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Pickering's Triangle image taken with the Mayall 4-meter Telescope

A wide-field image of Pickering's Triangle taken with the U.S. National Science Foundation's Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Pickering's Triangle is part of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant.

Credit: T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA (Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International)

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“The featured time-lapse visualization is extrapolated from images with the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope and the WIYN telescope on Kitt Peak in Arizona, USA. The 3D-computer model on which this visualization is based includes artistic interpretations, and distances are significantly compressed.”

(APOD/NASA). Visualization Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers, G. Bacon, Z. Levay, and L. Frattare (Viz 3D Team, STScI); Acknowledgment: T. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF, NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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"This new image of NGC 2264, also known as the 'Christmas Tree Cluster,' shows the shape of a cosmic tree with the glow of stellar lights. NGC 2264 is, in fact, a cluster of young stars — with ages between about one and five million years old — in our Milky Way about 2,500 light-years away from Earth. The stars in NGC 2264 are both smaller and larger than the Sun, ranging from some with less than a tenth the mass of the Sun to others containing about seven solar masses.

This new composite image enhances the resemblance to a Christmas tree through choices of color and rotation. The blue and white lights (which blink in the animated version of this image) are young stars that give off X-rays detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Optical data from the National Science Foundation’s WIYN 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak shows gas in the nebula in green, corresponding to the 'pine needles' of the tree, and infrared data from the Two Micron All Sky Survey shows foreground and background stars in white. This image has been rotated clockwise by about 160 degrees from the astronomer’s standard of North pointing upward, so that it appears like the top of the tree is toward the top of the image.

Young stars, like those in NGC 2264, are volatile and undergo strong flares in X-rays and other types of variations seen in different types of light. The coordinated, blinking variations shown in this animation, however, are artificial, to emphasize the locations of the stars seen in X-rays and highlight the similarity of this object to a Christmas tree. In reality the variations of the stars are not synchronized.

The variations observed by Chandra and other telescopes are caused by several different processes. Some of these are related to activity involving magnetic fields, including flares like those undergone by the Sun — but much more powerful — and hot spots and dark regions on the surfaces of the stars that go in and out of view as the stars rotate. There can also be changes in the thickness of gas obscuring the stars, and changes in the amount of material still falling onto the stars from disks of surrounding gas.

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center manages the Chandra program. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s Chandra X-ray Center controls science operations from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and flight operations from Burlington, Massachusetts."

Date: December 19, 2023

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Pickering's Triangle from Kitt Peak

Credits: T. Rector, U. Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker, WIYN, NOAO, AURA, NSF

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THE WIZARD NEBULA: ngc 7380

Credit:T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

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This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. NGC 1788 is an unusual reflection nebula (bluish white at the center of the image) surrounded by a glowing red ring of hydrogen gas. The stars inside the nebula are only about a million years old, which is very young compared to most stars. The ring of glowing hydrogen gas is energized by nearby hot, massive stars not visible in the image. The image was generated with observations in the B (blue), I (orange) and Hydrogen-Alpha (red) filters. In this image, North is up, East is to the left.Credit:

T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & S. Pakzad (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

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L’ammasso dell’albero di Natale

Questa bella immagine mostra il cosiddetto ammasso dell’albero di Natale. Le luci blu e bianche sono prodotte da giovani stelle che emettono raggi X, rilevati dal satellite Chandra della NASA. I dati ottici del telescopio WIYN da 0,9 metri della National Science Foundation al Kitt Peak mostrano il gas nella nebulosa in verde, corrispondente agli aghi di pino dell’albero, e i dati a infrarossi…

