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NASA | Fermi Spots 'Superflares' in the Crab Nebula
The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any previously seen from the object. The outburst was first detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on April 12 and lasted...
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NASA | Earth Science Week | How Does the Earth System ...
Climate scientists have been monitoring Earth's energy budget since the 1978 launch of NASA's Nimbus-7 satellite. That mission carried a new instrument into space called the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (or ERBE), designed to...
Curated Video
The Impact of Tides: Understanding the Rise and Fall of Ocean Levels
Explore the fascinating phenomenon of tides and how they are influenced by the gravitational forces of the moon and the sun. We learn how ancient civilizations accurately predicted tides and how this knowledge continues to be crucial for...
Physics Girl
This phenomenon only happens in Hawaii . . . and Cuba & Nigeria & Indonesia & Peru & Sudan & Laos &…
There are apparently no shadows in these images. But they were taken during the brightest part of the day. There are only certain parts of the year and certain times of day when you can experience the subsolar point or Lahaina noon....
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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,...
Curated Video
Tides: the Rise and Fall of Ocean Waters
Examine how tides are formed. Understand their predictable patterns and how the gravitational force of the sun and moon impact ocean tides. The video also explains the concepts of high tides and low tides, as well as the occurrence of...
Mazz Media
Orbit
This live-action video program is about the word orbit. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word orbit through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated...
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Lunar and Solar Eclipse Explained: A Beginner’s Guide to Eclipses
Solar and lunar eclipses are celestial phenomena that occur when the sun, moon and Earth align in a way that either the moon casts a shadow on Earth or the latter casts a shadow on the moon. So what are the similarities and differences...
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Climate
This live-action video program explores the different climates found on earth. Through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels, viewers will come to understand how weather, landforms and...
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NASA | Van Gogh Sun
A crucial, and often underappreciated, facet of science lies in deciding how to turn the raw numbers of data into useful, understandable information -- often through graphs and images. Such visualization techniques are needed for...
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NASA | First Sightings of How a CME Forms
On July 18, 2012, a fairly small explosion of light burst off the lower right limb of the sun. Such flares often come with an associated eruption of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection or CME -- but this one did not....
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How NASA Will Protect Astronauts From Space Radiation
August 1972, as NASA scientist Ian Richardson remembers it, was hot. In Surrey, England, where he grew up, the fields were brown and dry, and people tried to stay out of the Sun, indoors and televisions on. But for several days that...
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500th Anniversary of Humanity's First Circumnavigation of Earth
Five hundred years ago the first “orbit” of planet Earth, achieved in the spirit of the first human voyages to the Moon fifty years ago, was undertaken by the Portuguese explorer Magellan, using mission design and exploration guiding...
Next Animation Studio
Antarctic: 2021’s massive ozone hole finally closes
A colder than usual winter in the southern hemisphere fed a deep and larger than average hole that persisted for a longer period than usual.
Next Animation Studio
Scientists research 'dimming sun' to fight climate change
Scientists from Harvard and Yale suggest using solar geoengineering as a way to combat climate change.
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Best comet of 2021 passing Earth this week on its way to Sun
After spending 40 thousand years to reach us, the brightest comet of 2021 will reach its closest point to Earth in a few hours.
Next Animation Studio
The surprising secret behind Earth’s strange companion
New telescopes revealed a big clue about the origins of a huge asteroid that’s been dancing around Earth for centuries as it orbits the sun.
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Discovering the Sun's Mysteriously Hot Atmosphere
Something mysterious is going on at the Sun. In defiance of all logic, its atmosphere gets much, much hotter the farther it stretches from the Sun’s blazing surface. Temperatures in the corona — the Sun’s outer atmosphere — spike to 3...
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Scientists Uncover Origins of Dynamic Jets on Sun's Surface
At any given moment, as many as 10 million wild jets of solar material burst from the sun's surface. They erupt as fast as 60 miles per second, and can reach lengths of 6,000 miles before collapsing. These are spicules, and despite their...
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NASA | Earth Science Week | What are the Primary Forces ...
The sun is the primary force in Earth's climate system. Sunlight warms our world. Sunlight drives atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns. Sunlight powers the process of photosynthesis that plants need to grow. Sunlight causes...
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Insights on Comet Tails Are Blowing in the Solar Wind
Oliver Price, a planetary science Ph.D. student at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the United Kingdom, has developed a new image-processing technique to mine through the wealth of data about comet tails....
Healthcare Triage
Sunscreen Needs Some Safety Evaulation
Skin cancer is a big problem. Sunscreen can help protect your skin. All this is very well known. It turns out, though, that the active ingredients in sunscreen can get into peoples' bloodstreams in pretty high concentrations. And the...
Physics Girl
Craziest eclipses in the solar system
A total solar eclipse passed across North America on August 21, 2017. Are there other total solar eclipses in the solar system?
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NASA | Visions of Goddard
Excerpts from 14 short films about NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.