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|Sequencing DNA in Space
Date: August 29, 2016
Length: 4:20
A DNA sequencer recently delivered to the International Space Station could open the door to exciting forms of research ranging from the search for life to the development of new pharmaceutical treatments.
|A Spectacular Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter
Date: August 23, 2016
Length: 2:36
Venus and Jupiter are converging for a spectacular conjunction in the sunset sky on August 27th.
|Electric Blue Sunsets
Date: August 16, 2016
Length: 3:35
Summer is the season for electric-blue noctilucent clouds. NASA's AIM spacecraft is finding that these clouds continue to reveal details about how the atmosphere works.
|Strong Magnetic Fields Found Inside Stars
Date: August 4, 2016
Length: 3:19
Researchers using NASA's Kepler space telescope have found evidence of strong magnetic fields in the cores of stars--a finding that could upset theories of stellar evolution.
|Methane Stinks? On Earth, Mars, and Beyond
Date: August 1, 2016
Length: 4:56
NASA is sniffing out the sweet smell of methane on Earth, Mars and beyond. It's a greenhouse gas and, in some places, possibly a sign of ancient life.
|A New Angle on Global Wind Measurements
Date: July 28, 2016
Length: 4:11
As hurricane season unfolds, a helpful set of eyes mounted on the International Space Station allows scientists to observe massive storms from a special angle.
|Reshuffling Heat on a Warming Planet
Date: July 26, 2016
Length: 3:48
Earth's oceans could be concealing a mystery about climate change. Researchers have recently found evidence of hidden heat hundreds of meters below the ocean's surface.
|Planetary Defense
Date: June 30, 2016
Length: 5:19
NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office is working to keep Earth safe from asteroids and other hazards that come from deep space.
|Monitoring Air Quality
Date: June 27, 2016
Length: 4:52
A global effort to monitor air quality is in the works as the US, Korea, and the European Union prepare to launch geostationary satellites capable of monitoring pollutants and other aerosols.
|Twinkle Twinkle GPS
Date: June 14, 2016
Length: 3:54
Dynamic bubbles of ionization in Earth's upper atmosphere can cause GPS signals to "twinkle" like stars, affecting the quality of navigation on Earth below. NASA recently conducted a mission called CINDI to investigate this phenomenon.
|One Carbon Metabolism on the Space Station
Date: May 27, 2016
Length: 4:08
For the first time, researchers have identified a genetic marker associated with a spaceflight medical issue. It is in the enzymes associated with the "1 carbon pathway."
|Red and Golden Planets at Opposition
Date: May 20, 2016
Length: 3:30
Mars and Saturn are getting together in the constellation Scorpius for back-to-back oppositions in May and June 2016.
|The 2016 Transit of Mercury
Date: May 3, 2016
Length: 3:28
On May 9th, Mercury will move across the face of the sun, offering a rare viewing opportunity for professional astronomers and backyard sky watchers alike.
|NASA's Next Great Space Telescope
Date: April 6, 2016
Length: 3:20
Assembly of NASA's next great space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, is underway. It will show researchers the first stars and galaxies that formed in the early universe.
|The Special Ingredients... of Earth
Date: March 18, 2016
Length: 3:46
When the Space Age began, explorers were eager to visit the planets of the solar system. As the years have passed, however, astronomers have realized that the moons of the solar system may be even more interesting.
|Amazing Moons
Date: March 10, 2016
Length: 4:17
When the Space Age began, explorers were eager to visit the planets of the solar system. As the years have passed, however, astronomers have realized that the moons of the solar system may be even more interesting.
|Indonesian Solar Eclipse
Date: March 8, 2016
Length: 4:23
During the early hours of March 9, 2016 the new moon will pass directly in front of the sun, producing a total eclipse of the sun over South East Asia. A partial eclipse will be viewable the evening of March 8, 2016 in western-most parts of the USA including Alaska and Hawai'i.
|Close Encounters with Jupiter
Date: March 4, 2016
Length: 4:40
On March 8th, 2016 Earth and Jupiter will have a close encounter. The giant planet will be "up all night," soaring almost overhead at midnight and not setting until the sky brightens with the twilight hues of sunrise on March 9th. In July, the Juno mission will give us an even closer look.
|Horn-rims and Funny Stockings on the Space Station
Date: February 23, 2016
Length: 4:13
About three quarters of ISS astronauts experience changes in the structure and function of their eyes. An experiment on the space station called the "Fluid Shifts Study" is investigating these vision problems in space.
|Listening to the Stars
Date: February 18, 2016
Length: 4:35
Deep in the heart of California's Owens Valley, a strange-looking telescope stands in the desert landscape listening for echos of distant stars.
|Measuring the Rising Seas
Date: January 26, 2016
Length: 3:55
The Jason-3 satellite, launched on January 17, 2016, is allowing scientists to continue a 23-year record of crucial ocean monitoring.
|Historic Vegetable Moment on the Space Station
Date: January 20, 2016
Length: 3:55
Astronauts recently experienced an historic vegetable moment when they ate a salad made from lettuce grown on board the International Space Station.
|Quantum Foam
Date: December 31, 2015
Length: 4:03
Researchers have used NASA space telescopes to prove that space-time is much less "foamy" than some models predict. Understanding their result requires a trip into the world of quantum physics.
|Synthetic Muscles
Date: December 28, 2015
Length: 4:09
NASA supported researchers are working on Synthetic Muscles that could be used to create humanoid robots for space exploration.
|Return of the Blue Marble
Date: December 18, 2015
Length: 4:32
The Deep Space Climate Observatory, a NOAA mission that carries NASA instruments, is providing a "new and complementary" view of Earth that is amazing scientists and lay people alike.
Find DSCOVR's daily images at http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/
|Escape of the Destructive Electrons
Date: December 14, 2015
Length: 4:09
Earth is surrounded by electrons that can be disruptive to our technology. NASA is using high-altitude balloons and spacecraft to monitor and understand these particles in the radiation belts surrounding our planet.
|Taking the Wild out of Wildfire
Date: December 1, 2015
Length: 3:21
A new NASA-funded tool is taking some of the 'wild' out of wildfires by making it possible for U.S. fire managers to better spot dangerous blazes.
|In Search of Earth... 2.0
Date: November 23, 2015
Length: 3:39
Astronomers have long hoped to find another planet in the cosmos similar to Earth--a blue dot in the distance that could harbor life akin to our own. NASA's Kepler spacecraft may have found the next best thing.
|Space Vision
Date: November 17, 2015
Length: 4:22
Many astronauts report a blurring of their eyesight in microgravity. Researchers are trying to get to the bottom of this phenomenon before astronauts travel to Mars and beyond.
|The "Omics" of Space Travel
Date: November 13, 2015
Length: 3:42
During an unprecedented 1-year mission to the International Space Station, scientists are studying how astronauts' bodies respond to long-duration space travel.
|Using a Tablet Computer in Space
Date: October 30, 2015
Length: 3:27
The Fine Motor Skills experiment on the station is looking at how long-duration microgravity effects fine motor task performance.
|Close Encounter with Enceladus
Date: October 27, 2015
Length: 2:50
NASA's Cassini Spacecraft is about to make a daring plunge through one of the plumes emerging from Saturn's moon Enceladus.
|Dawn Triangle of Planets
Date: October 23, 2015
Length: 2:50
Look east before sunrise in late October for a beautiful conjunction of bright planets.
|Spacecraft Discovers Thousands of Doomed Comets
Date: October 20, 2015
Length: 3:54
The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory has discovered more than 3000 doomed comets that have passed close to the sun.
|Worlds within Worlds
Date: September 30, 2015
Length: 3:51
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an immense cloud of hydrogen evaporating from a Neptune-sized planet named GJ 436b. The planet's atmosphere is evaporating because of extreme irradiation from its parent star.
|Total Eclipse of the Harvest Moon
Date: September 22, 2015
Length: 3:12
On Sunday, Sep. 27th, the super Harvest Moon passed through the shadow of Earth, producing a lovely amber total lunar eclipse.
|NASA Spacecraft takes Space GPS to New Heights
Date: September 11, 2015
Length: 3:33
NASA's MMS spacecraft are flying around Earth in a precise formation made possible by an out-of-this-world system of GPS navigators.
|The Hidden Meltdown of Greenland
Date: August 28, 2015
Length: 3:46
NASA-supported researchers have found that ice covering Greenland is melting faster than previously thought. The action is happening out of sight, below the surface.
|A Good Year for Perseid Meteors
Date: August 10, 2015
Length: 2:54
The second full Moon of July is just around the corner. According to modern folklore, it is a "Blue Moon."
|Summer Blue Moon
Date: July 24, 2015
Length: 3:54
The second full Moon of July is just around the corner. According to modern folklore, it is a "Blue Moon."
|Predicting Floods
Date: July 21, 2015
Length: 3:31
Predicting floods is notoriously tricky. Sponsored by NASA, a new computer tool known as the "Global Flood Monitoring System" is improving forecasts.
|Space Coffee
Date: July 10, 2015
Length: 3:37
Advances in the understanding of how fluids behave in low gravity is key to spacecraft operations. A long-awaited spin-off is an excellent cup of coffee in space.
|The Good, the Bad, and the Algae
Date: June 25, 2015
Length: 3:47
With support from NASA, the EPA has developed an app to track algae that can threaten fresh water supplies.
|Amazing Sunset Sky Show
Date: June 8, 2015
Length: 3:08
Venus and Jupiter are converging for a must-see close encounter at the end of June. It could be the best backyard sky show of 2015.
|Handprints on Hubble
Date: May 26, 2015
Length: 4:56
As the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 25th anniversary, scientists are reflecting on the key role astronauts played in allowing the telescope to continue making great discoveries.
|Roundworms Have the Right Stuff
Date: May 22, 2015
Length: 3:05
The common roundworm shares a surprising amount of genetic material with humans - enough, in fact, to make them the good substitutes for astronauts in low-gravity medical studies.
|The First Martian Marathon
Date: May 14, 2015
Length: 4:15
On Earth, a fast runner takes a few hours to complete a marathon. On Mars, it's taken 11 years. NASA's Opportunity rover crossed that finish line in 2015.
|Desert Dust Feeds Amazon Forests
Date: April 28, 2015
Length: 4:09
The Amazon rainforest and the Sahara desert seem utterly different. Yet NASA satellites have discovered a surprising connection that intimately links these two disparate parts of our planet.
|Earth Day Meteor Shower
Date: April 21, 2015
Length: 3:07
At the end of a day devoted to Earth, people can look to the heavens for a beautiful shower of Lyrid meteors.
|Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow Balls in Space
Date: April 7, 2015
Length: 3:52
Citizen scientists scanning images from a NASA observatory have found "yellow balls" in space that may hold important clues to the mysteries of starbirth.
|Total Eclipse of the Moon
Date: March 30, 2015
Length: 2:31
On Saturday morning, April 4th, sky watchers in the USA can see a brief but beautiful total eclipse of the Moon.
|The Mystery of Nanoflares
Date: March 18, 2015
Length: 4:22
Tiny solar flares on the sun may be having an outsized effect on the temperature of the sun's atmosphere. To investigate, scientists will observe these "nanoflares" using a space telescope built for black holes.
|Studying Earth's Magnetic Personality
Date: March 10, 2015
Length: 4:14
NASA is about to launch a fleet of spacecraft to investigate the mystery of "magnetic reconnection," which is making things explode across the cosmos.
|Subtracting Gravity from Alzheimer's
Date: March 4, 2015
Length: 3:26
The key to unraveling the mysterious cause of Alzheimer's disease may not lie in the recesses of the human brain, but rather in the weightless expanses of outer space.
|Mud Matters
Date: February 5, 2015
Length: 3:18
NASA has launched SMAP, a new satellite to study water, not in oceans or lakes but in the soil beneath our feet. This often overlooked repository of water can have big effects on weather, climate, drought and agriculture.
|The Strange Way Fluids Slosh on the International Space Station
Date: January 27, 2015
Length: 3:46
Researchers are using a pair of robots to examine the strange way fluids slosh and bubble on the International Space Station
|Embers from a Rock Comet: The 2014 Geminid Meteor Shower
Date: December 12, 2014
Length: 3:25
Earth is passing through a stream of debris from "rock comet" 3200 Phaethon, source of the annual Geminid meteor shower. Forecasters expect as many as 120 meteors per hour when the shower peaks on Dec. 13-14.
|Climate Change and the Yin-Yang of Polar Sea Ice
Date: December 2, 2014
Length: 3:19
Arctic and Antarctic sea ice are both affected by climate change, but the two poles of Earth are behaving in intriguingly different ways.
|Young Volcanoes on the Moon
Date: November 24, 2014
Length: 3:43
The Moon might not be as dead as it looks. Researchers using NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have found signs of geologically-recent volcanic eruptions on Earth's natural satellite.
|How to Land on a Comet
Date: November 3, 2014
Length: 4:06
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is about to attempt something "ridiculously difficult" - landing a probe on the surface of a speeding comet.
|Sunset Solar Eclipse
Date: October 17, 2014
Length: 3:03
On October 23rd, the Moon will pass in front of the sun, off-center, producing a partial solar eclipse visible in most of the United States.
|The Cloudy Future of Arctic Sea Ice
Date: October 14, 2014
Length: 3:30
As climate change continues to hammer Arctic sea ice, pushing back its summertime boundaries to record-high latitudes, NASA is flying an innovative airborne mission to find out how these developments will affect worldwide weather.
|First Light for MAVEN
Date: October 8, 2014
Length: 4:05
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has reached Mars and it is beaming back "First Light" images of the Red Planet's upper atmosphere. The data could help researchers understand what transformed Mars from a hospitable planet billions of years ago into a desiccated wasteland today.
|A Giant Among Earth Satellites
Date: September 24, 2014
Length: 3:43
The weekend launch of ISS-RapidScat onboard SpaceX-4 has kickstarted a new era for the International Space Station as a giant Earth-observing satellite.
|A Colorful Lunar Eclipse
Date: September 17, 2014
Length: 4:11
Mark your calendar: On Oct. 8th, the Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth for a total lunar eclipse. Sky watchers in the USA will see the Moon turn a beautiful shade of celestial red and maybe turquoise, too.
|Jellyfish Flame on the International Space Station
Date: September 9, 2014
Length: 3:58
Astronauts onboard the International Space Station report seeing flames that behave like jellyfish. Video of the microgravity phenomenon is a must-see.
|Mystery in the Ozone Layer
Date: September 4, 2014
Length: 4:08
Almost 30 years after the Montreal Protocol put the brakes on ozone-depleting chemicals, one compound remains stubbornly and mysteriously abundant in the atmosphere. NASA scientists are tracking down the source and studying its effect on the ozone layer.
|Evidence for Supernovas Near Earth
Date: August 25, 2014
Length: 4:31
A NASA sounding rocket has confirmed that the solar system is inside an ancient supernova remnant. Life on Earth survived despite the nearby blasts.
|Sizing up an Exoplanet
Date: August 18, 2014
Length: 4:01
Astronomers are not only discovering planets around distant suns, they are also starting to measure those worlds with astonishing precision. The diameter of a super-Earth named Kepler 93B is now known to within an accuracy of 148 miles.
|Beautiful Conjunction
Date: August 15, 2014
Length: 2:38
Wake up early in mid-August to see Venus and Jupiter shining side-by-side.
|Mars vs Comet Siding Spring
Date: August 6, 2014
Length: 4:19
Comet Siding Spring is about to fly historically close to Mars. The encounter could spark Martian auroras, a meteor shower, and other unpredictable effects. Whatever happens, NASA's fleet of Mars satellites will have a ringside seat.
|Perseid Meteors vs the Supermoon
Date: July 28, 2014
Length: 2:53
Which is brighter--a flurry of Perseid fireballs or a supermoon? Sky watchers will find out this August when the biggest and brightest full Moon of 2014 arrives just in time for the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower.
|Big Mystery in the Perseus Cluster
Date: July 21, 2014
Length: 3:43
A mysterious X-ray signal from the Perseus cluster of galaxies, which researchers say cannot be explained by known physics, could be a key clue to the nature of Dark Matter.
|One Year to Pluto
Date: July 14, 2014
Length: 3:23
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is only a year away from Pluto. Researchers are buzzing with anticipation as NASA prepares to encounter a new world for the first time in decades.
|A Summer of Super Moons
Date: July 8, 2014
Length: 3:34
The summer of 2014 will be bathed in moonlight as three perigee "supermoons" occur in consecutive months: July, August, September.
|Fruit Flies on the International Space Station
Date: July 1, 2014
Length: 3:47
A new species is about to join astronauts on the International Space Station: Drosophila melanogaster, also known as the "fruit fly." Genetically speaking, the bug-eyed insects have a lot in common with human beings, and they are poised to teach researchers a great deal about voyaging into deep space.
|NASA to Launch Carbon Observatory
Date: June 23, 2014
Length: 4:00
NASA is about to launch a satellite dedicated to the study of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) will quantify global CO2 sources and sinks, and help researchers predict the future of climate change.
|A Laser Message from Space: "Hello World"
Date: June 17, 2014
Length: 3:46
In early June, a laser beam lanced out of the night sky over California, heralding a breakthrough in space communications. The message it carried was "Hello, World."
|Solar Mini-Max
Date: June 9, 2014
Length: 3:43
NASA and NOAA agree: Solar Max has arrived, but this "mini Max" is not like any other solar maximum of the Space Age.
|Rosetta Comet Comes Alive
Date: June 2, 2014
Length: 4:08
Later this year, Europe's Rosetta probe will orbit and land on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. New images of the comet show that it will be a lively place when Rosetta arrives.
|The Milky Way is Not Just a Refrigerator Magnet
Date: May 27, 2014
Length: 4:04
A new map of the galaxy by ESA's Planck spacecraft has revealed gigantic loops of magnetism and other structures that point to a magnetic dynamo at work in the Milky Way.
|El Niño - Is 2014 the New 1997?