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4 min read NASA Awards 15 Grants to Support Open-Source Science One of the 15 winning proposals for NASA High Priority Open-Source Science (HPOSS) funding will help simulate galaxies. Pictured here is barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300, as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)Acknowledgment: P. Knezek (WIYN) NASA awarded $1.4 million to 15 teams developing new technologies that advance and streamline the open sharing of scientific information. High Priority Open-Source Science (HPOSS) awards fund projects that aim to increase the accessibility, inclusivity, or reproducibility of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) research. Projects include open-source tools, software, frameworks, data formats, or libraries that will have a significant impact to the SMD science community. HPOSS awards are for one year and approximately $100,000. The HPOSS solicitation is one of several cross-divisional funding opportunities funded by NASA’s Office of the Chief Science Data Officer (OCSDO) with a focus on advancing open science practices. These solicitations are unique among NASA’s annual omnibus solicitation for basic and applied research, Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES), providing cross-divisional support for new work with strong potential to advance the adoption of open science practices across SMD. “We are excited to be able to fund these opportunities to enable modern research through NASA’s support of open science,” said Chelle Gentemann, program officer for HPOSS and open science program scientist for OCSDO at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on an Intergovernmental Personnel Act assignment from the International Computer Science Institute. “Open science is crucial in improving the transparency, security, and reproducibility of scientific research.” The HPOSS solicitation for ROSES-2024 is currently available as F.14 on NSPIRES. Under ROSES-2024, HPOSS has expanded to include the development of capacity-building materials, like curricula, tutorials, and other training materials, reflecting the program’s commitment to fostering open science practices. The HPOSS solicitation has no fixed due date. Proposers are encouraged to submit their proposals via NSPIRES at any time. Proposals are evaluated by peer review panels and selections are made throughout the year. “The proposals selected thus far illustrate the breadth of this solicitation, ranging from projects that will increase the accessibility of data relevant to specific research communities to open-source tools that will be relevant across multiple SMD divisions,” said Gentemann. The selected awardees for the ROSES-22 and ROSES-23 calls are: Roses-2022 Awardees Erin Buchanan, Harrisburg University of Science & Technology, Harrisburg, PennsylvaniaSTAPLE: Science Tracking Across the Project Lifespan James Colliander / Code For Science And Society, INC., Portland, OregonEphemeral Interactive Computing for NASA Communities Gretchen Daily, Stanford University, Stanford, CaliforniaMetadata Tools for More Transparent, Reproducible, and Accessible Geospatial Analysis Douglas Moore, 39 Alpha Research, Tempe, ArizonaDorothy: Making Scientific Data Transparent, Accessible, and Reproducible Matthew Turk, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IllinoisSynergistic Software Tooling for Geophysical and Astrophysical Analysis: Linking yt and Xarray Richard Townsend, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WisconsinCatalyzing an Open-Source Ecosystem for the GYRE Stellar Oscillation Code Andrew Jiranek, Sciencecast Inc., Towson, MarylandAdvancing Equitable Scientific Publishing through Open-Science Digital Innovations Jami Montgomery, Georgetown University, Washington, District of ColumbiaWeb-based Planetary Topography Toolkit Roses-2023 Awardees Russell Turner, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OregonCreation of an Open Access 3-Dimensional Image and Data Library for Rat Bones from Space Shuttle Experiments Hans-Peter Marshall / Boise State University, Boise, IdahoThe SnowEx DB Open-Source Project — Standardized Data Access to Maximize Mission Data Use and Accelerate Research​ Leila DeFloriani / University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland An Open-Source Library for Processing Forest Point Clouds Based on Topological Data Analysis Michael Phillips / University of Arizona, Tucson, ArizonaSpectral Cube Analysis Tool: A Python Graphical User Interface for Analyzing Spectral Image Data Julie Barnum / University of Colorado, Boulder, ColoradoA Heliophysics Software Search Interface Portal Benjamin Keller / University of Memphis, Memphis, TennesseePortable and Reproducible Initial Conditions for Galaxy Simulations Ryan Curtin / NumFocus, Austin, TexasEnhance Usability and Discoverability of mlpack for Low-Resource Spaceflight Machine Learning Summaries of previously selected proposals can be found under the “Selections” section on the HPOSS NSPIRES pages for ROSES-2022 and ROSES-2023.  To learn more about the HPOSS program element, a recording of a recent informational webinar is available, along with the presentation slides.  To learn more about NASA open science funding opportunities, visit: science.nasa.gov/open-science/nasa-open-science-funding-opportunities/ Share Details Last Updated Aug 20, 2024 Related Terms Open Science Explore More 2 min read Geospatial AI Foundation Model Team Receives NASA Marshall Group Achievement Award  Article 5 days ago 5 min read How NASA Citizen Science Fuels Future Exoplanet Research Article 2 weeks ago 3 min read Meet NASA Interns Shaping Future of Open Science Article 4 weeks ago Keep Exploring Discover Related Topics Missions Humans in Space Climate Change Solar System

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Earth-Sized Planet Discovered in ‘Our Solar Backyard’ - Technology Org

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Earth-Sized Planet Discovered in ‘Our Solar Backyard’ - Technology Org

A team of astronomers have discovered a planet closer and younger than any other Earth-sized world yet identified. It’s a remarkably hot world whose proximity to our own planet and to a star like our sun mark it as a unique opportunity to study how planets evolve.

