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Preparing to journey to a metal world, a milestone for a simulated Mars mission, and celebrating an anniversary for our agency … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Video Producer: Andre Valentine Video Editor: Andre Valentine Narrator: Andre Valentine Music: Universal Production Music Credit: NASA

Tracking a mission’s historic return to Earth, a year of science onboard the space station, and the safe arrival of the station’s newest resident astronaut … Credit: NASA

ESO’s exquisitely sensitive GRAVITY instrument has added further evidence to the long-standing assumption that a supermassive black hole lurks in the centre of the Milky Way. New observations show clumps of gas swirling around at about 30% of the speed of light on a circular orbit just outside a four million solar mass black hole — the first time material has been observed orbiting close to the point of no return, and the most detailed observations yet of material orbiting this close to a black hole. This video starts with a wide view of the Milky Way and then zooms into a visualization of data from simulations of orbital motions of gas swirling around at about 30% of the speed of light on a circular orbit around the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Credit: ESO/Gravity Consortium/L. Calçada/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org). Music: Johan B. Monell

NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program nurtures visionary ideas from America's innovators and entrepreneurs that could transform future NASA missions with the creation of radically better or entirely new aerospace concepts. NIAC projects study innovative, technically credible, advanced concepts to turn science fiction to science fact.

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) is the first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth. When it lands, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will release the sample capsule for a safe landing in the Utah desert. The pristine material from Bennu – rocks and dust collected from the asteroid’s surface in 2020 – will offer generations of scientists a window into the time when the Sun and planets were forming about 4.5 billion years ago. Credit: NASA Music Credit: Universal Production Music Video Producer: James Tralie

Measuring 4.25 meters across and weighing 12 tonnes, the M2 mirror of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will be the largest ever secondary mirror on a telescope. Within the #ELT, it will be held by a specially designed cell, currently being tested and which you can discover in this video.

we have exciting news to share! The SpaceX Crew-6 mission has safely returned to Earth, and we'll also delve into the intriguing tech demo that hitched a ride on our Psyche spacecraft. Plus, we'll explore how the study of ancient life on Earth is shedding light on our quest to understand Mars. Stay tuned for these captivating stories in "This Week at NASA!" Video Producer: Andre Valentine Video Editor: Andre Valentine Narrator: Andre Valentine Music: Universal Production Music Credit: NASA

On 19 October 2009, at an international exoplanet conference, the team who built the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS, the spectrograph for ESO’s 3.6-metre telescope, reports on the incredible discovery of more than 30 new exoplanets, cementing HARPS’s position as the world’s foremost exoplanet hunter. This Video News Release is targeted especially at broadcasters for further editing. In order to keep the audio tracks editable, different sound information has been recorded on two separate tracks at optimal volumes as is common standard in professional post production. This video is not meant for on screen viewing — on ESOcasts are better suited for that. Credit: ESO #galaxy #andromeda #milkyway #sky #fact #AndromedaGalaxy #MilkyWayNeighbor #SpaceExploration #GalacticMysteries #CosmicJourney #Astronomy #CelestialWonders #InterstellarDiscovery #SpaceExploration #NASA #SpaceScience #Astronomy #RocketLaunch #CosmicWonders #StellarDiscoveries #GalacticAdventures #UniverseExploration #Astrobiology #SpaceTechnology #Astronauts #CosmicJourney #SpaceMissions #Interplanetary #Exoplanets #SpaceInnovation #CelestialWonders #MarsExploration #StarrySkies #SpacePhotography #SpaceStation #BlackHoles #SpaceResearch #CosmicFrontiers

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have detected titanium oxide in an exoplanet atmosphere for the first time. This discovery around the hot-Jupiter planet WASP-19b exploited the power of the FORS2 instrument. It provides unique information about the chemical composition and the temperature and pressure structure of the atmosphere of this unusual and very hot world. The video is available in 4K UHD. The ESOcast Light is a series of short videos bringing you the wonders of the Universe in bite-sized pieces. The ESOcast Light episodes will not be replacing the standard, longer ESOcasts, but complement them with current astronomy news and images in ESO press releases. Credit: ESO. Visual Design and Editing: N. Bartmann and M. Kornmesser Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida Written by: Izumi Hansen and Álvaro Almeida Music: John Stanford (www.johnstanfordmusic.com) Footage and photos: ESO, M . Kornmesser, and L. Calçada Directed by: Lars Lindberg Christensen Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen

