When placed on the Hubble Space Telescope, WFC3 will provide unprecedented capabilities for imaging the cosmos at near-ultraviolet and at near-infrared wavelengths. The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) will study a diverse range of objects...

Major improvements to methods used to process observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have yielded an expanded, higher-quality set of data that allows astronomers to produce the most detailed census of the sky yet...

These profiles begin to explore what systems engineering is as seen through the roles of Benjamin Reed and Jackie Townsend on the Hubble Space Telescope. Reed is a materials assurance engineer who has a background in chemistry and has...

This video is an introduction into the world of the Goddard Instrument Field Team, known as GIFT. This team of scientists conducts fieldwork all over the world at sites that resemble the Moon, Mars, and other...

Rapper DMX was one of America's biggest stars in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and his achievements secured him a spot in music history when he became the first artist to see his first five albums ranked at number one....

Pianist Stephen Hough plays and discusses how Liszt's Sonata ends.

In this video, the teacher explains how to determine if two events, A and B, are independent by comparing the conditional probability of A given B to the simple probability of A. Using a two-way table, the teacher demonstrates this...

In this video, viewers are introduced to the importance of the cardiovascular system and how it is checked by medical professionals. It explains the concepts of pulse rate and blood pressure, and highlights the use of instruments like...

Learning and practising scales and arpeggios can seem like a waste of time to many students. In this video, we explore the why spending time practising scales and arpeggios can really help improve your playing technique. “Oh no, not...

In this video, students will learn how to play "Jingle Bells" on the recorder. This song will focus on the notes G through high D on the recorder. Besides being the signal song that winter break is approaching, "Jingle Bells" is also a...

Brook Lakew, the Associate Director of Planning and R&D at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, has lead a variety of successful missions for NASA. But proposals are often rejected for failing to meet science, technical and cost...

Winners never quit and quitters never win is a common expression we hear about. However, this doesn't paint a full picture cause of how simple it is. In this video I outline times where it can be helpful to quit and move on to something...

To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This feature explores test facilities at Goddard like: launch phase simulator centrifuge, the acoustic test chamber,...

NASA scientist Emily Wilson discusses her work developing miniaturized instruments that measure greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Her latest instrument, the mini-LHR, works in tandem with AERONET, and will contribute to the global...

To measure the background atmosphere you need a sensitive instrument. Róisín Commane of Harvard University with the #EarthExpedition ATom mission explains how her instrument uses lasers to detect greenhouse gases. The ATom mission...

Orchestration can seem daunting. There can be too many possibilities, and there are a lot of instruments to keep up with. Today we're doing a writing exercise based on Ligeti's Ricercata III, which we looked at in a previous video - I'm...

Last time we talked about finding chords that would go along with a melody. This time I want to switch things up and write a melody that goes with a set of chords.

Pianist Stephen Hough talks about Liszt's unique approach to piano lessons and how it inspired his students.

In this video, students will learn how to play "Gently Sleep (Suo Gan)" on the recorder. This song will focus on the three core notes of the recorder: B, A, & G. This song will also help students learn how to play in 3/4 time.

What's the best way get a sample of an asteroid? Play tag with it! That's the plan for OSIRIS-REx, a NASA spacecraft that will approach the asteroid Bennu in 2018. The collection will be done with an instrument on board called the...

Janelle Wellons likes to say that she operates “fancy space cameras.” At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she creates commands that allow spacecraft to take valuable scientific data in our solar system and here at planet Earth.

A trumpet is a musical instrument that amplifies the buzzing sound created by a musician blowing air through their lips. By manipulating the tightness or looseness of their lips, the musician can modify the pitch of the sound. The...

On the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawai'i, scientists from NASA Goddard partnered with the crew of the HI-SEAS habitat to conduct field tests with a backpack-sized instrument called the Miniaturized Laser Heterodyne...

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