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The ComPair-2 team tested the detectors’ performance at hot and cold temperatures over the course of a week and the overall survivability of the layer itself. Credit: NASA/Sophia RobertsAlt text: A piece of equipment sits inside a chamber in a lab. Image description: A cylindrical metal chamber at the center of the image has its door swung all the way open. Inside are silver-wrapped ComPair-2 detectors attached to many copper-colored wires. 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Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterAlt text: Narrated video introducing simulations of merging neutron star magnetospheresMusic: “A Theory Develops,” Pip Heywood [PRS], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || NS_Binary_Sim_Still.jpg (5760x3240) [1.4 MB] || NS_Binary_Sim_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [67.6 KB] || NS_Binary_Sim_Still_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || 14884_NeutronStarBinarySim2_good.mp4 (1920x1080) [220.4 MB] || 14884_NeutronStarBinarySim2_best.mp4 (1920x1080) [363.9 MB] || NeutronStarBinarySimulationCaptions.en_US.srt [2.4 KB] || NeutronStarBinarySimulationCaptions.en_US.vtt [2.2 KB] || 14884_NeutronStarBinarySim2_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.7 GB] || ", "hits": 450 }, { "id": 14916, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14916/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-12-08T09:30:00-05:00", "title": "Black Hole Eats Star: The Longest GRB Ever Seen", "description": "Unusually long gamma-ray bursts require more exotic origins than typical GRBs. This animation illustrates one proposed explanation for GRB 250702B — the merger of a stellar-mass black hole with its stellar companion. As the black hole makes its last few orbits, it pulls large amounts of gas from the star. At some point in this process, the system begins to shine brightly in X-rays. Then, as the black hole enters the main body of the star, it rapidly consumes stellar matter, blasting gamma-ray jets (magenta) outward and causing the star to explode. 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Credit: NASA/Sophia RobertsAlt text: Scientific hardware on a table Image description: A square piece of scientific hardware rests on a table on top of a silver cover. The hardware has a white board on the bottom with a silver peg at each corner. Inside the pegs is a black square with orange and green electronic components. The green runs along the bottom of the square and takes up the left corner of the black square. The orange electronic components run in 20 stripes along the black square. 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They first came to the attention of astronomers in the 1970s when new satellites detected this surprising phenomenon. Over decades, scientists have found that these blasts could be detected somewhere in the sky almost every day, and that they were both extremely distant — the closest known is over 100 million light-years away — and enormously powerful. Gamma-ray bursts are now linked to the explosive deaths of massive stars and to mergers of compact objects, like neutron stars and black holes, but many puzzles remain. 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Learn what NASA’s Fermi mission saw, and what this feature may be telling us about the burst’s light-speed jets. 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To do so, the mission team had to map the spacecraft’s own magnetic field using a special facility at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The magnetic calibration chamber generates a known magnetic field that cancels out Earth’s. The team's measurements of BurstCube’s field in the chamber will help figure out where the satellite is pointing once in space, so scientists can locate gamma-ray bursts and tell other observatories where to look. || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 14488, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14488/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-12-18T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "BurstCube Gets Its Solar Panels", "description": "Engineers work on the BurstCube mission’s solar panels in this video. The first shot pans across the spacecraft as it rests on a table, panels unfolded. The second shot starts close to the spacecraft, then pulls back. The third shot shows NASA engineers Julie Cox and Kate Gasaway attaching one of the panels. The fourth shot shows one of the unattached panels sitting on a piece of foil on a blue tabletop. The fifth shot is a wider view of the unattached panel with Cox in view. The sixth and seventh shots show Cox and Gasaway attaching the second panel to the other side of the spacecraft, from the side and above, respectively. The final shot shows a test deployment of the solar panels. 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This CubeSat will detect short gamma-ray bursts, brief flashes of the highest-energy form of light. Dense stellar remnants called neutron stars create these bursts when they collide with other neutron stars or black holes. Short gamma-ray bursts, which last less than 2 seconds, are important sources for gravitational wave discoveries and multimessenger astronomy. As BurstCube orbits, it will experience major temperature swings every 90 minutes as it passes in and out of daylight. The team evaluated how the spacecraft will operate in these new conditions using a thermal vacuum chamber at Goddard, shown in these images and video, where temperatures ranged from minus 4 to 113 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 20 to 45 Celsius). || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 14490, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14490/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-12-18T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "BurstCube Completes an Open-Sky Test", "description": "This video shows engineers conducting an open-sky test of the BurstCube satellite’s GPS at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The first shot shows Benjamin Nold (NASA) and Justin Clavette (SSAI) sitting around the spacecraft on a rooftop while Kate Gasaway (NASA) works in the background. The second shot shows Gasaway and Clavette looking at a laptop in the background, with BurstCube in the foreground. The third shot shows birds landing on an antenna on the rooftop. The fourth shot shows Clavette and Nold crouched next to the BurstCube satellite. The fifth shot shows Gasaway typing on the laptop. The sixth shot is a closer view of Gasaway and Clavette looking at the laptop. The eighth shot shows some of the electronics used to monitor the spacecraft. The ninth shot shows the data readout from the spacecraft on the laptop. The final shots show birds flying over the rooftop. 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If you’d like to follow their adventure, check out this video for tips and tricks.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Wanna Be Hipster\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || 14355_Traveler_GRB_YT_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [226.8 KB] || 14355_Traveler_GRB_YT_Still_searchweb.png (180x320) [63.6 KB] || 14355_Traveler_GRB_YT_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || 14355_Traveler_GRB_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [147.4 MB] || 14355_Traveler_GRB_sub100.mp4 (1920x1080) [92.0 MB] || 14355_Traveler_GRB_1080.webm (1920x1080) [30.2 MB] || 14355_Traveler_GRB_ProRes_3840x2160_12.mov (3840x2160) [5.7 GB] || 14355_Traveler_GRB_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [679.8 MB] || 14355_Traveler_GRB_Captions_SRT.en_US.srt [4.9 KB] || 14355_Traveler_GRB_Captions_SRT.en_US.vtt [4.7 KB] || ", "hits": 112 }, { "id": 14323, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14323/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-05-11T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Cosmic Cycles 7: Echoes of the Big Bang", "description": "This video includes music from a synthesized orchestra provided by composer Henry Dehlinger.Music credit: “Echoes of the Big Bang\" from Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony by Henry Dehlinger. Courtesy of the composer.Complete list of footage usedHERE. Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || Cosmic_Cycles_Echoes_of_the_Big_Bang_V2_print.jpg (1024x576) [73.5 KB] || Cosmic_Cycles_Echoes_of_the_Big_Bang_V2.jpg (3840x2160) [511.8 KB] || Cosmic_Cycles_Echoes_of_the_Big_Bang_V2_searchweb.png (320x180) [40.4 KB] || Cosmic_Cycles_Echoes_of_the_Big_Bang_V2_thm.png (80x40) [5.4 KB] || Cosmic_Cycles-Echoes_of_the_Big_Bang_Online_1080.webm (1920x1080) [130.2 MB] || Cosmic_Cycles-Echoes_of_the_Big_Bang_Online_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.7 GB] || Cosmic_Cycles-Echoes_of_the_Big_Bang_Online_50mbps.mp4 (1920x1080) [4.1 GB] || Cosmic_Cycles-Echoes_of_the_Big_Bang_Online_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [14.7 GB] || ", "hits": 116 }, { "id": 14317, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14317/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-03-28T13:50:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Missions Probe What May Be a 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-ray Burst", "description": "The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 revealed the infrared afterglow (circled) of the BOAT GRB and its host galaxy, seen nearly edge-on as a sliver of light extending to the burst's upper left. This animation flips between images taken on Nov. 8 and Dec. 4, 2022, one and two months after the eruption. Given its brightness, the burst’s afterglow may remain detectable by telescopes for several years. Each picture combines three near-infrared images taken at wavelengths from 1 to 1.5 microns and is 34 arcseconds across. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Levan (Radboud University); Image Processing: Gladys Kober || GRB_WFC3IR1108+1204_circled.gif (512x512) [3.5 MB] || ", "hits": 137 }, { "id": 14209, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14209/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-01-09T17:10:00-05:00", "title": "NASA’s Compton Mission Glimpses Supersized Neutron Stars", "description": "This simulation tracks the gravitational wave and density changes as two orbiting neutron stars crash together. Dark purple colors represent the lowest densities, while yellow-white shows the highest. An audible tone and a visual frequency scale (at left) track the steady rise in the frequency of gravitational waves as the neutron stars close. When the objects merge at 42 seconds, the gravitational waves suddenly jump to frequencies of thousands of hertz and bounce between two primary tones (quasiperiodic oscillations, or QPOs). The presence of these signals in such simulations led to the search and discovery of similar phenomena in the light emitted by short gamma-ray bursts.