NASA's asteroid-hunting NEOWISE survey uses infrared to detect and characterize asteroids and comets. Since the mission was restarted in December 2013, NEOWISE has observed or detected more than 29,000 asteroids in infrared light, of which 788 were near-Earth objects. The orbits of Mercury, Venus and Mars are shown in blue. Earth's orbit is in teal. Green dots represent near-Earth objects. Gray dots represent all other asteroids which are mainly in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Yellow squares represent comets. The survey depicted in the animation covers the period from December 13, 2013 to December 13, 2017.

Have you ever wondered why Apollo flew in a figure 8? Wonder no more! Check out David Wood's "How Apollo Flew to the Moon" for more: https://www.amazon.com/Apollo-Flew-Springer-Praxis-Books/dp/1441971785/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524251746&sr=8-1&keywords=how+Apollo+flew+to+the+moon Want weekly Vintage Space? Don't forget to subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw95T_TgbGHhTml4xZ9yIqg And more even older space in my book, BREAKING THE CHAINS OF GRAVITY! You can order your copy on Amazon: bit.ly/astbtcog Or get a signed hardcover edition on my website! http://www.amyshirateitel.com/store.html - IT'S BACK ONLINE! 🙂 (But orders are slow for the moment - waiting for books from my publisher!) My blog archives has lots of awesome olde timey space, too (and I'm looking for a new home for it, too!): http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/vintage-space I've also got a PATREON PAGE! Want to listen to a Vintage Space Podcast or get awesome merch like t-shirts? Please consider becoming a patron! I've set up a Patreon account so I can raise funds to buy the gear I'll need to make an awesome podcast and also work with professionals to make better content all around. Any help is so hugely appreciated. https://www.patreon.com/amyshirateitel Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amyshirateitel/ Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AmyShiraTeitel/posts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astvintagespace/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/astVintageSpace

A new NASA Administrator is confirmed, our next planet-hunting mission launches, and the first 3-D microscopic image on the space station – a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! This video is available for download from NASA's Image and Video Library: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ_2018_0420_A%20New%20Administrator%20is%20Confirmed%20on%20This%20Week%[email protected]%20%E2%80%93%20April%2020,%202018.html

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This week in space news, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite launches on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to embark on a hunt for exoplanets, and the Parker Solar Probe arrives in Florida to begin preparations for its upcoming mission to study the Sun.

In this week's questions show, Fraser gets excited about the NIAC awards, considers how NASA will deal with a fully operational BFR, and a special guest answer from Professor David Kipping from Columbia University's Cool Worlds lab. Subscribe to Cool Worlds https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGHZpIpAWJQ-Jy_CeCdXhMA Astrobites - https://astrobites.org/ Astro-ph - https://arxiv.org/archive/astro-ph/Astrophysics Sign up for my weekly email newsletter at: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+universetoday/ Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] Chloe Cain - Instagram: @chloegwen2001 JanJorre Laurens Hi Fraser, Thanks for all the hard work and great show. I just had a random question and thought of you: Recently, astrophysics discovered that a lot of the really heavy elements (for example gold) are created in neutron star collisions (if memory serves). Could a potential solution to the fermi paradox be that there havent been enough of these collisions for earlier civilisations to have been able to discover / invent space technologies? I.e. gold can be very usefull in electronics. Maybe earlier civilisations didnt have the materials needed to reach the electronic age and are stuck in an earlier age due to a lack of resources / elements on the home planet? Steven Utter The laaava. You say it as if you're about to say Llama. Taner Ali I think it will be awesome if you make a video (or two) about the 2018 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts awards. They are always very interesting and you manage to convey complex information very well, keep up the good work and thanks! Predrag Bubalo If there are open vents and geysers of water breaking through the surface on Europa, why the need to drill through the kilometres of ice? Couldn't the probes gain access to the water through these vents and geysers? Jeffrey Gould Hello Fraser,Since some white dwarfs and neutron stars have been found to spin at incredible speeds, I was wondering if they may come close to flinging anything off their equator, or even cancelling a significant fraction of their own tremendous gravity at the surface. Is this even possible within our laws of physics? Mighty13 Don't know how NASA will respond if an innovative project such as BFR really comes to life. Bryan Blatz Fraser, why the green screen nature background and piped in nature noises? Would an astronomical background be more appropriate? Guybrush Threepwood Hi Fraser, how big was the observable universe before the Big Bang? Lesley B HI Fraser, I like your channel a lot. I have a question. What will happen to Jupiter when it stops being active? Will it loose it's atmosphere? will there be a surface? What will it look like? Greetings Lesley. Locut0s Do you ever feel you live both at the best and worst time in human history in terms of space exploration, and cosmology? I feel we have picked a lot of the low hanging fruit and that despite there still being much more amazement to come, we are now looking at missions, probes, telescopes, and physics experiments that require more and more funding and longer and longer planning. At the speed of progress of other technologies like the advancements in AI, materials science, biology etc, I can only imagine where we will be at the end of my life. But by comparison many missions and new promising probes, telescopes etc, take 20 to 30+ years to come to fruition. This can seem disheartening at times. ferusgratia Hey Fraser! Thanks to all the work you and Youtubers like you do, I feel like I have a much better grasp of space and to some extent Cosmology. That said it's been a bit since I've had my mind blown by some new fact. I think I'm ready to delve into materials that would be hard to cover on Youtube, but I don't think I'm ready for hardcore scientific journals. Do you know of any good "middle ground" resources? Thanks! Alpha581 Love your videos as always.I have an interesting question for you.Assuming that the universe is infinite and you travel far enough will you eventually meet an exact copy of Earth and humans by random coincidence? Norman1951 Norman Fraser QUESTION: What percentage of exoplanetary systems align with earth in such away that their orbital planes pass across their star's disk as seen from earth? I can't imagine that it would be very high. Great show.

