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A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image.

IC 486 lies right on the edge of the constellation Gemini (the Twins), around 380 million light-years from Earth. Classified as a barred spiral galaxy, it features a bright central bar-shaped structure from which its spiral arms unfurl, wrapping around the core in a smooth, almost ring-like pattern.

Hubble’s keen eye reveals subtle variations in color across the galaxy. The pale, luminous center is dominated by older stars, while faint bluish regions in the surrounding disk trace pockets of more recent star formation. Wisps of dust thread through the galaxy’s structure, gently obscuring light and tracing regions of increased molecular gas where new stars are likely to form.

At the galaxy’s center a noticeable white glow outshines the starlight around it. This is light from IC 486’s active galactic nucleus (AGN), which is powered by a supermassive black hole more than 100 million times the mass of the Sun. Every sufficiently large galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole at its center, but some of these black holes are particularly ravenous, assembling vast amounts of gas and dust into swirling accretion disks from which they feed. The intense heat generated by the orbiting disk of material generates intense radiation, including X-rays, which can outshine the entire rest of the galaxy. In these cases, the galaxy is known as an active galaxy, with an AGN at its center.

The data used to make this image comes from two separate observing programs — #17310 (PI: M. J. Koss) and #15444 (PI: A. J. Barth) — with similar aims: to survey nearby active galaxies like IC 486 and record detailed, high-quality images of their central black holes and the stars near the core of the galaxy. By combining Hubble’s sharp imaging capabilities with large comprehensive samples, these programs enable detailed comparisons of how stars, gas, dust, and black holes interact in galaxy centers.

A key goal of this work is to understand how galaxies grow by linking their large-scale structures, such as bars and spiral arms, to activity in their nuclei. To achieve this, the research teams leverage both expert classifications and citizen science through Galaxy Zoo, with datasets they will ultimately release to the public. In parallel, researchers are using the same images to test how well large language models and other machine learning techniques can reproduce or extend human classifications, offering a new way to scale galaxy morphology studies to the largest surveys that telescopes like Euclid and the Vera Rubin Observatory are preforming, and NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will perform.

Beyond IC 486, distant background galaxies and foreground stars pepper the image. Some stars appear with characteristic diffraction spikes, while the more diffuse, reddish smudges are far more distant galaxies scattered across the cosmos.

Though it may appear calm and orderly, IC 486 is a dynamic system shaped by gravity and stellar evolution. Over millions of years, its structure will continue to evolve as stars are born, age, and fade, contributing to the ongoing story of galactic life in the universe.

Media Contact:

Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov

Los primeros astronautas en viajar a la Luna en más de medio siglo han regresado a la Tierra tras una misión que ha establecido nuevos récords a bordo del vuelo de prueba Artemis II de la NASA.

Los astronautas de la NASA Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover y Christina Koch, y el astronauta Jeremy Hansen de la CSA (Agencia Espacial Canadiense) amerizaron a las 5:07 p.m. PDT (hora del Pacífico) de este viernes frente a la costa de San Diego, completando un viaje de casi 10 días que los llevó a una distancia máxima de 406.771 kilómetros (252.756 millas) de la Tierra.

“Reid, Victor, Christina y Jeremy: bienvenidos a casa y felicitaciones por un logro verdaderamente histórico. La NASA agradece al presidente Donald Trump y a sus aliados en el Congreso por proporcionar el mandato y los recursos que hicieron posible esta misión y el futuro de Artemis”, dijo el administrador de la NASA, Jared Isaacman. “Artemis II demostró una habilidad, valentía y dedicación extraordinarias a medida que la tripulación llevaba a Orion, al Sistema de Lanzamiento Espacial [SLS, por sus siglas en inglés] y a la exploración humana más lejos que nunca. Al ser los primeros astronautas en volar en este cohete y en esta nave espacial, la tripulación aceptó un riesgo considerable al servicio del conocimiento adquirido y el futuro que estamos decididos a construir. La NASA también reconoce las contribuciones de toda la fuerza laboral de esta agencia, así como la de nuestros socios internacionales, cuya pericia y compromiso fueron esenciales para el éxito de esta misión. Con la misión Artemis II completada, la atención se centra ahora con confianza en el ensamblaje de Artemis III y en los preparativos para regresar a la superficie lunar, establecer una base y no volver a abandonar la Luna jamás”.

Después de su amerizaje en el océano Pacífico, los astronautas fueron recibidos por un equipo combinado de la NASA y el ejército de Estados Unidos, que los asistió para salir de la nave espacial en mar abierto y los transportó en helicóptero hasta el buque USS John P. Murtha para someterse a exámenes médicos iniciales. Se espera que los miembros de la tripulación regresen al Centro Espacial Johnson de la NASA en Houston el sábado 11 de abril.

