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Why Earth's Magnetic Shield Matters
Science Channel Published on Sep 15, 2014 The sun has two planets in its Goldilocks zone: the Earth and Mars. The crucial difference: a magnetic field that protects us from the sun’s radiation and makes liquid water - and life - possible on Earth. |
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To Mars and Back - in 150 seconds
Published on Sep 15, 2016 From explaining boarding the Orion Capsule to using Venus as a way to return, TIME's Jeffrey Kluger takes you inside the probable trip to Mars and back. |
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This is a SUPER BLOOD MOON! Lunar Eclipses Explained
Published on Nov 2, 2015 For more awesome science, check out: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com |
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NASA | Solar Wind Strips Martian Atmosphere
NASA Goddard Published on Nov 5, 2015 Mars is a cold and barren desert today, but scientists think that in the ancient past it was warm and wet. The loss of the early Martian atmosphere may have led to this dramatic change, and one of the prime suspects is the solar wind. Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a global magnetic field to deflect the stream of charged particles continuously blowing off the Sun. Instead, the solar wind crashes into the Mars upper atmosphere and can accelerate ions into space. |
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The incredible collaboration behind the International Space Station
Published on Sep 29, 2015 View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-incredi... The International Space Station is roughly the size of a six-bedroom house and weighs more than 320 cars -- it's so large that no single rocket could have lifted it into orbit. Instead, it was assembled piece by piece while hurtling through space at 28,000 kilometers per hour, lapping the Earth once every 90 minutes. Tien Nguyen explains how. See the ISS with your own eyes? Find out when it will be orbiting over your city at SpotTheStation.NASA.gov. |
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To Scale: The Solar System
Wylie Overstreet PLUS Sept 2015 On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe. A film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh alexgorosh.com wylieoverstreet.com Copyright 2015 |
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Pluto - New Horizons Fly-by Explained by the New York Times.
Published on Jul 11, 2015 On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft will zip past Pluto and its five known moons. Nobody really knows what it will find. |
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Black Hole Hunters
Published on Jun 13, 2015 Astronomers hope the Event Horizon Telescope, a synchronized network of radio antennas as large as the Earth, will take the first ever picture of a black hole, an abyss so deep no light can escape. |
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Cooking in space: whole red rice and turmeric chicken - 3.51 min
Published on Jun 4, 2015 ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is currently living on board the International Space Station for her long duration mission Futura. Food is an important item in space, also on the psychological side; that's why astronauts are allowed a certain quantity of the so-called "bonus food" of their choice that reminds them of their home cooking tastes. We asked Samantha to show us how she manages to cook one of her bonus food recipes in microgravity: whole red rice with peas and chicken turmeric. |
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Exploring Our Solar System: Planets and Space for Kids - FreeSchool 11.54 min
Published on Jan 16, 2015 Here is an in-depth introduction to the Solar System and the planets that are in it. From the sun to why poor Pluto is no longer considered a planet, come along for a ride across the Solar System. FreeSchool is great for kids! |
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Super-high resolution image of Andromeda from Hubble
Published on Jan 6, 2015 First & Last photo by Cory Poole Take a look into the Andromeda galaxy, composed of 1.5 billion pixels from 411 separate Hubble images. It's the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40 000 light-years" |
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How do we study stars?
