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Training the Next Generation of Planetary Scientists
Each year in early March, a new class of postdocs at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center gathers for the Planetary Science Winter School. This intensive training program takes the young scientists and plunges them into the Instrument...
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Tour of Asteroid Bennu
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, its close-up images confirmed what mission planners had predicted nearly two decades before: Bennu is made of loose material weakly clumped together by...
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Temperature Record 101: How We Know What We Know about Climate Change
2021 was tied for the sixth warmest year on NASA’s record, stretching more than a century. But, what is a temperature record? GISTEMP, NASA’s global temperature analysis, takes in millions of observations from instruments on weather...
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Virtual Tour of the Hubble Control Center: Entryway in Lobby
Begin a tour of the Hubble control center in the lobby, where you will learn about the orbiting spacecraft. This is part 1 of 5 of a 360-degree, virtual tour of the Hubble Space Telescope’s home for mission operations, the Space...
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Unraveling the Mysteries of Dark Energy with NASA's WFIRST
Scientists have discovered that a mysterious pressure dubbed "dark energy" makes up about 68 percent of the total energy content of the cosmos, but so far we don't know much more about it. Exploring the nature of dark energy is one of...
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Swift Links Neutrino to Star-destroying Black Hole
For only the second time, astronomers have linked an elusive particle called a high-energy neutrino to an object outside our galaxy. Using ground- and space-based facilities, including NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, they traced...
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New NASA Mission Will Set the PACE for Advanced Studies of Earth’s Changing Climate
Explanation: Over the past century, humans have accelerated the use of natural resources such as fossil fuels, old growth forests and groundwater. This has warmed the ocean and atmosphere, changed their chemistry and caused extra runoff...
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NASA's Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting Dwarf Planet Makemake
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a moon orbiting dwarf planet Makemake -- the third largest known object past the orbit of Neptune, about two thirds the size of Pluto. Further observations of this moon may allow...
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NASA | Tour of the Moon
Although the moon has remained largely unchanged during human history, our understanding of it and how it has evolved over time has evolved dramatically. Thanks to new measurements, we have new and unprecedented views of its surface,...
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NASA Names Upcoming Telescope to Honor the 'Mother of Hubble'
In a time when women were discouraged from studying math and science, Nancy Grace Roman became a research astronomer and the first chief of astronomy at NASA. Known today as the “Mother of Hubble,” she was instrumental in taking the...
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NASA Helps Scientists Identify Uptick in Emissions of Ozone-Depleting Compounds
NASA computer models help scientists identify an uptick in emissions of CFC-11, an ozone-depleting gas, in the atmosphere. NASA and NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, work together, as part of a long-running...
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NASA | Widely Used Coolants Contribute to Ozone Depletion
According to a new NASA study, a class of widely used chemical coolants known as hydrofluorocarbons (HFC), found in refrigerators and in home and automobile air conditioners, contributes to ozone depletion by a small but measurable...
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NASA | The QWIP Detector; an Infrared Instrument
All objects emit infrared radiation and the characteristics of the infrared radiation are primarily dependent on the temperature of the object. One of the unique features of the new Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP) instrument...
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NASA | Science for a Hungry World: Part 3
This episode discusses land cover and land use change.
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NASA | NASA Upgrades Chamber A to enable testing of Webb Telescope
When the next-generation space telescope was being designed, engineers had to ensure there was a place large enough to test it, considering it's as big as a tennis court. That honor fell upon the famous "Chamber A" in the thermal-vacuum...
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NASA | Exploring the Inner Solar System (Part 2/6)
In part 2, Dr. Garvin continues explaining how much left we have to learn about Venus and recounts NASA's visits to the moon with the Apollo program. (Show Description) Chief Scientist of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Jim...
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Live Q&A: Hubble Detects Farthest Star Ever Seen
Join NASA scientists live to learn more about a new broken record from Hubble – the farthest star ever seen! We’ll discuss how Hubble made this major discovery and what comes next. Stay tuned for an audience Q&A!
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Arriving at Asteroid Bennu
Asteroids are the leftover building blocks of the solar system, remnants from the dawn of planet formation that may have delivered organics and water to early Earth, and which could hold clues to the origins of life. Now, a NASA mission...
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NASA | Human Fingerprint on Global Air Quality
Using new, high-resolution global satellite maps of air quality indicators, NASA scientists tracked air pollution trends over the last decade in various regions and 195 cities around the globe. The United States, Europe and Japan have...
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NASA | GLASTcast | Episode 2: What are Gamma Rays?
NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany,...
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NASA | Colliding Comets Hint at Unseen Exoplanet
Music: "Halos" by Lars Leonhard, courtesy of the artist and Ultimae Records. An international team of astronomers exploring the disk of gas and dust the bright star Beta Pictoris have uncovered a compact cloud of poisonous gas formed by...
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Imaging Asteroid Bennu
OSIRIS-REx has imaged Bennu in higher resolution than we have Earth and our own Moon. Since its arrival at the asteroid on Dec. 3, 2018, the spacecraft has discovered boulders the size of buildings, and imaged the surface down to 5...
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How NASA Will Protect Astronauts From Space Radiation
August 1972, as NASA scientist Ian Richardson remembers it, was hot. In Surrey, England, where he grew up, the fields were brown and dry, and people tried to stay out of the Sun, indoors and televisions on. But for several days that...
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Hubble Trivia: 2) How Far Has Hubble Seen Into the Universe?
The Hubble Space Telescope has been revealing the secrets of the universe for over 30 years, but it turns out Hubble has some secrets of its own! The question is: How far has Hubble seen into the universe? You might be surprised! See if...