Next Animation Studio
Newly-discovered comet Atlas could shine as bright as the MOON
Comet ATLAS, also known as C/2019 Y4, is growing brighter at a surprising rate as it hurtles toward the Sun.
Visual Learning Systems
The Amazing Universe: Meteors and Comets
This show explores the fascinating features of the universe, the different types of galaxies in our solar system and the position of our solar system in the Milky Way Galaxy. Other terminology includes: constellations, spiral galaxy,...
Next Animation Studio
Evidence for the hypothetical existence of Planet 9 increases
Evidence of the existence of a ninth planet in our solar system is unlikely to be a fluke, according to a pre-print of a California Institute of Technology study.
NASA
NASA | Developing a Comet Harpoon for Sample Return
The Comet Nucleus Sample Return mission will collect subsurface samples from a comet and return them to Earth. Comets and asteroids are leftover remnants from the early solar system and by studying samples from these objects, we can...
NASA
NASA | Observing Comet Siding Spring at Mars
Follow Comet Siding Spring at #MarsComet On October 19, Comet Siding Spring will pass within 88,000 miles of Mars – just one third of the distance from the Earth to the Moon! Traveling at 33 miles per second and weighing as much as a...
Curated Video
I WONDER - How Long Does it Take for a Comet to Orbit The Sun?
This video is answering the question of how long does it take for a comet to orbit the sun.
NASA
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...
NASA
NASA Reveals Alien Composition of 2I/Borisov, 1st Interstellar Comet
When amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov discovered an interstellar comet zipping through our solar system on Aug. 30, 2019, scientists promptly turned their telescopes toward it hoping to catch a glimpse of this rare and ephemeral event....
NASA
Insights on Comet Tails Are Blowing in the Solar Wind
Oliver Price, a planetary science Ph.D. student at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the United Kingdom, has developed a new image-processing technique to mine through the wealth of data about comet tails....
Next Animation Studio
Lunar rocks expose moisture on the moon similar to earth's
An analysis of lunar rocks brought to the earth by US astronauts shows that there are traces of water on the moon. Samples brought back from the moon back in the 1970s reveal ancient droplets of volcanic glass that contain moisture....
NASA
NASA | We Did All That in 50 Years!
Humans have always looked up at the sky. They used astronomy to track time, orient their cities, decide when to plant their crops, and even based their religious practices on their celestial world. But there was much more to learn.
NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: SOFIA Shows Ceres' True Composition: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast
A feature from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on January 19, 2017.
Next Animation Studio
Five smaller asteroids heading towards Earth pose significant threat
Between 100,000 and a million small-scale asteroids have a possibility of hitting Earth over the next century, and five in particular have a collision risk of one in 1,000.
NASA
NASA | Solar Hurricane Tears Off Tail of Comet Encke
NASA's STEREO satellite captured the first images ever of a collision between a solar "hurricane", called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and a comet. The collision caused the complete detachment of the comet's plasma tail. Scientists...
NASA
Four of Our Favorite SOHO-discovered Comets
On June 15, 2020, a citizen scientist spotted a never-before-seen comet in data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO — the 4,000th comet discovery in the spacecraft’s 25-year history. The comet is nicknamed SOHO-4000,...
NASA
NASA | 3,000 Comets for SOHO
In this video, Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab talks us through a visualization of the comets that SOHO has witnessed. Since its launch nearly 20 years ago, NASA and the European Space Agency's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory...
NASA
NASA | Why are We Seeing So Many Sungrazing Comets?
Before 1979, there were less than a dozen known sungrazing comets. As of December 2012, we know of 2,500. Why did this number increase? With solar observatories like SOHO, STEREO, and SDO, we have not only better means of viewing the...
AllTime 10s
10 Archaeological Discoveries That Rewrote History
These 10 amazing archaeological discoveries changed the way we think about the modern world! From finding the first ever computer to finding ancient humans the size of Hobbits.
Curated Video
Exploring the Oort Cloud: What Lies Beyond Our Solar System
This video provides an overview of the Oort Cloud, a theoretical region located beyond our solar system and the Kuiper Belt. The video discusses the origins of the Oort Cloud, its spherical shape, and the potential disruption of its icy...
FuseSchool
PHYSICS - Astrophysics - The Solar System (Part 2)
This video looks at the characteristics of the outer planets, dwarf planets, moons and comets.
Curated Video
The Fascinating World of Comets
Learn the key characteristics of comets, including their icy composition, the formation of their tails as they approach the sun, and their historical significance. The video also highlights the role of comets in bringing water and...
Professor Dave Explains
‘Oumuamua: Interstellar Visitor
We know that there are lots of asteroids and comets in the solar system, and we've even landed a spacecraft on a comet, so we know a reasonable amount about these objects. However in 2017, something happened that had never happened...
NASA
NASA | Death-Defying Comets Explore the Sun's Atmosphere
To observe how winds move high in Earth's atmosphere, scientists sometimes release clouds of barium as tracers to track how the material corkscrews and sweeps around � but scientists have no similar technique to study the turbulent...