Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Back To The Moon: The Falcon 9 launch
After a quiet half a century since the last Apollo mission landed on the moon, Associate Professor Alan Duffy takes us inside the new space race. The second space race has begun! Watch as Elon Musks Space X launches the Falcon 9 into...
Weird History
What Is Astronaut Hygiene Like?
Hollywood often paints a romanticized vision of space travel, but living in a gravity-free environment has dirty downsides. It takes a lot of extra work for an astronaut to tend to their personal hygiene in space. Sometimes, they're even...
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New NASA Mars lander InSight just days away from landing
Nasa says that by the time its InSight probe arrives to Martian soil, it will have travelled 480 million kilometers and spent six months travelling through space.
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NASA to launch new Mars mission in California
California will play host to the first interplanetary launch from the U.S. west coast next month. NASA will launch their insight mission to Mars from the Vandenberg Air Force in California on the morning of May 5, 2018. The higher it...
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WFIRST's Coronagraph Instrument
When a new NASA space telescope opens its eyes in the mid 2020s, it will peer at the universe through some of the most sophisticated sunglasses ever designed. This multi-layered technology, the coronagraph instrument, might more rightly...
NASA
Supercomputer Simulations Test Star-destroying Black Holes
Watch as eight stars skirt a black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun in these supercomputer simulations. As they approach, all are stretched and deformed by the black hole’s gravity. Some are completely pulled apart into a long...
NASA
Rising Waters on the West Coast
Music: "Solitude" by Kate Elizabeth Lloyd Video credit: NASA James Round (NASA/JPL CalTech): Lead Producer Bailee DesRocher (USRA): Animator Alan Buis (NASA/JPL CalTech): Writer
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NASA Models the Complex Chemistry of Earth's Atmosphere
Air pollution can appear as a gray or orange haze enveloping a city. What the naked eye can’t see are the hundreds of chemical reactions taking place to produce that pollution. NASA science can reveal a more complete picture of...
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NASA Studies Snow At The Winter Olympics
NASA engineer Manuel Vega can see one of the Olympic ski jump towers from the rooftop of the South Korean weather office where he is stationed. Vega is not watching skiers take flight, preparing for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics...
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NASA Explores Earth’s Connections
For Earth Day 2021, we explore the connections of Earth systems and NASA's ability to observe them in a changing world, highlighting the links between dust transport, vegetation, water quality, conservation and human health, the...
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NASA | Return to Venus: Part I
Watch "Return to Venus - Part II" at:From Galileo and the Heliocentric model of the Solar System to James Hansen and climate research, observations of the planet Venus throughout history have given us the perspective we need to...
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NASA | A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2
An ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe. Plumes of carbon dioxide in the simulation swirl and shift as winds disperse the...
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NASA | IBEX Provides First View of the Solar System's Tail
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, recently mapped the boundaries of the solar system's tail, called the heliotail. By combining observations from the first three years of IBEX imagery, scientists have mapped out a tail that...
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NASA | Discovery Comes to Dulles
On April 17, 2012 the space shuttle Discovery hitched a ride on the back of a 747 jumbo jet especially designed as a space shuttle transport. It landed at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC, and the process to deliver Discovery to its new...
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NASA | 10 Years of Aura Legacy
The Aura atmospheric chemistry satellite celebrates its 10th anniversary on July 15th, 2014. Since its launch in 2004, Aura has monitored the Earth's atmosphere and provided data on the ozone layer, air quality, and greenhouse gases...
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Inside Hurricane Maria in 360°
Two days before Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the NASA-Japan Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory satellite captured a 3-D view of the storm. At the time Maria was a Category 1 hurricane. The 3-D view reveals the...
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Farewell to Asteroid Bennu
A look back at OSIRIS-REx’s time at Asteroid Bennu starting with the Touch-and-Go (TAG) sample acquisition event from Oct. 20, 2020, and leading up to its departure from the asteroid on May 10, 2021. Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space...
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Hubble Tracks Origins Of Energy Blasts
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are extraordinary events that generate as much energy in a thousandth of a second as the Sun does in an entire year! Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have traced the locations of five brief,...
Curated Video
NASA's Curious Universe: Building Highways in the Sky
When you think of NASA, you probably think about outer space. But the first “A” in NASA - aeronautics - means we’re busy crafting a lot closer to home. Aerospace engineers Shivanjli Sharma, David Zahn, and Mike Guminsky are hard at work...
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NASA says ‘Potentially hazardous’ asteroid 7482 passing by Earth on January 18
An asteroid more than twice the size of the Empire State Building will come within 1.98 million kilometers of the Earth on January 18, according to NASA.
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What has Hubble seen in our Solar System? | Hubble Space Images Episode 9
Hubble doesn't just look at distant nebula and galaxies, but has also observed celestial bodies and events in our own solar system. So what has it seen? Images from Hubble / NASA / ESA.
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Lunar and Solar Eclipse Explained: A Beginner’s Guide to Eclipses
Solar and lunar eclipses are celestial phenomena that occur when the sun, moon and Earth align in a way that either the moon casts a shadow on Earth or the latter casts a shadow on the moon. So what are the similarities and differences...
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NASA unveils design of post-Shuttle super rocket
NASA yesterday unveiled the design of the Space Launch System (SLS), which if fully funded will be the most powerful rocket ever built. The SLS is intended to carry NASA's Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV). The MPCV could carry four...
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What has NASA’s HiRISE seen over some of Mars’ most interesting craters?
Mars has some fascinating a beautiful craters, but are all craters the same, or are there aspects that make each one unique? NASA's MRO has a closer look with its HiRISE camera...