According to Gizmodo, in 2008 a large meteor detonated above Sudan, covering the area with shards of material. Scientists have been collecting and analyzing these samples to see what can be learned from them. New research indicates that there was likely a Mercury or Mars-sized planet that has been shredded and scattered throughout the system. The 80-ton meteorite is known as Almahata Sitta, and is the first significant evidence that another proto-world existed long ago in our solar system. This micro world may have collided with another proto-planet and caused a huge debris field to get scattered across the solar system. It is speculated this helped to seed many of the planetary bodies we see today, like Earth. https://www.geek.com/science/diamonds-found-in-meteorite-tell-story-of-destroyed-planet-1737483/?source http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

NASA's Mars Cube One, or MarCO, is heading to deep space to test a first-of-its-kind technology demonstration: near-real-time communication between Earth and Mars using CubeSats. Learn more about the MarCO mission at: https://go.nasa.gov/marco_launch

On April 19, 1971, the Soviet Union launched the world's first space station, Salyut 1. This space station was a modified version of the Soviet Union's Almaz space station, which was part of a highly classified military program and was still under development at the time. After NASA managed to put astronauts on the moon, the Soviet Union decided that its next big feat in the Space Race would be to put a crewed space station in orbit. The first crew to visit Salyut 1 in orbit launched just four days after the space station did. However, that crew had some technical problems while trying to dock with the space station in their Soyuz spacecraft, so they went back home without ever actually entering the station. Another crew launched two months later, and after a successful docking, they spent 23 days aboard the station.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission on April 18, 2018. A few minutes after separation, the rockets first stage landed the "Of Course I Still Love You" drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: SpaceX

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 18, 2018. -- NASA's TESS Satellite Will Supercharge Search for Nearby, Earth-Like Worlds: https://www.space.com/40307-nasa-tess-satellite-earth-like-exoplanets.html Credit: SpaceX