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and STAG Research Centre/Peter HammondComplete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Visual description:On a black background with a faint gray grid, two multicolored blobs representing merging neutron stars circle and close. The colors indicate density. Yellow-white indicates the highest densities, at the centers of the objects. The colors change to orange and red at their periphery, with purple colors representing matter torn from and swirling with the neutron stars as they orbit. The grid shrinks as the camera pulls back to capture a wider view of the merger. A pale orange display at left shows the changing frequency of the gravitational waves generated, which is also indicated by the rising tone. As the merger occurs, the screen shows a spinning yellow blob at center immersed in a large cloud of magneta and purple debris. || Merger_Simulation_Annotated_Still_2.jpg (1920x1080) [180.7 KB] || 14209_Hypermassive_QPO_Simulation_Zoom_YOUTUBE_1080.webm (1920x1080) [12.1 MB] || 14209_Hypermassive_QPO_Simulation_Zoom_YOUTUBE_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [129.3 MB] || 14209_Hypermassive_QPO_Simulation_Zoom_YOUTUBE_BEST_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [161.8 MB] || 14209_NS_Merger_QPO_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [1.6 KB] || 14209_NS_Merger_QPO_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.6 KB] || 14209_Hypermassive_QPO_Simulation_Zoom_YOUTUBE_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.0 GB] || ", "hits": 251 }, { "id": 14255, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14255/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-12-07T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA’s Fermi, Swift Capture Revolutionary Gamma-Ray Burst", "description": "Watch to learn how an event called GRB 211211A rocked scientists’s understanding of gamma-ray bursts – the most powerful explosions in the cosmos.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic Credits: \"Finished Plate\" by Airglo and \"Binary Fission\" by Tom KaneWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || Title_Card_Revolutionary_GRB.jpg (1920x1080) [1.5 MB] || Title_Card_Revolutionary_GRB_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.7 KB] || Title_Card_Revolutionary_GRB_thm.png (80x40) [7.3 KB] || NASA’s_Fermi,_Swift_Capture_Revolutionary_Gamma-Ray_Burst.mp4 (1920x1080) [171.9 MB] || NASA’s_Fermi,_Swift_Capture_Revolutionary_Gamma-Ray_Burst_ProRes.mov (1920x1080) [2.2 GB] || NASA’s_Fermi,_Swift_Capture_Revolutionary_Gamma-Ray_Burst.webm (1920x1080) [18.4 MB] || Long_GRB_Captions.en_US.srt [2.8 KB] || Long_GRB_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.8 KB] || ", "hits": 172 }, { "id": 31210, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31210/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2022-12-01T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "AAS 241 student winner Austin Brenner", "description": "AAS 2023 Student winner Austin Brenner || flux_video000_print.jpg (1024x576) [64.0 KB] || flux_video000_searchweb.png (320x180) [51.0 KB] || flux_video000_thm.png (80x40) [4.4 KB] || flux (3840x2160) [32.0 KB] || open_close (3840x2160) [4.0 KB] || station (3840x2160) [64.0 KB] || open_closed_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.5 MB] || flux_video_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [86.5 MB] || open_closed_2160p30.webm (3840x2160) [877.4 KB] || station_mapping_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [113.0 MB] || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 14167, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14167/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-10-31T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "BurstCube Integration", "description": "BurstCube is a mission under development at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. This CubeSat will detect short gamma-ray bursts, which are important sources for gravitational wave discoveries and multimessenger astronomy. The satellite is expected to launch in March 2024. || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 20371, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20371/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2022-10-28T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "BurstCube Animations", "description": "BurstCube is a mission under development at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. This CubeSat will detect short gamma-ray bursts, which are important sources for gravitational wave discoveries and multimessenger astronomy. The satellite is expected to launch in 2023. || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 14227, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14227/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-10-13T15:30:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Missions Detect Record-Breaking Burst", "description": "Swift’s X-Ray Telescope captured the afterglow of GRB 221009A about an hour after it was first detected. The bright rings form as a result of X-rays scattered by otherwise unobservable dust layers within our galaxy that lie in the direction of the burst. The dark vertical line is an artifact of the imaging system.Credit: NASA/Swift/A. Beardmore (University of Leicester) || XRT_image_crop.jpg (1084x1080) [629.3 KB] || XRT_image_crop_print.jpg (1024x1020) [657.0 KB] || XRT_image_crop_searchweb.png (320x180) [133.7 KB] || XRT_image_crop_web.png (320x318) [191.7 KB] || XRT_image_crop_thm.png (80x40) [26.1 KB] || ", "hits": 331 }, { "id": 14136, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14136/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-04-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb Instrument Overview", "description": "A look at the instruments on the Webb Telescope. || Webb_Instruments-Thumbnail-2.jpg (1920x1080) [1.3 MB] || Webb_Instruments-Thumbnail-2_print.jpg (1024x576) [676.3 KB] || Webb_Instruments-Thumbnail-2_searchweb.png (320x180) [111.5 KB] || Webb_Instruments-Thumbnail-2_web.png (320x180) [111.5 KB] || Webb_Instruments-Thumbnail-2_thm.png (80x40) [13.8 KB] || WEBB_Instrument_Package-closecap.en_US.srt [4.9 KB] || WEBB_Instrument_Package.webm (4096x2160) [68.8 MB] || WEBB_Instrument_Package.mp4 (4096x2160) [276.0 MB] || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 14132, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14132/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-04-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Black Hole Week: Black Hole GIFs", "description": "Black Hole WeekThis page provides social media assets used during previous celebrations of Black Hole Week. Join in! Below, you'll find many GIFs to use. || ", "hits": 522 }, { "id": 14133, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14133/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-04-06T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Concert videos", "description": "These videos are designed to accompany live orchestral performances. For more information and inquiries about their use, please contact Scott Wiessinger at scott.wiessinger@nasa.gov. || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 14109, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14109/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-02-23T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Webb Telescope Mission Trailer - Carl Sagan", "description": "Webb Telescope mission trailer 2021 || JWST-mission_trailer-h264.00300_print.jpg (1024x576) [124.3 KB] || JWST-mission_trailer-h264.00300_searchweb.png (320x180) [60.5 KB] || JWST-mission_trailer-h264.00300_web.png (320x180) [60.5 KB] || JWST-mission_trailer-h264.00300_thm.png (80x40) [3.9 KB] || JWST-mission_trailer-ProRes422HQ.mov (1920x1080) [1.5 GB] || JWST-mission_trailer-h264.mp4 (1920x1080) [97.0 MB] || JWST-mission_trailer-h264.webm (1920x1080) [11.0 MB] || JWST-mission_trailer-closecaption.en_US.srt [1.1 KB] || JWST-mission_trailer-closecaption.en_US.vtt [1.1 KB] || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 20352, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20352/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2022-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "\"29 Days On The Edge\" Director's Cut Animations", "description": "Beauty shot animation with camera hovering over the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshields. || JWST_Hover_Cam_h264_1080.00211_print.jpg (1024x576) [93.1 KB] || JWST_Hover_Cam_h264_1080.00211_searchweb.png (320x180) [52.8 KB] || JWST_Hover_Cam_h264_1080.00211_thm.png (80x40) [5.4 KB] || JWST_Hover_Cam_h264_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [38.0 MB] || JWST_Hover_Cam_h264_1080.webm (1920x1080) [1.7 MB] || JWST_Hover_Cam_h264_4K.mp4 (5120x2160) [17.4 MB] || JWST_Hover_ProRes.mov (5120x2160) [1.3 GB] || JWST_Hover_Cam (5120x2160) [32.0 KB] || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 14087, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14087/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-02-07T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Orbital Insertion Burn - Webb Arrives at L2", "description": "B-roll of Webb Telescope Mission Operation Control room at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore during the Mid-Course Correction Burn #2 on January 24, 2022 to place the spacecraft into it's science orbit around the L2 point (Lagrange Point 2). || MCC@_Burn_MOC_B-roll_1-24-22-v3-h264.02460_print.jpg (1024x540) [146.9 KB] || MCC@_Burn_MOC_B-roll_1-24-22-v3-h264.02460_searchweb.png (320x180) [93.2 KB] || MCC@_Burn_MOC_B-roll_1-24-22-v3-h264.02460_web.png (320x168) [88.6 KB] || MCC@_Burn_MOC_B-roll_1-24-22-v3-h264.02460_thm.png (80x40) [7.5 KB] || MCC@_Burn_MOC_B-roll_1-24-22-v3-h264.mp4 (4096x2160) [696.4 MB] || MCC2_Burn_MOC_B-roll_1-24-22-part_1-v3.mov (4096x2160) [12.4 GB] || MCC@_Burn_MOC_B-roll_1-24-22-v3-h264.webm (4096x2160) [200.7 MB] || ", "hits": 108 }, { "id": 14068, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14068/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-01-07T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "Webb Telescope Secondary Mirror Deployment - Operational Coverage", "description": "Webb Telescope Secondary Mirror Deployment - Operational Coverage - Full Broadcast || 14068_Webb_Secondary_Mirror_Deploy.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [76.2 KB] || 14068_Webb_Secondary_Mirror_Deploy.00001_searchweb.png (180x320) [46.1 KB] || 14068_Webb_Secondary_Mirror_Deploy.00001_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || 14068_Webb_Secondary_Mirror_Deploy.mov (1280x720) [61.8 GB] || 14068_Webb_Secondary_Mirror_Deploy.mp4 (1280x720) [6.2 GB] || 14068_Webb_Secondary_Mirror_Deploy.webm (1280x720) [656.5 MB] || 14068_Webb_Secondary_Mirror_Deploy.en_US.srt [137.8 KB] || 14068_Webb_Secondary_Mirror_Deploy.en_US.vtt [129.4 KB] || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 20342, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20342/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2021-12-15T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "WEBB Turn Arounds", "description": "WEBB Turn Around Above the Horizon || WEBB_TurnAround_AboveHorizon_ProRes4444.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [35.8 KB] || WEBB_TurnAround_AboveHorizon_ProRes4444.