With the Earth experiencing warming and the melting of polar ice, there's a noticeable increase in our average global sea level. While specific ocean elevations differ due to factors such as local terrain, long-term climatic changes, and the intricate interplay between fluid dynamics, gravity, and planetary rotation, researchers gauge sea level shifts by contrasting measurements with a 20-year average encompassing both space and time. These visual representations employ the symbolic concept of an underwater porthole to illustrate the extent of ocean rise between 1993 and 2022. This visual representation observes the fluctuation in the global mean sea level through a circular window. The precise measurements from the Integrated Multi-Mission Ocean Altimeter Data for Climate Research are indicated by a blue mark on the ruler. The animated water level undergoes smoother changes, influenced by a 60-day moving average of the same dataset. credits: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio #SeaLevelVisualization #GlobalMeanSeaLevelChange #OceanAltimeterData #ClimateResearch #WaterLevelFluctuations #DataVisualization #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #SeaLevelTrends #FluidDynamics

A visualization of the evolution of a young, isolated protoplanetary disk over 16,000 years to study planetary formation. Credits: NCSA, NASA, A. Boley #Visualization #ProtoplanetaryDisk #PlanetaryFormation #Astronomy #SpaceSimulation #NASA #NCSA #AstronomicalVisualization #YoungProtoplanetaryDisk #PlanetaryEvolution #SpaceExploration#galaxy #andromeda #milkyway #sky #fact #AndromedaGalaxy #MilkyWayNeighbor #SpaceExploration #GalacticMysteries #CosmicJourney #Astronomy #CelestialWonders #InterstellarDiscovery #SpaceExploration #NASA #SpaceScience #Astronomy #RocketLaunch #CosmicWonders #StellarDiscoveries #GalacticAdventures #UniverseExploration #Astrobiology #SpaceTechnology #Astronauts #CosmicJourney #SpaceMissions #Interplanetary #Exoplanets #SpaceInnovation #CelestialWonders #MarsExploration #StarrySkies #SpacePhotography #SpaceStation #BlackHoles #SpaceResearch #CosmicFrontiers

Watch to learn how an update to NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory allowed it to catch a supersized black hole in a distant galaxy munching repeatedly on a circling star. Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which launched in 2004, scientists have discovered a black hole in a distant galaxy repeatedly nibbling on a Sun-like star. The object heralds a new era of Swift science made possible by a novel method for analyzing data from the satellite’s X-ray Telescope (XRT). When a star strays too close to a monster black hole, gravitational forces create intense tides that break the star apart into a stream of gas. The leading edge swings around the black hole, and the trailing edge escapes the system. These destructive episodes are called tidal disruption events. Astronomers see them as flares of multiwavelength light created when the debris collides with a disk of material already orbiting the black hole. Recently, astronomers have been investigating variations on this phenomena, which they call partial or repeating tidal disruptions. During these events, every time an orbiting star passes close to a black hole, the star bulges outward and sheds material, but survives. The process repeats until the star looses too much gas and finally breaks apart. The characteristics of the individual star and black hole system determine what kind of emission scientists observe, creating a wide array of behaviors to categorize. On June 22, 2022, the XRT captured Swift J0230 for the first time. It lit up in a galaxy around 500 million light-years away in the northern constellation Triangulum. Swift’s XRT has observed nine additional outbursts from the same location roughly every few weeks. Scientists propose that Swift J0230 is a repeating tidal disruption of a Sun-like star orbiting a black hole with over 200,000 times the Sun’s mass. They estimate the star loses around three Earth masses of material on each pass. This system provides a bridge between other types of suspected repeating disruptions and allowed scientists to model how interactions between different star types and black hole sizes affect what we observe. Swift J0230’s discovery was possible thanks to a new, automated search of XRT observations called the Swift X-ray Transient Detector. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Where are the Moon rocks from the Apollo missions kept? When they’re not being studied by institutions or enjoyed by museumgoers, NASA has a specialized Lunar Sample Curation Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to store and keep these otherworldly samples safe. Studying these samples helps us learn more about the origin of not only our moon, but our planet. Deputy Apollo Sample Curator (Sept 2019 – Dec 2022) Dr. Juliane Gross explains more about lunar sample curation. Producers: Scott Bednar, Jessica Wilde Editor: David Shelton Credit: NASA #galaxy #andromeda #milkyway #sky #fact #AndromedaGalaxy #MilkyWayNeighbor #SpaceExploration #GalacticMysteries #CosmicJourney #Astronomy #CelestialWonders #InterstellarDiscovery #SpaceExploration #NASA #SpaceScience #Astronomy #RocketLaunch #CosmicWonders #StellarDiscoveries #GalacticAdventures #UniverseExploration #Astrobiology #SpaceTechnology #Astronauts #CosmicJourney #SpaceMissions #Interplanetary #Exoplanets #SpaceInnovation #CelestialWonders #MarsExploration #StarrySkies #SpacePhotography #SpaceStation #BlackHoles #SpaceResearch #CosmicFrontiers

