{ "count": 451, "next": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/api/search/?keywords=Universe&limit=100&offset=100", "previous": null, "results": [ { "id": 15060, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15060/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-07-01T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Pegasus XL Rocket Mated to Stargazer for Swift Boost Mission", "description": "A Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket attached to the bottom of the company’s Stargazer aircraft, a modified Lockheed L-1011, is ready for departure, as seen on Friday, June 12, 2026, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Inside the rocket is Katalyst Space’s LINK robotic servicing spacecraft, which will launch to boost the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. Credit: NASA/Ron BeardAlt text: A rocket attached to the belly of a large airplaneImage description: A large white airplane has a white rocket attached to its belly. An aircraft boarding truck bearing a flight of stairs is pulled up to the forward boarding door, which is open. There is a band of blue running from the nose to the tail, just above the wings, and blue letters spell out “Northrop Grumman” to the left of the boarding door. A white tractor is hitched to the front of the airplane. The sky above is streaked lightly with white clouds. A person in a black shirt and pants stands under the wing. || NE201469.jpg (6000x3730) [11.5 MB] || NE201469_3000x1865.jpg (3000x1865) [885.0 KB] || NE201469_searchweb.png (320x180) [98.7 KB] || NE201469_thm.png (80x40) [24.5 KB] || ", "hits": 1286 }, { "id": 15053, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15053/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-06-17T13:15:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s Fermi Mission Reveals Related Supernova Remnants", "description": "This multiwavelength scene shows the Jellyfish Nebula supernova remnant (right), the interstellar cloud it’s interacting with, and a distinctive curving filament to its upper left. The filament, which is shown here both in optical and ultraviolet (UV) light, is the visible part of an overlapping supernova remnant, G189.6+3.3, that is more prominent in radio and X-rays. Data inlcudes NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and NASA’s retired WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission.", "hits": 791 }, { "id": 15046, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15046/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2026-06-05T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Swift Multitool Infographic", "description": "This infographic highlights some of the achievements of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has become the agency’s astrophysics multitool since launching in 2004. The spacecraft studies a wide range of objects, from those near Earth, to stars, black holes, and gamma-ray bursts — the most powerful explosions in the cosmos. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterAlt text: Infographic of some of Swift’s science highlightsImage description: This infographic highlighting NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is done mostly in shades of blue except for pops of green, purple, brown and orange. A line of icon-style images, sort of like a film strip, bisects the image. The icons get smaller the further away they are, giving the sense of distance. Furthest to the left is a green Earth and a brown asteroid. Then there is a white comet, an orange star, a blue-and-white neutron star, a purple-and-black black hole, a blue-and-white spiral galaxy, a reddish nebula, and a purple gamma-ray burst.At top left, text reads “Astrophysics Multitool” and “NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.” Below that is a box labeled “Original Objectives,” with text reading “To discover and quickly localize GRBs (gamma-ray bursts) and observe their afterglows in visible, ultraviolet, and X-ray light.” The GRB text is purple, and the rest is blue. Below the box, text reads “Since launching on Nov. 20, 2004, Swift has …” To the right of the film strip are four boxes. The top box is labeled “GRBs” in purple. There are five lines of text below it reading “Detected thousands of GRBs / Discovered the farthest GRB / Pinpointed the afterglows of short GRBs / Helped monitor the brightest GRB ever seen / Assisted in tying short GRBs to neutron star mergers.”The next box down and a little to the left is labeled “Stars” in orange text on a brown background. Five lines of text below it read “Spotted megaflares from red dwarf stars / Monitored the clashing winds of giant binary stars / Caught enormous star quakes on distant magnetars / Discovered a supernova remnant / Surveyed star formation in the nearest galaxies.”The next box down and a little more to the left is labeled “Earth” in green. The five lines of text below it read “Measured water released by comets / Analyzed an asteroid collision / Caught a comet slowing its spin / Tracked a near-Earth asteroid / Studied a Sun-grazing comet.”The last box at bottom right is labeled “Black Holes” in blue. Five lines of text below it read “Discovered new black holes / Observed monster black holes destroying stars / Used X-ray echoes to map gas around a black hole / Showed that galaxy collisions fuel their central black holes / Found a black hole repeatedly nibbling on a star.” || Swift_Multitool_Infographic_Final_half.jpg (3641x2048) [1.3 MB] || Swift_Multitool_Infographic_Final.jpg (7282x4096) [2.8 MB] || Swift_Multitool_Infographic_Final.png (7282x4096) [10.8 MB] || Swift_Multitool_Infographic_Final_half_searchweb.png (320x180) [91.4 KB] || Swift_Multitool_Infographic_Final_half_thm.png (80x40) [7.4 KB] || ", "hits": 203 }, { "id": 15044, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15044/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-05-27T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Testing for the Katalyst-NASA Swift Boost Mission", "description": "Kieran Wilson, LINK’s principal investigator, and Hunter Robertson, a space systems engineer, both at Katalyst Space, stand next to their spacecraft inside the SES (Space Environment Simulator) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on April 17, 2026, ahead of thermal vacuum testing. During testing in the SES, LINK fired its three ion thrusters, deployed one of its three arms, and experienced space-like hot and cold temperatures. Credit: NASA/Sophia RobertsAlt text: Two people stand next to a spacecraft inside a large black chamber.Image description: Downward-looking view of two people in white clean suits standing next to a spacecraft at the bottom of a large black circular chamber. The spacecraft lies at center on a black circular plate crisscrossed with white lines. Around the perimeter of the chamber are ladders and various stands. Several small lamps near the chamber’s floor create pools of light. There is a door open to the outside of the chamber at about 1 o’clock. || Testing_Link_-_Thermal_Vacuum_Testing-5-half.jpg (4752x2672) [3.8 MB] || Testing_Link_-_Thermal_Vacuum_Testing-5.jpg (9504x5344) [33.7 MB] || Testing_Link_-_Thermal_Vacuum_Testing-5-half_searchweb.png (320x180) [77.6 KB] || Testing_Link_-_Thermal_Vacuum_Testing-5-half_thm.png (80x40) [8.6 KB] || ", "hits": 1445 }, { "id": 15041, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15041/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-05-20T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Fermi Spies a Supercharged Supernova", "description": "Gamma rays detected by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope gave scientists a look under the hood of a rare supernova that produced much more light than normal.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic credits:\"Granular Game\" by John Bisset \"In The Zone\" by Daniel Migdal, Jonas Pomo\"Ornaments\" by Lisa Van Hal || Fermi_Spies_a_Supercharged_Supernova_Thumbnail.jpg (1280x720) [231.5 KB] || 15041-_Fermi_Spies_a_Supercharged_Supernova.en_US.srt [2.2 KB] || 15041-_Fermi_Spies_a_Supercharged_Supernova.en_US.vtt [2.1 KB] || 15041-_Fermi_Spies_a_Supercharged_Supernova.webm (3840x2160) [34.1 MB] || 15041-_Fermi_Spies_a_Supercharged_Supernova.mp4 (3840x2160) [892.9 MB] || 15041-_Fermi_Spies_a_Supercharged_Supernova_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [6.3 GB] || ", "hits": 636 }, { "id": 20413, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20413/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2026-05-20T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Supernova explosion animation, with & without pulsar", "description": "This animation shows a supernova — the explosion of a massive star — and the formation of an expanding cloud of debris called a supernova remnant. As the brightness fades, a pulsing light source appears at the center, surrounded by a small expanding nebula. The pulsing object is a pulsar, a type of neutron star, which represents the core of the massive star that exploded. The cloud around it is a pulsar wind nebula, which is formed and maintained by an outflow of particles streaming away from the neutron star. A version of the animation is available without the pulsar.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab || SN_HQ_Full_H264_V001.00750_print.jpg (1024x576) [120.0 KB] || SN_HQ_Full_H264_V001.00750_searchweb.png (320x180) [77.3 KB] || SN_HQ_Full_H264_V001.00750_web.png (320x180) [77.3 KB] || SN_HQ_Full_H264_V001.00750_thm.png (80x40) [5.9 KB] || SN_HQ_Full_1080_V001.mp4 (1920x1080) [97.4 MB] || SN_HQ_Full_H264_V001.mp4 (3840x2160) [63.7 MB] || SN_HQ_Full_onlypulsar_V001.mov (3840x2160) [119.4 MB] || SN_HQ_Full_V001.mov (3840x2160) [2.5 GB] || SN_HQ_Full_nopulsar_V001.mov (3840x2160) [2.5 GB] || ", "hits": 1599 }, { "id": 14985, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14985/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-05-13T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "TESS Reveals Dazzling Night Sky", "description": "This view of the whole sky was constructed from 96 TESS sectors. By the end of September 2025, when the last image of this mosaic was captured, TESS had discovered 679 exoplanets (blue dots) and 5,165 candidates (orange dots). The glowing arc running through the center is the plane of the Milky Way. The Large Magellanic Cloud can be seen along the bottom edge just left of center. Black areas within the oval indicate regions TESS has not yet imaged.Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Veselin Kostov (University of Maryland College Park)Alt text: Oval projection of the TESS night sky with exoplanet markersImage description: This oval view of the night sky features a U-shaped band of greyish white running downward from top left to bottom center and then upward to top right. The left side of the U is brighter than the right. Blue and orange dots speckle the image, representing confirmed and candidate exoplanets, respectively. Along the oval’s equator, there are a few black lines and blocks of the sky that are a slightly different shade than the rest of the image. There is an empty black block in the upper left. || TESS_both_bin4_planets-Half.jpg (7740x3900) [11.9 MB] || TESS_both_bin4_planets.jpg (15480x7800) [51.2 MB] || TESS_both_bin4_planets.png (15480x7800) [107.6 MB] || TESS_both_bin4_planets-Half_searchweb.png (320x180) [90.2 KB] || TESS_both_bin4_planets-Half_thm.png (80x40) [5.6 KB] || ", "hits": 642 }, { "id": 15033, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15033/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-05-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "TESS Finds Possible New Worlds Using Stellar Eclipses", "description": "A gas giant planet looms in the foreground at right, illuminated by a pair of stars, in this artist’s concept of a world in a binary system. NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has found planets in two binary star systems by looking for stellar dimming as the planets cross in front of one of the stars. Astronomers have now demonstrated a new method of finding planets in these systems by focusing on the timing of the stars’ mutual eclipses. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA)Alt text: Planet orbiting a binary systemImage description: Against a starry sky suffused with an orange glow, a gas giant planet with purple and white clouds appears in its crescent phase at right. Two bright stars illuminate the scene, one large and whitish at left, the other smaller and more orange near the center. || circumbinary_planet_AC.png (3991x2160) [3.7 MB] || circumbinary_planet_AC_print.jpg (1024x554) [71.5 KB] || circumbinary_planet_no_text.png (3991x2160) [3.7 MB] || ", "hits": 411 }, { "id": 14979, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14979/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-03-26T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Early Testing of Aerogel and Silicon Detectors for TIGERISS", "description": "Nick Cannady, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, examines a block of silica aerogel in May 2025. Cannady uses the light weight material in detectors for the upcoming TIGERISS (Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder for the International Space Station) mission, which is designed to study high-speed charged particles called cosmic rays.Credit: NASA/Scott WiessingerAlt text: A man studies a transparent block of aerogel.Image description: A man with glasses wearing a blue checkered shirt examines a block of transparent material resting on a table. He is leaning and rests his right hand on the table. The block glows faintly blue. The table is gray with evenly spaced rows of holes. || Tigeriss-Aerogel__Nick_Cannady-3.jpg (6393x4718) [17.4 MB] || Tigeriss-AerogelNick_Cannady-3-small.jpg (3196x2359) [1.6 MB] || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 14968, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14968/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-03-25T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "XRISM Clocks Hot Wind of Galaxy M82", "description": "The Resolve instrument aboard the XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft captured data revealing the velocity of the hot wind at the center of starburst galaxy M82. The energy range of iron emission lines show that the gas moves around 2 million miles (about 3 million kilometers) per hour. Inset: XRISM Xtend instrument’s image of M82.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, JAXA/NASA, XRISM Collaboration et al. 2026Alt text: Spectrum and image of galaxy M82Image description: This image is labeled, “XRISM Resolve Measures the Hot Wind of Starburst Galaxy M82.” It shows a graph where the bottom is labeled, “X-ray energy (keV),” with a range from 2 to 9. The left side is labeled “X-ray brightness.” A squiggly white line starts near the bottom of the left side. Several peaks are labeled, including silicon, sulfur, argon, and calcium. Four peaks are identified as iron. In the upper right corner, a small inset shows an image that looks like a purple pansy with a yellow center. || v3_XRISM_Resolve_M82.jpg (4412x2993) [2.6 MB] || v3_XRISM_Resolve_M82_searchweb.png (320x180) [46.6 KB] || v3_XRISM_Resolve_M82_thm.png (80x40) [4.6 KB] || ", "hits": 466 }, { "id": 14991, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14991/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-03-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Argonne Assembles, Tests Early ComPair-2 Hardware", "description": "Tim Cundiff, an engineering specialist at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois, monitors the automated wire bond of a ComPair-2 detector layer in April 2025. Image courtesy of Argonne National LaboratoryAlt text: A man in a lab uses a microscope.Image description: A man in a white clean suit, gloves, safety glasses, and a hairnet sits in front of a piece of machinery in a laboratory and peers into a microscope. Behind him is a long bench covered in scientific equipment and computers. In front of him, inside the machinery, are what look like two black treads that loop in and out of frame. || 34340D_0388_PSE_NASA_Goddard_Gamma-Ray_Tracker_Assembly_Process_WEB_16x9.jpg (2000x1125) [1.1 MB] || 34340D_0388_PSE_NASA_Goddard_Gamma-Ray_Tracker_Assembly_Process_WEB_16x9_searchweb.png (320x180) [124.6 KB] || 34340D_0388_PSE_NASA_Goddard_Gamma-Ray_Tracker_Assembly_Process_WEB_16x9_thm.png (80x40) [27.3 KB] || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 31369, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31369/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2026-03-02T18:59:59-05:00", "title": "Zoom into the Cats Paw Nebula", "description": "This zoom-in video shows the location of the Cat’s Paw Nebula on the sky. It begins with a ground-based photo by the late astrophotographer Akira Fujii, then shows views from the Digitized Sky Survey. Honeing in on the European Southern Observatory image of the Cat’s Paw Nebula in visible light. The video continues to zoom in on a section of the Cat’s Paw, which gradually transitions to the stunning image captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in near-infrared light.", "hits": 40 }, { "id": 14980, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14980/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-02-26T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Prototype ComPair-2 Gamma-Ray Detectors Complete Thermal Vacuum Testing", "description": "Prototype gamma-ray detectors for the ComPair-2 mission rests in a thermal vacuum chamber after testing in June 2025 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. 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. The chamber is in a lab with white walls and has tubes, wires, and other pieces of equipment attached. || ComPair2_TVAC-1-small.jpg (4096x2732) [3.2 MB] || ComPair2_TVAC-1.jpg (8192x5464) [30.6 MB] || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 14976, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14976/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-02-20T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi's 15-year View of the Gamma-Ray Sky", "description": "This image shows the entire sky as seen by Fermi's Large Area Telescope. Lighter colors indicate brighter gamma-ray sources. The map is centered on the center of our galaxy. The most prominent feature is the bright, diffuse glow running along the middle of the map, which marks the central plane of our Milky Way galaxy. The gamma rays there are mostly produced when energetic particles accelerated in the shock waves of supernova remnants collide with gas atoms and even light between the stars. Many of the star-like features above and below the Milky Way plane are distant galaxies powered by supermassive black holes. Many of the bright sources along the plane are pulsars. The image was constructed from 15 years of observations using front-converting gamma rays with energies greater than 1 GeV. Hammer projection with black background.Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT CollaborationAlt text: Fermi 15-year all-sky gamma-ray mapImage description: A colorful oval map sits in the middle of a black background. The oval is predominantly royal blue, striped with an irregular bright red, orange, and yellow band horizontally across the center, which shows the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Smaller dots and splotches in red, orange, yellow, and white appear throughout the oval. || intens_ait_180m_gt1000_psf3_gal_0p1.png (3600x1800) [2.9 MB] || intens_ait_180m_gt1000_psf3_gal_0p1_print.jpg (1024x512) [290.2 KB] || intens_ait_180m_gt1000_psf3_gal_0p1_searchweb.png (320x180) [74.2 KB] || intens_ait_180m_gt1000_psf3_gal_0p1_thm.png (80x40) [4.6 KB] || ", "hits": 152 }, { "id": 14884, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14884/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-29T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Supercomputer Probes Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars", "description": "New supercomputer simulations explore the tangled magnetic structures around merging neutron stars. These structures, called magnetospheres, interact as the city-sized stars enter their final orbits. Magnetic field lines can connect both stars, break, and reconnect, while currents surge through surrounding plasma moving at nearly the speed of light. The simulations show that these systems may produce X-rays and gamma rays that future observatories should be able to detect. 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": 510 }, { "id": 14955, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14955/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-27T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Tests LISA Development Units", "description": "A prototype charge management device for the future LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission sits on a lab bench at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The device will reduce the buildup of electric charge on the gold-platinum test masses that float freely inside each of the three LISA spacecraft. The University of Florida in Gainesville and Fibertek Inc. in McNair, Virginia, are developing the device. Credit: NASA/Dennis HenryAlt text: An instrument rests on a lab bench.Image description: A silver box with red and black connector caps on one side rests on a white lab bench with a blue mat on top. Three black cables connect to the box and another yellow cable curls around it. || GSFC_20250602_LISA_006584.jpg (8098x5399) [11.3 MB] || ", "hits": 183 }, { "id": 14891, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14891/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-20T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Far and Wide: Roman and Webb's Overlapping Roles in Understanding Our Universe", "description": "The four Roman/Webb Far and Wide videos that detail the differences between the two missions, why we need both, what they will do and how they will work together.", "hits": 330 }, { "id": 14950, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14950/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2026-01-20T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Flying Through Galaxies", "description": "This artist's concept animation imagines flying through the vast web of galaxies that fill the visible universe. || 14950_Galaxies_FlyThrough_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [814.5 KB] || 14950_Galaxies_FlyThrough_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [75.2 KB] || 14950_Galaxies_FlyThrough_Still_thm.png (80x40) [5.8 KB] || 14950_Galaxies_FlyThrough_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [49.2 MB] || 14950_Galaxies_FlyThrough_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [141.8 MB] || 14950_Galaxies_FlyThrough_4k60_75mbps.mp4 (3840x2160) [355.6 MB] || 14950_Galaxies_FlyThrough_ProRes_3840x2160_60.mov (3840x2160) [5.3 GB] || ", "hits": 349 }, { "id": 14945, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14945/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-09T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA’s Pandora Satellite to Explore Exoplanets and Stars", "description": "Artist’s concept of NASA’s Pandora mission, which will help scientists untangle the signals from exoplanets’ atmospheres — worlds beyond our solar system — and their stars.