Curated Video
The science of Ancient Egypt
How ancient Egyptians society developed and flourished civilization by starting out a revolution to develop their economy. A look at their major contribution towards science and technology. Some facts about orgination of Giza Pyramids...
Curated Video
Learning Dart (Video 28)
Dart is a new open source programming language for the web. Developed by Google, Dart is gaining popularity and has a steadily growing community. It is a single language for both client and server that can be used to build large-scale...
Next Animation Studio
Fears Lake Kivu could experience limnic eruption
After an eruption at the Democratic Republic of Congo's Mount Nyiragongo volcano, there are fears that a ‘limnic eruption’ could occur at a nearby lake, spewing out suffocating gas
Next Animation Studio
B Centauri: Scientists find planet where no planet should be
Scientists found a giant planet 325 light years away, but its very existence proves there’s something wrong with science.
Weatherthings
Kilauea 2018: Hawaii's Most Active Volcano
Kilauea is an active volcano in Hawaii that erupts every 10 to 20 years. In 2018, Kilauea eruptions on a rift zone destroyed more than 700 hundred homes, forced evacuations, and sent lava downhill to cover 14 square miles of land in...
NASA
NASA | The Webb Telescope
The Webb Telescope will be the premier observatory of the next decade, serving thousands of astronomers worldwide. It will study every phase in the history of our Universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the...
NASA
NASA | StarTrackers Light the Way
The concept of a Star Tracker can be traced back to the early sailors who used to navigate the open seas using star field patterns. Star Trackers act as the eyes of the satellite pointing it in the right direction. This is important to...
NASA
NASA's Most Scientifically Complex Space Observatory Requires Precision
The James Webb Space Telescope is one the most ambitious, and technically complex missions NASA has ever set its focus on. Building an infrared observatory of this magnitude, power and complexity has never been attempted before. In order...
Science360
National Ecological Observatory Network Studies Wildfire In Unprecedented Detail
In response to one of the worst wildfires in Colorado history, scientists from the Warner College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University (CSU) are leading a first of its kind, large-scale wildfire impact study on the High Park...
NASA
NASA | Sentinels of the Heliosphere
What NASA calls its 'Heliophysics Observatory' is an impressive fleet of spacecraft designed (often with international partnership) to study the relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Solar System. Flying in an array of trajectories...
NASA
NASA | Earth Observatory: A Decade of Incredible Stories
April 29, 2009, marked the tenth anniversary of the launch of NASA's Earth Observatory. For the last decade, the Earth Observatory has been using the stunning images and data provided by NASA satellites to tell the story of our planet...
NASA
James Webb Space Telescope: Worth the Wait
Building the James Webb Space Telescope is challenging. It is NASA's most ambitious and complex space science observatory. The mission required 10 new technologies to be invented, the dedication of hundreds of scientists, engineers and...
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.
NASA
Hubble Trivia: 4) What Wavelengths of Light Can Hubble See?
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 wavelengths of light can Hubble see? You might be surprised! See if...
NASA
NASA | SDO's Instruments: EVE
Dean Pesnell, the SDO Project Scientist, explains how the the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) instrument will allow us to better measure solar irradiance in extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. This type of irradiance, which...
NASA
Hubble Tool Time Episode 2: Servicing Mission 1
Retired NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld hosts this six-part mini-series about the tools used on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Hubble was uniquely designed to be serviced in space so that components could be repaired and...
NASA
A Day in the Life of a NASA Satellite Team
Launched on Nov. 20, 2004, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has been on the hunt to uncover the mystery of the universe’s most powerful explosions: gamma-ray bursts. These extreme events are some of the farthest objects we’ve ever...
NASA
Unboxing a New NASA Spacecraft
Go behind the scenes as we unbox NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, after its arrival at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Northrop Grumman engineer Steve Turek and NASA EDGE's Chris Giersch walk us through the whole...
NASA
NASA | SDO: Exploring the Sun in High Definition
The Solar Dynamics Observatory is designed to help us understand the Sun's influence on Earth and Near-Earth space by studying the solar atmosphere on small scales of space and time and in many wavelengths simultaneously. Dean Pesnell,...
NASA
NASA | SDO: Commissioning and Handover
In order to provide the clearest scientific data for its entire 5 year mission, SDO had to undergo a rigorous, 2 month testing phase. After giving it an all-clear, the team of people who designed, built and tested the satellite now have...
NASA
NASA | SDO's Instruments: AIA
SDO Project Scientist Dean Pesnell explains how the SDO's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument suite will allow us to take pictures of the sun at multiple temperatures and at resolutions never before seen. Learn more about the...
NASA
NASA | Welcome to the Sun
This short teaser video introduces NASA's newest spacecraft to the heliophysics fleet, the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Or get tweeted by NASA:
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NASA | SDO Engineers Create What Never Was
Engineers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center talk about what it is like to build, assemble, integrate, and test a custom-made spacecraft like the soon to be launched Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
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NASA | Little SDO: Big Sun
Little SDO demonstrates the fact that he takes really, really large pictures of the sun. Or get tweeted by NASA: