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360 Video: NASA Simulation Plunges Into a Black Hole
51 views / 0 likes - addedThis new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — enters the event horizon, sealing its fate. This version is a 360-degree video that lets viewers look
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360 Video: NASA Simulation Shows a Flight Around a Black Hole
45 views / 0 likes - addedThis new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera a stand-in for a daring astronaut just misses the event horizon and slingshots back out. This version is a 360-degree video that lets viewers look all
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NASA Simulations Plunge Into a Black Hole: Explained
40 views / 0 likes - addedThis new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera a stand-in for a daring astronaut enters the event horizon, sealing its fate. Goddard scientists created the visualizations on the Discover supercomput
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NASA Simulations Flight Around a Black Hole: Explained
32 views / 0 likes - addedThis new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera a stand-in for a daring astronaut just misses the event horizon and slingshots back out. Goddard scientists created the visualizations on the Discover
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NASAs First Asteroid Sample
106 views / 0 likes - addedOSIRIS-REx is NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission. It launched in September 2016 on a journey to explore a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. In October 2020, the spacecraft ventured to the asteroid’s surface and collected about 250 gra
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NASA Animation Sizes Up the Biggest Black Holes
159 views / 0 likes - addedEditor’s Note: A previous version of this video mislabeled the orbit of Saturn as the orbit of Jupiter. This new NASA animation highlights the “super” in supermassive black holes. These monsters lurk in the centers of most big galaxies,
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Sun Time Science: Big Sun Little Moon
128 views / 0 likes - addedHow can the small Moon cover up the big Sun? Explore how solar eclipses can happen by using items from your own home in this do it yourself science activity. To do this activity, you will need two objects of similar shape, a bit of space and either someon
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Lucy's Journey
147 views / 0 likes - addedMeet Lucy as she prepares for the first ever journey to the Trojan asteroids, a population of primitive small bodies orbiting in tandem with Jupiter.Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterJames Tralie (ADNET):Lead ProducerLead EditorWriterKrystof
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Record Broken: Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen
130 views / 0 likes - addedNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang—the farthest individual star ever seen to
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Touches The Sun For The First Time
177 views / 0 likes - addedFor the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The new milestone marks one
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An Introduction to the James Webb Space Telescope Mission
223 views / 0 likes - addedA look at the James Webb Space Telescope, its mission and the incredible technological challenge this mission presents. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Lead Producer Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Lead Writer Adriana Manr
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A Decade of Sun
217 views / 0 likes - addedAs of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around the Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing
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The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
264 views / 0 likes - addedA pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun’s mass perform a hypnotic dance in this NASA visualization. The movie traces how the black holes distort and redirect light emanating from the maelstrom of hot gas – called an accretion
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Apollo 13 Dark Side of the Moon in 4K
389 views / 0 likes - addedThis video uses data gathered from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft to recreate some of the stunning views of the Moon that the Apollo 13 astronauts saw on their perilous journey around the farside in 1970. These visualizations, in 4K resolutio
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NASA | The Arctic and the Antarctic Respond in Opposite Ways
389 views / 0 likes - addedFor more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-maximum http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/qa-what-is-happening-with-antarctic-sea-ice The Arctic and the Antarctic are regions that have a lot of ice an
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Moon Sheds Light on Earth’s Impact History
422 views / 1 likes - addedBy analyzing data on lunar craters provided by the Diviner instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists have made a fascinating discovery about the history of impacts on both the Earth and the Moon. Watch this video to learn more. Video
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Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing
594 views / 0 likes - addedScientists from NASA Goddard have discovered that not only are Saturn's rings younger than previously thought, but also that the rings are actually disappearing at a rapid pace through a process called "ring rain." Learn more about this phenomena in this