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [21.7 KB] || WEBB_TurnAround_AboveHorizon_ProRes4444.00001_thm.png (80x40) [2.5 KB] || WEBB_TurnAround_AboveHorizon_1000px_ProRes4444.mov (1000x563) [37.6 MB] || WEBB_TurnAround_AboveHorizon_ProRes4444.mov (3840x2160) [374.2 MB] || WEBB_TurnAround_AboveHorizon_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [285.5 MB] || WEBB_TurnAround_AboveHorizon_PNGs (3840x2160) [16.0 KB] || WEBB_TurnAround_AboveHorizon_PNG_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [11.7 MB] || WEBB_TurnAround_AboveHorizon_ProRes4444.webm [0 bytes] || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 14039, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14039/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-12-03T08:00:00-05:00", "title": "New NASA Spacecraft Will Help Unlock The Secrets Of Extreme Cosmic Objects Live Shots", "description": "Quick link to associated B-ROLL for the live shots.Quick link to canned interview with Martin Weisskopf IXPE Principal Investigator || IXPE_Advisory_Banner-2.png (1200x480) [762.4 KB] || IXPE_Advisory_Banner-2_print.jpg (1024x409) [117.3 KB] || IXPE_Advisory_Banner-2_searchweb.png (320x180) [106.3 KB] || IXPE_Advisory_Banner-2_thm.png (80x40) [8.4 KB] || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 14033, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14033/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-11-29T19:00:00-05:00", "title": "Webb Mirror Actuator Animation", "description": "Animation of a mirror segment actuator system || MirrorSegment-Actuators4k.00540_print.jpg (1024x576) [143.1 KB] || MirrorSegment-Actuators4k.00540_searchweb.png (320x180) [99.5 KB] || MirrorSegment-Actuators4k.00540_web.png (320x180) [99.5 KB] || MirrorSegment-Actuators4k.00540_thm.png (80x40) [7.3 KB] || MirrorSegment-Actuators4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [57.3 MB] || MirrorSegment-Actuators4k.webm (3840x2160) [11.6 MB] || ", "hits": 50 }, { "id": 13952, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13952/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2021-10-18T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "29 Days on the Edge", "description": "The greatest origin story of all unfolds with the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb's launch is a pivotal moment that exemplifies the dedication, innovation, and ambition behind NASA and its partners, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canadian Space Agency (CSA), but it is only the beginning. The 29 days following liftoff will be an exciting but harrowing time. Thousands of parts must work correctly, in sequence, to unfold Webb and put it in its final configuration. All while Webb flies through the expanse of space, alone, to a destination nearly one million miles away from Earth. As the largest and most complex telescope ever sent into space, the James Webb Space Telescope is a technological marvel. By necessity, Webb takes on-orbit deployments to the extreme. Each step can be controlled expertly from the ground, giving Webb's Mission Operations Center full control to circumnavigate any unforseen issues with deployment. || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 13886, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13886/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-07-26T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Fermi Spots 'Fizzled' Burst from Collapsing Star", "description": "Astronomers combined data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, other space missions, and ground-based observatories to reveal the origin of GRB 200826A, a brief but powerful burst of radiation. It’s the shortest burst known to be powered by a collapsing star – and almost didn’t happen at all. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Inducing Waves\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Fizzled_GRB_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [740.9 KB] || Fizzled_GRB_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [286.8 KB] || Fizzled_GRB_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [72.2 KB] || Fizzled_GRB_Still_thm.png (80x40) [4.9 KB] || 13886_Fizzled_GRB_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [147.2 MB] || 13886_Fizzled_GRB_1080_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [453.2 MB] || 13886_Fizzled_GRB_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.5 GB] || 13886_Fizzled_GRB_1080.webm (1920x1080) [22.5 MB] || ", "hits": 117 }, { "id": 13841, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13841/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-04-27T17:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s NICER Telescope Examined a Star on the Edge of Becoming a Black Hole Live Shots", "description": "Quick link to canned interview in Spanish with Diego Altamirano: Principal Research Fellow, University of Southampton.Quick link to associated B-ROLL for live shots. || Unknown-2.png (1600x535) [1.1 MB] || Unknown-2_print.jpg (1024x342) [147.9 KB] || Unknown-2_searchweb.png (320x180) [95.0 KB] || Unknown-2_thm.png (80x40) [7.4 KB] || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 13594, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13594/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-04-28T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Day in the Life of a NASA Satellite Team", "description": "Launched on Nov. 20, 2004, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has been on the hunt to uncover the mystery of the universe’s most powerful explosions: gamma-ray bursts. These extreme events are some of the farthest objects we’ve ever detected and are associated with some of the most dramatic events in our cosmos, like the collapse of massive stars or the mergers of two neutron stars. In celebration of fifteen years of excellent science, join a Swift scientist as she describes a typical day for the team. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Fiber Optics\" from Universal Production Music.Complete transcript available. || swift_day_in_life_still_03.png (1920x1080) [2.3 MB] || swift_day_in_life_still_03_print.jpg (1024x576) [125.9 KB] || swift_day_in_life_still_03_searchweb.png (320x180) [60.6 KB] || swift_day_in_life_still_03_web.png (320x180) [60.6 KB] || swift_day_in_life_still_03_thm.png (80x40) [4.5 KB] || swift_day_in_life_HQ.mp4 (1920x1080) [336.4 MB] || swift_day_in_life_LQ.mp4 (1920x1080) [171.5 MB] || swift_day_in_life_prores.mov (1920x1080) [1.8 GB] || swift_day_in_life_HQ.webm (1920x1080) [18.7 MB] || swiftdayinlifecaptions.en_US.srt [3.1 KB] || swiftdayinlifecaptions.en_US.vtt [3.0 KB] || ", "hits": 75 }, { "id": 13427, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13427/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-11-20T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "A New Era in Gamma-ray Science", "description": "On Jan. 14, 2019, the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observatory in the Canary Islands captured the highest-energy light every recorded from a gamma-ray burst. MAGIC began observing the fading burst just 50 seconds after it was detected thanks to positions provided by NASA's Fermi and Swift spacecraft (top left and right, respectively, in this illustration). The gamma rays packed energy up to 10 times greater than previously seen. Credit: NASA/Fermi and Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University || GRB190114CbASimonnet.jpg (2475x3300) [4.5 MB] || GRB190114CbASimonnet_searchweb.png (320x180) [106.4 KB] || GRB190114CbASimonnet_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || ", "hits": 114 }, { "id": 13415, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13415/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Science Live: Galaxy of Horrors (Episode 10)", "description": "NASA Science Live: Galaxy of Horrors (Episode 10) || 13415_NSL_Galaxy_Ep10_youtube_720.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [79.7 KB] || 13415_NSL_Galaxy_Ep10_youtube_720.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [79.6 KB] || 13415_NSL_Galaxy_Ep10_youtube_720.00001_thm.png (80x40) [5.5 KB] || 13415_NSL_Galaxy_Ep10_lowres.mp4 (1280x720) [550.9 MB] || 13415_NSL_Galaxy_Ep10_youtube_720.mp4 (1280x720) [3.1 GB] || 13415_NSL_Galaxy_Ep10.mov (1280x720) [20.7 GB] || 13415_NSL_Galaxy_Ep10_youtube_720.webm (1280x720) [222.1 MB] || 13415_NSL_Galaxy_Ep10.en_US.srt [59.1 KB] || 13415_NSL_Galaxy_Ep10.en_US.vtt [55.9 KB] || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 13326, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13326/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-09-25T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Black Hole Accretion Disk Visualization", "description": "This movie shows a complete revolution around a simulated black hole and its accretion disk following a path that is perpendicular to the disk. The black hole’s extreme gravitational field redirects and distorts light coming from different parts of the disk, but exactly what we see depends on our viewing angle. The greatest distortion occurs when viewing the system nearly edgewise. As our viewpoint rotates around the black hole, we see different parts of the fast-moving gas in the accretion disk moving directly toward us. Due to a phenomenon called \"relativistic Doppler beaming,\" gas in the disk that's moving toward us makes that side of the disk appear brighter, the opposite side darker. This effect disappears when we're directly above or below the disk because, from that angle, none of the gas is moving directly toward us.When our viewpoint passes beneath the disk, it looks like the gas is moving in the opposite direction. This is no different that viewing a clock from behind, which would make it look like the hands are moving counter-clockwise.CORRECTION: In earlier versions of the 360-degree movies on this page, these important effects were not apparent. This was due to a minor mistake in orienting the camera relative to the disk. The fact that it was not initially discovered by the NASA scientist who made the movie reflects just how bizarre and counter-intuitive black holes can be! Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k_Prores.00001_print.jpg (1024x1024) [33.2 KB] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k_Prores.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [17.0 KB] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k_Prores.00001_thm.png (80x40) [1.9 KB] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_1080.mp4 (1080x1080) [19.0 MB] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_1080.webm (1080x1080) [2.8 MB] || 360 (3840x3840) [0 Item(s)] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k.mp4 (3840x3840) [119.2 MB] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k_Prores.mov (3840x3840) [1020.1 MB] || ", "hits": 2354 }, { "id": 13272, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13272/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-08-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi and Gamma Rays: A Cartoon Look", "description": "NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detects gamma rays — the highest-energy form of light — often produced by objects like pulsars, the remnants of exploding stars and active galaxies powered by supermassive black holes. The satellite does not look for aliens, extraterrestrial life or anything of the sort. If aliens were to pass by the Fermi spacecraft, they would just slip by undetected. Unless, of course, that alien ship was powered by processes that left behind traces of gamma rays.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Gabby Garcia || Alien_00121.jpg (1920x1080) [395.7 KB] || Alien_00121_print.jpg (1024x576) [143.1 KB] || Alien_00121_searchweb.png (320x180) [41.7 KB] || Alien_00121_thm.png (80x40) [4.4 KB] || Fermi_Alien_Animation_ProRes_1920x1080_24.mov (1920x1080) [76.6 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_24p (1920x1080) [8.0 KB] || Fermi_Alien_Animation_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [5.3 MB] || Fermi_Alien_Animation_ProRes_1920x1080_24.webm (1920x1080) [966.5 KB] || ", "hits": 128 }, { "id": 13220, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13220/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-06-13T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Ten Years of High-Energy Gamma-ray Bursts", "description": "Green dots show the locations of 186 gamma-ray bursts observed by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on NASA’s Fermi satellite during its first decade. Some noteworthy bursts are highlighted and labeled. Background: Constructed from nine years of LAT data, this map shows how the gamma-ray sky appears at energies above 10 billion electron volts. The plane of our Milky Way galaxy runs along the middle of the plot. Brighter colors indicate brighter gamma-ray sources.Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration || Fermi_LAT_GRBs.jpg (5991x2994) [2.1 MB] || ", "hits": 77 }, { "id": 13042, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13042/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-11-08T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Fermi Mission Shows How Luck Favors the Prepared", "description": "Explore how more than a century of scientific progress with gravitational waves, gamma rays and neutrinos has helped bring about the age of multimessenger astronomy. Music: \"Family Tree,\" \"The Archives\" and \"Beyond Truth,\" all from Killer Tracks.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Luck_Timeline_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [140.7 KB] || Luck_Timeline_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [1.1 MB] || Luck_Timeline_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [78.5 KB] || Luck_Timeline_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.4 KB] || 13042_LuckFavorsThePrepared_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [550.2 MB] || 13042_LuckFavorsThePrepared_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [373.6 MB] || 13042_LuckFavorsThePrepared_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [188.4 MB] || 13042_LuckFavorsThePrepared_1080p.webm (1920x1080) [39.3 MB] || 13042_LuckFavorsThePrepared_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [19.8 GB] || 13042_LuckFavorsThePrepared_2160.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.1 GB] || 13042_LuckFavorsThePrepared_4K.mov (3840x2160) [715.2 MB] || LuckFavorsThePrepared_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [6.5 KB] || LuckFavorsThePrepared_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [6.3 KB] || ", "hits": 145 }, { "id": 13041, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13041/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-17T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor", "description": "The Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is one of the instruments aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The GBM studies gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, as well as other flashes of gamma rays. Gamma-ray bursts are created when massive stars collapse into black holes or when two superdense stars merge, also producing a black hole. The GBM sees these bursts across the entire sky, and scientists are using its observations to learn more about the universe.Music:The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoonMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_USWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Fermi_GBM_Still_1.jpg (1920x1080) [231.2 KB] || Fermi_GBM_Still_1_searchweb.png (320x180) [43.6 KB] || Fermi_GBM_Still_1_thm.png (80x40) [4.9 KB] || 13041_Fermi_GBM_TOS_ProRes_1920x1080_24.mov (1920x1080) [811.2 MB] || 13041_Fermi_GBM_TOS_H264_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [59.2 MB] || 13041_Fermi_GBM_TOS_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [84.9 MB] || 13041_Fermi_GBM_TOS_Apple_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [52.9 MB] || 13041_Fermi_GBM_TOS_ProRes_1920x1080_24.webm (1920x1080) [11.7 MB] || 13041_Fermi_GBM_TOS_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.1 KB] || 13041_Fermi_GBM_TOS_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.0 KB] || ", "hits": 96 }, { "id": 12969, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12969/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-06-11T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Satellite Celebrates 10 Years of Discoveries", "description": "Watch a two-minute video on how NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the high-energy sky over its first 10 years in space. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Unseen Husband\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Fermi_10_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [134.3 KB] || 12969_Fermi_10th_Short_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.3 GB] || 12969_Fermi_10th_Short_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [172.3 MB] || 12969_Fermi_10th_Short_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [259.5 MB] || 12969_Fermi_10th_Short.mp4 (1920x1080) [174.7 MB] || 12969_Fermi_10th_Short_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.webm (1920x1080) [18.7 MB] || 12969_Fermi_10th_Short_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [3.3 KB] || 12969_Fermi_10th_Short_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [3.3 KB] || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 12783, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12783/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2017-12-06T12:45:00-05:00", "title": "SuperTIGER Ready to Fly Again in Study of Heavy Cosmic Rays", "description": "SuperTIGER team members Brian Rauch, Jason Link and Nathan Walsh join NASA Blueshift's Sara Mitchell for a Skype conversation in November 2017 about the instrument's science, technology and upcoming launch from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterComplete transcript available. || SuperTIGER_Skype_Still.png (1280x720) [1.2 MB] || SuperTIGER_Skype2.webm (1280x720) [135.1 MB] || SuperTIGER_Skype2.mp4 (1280x720) [608.6 MB] || SuperTIGER_Skype2_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [22.5 KB] || SuperTIGER_Skype2_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [22.5 KB] || SuperTIGER_Skype2_best.mp4 (1280x720) [1.2 GB] || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 12740, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12740/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-10-16T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Doomed Neutron Stars Create Blast of Light and Gravitational Waves", "description": "This animation captures phenomena observed over the course of nine days following the neutron star merger known as GW170817, detected on Aug. 17, 2017. They include gravitational waves (pale arcs), a near-light-speed jet that produced gamma rays (magenta), expanding debris from a kilonova that produced ultraviolet (violet), optical and infrared (blue-white to red) emission, and, once the jet directed toward us expanded into our view from Earth, X-rays (blue). Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI LabMusic: \"Exploding Skies\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Neutron_Star_Merger_Still_2_new_1080.png (1920x1080) [2.5 MB] || Neutron_Star_Merger_Still_2_new_1080.jpg (1920x1080) [167.3 KB] || Neutron_Star_Merger_Still_2_new_print.jpg (1024x576) [50.4 KB] || Neutron_Star_Merger_Still_2_new.png (3840x2160) [7.7 MB] || Neutron_Star_Merger_Still_2_new.jpg (3840x2160) [1.0 MB] || Neutron_Star_Merger_Still_2_new_thm.png (80x40) [4.4 KB] || Neutron_Star_Merger_Still_2_new_searchweb.png (320x180) [51.4 KB] || 12740_NS_Merger_Update_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [50.3 MB] || 12740_NS_Merger_Update_H264_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [96.9 MB] || 12740_NS_Merger_Update_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [101.9 MB] || NS_Merger_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [417 bytes] || NS_Merger_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [399 bytes] || 12740_NS_Merger_4k_Update.webm (3840x2160) [10.0 MB] || 12740_NS_Merger_4k_Update_H264.mp4 (3840x2160) [254.9 MB] || 12740_NS_Merger_4k_Update_H264.mov (3840x2160) [516.7 MB] || 12740_NS_Merger_4k_Update_ProRes_3840x2160_5994.mov (3840x2160) [5.1 GB] || 12740_NS_Merger_4k_Update_H264.hwshow [90 bytes] || ", "hits": 531 }, { "id": 12630, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12630/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-06-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NICER Mission Overview", "description": "The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) payload, destined for the exterior of the space station, will study the physics of neutron stars, providing new insight into their nature and behavior. These stars are called “pulsars” because of the unique way they emit light – in a beam similar to a lighthouse beacon. As the star spins, the light sweeps past us, making it appear as if the star is pulsing. Neutron stars emit X-ray radiation, enabling the NICER technology to observe and record information about their structure, dynamics and energetics. The payload also includes a technology demonstration called the Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology (SEXTANT) which will help researchers to develop a pulsar-based space navigation system. Pulsar navigation could work similarly to GPS on Earth, providing precise position and time for spacecraft throughout the solar system.The 2-in-1 mission launched on June 3, 2017 aboard SpaceX's eleventh contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station. The payload arrived at the space station in the Dragon spacecraft, along with other cargo, on June 5, 2017. || ", "hits": 234 }, { "id": 12609, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12609/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2017-05-23T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb Telescope Element Arrives at NASA JSC for Cryogenic Testing", "description": "Carried inside a U.S. Air Force C5M Super Galaxy aircraft, the James Webb Space Telescope arrives at Ellington Field Reserve Joint Base near Houston, Texas on May 5, 2017. The Webb Telescope team unloads the telescope and transports it by road to the NASA Johnson Space Center for cryogenic testing. During its transport from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to the NASA Johnson Space Center, the Webb Telescope is kept safe inside the Space Telescope Transport Air Rail and Sea (STTARS) container. At the NASA Johnson Space Center, engineers cleaned and moved STTARS into the Chamber A cleanroom where the Webb Telescope was unloaded and attached to a rollover fixture. || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 20268, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20268/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2017-04-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NICER Lensing", "description": "The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission will study neutron stars, the densest known objects in the cosmos. These neutron star animations and graphics highlight some of their unique characteristics.For more information about NICER visit: nasa.gov/nicer. || ", "hits": 229 }, { "id": 12536, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12536/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-03-09T07:00:00-05:00", "title": "James Webb Space Telescope Environmental Testing Highlights", "description": "At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, engineers tested the James Webb Space Telescope in the vibration and acoustics test facilities to ensure it is prepared for its rigorous ride into space. Rocket launches create high levels of vibration and noise that rattle spacecraft and telescopes. Ground testing is done to simulate the launch induced vibration and noise to ensure a solid design and assembly of the telescope before launch. || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 12376, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12376/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-09-29T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Finds Record-breaking Gamma-ray Binary", "description": "Dive into