En Este Campo De Estrellas Podemos Encontrar El Bucle De Barnard, M78, La Nebulosa De Orión M42, Nebulosa

Desde el sur de Francia

Crédito: Ghislain Favé

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#UnDiaComoHoy pero en el 2018 fue lanzado la misión #BepiColombo. Es la primera misión europea en conjuncion con la agencia espacial Japonesa (JAXA) hacia el planeta Mercurio. Se espera que llegue a su objetivo en el 2025.

Créditos: @ESA_History

NGC 1316 es una enorme galaxia elíptica que de alguna manera incluye carriles de polvo oscuro generalmente encontrados en una galaxia espiral.

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Crédito: NASA, ESA, Hubble

Procesamiento: Daniel Nobre

NASA’s Search for Life: Astrobiology in the Solar System and Beyond

Are we alone in the universe? So far, the only life we know of is right here on Earth. But here at NASA, we’re looking.

We’re exploring the solar system and beyond to help us answer fundamental questions about life beyond our home planet. From studying the habitability of Mars, probing promising “oceans worlds,” such as Titan and Europa, to identifying Earth-size planets around distant stars, our science missions are working together with a goal to find unmistakable signs of life beyond Earth (a field of science called astrobiology).

Dive into the past, present, and future of our search for life in the universe.

Mission Name: The Viking Project

Launch: Viking 1 on August 20, 1975 & Viking 2 on September 9, 1975

Status: Past

Role in the search for life: The Viking Project was our first attempt to search for life on another planet. The mission’s biology experiments revealed unexpected chemical activity in the Martian soil, but provided no clear evidence for the presence of living microorganisms near the landing sites.

Mission Name: Galileo

Launch: October 18, 1989

Status: Past

Role in the search for life: Galileo orbited Jupiter for almost eight years, and made close passes by all its major moons. The spacecraft returned data that continues to shape astrobiology science –– particularly the discovery that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has evidence of a subsurface ocean with more water than the total amount of liquid water found on Earth.

Mission Name: Kepler and K2

Launch: March 7, 2009

Status: Past

Role in the search for life: Our first planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope, paved the way for our search for life in the solar system and beyond. Kepler left a legacy of more than 2,600 exoplanet discoveries, many of which could be promising places for life.

Mission Name: Perseverance Mars Rover

Launch: July 30, 2020

Status: Present

Role in the search for life: Our newest robot astrobiologist is kicking off a new era of exploration on the Red Planet. The rover will search for signs of ancient microbial life, advancing the agency’s quest to explore the past habitability of Mars.

Mission Name: James Webb Space Telescope

Launch: 2021

Status: Future

Role in the search for life: Webb will be the premier space-based observatory of the next decade. Webb observations will be used to study every phase in the history of the universe, including planets and moons in our solar system, and the formation of distant solar systems potentially capable of supporting life on Earth-like exoplanets.

Mission Name: Europa Clipper

Launch: Targeting 2024

Status: Future

Role in the search for life: Europa Clipper will investigate whether Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, with its subsurface ocean, has the capability to support life. Understanding Europa’s habitability will help scientists better understand how life developed on Earth and the potential for finding life beyond our planet.

Mission Name: Dragonfly

Launch: 2027

Status: Future

Role in the search for life: Dragonfly will deliver a rotorcraft to visit Saturn’s largest and richly organic moon, Titan. This revolutionary mission will explore diverse locations to look for prebiotic chemical processes common on both Titan and Earth.

For more on NASA’s search for life, follow NASA Astrobiology on Twitter, on Facebook, or on the web.

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Eclipse Total de Sol desde Piedra del Águila, Argentina

Crédito: Natacha Pisarenko

NEOWISE

El polvo de cometa cae a través de un cielo crepuscular en esta escena onírica, pero no es parte de una película de cuento de hadas.

Capturado el 20 de julio, la racha brillante sobre las torres del castillo es probablemente un meteoro de las Perseidas.

Crédito: Stephane Guisard

Dark Energy

This bone-chilling force will leave you shivering alone in terror! An unseen power is prowling throughout the cosmos, driving the universe to expand at a quickening rate. This relentless pressure, called dark energy, is nothing like dark matter, that mysterious material revealed only by its gravitational pull. Dark energy offers a bigger fright: pushing galaxies farther apart over trillions of years, leaving the universe to an inescapable, freezing death in the pitch black expanse of outer space. Download this free poster in English and Spanish and check out the full Galaxy of Horrors.

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Amanecer del 2 de Enero, cerca del Lago Ontario en Canada.

Hoy nuestro planeta pasó por su Perihelio, es decir, por el punto de su órbita más cercano al Sol. En ese momento, aunque sea imperceptible para los humanos, viajamos la endiablada velocidad de 110.700 kilómetros por hora (o, lo que es lo mismo, 30,75 kilómetros por segundo).

Crédito: Steven A. Sweet

Lunar 101-Moon Book

Vía Láctea desde San Pedro Mártir, Baja California Norte México 🇲🇽

Crédito: Silvia Del Rincón

El cohete Soyuz que lanzará a la astronauta Kate Rubins y los cosmonautas Sergey Ryzhikov y Sergey Kud-Sverchkov de la Expedición 64 a la estación el miércoles se prepara en plataforma de lanzamiento en Kazajstán.

Crédito: ISS

Más información: go.nasa.gov/2I1em2L