NASA
Hubble's Scary New Halloween Image
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a spooky new image staring out from the depths of the cosmos. The new image reveals the twin galaxies AM 2026-424 — a pair of interacting galaxies that may foreshadow our Milky Way’s own...
NASA
Precision & Design: Making Blankets for Hubble
NASA’s Thermal Blanket Lab is a vital part of ensuring that the important equipment that we send into space remains protected from getting either too hot or too cold. Paula Cain is one of the talented thermal blanket technicians who uses...
NASA
Sonification of Hubble Ultra Deep Field (2014)
This sonification of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (2014) image plays a note for each galaxy when it emitted the light captured in this image. The farther away the galaxy is, the longer its light has traveled before reaching the Hubble...
NASA
New Hubble Video Miniseries Goes Behind the Scenes of Our 'Eye in the Sky'
A new video miniseries explores the intricate world of operating the Hubble Space Telescope. In Hubble – Eye in the Sky, viewers get an inside look at the challenges of operating the telescope, along with an understanding of the...
Flipping Physics
"Pillars of Creation" Explanation for Kate
This video is my attempt to help my wife understand the Pillars of Creation. In doing so I show where they are in the Eagle Nebula, define a lightyear, determine how far it is from the Earth to the Sun, demonstrate the speed of sound,...
NASA
NASA | JWST Feature - Evolution of the Universe
Astrophyscists and astonomers will use the James Webb Space Telescope to unravel mysteries about the evolution of the Universe. The Webb telscope will help observe how the first stars gathered into the first galaxies, and those first...
NASA
Sonification of NGC 2392
About 5,000 light-years from Earth, the stunning nebula NGC 2392 formed after the demise of a star like our Sun. In this sonification, the image is scanned clockwise like a radar. The radius is mapped to pitch, so light farther from the...
NASA
NASA | GLAST Prelude for Brass Quintet, Op.12
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 institiutions and partners in France, Germany,...
NASA
NASA | Making the Impossible Possible
From concept to reality, that's the NASA way. Since the first directive to put a man on the moon, NASA has been on the cutting edge of technology and innovation and continues to turn the impossible into the possible everyday. This video...
NASA
Hubble’s 30th Year in Orbit
On April 24, 2020, the Hubble Space Telescope celebrated its 30th year in orbit by premiering a never-before-seen view of two stunning nebulas named NGC 2020 and NGC 2014. Even after all these years, Hubble continues to uncover the...
NASA
Sonification of NGC 1300
The majestic spiral galaxy NGC 1300’s arms hold blue clusters of young stars, pink clouds of star formation, and dark lanes of dust. To represent this image with sound, scientists assigned louder volume to brighter light. Light farther...
Astrum
The most peculiar galaxies Hubble has ever seen | Episode 8
We all know the perfect, symmetrical and flawless galaxies Hubble has set its lense on, but there is also a catalogue dedicated to the most peculiar galaxies out there... The Arp Catalogue
NASA
NASA | Fermi Proves Supernova Remnants Produce Cosmic Rays
A new study using observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals the first clear-cut evidence that the expanding debris of exploded stars produces some of the fastest-moving matter in the universe. This discovery is a...
Astrum
How can Hubble see distant galaxies clearly, but not Pluto?
Hubble has taken some spectacular images of many different galaxies, but it can't resolve more than a few blobs on Pluto's surface. Why is that?
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Get My Job - Astrophysicist
Get My Job explores the day in the life of different professions around Australia. In this episode we meet an Astrophysicist.
NASA
NASA | X-ray Satellites Monitor the Clashing Winds of a Colossal Binary
O-type stars are among the most massive and hottest known, pounding their surroundings with intense ultraviolet light and powerful outflows called stellar winds. NASA's Swift and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatories took part in a 2011...
Astrum
What made the SpaceX manned Dragon capsule so significant?
Yesterday, on the 31st May 2020, NASA and SpaceX successfully docked their Dragon capsule with the ISS. But what makes this event so significant?
Curated Video
Quasars: The Brightest Objects in Space
Learn all about quasars, extremely bright objects in outer space powered by black holes. This video explains how they were discovered, their connection to supermassive black holes, and their significance in understanding the early...
Astrum
Why was Betelgeuse dimming? New data from Hubble
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse. Why were you dimming? Scientists may have finally come up with the answer thanks to data from Hubble.
Astrum
Is this really Boötes Void? (Referring to the thumbnail)
Astrum shows what a supervoid really is, and explains why this image isn't one.
TMW Media
The Milky Way, Our Galaxy: Learn about other stars compared to our sun and how they will die
What are the outer rings of a dying star? How are Supernovas created? The Milky Way, Our Galaxy, Part 2
Next Animation Studio
NASA to launch balloon into the stratosphere to study the cosmos
NASA has begun work on an ambitious new project that will carry a cutting-edge telescope high into the stratosphere on a balloon.
Science360
Black Holes: Peering Into the Heart of Darkness - Science Nation
Astronomer Steve Eikenberry at the University of Florida is on the hunt for black holes. Using a custom built camera affixed to the Gemini South telescope in Chile, he is honing in on the supermassive black hole at the center of our...
NASA
NASA | JWST Feature - Colliding Galaxies
Deep surveys by the James Webb Space Telescope will capture the full panorama of galaxy evolution, from the earliest dwarf galaxies that formed to the familiar galaxies we see today. The Webb Telescope will help us understand how the...