Date: May 19, 2014
Length: 3:49
The Jason-2 satellite sees something brewing in the Pacific. Researchers say it could be a significant El Niño with implications for global weather and climate.
|No Turning Back - West Antarctic Glaciers in Irreversible Decline
Date: May 12, 2014
Length: 3:35
A new study led by NASA researchers shows that half-a-dozen key glaciers in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are in irreversible decline. The melting of these sprawling icy giants will affect global sea levels in the centuries ahead.
|NASA on the Lookout for a New Meteor Shower
Date: May 5, 2014
Length: 3:39
Sky watchers in North America could witness a new meteor shower on May 24th when, for the first time, Earth passes through a cloud of dust from periodic comet 209P/LINEAR.
|Carrington-class CME Narrowly Misses Earth
Date: Apr 28, 2014
Length: 4:03
Two years ago, an intense solar storm narrowly missed Earth. If it had hit, researchers say, we could still be picking up the pieces.
|Lettuce Orbit Earth - A New Form of Life Takes Root on the ISS
Date: Apr 25, 2014
Length: 4:05
A new life form is taking root on the ISS, and its name is "Outregeous." The space-faring lettuce was delivered to the space station by a SpaceX Dragon capsule on April 20th.
|Unexpected Teleconnections in Noctilucent Clouds
Date: Apr 11, 2014
Length: 4:13
NASA's AIM spacecraft is discovering unexpected "teleconnections" in Earth's atmosphere that link weather and climate across vast distances.
|Separated at Launch
Date: Apr 07, 2014
Length: 3:51
Next year, with the assistance of the world's only twin astronauts, NASA will conduct an unprecedented experiment in human biology. While one twin remains on the ground, the other will circle Earth onboard the International Space Station for a full year. Will the twins still be identical when they are re-united? The answer could help NASA make space travel safer for generations of astronauts to come.
|The Opposition of Mars
Date: Mar 27, 2014
Length: 2:58
Earth and Mars are converging for a close encounter in April, an event astronomers call "the opposition of Mars."
|A Tetrad of Lunar Eclipses
Date: Mar 20, 2014
Length: 3:43
A total lunar eclipse on April 15th marks the beginning of a remarkable series of eclipses all visible from North America.
|A Telescope Bigger than a Galaxy
Date: Mar 06, 2014
Length: 3:36
Astronomers have figured out how to use the gravity of distant galaxies to bend light and magnify images, allowing them to see deeper into the cosmos than ever before.
|A Sudden Multiplication of Planets
Date: Feb 26, 2014
Length: 3:30
NASA announced a breakthrough addition to the catalog of new planets. Researchers using Kepler have confirmed 715 new worlds, almost quadrupling the number of planets previously confirmed by the planet-hunting spacecraft. Some of the new worlds are similar in size to Earth and orbit in the habitable zone of their parent stars.
|Follow the Water
Date: Feb 21, 2014
Length: 3:24
NASA and JAXA are about to launch a new satellite that can see through storms, tracking rain and snow around the globe better than any previous observatory. The Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory is scheduled to lift off from Japan on Feb. 27th.
|10 More Years
Date: Feb 13, 2014
Length: 4:41
With the space station no longer "under construction," the world's most advanced orbital laboratory is open for business. The station has just received a 10-year extension from NASA, giving researchers the time they need to take full advantage of its unique capabilities.
|California Drought
Date: Feb 6, 2014
Length: 3:32
California is experiencing a historic drought--by some measures the deepest in more than 100 years. NASA researchers are investigating a number of explanations for what the underlying cause may be.
|The Coolest Spot in the Universe
Date: Jan 30, 2014
Length: 3:52
NASA researchers plan to create the coldest spot in the known Universe--inside the International Space Station. The device, known as the Cold Atom Lab, could discover new forms of matter and novel quantum phenomena.
|New Year's Asteroid Strike
Date: Jan 17, 2014
Length: 4:26
The New Year started off with a bang when a small asteroid hit Earth. Infrasound records indicate that the space rock exploded in the atmosphere over the Atlantic Ocean like 500 tons of TNT.
|Countdown to Pluto
Date: Jan 13, 2014
Length: 3:57
Eight years after it left Earth, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is approaching Pluto. The encounter begins less than a year from now.
|Starting Fire in Water
Date: Jan 3, 2014
Length: 3:25
Astronauts on the ISS are experimenting with a form of water that has a strange property: it can help start fire. This fundamental physics investigation could have down-to-Earth benefits such as clean-burning municipal waste disposal and improved saltwater purification.
|Electric-Blue Clouds Appear Over Antarctica
Date: Dec 19, 2013
Length: 3:28
A vast bank of electric-blue clouds has appeared over Antarctica, signaling the start of the season for southern hemisphere noctilucent clouds.
|Geminid Meteors at Dawn
Date: Dec 12, 2013
Length: 2:23
The Geminid meteor shower is underway. Forecasters say the best time to look is during the dark hours before sunrise on Saturday morning, Dec. 14th. Dark-sky observers could see dozens of bright shooting stars.
|Rock Comet Sprouts a Tail
Date: Nov 27, 2013
Length: 3:50
"Rock Comet" 3200 Phaethon has sprouted a tail, proving that the mysterious object is the source of the annual Geminid meteor shower.
|Genius Materials on the ISS
Date: Nov 25, 2013
Length: 4:34
Researchers working with magnetic fluids on the International Space Station are taking "smart materials" to the next level. With proper coaxing, molecules can assemble themselves into "genius materials" with surprising properties. This is opening a new frontier in material science.
|Two Comets to Fly By Mercury on Nov 18 & 19
Date: Nov 14, 2013
Length: 3:48
Consider it a cosmic coincidence: On Nov. 18-19, two comets (ISON and Encke) are going to fly by the planet Mercury in quick succession. NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will have a front-row seat for the rare double flyby.
|What Happened to Mars? A Planetary Mystery
Date: Nov 08, 2013
Length: 4:30
Mars was once on track to become a thriving Earth-like planet, yet today it is an apparently lifeless wasteland. A NASA spacecraft named MAVEN will soon journey to Mars to find out what went wrong on the Red Planet.
|The Sounds of Interstellar Space
Date: Oct 31, 2013
Length: 4:36
As Voyager 1 recedes from the solar system, researchers are listening for "interstellar music" (a.k.a. plasma waves) to learn more about conditions outside the heliosphere.
|The Effects of Space Weather on Aviation
Date: Oct 24, 2013
Length: 4:10
Astronauts aren't the only ones who need to worry about solar flares. Ordinary air travelers can also be exposed to significant doses of radiation during solar storms. A new computer model developed by NASA aims to help protect the public by predicting space weather hazards to aviation.
|Amateur Astonomers See Comet ISON Approaching the Sun
Date: Sep 23, 2013
Length: 4:05
Comet ISON is still more than two months away from its spectacular close encounter with the sun. Already, the brightening comet has become a good target for backyard telescopes in the pre-dawn sky.
|The Harvest Moon
Date: Sep 15, 2013
Length: 2:48
The full Moon closest to the northern autumnal equinox is coming this week. Don't miss the Harvest Moon.
|ISS "Firestation" to Explore the Tops of Thunderstorms
Date: Sep 9, 2013
Length: 3:53
Sometimes, Earth mimics a supernova, producing a Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash from the tops of thunderstorms. A new lightning sensor on the International Space Station could solve the mystery of these energetic bursts.
|NASA Mission Seeks Lunar Air
Date: Aug 29, 2013
Length: 4:03
A NASA spacecraft slated for launch in September will fly to the Moon to investigate the tenuous lunar atmosphere. Researchers hope "LADEE" will solve a mystery that has been puzzling them since the days of Apollo.
|Comet ISON to Fly By Mars
Date: Aug 15, 2013
Length: 3:41
Comet ISON is heading for a Thanksgiving Day brush with the sun, but first it's going to pay a visit to Mars. In this week's ScienceCast, researchers discuss what might happen when Comet ISON meets the Red Planet.
|The Strange Attraction of Hot Jupiters
Date: Aug 8, 2013
Length: 4:25
An exotic class of exoplanets called "hot Jupiters" are even weirder than astronomers imagined. While these worlds may have Earth-like blue skies, new data show that they are anything but Earth-like.
|The Sun's Magnetic Field is About to Flip
Date: Aug 5, 2013
Length: 4:03
Something big is happening on the sun. The sun's global magnetic field is about to flip, a sign that Solar Max has arrived.