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Sounds of the Sun
553 views / 0 likes - addedData from ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured the dynamic movement of the Sun’s atmosphere for over 20 years. Today, we can hear the Sun’s movement — all of its waves, loops and eruptions — with ou
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NASA’s TESS Catches a Comet
515 views / 0 likes - addedThis video is compiled from a series of images taken on July 25 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. The angular extent of the widest field of view is six degrees. Visible in the images are the comet C/2018 N1, asteroids, variable stars, asteroid
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It's Surprisingly Hard to Go to the Sun
458 views / 0 likes - addedThe Sun contains 99.8 of the mass in our solar system. Its gravitational pull is what keeps everything here, from tiny Mercury to the gas giants to the Oort Cloud, 186 billion miles away. But even though the Sun has such a powerful pull, it's surprisingly
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Two Research Vessels Leave for the Twilight Zone
369 views / 0 likes - addedA project jointly funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation is heading west from Seattle, straight for the twilight zone. Using two research vessels, the Export Processes in the Ocean from Remote Sensing (EXPORTS) oceanographic campaign will stud
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NASA'S NICER Does the Space Station Twist
539 views / 0 likes - addedThis time-lapse video, obtained June 8, 2018, shows the precise choreography of NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) as it studies pulsars and other X-ray sources from its perch aboard the International Space Station. NICER observes a
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Moonlight (Clair de Lune)
597 views / 0 likes - addedThis visualization attempts to capture the mood of Claude Debussy's best-known composition, Clair de Lune (moonlight in French). The piece was published in 1905 as the third of four movements in the composer's Suite Bergamasque, and unlike the other parts
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Fermi's Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
778 views / 0 likes - addedThe Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is one of the instruments aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The GBM studies gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, as well as other flashes of gamma rays. Gamma-ray bursts are created wh
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Tour of the Moon in 4K
509 views / 0 likes - addedTake a virtual tour of the Moon in all-new 4K resolution, thanks to data provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. As the visualization moves around the near side, far side, north and south poles, we highlight interesting features, sites
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NASA’s New Planet Hunter: TESS
518 views / 0 likes - addedNASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will find undiscovered worlds around bright nearby stars, providing targets where future studies will assess their capacity to harbor life. TESS is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission, led and operated
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Hubble Views Galaxy Lacking Dark Matter
492 views / 0 likes - addedNASA's Hubble Space Telescope took an image of a bizarre, ghostly looking galaxy called NGC 1052-DF2 that astronomers calculate to have little to no dark matter. This is the first galaxy astronomers have discovered to be so lacking in dark matter, which i
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Scientists Create First-Ever 3-D Model of a Melting Snowflake
614 views / 0 likes - addedThis visualization is based on the first three-dimensional numerical model of melting snowflakes in the atmosphere, developed by scientist Jussi Leinonen of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. A better understanding of how snow melts
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Hubble's Messier Marathon Madness
471 views / 0 likes - addedIn mid-March, skywatchers in the northern hemisphere can try to observe all 110 objects from the Messier catalog in one night. To celebrate the Messier Marathon, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is releasing 12 new images to add to its extensive collection o
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Older Arctic Sea Ice Disappearing
548 views / 0 likes - addedArctic sea ice has not only been shrinking in surface area in recent years, it’s becoming younger and thinner as well. In this animation, where the ice cover almost looks gelatinous as it pulses through the seasons, cryospheric scientist Dr. Walt Me
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‘Winking’ Star May Be Devouring Wrecked Planets
485 views / 0 likes - addedAstronomers studying the star RZ Piscium have found evidence suggesting its strange, unpredictable dimming episodes may be caused by vast orbiting clouds of gas and dust, the remains of one or more destroyed planets. Young stars are often prodigious X-ray
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WFIRST Will See the Big Picture of the Universe
539 views / 0 likes - addedScheduled to launch in the mid-2020s, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will function as Hubble’s wide-eyed cousin. While just as sensitive as Hubble's cameras, WFIRST's 300-megapixel Wide Field Instrument will image a sky area 100 times l
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Can Data from Space Save Dolphins?
