Teams review options for next Artemis I launch attempt…
The National Space Council meets in Houston…
And Webb captures a new image of a cosmic tarantula…
Some of the stories to tell you: this week at NASA!
Equipment review options for the next Artemis I launch attempt
After the Artemis I launch attempt was halted on September 3 due to a hydrogen leak, teams have decided to make the necessary repairs while the Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket remains on the launch pad. release 39B.
The mission will be the first integrated test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket and ground systems at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and will pave the way for human exploration of the Moon, Mars and beyond.
Follow along as Artemis I mission managers evaluate options for the next launch attempt by checking the Artemis blog at blogs.nasa.gov/artemis.
Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted the importance of climate, human spaceflight and STEM education during the second meeting of the Biden-Harris Administration’s National Space Council on Friday, held at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA
The National Space Council meets in Houston
On September 9, Vice President Kamala Harris chaired a meeting of the National Space Council at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and spoke with NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins and Kjell Lindgren aboard the Space Station international
The council discussed a variety of topics, including human space exploration, rules for emerging space activities, and STEM education.
NASA also confirmed an extension for the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, or CASIS, to continue operating the space station and discussed new space scholarship awards for STEM students.
In this mosaic image spanning 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) shows the star-forming region of the Tarantula Nebula in new light, including tens of thousands of unpublished young stars that were previously surrounded by cosmic ones. powder The most active region appears to glow with massive, pale blue young stars. Among them are stars still embedded, appearing red, yet to emerge from the nebula’s dusty cocoon. NIRCam is able to detect these dust-shrouded stars thanks to its unprecedented resolution at near-infrared wavelengths. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team
Webb captures a new image of the cosmic tarantula
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured thousands of never-before-seen young stars in a new image of the stellar nursery 30 Doradus, also known as the “Tarantula Nebula.”
Located about 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the nebula is the largest and brightest star-forming region near our own galaxy, and is home to the hottest and most massive stars known.
One of the reasons the Tarantula Nebula is interesting to astronomers is the furious rate at which it produces new stars.
This image of light from the asteroid Didymos and its orbiting moon Dimorphos is a composite of 243 images taken by the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical Navigation (DRACO) on July 27, 2022. Credit: NASA JPL DART Navigation Team
DART looks at the asteroid target
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, recently took its first look at Didymos, the double asteroid system that includes its target, Dimorphos.
The first look is a composite of 243 images taken by a camera on board the spacecraft.
On September 26, DART will intentionally crash into Dimorphos, the asteroid moon of Didymos.
Although the asteroid poses no threat to Earth, this will be the world’s first test of the kinetic impact technique, using a spacecraft to deflect an asteroid for planetary defense.
The US Postal Service will issue a stamp featuring NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on September 8, 2022. US Postal Service Art Director Derry Noyes designed the stamp using existing art by James Vaughan and a image provided by NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute. Credit: US Postal Service
The US Postal Service celebrates Webb with a new stamp
The US Postal Service has a new star: the James Webb Space Telescope.
On September 8, the stamp featuring an artist’s digital illustration of Webb against a background of stars was dedicated in a ceremony at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum in Washington.
The border, or paper around the stamps, shows an image of a star that Webb captured during the alignment process earlier this year.
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