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Live Q&A: Hubble Detects Farthest Star Ever Seen
Join NASA scientists live to learn more about a new broken record from Hubble – the farthest star ever seen! We’ll discuss how Hubble made this major discovery and what comes next. Stay tuned for an audience Q&A!
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NASA | Colliding Comets Hint at Unseen Exoplanet
Music: "Halos" by Lars Leonhard, courtesy of the artist and Ultimae Records. An international team of astronomers exploring the disk of gas and dust the bright star Beta Pictoris have uncovered a compact cloud of poisonous gas formed by...
Visual Learning Systems
Making Observations: Video Assessment
This fascinating program demonstrates how to observe and record scientific observations. Concepts and terminology: observation, data, recording, data table, tools, safety, measuring, and graphs.
Next Animation Studio
NASA spacecraft ready to grab sample from spinning asteroid
On 20 October OSIRIS REx will briefly touch asteroid Bennu and blow gas into its soil to dislodge dust and rock
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NASA | Towers in the Tempest
A hurricane's "hot towers" can increase its intensity by adding power to boost the storm's heat engine. For the first time, research meteorologists have run complex simulations of these phenomena using a very fine temporal resolution....
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Episode 1: Driving The Telescope (Hubble – Eye in the Sky miniseries)
Episode 1: Driving the Telescope – Visit Hubble’s control center to learn about the challenges and techniques of performing extraordinarily detailed observations with an orbiting space telescope. Tour the rarely seen, life-size simulator...
R Programming 101
Bar charts and Histograms using ggplot in R
To create a bar chart or histogram using ggplot is easy. Bar charts (or bar graphs) are used to visualise a single categorical variable. Histograms are used to visualise a single numeric variable. Ggplot2 is a powerful package used for...
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Hubble Observes Atmospheres of TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have conducted the first spectroscopic survey of Earth-sized planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system's habitable zone. Hubble reveals that at least the inner five planets do not seem to contain...
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NASA | Return to Venus | Director's Cut
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 understand our own place in the universe. Yet...
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Star Gives Birth to Possible Black Hole in Hubble and Spitzer Images
A team of astronomers at The Ohio State University watched a star disappear and possibly become a black hole. Instead of becoming a black hole through the expected process of a supernova, the black hole candidate formed through a "failed...
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NASA | Fermi at Five Years
This compilation summarizes the wide range of science from the first five years of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Fermi is a NASA observatory designed to reveal the high-energy universe in never-before-seen detail. Launched in...
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Did the Hubble Telescope Confirm the First Exomoon?
The Hubble and Kepler space telescopes found evidence for what could be a giant moon accompanying a gas-giant planet that orbits the star Kepler-1625, located 8,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The moon may be as big as...
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Is ‘Oumuamua an Interstellar Asteroid or Comet?
Observatories including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found that the interstellar object named ‘Oumuamua gained an extra boost of speed, which likely comes from comet-like jets of gas.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina...
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GLOBE Observer Eclipse App
The public will have an opportunity to participate in a nation-wide science experiment by collecting cloud and temperature data from their phones. NASA’s Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program...
Professor Dave Explains
Why You Should Never Say "It's Just A Theory"
A portion of our culture distrusts the scientific method, assuming that there are transcendent truths unknowable by science. But nothing is truly out of bounds for science. If it's real, it can be studied, and tested. Perhaps the...
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Water Released from Moon During Meteor Showers
Scientists have discovered that water is being released from the Moon during meteor showers. When a speck of comet debris strikes the Moon it vaporizes on impact, creating a shock wave in the lunar soil. For a sufficiently large...
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Celebrating 25 Years of the GLOBE Program
GLOBE, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, is an international program that not only engages students and interested members of the public in hands-on science, but also gives them the opportunity to contribute their observations to a...
Curated Video
Statistics for Data Science and Business Analysis - The Main Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, Mode
This video will introduce you to the three measures of central tendency - mean, median, and mode. This clip is from the chapter "Descriptive Statistics Fundamentals" of the series "Statistics for Data Science and Business Analysis".This...
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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.
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NASA and Partners Get Back into Snow Business
NASA’s SnowEx ground and airborne campaign is a multiyear effort using a variety of techniques to study snow characteristics, and the team began their new field study year in January 2021. Not only is SnowEx learning valuable information...
Curated Video
Cleaning Up Spills in the Labratory
In this live-action program viewers will learn that scientific disciplines, such as Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, are based on observation and experiment. Students will come to understand that the first line of defense...
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Why Observe?: Land Cover
Nearly every aspect of our lives is fundamentally tied to the land on which we live. Citizens using GLOBE Observer can observe land cover in much greater detail and more frequently than scientists can using satellite data alone. But why...
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NASA | STEREO reveals the Entire Sun
Launched in October 2006, STEREO traces the flow of energy and matter from the sun to Earth. It also provides unique and revolutionary views of the sun-Earth system. STEREO, when paired with SDO, can now give us the first complete view...
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Lucy's Journey
Meet Lucy as she prepares for the first ever journey to the Trojan asteroids, a population of primitive small bodies orbiting in tandem with Jupiter. Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center James Tralie (ADNET): Lead Producer...