2023 NASA's Astrophoto Challenge (Winter)
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Make Your Own Image of the Eagle Nebula and the Pillars of Creation with NASA’s Astrophoto Challenge with Webb data
Join NASA's Universe of Learning for an exciting opportunity to use real astronomical data and tools to create your own images of the Pillars of Creation and the Eagle Nebula in which is resides. Use your images to explore the formation of stars in the Pillars of Creation, or just create an image that you think is beautiful. You can capture your own real-time telescope image using the MicroObservatory robotic telescope network. You can also work with a set of data files taken with multi-wavelength space based missions from NASA, ESA, and CAS (Hubble, Webb, Chandra, Spitzer and Herschel).
Visit the NASA’s Astrophoto Challenge page for more detail on how to work with NASA data from past challenges.
The NASA’s Astrophoto Challenge provide learners of all familiarity levels authentic experiences using real astrophysics data, including those from NASA space-based missions. Participants engage in the scientific practices of a scientist through accessible data tools and experiences while they create and share their composite images.
The NASA’s Astrophoto Challenge include instructions on how to turn the data into beautiful composite images with a simple and free web-based image processing tool used by professional astronomers. The JS9 image processing tool is widely used by the astronomical community to process and analyze the data from the world’s premiere research telescopes. NASA’s Astrophoto Challenge uses a version of this tool, JS9-4L, developed for learners.
The challenge also feature short videos by professional astronomers. These subject matter experts provide science content knowledge of the Pillars of Creation and Eagle Nebula as observed across the electromagnetic spectrum. Submit your creations to the challenge and they may be highlighted as standout entries commented on by scientists.