NASA
NASA | Goddard's Detector Technology
Behind those stunning NASA images are specialized detectors developed, fabricated, and packaged here at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Tour the Detector Development Lab (DDL) and see how these first-of-a-kind detectors are created....
NASA
NASA | Exploring Energy: Infrared
How does NASA "see" thermal radiation? This video explores what infrared energy is and how NASA detects it to study our Earth's systems more completely. Satellite measurements over time allow scientists to study seasonal changes in local...
NASA
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,...
Let's Tute
Basics Of Light Quiz
This video covers natural and artificial sources of light, including topics such as bioluminescence, the visible spectrum, and the use of different wavelengths of light for various purposes such as heat therapy and currency detection....
NASA
NASA | GLASTcast | Episode 1: What is GLAST?
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,...
NASA
AIRS: NASA Advances Our Understanding of Earth’s Climate
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite has been scanning Earth for 20 years and now has a long enough record to help support climate change research. AIRS data on Earth’s atmosphere are improving...
Curated Video
Introduction to Electromagnetic Waves and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
The video explains the basics of electromagnetic waves, including their definition as transverse waves that transfer energy from a source to an absorber. It discusses the seven general sections of the electromagnetic spectrum, going from...
Let's Tute
Understanding Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
The video discusses the concept of light as a type of electromagnetic radiation and explains the different types of radiations in the electromagnetic spectrum based on their wavelength, frequency, and energy. It also highlights the...
Professor Dave Explains
Color and Refraction
What is color? What is it that determines the color of an object? Good thing we just learned about electromagnetic radiation! Especially the visible spectrum. Let's take a look.
Professor Dave Explains
What is Light? Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Up until a couple centuries ago, we had no idea what light is. It seems like magic, no? But there is no magic in this world, really. Just stuff we don't understand. So let's understand light a little better right now!
Science360
Electromagnetic Spectrum - Chalk Talk
Check out the range of possibilities the electromagnetic spectrum gives science. This animated series of short videos acts as a video glossary to define specific scientific terms or concepts in a fun, easy to understand way. In each...
Curated Video
Uses and Applications of Electromagnetic Waves
In this lecture video, the different types of electromagnetic waves are examined, and their uses and applications are explored. The video begins with an overview of the electromagnetic spectrum, starting with gamma rays and ending with...
Science360
National Science Foundation - EHT Press Conference Revealing First Image of Black Hole
View, Learn, Share, this National Science Foundation webcast.
Mazz Media
Light
Using real world demonstrations and colorful graphics, Real World Science: Light teaches students the different properties of light, pertinent definitions and how light travels. Students will learn how different mediums can affect light,...
Curated Video
Our Sun
Through telescopic video and photos combined with animated graphics, students will learn about the layers of the sun and its effects on earth, the moon and all the objects in our solar system and the universe.
TMW Media
The Very Large Array Telescope: The purpose and characteristics of the VLA
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
Visual Learning Systems
Light: Electromagnetic Spectrum
Upon viewing the Light video series, students will be able to do the following:
List some of the reasons light is important to all living things.
Understand that light is a type of energy.
Describe how light behaves both as a wave and...
Jam Campus
Electromagnetic Spectrum Song
Learn about the electromagnetic spectrum in song format! A great way to boost classroom engagement when introducing new topics.
Visual Learning Systems
The Nature of Light: Electromagnetic Energy
Students will learn about the different frequencies along the electromagnetic spectrum. Vivid animation is used to explore the visible spectrum of light and the colors it allows us to see everyday. The video also investigates various...
Visual Learning Systems
Light: Electromagnetic Waves
Upon viewing the Light video series, students will be able to do the following: List some of the reasons light is important to all living things. Understand that light is a type of energy. Describe how light behaves both as a wave and as...
Curated Video
Fireside chat: Lt. Gen. John Morrison
In this fireside chat at Defense News Conference, Lt. Gen. John Morrison, deputy chief of staff, cyber, U.S. Army, discusses network modernization.
Press Association
Starmer signs deal with Mauritius to hand over Chagos Islands - full press conference
Sir Keir Starmer, John Healey, and General Sir James Hockenhull speak at a press conference after an agreement was signed to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that will cost £101 million per year. The...
Getty Images
A dispersive equilateral prism refracting and reflecting an incoming beam of uniform white light. Refraction of light results in the light being split into its constituent spectral colors (the colors of the rainbow)
A dispersive equilateral prism refracting and reflecting an incoming beam of uniform white light. Refraction of light results in the light being split into its constituent spectral colors (the colors of the rainbow)
Bloomberg
Wireless Spectrum Auction Heats Up, Exceeds $44B
Dec. 18 -- Bloomberg's Phil Mattingly reports on FCC auctions of spectrum for wireless broadband and mobile communications. He speaks on Bloomberg Surveillance. (Source: Bloomberg)