际空间站对接。OFT-2于美国东部夏令时下午6:54发射，并将作为系统功能的端到端测试。 获取任务更新。 图片来源：NASA/Joel Kowsky
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is illuminated by spotlights on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission in this image taken on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 will be Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The mission, currently targeted for launch on 6:54 p.m. EDT on May 19, will serve as an end-to-end test of the system’s capabilities. Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky 这张照片拍摄于2022年5月18日，周三，在轨道飞行测试2任务之前，位于41号航天发射场的发射台上，聚光灯照亮了搭载着波音CST-100星际客船的联合发射联盟阿特拉斯V火箭。 波音公司的轨道飞行试验-2将是星际客船的第二次无人飞行测试，并将作为NASA商业机组计划的一部分停靠到国际空间站。该任务目前计划于美国东部夏令时5月19日下午6:54发射，将作为系统功能的端到端测试。 图片来源：NASA/Joel Kowsky
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the central region of the gigantic elliptical galaxy NGC 474. Located some 100 million light-years from Earth, NGC 474 spans about 250,000 light-years across – that’s 2.5 times larger than our own Milky Way galaxy! Along with its enormous size, NGC 474 has a series of complex layered shells that surround its spherical-shaped core. The cause of these shells is unknown, but astronomers theorize that they may be the aftereffects of the giant galaxy absorbing one or more smaller galaxies. In the same way a pebble creates ripples on a pond when dropped into the water, the absorbed galaxy creates waves that form the shells. About 10% of elliptical galaxies have shell structures, but unlike the majority…
Dr. Kartik Sheth’s career spans academia, non-profits, and government. For the past seven years, Sheth has been a program scientist in both the Astrophysics and Earth Science Divisions at NASA, overseeing space missions, and research and development programs in cutting-edge technology and working towards some of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. Previously, Dr. Sheth served as the Assistant Director for Research Infrastructures and Science Equity in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President at the White House. There he led a range of activities from oversight of the nation’s science and technology research enterprise, advanced manufacturing, environmental justice and increasing equity with innovative strategy and policy solutions. He was previously the Director for the Office of Diversity…