Young, hot, Earth-sized planet HD 63433d sits close to its star in the constellation Ursa Major, while two neighboring, mini-Neptune-sized planets — identified in 2020 — orbit farther out. Illustration by Alyssa Jankowski, UW–Madison

The new planet was described in a new study published by The Astronomical Journal. Melinda Soares-Furtado, a NASA Hubble Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who will begin work as an astronomy professor at the university in the fall, and recent UW–Madison graduate Benjamin Capistrant, now a graduate student at the University of Florida, co-led the study with co-authors from around the world.

“It’s a useful planet because it may be like an early Earth,” says Soares-Furtado.

Here is what scientists know about the planet:

The planet is known as HD 63433d and it’s the third planet found in orbit around a star called HD 63433.

HD 63433d is so close to its star, it completes a trip all the way around every 4.2 days.

“Even though it’s really close-orbiting, we can use follow-up data to search for evidence of outgassing and atmospheric loss that could be important constraints on how terrestrial worlds evolve,” Soares-Furtado says. “But that’s where the similarities end — and end dramatically.”

Based on its orbit, the astronomers are relatively certain HD 63433d is tidally locked, which means one side is perpetually facing its star.

That side can reach a brutal 2,300 degrees Fahrenheit and may flow with lava, while the opposite side is forever dark.

What you should know about the planet’s star:

HD 63433 is roughly the same size and star type as our sun, but (at about 400 million years old) it’s not even one-tenth our sun’s age.

The star is about 73 light years away from our own sun and part of the group of stars moving together that make up the constellation Ursa Major, which includes the Big Dipper.

“On a dark night in Madison,” Soares-Furtado says, “you could see [HD 63433] through a good pair of binoculars.”

How the scientists found the planet:

The study’s authors are collaborating on a planet-hunting project called THYME. In 2020, they used data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to identify two mini-Neptune-sized planets orbiting HD 63433.

Since then, TESS took four more looks at the star, compiling enough data for the researchers to detect HD 63433d crossing between the star and the satellite.

What comes next:

The researchers, including UW–Madison study co-authors graduate student Andrew C. Nine, undergraduate Alyssa Jankowski and Juliette Becker, a UW–Madison astronomy professor, think there is plenty to learn from HD 63433d.

The planet is uniquely situated for further study. Its peppy young star is visible from both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, increasing the number of instruments, like the South African Large Telescope or WIYN Observatory in Arizona (both of which UW–Madison helped design and build) that can be trained on the system.

And the star is orders of magnitude closer than many Soares-Furtado has studied, possibly affording opportunities to develop new methods to study gasses escaping from the planet’s interior or measure its magnetic field.

“This is our solar backyard, and that’s kind of exciting,” Soares-Furtado says. “What sort of information can a star this close, with such a crowded system around it, give away? How will it help us as we move on to look for planets among the maybe 100 other, similar stars in this young group it’s part of?”

Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison

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#SomewhereDeepInTheNight "This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona. The Pleiades are an open cluster easily visible to the naked eye. The cluster is dominated by several hot, luminous and massive stars. The blue nebulosity surrounding the brightest stars are due to blue light from the stars scattering off of dust grains in the interstellar gas between us and the stars. The cluster is also known as the 'Seven Sisters'. And in Japan it is called Subaru. " NOIRLab

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Abell 98: NASA's Chandra Finds Colliding Galaxy Clusters in a "WHIM"

Esta imagen muestra Abell 98, un sistema de cúmulos de galaxias que incluye un par en las primeras etapas de una colisión.  Los astrónomos han utilizado datos del Observatorio de rayos X Chandra de la NASA (que se muestran en azul y púrpura con datos ópticos del telescopio WIYN en Kitt Peak en Arizona que aparecen en blanco y rojo) para identificar estructuras clave y buscar materia “perdida” en…

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DESCOBERTO O PLANETA MARSHMALLOW!!!