Published on Oct 7, 2014 View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-we-s... Our best technology can send men to the Moon and probes to the edge of our solar system, but these distances are vanishingly small compared to the size of the universe. How then can we learn about the galaxies beyond our own? Yuan-Sen Ting takes us into deep space to show how astronomers study the stars beyond our reach. |
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Update Earth's Address in the Universe
Laniakea: Our home supercluster Published on Sep 3, 2014 nature video Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe. But scientists have struggled to define exactly where one supercluster ends and another begins........until now. |
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The Huge Hexagon-Shaped Storm on Saturn
Published on Aug 6, 2014 The sun is slowly rising over Saturn’s north pole, exposing an immense six-sided hurricane. The storm, big enough to swallow four Earths, was first spotted by the Voyager missions in the early 1980s. |
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Video of the Week - NASA | SDO: Year 5
Published on Feb 11, 2015 In honor of SDO's fifth anniversary, NASA has released a video showcasing highlights from the last five years of sun watching. Watch the movie to see giant clouds of solar material hurled out into space, the dance of giant loops hovering in the corona, and huge sunspots growing and shrinking on the sun's surface. |
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This Is What the Sun Sounds Like | How the Universe Works
Published on Jul 9, 2014 NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory listens to the sun by speeding up 40 days of recording into a few seconds. Find out more about the science behind the process! | For more How the Universe Works, visit http://science.discovery.com/tv-shows... |
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Meet Valkyrie: NASA's Superhero Robot
Published on Dec 10, 2013 presented by IEEE Spectrum NASA wants to get to Mars, and in order to get to Mars, NASA will likely send robots ahead of the human explorers. These robots will start preparing the way for the humans, and when the humans arrive, the robots and the humans will work together. |
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Comet Chaser Wakes Up
Published on Dec 10, 2013 Visualisation of how the Rosetta spacecraft wakes up from deep space hibernation, 673 million kilometres from the Sun, on 20 January 2014.Follow Rosetta at http://www.youtube.com/user/ESA?feature=watch |
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Gravity Visualized
Published on Mar 10, 2012 Dan Burns explains his space-time warping demo at a PTSOS workshop at Los Gatos High School, on March 10, 2012. Thanks to Shannon Range from the Gravity Probe B program for creating the original demonstration which he shared with Dan in 2004. Information on how to make your own Spacetime Simulator can be found here: http://prettygoodphysics.wikispaces.c... |
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Operation Spandex - How to make Published on Jul 10, 2012 The 2012 SPS Interns Meredith Woy and Melissa Hoffman show how to use a sheet of spandex to model gravity. Orbits, tides, and roche limits, oh my! This video will be a part of the 2012 SPS |
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Alien Atmospheres
Published on Dec 3, 2013 Since the early 1990's, astronomers have known that extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," orbit stars light-years beyond our own solar system. |
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Falcon Heavy Rocket - animation
Uploaded on Jul 26, 2013 Falcon Heavy is the world's most powerful rocket, a launch vehicle of scale and capability unequaled by any other currently flying. The first launch is scheduled for 2014. See more at http://www.spacex.com/falcon-heavy |
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Top 5 Places to Look for Alien Life! - The Countdown
August 8 - 2013 Scientific American Space Lab has a countdown for the top five places to look for Alien Life. |
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How does the Earth’s gravity help keep satellites in orbit?
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The moon illusion - Andrew Vanden Heuvel
Published on Sep 3, 2013 View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-moon-il... Have you noticed how the full moon looks bigger on the horizon than high overhead? Actually, the two images are exactly the same size -- so why do we perceive them differently? Scientists aren't sure, but there are plenty of intriguing theories. Andrew Vanden Heuvel unravels the details of focus, distance and proportion that contribute to this mystifying optical illusion |
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GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPE - "A PERFECT MIRROR"
This is an awesome demonstration of manufacturing engineering capability! Published on Jul 31, 2013 Dr. Wendy Freedman, Chairman GMT, and Dr. Pat McCarthy, Director GMT, discuss the Giant Magellan Telescope's mirrors and the science that they will enable. |
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Scientists from SpaceX test precision landing
Grasshopper 744m Test | Single Camera (Hexacopter) We've followed the development of Grasshopper and in July the 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle from SpaceX was tested to 325m. Watch the latest test to 744m (watch full screen). Published on Oct 12, 2013 |
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The Five Senses in Space
Astronaut Chris Hadfield explains how how the main senses are affected in space Published on May 8, 2013 - 1 min each vid
Astronaut Chris Hadfield explains how how the main senses are affected in space Published on May 8, 2013 - 1 min each vid
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Departing Space Station Commander Provides Tour of Orbital Laboratory play full screen
It's not often that I put a 25 minute video on my web site but this video is riveting. A must for anyone interested in space. In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, 2012. |
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How Astronauts Put on Space Suits Published on Jul 3, 2013 (11 min)
We've all seen NASA's white space suit that astronauts have been wearing since the Apollo missions. But what does an astronaut wear underneath that iconic suit's shell? We visit NASA to learn about all the essentials of extravehicular space wear, all the way down to the emergency diapers |
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The Beauty of Space Photography
Space presents a fantastic mystery to human life. Watch this brilliant video explaining what space photography is all about. Published on May 23, 2013 |
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The Stars
Beautifully animated video about the life-cycle of stars. June 2012 |
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Why does the Earth spin?