|Perseid Fireballs
Date: Jul 25, 2013
Length: 3:07
New research from NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office identifies the Perseids as the "fireball champion" of annual meteor showers. This year's Perseid display peaks on August 12th and 13th.
|The Mystery of the Missing Waves on Titan
Date: Jul 19, 2013
Length: 4:16
Saturn's giant moon Titan is dotted with hydrocarbon lakes and seas that bear an uncanny resemblance to bodies of water on Earth. Strangely, though, Titan's lakes and seas have no waves.
|The Zero Gravity Coffee Cup
Date: Jul 12, 2013
Length: 4:01
Drinking coffee in space is surprisingly tricky. Physicists researching the strange behavior of fluids onboard the International Space Station have invented a zero-g coffee cup to make the morning "cuppa Joe" a little easier to swallow.
|Opporunity's Improbable Anniversary
Date: Jun 27, 2013
Length: 4:00
When Opportunity left Earth in 2003, many observers expected the rover to survive no more than a few months on the hostile surface of Mars. 10 years later, Opportunity is still going strong and could be poised to make its biggest discoveries yet at a place named Solander Point.
|The "Sleeping Giant" in Arctic Permafrost
Date: Jun 21, 2013
Length: 4:33
Arctic permafrost soils contain more accumulated carbon than all the human fossil-fuel emissions since 1850 combined. Warming Arctic permafrost, poised to release its own gases into the atmosphere, could be the "sleeping giant" of climate change.
|Strange Flames on the International Space Station
Date: Jun 17, 2013
Length: 4:18
Researchers experimenting with flames onboard the International Space Station have produced a strange, cool-burning form of fire that could help improve the efficiency of auto engines.
|An Early Start for Noctilucent Clouds
Date: Jun 07, 2013
Length: 4:15
Glowing electric-blue at the edge of space, noctilucent clouds have surprised researchers by appearing early this year. The unexpected apparition hints at a change in the "teleconnections" of Earth's atmosphere.
|Big Asteroid Flyby
Date: May 30, 2013
Length: 3:22
NASA is tracking a large near-Earth asteroid as it passes by the Earth-Moon system on May 31st. Amateur astronomers in the northern hemisphere may be able to see the space rock for themselves during the 1st week of June.
|Big Weather on Hot Jupiters
Date: May 24, 2013
Length: 4:11
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are making weather maps of an exotic class of exoplanets called "hot Jupiters." What they're finding is wilder than anything we experience here in our own solar system.
|Bright Explosion on the Moon
Date: May 16, 2013
Length: 4:00
NASA researchers who monitor the Moon for meteoroid impacts have detected the brightest explosion in the history of their program.
|Sunset Triangle
Date: May 09, 2013
Length: 3:05
The three brightest planets in this month's night sky are lining up for a beautiful sunset conjunction at the end of May.
|Glow-in-the-Dark Plants on the ISS
Date: May 02, 2013
Length: 4:11
Can plants adapt to the novelty of climate change? Researchers seeking to answer this question have sent genetically engineered plants to the ISS for exposure to extreme conditions. To report their condition, the plants have learned to glow in the dark.
|Saturn Close Up
Date: Apr 24, 2013
Length: 3:10
Saturn and Earth are lining up for a beautiful view of the ringed planet. Saturn will be at its best and brightest on April 28th.
|Comet ISON Meteor Shower
Date: Apr 19, 2013
Length: 3:48
Sungrazing Comet ISON, expected to become a bright naked-eye object later this year, might dust the Earth with meteoroids in early 2014. Researchers discuss the possibilities in this week's ScienceCast.
|A Whiff of Dark Matter on the ISS
Date: Apr 12, 2013
Length: 3:51
An advanced particle detector onboard the International Space Station may have recorded its first whiff of Dark Matter. Researchers are excited about the possibility of finally understanding what this mysterious substance is made of.
|Don't Let This Happen to Your Planet
Date: Mar 29, 2013
Length: 4:17
Life as we know it doesn't thrive on planets without ozone layers. A new instrument slated for launch to the ISS will monitor Earth's protective ozone shell with greater depth and precision than ever before.
|Collision Course? A Comet Heads for Mars
Date: Mar 25, 2013
Length: 5:07
A comet is heading for Mars, and there is a chance that it might hit the Red Planet in October 2014. An impact wouldn't necessarily mean the end of NASA's Mars program. But it would transform the program along with Mars itself.
|Sunset Comet
Date: Mar 14, 2013
Length: 3:08
Comet Pan-STARRS has survived its encounter with the sun and is now emerging from twilight in the sunset skies of the northern hemisphere. A NASA spacecraft monitoring the comet has beamed back pictures of a wild and ragged tail.
|Stormy Space Weather
Date: Mar 07, 2013
Length: 4:00
Forecasters say solar maximum is due in 2013. To prepare, the UN is organizing an international response to stormy space weather.
|Solar Max Double Peaked
Date: Mar 01, 2013
Length: 4:39
Something unexpected is happening on the sun. 2013 is supposed to be the year of Solar Max, but solar activity is much lower than expected. At least one leading forecaster expects the sun to rebound with a double-peaked maximum later this year.
|What Exploded Over Russia?
Date: Feb 25, 2013
Length: 3:44
Two weeks after an asteroid exploded over Russia's Ural mountains, scientists are making progress understanding the origin and make-up of the unexpected space rock. This week's ScienceCast presents their latest results.
|Pink Planet at Sunset
Date: Feb 08, 2013
Length: 4:04
The planet Mercury is about to make its best apparition of the year for backyard sky watchers. Look west at sunset for a piercing pink planet surrounded by twilight blue.
|A Naked-Eye Comet in March 2013
Date: Feb 01, 2013
Length: 4:11
A comet falling in from the distant reaches of the solar system could become a naked-eye object in early March. This is Comet Pan-STARRS's first visit to the inner solar system, so surprises are possible as its virgin ices are exposed to intense solar heating.
|Record-Setting Asteroid Flyby
Date: Jan 28, 2013
Length: 4:22
On Feb. 15th an asteroid about half the size of a football field will fly past Earth closer than many man-made satellites. Since regular sky surveys began in the 1990s, astronomers have never seen an object so big come so close to our planet.
|Comet of the Century
Date: Jan 18, 2013
Length: 4:01
Astronomers are keeping a close eye on a newly-discovered Comet ISON, which could become visible in broad daylight later this year when it skims through the atmosphere of the sun.
|Dark Lightning
Date: Jan 07, 2013
Length: 4:15
Researchers studying thunderstorms have made a surprising discovery: The lightning we see with our eyes has a dark competitor that discharges storm clouds and flings antimatter into space. Astrophysicists and meteorologists are scrambling to understand "dark lightning."
|Christmas Sky Show
Date: Dec 20, 2012
Length: 3:09
The Moon and Jupiter are converging for a heavenly sky show on Christmas 2012. Got a telescope? Something extra-special is happening on Jupiter that makes it an appealing target for backyard optics.
|Why the World Didn't End Yesterday
Date: Dec 11, 2012
Length: 4:20
NASA is so sure the world won't come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012, that they already released a video for the day after.
|Rock Comet Meteor Shower
Date: Nov 29, 2012
Length: 4:07
The Geminid meteor shower peaks on Dec. 13th and 14th when Earth runs through a stream of debris from a strange object that some astronomers are calling a "rock comet."
|The Diner at the Center of the Galaxy
Date: Nov 15, 2012
Length: 3:24
The Milky Way's supermassive black hole is generally a picky eater, but NASA's NuSTAR spacecraft recently caught it in the act of having a snack!
|NASA's Cure for a Common Phobia
Date: Nov 08, 2012
Length: 3:52
NASA has an unusual candidate for the astronaut corps--a rubber chicken. Seriously. Beloved by schoolchildren around the country, Camilla the rubber chicken has been training in fighter jets, flying to the edge of space, and visiting classrooms around the country as she prepares to go where no chicken has gone before.
|Total Eclipse of the Sun
Date: Nov 07, 2012
Length: 4:29
Scientists and sky watchers are converging on the northeast coast of Australia, near the Great Barrier Reef, for a total eclipse of the sun.
|Fried Planets
Date: Oct 25, 2012
Length: 3:31
Astronomers have caught a red giant star in the act of devouring one of its planets. It could be a preview of what will happen to Earth five billion years from now.
|A Meteor Shower from Halley's Comet
Date: Oct 11, 2012
Length: 2:50
Soon, Earth will pass through a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, source of the annual Orionid meteor shower. Forecasters expect 25 meteors per hour when the shower peaks on Oct. 21st.
|The Sound of Earthsong
Date: Sep 27, 2012
Length: 4:09
A NASA spacecraft has recorded eerie-sounding radio emissions coming from our own planet. These beautiful "songs of Earth" could, ironically, be responsible for the proliferation of deadly electrons in the Van Allen Belts.
|Why Curiosity Matters
Date: Sep 20, 2012
Length: 3:50
A former rock-n-roller turned NASA engineer explains why he thinks Curiosity--both the Mars rover and the human desire to learn new things--matters to ordinary people on Earth.
|Weird Planets
Date: Sep 06, 2012
Length: 4:04
Once, astronomers thought planets couldn't form around binary stars. Now Kepler has found a whole system of planets orbiting a double star. This finding shows that planetary systems are weirder and more abundant than previously thought.
|The Radiation Belt Storm Probes
Date: Aug 30, 2012
Length: 4:27
Most spacecraft try to avoid the Van Allen Belts, two doughnut-shaped regions around Earth filled with "killer electrons." This morning NASA launched two heavily-shielded spacecraft directly into the belts. The Radiation Belt Storm Probes are on a two-year mission to study the Van Allen Belts and to unravel the mystery of their unpredictability.
|Watch Out For The Blue Moon
Date: Aug 29, 2012
Length: 3:36
The second full Moon of August--a "Blue Moon"--is just around the corner. It will probably look just like any other full Moon but, on rare occasions, the Moon really does turn blue. Could it happen this month?
|Where Will Curiosity Go First?