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterAlt text: The Pandora spacecraft with an exoplanet and two stars in the backgroundImage description: A metallic spacecraft takes up most of this image. Its body is made of a cylindrical telescope attached to a square base. Inside the telescope is the reflection of an orange star. A line of three solar panels extends from the right side of the spacecraft at a 45-degree angle. On the right side of the background is a large planet streaked with purple, pink, and white. To the left of the planet are two stars. One is small, yellow, and very close to the planet. The other is white and is almost totally eclipsed by the spacecraft. || Pandora_Graphic_No_Text.jpg (6000x3000) [3.5 MB] || Pandora_Graphic_No_Text.png (6000x3000) [22.7 MB] || ", "hits": 315 }, { "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. Credit: NASA/LSU/Brian MonroeWatch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel. || Longest_GRB_Animation_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [296.0 KB] || Longest_GRB_Animation_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [63.7 KB] || Longest_GRB_Animation_Still_thm.png (80x40) [5.5 KB] || NASA_GRB_Sequence_Final_v01.mp4 (1920x1080) [134.3 MB] || Longest_GRB_Animation_Captions.en_US.srt [1.2 KB] || Longest_GRB_Animation_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.2 KB] || NASA_GRB_Sequence_Final_v01.mov (1920x1080) [1.2 GB] || ", "hits": 631 }, { "id": 14933, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14933/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-12-04T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "XRISM Finds Elemental Bounty in Supernova Remnant", "description": "Observations of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant by the Resolve instrument aboard the NASA-JAXA XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft revealed strong evidence for potassium (green squares) in the southeast and northern parts of the remnant. Grids superposed on a multiwavelength image of the remnant represent the fields of view of two Resolve measurements made in December 2023. Each square represents one pixel of Resolve’s detector. Weaker evidence of potassium (yellow squares) in the west suggests that the original star may have had underlying asymmetries before it exploded. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Milisavljevic et al., NASA/JPL/CalTech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt and K. ArcandAlt text: The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant with the XRISM Resolve fields of viewImage description: Supernova remnant Cassiopeia A appears as a large circular object outlined by electric blue filaments, set against a black background. Strings of vibrant colors weave throughout, with blue representing Chandra data, red, green, and blue representing Webb data, and Hubble data showing a multitude of stars that dot the view. Two nearly square grids are laid on top of the remnant slightly overlapping. The upper grid has six squares filled yellow, representing weaker evidence for potassium. In the opposite corner of that grid, five squares are filled green, representing a positive potassium detection. The lower grid has six boxes filled green in a wide M-like shape. The image is labeled “North” at the top center, “West” on the right, and “Southeast” to the left. || cas_a_with_resolve_1.png (800x645) [96.7 KB] || cas_a_with_resolve_1_print.jpg (1024x825) [125.5 KB] || cas_a_with_resolve_1_searchweb.png (320x180) [120.5 KB] || cas_a_with_resolve_1_web.png (320x258) [161.2 KB] || cas_a_with_resolve_1_thm.png (80x40) [7.6 KB] || ", "hits": 173 }, { "id": 14922, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14922/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-12-01T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Anatomy of an Active Galactic Nucleus", "description": "An active galactic nucleus, or AGN, is a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy that is consuming surrounding matter. Although the black hole itself is not visible, the structures around it emit light across many wavelengths. The artist’s concepts here highlight distinct structures that can accompany an AGN — the photon ring, accretion disk, corona, dusty torus, and relativistic jets. || ", "hits": 427 }, { "id": 14905, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14905/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-28T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "Black Hole Environments, Explained", "description": "If light can’t escape black holes, how do we know where they are? The regions around them tell an incredible story. From blazing coronas and swirling accretion disks to powerful jets that stretch millions of miles, these extreme environments reveal black holes' secrets and how these mysterious objects shape the universe.Join host Sophia Roberts as she talks with researchers Jenna Cann and Cecilia Chirenti at NASA Goddard about how scientists study these mysterious structures, the challenges of observing the unseeable, and the discoveries that continue to change our understanding of black holes.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic credits from Universal Production Music:\"Breaking the Barrier,\" David Bertrand Holland\"Dust Spirals,\" Alexandre Prodhomme\"Miniature Universe,\" Geoffrey Wilkinson\"Urban Decay,\" Sarah Natasha Penelope Warne\"Solar Plexus,\" Brandon Seliga\"Polygraph,\" Eric Chevalier\"The Mischief Makers,\" Joaquim Badia\"Maelstrom Dream,\" Lucie Rose\"The Truth Will Out,\" Chris Dony and Beth Perry || 14905_-_BHE_Thumbnail.jpg (1280x720) [947.8 KB] || 14905_-_Black_Hole_Environments_Explained_Captions.en_US.srt [15.7 KB] || 14905_-_Black_Hole_Environments_Explained_Captions.en_US.vtt [14.8 KB] || FINAL_-_14905_-_Black_Hole_Environments_Explained_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.7 GB] || FINAL_-_14905_Black_Hole_Enviroments_Explained_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [9.2 GB] || FINAL_-_14905_-_Black_Hole_Environments_Explained_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [39.3 GB] || ", "hits": 176 }, { "id": 14928, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14928/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-20T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "TESS Triples Size of Pleiades Star Cluster", "description": "These young, hot blue stars are members of the Pleiades open star cluster and reside about 430 light-years away in the northern constellation Taurus. The brightest stars are visible to the unaided eye during evenings from October to April. A new study finds the cluster to be triple the size previously thought — and shows that its stars are scattered across the night sky. The Schmidt telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California captured this color-composite image. Credit: NASA, ESA, and AURA/CaltechAlt text: Members of the Pleiades shine in blue. Image description: The Pleiades are shown in this image. Six of the stars, all blue-white, are larger than the others and have diffraction spikes and faint blue circles around them. Other, smaller blue stars are also scattered across the image. Patches of swirling blue dust surround some of the stars. || STScI-01EVVEYWX1TA3MGBK5F6EFQVGQ.jpg (4877x3513) [1.1 MB] || ", "hits": 796 }, { "id": 14906, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14906/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-30T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Evolution of a Sun-Like Star", "description": "As a star ages, its spin and the number and sizes of its spots decreases as shown in this animation of a Sun-like star. Star spots are tied to local magnetic fields that have been amplified by the star’s rotation, so the phenomena are connected.A version without labels is available for download.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center || ThreeStars_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [586.8 KB] || ThreeStars_Still.png (3840x2160) [3.4 MB] || ThreeStars_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [65.9 KB] || ThreeStars_Still_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || 14906_ThreeStars_NoText_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [53.6 MB] || 14906_ThreeStars_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [53.8 MB] || 14906_ThreeStars_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [178.6 MB] || 14906_ThreeStars_NoText_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [178.3 MB] || 14906_ThreeStars_NoText_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [1.8 GB] || 14906_ThreeStars_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [1.9 GB] || ", "hits": 193 }, { "id": 14881, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14881/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Spacecraft Animations 2025", "description": "A beauty pass of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The spacecraft fills the frame with a starry background at 0:05 and is fully in frame with Earth partially in the background at 0:11.