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SpaceX’s planned launch of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been delayed.The $337 million exoplanet-hunting spacecraft must wait until at least Wednesday before it can blast off.Due to launch Monday evening, conditions looked good for takeoff, with SpaceX tweeting: “Weather is 80% favorable for today’s launch at 6:32 p.m.EDT, 22:32 UTC.” But later that day, SpaceX announced it was delaying the launch for extra testing.“Standing down today to conduct additional GNC analysis,” the company wrote in a tweet.GNC stands for “guidance, navigation and control.” TESS—a spacecraft roughly the size of a washing machine—will search nearby bright stars for signs of planets.It will monitor the light of these stars, looking out for small dips in brightness.This dimming could signal a planet is moving in front of the star.Don't miss: The NSA Wants Your Encrypted Data | Opinion NASA expects TESS will find tens of thousands of exoplanets.The craft is set to sweep the sky as it orbits the earth for two years.Each orbit will take about 13.7days.TESS will take the baton from NASA’s other planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler, which is running out of fuel after almost a decade in space.Kepler has found more than 2,300 confirmed exoplanets over its lifetime."One of the many amazing things that Kepler told us is that planets are everywhere and there are all kinds of planets out there,” Patricia Boyd, TESS guest investigator program lead at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center, told reporters in advance of the scheduled launch.“So TESS takes the next step.If planets are everywhere, then it is time for us to find the planets that are closest to us orbiting bright nearby stars, because these will be the touchstone system." Most popular: Anyone Who Knows Anything About Fashion Has Stopped Wearing Fur | Opinion Last-minute delays for testing are not unusual for rocket launches.“Final day launch postponement because someone did a last minute check of something and decided it needed another look is surprisingly common.Always better safe than sorry,” astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, commented on Twitter.Several of SpaceX’s past missions have been held back for technical reasons.For example, in late 2017 the company’s launch of mysterious government payload Zuma was delayed for additional “assurance work.”SpaceX finally launched Zuma in January, but questions remain as to its ultimate success.TESS will launch on one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets—the same class of rocket that has sent several Dragon capsules to the International Space Station with supplies.A Falcon 9 recently sent sperm up for analysis to the space laboratory.Assuming the Falcon 9 is good to go, the weather looks reasonably favorable for a Wednesday launch.There is a slight risk of further delay from rising clouds, according a U.S.Air Force forecast.Issued Monday afternoon, the forecast gives less than a 10 percent chance that weather problem

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According to a recent study, the meteorite that came down over Sudan’s Nubian desert a decade ago is a remnant of a long-lost planet.

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As NASA prepares to send a spacecraft deeper into space than ever before, it will do so achieving yet another milestone: For the first time ever, some of the spacecraft's components will be 3D printed. An innovation that could speed up space exploration. … READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2018/04/17/nasa-to-use-3d-printed-parts-for-spacecraft-for-first-time What are the top stories today? Click to watch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSyY1udCyYqBeDOz400FlseNGNqReKkFd euronews: the most watched news channel in Europe Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=euronews euronews is available in 13 languages: https://www.youtube.com/user/euronewsnetwork/channels In English: Website: http://www.euronews.com/news Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/euronews Twitter: http://twitter.com/euronews Google+: http://google.com/+euronews VKontakte: http://vk.com/en.euronews

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On April 17, 1970, Apollo 13 returned to Earth after narrowly avoiding a deadly disaster in space. This was supposed to be the third mission to land on the moon. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise launched on April 11 and were two days into their trip to the moon when an oxygen tank exploded, and NASA had to abort the mission. When the astronauts called mission control to report the incident, Swigert uttered the famous quote, "Houston, we've had a problem." With the service module running out of oxygen, they opted to use the lunar lander as a lifeboat. Because the oxygen was also used to power the spacecraft's fuel cells, they were also running out of power. They shut down all nonessential systems and turned down the heat, and spent four cold, miserable days heading back to Earth. They had to go back into the service module for reentry, and they didn't know if their heat shield had been damaged by the explosion. Luckily they survived reentry and safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.

SpaceX is targeting launch of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) on Wednesday, April 18 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The 30-second launch window opens at 6:51 p.m. EDT, or 22:51 UTC. TESS will be deployed into a highly elliptical orbit approximately 48 minutes after launch. Following stage separation, SpaceX will attempt to land Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

NASA plans to leadi n a new age of exoplanet discovery with their TESS, or the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on April 16. The space telescope, a successor to the aging and soon-to-be-decommissioned Kepler space telescope, will scan an area of the night sky nearly 400 times larger than that covered by those before it. With so much real estate out there to examine, NASA expects that TESS may discover as many as 20,000 exoplanets https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/blogs/nasa-set-launch-new-groundbreaking-exoplanet-hunter http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

On April 15, 2005, NASA launched a spacecraft on a mission to rendezvous with a small communications satellite. The launch went according to plan, but the mission ended abruptly when the spacecraft collided with the satellite. The mission was known as DART, which is short for Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology. Its objective was to demonstrate that a fully automated and uncrewed spacecraft could rendezvous with another spacecraft in orbit. But the two spacecraft were not supposed to make contact. When DART approached its target, it ran out of fuel and inadvertently bumped into it. Investigators determined that DART's thrusters had been firing excessively because of a problem with its navigation system. It was a soft collision, and neither of the spacecraft were noticeably damaged.

When: April 14th 2018, 23:13 UTC, 19:13 New York Time What: Launch of Atlas V 551 Rocket with AFSPC-11 Where: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Florida United Launch Alliance will launch an Atlas V rocket in the most powerful configuration currently available the 551. The rocket will place the AFSPC-1 mission into orbit.