Date: Aug 17, 2012
Length: 3:45
Curiosity is safe on Mars and ready to roll. In this video from Science@NASA, project scientist John Grotzinger discusses where the rover might go first.
|2012 Perseid Meteor Shower
Date: Aug 09, 2012
Length: 3:15
The Perseid meteor shower is underway. There's more to see than meteors, however, when the shower peaks on August 11th through 13th. The brightest planets in the solar system are lining up in the middle of the display.
|Meteor Smoke Makes Strange Clouds
Date: Aug 02, 2012
Length: 4:16
A key ingredient of Earth's strangest clouds does not come from Earth. New data from NASA's AIM spacecraft proves that "meteor smoke" is essential to the formation of noctilucent clouds.
|Mars Landing Sky Show
Date: Jul 27, 2012
Length: 4:06
On the same night Curiosity lands on Mars, a "Martian Triangle" will appear in sunset skies of Earth. The first-magnitude apparition on August 5th gives space fans something to do while they wait for news from the Red Planet.
|A Taste of Solar Maximum
Date: Jul 19, 2012
Length: 4:21
Solar maximum is still a year away. This month sky watchers got a taste of things to come when a powerful flare sparked Northern Lights over the United States as far south as Arkansas, Colorado and California.
|The First Extraterrestrial Marathon
Date: Jul 12, 2012
Length: 4:29
More than 8 years after landing on the Red Planet, Mars rover Opportunity is still running. Indeed, mission planners say the tireless robot is poised to complete a full marathon--the first ever long-distance race on an alien planet.
|A Good Reason to Wake Up at Dawn
Date: Jul 03, 2012
Length: 2:21
The brightest planets in the solar system are converging for a beautiful sunrise sky show in early July.
|Hidden Magnetic Portals Around Earth
Date: Jun 28, 2012
Length: 3:54
A NASA-sponsored researcher at the University of Iowa has developed a way for spacecraft to hunt down hidden magnetic portals in the vicinity of Earth. These portals link the magnetic field of our planet to that of the sun.
|Voyager 1 at the Final Frontier
Date: Jun 21, 2012
Length: 3:47
At the edge of the solar system, Voyager 1 is reporting a sharp increase in cosmic rays that could herald the spacecraft's long-awaited entry into interstellar space.
|Why Won't the Supernova Explode?
Date: Jun 15, 2012
Length: 4:31
A question has been troubling astronomers: Why won't the supernova explode? Although real stars blow up, the best computer models of dying stars do not result in much of a bang. NASA has launched a new observatory named "NuSTAR" to seek out the missing physics of exploding stars.
|Andromeda vs. the Milky Way: Astronomers Predict a Titanic Collision
Date: Jun 08, 2012
Length: 3:26
Astronomers no longer have any doubt: Our Milky Way Galaxy will have a head-on collision with Andromeda. Fortunately, they say, Earth will survive when the two great star systems meet 4 billions years from now.
|ISS Transit of Venus
Date: May 31, 2012
Length: 3:46
High above Earth, astronaut Don Pettit is about to become the first human to witness and photograph a transit of Venus from space. His images and commentary will be streamed to Earth during the crossing.
|Partial Eclipse of the Strawberry Moon
Date: May 24, 2012
Length: 2:39
On Monday, June 4th, the Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth, producing a partial lunar eclipse visible across the Pacific from China to the United States.
|The 2012 Transit of Venus
Date: May 17, 2012
Length: 3:53
It won't happen again until December 2117. On June 5th, 2012, Venus will transit the face of the sun in an event of both historical and observational importance. The best places to watch are in the south Pacific, but travel is not required. The event will also be visible around sunset from the USA.
|Don't Judge a Moon by its Cover
Date: May 10, 2012
Length: 3:48
Superficially, Saturn's moon Phoebe doesn't look much like a planet, but on the inside, the little gray moon has a lot in common with worlds like Earth.
|A Star Turns Inside Out
Date: May 03, 2012
Length: 3:52
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has mapped the debris of a supernova and discovered that the explosion may have turned the original star inside out. Peering into the heart of the inverted star, astronomers have found the atoms of life itself.
|Amateur Scientists Discover Galactic Bubbles
Date: Apr 27, 2012
Length: 3:26
Amateur scientists have made a effervescent discovery: The Milky Way Galaxy is bubbling like a glass of champagne.
|Here Comes Solar Maximum
Date: Apr 19, 2012
Length: 3:36
Solar storms and Northern Lights are in the offing as the sun approaches Solar Max, expected in mid-to-late 2013. Recently, Earth's defenses were tested by a volley of strong eruptions. Find out what happened in this week's explosive ScienceCast.
|April is the Cruelest Month
Date: Apr 12, 2012
Length: 3:43
One year after the historic tornado outbreak of April 27-28, 2011, researchers say they've learned a few things about deadly twisters. This week's ScienceCast presents some of the scientific findings that emerged from the swath of destruction.
|A Wonderful Night in April
Date: Apr 05, 2012
Length: 3:11
If you have to chose just one night in April to go out and look at the stars, NASA scientists say it should be April 21st. This week's ScienceCast explains what makes that one night so special.
|Getting to Know the Goldilocks Planet
Date: Mar 29, 2012
Length: 3:59
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".
|The Surprising Power of a Solar Storm
Date: Mar 22, 2012
Length: 4:03
A flurry of solar activity in early March dumped enough heat in Earth's upper atmosphere to power every residence in New York City for two years. The heat has since dissipated, but there's more to come as the solar cycle intensifies.
|Mysterious Objects at the Edge of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Date: Mar 15, 2012
Length: 3:28
NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope is finding hundreds of new objects at the very edge of the electromagnetic spectrum. Many of them have one thing in common: Astronomers have no idea what they are.
|The Super Moon of May 2012
Date: Mar 09, 2012
Length: 3:24
Another "super-Moon" is in the offing. The perigee full Moon in May will be as much as 14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full moons of 2012.
|Auroras Underfoot
Date: Mar 01, 2012
Length: 3:22
Lately, the International Space Station has been flying through geomagnetic storms, giving astronauts an close-up view of the aurora borealis just outside their windows.
|Curiosity, The Stunt Double
Date: Feb 23, 2012
Length: 3:30
En route to the Red Planet, Mars rover Curiosity has experienced the strongest solar radiation storm since 2005. No need to be alarmed: Researchers say it's all part of Curiosity's job as a 'stunt double' for human astronauts.
|An Alignment of Planets
Date: Feb 16, 2012
Length: 3:33
The brightest planets in the night sky are aligning for a must-see show in late February and March 2012. Start looking tonight!
|Alien Matter in the Solar System
Date: Feb 09, 2012
Length: 3:11
"Alien matter" detected by a NASA spacecraft orbiting Earth shows that the chemical make-up of our solar system differs from that of the surrounding galaxy. Researchers discuss the possible meaning of this mismatch in this week's ScienceCast video.
|Mission to Land on a Comet
Date: Feb 02, 2012
Length: 3:33
Europe's Rosetta spacecraft is en route to intercept a comet– and to make history. In 2014, Rosetta will enter orbit around 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and land a probe on it for a front row seat as the comet heads toward the sun.
|Solar Eclipse in the USA
Date: Jan 26, 2012
Length: 3:09
A "ring of fire" solar eclipse is coming to the USA this spring. It's the first annular eclipse visible from the contiguous United States in almost 18 years.
|What Happened to all the Snow?
