Instructional Video4:32
NASA

The Outer Planets: Hubble’s Continuing Legacy

3rd - 11th
What is OPAL?



OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) is a project to obtain long time baseline observations of the outer planets in order to understand their atmospheric dynamics and evolution as...
Instructional Video5:02
NASA

Tour Stunning Hubble Nebulae Images

3rd - 11th
Over the years, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken hundreds of images of different kinds of incredible nebulae in our universe.
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A nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas in space. There are...
Podcast2:26
NASA

‎Gravity Assist: Gravity Assist Podcast: Season 3 Trailer

Pre-K - Higher Ed
What’s so special about our Moon? Join Jim Green, NASA’s chief scientist, for a podcast season that dives into the Moon’s history and mysteries, as well as NASA’s plans to send astronauts there by 2024.
Instructional Video6:07
NASA

Hubble’s Servicing Mission 3B

3rd - 11th
Servicing Mission 3B was actually the fourth visit to Hubble. NASA split the original Servicing Mission 3 into two parts and conducted 3A in December of 1999. During SM3B a new science instrument would...
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Heating Up on a Distant Planet

9th - 10th
An interview with astronomer Greg Laughlin about planet HD80606b, an exoplanet with extreme fluctuations in its temperature in a matter of hours. Aired Jan. 30, 2009 [10:16 min]
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Kepler Telescope Narrows Hunt for Earth's Twin

9th - 10th
NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered the first Earth-sized exoplanets, and another which orbits its star in the "Goldilocks zone," where liquid water could exist.
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Exoplanets Floating Freely, Without a Star

9th - 10th
Ten newly discovered exoplanets are very distant from their host stars, or not orbiting them at all. [20 mins. 55]
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Could Life Exist on Newfound Alien Planet?

9th - 10th
Astronomer Steven Vogt discusses a new discovery of a potentially habitable exoplanet.