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab || Fermi_Beauty_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [250.1 KB] || Fermi_Beauty_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [11.5 KB] || Fermi_Beauty_Still_thm.png (80x40) [1.6 KB] || Fermi_BeautyPass_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [46.1 MB] || Fermi_BeautyPass_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [113.7 MB] || Fermi_BeautyPass_V002_ProRes_4k.mov (3840x2160) [1.3 GB] || ", "hits": 85 }, { "id": 14868, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14868/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "XRISM Satellite X-rays Milky Way’s Sulfur in Detail", "description": "An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft.Astronomers used X-rays from two binary star systems to detect sulfur in the interstellar medium, the gas and dust found in the space between stars. It’s the first direct measurement of both sulfur’s gas and solid phases, a unique capability of X-ray spectroscopy, XRISM’s (pronounced “crism”) primary method of studying the cosmos.Using ultraviolet light, researchers have found gaseous sulfur in the space between stars. In denser parts of the interstellar medium, such as the molecular clouds where stars and planets are born, this form of sulfur quickly disappears.Scientists assume the sulfur condenses into a solid, either by combining with ice or mixing with other elements.When a doctor performs an X-ray here on Earth, they place the patient between an X-ray source and a detector. Bone and tissue absorb different amounts of the light as it travels through the patient's body, creating contrast in the detector.Scientists did something similar by picking a portion of the interstellar medium with the right density — not so thin that all the X-rays would pass through unchanged, but also not so dense that they would all be absorbed.Then they selected a bright X-ray source behind that section of the medium, a binary star system called GX 340+0 located over 35,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Scorpius.Using the Resolve instrument on XRISM, the researchers were able to measure the energy of GX 340+0’s X-rays and determined that sulfur was present not only as a gas, but also as a solid, possibly mixed with iron.Iron-sulfur compounds are often found in meteorites, so scientists have long thought they might be one way sulfur solidifies out of molecular clouds to travel through the universe. XRISM’s observations could match a few of these compounds — pyrrhotite, troilite, and pyrite, which is sometimes called fool’s gold.The researchers were also able to use measurements from a second X-ray binary called 4U 1630-472 that helped confirm their findings. || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 14857, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14857/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-06-11T14:10:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s Webb Reveals Galaxy Population Driving Cosmic Renovation", "description": "Symbols mark the locations of young, low-mass galaxies bursting with new stars when the universe was about 800 million years old. Using a filter sensitive to such galaxies, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope imaged them with the help of a natural gravitational lens created by the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744. In all, 83 young galaxies were found, but only the 20 shown here (white diamonds) were selected for deeper study. The inset zooms into one of the galaxies. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/Bezanson et al. 2024 and Wold et al. 2025Alt text: Animation showing the locations of young, low-mass, starburst galaxies around galaxy cluster Abell 2744.Image description:White and yellow galaxies of various sizes and shapes appear against the blackness of space. Two bright stars in our own galaxy display prominent six-spike diffraction patterns with bluish rays, visible at center left and lower left. Then 20 white diamonds sweep across the image. One diamond enlarges to reveal an image of a young, low-mass, star-forming galaxy. It looks like a green oval against a red and green checked background. The enlarged image then shrinks back, and the diamonds sweep away. The sequence loops. || Pandora_stamp_60pct.gif (600x600) [961.0 KB] || ", "hits": 121 }, { "id": 14834, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14834/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-05-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space Telescope", "description": "For more than three decades, NASA and an international team of scientists and engineers pushed the limits of technology, innovation, and perseverance to build and launch the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space observatory ever created. Cosmic Dawn brings audiences behind the scenes with the Webb film crew, and never-before-heard testimonies revealing the real story of how this telescope overcame all odds. ||", "hits": 298 }, { "id": 14809, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14809/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-03-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Testing AstroPix, A New Gamma-Ray Detector", "description": "An AstroPix detector board rests inside a protective tray in a lab at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The squares in the center are silicon pixel gamma-ray sensors. There are two more under the rectangular copper bus bar, which carries data from the sensors to rest of the A-STEP system. The detector connects to a high-power voltage board and other electronics. Credit: NASA/Sophia RobertsAlt text: Electronic components rest on a lab tableImage description: What looks like a large computer chip — an AstroPix detector — rests inside a white tray on a blue lab bench. The detector is green and has two reflective squares in the middle with a long copper rectangle at right parallel to them. Black wires attached to the bottom of the chip connect it to other pieces of equipment and circuit boards on the lab bench. || ASTEP_Chips3.jpg (8192x5464) [32.7 MB] || ASTEP_Chips3_half.jpg (4096x2732) [3.1 MB] || ASTEP_Chips3_half_searchweb.png (320x180) [109.8 KB] || ASTEP_Chips3_half_thm.png [11.5 KB] || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 20399, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20399/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-03-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "XMM-Newton spacecraft animations", "description": "Flyby animation of ESA's (European Space Agency's) XMM-Newton observatory as it orbits Earth.Credit: NASA/ESA || XMM_Beauty_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [449.2 KB] || XMM_Beauty_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [38.6 KB] || XMM_Beauty_Shot_H264_V1.mp4 (3840x2160) [23.4 MB] || XMM_Beauty_Still_thm.png [3.3 KB] || XMM_Beauty_Shot_Prores_V1.mov (3840x2160) [807.2 MB] || ", "hits": 122 }, { "id": 14794, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14794/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-03-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Developing NASA’s ComPair-2 Detectors", "description": "ComPair-2 will host a gamma-ray tracker with 10 layers, each with 380 silicon detectors, like the engineering test unit shown here. This trial version allows the mission team to test the electronics, measure how well the detectors work together, and develop assembly procedures for each layer. 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. The orange is interspersed with black. || ComPair2-3_print.jpg (1024x683) [631.9 KB] || ComPair2-3.jpg (8192x5464) [29.1 MB] || ComPair2-3_searchweb.png (320x180) [124.5 KB] || ComPair2-3_web.png (320x213) [137.6 KB] || ComPair2-3_thm.png [28.0 KB] || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 14762, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14762/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-16T14:15:00-05:00", "title": "2.5 Billion Pixel Image of Galaxy Shot by Hubble", "description": "The Andromeda galaxy holds over 1 trillion stars and has been a key to unlocking the secrets of the universe. Thanks to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, we’re now seeing Andromeda in stunning new detail, revealing its dynamic history and unique structure.Recent Hubble surveys mapped the galaxy’s entire disk—an effort spanning a decade and over 1,000 orbits—showing everything from young stars to remnants of past galactic collisions. Learn how new information about Andromeda is reshaping our understanding of galactic evolution and what it reveals about the fate of our own galaxy. For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris: Lead ProducerMusic Credit:“Vitava From Ma Vlast \"My Country\"” by Bedrich Smetana [PD] and Robert J Walsh [BMI], via First Digital Music [BMI] and Universal Production Music. || ", "hits": 430 }, { "id": 14753, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14753/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-13T10:14:00-05:00", "title": "Astronomers Track Jet Launch, Fluctuating X-Rays from Brink of Active Black Hole", "description": "Active galaxy 1ES 1927+654, circled, has exhibited extraordinary changes since 2018, when a major outburst occurred in visible, ultraviolet, and X-ray light. The galaxy harbors a central black hole weighing about 1.4 million solar masses and is located 270 million light-years away.Credit: Pan-STARRSUnannotated versions available.Image description: On a mottled black background, soft circles ranging in color from blue-white to orange represent stars in our own galaxy. At center, to the right of a chain of three bluish stars, lies a softer white circle set within a grayish ellipse whose longest dimension is oriented vertically. This is 1ES 1927+654, circled in green in this image. || 1ES1927_PanSTARRS_1080_circ.jpg (1920x1080) [597.2 KB] || 1ES1927_PanSTARRS_1080.jpg (1920x1080) [591.5 KB] || 1ES1927_PanSTARRS_2160.jpg (3840x2160) [1.7 MB] || 1ES1927_PanSTARRS_1080_circ_searchweb.png (320x180) [87.7 KB] || 1ES1927_PanSTARRS_1080_circ_thm.png [8.9 KB] || ", "hits": 199 }, { "id": 14680, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14680/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-09T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Astronauts Prepare for NICER Repair Training", "description": "On May 16, 2024, astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague participated in a training exercise at the NBL (Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. They were rehearsing activities related to repairing NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station.Before any spacewalk, astronauts practice and refine procedures in the NBL to simulate — as closely as possible on Earth — the conditions under which they’ll complete the task in space.In May 2023, damage to thin thermal shields protecting NICER allowed sunlight to reach its sensitive X-ray detectors. This saturated sensors and interfered with NICER’s X-ray measurements during orbital daytime.The NICER team developed five wedge-shaped patches to cover the largest areas of damage. The plan calls for astronauts to insert these patches into the instrument’s sunshades and lock them in place. || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 14678, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14678/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-07T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Astronauts Practice NICER Repair", "description": "On May 16, 2024, astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague practiced a repair for NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station. The training exercise took place in the (NBL) Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.Before any spacewalk, astronauts rehearse activities in the NBL to simulate — as much as possible — the conditions under which they’ll complete the task in space.In May 2023, NICER developed a “light leak,” where unwanted sunlight began entering the instrument. The damage allows sunlight to reach the detectors during the station’s daytime, saturating sensors and interfering with NICER’s X-ray measurements. The damage does not impact nighttime observations.The NICER team developed a plan to cover the largest areas of damage using five patches, each shaped like a piece of pie, to be inserted into the instrument’s sunshades and locked in place. || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 14738, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14738/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-12-20T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "What Are Gamma-ray Bursts?", "description": "Watch to learn more about gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the cosmos. 