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Happy holidays from space!
- New images and gifts from outer space continue the tradition of holiday celebrations in space. Mars looks as if it has a light dusting of snow in images taken by the European Space Agency’s High Resolution Stereo Camera. The contrasting layers of ice and dust are clearly visible, characteristic of the seasonal martian ice caps. Alternating dark and light-colored layers trace out the distinctive seasonal polar layered deposits formed during regolith deposition, when layers of volatile ices freeze with varying amounts of dust trapped within.
- NASA released a recent image of star cluster NGC 602, which shows what looks like a festive wreath with twinkling lights. The image combines data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with a previously released image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
- NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched on December 21, 1968 and astronauts William Anders, Frank Borman and James Lovell became the first humans to spend Christmas in space, orbiting the moon 10 times over 20 hours and sending a famous Christmas broadcast.
- NASA Astronauts Sunita Williams and Don Pettit and the crew aboard the ISS received festive supplies and gifts from a SpaceX Dragon capsule for the holidays.
- Last year, galaxy cluster MACS0416 was identified as the Christmas tree galaxy cluster, following imaging from the Hubble and JWST observatories. MACS0416 is a pair of colliding galaxy clusters that will eventually combine to form an even bigger cluster.
- The image of NGC 2264 combines Chandra data with optical data captured by astrophotographer Michael Clow using his telescope in Arizona last year. NGC 2264 is a cluster of young stars between one and five million years old.
- The contrasting layers of ice and dust on Mars are characteristic of the seasonal martian ice caps. Alternating dark and light-colored layers are clearly visible, tracing out the distinctive seasonal polar layered deposits formed during regolith deposition.
- Galaxy cluster MACS0416, known as the Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster, shines in the image created by the Hubble Space Telescope and JWST that combines visible and infrared light.
- MACS0416 is a pair of colliding galaxy clusters that will eventually combine to form an even bigger cluster. The image was created by combining infrared observations from the JWST with visible-light data from Hubble.
- NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched on December 21, 1968, and astronauts William Anders, Frank Borman and James Lovell became the first humans to spend Christmas in space, orbiting the moon 10 times over 20 hours and sending a famous Christmas broadcast.
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