LIGA A NOTIFICAÇÃO DA LIVE DE LANÇAMENTO DO SPACE TODAY PLUS, É NA QUARTA-FEIRA, DIA 26, ÀS 20:00!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tGNcvwIHKM ASSINE E LEIA A NEWSLETTER DO SPACE TODAY, É TOTALMENTE GRÁTIS: https://spacetoday.substack.com/p/noticias-astronomicas-22-de-outubro INSCREVA-SE NO CIÊNCIA SEM FIM E NÃO PERCA NENHUM PAPO DESSA SEMANA: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ci%C3%AAnciaSemFim Um exoplaneta gigante gasoso com a densidade de um marshmallow foi detectado em órbita em torno de uma estrela anã vermelha fria por um conjunto de instrumentos, incluindo o instrumento de velocidade radial NEID financiado pela NASA no Telescópio WIYN de 3,5 metros no Observatório Nacional Kitt Peak. um Programa do NOIRLab da NSF. O planeta, chamado TOI-3757 b, é o planeta gigante gasoso mais fofo já descoberto em torno desse tipo de estrela. Astrônomos usando o telescópio WIYN de 3,5 metros no Observatório Nacional Kitt Peak no Arizona, um programa do NOIRLab da NSF, observaram um planeta incomum semelhante a Júpiter em órbita em torno de uma estrela anã vermelha fria. Localizado a aproximadamente 580 anos-luz da Terra na constelação de Auriga, o Cocheiro, este planeta, identificado como TOI-3757 b , é o planeta de menor densidade já detectado em torno de uma estrela anã vermelha e estima-se que tenha uma densidade média semelhante a essa. de um marshmallow. FONTES: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2225/?lang https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac7c20/pdf #EXOPLANETS #MARSHMALLOW #UNFOLDTHEUNIVERSE

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Unusual Gas Filaments Surround Galaxy NGC 1275

Credits: C. Conselice, Caltech, WIYN, AURA, NOAO, NSF

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Planet With the Density of a Marshmallow Noticed Round Pink Dwarf Star

The Nationwide Science Basis says TOI-3757 b (proper) is the fluffiest gasoline big exoplanet to orbit a pink dwarf. Illustration: NSF NOIRLab House has no scarcity of bizarre and curious planets. Astronomers utilizing the three.5-meter telescope at Kitt Peak Nationwide Observatory report their discovery of a Jupiter-like world with roughly the identical density as a marshmallow, quickly orbiting a pink dwarf star. The planet is named TOI-3757 b, and it may be discovered 580 light-years away from Earth within the Auriga constellation. Scientists discover exoplanets on a regular basis, however TOI-3757 b is particular in that it’s the least dense gasoline big ever recorded orbiting a pink dwarf star. What’s extra, TOI-3757 b’s standing as a gasoline big orbiting a pink dwarf is odd, too, as pink dwarfs are fairly energetic and may spew flares highly effective sufficient to strip a planet of its environment—and roast it like a s’extra, if you’ll. “Big planets round pink dwarf stars have historically been considered exhausting to type,” Shubham Kanodia, a researcher at Carnegie Establishment for Science’s Earth and Planets Laboratory, stated in a NOIRLab press launch. “To this point this has solely been checked out with small samples from Doppler surveys, which usually have discovered big planets additional away from these pink dwarf stars. Till now we’ve not had a big sufficient pattern of planets to seek out close-in gasoline planets in a sturdy method.” Kanodia is the lead creator of a paper about TOI-3757 b that was revealed in The Astronomical Journal this previous August. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite tv for pc (TESS) first noticed the planet by detecting the dip in brightness of the host star because the world handed in entrance of it. Kanodia and his crew additional noticed the planet utilizing devices housed at Kitt Peak’s WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope, together with devices at Interest-Eberly Telescope in Texas and the Pink Buttes Observatory in Wyoming. By way of subsequent evaluation, they had been capable of deduce that TOI-3757 b is roughly 100,000 miles (150,000 kilometers) large, which is barely bigger than Jupiter. The planet additionally completes an orbit each 3.5 days. The large query is why TOI-3757 b is so fluffy. Kanodia and his colleagues counsel that the planet’s rocky core is forming slower than different gasoline giants as a consequence of a scarcity of heavy components, which is delaying the accretion of gasoline particles and holding the general density of the planet low. One other doable reply is that Marshmallow World’s orbit seems to be elliptical. Through the durations the place the planet is nearer to the star, extra warmth from the pink big could trigger the environment to bloat. Regardless of the case could also be, on the very least we will nonetheless benefit from the data of this odd and pleasantly plump exoplanet. Originally published at Irvine News HQ