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English: What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth.
Past images are stored in the APOD Archive, with the first image appearing on June 16, 1995. [3] This initiative has received support from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and MTU. The images are sometimes authored by people or organizations outside NASA, and therefore APOD images are often copyrighted, unlike many other NASA image ...
First television image of Earth from space and first weather satellite picture. [22] August 18, 1960 CORONA "First space-based Earth observation system"; [23] its first successful mission was Discoverer 14 on 19 August 1960 with the recovery of photographic film from an orbiting satellite. [23] [24]
2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute. Russia's Gazprom announces that the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline will be shut down for 3 days of unscheduled maintenance between August 31 and September 2. Disasters and accidents. 2022 Oder environmental disaster
The James Webb Space Telescope is a space telescope operated by NASA and designed primarily to conduct infrared astronomy.Launched in December 2021, the spacecraft has been in a halo orbit around the second Sun–Earth Lagrange point (L 2), about 1.5 million kilometers (900,000 mi) from Earth, since January 2022.
A color corrected image of the Earth taken by the DSCOVR satellite on December 7, 2022, exactly 50 years after the original Blue Marble image. On July 21, 2015, NASA released a new Blue Marble photograph taken by a U.S. Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a solar weather and Earth observation satellite that was launched in February 2015 ...
His photos have been published several times on the websites of NASA and the ESA. [ 7 ] Having set up an observatory behind his house in Byron Bay, O'Donnell began submitting his astrophotographs to a variety of websites, [ 3 ] with some being published by NASA, ESA, Time , and National Geographic . [ 1 ]
It is 1.5 billion pixels in size, and is the largest image ever taken by the telescope. [1] At the time of its release to the public, the image was one of the largest ever taken. [2] In late 2011, the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) was set up, [1] which was tasked with mapping one-third of the stars within the Andromeda Galaxy.