NASA
NASA | Looking for the Shadows of New Worlds
Astronomers have used many different methods to discover planets beyond the solar system, but the most successful by far is transit photometry, which measures changes in a star's brightness caused by a mini-eclipse. When a planet crosses...
NASA
Happy Lunar New Year From Hubble
Hubble welcomes the Year of the Rat with a view of its own favorite rodents, NGC 4676A and B, and highlights the planetary origins of the Chinese zodiac’s 12-year timetable. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Bradley Hague (GSFC...
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NASA announces mission to study Jupiter’s moon Europa
NASA has announced plans to launch the Europa Clipper space mission to examine Jupiter’s icy moon Europa by 2025.
NASA
Exploring Jupiter's Magnetic Field
NASA is sending the Juno spacecraft to Jupiter, to peer beneath its cloudy surface and explore the giant planet's structure and magnetic field. Juno's twin magnetometers, built at Goddard Space Flight Center, will give scientists their...
NASA
Hubble Trivia: 6) What Has Hubble Helped to Reveal About the Expansion of 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: What has Hubble helped to reveal about the expansion of the universe? You...
NASA
Hubble Finds Evidence of Water Vapor at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
Astronomers have used new and archival datasets from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to uncover evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. The vapor is present due to the thermal excitation of water molecules...
Curated Video
Apache Spark 3 for Data Engineering and Analytics with Python - Preparing the Project Folder
In this session, we will set up our Python environment to learn the DataFrame API (structured APIs). This clip is from the chapter "Structured API - Spark DataFrame" of the series "Apache Spark 3 for Data Engineering and Analytics with...
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I WONDER - Can A Spaceship Land On Jupiter?
This video is answering the question of can a spaceship land on Jupiter.
Astrum
What has Hubble seen in our Solar System? | Hubble Space Images Episode 9
Hubble doesn't just look at distant nebula and galaxies, but has also observed celestial bodies and events in our own solar system. So what has it seen? Images from Hubble / NASA / ESA.
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Hubble Views Moon to Study Earth
Taking advantage of the total lunar eclipse of January 2019, astronomers, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, have measured the amount of ozone in Earth’s atmosphere. The method used serves as a proxy for how they will observe...
NASA
Hubble Trivia: 9) Hubble Has Helped Confirm That the Milky Way Will Merge With Which Nearby Galaxy?
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: Hubble has helped confirm that the Milky Way will merge with which nearby...
NASA
Hubble Trivia: 3) What Advantage Does Hubble Space Telescope Have Over Ground-based Telescopes?
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: What advantage does the Hubble Space Telescope have over ground-based...
Curated Video
Exploring Jupiter: The Giant Gas Giant
This video provides a description of the planet Jupiter. It describes Jupiter as a gas giant composed mainly of gases like ammonia, sulfur, and hydrogen. The interior of the planet is explained to consist of compressed hydrogen gas,...
Espresso Media
Rocket Development and Space Travel: A Teacher's Personal Experience with Werner von Braun and Operation Paperclip
The video features interviews with individuals involved in the development of rockets during and after World War II, including Werner von Braun's team. They discuss the moral implications of their work, their vision for space travel, and...
NASA
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...
Maddie Moate
How To Make A Scale Solar System from Fruit! | Science Activity for Kids | Let's Go Live Maddie Greg
How To Make A Scale Solar System from Fruit! | Science Activity for Kids | Let's Go Live Maddie Greg
NASA
Episode 1: Driving The Telescope (Hubble – Eye in the Sky miniseries)
Episode 1: Driving the Telescope – Visit Hubble’s control center to learn about the challenges and techniques of performing extraordinarily detailed observations with an orbiting space telescope. Tour the rarely seen, life-size simulator...
NASA
NASA | Jupiter's Hot Spots
Jupiter's bright Equatorial Zone swirls with dark patches, dubbed "hot spots" for their infrared glow. These holes in the ammonia clouds at the top of the atmosphere allow a glimpse into Jupiter's darker, hotter layers below. In 1995...
NASA
Hubble Watches Neptune’s Dark Storm Die
For the first time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured time-lapse images of a large, dark storm on Neptune shrinking out of existence. A recent Hubble program called Outer Planets Atmosphere Legacy, or OPAL, provides yearly...
NASA
Distant Planet May Be On Its 2nd Atmosphere, NASA’s Hubble Finds
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that a planet orbiting a distant star that may have lost its atmosphere but gained a second one through volcanic activity. The planet, GJ 1132 b, is hypothesized to have...
APMonitor
Matlab in Jupyter Lab Notebook
Project Jupyter is a web-browser Integrated Development Environment that started with Python but now supports many languages. This tutorial shows how to set up Matlab and Octave to run in a Jupyter Notebook or in Jupyter Lab...
Physics Girl
Craziest eclipses in the solar system
A total solar eclipse passed across North America on August 21, 2017. Are there other total solar eclipses in the solar system?
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A New Model for Understanding Jupiter's Climate
Climate patterns and storms on Jupiter can have striking similarities to those on Earth. One such pattern is a four-year temperature cycle in the Jovian upper atmosphere called the QQO. This cycle has a little sibling in Earth's...