NASA shares image of 'cosmic rose' made of galaxies
- By Web Desk -
- Apr 23, 2021
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been sharing stunning images and videos of the space with its followers and this time it shared a post regarding a ‘cosmic rose’ in the galaxy.
Shared on the official Instagram of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope’s, the post features Interacting Galaxies Arp 273, which is a combination of spiral galaxy UGC 1810 and its companion galaxy below, known as UGC 1813.
“A cosmic rose, just for you!,” NASA wrote while sharing the picture.
According to a blog post by NASA, Arp 273 lies in the constellation Andromeda and is roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.
Since being shared on Instagram, the post has garnered over nearly two lakh likes.
A day back, NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the US space agency said.
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The unprecedented extraction of oxygen, literally out of thin air on Mars, was achieved on Tuesday by an experimental device aboard Perseverance, a six-wheeled science rover that landed on the Red Planet on Feb 18 after a seven-month journey from Earth.
In its first activation, the toaster-sized instrument dubbed “MOXIE”, short for Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilisation Experiment, produced about five grams of oxygen, equivalent to roughly 10 minutes’ worth of breathing for an astronaut, NASA said.