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. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: “Time Science,” Steve Fawcett [ASCAP] and Katherine F Martin [BMI], Universal Production Music Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || YTframe_ASD_GRB.jpg (1280x720) [221.2 KB] || YTframe_ASD_GRB_searchweb.png (320x180) [81.7 KB] || YTframe_ASD_GRB_thm.png (80x40) [9.6 KB] || 14738_GRBexplainer_Small.mp4 (1920x1080) [117.7 MB] || 14738_GRBexplainer_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [526.7 MB] || 14738GRBexplainerCaptions.en_US.srt [4.4 KB] || 14738GRBexplainerCaptions.en_US.vtt [4.2 KB] || 14738_GRBexplainer_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.9 GB] || ", "hits": 572 }, { "id": 14737, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14737/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-12-17T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "Curious Universe Video Episode: The Mind-bending Math Inside Black Holes", "description": "This is a special video edition of NASA's podcast, Curious Universe.Black holes are mysterious, far away, and can bend the fabric of reality itself—but we're learning more about them all the time. Ronald Gamble, a NASA theoretical astrophysicist, uses math, computer coding, and a dash of creativity to peer inside some of the universe's most extreme objects. We'll explore what it would feel like to get pulled into a black hole and what people get wrong about black holes. And we'll answer questions from curious listeners, including, \"What would happen if a black hole ate nothing but magnetized material?\" || ", "hits": 113 }, { "id": 14679, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14679/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-12-13T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "NICER Caddy Preparation", "description": "In Spring 2024, scientists and engineers at NASA prepared and packed a patch kit for NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station.In May 2023, damage to thin thermal shields protecting NICER allowed sunlight to reach its sensitive X-ray detectors. This saturated sensors and interfered with NICER’s measurements during orbital daytime.The NICER team designed five wedge-shaped patches to cover the largest areas of damage. The plan calls for astronauts to insert these patches into the instrument’s sunshades and lock them in place. || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 14707, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14707/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-25T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "XRISM's Resolve Instrument Gazes into Cygnus X-3", "description": "Cygnus X-3 is a high-mass X-ray binary system consisting of a compact object (likely a black hole) and a Wolf-Rayet star. This artist's concept shows one interpretation of the system. High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy indicates two gas components: a heavy background outflow, or wind, produced by the massive star and a turbulent structure — perhaps a wake carved into the wind — located close to the orbiting companion. As shown here, a black hole's gravity captures some of the wind into an accretion disk around it, and the disk's orbital motion sculpts a path (yellow arc) through the streaming gas. During strong outbursts, the companion emits jets of particles moving near the speed of light, seen here extending above and below the black hole.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterAlt text: Illustration of the Cygnus X-3 systemImage description: On a cloudy reddish background, a bright blue-white circle — a representation of a hot, bright, massive star — sits near the center. Wisps of blue-white border its edges, and many lines of similar color radiate from it. In the foreground at about 4 o’clock lies a yellowish ring with a black hole in its center. From the ring trails a diffuse yellow arc, sweeping from right to left and exiting at the bottom of the illustration. Extending above and below the black hole are two blue-white triangles representing particle jets. || Cyg_X-3_illustration_4K.jpg (3840x2160) [505.1 KB] || Cyg_X-3_illustration_4K_print.jpg (1024x576) [58.5 KB] || Cyg_X-3_illustration_4K_searchweb.png (320x180) [64.7 KB] || Cyg_X-3_illustration_4K_web.png (320x180) [64.7 KB] || Cyg_X-3_illustration_4K_thm.png (80x40) [6.1 KB] || ", "hits": 194 }, { "id": 14650, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14650/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "EXCITE 2024: Infrared Detector and Spectrometer", "description": "EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) is designed to study atmospheres around exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, during long-duration scientific balloon trips over Antarctica.These images, taken in July 2024, show Peter Nagler and Nat DeNigris preparing EXCITE’s infrared detector and installing it into the mission’s spectrometer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. At the time, the EXCITE team was gearing up for a test flight in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 14725, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14725/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "EXCITE 2024: Payload Prep", "description": "In August 2024, the EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) team conducted a test flight of their telescope from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.EXCITE's goal is to study atmospheres around hot Jupiters, gas giant exoplanets that complete an orbit once every one to two days and have temperatures in the thousands of degrees.The telescope is designed fly to about 132,000 feet (40 kilometers) via a scientific balloon filled with helium. That takes it above 99.5% of Earth’s atmosphere. At that altitude, it can observe multiple infrared wavelengths with little interference. In the future, EXCITE could take observations over both Arctic and Antarctic, with the latter offering longer duration flights optimum for observing planets for their entire orbit. || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 14726, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14726/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "EXCITE 2024: Launch and Recovery", "description": "On August 31, 2024, the EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) team conducted a test flight of their telescope from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.EXCITE's goal is to study atmospheres around hot Jupiters, gas giant exoplanets that complete an orbit once every one to two days and have temperatures in the thousands of degrees.The telescope is designed fly to about 132,000 feet (40 kilometers) via a scientific balloon filled with helium. That takes it above 99.5% of Earth’s atmosphere. At that altitude, it can observe multiple infrared wavelengths with little interference. In the future, EXCITE could take observations over both the north and south poles, although flights over Antarctica allow for longer-duration flights at a latitude optimum for observing planets for their entire orbit. || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 14720, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14720/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-22T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "COBE All-Sky Map 360 Video With Narration", "description": "View the entire sky with the microwave eyes of NASA’s COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite in this immersive video. COBE took the first baby picture of the universe, revealing slight temperature variations when the cosmos was just 380,000 years old. This image shows the entire sky using four years of observations by COBE’s Differential Microwave Radiometer. The central plane of our galaxy runs across the middle, and its center is marked by a white X. Red indicates hotter regions, blue colder. The fluctuations are extremely faint, varying by only 1 part in 100,000 from the average temperature. They represent density variations in the early universe thought to have given rise to the structures we see today. After stripping away foreground emission arising from dust, hot gas, and charged particles interacting with magnetic fields in our galaxy, COBE data revealed tiny variations in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background — the oldest light in the universe — for the first time.(This video is formatted for 360-degree use.)Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: “Meetings in Underwater Ruins,” Philippe Andre Vandenhende [SACEM], Olivier Louis Perrot [SACEM] and Idriss-El-Mehdi Bennani [SACEM], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || YTframe_Design_hybrid_COBE_360.jpg (1280x720) [235.1 KB] || YTframe_Design_hybrid_COBE_360_searchweb.png (320x180) [80.8 KB] || YTframe_Design_hybrid_COBE_360_thm.png (80x40) [9.2 KB] || 14720_COBE_360_Captions.en_US.srt [4.7 KB] || 14720_COBE_360_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.4 KB] || 14720_COBE_360_Narrated_Good.mp4 (8192x4096) [131.8 MB] || 14720_COBE_360_Narrated_Best.mp4 (8192x4096) [503.2 MB] || ", "hits": 488 }, { "id": 14721, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14721/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-20T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "What's In A Name? NASA's Swift Mission", "description": "Watch to learn how NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory got its name.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: “In a Conundrum,” Pip Heywood [PRS], Universal Production Music“Spinning Particles,” Christian Telford [ASCAP] and Koichi Sanchez-Imahashi [ASCAP], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Swift_Name_20_Thumbnail2.jpg (1280x720) [308.5 KB] || Swift_Name_20_Thumbnail2_searchweb.png (320x180) [103.9 KB] || Swift_Name_20_Thumbnail2_thm.png (80x40) [9.3 KB] || 14721_Swift20_WhatsInAName_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [199.2 MB] || 14721_Swift20_WhatsInAName_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [883.1 MB] || 14721_Swift20_WhatsInAName_Captions.en_US.srt [3.7 KB] || 14721_Swift20_WhatsInAName_Captions.en_US.vtt [3.5 KB] || 14721_Swift20_WhatsInAName_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.6 GB] || ", "hits": 237 }, { "id": 11738, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11738/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2024-11-20T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Infographic: NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory", "description": "This infographic summarizes key aspects of NASA's Swift mission, from its instruments to scientific results gleaned from 20 years of operations. Swift is still going strong, and the observatory remains a key part of NASA’s strategy to monitor the changing sky with multiple telescopes using different approaches for studying the cosmos.