Date: Jan 19, 2012
Length: 3:16
Winter seems to have been on hold this year in some parts of the United States. Snowfall has been scarce in places that were overwhelmed with the white stuff at the same time last year. In this ScienceCast, JPL climatologist Bill Patzert explains what's going on.
|Some Comets Like It Hot
Date: Jan 12, 2012
Length: 4:17
Astronomers are still scratching their heads over Comet Lovejoy, which plunged through the atmosphere of the sun in December and, against all odds, survived. The comet is now receding into the outer solar system leaving many mysteries behind.
|Re-thinking an Alien World
Date: Jan 05, 2012
Length: 3:12
A distant super-Earth named "55 Cancri e" is wetter and weirder than astronomers thought possible. The discovery has researchers re-thinking the nature of alien worlds.
|Tracking Meteoroids
Date: Dec 13, 2011
Length: 3:11
A new iPhone app just released by NASA harnesses the power of citizen scientists to track space debris around Earth.
|Smallest Terrestrial Planet?
Date: Dec 09, 2011
Length: 3:12
NASA's Dawn probe, now orbiting Vesta in the asteroid belt, has found some surprising things on the giant asteroid--things that have prompted one researcher to declare Vesta "the smallest terrestrial planet."
|A Super-Sized Lunar Eclipse
Date: Dec 01, 2011
Length: 3:39
On Dec 10th, sky watchers in the western United States will witness a total lunar eclipse swollen to super-sized proportions by the Moon illusion.
|The Great Lakes of Europa
Date: Nov 23, 2011
Length: 3:32
Scientists studying data from NASA's Galileo probe have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water the volume of the North American Great Lakes locked inside the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa. This improves the odds that Europa is a habitat for extraterrestrial life.
|Terrifying Auroras
Date: Nov 23, 2011
Length: 3:47
A distant world is being hit by solar storms so ferocious, the entire planet is probably enveloped in auroras. Researchers speculate that the display is probably as beautiful as it is terrifying.
|Mystery of the Lunar Ionosphere
Date: Nov 10, 2011
Length: 3:37
How can a world without air have an ionosphere? Somehow the Moon has done it. Lunar researchers have been struggling with this mystery for years, and they may have finally found a solution.
|Stellar Extremophiles
Date: Nov 03, 2011
Length: 3:40
A NASA space telescope named "GALEX" has found stars forming in extreme galactic environments, places where researchers thought stars should not be. The finding could affect astronomy much as the discovery of microbial extremophiles affected biology in the 1970s.
|A Star with Spiral Arms
Date: Oct 28, 2011
Length: 3:36
Using a Japanese telescope, NASA-supported researchers have found the first clear case of a star with spiral arms.
|The Sleepy Hollows of Mercury
Date: Oct 20, 2011
Length: 3:14
NASA's MESSENGER probe has discovered a surprise on Mercury: Something is digging "hollows" in the surface of the innermost planet.
|600 Mysteries in the Night Sky
Date: Oct 14, 2011
Length: 3:08
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope recently produced a map of the night sky. Out of 1873 new sources, nearly 600 were complete mysteries. In this week's ScienceCast, researchers speculate on the nature of the mystery objects - including the possibility that they are made of dark matter.
|Draconid Meteor Outburst
Date: Oct 05, 2011
Length: 3:27
Forecasters say Earth is heading for a stream of dust from Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner. A close encounter with the comet's fragile debris could spark a meteor outburst over parts of our planet on October 8th.
|The Strange Attraction of Gale Crater
Date: Sep 29, 2011
Length: 3:14
NASA's newest rover Curiosity is getting ready to leave Earth. It's destination: Gale crater on Mars. Today's story from Science@NASA explains the attraction of this Martian crater with a strangely-sculpted mountain the middle.
|Did Earth Have Two Moons?
Date: Sep 22, 2011
Length: 3:00
Did our planet once have two moons? Some researchers say so. Moreover, the missing satellite might still be up there--splattered across the far side of the Moon. NASA's GRAIL mission could help confirm or refute the "two moon" hypothesis.
|Secret Lives of Solar Flares
Date: Sep 15, 2011
Length: 3:10
Researchers have just discovered that solar flares have been keeping a secret--and it's a big one.
|Cool Stars
Date: Sep 09, 2011
Length: 2:55
Stars as cold as the human body? Believe it. A NASA spacecraft has discovered a half-dozen "Y Dwarfs" with atmospheric temperatures as low as 80 F.
|Visit To Pluto
Date: Sep 02, 2011
Length: 2:47
Dwarf planet Pluto is a world of mystery waiting to be visited for the first time. NASA's New Horizons probe is racing across the solar system for a ground breaking close encounter that could dramatically alter what researchers "know" about Pluto and other small worlds.
|Breath of Fresh Air
Date: Aug 25, 2011
Length: 2:45
The same kind of oxygen humans breath on Earth has been found in deep space. It's a breath of fresh air for astronomers who have been searching for cosmic "O2" until now without success.
|Bright Perseids Photographed
Date: Aug 18, 2011
Length: 2:24
On August 13th, space station astronaut Ron Garan photographed a centimeter-sized chunk of comet debris disintegrating in Earth's atmosphere. His rare photo of a meteor from Earth orbit is a must-see.
|Dawn's Smooth Move
Date: Aug 04, 2011
Length: 3:29
NASA's Dawn spacecraft doesn't do things like other missions. In July it slipped into orbit around asteroid Vesta using a smooth move that made mission planners want to get up and dance.
|What Lies Inside Jupiter
Date: Jul 28, 2011
Length: 3:20
For four long centuries the gas giant's vast interior has remained hidden from view. NASA's Juno probe, scheduled to launch on August 5th, could change all that.
|Sun Grazing Comet
Date: Jul 27, 2001
Length: 2:55
On July 5th, a comet dove into the sun and disintegrated. New footage just released by NASA shows the final stages of the comet's death plunge.
|Summer Meteor Shower
Date: Jul 21, 2011
Length: 2:47
If you're camping out and can't sleep, maybe your slumber is being interrupted by the flash of meteors. The summer Perseid meteor shower is getting underway as Earth enters the debris stream from comet Swift-Tuttle.
|Dark Fireworks
Date: Jul 14, 2011
Length: 2:45
NASA has just released new movies of an "inky-dark" solar explosion that continues to puzzle experts more than a month after it happened.
|An Astronomer's Dilemma
Date: Jul 07, 2011
Length: 2:55
Stars are bright, but their planets are not, which makes planet hunting difficult. However, NASA's ultraviolet telescope GALEX may be providing a solution.
|Wild Weather
Date: Jun 30, 2011
Length: 3:04
Record snowfall, killer tornadoes, devastating floods: There's no doubt about it. Since Dec. 2010, the weather in the USA has been positively wild. But why?
|Power of Sea Salt
Date: Jun 16, 2011
Length: 3:05
Aquarius is the first NASA sensor to track ocean salinity from space, and aims to help uncover how the salinity of Earth's oceans are effecting our climate.
|Big Surprise
Date: Jun 09, 2011
Length: 2:58
NASA's Voyager probes have reached the edge of the solar system and found something surprising there--a froth of magnetic bubbles separating us from the rest of the galaxy.
|Salute to Spirit
Date: Jun 02, 2011
Length: 3:36
It's been more than a year since NASA has heard from Mars rover Spirit. The agency says it may be time to say "thanks and farewell."
Date: May 19, 2011
Length: 3:03
Something is exploding in the Crab Nebula ten billion times more powerful than a solar flare. These "superflares" are baffling astronomers who haven't yet figured out the source of the blasts.
|Space-Time Vortex
Date: May 12, 2011
Length: 2:49
NASA has announced the results of an epic physics experiment which confirms the reality of a space-time vortex around our planet.
|Morning Planet Show
Date: May 05, 2011
Length: 2:02
The Great Morning Planet Show of May 2011 is underway. Wake up before sunrise any day this month to see a shape-shifting alignment of heavenly lights.
Date: Apr 28, 2011
Length: 4:30
More than 30 years after they were launched, NASA's two Voyager probes have traveled to the edge of the solar system and are on the doorstep of interstellar space.
|Meteors from Halley's Comet
Date: Apr 20, 2011
Length: 2:28
Earth is about to pass through a stream of dust from Halley's Comet, source of the annual eta Aquarid meteor shower. The show begins before sunrise on May 6th.
|Solar Activity
Date: Apr 13, 2011
Length: 2:36
With a burst of solar flares and Northern Lights, the sun is waking up from a three-year slumber.
Date: Apr 06, 2011
Length: 1:58
For reasons researchers do not understand, the rate of midnight fireballs increases during the weeks around the vernal equinox. It's a beautiful display, but where do they come from? NASA's growing network of fireball cameras is scanning the heavens for answers.