the Large Magellanic Cloud and see a visualization of LMC P3, an extraordinary gamma-ray binary system discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || LMC_P3_Still_2.jpg (2880x1620) [539.2 KB] || LMC_P3_Still_2_searchweb.png (320x180) [58.0 KB] || LMC_P3_Still_2_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || LMC_P3_FB_Final_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.3 GB] || 12376_LMC_P3_FB_Final_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [660.0 MB] || LMC_P3_FB_Final_H264.mp4 (1920x1080) [182.3 MB] || LMC_P3_FB_Final_H264_HD_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [137.8 MB] || 12376_LMC_P3_FB_Final_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [92.6 MB] || LMC_P3_FB_Final_Apple_Devices_HD.m4v (1920x1080) [90.7 MB] || 12376_LMC_P3_FB_Final_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [42.5 MB] || 12376_LMC_P3_FB_Final_appletv.webm (1280x720) [9.9 MB] || 12376_LMC_P3_FB_Final_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [42.5 MB] || 12376_LMC_P3_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [373 bytes] || 12376_LMC_P3_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [386 bytes] || ", "hits": 118 }, { "id": 12194, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12194/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-04-07T12:55:00-04:00", "title": "The Compton Legacy: A Quarter-century of Gamma-ray Science", "description": "This illustration of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory shows the locations of its four instruments, the Burst And Transient Source Experiment (BATSE), the Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE), the Imaging Compton Telescope (COMPTEL), and the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET). Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center || GRO_cutaway_labels_1080.jpg (1920x1081) [668.9 KB] || GRO_cutaway_labels_2160.jpg (3840x2161) [5.2 MB] || GRO_cutaway_labels_2160_searchweb.png (320x180) [116.1 KB] || GRO_cutaway_labels_2160_thm.png (80x40) [12.2 KB] || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 12101, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12101/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-01-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Hyperwall--2016 AAS Technical", "description": "Upresed 5760x3240 animation of the Fermi spacecraft.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab || frame-000020_print.jpg (1024x576) [147.2 KB] || Fermi_Beauty_EarthandStars_1080p.webm (1920x1080) [1.4 MB] || Fermi_Beauty_EarthandStars_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [25.4 MB] || FermiBeautyDraft (5760x3240) [0 Item(s)] || Fermi_Beauty_EarthandStars_4k.mov (4096x2304) [47.9 MB] || Fermi_Beauty_EarthandStars_4k_ProRes.mov (5760x3240) [808.7 MB] || ", "hits": 80 }, { "id": 12102, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12102/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-01-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Hyperwall--2016 AAS, A Walk Through Fermi Science", "description": "3x3 hyperwall-resolution image of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with instruments labeled.Credit: NASA/JIm Grossmann || Fermi_Hyperwall_2_2_Instruments_5760_print.jpg (1024x576) [86.4 KB] || Fermi_Hyperwall_2_2_Instruments_5760.png (5760x3240) [32.3 MB] || fermi-2-2-Instruments.hwshow [294 bytes] || For additional Fermi hyperwall visuals please check the second hyperwall page || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 12038, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12038/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-11-06T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Swift Catches its 1,000th Gamma-ray Burst", "description": "Labeled image. GRB 151027B, Swift's 1,000th burst (center), is shown in this composite X-ray, ultraviolet and optical image. X-rays were captured by Swift's X-Ray Telescope, which began observing the field 3.4 minutes after the Burst Alert Telescope detected the blast. Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) began observations seven seconds later and faintly detected the burst in visible light. The image includes X-rays with energies from 300 to 6,000 electron volts, primarily from the burst, and lower-energy light seen through the UVOT's visible, blue and ultraviolet filters (shown, respectively, in red, green and blue). The image has a cumulative exposure of 10.4 hours. Credit: NASA/Swift/Phil Evans, Univ. of Leicester || grb151027B_UVOT_XRT_labeled_1080.jpg (912x1080) [403.9 KB] || grb151027B_UVOT_XRT_labeled_2160_print.jpg (1024x1213) [394.1 KB] || grb151027B_UVOT_XRT_labeled_2160.jpg (1823x2160) [1.0 MB] || grb151027B_UVOT_XRT_labeled_2160_searchweb.png (320x180) [43.8 KB] || grb151027B_UVOT_XRT_labeled_2160_thm.png (80x40) [3.6 KB] || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 12022, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12022/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Poster: Fermi's Gamma-ray Cosmos", "description": "This poster summarizes the career to date of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The central image is a map of the whole sky at gamma-ray wavelengths accumulated over six years of operations. The poster also discusses other Fermi findings, including a black widow pulsar, the Fermi Bubbles rising thousands of light-years out of our galaxy's center, a giant gamma-ray flare from the Crab Nebula, and many more.The poster is available in a variety of resolutions.Credit: NASA/Fermi/Sonoma State University/A. 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"https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10171/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-11-20T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Swift: A Decade of Game-Changing Astrophysics", "description": "Scientists participating in NASA's Swift mission discuss the spacecraft, the science, and recall their personal experiences as members of the team.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here. || Swift_Interview_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [160.8 KB] || Swift_Interview_Still.png (2560x1440) [4.1 MB] || Swift_Interview_Still_web.jpg (180x320) [21.2 KB] || Swift_Interview_Still_thm.png (80x40) [9.1 KB] || Swift_Interview_Still_web.png (320x180) [95.3 KB] || Swift_Interview_Still_searchweb.png (180x320) [95.3 KB] || Swift_10_Interviews_MPEG4_1280X720_2997.mp4 (1280x720) [149.1 MB] || G2014-067_Swift_10_Interviews_FINAL_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [98.0 MB] || G2014-067_Swift_10_Interviews_FINAL_appletv.m4v (960x540) [257.7 MB] || 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universe: a pair of neutron stars colliding, merging and forming a black hole. A neutron star is the compressed core left behind when a star born with between eight and 30 times the sun's mass explodes as a supernova. Neutron stars pack about 1.5 times the mass of the sun — equivalent to about half a million Earths — into a ball just 12 miles (20 km) across. As the simulation begins, we view an unequally matched pair of neutron stars weighing 1.4 and 1.7 solar masses. They are separated by only about 11 miles, slightly less distance than their own diameters. Redder colors show regions of progressively lower density. As the stars spiral toward each other, intense tides begin to deform them, possibly cracking their crusts. Neutron stars possess incredible density, but their surfaces are comparatively thin, with densities about a million times greater than gold. Their interiors crush matter to a much greater degree densities rise by 100 million times in their centers. To begin to imagine such mind-boggling densities, consider that a cubic centimeter of neutron star matter outweighs Mount Everest. By 7 milliseconds, tidal forces overwhelm and shatter the lesser star. Its superdense contents erupt into the system and curl a spiral arm of incredibly hot material. At 13 milliseconds, the more massive star has accumulated too much mass to support it against gravity and collapses, and a new black hole is born. The black hole's event horizon — its point of no return — is shown by the gray sphere. While most of the matter from both neutron stars will fall into the black hole, some of the less dense, faster moving matter manages to orbit around it, quickly forming a large and rapidly rotating torus. This torus extends for about 124 miles (200 km) and contains the equivalent of 1/5th the mass of our sun. The entire simulation covers only 20 milliseconds.Scientists think neutron star mergers like this produce short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Short GRBs last less than two seconds yet unleash as much energy as all the stars in our galaxy produce over one year. The rapidly fading afterglow of these explosions presents a challenge to astronomers. A key element in understanding GRBs is getting instruments on large ground-based telescopes to capture afterglows as soon as possible after the burst. The rapid notification and accurate positions provided by NASA's Swift mission creates a vibrant synergy with ground-based observatories that has led to dramatically improved understanding of GRBs, especially for short bursts. || ", "hits": 709 }, { "id": 11423, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11423/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-12-04T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Glimpsing the Infrastructure of a Gamma-ray Burst Jet", "description": "A new study using observations from the Liverpool Telescope in the Canary Islands provides the best look to date at magnetic fields at the heart of gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic explosions in the universe. An international team of astronomers from Britain, Slovenia and Italy has glimpsed the infrastructure of a burst's high-speed jet.Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the cosmos. Most are thought to be triggered when the core of a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel, collapses under its own weight, and forms a black hole. The black hole then drives jets of particles that drill all the way through the collapsing star and erupt into space at nearly the speed of light.Theoretical models of gamma-ray bursts predict that light from part of the jet should show strong and stable polarized emissions if the jet possesses a structured magnetic field originating from the environment around the newly-formed black hole, thought to be the \"central engine\" driving the burst.Previous observations of optical afterglows detected polarizations of about 10 percent, but they provided no information about how this value changed with time. As a result, they could not be used to test competing jet models.The Liverpool Telescope's rapid targeting enabled the team to catch the explosion just four minutes after the initial outburst. Over the following 10 minutes, RINGO2 collected 5,600 photographs of the burst afterglow while the properties of the magnetic field were still encoded in its captured light. The observations show that the initial afterglow light was polarized by 28 percent, the highest value ever recorded for a burst, and slowly declined to 16 percent, while the angle of the polarized light remained the same. This supports the presence of a large-scale organized magnetic field linked to the black hole, rather than a tangled magnetic field produced by instabilities within the jet itself. || ", "hits": 88 }, { "id": 11407, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11407/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-11-21T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Briefing