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The Evolution of Telescopes: From Galileo to Hubble
People have been looking at outer space through telescopes since the time of Galileo. Learn how telescopes work and how they have expanded what we know about our solar system.
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Hitomi Measures Perseus Galaxy Cluster's X-ray Winds
Measurements of unprecedented detail returned by Japan's Hitomi satellite have allowed scientists to track the motion of X-ray-emitting gas at the heart of the Perseus cluster of galaxies for the first time. The results showcase the...
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NASA’s new tool for finding Earth-killing asteroids
NASA is creating the best tool for spotting an Earth-killing asteroid before it’s too late to do anything about it.
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NASA | X-ray Satellites Monitor the Clashing Winds of a Colossal Binary
O-type stars are among the most massive and hottest known, pounding their surroundings with intense ultraviolet light and powerful outflows called stellar winds. NASA's Swift and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatories took part in a 2011...
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Quasars: The Brightest Objects in Space
Learn all about quasars, extremely bright objects in outer space powered by black holes. This video explains how they were discovered, their connection to supermassive black holes, and their significance in understanding the early...
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Genetic analysis suggests contact between Polynesians and South Americas before Columbus: study
Ancient Polynesians may have crossed the Pacific to make contact with Native Americans from the region that is now Colombia
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NASA | JWST Feature - Colliding Galaxies
Deep surveys by the James Webb Space Telescope will capture the full panorama of galaxy evolution, from the earliest dwarf galaxies that formed to the familiar galaxies we see today. The Webb Telescope will help us understand how the...
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NASA's Fermi Spots 'Fizzled' Burst from Collapsing Star
On Aug. 26, 2020, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a pulse of high-energy radiation that turned out to be one for the record books – the shortest gamma-ray burst (GRB) caused by the death of a massive star ever seen. GRBs...
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Hubble Views Galaxy Lacking Dark Matter
NASA'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...
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NASA | Dust Simulations Paint Alien's View of the Solar System
Dust ground off icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, the cold-storage zone that includes Pluto and millions of other objects, creates a faint infrared disk potentially visible to alien astronomers looking for planets around the sun. Neptune's...
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NASA | JWST Feature - Galaxy Evolution
Astrophysicists and astronomers will use the James Webb Space Telescope to see further than Hubble to witness the origin and development of galaxies.
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NASA | Death-Defying Comets Explore the Sun's Atmosphere
To observe how winds move high in Earth's atmosphere, scientists sometimes release clouds of barium as tracers to track how the material corkscrews and sweeps around � but scientists have no similar technique to study the turbulent...
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Hubble Detects a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a quasar named 3C 186 that is offset from the center of its galaxy. Astronomers hypothesize that this supermassive black hole was jettisoned from the center of its galaxy by the recoil from...
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The Eccentric Life and Legacy of Tycho Brahe
He might not have been the most correct astronomer, but by golly was he the most eccentric.
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Betelgeuse being dimmer does not mean supernova likely
Astronomers from Villanova University recently published an article noting that Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion has been significantly dimmer in recent months, leading some to speculate it could go supernova.
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NASA’s Roman Mission Will Use Exploding Stars to Measure Cosmic Distances
NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see thousands of exploding stars called supernovae across vast stretches of time and space. Using these observations, astronomers aim to shine a light on several cosmic mysteries,...
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NASA Missions Study Shock Waves in Nova Explosion
Unprecedented observations of a nova outburst in 2018 by a trio of satellites, including NASA’s Fermi and NuSTAR space telescopes, have captured the first direct evidence that most of the explosion’s visible light arose from shock waves...
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Cold Neptunes: An Exoplanet Sweet Spot?
A new statistical study of planets found by a technique called gravitational microlensing suggests that Neptune-mass worlds are likely the most common type of planet to form in the icy outer realms of planetary systems. The study...
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Hubble Sees First-Time Icy Visitor Comet K2
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed the farthest-discovered active inbound comet, Comet K2. K2 came from the distant Oort Cloud and is visiting our inner solar system for the first (and only) time. Since we're seeing it so far away,...
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NASA | Fermi Catches a 'Transformer' Pulsar
In late June 2013, an exceptional binary system containing a rapidly spinning neutron star underwent a dramatic change in behavior never before observed. The pulsar's radio beacon vanished, while at the same time the system brightened...
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NASA | JWST Feature - Planetary Evolution
A fully produced video about planetary evolution and how the Webb Telelscope's ability to see inside dense clouds of gas and dust will help us better understand solar system formation and evolution.
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NASA | 'Disk Detectives' Top 1 Million Classifications in Search for Planetary Habitats
Citizen scientists using the NASA-sponsored website DiskDetective.org have logged 1 million classifications of potential debris disks and disks surrounding young stellar objects (YSO). This data will help provide a crucial set of targets...
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NASA | A Young Star Flaunts its X-ray Spots
Using combined data from a trio of orbiting X-ray telescopes, including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Japan-led Suzaku satellite, astronomers have obtained a rare glimpse of the powerful phenomena that accompany a...
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Universe
This live-action video program is about the word universe. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word universe through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...