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NASA in Silicon Valley: SOFIA Detects Collapsing Clouds Becoming Young Suns: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast
A feature from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on October 5, 2016.
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NASA | Supercomputing the Climate
Goddard Space Flight Center is the home of a state-of-the-art supercomputing facility called the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) that is capable of running highly complex models to help scientists better understand Earth's...
Visual Learning Systems
Working With Data: Video Review
Numbers, sketches, images, and recordings are all examples of data we use everyday. This fun and informative program illustrates the ways data is used in our lives and by scientists. Special emphasis is placed on how data is used to help...
NASA
X-ray Echoes Map a Black Hole’s Disk
Some 3.9 billion years ago in the heart of a distant galaxy, the tidal pull of a monster black hole shredded a star that wandered too close. X-rays produced in this event first reached Earth on March 28, 2011, when they were detected by...
Curated Video
Describing Data Sets
In this video, students will learn how to describe a data set by using the characteristics of the quantity measured. The video covers different types of data representations such as dot plots, histograms, and tables, and explains how to...
Visual Learning Systems
Investigations and Data: Observations
A key component of answering questions and solving problems is to conduct investigations. In easy-to-understand language, this video describes what investigations are and why they are important. Special emphasis is placed on...
Visual Learning Systems
Making Observations: Introduction
This fascinating program demonstrates how to observe and record scientific observations. Concepts and terminology: observation, data, recording, data table, tools, safety, measuring, and graphs.
R Programming 101
10 data filtering tips using R programming. Use the tidyverse to filter and subset your data.
In this video you'll learn 10 different ways to filter and subset your data using R programming. This is an R programming for beginners video and forms part of a data cleaning and data manipulation series. If you are interested in...
msvgo
Mean Deviation about Median
It explains how to compute the mean deviation about median for grouped and ungrouped data with the help of solved examples.
NASA
NASA | Highlights of Swift's Decade of Discovery
NASA's Swift satellite rode to orbit aboard a Delta II rocket on November 20, 2004, and it's still going strong. Swift's unique instrumentation allows it to quickly locate an interesting high-energy outburst, automatically determine its...
Visual Learning Systems
Investigations and Data: Video Review
A key component of answering questions and solving problems is to conduct investigations. In easy-to-understand language, this video describes what investigations are and why they are important. Special emphasis is placed on...
NASA
NASA | Continuing Landsat's 40-Year Legacy
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey that will continue the Landsat Program's 40-year data record of monitoring Earth's landscapes from space. LDCM will expand and...
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Kepler Stares at Neptune
During its K2 campaign, NASA's Kepler spacecraft observed the eighth planet in our solar system, Neptune. Kepler detected small changes in Neptune's brightness caused by the planet's daily rotation, the movement of clouds, and even...
Science360
How Do We Know?: Introduction
The National Science Foundation overviews the things we know about climate change.
Visual Learning Systems
Observations and Data: Data
One of the most important processes in science is the art of observing. This video highlights different ways observations are made, emphasizing methods by which students can observe their world. Different types of data, how data is...
Next Animation Studio
NASA and ESA team up for planetary defense mission
For their joint DART and Hera missions, NASA and the European Space Agency plan to launch a spacecraft into an asteroid and measure the resulting changes in its orbit.
NASA
NASA's MMS Captures Magnetic Reconnection in Action
Like sending sensors up into a hurricane, NASA has flown four spacecraft through an invisible maelstrom in space, called magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection is one of the prime drivers of space radiation and so it is a key...
NASA
NASA | Return to Venus: Part I
Watch "Return to Venus - Part II" at:From Galileo and the Heliocentric model of the Solar System to James Hansen and climate research, observations of the planet Venus throughout history have given us the perspective we need to...
NASA
Hubble Tracks Origins Of Energy Blasts
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are extraordinary events that generate as much energy in a thousandth of a second as the Sun does in an entire year! Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have traced the locations of five brief,...
NASA
Hubble Views Moon to Study Earth
Taking advantage of the total lunar eclipse of January 2019, astronomers, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, have measured the amount of ozone in Earth’s atmosphere. The method used serves as a proxy for how they will observe...
NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: SOFIA Finds Cool Dust Around Energetic Active Black Holes: Podcast
A feature from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on June 13, 2017.
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On a Mission: Season Two, Episode 1 - The Sky Is Falling
Earth is in a cosmic shooting gallery. With so many asteroids zipping around, how can we find them all before they find us?
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NASA's Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting Dwarf Planet Makemake
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a moon orbiting dwarf planet Makemake -- the third largest known object past the orbit of Neptune, about two thirds the size of Pluto. Further observations of this moon may allow...
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NASA Helps Scientists Identify Uptick in Emissions of Ozone-Depleting Compounds
NASA computer models help scientists identify an uptick in emissions of CFC-11, an ozone-depleting gas, in the atmosphere. NASA and NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, work together, as part of a long-running...