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterClick the download button to select from a range of sizes. || Swift_20_Infographic_Quarter.jpg (1550x1991) [1.2 MB] || Swfit_20_Poster_CMYK.jpg (6200x7965) [19.2 MB] || Swift_20_Infographic_Full.jpg (6200x7965) [7.4 MB] || Swift_20_Infographic_Full.png (6200x7965) [34.2 MB] || Swift_20_Infographic_Half.jpg (3100x3983) [3.2 MB] || Swift_20_Infographic_Half.png (3100x3983) [10.5 MB] || Swift_20_Infographic_Full.jpg.dzi [178 bytes] || Swift_20_Infographic_Full.jpg_files [4.0 KB] || ", "hits": 190 }, { "id": 14715, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14715/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-18T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "COBE Celebrates 35th Launch Anniversary", "description": "Technicians work on the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) spacecraft in a clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The mission launched into an Earth orbit in 1989 to make an all-sky map of the cosmic microwave background, the oldest light in the universe. The conical silver shield protects the scientific instruments from direct radiation from the Sun and Earth, isolates them from radio-frequency interference from the spacecraft transmitters and terrestrial sources, and provides thermal isolation for a dewar containing liquid helium coolant.Credit: NASA/COBE Science Team || COBE_in_gfsc_clean_room_1.jpg (1629x1600) [552.8 KB] || ", "hits": 262 }, { "id": 20393, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20393/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2024-11-04T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "T Coronae Borealis Nova Animations", "description": "Located 3,000 light-years away, T Coronae Borealis — T CrB for short — contains two stars that orbit each other: a red giant nearing the end of its life and an Earth-sized stellar remnant known as a white dwarf. The dwarf’s intense gravity rounds up some of the gas flowing off of the red giant, forming a flattened cloud of gas around the dwarf — an accretion disk. Gas in the disk gradually works its way inward, eventually flowing onto the white dwarf nestled at its center. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image LabAlt text: Animation showing the T CrB system || T_CrB_NOVA_SHOT_1_4k_30fps_ProRes.00300_print.jpg (1024x576) [91.6 KB] || T_CrB_NOVA_SHOT_1_4k_30fps_h264.mp4 (3840x2160) [18.1 MB] || T_CrB_Nova_S1 [0 Item(s)] || T_CrB_NOVA_SHOT_1_4k_30fps_ProRes.webm (3840x2160) [4.5 MB] || T_CrB_NOVA_SHOT_1_4k_30fps_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [984.5 MB] || ", "hits": 807 }, { "id": 14704, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14704/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-10-23T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Interview Opportunity: Star light, star bright, check out the evening sky on your Halloween walk tonight", "description": "Scroll down the page to find b-roll for the live shots + a pre-recorded interview with Rebekah HounsellFor more information check out: @NASAUniverse on social media platforms and universe.nasa.gov online || T_CrB_banner_-_ENGLISH.png (1800x720) [1.8 MB] || T_CrB_banner_-_ENGLISH_print.jpg (1024x409) [109.8 KB] || T_CrB_banner_-_ENGLISH_searchweb.png (320x180) [80.0 KB] || T_CrB_banner_-_ENGLISH_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || ", "hits": 91 }, { "id": 14698, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14698/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-10-22T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Reveals LISA Engineering Development Unit Telescope", "description": "NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves — ripples in space-time caused by merging black holes and other cosmic sources.The LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission is led by ESA (European Space Agency) in partnership with NASA to detect gravitational waves by using lasers to measure precise distances — down to picometers, or trillionths of a meter — between a trio of spacecraft distributed in a vast configuration larger than the Sun. Each side of the triangular array will measure nearly 1.6 million miles, or 2.5 million kilometers.Twin telescopes aboard each spacecraft will both transmit and receive infrared laser beams to track their companions, and NASA is supplying all six of them to the LISA mission. The prototype, called the Engineering Development Unit Telescope, will provide guidance as engineers and scientists work toward building the flight hardware.In May, the prototype, which was manufactured and assembled by L3Harris Technologies in Rochester, New York, arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The primary mirror is coated in gold to better reflect the infrared lasers and to reduce heat loss from a surface exposed to cold space since the telescope will operate best when close to room temperature. The prototype is made entirely from an amber-colored glass-ceramic called Zerodur, manufactured by Schott in Mainz, Germany. The material is widely used for telescope mirrors and other applications requiring high precision because its shape changes very little over a wide range of temperatures. || ", "hits": 95 }, { "id": 14705, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14705/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-10-21T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "A-STEP’s AstroPix Detectors Get Ready for Flight", "description": "Scientists and engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have been preparing a new gamma-ray detector called AstroPix for an upcoming rocket payload called A-STEP (AstroPix Sounding Rocket Technology dEmonstration Payload).Each detector contains four silicon sensors, and each sensor incorporates 1,225 pixels. A-STEP will carry a three-detector stack to the edge of space on the SubTEC-10 sounding rocket, which will launch in 2025 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The flight’s primary goal is to successfully operate the detectors, with a secondary goal of measuring the rate of impacts from cosmic rays, high-energy particles from space. || ", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 31303, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31303/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2024-08-06T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "25 Images for Chandra's 25th: 25 Images to Celebrate!", "description": "25 images from 25 years, still image || 25th-chandra-hw_print.jpg (1024x576) [248.2 KB] || 25th-chandra-hw.png (5760x3240) [16.0 MB] || 25th-chandra-hw_searchweb.png (320x180) [92.1 KB] || 25th-chandra-hw_thm.png (80x40) [12.7 KB] || 25-images-to-celebrate-chandras-25th.hwshow [290 bytes] || ", "hits": 78 }, { "id": 14603, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14603/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-30T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NICER Hardware and Patch Kit", "description": "This video shows different components of NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer). The damaged thermal shield is a flight spare used during the patch testing process.0:00 A NICER patch slowly rotates counterclockwise. 0:14 A top-down view of the same patch, still rotating. 0:21 Another side view of the patch rotating. A gloved hand enters from the right-hand side, picks up the patch, and turns it on its side. The patch begins rotating again, so the tab on the bottom becomes visible. 1:03 A gloved hand slowly tilts a damaged thermal shield. 1:41 The thermal shield rests in a container that slowly rotates. 2:08 A gloved hand rotates a NICER X-ray concentrator. 2:30The camera moves past the X-ray concentrator. 2:52 A hand places a NICER sunshade on the table. 2:58 The sunshade rotates counterclockwise. 3:00 The sunshade rotates on its side.Credit:NASA/Sophia Roberts and Scott Wiessinger || Studio_Shoot_Single_Components.00001_print.jpg (1024x540) [16.9 KB] || Studio_Shoot_Single_Components.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [23.1 KB] || Studio_Shoot_Single_Components.00001_thm.png (80x40) [2.1 KB] || Studio_Shoot_Single_Components.mp4 (4096x2160) [1.9 GB] || Studio_Shoot_Single_Components.mov (4096x2160) [12.7 GB] || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 14609, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14609/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-30T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Anodizing NICER’s Patches", "description": "This video shows engineering technician Katrina Harvey anodizing NICER’s patches at the Plating Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.0:00 One of the NICER patch bodies hangs from a spiky stick by a wire. 0:05 Patch lids attached to a similar stick are seen submerged in a dark blue liquid. 0:07 Harvey lifts the lids and one patch body from a chemical bath and submerges them in a container of deionized water. 0:24 Several lids have been dyed black. 0:29 Harvey submerges the black lids into a chemical bath covered with white plastic balls. 0:42 Harvey lifts undyed patch bodies from a deionized water rinse. 0:47 Harvey lifts patch bodies from a chemical bath covered in white plastic balls and dunks them in deionized water. 1:07 A wider view of Harvey as she works on the patch bodies in the plating lab. 1:24 The patch bodies are shown submerged in a blue liquid. 1:28 A pan across patch bodies submerged in blue liquid. 1:34 Harvey lifts the patch bodies on their individual wires out of a well where nozzles spray them with deionized water. She then dunks them several times in a container of black dye. 1:54 She adds more patch bodies to the black dye. 2:22 She hangs the dyed bodies in a well where nozzles spray them with deionized water. 2:35 Harvey sprays the patches with deionized water. 2:40 Keith Gendreau (NASA), Steve Kenyon (NASA), and Isiah Holt (NASA) cluster together, looking at one of the dyed NICER patch bodies. 2:48 Harvey rinses dyed patch bodies. 2:58 Harvey holds several dyed patch bodies still on their wires. She lifts them and starts walking through the lab. 3:18 Gendreau and Kenyon help remove plugs from holes in the patch bodies. These protected screw threads during the anodizing process. 3:32: Someone dries one of the patch bodies with compressed air. 3:42 The dyed patch bodies rest on a table. 3:58 Close-ups of various features of the lab, like labels, knobs, readouts, buttons, clamps, and wires.Credit:NASA/Sophia Roberts and Scott Wiessinger || Anondizing_Patches_at_4k.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [72.4 KB] || Anondizing_Patches_at_4k.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [61.0 KB] || Anondizing_Patches_at_4k.00001_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || Anondizing_Patches_at_4k.webm (3840x2160) [99.1 MB] || Anondizing_Patches_at_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.5 GB] || Anondizing_Patches_at_4k_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [18.3 GB] || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 14610, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14610/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-30T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Machining NICER’s Patches", "description": "This video shows Richard Koenecke, an engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, creating the body of one of the NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) patches.0:00 Two blocks of aluminum sit on a counter in front of a laptop that displays the schematics for the NICER patches. 