Materials: NASA Missions Explore Record-Setting Cosmic Blast", "description": "On Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, NASA held a media teleconference to discuss new findings related to a brilliant gamma-ray burst detected on April 27. Audio of the teleconference is available for download here.Related feature story: www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-sees-watershed-cosmic-blast-in-unique-detail/.Audio of Sylvia Zhu interview for a Science Podcast. Briefing Speakers Introduction: Paul Hertz, NASA Astrophysics Division Director, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.Charles Dermer, astrophysicist, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.Thomas Vestrand, astrophysicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M.Chryssa Kouveliotou, astrophysicist, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. Presenter 1: Charles Dermer || ", "hits": 80 }, { "id": 11311, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11311/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-08-21T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Highlights of Fermi's First Five Years", "description": "This compilation summarizes the wide range of science from the first five years of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Fermi is a NASA observatory designed to reveal the high-energy universe in never-before-seen detail. Launched in 2008, Fermi continues to give astronomers a unique tool for exploring high-energy processes associated with solar flares, spinning neutron stars, outbursts from black holes, exploding stars, supernova remnants and energetic particles to gain insight into how the universe works. Fermi detects gamma rays, the most powerful form of light, with energies thousands to billions of times greater than the visible spectrum.The mission has discovered pulsars, proved that supernova remnants can accelerate particles to near the speed of light, monitored eruptions of black holes in distant galaxies, and found giant bubbles linked to the central black hole in our own galaxy. From blazars to thunderstorms, from dark matter to supernova remnants, catch the highlights of NASA Fermi’s first five years in space.View all the Fermi-related media from the last 5 years in the Fermi Gallery.For more information about Fermi, visit NASA's Fermi webpage. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 11261, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11261/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-05-03T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Fermi, Swift See 'Shockingly Bright' Gamma-ray Burst", "description": "A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world. The eruption, which is classified as a gamma-ray burst, or GRB, and designated GRB 130427A, produced the highest-energy light ever detected from such an event.The GRB lasted so long that a record number of telescopes on the ground were able to catch it while space-based observations were still ongoing.Just after 3:47 a.m. EDT on Saturday, April 27, Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) triggered on an eruption of high-energy light in the constellation Leo. The burst occurred as NASA's Swift satellite was slewing between targets, which delayed its Burst Alert Telescope's detection by less than a minute. Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) recorded one gamma ray with an energy of at least 94 billion electron volts (GeV), or some 35 billion times the energy of visible light, and about three times greater than the LAT's previous record. The GeV emission from the burst lasted for hours, and it remained detectable by the LAT for the better part of a day, setting a new record for the longest gamma-ray emission from a GRB.The burst subsequently was detected in optical, infrared and radio wavelengths by ground-based observatories, based on the rapid accurate position from Swift. Astronomers quickly learned that the GRB was located about 3.6 billion light-years away, which for these events is relatively close.Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's most luminous explosions. Astronomers think most occur when massive stars run out of nuclear fuel and collapse under their own weight. As the core collapses into a black hole, jets of material shoot outward at nearly the speed of light. The jets bore all the way through the collapsing star and continue into space, where they interact with gas previously shed by the star and generate bright afterglows that fade with time. If the GRB is near enough, astronomers usually discover a supernova at the site a week or so after the outburst. This GRB is in the closest 5 percent of bursts, so ground-based observatories are monitoring its location in hopes of finding an underlying supernova. || ", "hits": 111 }, { "id": 11250, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11250/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-04-16T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Trio of Swift Bursts Form A New Class of GRBs", "description": "Three unusually long-lasting stellar explosions discovered by NASA's Swift satellite represent a previously unrecognized class of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Two international teams of astronomers studying these events conclude that they likely arose from the catastrophic death of supergiant stars hundreds of times larger than the sun. GRBs are the most luminous and mysterious explosions in the universe. The blasts emit surges of gamma rays — the most powerful form of light — as well as X-rays, and they produce afterglows that can be observed at optical and radio energies. Swift, Fermi and other spacecraft detect an average of about one GRB each day.Traditionally, astronomers have recognized two GRB types, short and long, based on the duration of the gamma-ray signal. Short bursts last two seconds or less and are thought to represent a merger of compact objects in a binary system, with the most likely suspects being neutron stars and black holes. Long GRBs may last anywhere from several seconds to several minutes, with typical durations falling between 20 and 50 seconds. These events are thought to be associated with the collapse of a star several times the sun's mass and the resulting birth of a new black hole. Both scenarios give rise to powerful jets that propel matter at nearly the speed of light in opposite directions. As they interact with matter in and around the star, the jets produce a spike of high-energy light. A detailed study of GRB 111209A, which erupted on Dec. 9, 2011, and continued to produce high-energy emission for an astonishing seven hours, making it by far the longest-duration GRB ever recorded.Another event, GRB 101225A, exploded on Christmas Day in 2010 and produced high-energy emission for at least two hours. Subsequently nicknamed the \"Christmas burst,\" the event's distance was unknown, which led two teams to arrive at radically different physical interpretations. One group concluded the blast was caused by an asteroid or comet falling onto a neutron star within our own galaxy. Another team determined that the burst was the outcome of a merger event in an exotic binary system located some 3.5 billion light-years away.Using the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii, a team led by Andrew Levan at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, obtained a spectrum of the faint galaxy that hosted the Christmas burst. This enabled the scientists to identify emission lines of oxygen and hydrogen and determine how much these lines were displaced to lower energies compared to their appearance in a laboratory. This difference, known to astronomers as a redshift, places the burst some 7 billion light-years away. Levan and his colleagues also examined 111209A and the more recent burst 121027A, which exploded on Oct. 27, 2012. All show similar X-ray, ultraviolet and optical emission and all arose from the central regions of compact galaxies that were actively forming stars. The astronomers conclude that all three GRBs constitute a hitherto unrecognized group of \"ultra-long\" bursts.To account for the normal class of long GRBs, astronomers envision a star similar to the size sun's size but with many times its mass. The mass must be high enough for the star to undergo an energy crisis, with its core ultimately running out of fuel and collapsing under its own weight to form a black hole. Some of the matter falling onto the nascent black hole becomes redirected into powerful jets that drill through the star, creating the gamma-ray spike, but because this burst is short-lived, the star must be comparatively small. Because ultra-long GRBs persist for periods up to 100 times greater than long GRBs, they require a stellar source of correspondingly greater physical size. Both groups suggest that the likely candidate is a supergiant, a star with about 20 times the sun's mass that still retains its deep hydrogen atmosphere, making it hundreds of times the sun's diameter.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 181 }, { "id": 20122, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20122/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2012-02-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi's LAT Instrument", "description": "Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) detects particles produced in a physical process known as pair production that epitomizes Einstein's famous equation, E=mc2. When a gamma ray, which is pure energy (E), slams into a layer of tungsten in one of the tracking towers that compose the LAT, it creates mass (m) in the form of a pair of subatomic particles, an electron and its antimatter counterpart, a positron. Several layers of high-precision silicon detectors track the particles as they move through the instrument. The direction of the incoming gamma ray is determined by projecting the particle paths backward. The particles travel through the trackers until they reach a separate detector called a calorimeter, which absorbs and measures their energies. The LAT produces gamma-ray images of astronomical objects, while also determining the energy of each detected gamma ray. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 10887, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10887/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-01-10T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Explores New Energy Extremes", "description": "After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a range that to date has been largely unexplored territory. Now, the Fermi team has presented its first \"head count\" of sources in this new realm.Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) scans the entire sky every three hours, continually deepening its portrait of the sky in gamma rays, the most extreme form of light. While the energy of visible light falls between about 2 and 3 electron volts, the LAT detects gamma rays with energies ranging from 20 million electron volts (MeV) to more than 300 billion (GeV).But at higher energies, gamma rays are few and far between. Above 10 GeV, even Fermi's LAT detects only one gamma ray every four months from some sources. The LAT's predecessor, the EGRET instrument on NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, detected only 1,500 individual gamma rays in this range during its nine-year lifetime, while the LAT detected more than 150,000 in just three years.Any object producing gamma rays at these energies is undergoing extraordinary astrophysical processes. More than half of the 496 sources in the new census are active galaxies, where matter falling into a supermassive black hole powers jets that spray out particles at nearly the speed of light. || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 10867, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10867/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-09T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Swift HD Beauty Shot", "description": "Animation of the Swift spacecraft. || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 10861, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10861/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-03T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Pulsar Interactive Videos", "description": "These videos originally accompanied a Fermi Pulsar Interactive. That interactive is now available here. || ", "hits": 172 }, { "id": 10806, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10806/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-07-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Beyond Einstein", "description": "Albert Einstein's theories rank among humanity's greatest achievements. They sparked the scientific revolution of the 20th Century. In their attempts to understand how space, time and matter are connected, Einstein and his successors made three predictions:First, that space is expanding from a Big Bang. Second, that black holes exist — these extremely dense places in the universe where space and time are tied into contorted knots and where time itself — stops. And third, that there is some kind of energy pulling the universe apart. These three predictions seemed so far-fetched, that everyone, including Einstein himself, thought they were unlikely. Incredibly, all three have turned out to be true. This is where NASA's Beyond Einstein program begins. Using advanced space-based technology to explore these three questions, NASA and its partners begin the next revolution in our understanding of the universe. NASA's Beyond Einstein program is poised to complete Einstein's legacy — and ultimately unravel the mysteries of the Universe. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 10740, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10740/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-04-07T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "When Neutron Stars Collide", "description": "Armed with state-of-the-art supercomputer models, scientists have shown that colliding neutron stars can produce the energetic jet required for a gamma-ray burst. Earlier simulations demonstrated that mergers could make black holes. Others had shown that the high-speed particle jets needed to make a gamma-ray burst would continue if placed in the swirling wreckage of a recent merger. Now, the simulations reveal the middle step of the process—how the merging stars' magnetic field organizes itself into outwardly directed components capable of forming a jet. The Damiana supercomputer at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics needed six weeks to reveal the details of a process that unfolds in just 35 thousandths of a second—less than the blink of an eye.For the researchers' website, with more video and stills of their simulations, go here. || ", "hits": 505 }, { "id": 10707, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10707/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-01-10T16:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash (TGF) Animations", "description": "NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected beams of antimatter launched by thunderstorms. Acting like enormous particle accelerators, the storms can emit gamma-ray flashes, called TGFs, and high-energy electrons and positrons. Scientists now think that most TGFs produce particle beams and antimatter. || ", "hits": 137 }, { "id": 3702, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3702/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-04-19T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Swift Detects its 500th Gamma Ray Burst", "description": "The NASA Swift mission has detected 500 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) to-date.This movie is presented as an all-sky map in a Hammer projection (Wikipedia). Each burst lights on the appropriate date and then fades to a green dot to emphasize the random distribution of GRBs on the sky.Another version of this visualization is available at Swift's 500 Gamma-ray Bursts. || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 10590, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10590/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-04-19T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Swift's 500 Gamma-ray Bursts", "description": "On April 13, 2010, NASA's Swift Gamma-ray Burst Explorer satellite discovered its 500th burst. Swift's main job is to quickly localize each gamma-ray burst (GRB), report its position so that others can immediately conduct follow-up observations, and then study the burst using its X-ray and Ultraviolet/Optical telescopes. The plots and videos below illustrate Swift's first 500 GRBs. For more on the story, see the feature \"NASA's Swift Catches 500th Gamma-ray Burst\".This page has been updated with a new version of this animation highlighting Swift's detection of the most distant gamma-ray burst ever seen—13.14 billion light years. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 10489, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10489/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-28T01:45:00-04:00", "title": "Gamma-ray Burst Photon Delay as Expected by Quantum Gravity", "description": "In this illustration, one photon (purple) carries a million times the energy of another (yellow). Some theorists predict travel delays for higher-energy photons, which interact more strongly with the proposed frothy nature of space-time. Yet Fermi data on two photons from a gamma-ray burst fail to show this effect, eliminating some approaches to a new theory of gravity. || ", "hits": 104 }, { "id": 10505, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10505/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-28T01:45:00-04:00", "title": "Blazars at Galactic North Pole, Seen in Fermi's First Year of Observations", "description": "Fermi has detected more than 1,000 gamma-ray sources. Half are associated with active galaxies called blazars. This movie shows one year of blazar activity, starting on Aug. 4, 2008, around the galactic north pole. This region includes the constellations Ursa Major, Virgo, Leo, Boötes, and Coma Berenices. || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 10507, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10507/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-28T01:45:00-04:00", "title": "Gamma-Rays from High-Mass X-Ray Binaries", "description": "In its first year, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered GeV (billions of electron volts) intensity variations revealing orbital motion in high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs). These are systems where a compact companion, such as a neutron star or a black hole, rapidly orbits a hot, young, massive star. The first examples include LSI +61 303, which sports a 26-day orbital period, and LS 5039 (3.9 days). This animation shows such a system. When the compact object lies far from its host star, TeV (trillions of electron volts) gamma-rays (white) are seen by ground-based gamma-ray observatories. But, as the object plunges closer to the star, the TeV emission is quenched and GeV emission turns on. Interactions by accelerated particles from the compact source with gas encircling the star — or in some systems, the star's light itself — is thought to be responsible for this change. || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 10508, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10508/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-28T01:45:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi All-Sky First Year Progress", "description": "This view of the gamma-ray sky constructed from one year of Fermi LAT observations is the best view of the extreme universe to date. The map shows the rate at which the LAT detects gamma rays with energies above 300 million electron volts — about 120 million times the energy of visible light — from different sky directions. Brighter colors equal higher rates. || ", "hits": 80 }, { "id": 10510, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10510/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Einstein's Cosmic Speed Limit", "description": "In its first year of operations, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has mapped the entire sky with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity in gamma-rays, the highest-energy form of light. On May 10, 2009 a pair of gamma-ray photons reached Fermi only 900 milliseconds apart after traveling for 7 billion years. Fermi's measurement gives us rare experimental evidence that space-time is smooth as Einstein predicted, and has shut the door on several approaches to gravity where space-time is foamy enough to interfere strongly with light.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here. || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_512x288_web.png (320x180) [223.5 KB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_512x288_thm.png (80x40) [16.5 KB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_Thumbnail.jpg (346x260) [107.4 KB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [82.4 MB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [208.4 MB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [433.5 MB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [5.2 GB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_640x480_ipod.m4v (640x360) [68.6 MB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_512x288.mpg (512x288) [38.3 MB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_320x240.mp4 (320x180) [26.5 MB] || GSFC_20091029_EinsteinsCosmicSpeedLimit.wmv (346x236) [38.4 MB] || ", "hits": 99 }, { "id": 10407, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10407/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-04-03T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi All-sky Movie Shows Flaring, Fading Blazars", "description": "This all-sky movie shows counts of gamma rays with energies greater than 300 million electron volts from August 4 to October 30, 2008, detected by Fermi's Large Area Telescope. Brighter colors indicate brighter gamma-ray sources. The circles show the northern (left) and southern galactic sky. Their edges lie along the plane of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Because this is an unusual view of the sky, the movies first overlay the stars and establish the locations of well- known constellations: Ursa Major (which includes the Big Dipper), Boötes, and Virgo in the northern galactic map; Cetus, Aries, and Pegasus in the southern galactic map. Notable gamma-ray sources include the sun (moving through the northern sky), the gamma-ray-only pulsar PSR J1836+5925 — a member of a new pulsar class discovered by Fermi — and numerous blazars (active galaxies). The blazars 3C 273, AO 0235+164, and PKS 1502+106 are highlighted. || ", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 10344, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10344/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi LAT movie of Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) 080916C", "description": "This movie compresses about 8 minutes of Fermi LAT observations of GRB 080916C into 6 seconds. Colored dots represent gamma rays of different energies. Visible light has energy between about 2 and 3 electron volts (eV). The blue dots represent lower-energy