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ALT Multi image shareable showcasing the 5 major protocol observations that can be done with the GLOBE Observer: Clouds, Mosquito Habitat Mapper, Land Cover, Trees, and at certain times, Eclipse.
ALT Several librarians gathered in a sunny parking lot test out looking at the sky with eclipse glasses.
ALT Close up of a Sun spotter, a wooden device fitted with a mirror which allows users to safely observe the details of a solar eclipse.
ALT Two presenters at the front of a conference room. There is a large telescope included in a display of handouts and activities.
ALT Large group of library workers assembled in an outdoor space and trying out various tools for observing the sky, including a telescope, eclipse glasses, and a sun spotter device.
ALT NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher as it returns to the Vehicle Assembly Building from Launch Pad 39B, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rocket is orange with two white solid rocket boosters with a red NASA worm logo on the side. The Vehicle Assembly Buildng is white on the outside. The sky is cloudy in the background.
ALT The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.
ALT The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center.