Durante su misión, Wiseman, Glover, Koch y Hansen recorrieron un total de 1.117.659 kilómetros (694.481 millas). Su sobrevuelo lunar los llevó más lejos de lo que jamás han viajado antes los seres humanos, superando el récord de la distancia anterior establecido por los astronautas del Apolo 13 en 1970.

La primera tripulación de Artemis despegó a bordo del cohete SLS de la NASA a las 6:35 p.m. del 1 de abril, desde la plataforma de lanzamiento 39B en el Centro Espacial Kennedy de la agencia en Florida. Con casi cuatro millones de kilogramos (8,8 millones de libras) de empuje en el momento del despegue, el cohete de fabricación estadounidense impulsó hacia el espacio a la tripulación ubicada dentro de la nave espacial Orion, situándola en órbita con una precisión milimétrica después de una cuenta regresiva sin contratiempos, dirigida por el equipo de control de lanzamiento de Artemis de la agencia.

Durante el primer día en el espacio, los astronautas y los equipos en tierra inspeccionaron la nave espacial —a la que la tripulación ha dado el nombre de Integrity (Integridad en español)— para confirmar que todos los sistemas funcionaban correctamente antes de hacer el tránsito hacia la Luna. La NASA también desplegó en la órbita terrestre cuatro pequeños satélites CubeSat de sus socios internacionales.

En el segundo día del vuelo de prueba, con todos los sistemas listos (“Go” en el argot astronáutico), el módulo de servicio de Orion encendió su motor principal, situando a los astronautas en una trayectoria que los llevó a 6.545 kilómetros (4.067 millas) por encima de la superficie lunar en su aproximación más cercana.

“La tripulación de Artemis II ya está en casa. Los sistemas de reentrada, descenso y aterrizaje funcionaron tal como fueron diseñados, y la prueba final se completó según lo previsto. Este momento pertenece a las miles de personas, de catorce países distintos, que construyeron este vehículo, lo sometieron a pruebas y depositaron su confianza en él. Su trabajo protegió cuatro vidas humanas que viajaban a 40.233 kilómetros (25.000 millas) por hora, y las trajo de regreso a la Tierra sanas y salvas”, dijo Amit Kshatriya, administrador asociado de la NASA. “Artemis II ha validado el vehículo, los equipos, la arquitectura y la colaboración internacional que llevarán de nuevo a la humanidad a la superficie lunar. Reid, Victor, Christina y Jeremy llevaron las esperanzas de este mundo más lejos de lo que los seres humanos han viajado en más de medio siglo. Hace 53 años, la humanidad dejó la Luna. Esta vez, hemos regresado para quedarnos. El futuro es nuestro para conquistarlo”.

Con astronautas a bordo por primera vez, los ingenieros sometieron a Orion a una evaluación completa durante el vuelo. La tripulación puso a prueba los sistemas de soporte vital de la nave espacial, confirmando que Orion es capaz de dar sustento a seres humanos en el espacio profundo. Durante varias demostraciones de pilotaje, los miembros de la tripulación tomaron el control manual de la astronave, pilotando a Orion para validar su maniobrabilidad y recopilar datos que servirán de guía para futuras operaciones de encuentro y acoplamiento con módulos de aterrizaje aptos para llevar tripulación durante la misión Artemis III y otras misiones futuras.

La tripulación completó una serie de pruebas que servirán de orientación para la forma en que la NASA llevará a cabo futuras misiones a la Luna. Entre estas pruebas se incluyeron evaluaciones sobre el funcionamiento de la nave espacial durante los ejercicios de la tripulación, el equipo y los procedimientos de emergencia, los trajes espaciales del sistema de supervivencia de la tripulación de Orion y otros sistemas críticos de la nave.

Wiseman, Glover, Koch y Hansen también respaldaron investigaciones científicas destinadas a ayudar a la NASA a preparar a los astronautas para vivir y trabajar en la Luna, a medida que la agencia construye una base lunar y fija su mirada en Marte. Estos experimentos —entre los que se incluye la investigación AVATAR, la cual estudia cómo responde el tejido humano a la microgravedad y al entorno de radiación del espacio profundo, así como otros estudios de investigación sobre los seres humanos y su desempeño—recopilan datos esenciales sobre la salud para misiones de larga duración.

Durante su sobrevuelo lunar del 6 de abril, los astronautas capturaron más de 7.000 imágenes de la superficie lunar y de un eclipse solar, durante el cual la Luna ocultó al Sol desde el punto de observación de Orion. Las imágenes incluyen vistas impresionantes de la puesta y la salida de la Tierra, cráteres de impacto, antiguos flujos de lava, nuestra galaxia, la Vía Láctea, así como de fracturas en la superficie y variaciones de color a lo largo del terreno lunar.