0:06 Koenecke puts one block on the bed of a saw littered with metal shavings and then trims the block. 0:23 Koenecke sands down the block’s rough edges. 0:30 Koenecke walks into another part of his workshop. 0:37 Koenecke preps the machining chamber. 0:49 Inside the chamber, the machine starts to carve out the shape of the patch. Fluid sprayed from the nozzles above the tool helps cool the metal. 0:56 Koenecke looks into the chamber. 0:59 The chamber is shown at different angles. 1:15 Koenecke walking up to the chamber window. 1:22 Inside the chamber, the patch’s shape is now visible amidst a sea of aluminum shavings. 1:25 The cutting tool refines the shape of the patch. 1:40 Koenecke looks at a computer readout for the machining chamber. 1:45 Inside the chamber, the cutting tool lowers to hollow out the patch. 1:56 Koenecke holds and turns a block of the aluminum. 2:45 Koenecke’s dog Sara guards his shop on the Eastern Shore. 2:53 Koenecke sands a block of aluminum. 3:01 He closes the doors to the machining chamber and adjusts the settings on a computer screen. 3:10 Numbers change on the chamber’s computer screen. 3:31 Koenecke holds and turns the fully machined patch body. 3:51 In slow motion, Koenecke walking through his shop. 4:25 In slow motion, Koenecke holds the patch in close-up shots.Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts and Scott Wiessinger || Machine_Shop_B-roll_-_Part_1.03720_print.jpg (1024x576) [111.0 KB] || Machine_Shop_B-roll_-_Part_1.03720_searchweb.png (320x180) [82.6 KB] || Machine_Shop_B-roll_-_Part_1.03720_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || Machine_Shop_B-roll_-_Part_1.webm (3840x2160) [74.7 MB] || Machine_Shop_B-roll_-_Part_1.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.5 GB] || Machine_Shop_B-roll_-_Part_1_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [18.0 GB] || ", "hits": 119 }, { "id": 14634, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14634/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-25T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Finds Novel Feature in BOAT Gamma-Ray Burst", "description": "The brightest gamma-ray burst yet recorded gave scientists a new high-energy feature to study. Learn what NASA’s Fermi mission saw, and what this feature may be telling us about the burst’s light-speed jets. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: “Tides,” Jon Cotton [PRS] and Ben Niblett [PRS], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Distant_GRB_still.jpg (3840x2160) [2.5 MB] || 14634_Fermi_GRB_Emission_Line_Under100.mp4 (1920x1080) [90.7 MB] || 14634_Fermi_GRB_Emission_Line_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [422.0 MB] || 14634FermiGRBEmissionLine_Captions.en_US.srt [4.4 KB] || 14634FermiGRBEmissionLine_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.2 KB] || 14634_Fermi_GRB_Emission_Line_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.8 GB] || ", "hits": 135 }, { "id": 14523, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14523/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-25T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Understanding Cosmic Dawn", "description": "In this 15-minute \"mini podcast\", NASA astrosphysicist Michelle Thaller talks about the early universe, the cosmic dark ages, cosmic dawn and why these different stages happened.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterComplete transcript available. || CosmicDawnPodcast_ThumbnailFinal.jpg (1920x1080) [178.2 KB] || Cosmic_Dawn_MiniPodcast_FINAL.mp3 [21.8 MB] || CosmicDawnPodcastCaptions.en_US.srt [24.6 KB] || CosmicDawnPodcastCaptions.en_US.vtt [23.3 KB] || ", "hits": 134 }, { "id": 14608, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14608/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-06-24T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "BurstCube Deploys from International Space Station", "description": "The shoebox-sized BurstCube and SNOOPI (Signals of Opportunity P-band Investigation) satellites entered low-Earth orbit from the International Space Station on April 18, 2024.BurstCube will study gamma-ray bursts, the universe’s most powerful explosions. SNOOPI will demonstrate technology for measuring soil moisture. These CubeSats launched to the space station aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission on March 21, 2024 || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 31293, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31293/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2024-06-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb, Hubble Telescopes Affirm Universe's Expansion Rate", "description": "This image of NGC 5468, a galaxy located about 130 million light-years from Earth, combines data from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. This is the farthest galaxy in which Hubble has identified Cepheid variable stars. These are important milepost markers for measuring the expansion rate of the universe. The distance calculated from Cepheids has been cross-correlated with a type Ia supernova in the galaxy. Type Ia supernovae are so bright they are used to measure cosmic distances far beyond the range of the Cepheids, extending measurements of the universe's expansion rate deeper into space.CreditsNASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam G. Riess (JHU, STScI) || STScI-01HQ6CMS8HDH8EAR4EHEAKSP5N-hst-webb-hw_print.jpg (1024x576) [160.4 KB] || STScI-01HQ6CMS8HDH8EAR4EHEAKSP5N-hst-webb.png (3214x3233) [16.1 MB] || STScI-01HQ6CMS8HDH8EAR4EHEAKSP5N-hst-webb-hw.png (3840x2160) [7.7 MB] || STScI-01HQ6CMS8HDH8EAR4EHEAKSP5N-hst-webb-hw_searchweb.png (320x180) [58.9 KB] || STScI-01HQ6CMS8HDH8EAR4EHEAKSP5N-hst-webb-hw_thm.png (80x40) [8.5 KB] || webb-hubble-telescopes-affirm-universes-expansion-rate.hwshow [366 bytes] || ", "hits": 356 }, { "id": 14604, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14604/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-06-12T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s Roman Mission Gets Cosmic ‘Sneak Peek’ From Supercomputers", "description": "This graphic highlights part of a new simulation of what NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could see when it launches by May 2027. The background spans about 0.11 square degrees (roughly equivalent to half of the area of sky covered by a full Moon), representing less than half the area Roman will see in a single snapshot. The inset zooms in to a region 300 times smaller, showcasing a swath of brilliant synthetic galaxies at Roman’s full resolution. Having such a realistic simulation helps scientists study the physics behind cosmic images –– both synthetic ones like these and future real ones. Researchers will use the observations for many types of science, including testing our understanding of the origin, evolution, and ultimate fate of the universe.Credit: C. Hirata and K. Cao (OSU) and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center || Roman_Simulation_Popout_2k_deg.jpg (2048x2048) [979.2 KB] || ", "hits": 114 }, { "id": 14581, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14581/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-05-23T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Gliese 12 b: An Intriguing World Sized Between Earth and Venus", "description": "Gliese 12 b’s estimated size may be as large as Earth or slightly smaller — comparable to Venus in our solar system. This artist’s concept compares Earth with different possible Gliese 12 b interpretations, from no atmosphere to a thick Venus-like one. Follow-up observations with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will help determine just how much atmosphere the planet retains as well as its composition.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC)Alt text: Illustration of Earth compared to various models of Gliese 12 b Image description: At left, against a black background, floats an artist's concept of a nearly half-illuminated Earth, with clouds, blue oceans, and land areas rendered in green, tan, brown, and white. At right are three similarly illuminated planets, slightly smaller than Earth and each representing a possible interpretation of Gliese 12 b. The version on the left has a surface of blotchy reddish and brownish features and no atmosphere. The middle version has the same surface texture partly obscured by a hazy atmosphere. And the rightmost and smallest version of the planet has a thick, Venus-like atmosphere that obscures the surface completely. || Gl12b_Earth_Comparison_ac.jpg (3840x2160) [935.8 KB] || Gl12b_Earth_Comparison_ac_print.jpg (1024x576) [126.0 KB] || Gl12b_Earth_Comparison.jpg (3840x2160) [929.5 KB] || Gl12b_Earth_Comparison_ac_searchweb.png (320x180) [54.4 KB] || Gl12b_Earth_Comparison_ac_web.png (320x180) [54.4 KB] || Gl12b_Earth_Comparison_ac_thm.png (80x40) [9.8 KB] || Gl12b_Earth_Comparison.tif (3840x2160) [6.4 MB] || ", "hits": 424 }, { "id": 14584, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14584/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-05-08T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "XRISM Spots Iron Fingerprints in Nearby Active Galaxy", "description": "The Resolve instrument aboard XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) captured data from the center of galaxy NGC 4151, where a supermassive black hole is slowly consuming material from the surrounding accretion disk. The resulting spectrum reveals the presence of iron in the peak around 6.5 keV and the dips around 7 keV, light thousands of times more energetic that what our eyes can see. Background: An image of NGC 4151 constructed from a combination of X-ray, optical, and radio light. Credit: Spectrum: JAXA/NASA/XRISM Resolve. Background: X-rays, NASA/CXC/CfA/J.Wang et al.; optical, Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma/Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope; radio, NSF/NRAO/VLAAlt text: A XRISM spectrum of NGC 4151 with a multiwavelength snapshot of the galaxy in the background. Descriptive text: The spectrum image is labeled, “XRISM Resolve Spectrum of NGC 4151.” It shows a graph where the bottom is labeled, “X-ray energy (keV),” with a range from 5 to 9. The left side is labeled, “X-ray brightness.” A squiggly white line starts just under halfway up the left side. It peaks at just under 6.5 keV, nearly reaching the top of the graph. Then it starts to slope gently downward, with several sharp dips around 7 keV. In the background is a dim image of galaxy NGC 4151, where the center is a whiteish blue, surrounding by clouds of red and yellow. || Spectrum_v4.jpg (2300x2050) [426.6 KB] || ", "hits": 92 }, { "id": 14585, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14585/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-05-06T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Beyond the Brink: Tracking a Simulated Plunge into a Black Hole", "description": "In this all-sky view, the camera approaches a supermassive black hole weighing 4.3 million Suns. It is about 70 million miles (113 million kilometers) from the black hole’s event horizon, the boundary of no return. It’s moving inward at 19% the speed of light — nearly 127 million mph (205 million kph). A flat, swirling cloud of hot, glowing gas called an accretion disk surrounds the black hole and serves as a visual reference during the fall, as do glowing structures called photon rings, which form closer to the black hole from light that has orbited it one or more times. A backdrop of the starry sky completes the scene.