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NASA

NASA Goddard Intern Profile - Maddy Lambert

3rd - 11th
Every year, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recruits hundreds of interns to spend the summer working on revolutionary missions featuring state-of-the-art technology. Maddy Lambert is a student...
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NASA

NASA | Senator Mikulski Celebrates Hubble Success

3rd - 11th
The Hubble Space Telescope has been with us for nearly two decades. In that time, its breathtaking images have captured peoples imaginations and its groundbreaking science has revealed some of the many secrets of our...
Instructional Video4:26
NASA

Hubble Tool Time Episode 1: Astronaut Training

3rd - 11th
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...
Instructional Video7:50
NASA

Hubble and Going Forward to the Moon

3rd - 11th
We are going forward to the Moon by 2024, but did you know that back in 2005, Dr. Jim Garvin and his team of scientists pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at our nearest celestial neighbor for a very important...
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NASA

Hubble Directly Images Possible Plumes on Europa

3rd - 11th
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took direct ultraviolet images of the icy moon Europa transiting across the disk of Jupiter.



Out of ten observations, Hubble saw what may be water vapor plumes on three of the...
Instructional Video2:54
NASA

Going Interstellar with TESS and Kepler

3rd - 11th
For the longest time, space seemed like just a big, nearly empty place. However, as we learned more about the universe around us, we discovered other planets orbiting our Sun, and even planets that orbit other stars...
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NASA

Hubble's 30th Anniversary Celebration

3rd - 11th
In 2020, the Hubble Space Telescope achieved its 30th year in orbit. Hubble’s unique design, allowing it to be repaired and upgraded with advanced technology by astronauts, has made it one of NASA’s longest-living and...
Instructional Video1:56
NASA

NASA | JWST Microshutters Snapshot

3rd - 11th
A new Microshutter Array for the Webb Telescope's Near Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSpec) is packed and transported by hand one building away at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to undergo thermal cycling testing and checkouts at it...
Instructional Video2:20
NASA

Hubble Makes First Measurements of Earth-Sized Exoplanet Atmospheres

3rd - 11th
On May 4th, 2016, the Hubble Space Telescope made the first spectroscopic measurements of two of the three known Earth-sized exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system just 40 light-years away.



Music credit: "Feels Good" by...
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NASA

Take a Spin With NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

K - 11th
On schedule to launch no later than May 2027, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission will help uncover some of the biggest mysteries in the cosmos. The state-of-the-art telescope on the Roman spacecraft...
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$10 billion dollar telescope reaches magical spot in space

12th - Higher Ed
The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has safely arrived at Lagrange Point 2 — and it’s now getting ready to look back in time to 13.7 billion years ago.
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NASA

Science Casts: Mysterious Objects at the Edge of the Electromagnetic Spectrum

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NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope is finding hundreds of new objects at the very edge of the electromagnetic spectrum. Many of them have one thing in common: Astronomers have no idea what they are. [3:27]
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: New Views of the Universe From Herschel and Planck Telescopes

9th - 10th
A conversation about the launching of the Herschel and Planck observatories by NASA and the ESA. Scientists discuss the features of these observatories, where they will be stationed in space, and what we hope to learn from them. Aired...
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Funding for James Webb Space Telescope in Jeopardy

9th - 10th
A bill approved by the House Committee on Appropriations cuts funding for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in 2012. (The bill has not yet been approved by the full House and Senate). Ira Flatow and guests discuss the status of the...