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A challenge for the next generation of explorers, an eye-popping virtual tour of the Moon, and introducing the public to a universe of discovery – a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 551 rocket will launch the AFSPC-11 mission for the U.S. Air Force.

Fast solar wind bombards Earth this week from a large coronal hole gracing much of the Sun's face. We have already reached storm conditions from the early blast of this wind, with aurora dipping down into mid-latitudes. We will likely reach active conditions again sporadically throughout this week. Aurora photographers should stay on their toes, especially at high-latitudes. Amateur radio operators should enjoy auroral propagation modes, especially at night, and GPS users should enjoy clear signals away from the aurora. On top of this storm, the Sun gives us a momentary glimpse at an active region that looks to be coming from the new solar cycle. As cycles typically overlap each other by a few years, this is not uncommon. In fact, we will see more and more of it in the coming months. See details on this current solar storm & where aurora might be lurking, learn how ham radio & GPS fares this week, and glimpse into the future of our star! For daily and often hourly updates (during active times) visit me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TamithaSkov For a more in-depth look at the data and images shown in this video see my previous video descriptions. I needed to save room for the links to the aurora field reporter photos highlighted this week. Dereck Blanchard, North Alberta, Canada: https://twitter.com/punkrockmohawks/status/983698999789027329 Adrien Maudruit Abisko, Sweden: https://twitter.com/ADphotography24/status/981827942182473728 Tom Lowe, Kintyre, Scotland: https://twitter.com/saloplarus/status/984176797133754369 Jonny Harrison, Mt Erebus, Antartica: https://twitter.com/JonnyHarrisonNZ/status/983800346253213696 Kim Hines, Teulon, Manitoba, Canada: https://twitter.com/KimHinesSN/status/984173221632241665 Lone Athanasakis, Denmark: https://twitter.com/Lathanafoto/status/983855839130931200 Mrs. Biely, Thompson, Manitoba: https://twitter.com/HindAbuelgasim/status/983838631537197056 Ricky Arnold, Southern Hemispehre LEO, ISS: https://twitter.com/NASA/status/984158271987748865 Göran Strand, Jämtland, Sweden: https://twitter.com/Astrofotografen/status/983821173929766913 Michele Mccue, Central British Columbia, Canada: https://twitter.com/MccueMichele/status/983607750478319616 Tim Viers, Eilliston Lake, British Columbia, Canada: https://twitter.com/OrnithopterII/status/983814752345321472 All About Lapland, Lapland, Finland: https://twitter.com/allaboutlapland/status/983632011989577729 Jake Stehli, Hartford, Wisconsin, USA: https://twitter.com/eljakeo30/status/983698707248918528 Muhammed Kizilkaya, West Iceland: https://twitter.com/Muhammediceland/status/982963139846254594 Zach Gleason, Cloquet, Minnesota, USA: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1723823670971573&set=gm.2389465554412466&type=3&theater&ifg=1 Isaac Diener Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, USA: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1932161626796401&set=pcb.2389049791120709&type=3&theater&ifg=1 Ulrich Beinert, Flight from SanFrancisco to Frankfurt Germany, North of Hudson Bay: http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=143762&PHPSESSID=k36aaltj721kuhg34emcu3hks7 Will Tessier, Williston, North Dakota, USA: http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=143802&PHPSESSID=k36aaltj721kuhg34emcu3hks7 Bill Braden, Yellowknife, Canada: http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=143798&PHPSESSID=k36aaltj721kuhg34emcu3hks7 Simon Harding, Tromsø, Norway: http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=143578&PHPSESSID=k36aaltj721kuhg34emcu3hks7 None of this would be possible without the hard work and dedication of those who have provided all of this data for public use. Images c/o NASA/ESA/CSA (most notably the superb SDO, SOHO, ACE, STEREO, CCMC, JPL & DSN teams, amazing professionals, hobbyists, institutions, organizations, agencies and amateurs such as those at the USAF/HAARP, NICT, NOAA, USGS, Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Intellicast, Catatania, rice.edu, wisc.edu, sonoma.edu ucalgary.ca, rssi.ru, ohio-state.edu, solen.info, and more. Thanks for making Space Weather part of our every day dialogue.

The universe is full of possibilities. It’s up to you to discover them. This featurette explores the characters of Lost in Space, now streaming on Netflix. Watch Lost in Space on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/in/title/80104198 SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/29qBUt7 About Netflix: Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network with over 117 million members in over 190 countries enjoying more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies per day, including original series, documentaries and feature films. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any Internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments. Connect with Netflix Online: Visit Netflix WEBSITE: http://nflx.it/29BcWb5 Like Netflix Kids on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/NetflixFamily Like Netflix on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/29kkAtN Follow Netflix on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/29gswqd Follow Netflix on INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/29oO4UP Follow Netflix on TUMBLR: http://bit.ly/29kkemT Lost in Space | Featurette: Lost In Possibility [HD] | Netflix http://youtube.com/netflix

The SPHERE instrument on Very Large Telescope has the ability to “suppress the brilliant light of nearby stars,” according to European Southern Observatory. It has delivered imagery on a wide array of young stars and the dusty disks that surround them. -- Full Story: https://www.space.com/40276-dusty-disks-planet-formation-nearby-stars.html Credit: ESO

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CALIFORNIA — California will play host to the first interplanetary launch from the U.S. west coast next month. Subscribe to TomoNews ►►http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-TomoNews TomoNews is your best source for real news. We cover the funniest, craziest and most talked-about stories on the internet. Our tone is irreverent and unapologetic. If you’re laughing, we’re laughing. If you’re outraged, we’re outraged. We tell it like it is. And because we can animate stories, TomoNews brings you news like you’ve never seen before. Ultimate TomoNews Compilations - Can't get enough of TomoNews? Then this playlist is for you! New videos are added each day http://bit.ly/Ulitmate_TomoNews_Compilations Top TomoNews Stories - A shortcut to the most popular videos on TomoNews! http://bit.ly/Top_TomoNews_Stories World News - Latest international headlines from around the world http://bit.ly/TomoNews_World_News Awww!!! Animals - All the best animal videos! Hungry hippos, tiger hairballs, giant pythons, and many more! http://bit.ly/Aw_Animals Connect with TomoNews! Like TomoNews on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Follow us on Twitter: @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Follow us on Instagram: @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus Get your TomoNews merch today! http://bit.ly/tomonews-teespring Visit our official website for all the latest videos: http://us.tomonews.com Check out our Android app: http://bit.ly/1rddhCj Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f Get top stories delivered to your inbox every day: http://bit.ly/tomo-newsletter

Video Credit: ISRO Launch Updates: http://spaceflight101.com/pslv-c41/ India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 22:34 UTC on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 with the IRNSS-1I Satellite - the ninth member of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. Acting as a replacement for the stricken IRNSS-1A, the satellite is expected to restore the original constellation to full capacity to deliver navigation services to the Indian territory via seven satellites placed in Geosynchronous Orbits.

An asteroid called 16 Psyche that resides between Mars and Jupiter is "95 percent or more" metal. NASA Psyche mission will get an up close look at what scientists believe was the core of world that cosmic collisions did not allow to form. -- Learn more about the mission: https://www.space.com/40272-metal-asteroid-psyche-nasa-mission-video.html Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State Univ./Peter Rubin/SSL

NASA’s Juno mission has provided the first view of the dynamo, or engine, powering Jupiter's magnetic field. The new global portrait reveals unexpected irregularities and regions of surprising magnetic field intensity. Red areas show where magnetic field lines emerge from the planet, while blue areas show where they return. As Juno continues its mission, it will improve our understanding of Jupiter's complex magnetic environment.

In this animation the viewer is taken low over Jupiter’s north pole to illustrate the 3-D aspects of the region’s central cyclone and the eight cyclones that encircle it. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-juno-mission-provides-infrared-tour-of-jupiter-s-north-pole The movie utilizes imagery derived from data collected by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno mission during its fourth pass over the massive planet. Infrared cameras are used to sense the temperature of Jupiter’s atmosphere and provide insight into how the powerful cyclones at Jupiter's poles work. In the animation, the yellow areas are warmer (or deeper into Jupiter’s atmosphere) and the dark areas are colder (or higher up in Jupiter’s atmosphere). In this picture the highest “brightness temperature” is around 260K (about -13°C) and the lowest around 190K (about -83°C). The “brightness temperature” is a measurement of the radiance, at 5 µm, traveling upward from the top of the atmosphere towards Juno, expressed in units of temperature. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM

TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is NASA's newest exoplanet mission. Led by MIT, TESS will find thousands of new planets orbiting nearby stars. During its two year survey, TESS will watch a wide variety of stars, looking for signs of planets ranging from Earth-size to larger than Jupiter. Each of TESS's cameras has a 16.8-megapixel sensor covering a square 24 degrees wide — large enough to contain an entire constellation. TESS has four of these cameras arranged to view a long strip of the sky called an observation sector. TESS will watch each observation sector for about 27 days before rotating to the next. It will cover the southern sky in its first year, and then begin scanning the north. TESS will study 85 percent of the sky — an area 350 times greater than what NASA's Kepler mission first observed — making TESS the first exoplanet mission to survey nearly the entire sky. Because TESS's observation sectors overlap, it will have an area near the pole under constant observation. This region is easily monitored by the James Webb Space Telescope, which allows the two missions to work together to first find, and then carefully study exoplanets. Music: "Drive to Succeed" from Killer Tracks Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12884 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard/ · Google+ https://plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard

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The loss of a multi-billion-dollar satellite this past January is being attributed to engineering and testing errors made by aerospace and defense firm Northrop Grumman Corporation, according to a recently concluded investigation. As the Wall Street Journal reports, a payload adapter modified by Northrop Grumman failed to operate properly during deployment, causing the $3.5 billion satellite to stay attached to the second stage Falcon 9 rocket during its descent stage. After a brief period in space, the spy satellite re-entered Earth’s atmosphere, likely splashing down somewhere in the Indian Ocean. https://gizmodo.com/northrop-grumman-blamed-for-loss-of-mysterious-zuma-spy-1825115280 http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (reddish background image/supernova remnant 1E 0102.2-7219 in green), the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (red ring with a dark center) and the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory (blue and purple images) were used to create this a new composite image. “The blue spot at the centre of the red ring is an isolated neutron star with a weak magnetic field,” according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). -- Full Story: https://www.space.com/40241-neutron-star-colorful-galaxy-clouds-discovery.html Credit: ESO

The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) is on the hunt for theoretical particles called axions, which may solve the dark matter mystery. ADMX, managed by Fermilab and housed at the University of Washington, is the first and only experiment of its type with the sensitivity to detect axion dark matter particles. For more information, please visit http://news.fnal.gov/2018/04/admx-announces-breakthrough-in-axion-dark-matter-detection-technology/ and http://www.fnal.gov/pub/science/particle-physics/experiments/admx.html

Take a virtual tour of the Moon in all-new 4K resolution, thanks to data provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. As the visualization moves around the near side, far side, north and south poles, we highlight interesting features, sites, and information gathered on the lunar terrain. Music Provided By Killer Tracks: "Never Looking Back" - Frederick Wiedmann. "Flying over Turmoil" - Benjamin Krause & Scott Goodman. This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4619 Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/David Ladd & Ernie Wright Ernie Wright (USRA): Lead Visualizer – Scientific Visualization Studio David Ladd (USRA): Lead Producer, Editor, Narrator Noah Petro (NASA/GSFC): Lead Scientist If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard/ · Google+ http://plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard/posts

On April 7, 1983, astronauts took the first spacewalk outside of a space shuttle during mission STS-6. This was the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Challenger. The goal of this mission was to deploy the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1. NASA now uses a whole fleet of these satellites to relay communications between spacecraft in orbit and ground stations down on Earth. NASA astronauts Don Peterson and Story Musgrave spent 4 hours and 17 minutes working in the vacuum of space while doing a series of tests in the shuttle's payload bay. This was also the first time that NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Unit was worn by astronauts in space.

A revolutionary atmospheric satellite concept uses the principles behind kitesurfing to cruise the sky without propulsion. NASA 360 takes a look at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concept (NIAC) known as the Dual-Aircraft Platform, a new approach to keeping atmospheric satellites aloft. To watch the in-depth presentation about this topic please visit: http://bit.ly/2ACdz0o This video represents a research study within the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. NIAC is a visionary and far-reaching aerospace program, one that has the potential to create breakthrough technologies for possible future space missions. However, such early stage technology developments may never become actual NASA missions. For more information about NIAC, visit: www.nasa.gov/niac.

NASA on Friday shared a remarkable image of a galaxy cluster.

Orion Span has ambitious plans to launch "Aurora Station" in 2021 and be able to accommodate guests at 200 miles above Earth in 2022. -- Read more: https://www.space.com/40207-space-hotel-launch-2021-aurora-station.html Credit: Space.com / visualizations courtesy Orion Span / produced and edited by @SteveSpaleta http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta

This week in space news, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches on a commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station, and members of the Exploration Mission 1 launch team simulate the propellant-loading portion of the Space Launch System rocket countdown.

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