Instructional Video19:05
TED Talks

Freeman Dyson: Let's look for life in the outer solar system

12th - Higher Ed
Physicist Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of Jupiter and out past Neptune, in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. He talks about what such life would be like -- and how we might find it.
Instructional Video1:42
Curated Video

Unlocking the Universe: The Power of Cross-Border Cooperation in Radio Astronomy

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The video highlights the importance of cross-border cooperation in radio astronomy through VLBI technology, which connects antennae across different countries to create a powerful telescope. JIVE in Europe plays a key role in...
Podcast1:02:27
NASA

‎Houston We Have a Podcast: Concepts Near Science Fiction

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Jason Derleth, Program Executive for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program at NASA’s Headquarters in Washington, breaks down concepts near science fiction and explains how some find their way into how we plan for missions to deep...
Instructional Video1:11:57
Science360

NSF media briefing - The Event Horizon Telescope, a year after the black hole image

12th - Higher Ed
Panelists Sheperd S. Doeleman, founding director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which produced the first image of a black hole, and Michael Johnson, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, answer questions...
Instructional Video49:46
Science360

Best image ever of planet formation around infant star taken by ALMA

12th - Higher Ed
The National Science Foundation-funded National Radio Astronomy Observatory expanded on a news release related to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array's (ALMA) new high-resolution capabilities. Astronomers have captured the...
Podcast27:42
NASA

‎The Invisible Network: 12. Reconnaissance | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Without communications there is no exploration: To reveal the unknown, a spacecraft must be able to share its data. In a sense, today's space communications networks are like the roadways of ancient empires, allowing information to move...
Instructional Video2:36
Science360

Passport to Discovery - Listening to the Universe’s Whispers

12th - Higher Ed
Today, your Passport to Discovery takes you to Green Bank, West Virginia, home to the Green Bank Observatory. This observatory studies radio transmissions from space and boasts the largest movable object on land! What could it be? Come...
Instructional Video2:06
TMW Media

The Very Large Array Telescope: The purpose and characteristics of the VLA

K - 5th
What is the purpose of the VLA? What astronomical objects do they observe? Why was the VLA renamed Carl G. Jansky Very Large Array? What are the characteristics of the antenna? The Very Large Array Telescope, Part 1
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: New Radio Telescope

9th - 10th
Astronomers have switched on radio dishes of the Allen Telescope Array and are collecting data both for conventional radio astronomy, and the search for extraterrestrial life.