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NASA | Sun for Kids
We look at the sun rising every day. It's bright, it's big and it warms us up. Our sun happens to be the brightest object in our universe and it has captured our curiosity and imaginations throughout history. Our sun is very dynamic and...
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NASA | IBEX | What are the Boundaries of our Solar System?
IBEX is a new NASA mission that will study the interaction between the solar wind and the material beyond our Solar System called the interstellar medium. The solar wind flowing out of the sun inflates a bubble that we call the...
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NASA | Top Solar Discoveries: #5
A countdown of the top 5 solar discoveries from the Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum. These include the discoveries of sunspots, the solar cycle, the heliosphere, aurora formation, and space weather. An introduction plus Number 5 in...
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NASA | From Stonehenge to STEREO
Humans have always wanted to learn about the Sun, but our understanding of our favorite star has changed through the centuries. In prepartion for Sun360, when the STEREO spacecrafts will provide the first uninterrupted view of the Sun,...
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Science Comes Alive at NASA Goddard
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is home to the nation's largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study Earth, the sun, our solar...
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NASA | SDO: Three Years in Three Minutes--With Expert Commentary
This version of SDO:Three Years in Three Minutes is extended and narrated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center heliophysicist Alex Young. He highlights many interesting aspects of the video and points out several of the single-frame...
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NASA | You're Welcome Science: Galileo's Greatest Hits
On March 20, 2009, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, join a panel of scientists for a live Sun-Earth Day Webcast on www.nasa.gov and NASA TV. During the webcast, scientists will share discoveries about the sun, while students monitor the sun and prepare...
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NASA | THEMIS Discovers Biggest Breach of Earth's Magnetosphere
NASA’s THEMIS mission has overturned a longstanding belief about the interaction between solar particles and Earth’s protective magnetic field. This new discovery could help scientists predict when the solar storms that can disrupt power...
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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...
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NASA | IBEX: Exploring The Edge Of Our Solar System
IBEX is a new NASA mission that will study the interaction between the solar wind and the material beyond our solar system called the interstellar medium. The solar wind flowing out from the sun inflates a bubble that we call the...
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Sahara Forest plan: man-made oasis in Qatar desert
A 10,000 square meters man-made oasis will open in Qatar this year. The system consists of seawater-based greenhouses, solar power, evaporative hedges and ponds, and it is inspired by a camel's nostrils. Solar power generates energy to...
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NASA | Solar Hurricane Tears Off Tail of Comet Encke
NASA's STEREO satellite captured the first images ever of a collision between a solar "hurricane", called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and a comet. The collision caused the complete detachment of the comet's plasma tail. Scientists...
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NASA | SDO's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI)
Dean Pesnell, the SDO Project Scientist, explains how the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument will allow us to see activity inside the sun and even on the other side of the sun. This video is available for download from the...
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NASA | Laser Comm: That's a Bright Idea
Laser light made records obsolete. NASA is on the verge of doing the same thing with space based communications. Before the end of the decade, the Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) mission will revolutionize the way we move...
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Set for launch: Starship’s huge cargo bay will unlock space
Scheduled to launch for the first time on top of its Super Heavy booster in January 2022, SpaceX’s Starship is set to revolutionize space exploration.
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NASA | The Sun Song
The "Chromatics" is a unique, high-energy, a-capella vocal band that delights audiences across the country. Originally formed in 1993 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the Chromies wrote and produced their astronomically correct...
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NASA | Scientists Answer Top Space Weather Questions, Part 1
NASA scientists answer some common questions about the sun, space weather, and how they affect the Earth. This is a two-part series. Part One addresses: 1. What is space weather? 2. What are coronal mass ejections? 3. What are solar...
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NASA | Many Views of a Massive CME
On July 23, 2012, a massive cloud of solar material erupted off the sun's right side, zooming out into space. It soon passed one of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, spacecraft, which clocked the CME as traveling...
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Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth (short)
Our sun's adolescence was cooler than today, but stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been just the key to seeding life as we know it on Earth. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Joy Ng based on source...
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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,...
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The Structure of the Solar System and Gravity: A Brief Overview
This video provides an overview of the structure of our solar system and how gravity plays a crucial role in maintaining this structure. The video begins with the description of the sun at the center of our solar system, and then it...
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Highlights From SDO's 10 Years of Solar Observation
In February 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — is celebrating its 10th year in space. Over the past decade the spacecraft has kept a constant eye on the Sun, studying how the Sun creates solar activity and drives space...
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NASA | SOHO and TRACE Solar Discoveries
On April 3, 2009, countries from around the world participated in the '100 Hours of Astronomy' webcast to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy. Produced to support the webcast, this movie highlights the discoveries of the SOHO...
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NASA | Top Solar Discoveries: #2
A countdown of the top 5 solar discoveries from the Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum. These include the discoveries of sunspots, the solar cycle, the heliosphere, aurora formation, and space weather. Number 2 in the Top 5 Solar...