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Finding a Missing Black Hole

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Astronomers have no evidence that a distant black hole estimated to weigh between 3 billion and 100 billion times the mass of the Sun is anywhere to be found.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/finding-a-missing-black-hole

Georgia HUNCH Students 3D Print Parts for Space Station

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The HUNCH – High school students United with NASA to Create Hardware – Program has expanded its partnership opportunities to the Dade County, Georgia, school system in Trenton. Students will increase their advanced manufacturing capabilities by producing super-strength carbon fiber elements for NASA, the International Space Station.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/images/georgia-hunch-students-3d-print-parts-for-space-station.html

SpaceX Demo 2 Mission Launches into History

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay In this black and white infrared image, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/spacex-demo-2-mission-launches-into-history

Behold: The City of Boston at Night!

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The lights of the city of Boston seemingly spread from a central point in this image taken by the crew of the International Space Station.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/behold-the-city-of-boston-at-night

Lucy Mission to Study Trojan Asteroids

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Slated to launch in October 2021, NASA's Lucy mission will be the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/lucy-mission-to-study-trojan-asteroids

Pareidolia: Seeing Shapes in the Cosmos

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay What is pareidolia? It is the psychological phenomenon where we see recognizable shapes in clouds, rock formations, or otherwise unrelated objects or data.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/pareidolia-seeing-shapes-in-the-cosmos

Tending the Plant Habitat-02

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins tends to radish plants growing for the Plant Habitat-02 experiment.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/tending-the-plant-habitat-02

Chaos at the Heart of the Orion Nebula

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Chaos at the Heart of the Orion Nebula

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/chaos-at-the-heart-of-the-orion-nebula

Retrofuturistic NASA Space Art

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Retrofuturistic NASA Space Art

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/retrofuturistic-nasa-space-art

Looking Back: Dr. George Carruthers and Apollo 16 Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Dr. George Carruthers, right, and William Conway, a project manager at the Naval Research Institute, examine the gold-plated ultraviolet camera/spectrograph, the first moon-based observatory that Carruthers developed for the Apollo 16 mission. Apollo 16 astronauts placed the observatory on the moon in April 1972.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/looking-back-dr-george-carruthers-and-apollo-16-far-ultraviolet-cameraspectrograph

Shaping a Spiral Galaxy

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Magnetic fields in NGC 1068, or M77, are shown as streamlines over a visible light and X-ray composite image of the galaxy.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/shaping-a-spiral-galaxy-0

Hubble Views a Galactic Waterfall

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay In this spectacular image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 2799 (on the left) is seemingly being pulled into the center of the galaxy NGC 2798 (on the right).

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2020/hubble-views-a-galactic-waterfall

Studying Aircraft Noise

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay An array of 960 microphones is seen here off the end of runway 11 at Boeing’s research facility near Glasgow, Montana.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/studying-aircraft-noise

Touching Down on Asteroid Bennu

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay On Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample collection mission performed a successful “Touch-And-Go” (TAG) maneuver.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/touching-down-on-asteroid-bennu

Neutron Stars Create Gold and Platinum in Their Wake

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay This illustration shows the hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from neutron stars just before they collided.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/neutron-stars-create-gold-and-platinum-in-their-wake

Hubble Snaps a Special Stellar Nursery

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay This Hubble image shows a special class of star-forming nursery known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules. Called frEGGs for short, these dark compact globules of dust and gas can give birth to low-mass stars.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2020/hubble-snaps-a-special-stellar-nursery

Cliffs in Ancient Ice on Mars

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Scientists have come to realize that, just below the surface, about one third of Mars is covered in ice.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/cliffs-in-ancient-ice-on-mars

NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins Prepares for Launch to Space Station

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen as she has her Russian Sokol suit pressure checked as she and fellow crewmates prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-astronaut-kate-rubins-prepares-for-launch-to-space-station

The Ghost Nebula

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay ​Powerful gushers of energy from seething stars can sculpt eerie-looking figures with long flowing veils of gas and dust.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-ghost-nebula

The Iris Nebula

#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The beautiful, blushing Iris Nebula is unique amongst its counterparts.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-iris-nebula