Find out all about spin on this TED video. Published on May 29, 2013 |
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The Auroras
Published on Feb 25, 2013 Space might seem like an empty place, but the area surrounding Earth is constantly being bombarded by waves of charged particles released by the Sun: The solar wind. Luckily, thanks to Earth's swirling, molten core (and the magnetic field it provides), we are protected. |
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Asteroid 2012 DA 14 passed very close to the Earth on February 16th 2013. West Australian photographer Colin Legg captured this footage 350 km east of Perth. Just after camera started filming, a beautiful meteor burned across the sky, and amazingly, passed right through his camera's field of view, lingering while the debris train swept up and out of view. In addition, the sky was also very busy swarming with countless man made satellites. The asteroid is the bright object at left moving down the screen.
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Night Wanderers from Colin Legg on Vimeo. |
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Magnifying the Universe designed and developed by Mandril Design and Killer Infographics 2012. Try this new experience full screen.
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We should never forget the Shuttles see "The Last Roll-Out"
Photographer Scott Andrews, his son New York Times photographer Philip Andrews, and Apple software engineer Stan Jirman animated photographs that they made during the space shuttle Atlantis’ last roll-out, (ie. the process of getting a shuttle ready for its last launch). Uploaded to Vimeo June 2012 |
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Asteroid Mining
Published on 24 Apr 2012 by PlanetaryResources Video source - credit Youtube Planetary Resources' mission is mine near-Earth asteroids for raw materials, ranging from water to precious metals. Through the development of cost-effective exploration technologies, the company is poised to initiate prospecting missions targeting resource-rich asteroids that are easily accessible. |
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The Known Universe
The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. 6.31 min Credit - Youtube |
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JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE
Tony Darnell introduces us to the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit Tony Darnell - Youtube >The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST) and named after a former NASA Administrator is due to be launched in 2018. The $1.6 billion space telescope could reveal the nature of dark energy and maybe identify Earth-like planets. It is NASA's next space observatory and the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. It will orbit far beyond Earth's moon. Learn about the telescope and the team of scientists building it at the James Webb Space Telesco |
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Kepler's Planets
How other planets are being discovered. The Kepler mission is changing the way we think about exoplanets. See other videos from the California Academy of Sciences on Youtube Credit - Youtube 2min |
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ScienceCasts: Getting to Know the Goldilocks Planet
NASA's Kepler spacecraft is discovering a veritable avalanche of alien worlds. As the numbers mount, it seems to be just a matter of time before Kepler finds what astronomers are really looking for: an Earth-like planet orbiting its star in the "Goldilocks zone". Visit http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/29mar_goldilocks/ for more. |
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EYES ON THE SOLAR SYSTEM interactive
New from NASA, Eyes on the Solar System. Watch the intro to get started and the video tutorials to become an expert. Eyes on the Solar System" is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. Fly withEyes on the Solar System" is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. It's up to you. You control space and time. Credit Youtube> |
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Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Animation
Created June 2011 This 5.29 minute animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. It is an artist's concept animation depicting key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which launched in late 2011 and landed a rover, Curiosity, on Mars in August 2012. Credit- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Youtube > |
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Take a virtual tour of the moon, Nov 2011, based on data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit - Youtube Published on Mar 14, 2012 by NASAexplorer
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MOON PHASES
This NASA video segment looks at the moon and its relationship to Earth. This segment takes a close look at the moon's surface, gravity, and moon phases. A demonstration is provided to help explain moon phases.Uploaded by NASAeClips on Sep 3, 2008 (4.00 min) Moon Phases Challenge |
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NASA Scientists explain - What is Space Weather? Part 1 and 2
Credit Youtube Published on Apr 24, 2012 by NASAexplorer |
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AURORA BOREALIS EXPLAINED
This video explains how particles originating from deep inside the core of the sun creates northern lights, also called aurora borealis, on our planet. Aurora seen on Earth (National Geographic) Aurora seen from space (NASA ISS) Credit - Youtube Uploaded by forskningno on Jun 17, 2011 |
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Auroras seen from the International Space Station
Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011. Credit - Vimeo |
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Cassini Spies Wave Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter
New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere and influences the weather. (1.56 min) Credit - Youtube Published on Mar 13, 2012 by JPLnews |
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How the Earth and solar system were formed. From "The Universe With Stephen Hawking" - The Story of Everything explains how the Earth and solar system were formed. This video belongs to Discovery Communications and is being used for educational purposes only. Credit - Youtube WeAreStarStuff51 |
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How the Moon was formed
Take a tour of the moon March 2012 The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is uncovering a treasure trove of knowledge on the past and present state of the Moon. Published on Mar 14, 2012 by NASAexplorer |
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The Most Important Image Ever Taken
The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken With Permission: Tony Darnell |
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