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Lacerta 200/800 F4 Carbon Newton, Zwo Asi183mm Pro
2025 VEX Robotics World Championships - V5MS - JROTC - VURC
NASA Marshall photographer Charles Beason captured this image of students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst carrying their high-powered rocket toward the launch pad at NASA’s 2025 Student Launch competition on May 4.
More than 980 middle school, high school, and college students from across the nation launched more than 40 high-powered amateur rockets just north of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This year marked the 25th anniversary of the competition.
To compete, students follow the NASA engineering design lifecycle by going through a series of reviews for nine months leading up to launch day. Each year, a payload challenge is issued to the university teams, and this year’s task focused on communication. Teams were required to have “reports” from STEMnauts, non-living objects inside their rocket, that had to relay real-time data to the student team’s mission control. This Artemis Student Challenge took inspiration from the agency’s Artemis missions, where NASA will send astronauts to explore the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefit, and to build the foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars.
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The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our Solar System’s largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth.
These observations of Jupiter’s auroras were captured with Webb’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) on 25 December 2023 (F335M filter). Scientists found that the emission from the trihydrogen ion, known as H3+, is far more variable than previously believed. H3+ is created by the impact of high energy electrons on molecular hydrogen. Because this emission shines brightly in the infrared, Webb’s instruments are well equipped to observe it.
A video of these observations can be found here.
[Image description: Three panels, each showing a close-up near-infrared image of Jupiter’s north pole, in shades of orange. The planet is mostly dark. Thick, bright arcs and rings caused by aurorae cover the pole. The centre and right panels each show the aurora a few minutes later in time, as Webb’s field of view slowly scans over the planet.]
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Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, J. Nichols (University of Leicester), M. Zamani (ESA/Webb); CC BY 4.0
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie on May 12, 2019 (the 2,405th Martian day, or sol, of the mission). To the lower-left of the rover are its two recent drill holes, at targets called "Aberlady" and "Kilmarie."
These are Curiosity's 20th and 21st drill sites.
The selfie is composed of 57 individual images taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), a camera on the end of the rover's robotic arm. The images are stitched together into a panorama, and the robotic arm is digitally removed.
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Image Number: PIA23240
Date: May 12, 2019
Highlight of the Paris Airshow 1983 😎 :)
A close up of the Space Shuttle prototype OV-101 'Enterprise' on the back of NASA Boeing 747 N905NA, parked on show at the Paris Airshow at Le Bourget.
N905NA c/n 20107 - Boeing 747-123 - delivered new to American Airlines in 1970 as N9668, the aircraft was converted in 1974 as a Space Shuttle carrier. The aircraft made it's only visit to the Paris Air Show in 1983, carrying the Space Shuttle 'Enterprise'. N905NA made its last flight with Space Shuttle 'Discovery' on 17th April 2012 from Kennedy Space Center - Washington Dulles, and was then stored at Ellington Field.
Space Shuttle 'Enterprise' (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) - was the first Space Shuttle. It was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform test flights in the atmosphere, aided by modified Boeing 747 N905NA. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of spaceflight.
During 1983 and 1984 'Enterprise' undertook an international tour visiting France, Germany, Italy, Canada and the UK.
More on Space Shuttle 'Enterprise' here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Enterprise
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and standard lens. From an original slide, scanned with minimal digital restoration.
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/
To celebrate 1500 Sols on Mars, the Perseverance rover captured a new selfie next to it's latest drillhole near Sally's Cove.
This image is made of 59 images captured by the WATSON camera mounted to the robotic arm. These were combined with four Navcam Left images from Sol 1478 to make a 360 view, though some gaps remain in the ground.
The sky was filled in using a simulated Mars sky image by Steve Albers.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Steve Albers/Simeon Schmauß
To celebrate 1500 Sols on Mars, the Perseverance rover captured a new selfie next to it's latest drillhole near Sally's Cove.
A small dust devil can be seen in the distance on the left side of the image.
This image is made of 59 images captured by the WATSON camera mounted to the robotic arm. These were combined with four Navcam Left images from Sol 1478.
The sky was filled in using a simulated Mars sky image by Steve Albers.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Steve Albers/Simeon Schmauß
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gases and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC1396.
This was data I had from 2022 when I used my 8" RASA to collect photons at f/2.0. Whilst I enjoyed shooting at fast focal lengths it introduced a lot of other related problems. Some can be seen in this image.
Camera: ASI2600MC
Telescope: Celestron RASA8
Mount: CEM70EC
Frames: 154x60sec
Filter: RASA 8 LPS
A beautiful but skewed spiral galaxy dazzles in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy, called Arp 184 or NGC 1961, sits about 190 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Camelopardalis (The Giraffe).
The name Arp 184 comes from the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies compiled by astronomer Halton Arp in 1966. It holds 338 galaxies that are oddly shaped and tend to be neither entirely elliptical nor entirely spiral-shaped. Many of the galaxies are in the process of interacting with other galaxies, while others are dwarf galaxies without well-defined structures. Arp 184 earned its spot in the catalog thanks to its single broad, star-speckled spiral arm that appears to stretch toward us. The galaxy’s far side sports a few wisps of gas and stars, but it lacks a similarly impressive spiral arm.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, R. J. Foley (UC Santa Cruz), C. Kilpatrick
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(1965) In this 1965 NASA Flight Research Center photograph the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) is shown at near maximum altitude over the south base at Edwards Air Force Base. Built of tubular aluminum like a giant four-legged bedstead, the vehicle was to simulate a lunar landing profile from around 1500 feet to the moon's surface. To do this, the LLRV had a General Electric CF- 700-2V turbofan engine mounted vertically in gimbals, with 4200 pounds of thrust. The engine, using JP-4 fuel, got the vehicle up to the test altitude and was then throttled back to support five-sixths of the vehicle's weight, simulating the reduced gravity of the moon. Two hydrogen-peroxide lift rockets with thrust that could be varied from 100 to 500 pounds handled the LLRV's rate of descent and horizontal translations. Sixteen smaller hydrogen-peroxide rockets, mounted in pairs, gave the pilot control in pitch, yaw, and roll. On the LLRV, in case of jet engine failure, six 500-pounds-of thrust rockets could be used by the pilot to carefully apply lift thrust during the rapid descent to hopefully achieve a controllable landing. The pilot's platform extended forward between two legs while an electronics platform, similarly located, extended rearward. The pilot had a zero-zero ejection seat that would lift him away to safety. Weight and balance design constraints were among the most challenging to meet for all phases of the program (design, development, operations).
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Credit: NASA
Image Number: ECN-688
Date: May 11, 1965
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Spiralförmige Lichterscheinung, sichtbar über vielen Teilen Europas.
Laut Aussagen der NASA, entstanden durch Treibstoff einer SpaceX Rakete.
Panorama of Perseverance images of a self-portrait of herself. I don't think I have all of the images yet and the program I used made some jokes as well (spreading gravel in the sky).
Panorama of Perseverance images of a self-portrait of herself. I don't think I have all of the images yet and the program I used made some jokes as well (spreading gravel in the sky). Color/processing variant.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Thomas Thomopoulos
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Thomas Thomopoulos
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Thomas Thomopoulos
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Thomas Thomopoulos