"Join us on a journey to asteroid Bennu, a small, rocky asteroid that could potentially impact Earth. Using cutting-edge 3D visualization technology, we'll explore the surface of Bennu, learning about its strange and varied features. We'll also take a look at the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is currently on a mission to collect samples from Bennu and bring them back to Earth for study. This is a fascinating and important mission, and we're excited to share it with you." Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center #nearearthobject #impacthazard #spacecraft #samplereturn #interstellar #gravityassist #asteroid #asteroidbennu #3d #visualization #space #science #nasa #osiriserx #spaceexploration #planetaryscience #astronomy #cosmos

This visualization shows a tour of a turbulent molecular cloud forming multiple protoplanetary disks. Credits: NCSA, NASA, A. Kritsuk, M. Norman #MolecularCloudFormation #ProtoplanetaryDisks #AstronomicalVisualization #SpaceSimulation #Astrophysics #NASA #NCSA #CosmicJourney #StellarFormation #spaceexploration

Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have observed reservoirs of cool gas around some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe. Watch this video to find out why this discovery is important. The video is available in 4K UHD. The ESOcast Light is a series of short videos bringing you the wonders of the Universe in bite-sized pieces. The ESOcast Light episodes will not be replacing the standard, longer ESOcasts, but complement them with current astronomy news and images in ESO press releases. Credit: ESO Directed by: Herbert Zodet. Editing: Herbert Zodet. Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida. Written by: Caroline Reid and Bárbara Ferreira. Music: STAN DART (www.stan-dart.com) — Reflections. Footage and photos: ESO, Farina et al., ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Decarli et al., L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser, Theofanis Matsopoulos and Gianluca Lombardi (glphoto.it). Scientific consultant: Mariya Lyubenova.

When Betelgeuse, a bright orange star in the constellation of Orion, became visibly darker in late 2019 and early 2020, the astronomy community was puzzled. A team of astronomers have now published new research done with ESO's Very Large Telescope and Very Large Telescope interferometer that solves the mystery of Betelgeuse's dimming. This ESOcast Light summarises the discovery. The ESOcast Light is a series of short videos bringing you the wonders of the Universe in bite-sized pieces. The video is available in 4K UHD. Credit: ESO Directed by: Herbert Zodet and Martin Wallner. Editing: Herbert Zodet. Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida. Written by: Thea Elvin, Anna Purdue, Giulio Mazzolo and Bárbara Ferreira. Music: Stellardrone — Fermi Paradox and Rendezvous With Rama. Footage and photos: ESO, P. Kervella, M. Montargès et al., L. Calçada, Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: E. Pantin, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org) and P. Horálek. Scientific consultants: Paola Amico and Mariya Lyubenova. #galaxy #andromeda #milkyway #sky #fact #AndromedaGalaxy #MilkyWayNeighbor #SpaceExploration #GalacticMysteries #CosmicJourney #Astronomy #CelestialWonders #InterstellarDiscovery #SpaceExploration #NASA #SpaceScience #Astronomy #RocketLaunch #CosmicWonders #StellarDiscoveries #GalacticAdventures #UniverseExploration #Astrobiology #SpaceTechnology #Astronauts #CosmicJourney #SpaceMissions #Interplanetary #Exoplanets #SpaceInnovation #CelestialWonders #MarsExploration #StarrySkies #SpacePhotography #SpaceStation #BlackHoles #SpaceResearch #CosmicFrontiers

