Canon announced today that their have successfully launched their Ce-SAT-IE satellite into orbit from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex in Kagoshima, Japan on February 17, 2024. A Canon PowerShot S110 compact digital camera mounted on the satellite as a secondary-optical system for wide area photography captured a stunning image of Earth.
This stunning image of the Spider Web Galaxy, as captured by NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope, showcases its irregular shape in all its glory, located around 30 million light-years from Earth. It’s classified as UGC 5829 and consists of a large central body of dull-colored stars, with distorted arms around it.
This aptly named ‘Necklace Nebula’ located 15,000 light-years away was captured by NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope in the constellation Sagitta (the Arrow). Classified as PN G054.203.4, this nebula consists of a pair of tightly orbiting Sun-like stars where one of them expanded and engulfed its smaller companion around 10,000 years ago, creating something astronomers call a “common envelope.”
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this mesmerizing image of the Bubble Nebula, also known as NGC 7635, located 7,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. This celestial object appears to contain a massive star trapped inside a bubble that burns a million times brighter than our Sun.
With just over 2-years of service under its belt, the James Webb Space Telescope continues to dazzle, and its latest image of NGC 604 is no exception. This star-forming region is located in the Triangulum galaxy (M33), roughly 2.73 million light-years away from Earth.
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured Magellanic spiral galaxy LEDA 42160 located 52 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. This galaxy is forcing its way through the comparatively dense gas in the Virgo cluster, and the forces exerted are also known as ram pressure.
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured two types of dunes on the Martian surface: barchan and linear. The former are the small dots and upwind, while linear can be seen as the downwind dunes.
Coperni’s new Air Swipe Bag may look like a Photoshop job, but it’s real and made from aerogel, the same material that NASA used on the space shuttle as well as the Mars rovers. Aerogel is currently the lightest known solid on Earth, which means the Air Swipe bag can be considered 99% pure nothing and 1% glass.