

– Tereza Pultarova Astronaut Thomas Pesquet tests a lunar wheelbarrow during a parabolic flight simulating lunar gravity The two dwarf galaxies known as Magellanic Clouds that orbit the Milky Way can be seen at the center bottom part of the bridge.
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The image shows a bridge of stars, nebulae and interstellar clouds that are not visible to the human eye and can only be revealed in their full beauty in dark regions unpolluted with urban light, such as the Chilean mountain tops. The photo was taken by Czech astrophotographer Petr Horálek during the recent NOIRLab 2022 Photo Expedition to all the NOIRLab sites, NOIRLab, which released the image on April 26, 2023, said in a statement (opens in new tab). Wednesday, April 27, 2023: The thick band of the Milky Way galaxy arches above the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile as if connecting the Rubin Auxiliary Telescope (on the left) with the Vera C. (Image credit: Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Brett Tingley Galactic jellyfish dazzles amongst the stars MS-23 was sent to the orbital lab to replace another Soyuz that infamously sprang a violent leak, causing a brief shortage of "lifeboat" seats aboard the space station. In the foreground of the image, the Russian Nauka multipurpose laboratory and Prichal docking module can be seen, as can the Soyuz MS-23 crew capsule. The Richat Structure is a geological feature in Mauritania consisting of concentric rings of sedimentary rock left behind by a volcanic dome that formed and eroded far back in Earth's history, exposing the ring-like layers of rock seen in the image taken by ISS. Wednesday, May 3, 2023: Cameras aboard the International Space Station (ISS) gazed down into the Eye of the Sahara, also known as the Richat Structure, on April 26, 2023. (Image credit: NASA/Johnson Space Center) At left, from top to bottom, are the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module's forward port, the Prichal docking module, and the Soyuz MS-23 crew ship. On Twitter, Facebook, Google News, and Instagram.The Richat Structure, also known as the "Eye of the Sahara," can be seen from the International Space Station as it orbited 259 miles above the African continent. Her work was the first to convincingly demonstrate the dominating presence of dark matter in our universe.įollow HT Tech for the latest tech news and reviews, also keep up with us Part of an investigation to understand how galaxies can grow to such enormous sizes, UGC 2885 was also part of An Interesting Voyage and astronomer Vera Rubin's pioneering study of the rotation of spiral galaxies. That's about 10 times as many stars as the Milky Way.

Some 800,000 light-years across compared to the Milky Way's diameter of 100,000 light-years or so, it has around 1 trillion stars. In sharp focus beyond is UGC 2885, a giant spiral galaxy about 232 million light-years distant. In this Hubble Space Telescope image, the bright, spiky stars lie in the foreground toward the heroic northern constellation Perseus and well within our own Milky Way galaxy. It has certainly proved fruitful as most of Hubble's images have been captured by the ACS. The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) was primarily designed to survey large areas of the sky at visible and red wavelengths with 10 times greater efficiency than the earlier premier Hubble camera. To capture such objects, Hubble has advanced optical instruments such as the Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3.