Embark on a breathtaking visual journey with NASA astronaut Jack Fischer as your guide, aboard the International Space Station. In this stunning 4K Ultra High Definition time-lapse, witness the mesmerizing interplay of natural wonders and urban marvels. Experience Highlights: Ocean Moon Glint: Gaze in awe as the camera captures the spellbinding moon glint phenomenon over the expansive Pacific Ocean. Watch as the moon's radiant glow creates a breathtaking trail of shimmering light across the water's surface, a celestial dance that defies description. City Night Lights: Travel over the illuminated tapestry of urban landscapes, from the mesmerizing night lights of San Francisco, California, to the sprawling brilliance of Denver, Colorado. As you soar above these vibrant cities, witness the beauty of human innovation blending seamlessly with the majesty of the cosmos. Allow yourself to be captivated by the cosmic poetry that unfolds before your eyes. Join us in experiencing the world from a perspective few are privileged to see. This is a visual journey that will stay with you long after the video ends. 🛰️ Subscribe for more 🌌🚀 credit : NASA #moonmagic #lunarbeauty #celestialwonders #MoonGlint #nightlights #SpaceSymphony #AstronautView #LunarPerspective #stunningspace #4kuhd #nasainsights #cosmicjourney

#galaxy #andromeda #milkyway #sky #fact #AndromedaGalaxy #MilkyWayNeighbor #SpaceExploration #GalacticMysteries #CosmicJourney #Astronomy #CelestialWonders #InterstellarDiscovery #SpaceExploration #NASA #SpaceScience #Astronomy #RocketLaunch #CosmicWonders #StellarDiscoveries #GalacticAdventures #UniverseExploration #Astrobiology #SpaceTechnology #Astronauts #CosmicJourney #SpaceMissions #Interplanetary #Exoplanets #SpaceInnovation #CelestialWonders #MarsExploration #StarrySkies #SpacePhotography #SpaceStation #BlackHoles #SpaceResearch #CosmicFrontiers

On March 21, 2022, the NASA Exoplanet Archive marked a significant milestone as the tally of known exoplanets exceeded 5,000. In this mesmerizing animation and sonification, witness the remarkable journey of humanity's exploration of planets beyond our solar system. This captivating audiovisual experience transforms NASA's exoplanet data into a symphony of discovery, enabling you to perceive the rhythm of exploration and glean insights from the musical notes themselves. As each exoplanet emerges, a celestial circle materializes at its corresponding position in the sky. The circle's size mirrors the relative scale of the planet's orbit, while its color designates the detection method employed in its identification. The accompanying music is composed by the emergence of each newly discovered world, with the pitch of the notes signifying the relative orbital period of the planet. Planets with extended orbits are translated into lower notes, while those with swifter orbits are translated into higher ones. "Sonic Odyssey of Exoplanet Discovery" is a multisensory voyage through the cosmos, immersing you in the evolving soundscape of our expanding knowledge of distant worlds. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Russo, A. Santaguida (SYSTEM Sounds) #nasa