749 views / 5 likes - addedThe age-old mystery of why otherwise healthy dolphins, whales and porpoises get stranded along coasts worldwide deepens: After a collaboration between NASA scientists and marine biologists, new research suggests space weather is not the primary cause of a
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The Birth of a New Island
680 views / 0 likes - addedIn late December 2014 into early 2015, a submarine volcano in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga erupted, sending a violent stream of steam, ash and rock into the air. When the ash finally settled in January 2015, a newborn island with a 400-foot summit n
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How Solar Flares Affect Earth
521 views / 0 likes - addedA team of scientists led by Laura Hayes –a solar physicist who splits her time between NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland – investigated a connection between solar flares and Earth's atmosphere. They discovered pulse
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How to Find a Living Planet
527 views / 0 likes - addedThe more we see other planets, the more the question comes into focus: Maybe we're the weird one? Decades of observing Earth from space has informed our search for signs of habitability and life on exoplanets and even planets in our own solar system. We'r
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Our Living Planet From Space
508 views / 0 likes - addedLife. It's the one thing that, so far, makes Earth unique among the thousands of other planets we've discovered. Since the fall of 1997, NASA satellites have continuously and globally observed all plant life at the surface of the land and ocean. Read more
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HIRMES: SOFIA's latest high-resolution Mid-infrared Spectrometer
517 views / 0 likes - addedA team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is developing a new, third-generation facility science instrument for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA. The High Resolution Mid-InfrarEd Spectrometer (HIRMES
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ICESat-2 By the Numbers: 300 Trillion
425 views / 0 likes - addedICESat-2 is an incredibly precise space laser that features the latest in NASA technology To measure ice heights, engineers have to take ICESat-2's instrument ATLAS to the extreme - sometimes going big, sometimes going small, but always keeping it precise
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Timing Is Everything
447 views / 0 likes - addedDeputy Systems Engineer Phil Luers explains how ICESat-2’s ATLAS instrument transmitter and receiver subsystems come together to calculate the timing of photons, which, in turn, measure the elevation of ice. To view the previous parts in this series, go t
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The Search for Life
471 views / 0 likes - addedAre we alone in the universe? This is a fundamental question that intrigues us all. On September 21, 2016, NASA scientists and stakeholders came together at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for a presentation on the agency’s search for life b
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Searching for Earth’s Trojan Asteroids
449 views / 0 likes - addedTrojan asteroids are common at the L4 and L5 Lagrange points of other planets, leading or following the planet in its orbit. But detecting our own Trojan asteroids from Earth is difficult since they appear close to the sun from our perspective. In mid-Feb
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6 Things You Don’t Know About Snow
660 views / 1 likes - addedThanks to a half-century of snow observations, NASA scientists have learned a number of amazing facts about snow, which are crucial to understanding what’s necessary to advance snow measurements. Scientists are in the field right now, testing advanced tec
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Getting Flake-y: Why All Snowflakes Have Six Sides
642 views / 1 likes - addedNASA scientists can measure the size and shape distribution of snow particles, layer by layer, in a storm. The Global Precipitation Measurement mission is an international satellite project that provides next-generation observations of rain and snow world
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Water in Helheim Glacier Makes Its Way to the Ocean
464 views / 0 likes - addedNew NASA research found that large crevasses provide aquifer water upstream of Greenland's Helheim Glacier with a clear escape to the ocean. This discovery helps confirm that the water, which is held in a layer of crunchy, granular snow called firn, contr
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory: Year 7 Ultra HD (4k)
582 views / 1 likes - addedThe Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has now captured nearly seven years worth of ultra-high resolution solar footage. This time lapse shows that full run from two of SDO's instruments. The large orange sun is visible light captured by HMI. The smaller go
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NASA | Observing The 2015 El Niño
687 views / 0 likes - addedPeople the world over are feeling, or soon will feel, the effects of the strongest El Niño event since 1997-98, currently unfolding in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. New satellite observations are beginning to show scientists its impact on the dist
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NASA | Blazar Bonanza
683 views / 0 likes - addedA long time ago in a galaxy half the universe away, a flood of high-energy gamma rays began its journey to Earth. When they arrived in April, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope caught the outburst, which helped two ground-based gamma-ray observatories
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NASA | Brazil’s Extreme Drought Seen From Space
931 views / 4 likes - addedFor more information: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasas-grace-satellites-evaluate-drought-in-southeast-brazil Empty water reservoirs, severe water rationing, and electrical blackouts are the new status quo in major cities across southeastern Brazi
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NASA | Looking For The Shadows Of New Worlds
626 views / 0 likes - addedAstronomers have used many different methods to discover planets beyond the solar system, but the most successful by far is transit photometry, which measures changes in a star's brightness caused by a mini-eclipse. When a planet crosses in front of its s
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NASA | Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD (4K)
893 views / 0 likes - addedIt’s always shining, always ablaze with light and energy. In the ubiquity of solar output, Earth swims in an endless tide of particles. Every time half of the Earth faces the Sun, we experience the brightness of daytime, the Sun’s energy and light driving
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NASA | Jupiter In 4k Ultra HD
1,188 views / 4 likes - addedNew imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is revealing details never before seen on Jupiter. High-resolution maps and spinning globes (rendered in the 4k Ultra HD format) are the first products to come from a program to study the solar system’s outer
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