Instructional Video3:46
NASA

LISA Pathfinder’s Stunning Success

3rd - 11th
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from NASA, has successfully tested a key technology needed to build a space-based observatory for detecting gravitational waves....
Instructional Video3:03
NASA

Hubble Detects a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole

3rd - 11th
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a quasar named 3C 186 that is offset from the center of its galaxy. Astronomers hypothesize that this supermassive black hole was jettisoned from the center of its galaxy by...
Instructional Video1:47
Next Animation Studio

Mystery astronomical object may be a ‘black neutron star’

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers have found a so-called black neutron star that changes our understanding of both black holes and neutron stars.
Instructional Video3:00
NASA

How LISA Pathfinder Detected Dozens of 'Comet Crumbs'

3rd - 11th
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA contributions, successfully demonstrated technologies needed to build a future space-based gravitational wave observatory, a...
Instructional Video1:04:12
Science360

National Science Foundation - EHT Press Conference Revealing First Image of Black Hole

12th - Higher Ed
View, Learn, Share, this National Science Foundation webcast.
Instructional Video2:16
Science360

Telescopes on Earth Explore Space's Secrets

12th - Higher Ed
Exploring the mysteries of dark energy and black holes. Identifying exoplanets. Capturing the origins of galaxies. Just some of what's happening at ground-based observatories -- windows on the universe that allow researchers to gaze...
Instructional Video4:37
Curated OER

General Relativity: Gravitational Waves

9th - 12th
What is a gravitational wave, and did Einstein describe it correctly? Learn how Einstein's theory was challenged over time, proved to be correct, and what gravitational waves are. This is an informative clip describing the phenomena of...