It might look like the opening scene from The Lion King, but this stunning timelapse Picture of the Week was actually taken in the Chilean Atacama Desert rather than the African savannas. Taking centre stage is ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), or part of it, at least. The ELT’s steel dome is about 80 metres tall and one day it will play host to the world’s biggest eye on the sky. When finished, the dome will weigh some 6100 tonnes and be capable of rotating 360 degrees on a set of 36 stationary trolleys. This spectacular timelapse of the sunrise over Cerro Armazones, the ELT’s perch, was shot on 28 August from around 23 kilometres away on top of another famous mountain: Cerro Paranal, home to the ELT’s older sibling, ESO’s Very Large Telescope, or VLT. You could say the stars were aligned for this image: since the position of the sunrise changes throughout the year as the Earth moves around the Sun, there’s only a narrow window of time when the sunrise frames the ELT if observed from Paranal. What’s more, if you look carefully, you can just about make out two sunspots on the Sun’s surface. These dark, cooler regions are formed by intense magnetic fields. While they may look small from this distance, in reality they’re the size of planets. Credit: B. Häußler/ESO #europeansouthernobservatory #galaxy #andromeda #milkyway #sky #fact #AndromedaGalaxy #MilkyWayNeighbor #SpaceExploration #GalacticMysteries #CosmicJourney #Astronomy #CelestialWonders #InterstellarDiscovery #SpaceExploration #NASA #SpaceScience #Astronomy #RocketLaunch #CosmicWonders #StellarDiscoveries #GalacticAdventures #UniverseExploration #Astrobiology #SpaceTechnology #Astronauts #CosmicJourney #SpaceMissions #Interplanetary #Exoplanets #SpaceInnovation #CelestialWonders #MarsExploration #StarrySkies #SpacePhotography #SpaceStation #BlackHoles #SpaceResearch #CosmicFrontiers

NGC 3590 is a captivating open star cluster that offers both amateur and professional astronomers a rewarding celestial target. Its colorful array of stars and its relatively young age make it a fascinating object to observe and study. So, if you have access to a telescope and are interested in exploring the wonders of our universe, NGC 3590 should definitely be on your list of celestial objects to explore. This pan video gives a close-up look at a colourful new image from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile showing the star cluster NGC 3590. These stars shine brightly in front of a dramatic landscape of dark patches of dust and richly hued clouds of glowing gas. This small stellar gathering gives astronomers clues about how these stars form and evolve — as well as giving hints about the structure of our galaxy's pinwheeling arms. Credit: ESO/G. Beccari. Music: movetwo #galaxy #andromeda #milkyway #sky #fact #AndromedaGalaxy #MilkyWayNeighbor #SpaceExploration #GalacticMysteries #CosmicJourney #Astronomy #CelestialWonders #InterstellarDiscovery #SpaceExploration #NASA #SpaceScience #Astronomy #RocketLaunch #CosmicWonders #StellarDiscoveries #GalacticAdventures #UniverseExploration #Astrobiology #SpaceTechnology #Astronauts #CosmicJourney #SpaceMissions #Interplanetary #Exoplanets #SpaceInnovation #CelestialWonders #MarsExploration #StarrySkies #SpacePhotography #SpaceStation #BlackHoles #SpaceResearch #CosmicFrontiers

This video shows an artist's impression of the free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9. In the first part of the sequence the planet appears as a dark disc in visible light, silhouetted against the star clouds of the Milky Way. This is the closest such object to the Solar System and the most exciting candidate free-floating planet found so far. It does not orbit a star and hence does not shine by reflected light; the faint glow it emits can only be detected in infrared light. In the final sequence we see an infrared view of the object with the central parts of the Milky Way as seen by the VISTA infrared survey telescope as background. The object appears blueish in this near-infrared view because much of the light at longer infrared wavelengths is absorbed by methane and other molecules in the planet's atmosphere. In visible light the object is so cool that it would only shine dimly with a deep red colour when seen close-up. Credit: ESO/P. Delorme/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)/R. Saito/VVV Consortium #esoterismo #galaxy #andromeda #milkyway #sky #fact #AndromedaGalaxy #MilkyWayNeighbor #SpaceExploration #GalacticMysteries #CosmicJourney #Astronomy #CelestialWonders #InterstellarDiscovery #SpaceExploration #NASA #SpaceScience #Astronomy #RocketLaunch #CosmicWonders #StellarDiscoveries #GalacticAdventures #UniverseExploration #Astrobiology #SpaceTechnology #Astronauts #CosmicJourney #SpaceMissions #Interplanetary #Exoplanets #SpaceInnovation #CelestialWonders #MarsExploration #StarrySkies #SpacePhotography #SpaceStation #BlackHoles #SpaceResearch #CosmicFrontiers