                  APOD: 2018 April 15 - Space Shuttle Rising

                         Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our
 fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a
                           professional astronomer.

                                2018 April 15
                                      [2]
                            Space Shuttle Rising
                            Image Credit: NASA [3]

Explanation: What's that rising from the clouds? The space shuttle. Sometimes,
if you look out the window of an airplane at just the right time and place,
you see something unusual -- in this case a space shuttle launching to orbit.
The featured image [4]  of Endeavour's final launch [5]  in 2011 May was
captured from a NASA shuttle training aircraft. Taken well above the clouds,
the image can be matched with similar images of the same shuttle plume taken
below the clouds [6] . Hot glowing gasses expelled by the engines are visible
near the rising shuttle [7] , as well as a long smoke plume. A shadow of the
plume [8]  appears on the cloud deck, indicating the direction of the Sun. The
US Space Shuttle program [9]  concluded in 2011, and Endeavour [10]  can now
be visited [11]  at the California Science Center [12] . Planned for tomorrow,
however, is a different launch -- that of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey
Satellite [13]  (TESS) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 [14]  rocket.

                  Tomorrow's picture: north of the king [15]

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