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To study the Sun like no other spacecraft before, the Parker Solar Probe has a 4.5-inch-thick carbon-composite shield built to withstand temperatures of up to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.
[3] [4] The station has been continuously occupied since 2000, so every Christmas has been experienced by a crew. [5] The holiday is popular enough that one of the traditions that has developed is having a Christmas dinner. [5] On 25 December 2011 the crew of Expedition 30 took a break on Christmas to take a crew photo. [6]
The NASA Images archive was created through a Space Act Agreement between the Internet Archive and NASA to bring public access to NASA's image, video, and audio collections in a single, searchable resource. The Internet Archive NASA Images team worked closely with all of the NASA centers to keep adding to the ever-growing collection. [130]
NGC 2264 is the designation number of the New General Catalogue that identifies two astronomical objects as a single object: the Cone Nebula, and the Christmas Tree Cluster. Two other objects are within this designation but not officially included, the Snowflake Cluster , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and the Fox Fur Nebula . [ 5 ]
On Tuesday, NASA released an image of NGC 2264, also known as the "Christmas Tree Cluster," a group of young stars located around 2,500 light-years away from Earth.
Williams and Wilmore left Earth on June 5 on what was supposed to be an eight-day mission to test that spacecraft — but after suffering problems before and during its launch, the Starliner ran ...
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 ...
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