Date: Mar 31, 2011
Length: 2:47
Strange quantum fluids that love to sneak out of cups have been found trapped inside the core of a dead neutron star.
|Missing Sunspots
Date: Mar 23, 2011
Length: 2:15
When solar activity recently plunged into a century-class minimum, many experts were puzzled. Now a group of researchers say they have cracked the mystery of the missing sunspots.
|Super Moon
Date: Mar 16, 2011
Length: 3:00
Mark your calendar. On March 19th, a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years.
Date: Mar 09, 2011
Length: 2:04
Last month, NASA scientists got a rare chance to study "thundersnow" first-hand when a freak winter storm rolled right over their research center.
Date: Feb 18, 2011
Length: 1:44
High overhead, out of the darkness, a bright light surges into view. For 5 to 10 seconds it outshines the brightest stars in the sky, mimicking a supernova, perhaps even casting faint shadows at your feet. The silence is broken by your own excited shouts. Could this happen to you? It could, if you happen to be outside when NanoSail-D flies by.


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Compound Interest - Periodic Compounding
The wording threw me.
Essentially what this means is that you receive a 3.2% compound after the first 6 months, then a 3.2% compound after the next 6 months.
The starting amount is
This is compounded by after months:
...Then it's compounded again after another months:
So after one year, you have
And after T years:
I think they've missed out a decimal place in their answer, otherwise I have the same result.


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it would be much easier if u wrote it like
and then apply it
I tried solving the following problem many times, but each time I do I end up with the wrong answer. Is the order which I differentiated this expression in correct? Also, is the derivative of e (a constant) e or 0? I'm still very new to calculus, so I'd really appreciate a detailed explanation in regarsds to solving this problem. Thanks.
After applying the quotient rule, I ended up with:
In order to simplify, is it necessary that I find the derivatives of the expressions accompanied by the prime notation? Or do I ignore the primes and begin by converting this one fraction into two of them?
You are making things complicated for yourself.
L'Hopital's rule is used when the limit of your right-hand factor
approaches as n goes to infinity.
It's already in that form, but the differentiation wrt n is inconvenient due to
n being in a denominator position.
Therefore substitute and evaluate the limit as x goes to zero instead.
Now differentiate numerator and denominator since you still have
if you try to evaluate the limit.
Use the product rule for the numerator.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe there's a problem here. The top, tends towards 1 as , whereas the bottom is the indeterminate form as ?
Let's rewrite the limit as
We need to evaluate the bottom first. Change it to
Applying L'Hopital's rule,
Which simplifies to .
and so our solution is ?
Math Major, the answer to this problem can be found at Solutions to the Limit Definition of a Definite Integral . The problem was that I didn't understand anything past the L'Hopital's Rule point.


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No-Bake Classic: Millionaire PiePatricia Mitchell
I got my first taste of Millionaire Pie at a Wyatt's Cafeteria in Fort Worth back in the fifties. It was an instant hit with all the after-church-on-Sunday crowd, and the recipe quickly made the rounds.
For those of you with pie-baking phobia and, apparently, there are quite a few of you, Millionaire Pie is remarkably simple to make. It can be made with real whipping cream, but this recipe calls for frozen whipped topping, such as Cool Whip, instead. Ordinarily, I prefer to cook with real dairy products, but I think this pie has a better, more uniform texture, lasts a little longer and tastes just as good with the non-dairy substitute. And, of course, it results in fewer calories and fat, but we're really not going for a low-cal dessert here, considering the other ingredients.
Unless you want your pie to have a pastry crust, you won't even have to turn on your oven. Links to several no-bake crusts are provided below.
This is a rich and delicious, though light, dessert -- perfect for summer, but I guarantee you it will be appreciated any time.
Millionaire Pie
Cream together the softened cream cheese and the sugar with an electric mixer, letting the mixer run for 3 or 4 minutes on high speed.
Stir into the cream cheese mixture the crushed pineapple, coconut and pecans, and mix well.
Carefully fold in half of the whipped topping until filling is blended well. Reserve remaining half for top (see below).
Pile the filling into a baked pie shell, and chill for several hours.
Prep time: 20 minutes; Cooking time: none; Total time: 4 hours
Millionaire Pie can be garnished with a dollop of the reserved whipped topping when served, or you can spread the remaining half of the topping over the whole pie and finish with a sprinkling of chopped pecans. A third alternative is to fold both cups of whipped topping into the filling; this works quite well and makes for an even lighter texture, but allow more chilling time before serving if you go this route.
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BookMania! author Q&A: Reeve Lindbergh
When: 9 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Feb. 2
Where: Jensen Beach High School Performing Arts Center, 2875 N.W. Goldenrod Road, Jensen Beach
Cost: Free
Information: 772-221-1403, www.library.martin.fl.us
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9-9:15 a.m. Introductions
9:15-10:30 a.m. Around the World with Historical Fiction Panel, with authors:
Debra Dean, The Mirrored World
Karen Engelmann, The Stockholm Octavo
Anna Funder, All That I Am
Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan
* Book Signing 10:30-11:15 a.m.
10:45-11:30 a.m. Lt. Col. (Ret.) Dan Hampton, Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat
* Book Signing 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Thrills and Chills Panel with authors:
Mary Jane Clark, Footprints in the Sand
Loren D. Estleman, Burning Midnight
James Grippando, Blood Money
Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Boudoir
* Book Signing 1:15-2 p.m.
1:30-2:15 p.m. Reeve Lindbergh, Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986 (by Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
* Book Signing 2:15-3:00 p.m.
2:30-3:15 p.m. Literary Fiction Panel with authors:
Rilla Askew, Kind of Kin
Wiley Cash, A Land More Kind Than Home
* Book Signing: 3:15-4:00 p.m.
3:30-4:30 p.m. Historical Nonfiction Panel with autors:
Gene Allen Smith, The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812
Les Standiford, Desperate Sons: Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the Secret Bands of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War
* Book Signing 4:30-5:15 p.m.
Reeve Lindbergh, is the daughter of Charles Lindbergh and the author of more than 20 books. Her latest book, "Against Wind and Tide," is a collection of her mother's letters and diary entries. Lindbergh will appear Feb. 2 at Martin County Library System's BookMania! at Jensen Beach High School.
Q: What was your favorite book as a child?
A: Mary Poppins and C.S. Lewis books
Q: Did you always want to be a writer?
A: I thought I would be a writer, yes. My parents and grandparents were writers.
Q: If you weren't a writer, what would you be doing?
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Q: Can you recall the moment you found out you were going to be published?
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Q: How many rejections did you get?
A: I quit submitting after five.
Q: What is your work day like?
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Q: What is your writing style? Do you outline first?A: Sometimes. It depends on the project. I start out writing longhand the first few pages then go to the computer. I probably write five or six drafts of each piece.
Q: How did you discern what to reveal and what to keep from the public?
A: There was nothing I didn't want to share. The book is edited but not censored.
Q: Do you have a preferred place to write?
A: In my living room, beside the fire, with a note pad on my knees.
Q: Do you prefer to work with music or quiet?
A: I don't mind interruptions. My husband is a writer, too, and he'll come in and we'll discuss ideas while I'm working.
Q: Where do your ideas come from? Do the stories come to you in total or in pieces?
A: Everywhere. From events in my life and all around me.
Q: If your book was made into a feature film, who would you want to play the lead?
A: I don't know, maybe one of the women from Downton Abbey. Any petite, elegant actress, I guess.
Q: What is your favorite movie that was adapted from a book?
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Q: What are you reading now?
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Q: Who is your favorite author?
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Frederick Francis Haddad
Frederick Francis Haddad, 50, of Parkersburg, passed away Nov. 9, 2013, at Camden Clark Medical Center, St. Joseph's Campus.
He was born July 3, 1963, in Parkersburg, a son of Freddie Haddad of Parkersburg and the late Frances Gwinn Haddad.
Fred was owner of Haddad Shoe Service in Parkersburg. He enjoyed riding his Harley-Davidson Motorcycle and was a member of ABATE, former member of the Flying Circle and Brothers of The Wheel Motorcycle Clubs. He was involved in much charity work throughout the years.
In addition to his father, Fred is survived by his daughter, Erica Haddad of Manassas, Va.; his son, Nathan Haddad of Pittsburgh, Pa.; one brother, Louie Haddad of Parkersburg; a grandchild, Roxy Haddad of Manasses, Va.; his stepmother, Noha Haddad of Parkersburg; and nephews and nieces, Louie, Andrea, Justin, Anton and Dakota Haddad.
He was preceded in death by his mother; one brother, Anton Haddad; his maternal grandparents, Buster and Lena Gwinn; and his paternal grandparents, Elias and Ghazaly Haddad.