La tripulación documentó la topografía a lo largo del terminador —el límite entre el día y la noche lunares—, donde la luz solar rasante (de ángulo cerrado) proyecta largas sombras sobre la superficie, creando condiciones de iluminación similares a las de la región del Polo Sur, donde está previsto que alunicen los astronautas en 2028. Los astronautas también propusieron posibles nombres para dos cráteres lunares, e informaron sobre destellos de impactos de meteoroides en el lado de la Luna a oscuras.

Las investigaciones científicas de Artemis II allanarán el camino para futuras misiones a la superficie de la Luna, al contribuir al avance de las operaciones de misiones y capacitar a los astronautas para ejercer un juicio fundamentado a fin de identificar áreas de gran interés para la ciencia y la exploración.

Con la tripulación a salvo en la Tierra, la NASA y sus socios ahora centrarán su atención en los preparativos para la misión Artemis III del próximo año, en la que una nueva tripulación a bordo de Orion pondrá a prueba las operaciones integradas con módulos de aterrizaje lunar de fabricación comercial en la órbita terrestre baja.

Como parte de una edad de oro de innovación y exploración, la NASA enviará a los astronautas del programa Artemis en misiones cada vez más desafiantes para explorar más regiones de la Luna para lograr descubrimientos científicos y beneficios económicos, establecer una presencia humana duradera en la superficie lunar y sentar las bases para enviar a los primeros astronautas —astronautas estadounidenses— a Marte.

Para obtener más información sobre el programa Artemis, visita :

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis (en inglés)
https://ciencia.nasa.gov/artemis (en español)

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Bethany Stevens / Rachel Kraft / María José Viñas
Sede central de la NASA, Washington
202-358-1600
bethany.c.stevens@nasa.gov / rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov / maria-jose.vinasgarcia@nasa.gov

NASA is sending more science, technology demonstrations, and crew supplies to the International Space Station following the successful launch of the agency’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 mission, or Northrop Grumman CRS-24.

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft, carrying approximately 11,000 pounds of cargo to the orbiting laboratory, lifted off at 7:41 a.m. EDT Saturday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Watch live coverage of the spacecraft’s arrival to the space station beginning at 12 p.m. on Monday, April 13, on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including social media.

Cygnus XL is scheduled to be captured at 12:50 p.m. by the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm, operated by NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Chris Williams. After capture, the spacecraft will be installed on the Unity module’s Earth-facing port for cargo unloading.

NASA’s arrival and capture coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations):

Monday, April 13

12 p.m. – Arrival coverage begins on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel.

12:50 p.m. – Capture of Cygnus XL with the space station’s robotic arm.

The resupply mission is carrying dozens of research experiments that will be conducted during Expedition 74/75, including a new module to advance quantum science that could improve computing technology and aid in the search for dark matter, and hardware to produce a greater number of therapeutic stem cells for blood diseases and cancer. Cygnus also carries model organisms to study the gut microbiome and a receiver that could enhance space weather models to protect critical space infrastructure, such as GPS and radar.

These experiments are just some of the hundreds of scientific investigations conducted aboard the orbiting laboratory in the areas of biology and biotechnology, Earth and space science, physical sciences, and technology development and demonstrations. 

Cygnus XL is scheduled to remain at the orbiting laboratory until October, before it departs and disposes of thousands of pounds of trash through its re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, where it will harmlessly burn up.

Northrop Grumman named the spacecraft the S.S. Steven R. Nagel in honor of the former NASA astronaut who flew four space shuttle missions, commanded the Gamma Ray Observatory deployment, and logged 723 hours in space.

Learn more about this NASA commercial resupply mission at:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/nasas-northrop-grumman-crs-24/

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Josh Finch
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov

Amanda Griffin
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-876-2468
amanda.a.griffin@nasa.gov

Sandra Jones
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov

This image from April 10, 2026, captures NASA’s Orion spacecraft, with its parachutes deployed, seconds before splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The Artemis II crew accomplished many milestones on their nearly 10-day mission, surpassing the Apollo 13 record for farthest crewed spaceflight and capturing views of the far side of the Moon.

Under Artemis, NASA will send astronauts on increasingly difficult missions to explore more of the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars.

See more photos from the mission. (Link to https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-multimedia/)

The first astronauts to travel to the Moon in more than half a century are back on Earth after a record-setting mission aboard NASA’s Artemis II test flight.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen splashed down at 5:07 p.m. PDT Friday off the coast of San Diego, completing a nearly 10-day journey that took them 252,756 miles from home at their farthest distance from Earth.

“Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy, welcome home, and congratulations on a truly historic achievement. NASA is grateful to President Donald Trump and partners in Congress for providing the mandate and resources that made this mission and the future of Artemis possible,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “Artemis II demonstrated extraordinary skill, courage, and dedication as the crew pushed Orion, SLS (Space Launch System), and human exploration farther than ever before. As the first astronauts to fly this rocket and spacecraft, the crew accepted significant risk in service of the knowledge gained and the future we are determined to build. NASA also acknowledges the contributions of the entire NASA workforce, along with our international partners, whose expertise and commitment were essential to this mission’s success. With Artemis II complete, focus now turns confidently toward assembling Artemis III and preparing to return to the lunar surface, build the base, and never give up the Moon again.”

After splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, the astronauts were met by a combined NASA and U.S. military team that assisted them out of the spacecraft in open water and transported them via helicopter to the USS John P. Murtha for initial medical checkouts. The crew members are expected to return to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Saturday, April 11.

During their mission, Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen flew 694,481 miles in total. Their lunar flyby took them farther than any humans have ever traveled before, surpassing the previous distance record set by Apollo 13 astronauts in 1970.

The first Artemis crew launched on NASA’s SLS rocket at 6:35 p.m. April 1, from Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. With 8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, the American-built rocket propelled the crew inside the Orion spacecraft to space, delivering it to orbit with pinpoint accuracy after a smooth countdown conducted by the agency’s Artemis launch control team.

During the first day in space, the astronauts and teams on the ground checked out the spacecraft — named Integrity by the crew — to confirm all systems were healthy ahead of the transit to the Moon. NASA also deployed four CubeSats from international partners to Earth orbit.

On the second day of the test flight, with all systems Go, Orion’s service module fired its main engine, placing the astronauts on a trajectory that brought them 4,067 miles above the lunar surface at their closest approach.

“The Artemis II crew is home. The entry, descent, and landing systems performed as designed and the final test was completed as intended. This moment belongs to the thousands of people across fourteen countries who built, tested, and trusted this vehicle. Their work protected four human lives traveling at 25,000 miles per hour and brought them safely back to Earth,” said NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya. “Artemis II proved the vehicle, the teams, the architecture, and the international partnership that will return humanity to the lunar surface. Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy carried the hopes of this world farther than humans have traveled in more than half a century. Fifty‑three years ago, humanity left the Moon. This time, we returned to stay. The future is ours to win.”

With astronauts aboard for the first time, engineers put Orion through a full in‑flight evaluation. The crew tested the spacecraft’s life support systems, confirming Orion can sustain humans in deep space. During several piloting demonstrations, crew members took manual control of the spacecraft, flying Orion to validate its handling and collect data that will guide future rendezvous and docking operations with human-rated landers during Artemis III and beyond.

The crew completed a series of tests to inform how NASA will fly future missions to the Moon, including evaluations of how the spacecraft operates during crew exercise, emergency equipment and procedures, the Orion crew survival system spacesuits, and other critical spacecraft systems.

Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen also supported scientific investigations to help NASA prepare astronauts to live and work on the Moon as the agency builds a Moon Base and looks toward Mars. These experiments — including the AVATAR investigation, which studies how human tissue responds to microgravity and the deep space radiation environment, and other human research performance studies — are gathering essential health data for long-duration missions.

During their April 6 lunar flyby, the astronauts captured more than 7,000 images of the lunar surface and a solar eclipse, during which the Moon blocked the Sun from Orion’s vantage point. The imagery includes striking views of earthset and earthrise, impact craters, ancient lava flows, our Milky Way galaxy, and surface fractures and color variations across the lunar terrain.

They documented the topography along the terminator — the boundary between lunar day and night — where low-angle sunlight casts long shadows across the surface, creating illumination conditions similar to those in the South Pole region where astronauts are scheduled to land in 2028. The crew also proposed potential names for two lunar craters and reported meteoroid impact flashes on the night side of the Moon.

Artemis II science will pave the way for future missions to the Moon’s surface by helping advance mission operations and training astronauts to use well-informed judgment to identify areas of high interest for science and exploration.

With the crew safely on Earth, NASA and its partners now will turn attention to preparing for next year’s Artemis III mission, when a new Orion crew will test integrated operations with commercially built Moon landers in low Earth orbit.

As part of a Golden Age of innovation and exploration, NASA will send Artemis astronauts on increasingly challenging missions to explore more of the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, establish an enduring human presence on the lunar surface, and lay the groundwork for sending the first astronauts – American astronauts –  to Mars.

To learn more about the Artemis program, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis

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Bethany Stevens / Rachel Kraft
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
bethany.c.stevens@nasa.gov / rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov

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