gamma rays (less than 100 million eV); green, moderate energies (100 million to 1 billion eV); and red, the highest energies (more than 1 billion eV). || ", "hits": 123 }, { "id": 10366, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10366/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-10T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Soft Gamma-Ray Repeater Light Echoes Captured by Swift Satellite", "description": "The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) aboard NASA's Swift satellite captured light echoes from a soft-gamma-ray repeater. These stellar remnants, which are thought to be highly magnetized neutron stars called magnetars, occasionally belt out a series of X- and gamma-ray flares. On Jan. 22, 2009, an object known as SGR J1550-5418 began its second and most intense round of outbursts since October 2008. In the following days, Swift's XRT captured what appears to be an expanding halo as X-rays from the brightest bursts scatter off of intervening dust. Multiple rings form as the X-rays interact with different dust clouds. Closer clouds produce larger rings. Both the rings and their apparent expansion are an effect of light's finite speed and the longer path the scattered light must travel. They will be studied to make a more reliable measurement of the distance to the source and to the dust clouds. || ", "hits": 40 }, { "id": 10369, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10369/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-01-15T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Naked-Eye Gamma-ray Burst Model for GRB 080319B", "description": "Gamma-ray bursts that are longer than two seconds are caused by the detonation of a rapidly rotating massive star at the end of its life on the main sequence. Jets of particles and gamma radiation are emitted in opposite directions from the stellar core as the star collapses. In this model, a narrow beam of gamma rays is emitted, followed by a wider beam of gamma rays. The narrow beam for GRB 080319B was aimed almost precisely at the Earth, which made it the brightest gamma-ray burst observed to date by NASA's Swift satellite. || ", "hits": 76 }, { "id": 10361, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10361/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-01-09T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Pulsars Emit Gamma-rays from Equator", "description": "A pulsar is a rapidly spinning and highly magnetized neutron star, the crushed core left behind when a massive sun explodes. Most were found through their pulses at radio wavelengths, which are thought to be caused by narrow, lighthouse-like beams emanating from the star's magnetic poles. When it comes to gamma-rays, pulsars are no longer lighthouses. A new class of gamma-ray-only pulsars shows that the gamma rays must form in a broader region than the lighthouse-like radio beam. Astronomers now believe the pulsed gamma rays arise far above the neutron star. || ", "hits": 71 }, { "id": 10357, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10357/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-12-21T23:00:00-05:00", "title": "GLASTcast Episode 6: 2008 Mission Update", "description": "The GLAST mission launched on June 11, 2008 and has been returning remarkable and revolutionary discoveries ever since. Recently renamed to the Fermi Space Telescope, after Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi, the mission is expected to discover dozens of new pulsars within its first year alone. The telescope is also giving us new insights into gamma-ray bursts and the massive jets that erupt from distant galaxies. Stay tuned — the mission of NASA's Fermi telescope is just getting started. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 10253, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10253/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-09-26T01:00:00-04:00", "title": "Scientists Watch Baby Black Hole Get to Work Fast", "description": "Scientists using NASA's Swift satellite say they have found newborn black holes, just seconds old, in a confused state of existence, sloppily gorging on material falling into them while somehow propelling other material away at great speeds. These black holes are born in massive star explosions. An initial blast obliterates the star. Yet the chaotic black hole activity appears to re-energize the explosion again and again over the course of several minutes. This is a dramatically different view of star death, one that entails multiple explosive outbursts and not just a single bang, as previously thought.When a massive star runs out of fuel, it no longer has the energy to support its mass. The core collapses and forms a black hole. Shockwaves bounce out and obliterate the outer shells of the star. Previously scientists thought that a single explosion is followed by a graceful afterglow of the dying embers. Now, according to Swift observations, it appears that a newborn black hole in the core somehow re-energizes the explosion again and again, creating multiple bursts all within a few minutes. || ", "hits": 82 }, { "id": 10347, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10347/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "GLAST First Light All Sky Map", "description": "NASA's newest observatory, the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), has begun its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays. The spacecraft and its revolutionary instruments passed their orbital checkout with flying colors. NASA announced today that GLAST has been renamed the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The new name honors Prof. Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954), a pioneer in high-energy physics. Scientists expect Fermi will discover many new pulsars in our own galaxy, reveal powerful processes near supermassive black holes at the cores of thousands of active galaxies across, and enable a search for signs of new physical laws. || ", "hits": 117 }, { "id": 10345, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10345/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "GLASTcast in HD for Apple TV and iTunes", "description": "The Universe is home to numerous exotic and beautiful phenomena, some of which can generate inconceivable amounts of energy. GLAST will open a new window on this high-energy world. With GLAST, astronomers will have a superior tool to study how black holes, notorious for pulling matter in, can accelerate jets of gas outward at fantastic speeds. Physicists will be able to search for signals of new fundamental processes that are inaccessible in ground-based accelerators and observatories. GLAST's spectacular high-energy gamma-ray 'eyeglasses' will reveal hidden wonders, opening our minds to new possibilities and discoveries, expanding our understanding of the Universe and our place in it. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 10323, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10323/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "GLASTCast Episode 3 - Swift and GLAST", "description": "NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the U.S. What's the difference between the Swift and GLAST satellites? Both missions look at gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), but in different ways. Swift can rapidly and precisely determine the locations of GRBs and observe their afterglows at X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical wavelengths. GLAST will provide exquisite observations of the burst over the gamma ray spectrum, giving scientists their first complete view of the total energy released in these extraordinary events. Beyond GRB science, GLAST is a multipurpose observatory that will study a broad range of cosmic phenomena. Swift is also a multipurpose observatory, but was built primarily to study GRBs. Interviews with (in order of appearance): David Thompson - GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Charles \"Chip\" Meegan - GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) Principal Investigator, NASA Marshall Lynn Cominsky - GLAST Astrophysicist and Education and Public Outreach Lead, Sonoma State University Neil Gehrels - GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Steve Ritz - GLAST Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Alan Marscher - Professor of Astronomy, Boston University || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 10324, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10324/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "GLASTcast Episode 4: Launching a Spacecraft", "description": "NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the U.S. The GLAST satellite will launch in 2008 from Cape Canaveral Air Station, on Florida's east coast. GLAST will be carried on a Delta II Heavy launch vehicle, with 9 solid rocket boosters. GLAST is the first imaging gamma-ray observatory to survey the entire sky every day and with high sensitivity. It will give scientists a unique opportunity to learn about the ever-changing Universe at extreme energies. Interviews with (in order of appearance): Peter Michaelson - Large Area Telescope (LAT) Principal Investigator, Stanford University Lynn Cominsky - GLAST Astrophysicist and Education and Public Outreach Lead, Sonoma State University David Thompson - GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Kevin Grady - GLAST Project Manager, NASA Goddard Neil Johnson - Large Area Telescope (LAT) Deputy Principal Investigator, US Naval Research Lab Jonathan Ormes - Large Area Telescope (LAT) Senior Scientist Advisory Committee, University of Denver Charles \"Chip\" Meegan - GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) Principal Investigator, NASA Marshall Luke Drury - Professor of Astronomy, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Per Carlson - Professor of Elementary Particle Physics, Manne Siegbahn Laboratory Isabelle Grenier - Principal Investigator of the GLAST French contribution, French Atomic Energy Commission || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 10325, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10325/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-05T01:00:00-04:00", "title": "GLASTcast Episode 5: Meet the U.S. Team", "description": "NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the U.S. This video introduces only a small fraction of the hundreds of U.S. and international GLAST team members. To meet more of the team go to: www.nasa.gov/glast. Interviews with (in order of appearance): Bill Atwood - GLAST Co-Creator, Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz David Thompson - GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Julie McEnery - GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Steve Ritz - GLAST Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Neil Gehrels - GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Peter Michaelson - Large Area Telescope (LAT) Principal Investigator, Stanford University Kevin Grady - GLAST Project Manager, NASA Goddard Charles \"Chip\" Meegan - GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) Principal Investigator, NASA Marshall || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 10322, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10322/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-07-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "GLAST Soundbites", "description": "Selected soundbites with Steve Ritz, GLAST Project Scientist; Peter Michelson, LAT Principal Investigator; Charles 'Chip' Meegan, GBM Principal Investigator. NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the U.S. || ", "hits": 30 } ] }