A funeral service for Fred will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Lambert-Tatman Funeral Home, Pike Street, south Parkersburg, with Pastor Robert Holland officiating. Burial will follow in Evergreen North Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday and 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Please send online condolences to the Haddad family at www.lamberttatman.com


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Ruth Cameron: Roadhouse
But the bottom line is that this album is good vocal stuff. Cameron's soft, cool, wispy style recalls Jeri Southern, Peggy Lee (when Lee wanted to be soft and wispy) and, since her teacher was Sue Raney, that singer as well. She also includes the verses to some of the songs, like "Body and Soul". Gary Foster's tenor noodles underneath a soft, poignant version of "My old Flame" with a sensuous tinge in Cameron's voice making one recall Peggy Lee's 1969 rendition of this tune favored by singers who lean toward the ballad form. There is one medium tempo, and fun, piece and that's the album's coda "Waitin' for the Train to Come in" with Federico Ruiz's violin doing the bulk of the accompanying honors ably supported by Chris Dawson on piano. Ralph Moore's tenor underpins Cameron on five tracks and is especially soulful on "One for My Baby and One More for the Road".
Ruth Cameron's second CD is a good one and is highly recommended.


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One Treasury official after another is doing somersaults on a wire to distract us from the obvious: We need to nationalize many of the banks, not save them as private entities.
The banks got us into this financial mess in the first place by making unwise home loans and by speculating in unregulated credit-default swaps tied to those loans. They have taken the entire world economy down with them. They don't deserve to be bailed out.
If our government really believed in free enterprise, these banks would be out of business right now.
Instead, first the Bush Administration and now the Obama Administration have decided to act like an iron lung for the banks, pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into them to keep them alive.
There is no reason to do that.
And it would have been cheaper to buy them outright.
"The day we gave Citigroup their second infusion we could have bought them for the same $20 billion," says economist Dean Baker. "On top of that, we guaranteed $300 billion of assets. We could have bought Citigroup several times over."
Still, the banks aren't solvent. Baker estimates that the losses on most of their balance sheets outweigh their capital. This is a recipe for indefinite bailouts.
Nobel Prize-winner in economics Joseph Stiglitz also sees the irrationality of leaving the banks in private hands.
"In effect, the American taxpayers are the major provider of finance to the banks," he wrote on CNN's website. "In some cases, the value of our equity injection, guarantees, and other forms of assistance dwarfs the value of the 'private' sector's equity contribution. Yet we have no voice in how the banks are run."
We don't have a voice because the Bush Administration tied no strings to the $350 billion. But if we're the major shareholders, as we now are with Citigroup (taxpayers hold a 7.8 percent stake) and Bank of America (6 percent), we ought to have a major say. And if we're going to throw more money at them, why not just purchase the banks themselves?
The banks have not done what the government told us they were supposed to do when it lavished the first $350 billion on them. They didn't start lending more.
"The last thing in their mind was to restart lending," wrote Stiglitz. And even today, they have a strong incentive to sit on their cash.
"There is still no assurance of a resumption of lending," Stiglitz explains. "Having been burned once, many bankers are staying away from the fire. . . . Many a bank may decide that the better strategy is a conservative one: Hoard one's cash, wait until things settle down, hope that you are among the few surviving banks, and then start lending. Of course, if all the banks reason so, the recession will be longer and deeper than it otherwise would be."
So, since lending is vital to the economy, and since the private banks won't lend, let's buy up some insolvent banks so we can get the lending going ourselves. The private sector has proven that it can't or won't do the job. The public sector must step in. Put a different way, if we want companies to receive loans, why not get rid of the middleman, and have the government lend directly to businesses and to homeowners?
"For the moment, there's no choice," says Robert Pollin, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. "Relative to a year ago, lending in the U.S. economy is down an astonishing 90 percent. The government needs to take over the banks now, and force them to start lending." (Pollin wants the government to sell the banks back into private hands, later on, with stringent regulations.)
Truly nationalized banks, run by the government for the people, would help out the economy as a whole. As Stiglitz put it, under private ownership, there's a "huge gap between private rewards and social returns." Under public ownership, "the incentives of the banks can be aligned better with those of the country. And it is in the national interest that prudent lending be restarted."
We could reap other social returns from nationalization, as well. "If the banks were nationalized, the government could declare a moratorium on foreclosures for the properties it controls, and move to restructure mortgages—perhaps at subsidized rates—for homeowners," writes Joshua Holland of AlterNet.
As it is right now, we're getting some of the vices of nationalization without all the virtues. We're shelling out gobs of public money for these companies—in many cases, more money than the companies are actually worth—but we're not running these companies in the public interest. We're allowing the companies to remain in private hands, for private purposes.
"We have a financial system that is run by private shareholders, managed by private institutions, and we'd like to do our best to preserve that system," said Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
Why is that the job of the Obama Administration?
I thought its job was to make the economy work for the American public. And keeping the banks in private hands isn't getting the job done. Throwing hundreds of billions of dollars, over and over, to keep these banks on life support makes no sense.
Unless you want to ensure that the shareholders get artificially inflated returns and the executives get to keep their jobs.
Or unless you are too snug in your ideological straitjacket to even consider the most rational way to proceed.
And that's the problem today. The word "nationalization" shuts off the debate. Never mind that Britain, facing the same crisis we are, just nationalized the Bank of Scotland. Never mind that Ronald Reagan himself considered such an option during a global banking crisis in the early 1980s.
"When a bank is insolvent, the regulators put it into receivership," says James Galbraith, professor of government at the LBJ School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin. "The Reagan Administration had a plan to do it with all the big banks in 1982 and 1983, if a single large Latin American country had defaulted. Let me repeat that: the Reagan Administration."
But the Obama Administration is not considering receivership, much less genuine nationalization in the interests of the majority of Americans. Cluttered with worshippers of the private sector, skittish about being tagged "leftist," and beset by obdurate Republicans, the Obama Administration has blocked off the path to true nationalization. Instead, it is opting for gimmicky proposals to take some bad debts off the books—all in service of those "private shareholders" that Geithner so adores.
Granted, nationalization over the long haul is a risky business, too, which is why Pollin resists it.
"We would have every reason to expect a wide range of failures and misjudgments, including 'crony capitalism'—privileged back-room dealings with selected non-financial firms," Pollin writes in Boston Review.
Pollin is also worried about the political fallout. "The failures of the nationalized system could be the very thing—perhaps the only thing—that could shift the target of public outrage over the collapse of the financial system off Wall Street and onto the U.S. government," he wrote.
While these are certainly legitimate concerns, we've seen what the private sector does—not only when left to its own devices but also when bailed out by hundreds of billions of our funds.
Yes, if it took over some of the banks, the government would have to carefully design a system to prevent corruption. And yes, there would be bumps along the road.
But we've had enough bumps on the road marked "private."
If we're going to be shelling out the money, we might as well run the store.
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Trump's politics are not the problem.
By Wendell Berry
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know. So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years. Listen to carrion—put your ear close, and hear the faint chattering of the songs that are to come. Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. So long as women do not go cheap for power, please women more than men. Ask yourself: Will this satisfy a woman satisfied to bear a child? Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth? Go with your love to the fields. Lie easy in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts. As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
Wendell Berry is a poet, farmer, and environmentalist in Kentucky. This poem, first published in 1973, is reprinted by permission of the author and appears in his "New Collected Poems" (Counterpoint).


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Hi In my calculus class today, we had a lesson on solving polynomial inequalities. However, after my classmates and I got the answers to the homework wrong and I checked the internet, I suspect my teacher taught us wrong. Before I do anything about it though, I want to check for certain whether or not the method he gave us is wrong.
He told us to factor the polynomial, then treat each one as a separate linear function, and just bring it over across the sign (obviously flipping it if you multiply or divide by a negative).
For example, here's what he showed us to do for this question:
-x^2 + 4x - 4 > 0
-(x-2)^2 > 0
(x-2)^2 < 0
x-2 < 0
Two identical solutions: x < 2
However, I found the correct answer on the internet and in the text to be x = 2. This is just one of many where the answer I got using his method was wrong. Is what he did correct, or should it be done as these sites say:
Solving Polynomial Inequalities
Solving Polynomial Inequalities Analytically
Thanks so much to anyone who takes the time to read this and help
EDIT: It should read greater than or equal to.
as Krizalid pointed out, you would end up with |x - 2|<0 and there is no solution to that equation, since |x - 2| >= 0 for all x
if the original question was really -x^2 + 4x - 4 >= 0 then the solution is x = 2 as your text says as the inequality |x - 2| =< 0 has x = 2 as the only solution


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Elementary school students put down their books and pencils Friday to play in the sand.
Emerson Elementary in La Crosse brought in a sand sculptor to teach the kids how to make art with sand.
The students worked side by side with the artist to create their own sand castles as a change of pace for the day.
Their art teacher says sand is a great tool for the students to use since you can find it all over La Crosse. "Every once in a while, it's a really good way to create a learning experience to break the routine of the daily grind of school to take them out and do something different and create lots of memories that way. It does something they'll never forget," said teacher Erich Boldt.
The sculptor visited students at Northside and Hamilton earlier this week.