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. Powell || 1_BH_Viz_20_rg_019c.jpg (8192x4096) [6.1 MB] || ", "hits": 545 }, { "id": 14727, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14727/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-01-22T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fort Sumner, New Mexico: 2024 Drone Views", "description": "This clip contains various shots of the NASA payload processing facility at Fort Sumner as well as general views of the surrounding area, acquired Aug. 23, 2024. Credit: NASA/Francis ReddyVideo playback is at half speed (30 fps). 0:00 A slow, early morning approach to the staging facility as its doors open, revealing the EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) payload. 0:45 The camera descends, with the rising sun moving behind the staging facility. 0:58 A closer, lower approach to the EXCITE payload. 1:10 A higher, more distant arc that starts by showing the low sun and the NASA sign on the staging facility, moving north. 1:41 A slow ascent looking toward EXCITE and the morning sun. 1:28 Hovering as the doors close on EXCITE. 03:20 Overview flying back across the airport revealing various vehicles and structures. 4:41 Similar, but at higher altitude and flying in a different direction. || Drone_Shots_of_EXCITE_at_Balloon_Launch_Facility.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [139.0 KB] || Drone_Shots_of_EXCITE_at_Balloon_Launch_Facility.webm (3840x2160) [67.5 MB] || Drone_Shots_of_EXCITE_at_Balloon_Launch_Facility.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.9 GB] || Drone_Shots_of_EXCITE_at_Balloon_Launch_Facility_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [22.1 GB] || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 14476, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14476/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-01-11T11:10:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Mission Detects Surprising Gamma-Ray Feature Beyond Our Galaxy", "description": "This artist’s concept shows the entire sky in gamma rays with magenta circles illustrating the uncertainty in the direction from which more high-energy gamma rays than average seem to be arriving. In this view, the plane of our galaxy runs across the middle of the map. The circles enclose regions with a 68% (inner) and a 95% chance of containing the origin of these gamma rays. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center || Dark_Fermi_Dipole.jpg (3840x2160) [506.2 KB] || Dark_Fermi_Dipole.png (3840x2160) [8.9 MB] || Dark_Fermi_Dipole_searchweb.png (320x180) [57.6 KB] || Dark_Fermi_Dipole_thm.png (80x40) [5.4 KB] || ", "hits": 243 }, { "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. Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts || BurstCube_Solar_Panel_Install_4k.00060_print.jpg (1024x540) [110.8 KB] || BurstCube_Solar_Panel_Install_4k.00060_searchweb.png (320x180) [65.1 KB] || BurstCube_Solar_Panel_Install_4k.00060_thm.png (80x40) [5.4 KB] || BurstCube_Solar_Panel_Install_4k.webm (4096x2160) [28.3 MB] || BurstCube_Solar_Panel_Install_Clips4k_ProRes.mov (4096x2160) [7.6 GB] || BurstCube_Solar_Panel_Install_4k.mp4 (4096x2160) [1.0 GB] || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 14489, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14489/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-12-18T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "BurstCube Completes Thermal Vacuum Testing", "description": "BurstCube is a mission developed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The spacecraft is slated for takeoff in March 2024 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a resupply mission to the International Space Station. 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": 55 }, { "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. Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts || Open_Air_test_4k.01440_print.jpg (1024x540) [103.1 KB] || Open_Air_test_4k.01440_searchweb.png (320x180) [74.5 KB] || Open_Air_test_4k.01440_web.png (320x168) [70.2 KB] || Open_Air_test_4k.01440_thm.png (80x40) [5.8 KB] || Open_Air_test_4k.webm (4096x2160) [27.4 MB] || Open_Air_test_4k.mp4 (4096x2160) [891.4 MB] || BurstCube_Open_Air_test_4k_ProRes.mov (4096x2160) [6.5 GB] || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 14434, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14434/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-11-28T09:20:00-05:00", "title": "NASA’s Fermi Mission Finds 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars", "description": "This visualization shows 294 gamma-ray pulsars, first plotted on an image of the entire starry sky as seen from Earth and then transitioning to a view from above our galaxy. The symbols show different types of pulsars. Young pulsars blink in real time except for the Crab, which pulses slower because its rate is only slightly lower than the video frame rate. Millisecond pulsars remain steady, pulsing too quickly to see. The Crab, Vela, and Geminga were among the 11 gamma-ray pulsars known before Fermi launched. Other notable objects are also highlighted. Distances are shown in light-years (abbreviated ly).Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Fascination\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Pulsar_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [3.5 MB] || Pulsar_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [105.5 KB] || Pulsar_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || 14434_Fermi_Pulsar_Locations_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [93.9 MB] || 14434_Fermi_Pulsar_Locations_1080.webm (1920x1080) [10.0 MB] || Pulsar_Captions.en_US.srt [46 bytes] || Pulsar_Captions.en_US.vtt [56 bytes] || 14434_Fermi_Pulsar_Locations_4k_Good.mp4 (3840x2160) [112.8 MB] || 14434_Fermi_Pulsar_Locations_4k_Best.mp4 (3840x2160) [689.2 MB] || 14434_Fermi_Pulsar_Locations_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [4.5 GB] || ", "hits": 307 }, { "id": 14405, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14405/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-08-25T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "XRISM: Exploring the Hidden X-ray Cosmos", "description": "Watch this video to learn more about XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission), a collaboration between JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and NASA.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic Credits: Universal Production MusicLights On by Hugh Robert Edwin Wilkinson Dreams by Jez Fox and Rohan JonesChanging Tide by Rob ManningWandering Imagination by Joel GoodmanIn Unison by Samuel Sim || YTframe_XRISM_Exploring_XrayCosmos.jpg (1280x720) [668.5 KB] || YTframe_XRISM_Exploring_XrayCosmos_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.3 KB] || YTframe_XRISM_Exploring_XrayCosmos_thm.png (80x40) [7.6 KB] || XRISM_Exploring_the_Hidden_Xray_Cosmos.en_US_FR.en_US.srt [7.8 KB] || XRISM_Exploring_the_Hidden_Xray_Cosmos.en_US_FR.en_US.vtt [7.4 KB] || XRISM_Exploring_the_Hidden_Xray_Cosmos.webm (3840x2160) [107.8 MB] || XRISM_Exploring_the_Hidden_Xray_Cosmos.mp4 (3840x2160) [3.4 GB] || XRISM_Exploring_the_Hidden_Xray_Cosmos.mov (3840x2160) [21.6 GB] || ", "hits": 169 }, { "id": 14374, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14374/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2023-08-03T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Guide to Cosmic Temperatures", "description": "Explore the temperatures of the cosmos, from absolute zero to the hottest temperatures yet achieved, with this infographic. Targets for the XRISM mission include supernova remnants, binary systems with stellar-mass black holes, galaxies powered by supermassive black holes, and vast clusters of galaxies.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott WiessingerMachine-readable PDF copy || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_small.jpg (1383x2048) [1.3 MB] || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_Full.png (5530x8192) [60.5 MB] || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_Full.jpg (5530x8192) [10.3 MB] || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_8bit.png (5530x8192) [24.5 MB] || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_Half.png (2765x4096) [7.0 MB] || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_Half.jpg (2765x4096) [4.7 MB] || ", "hits": 924 }, { "id": 14381, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14381/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2023-07-13T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb Telescope Mission Overview 2023", "description": "A brief overview of the James Webb Space Telescope mission from its construction, launch, and complex unfolding to the incredible science it achieves. || ", "hits": 73 }, { "id": 14185, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14185/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2023-07-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Designing Webb", "description": "The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful space telescope ever made and the most complex one yet designed. Did you know that the telescope's history stretches back before the Hubble Space Telescope was launched? This video explores the various early concept designs for Webb, including the criteria and the players. Learn more about Webb's final design, how it evolved, and how the completed telescope was tested and prepared for its historic launch. || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 14347, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14347/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2023-07-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Unfolding the Universe with Webb", "description": "NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is unfolding the universe, and revealing sights humanity has never seen before. In this video, astronomers describe working with the telescope and how the images and data are collected. From first images to routine operations: experts at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD explain how the images are processed, and turned from raw data to the spectacular full-color images seen on the internet. || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 14349, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14349/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-07-03T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Interview Opportunity: Celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope’s First Year Of Amazing Science With a New Observation Live Shots", "description": "NEW IMAGE CAN BE FOUND HERE!!!Cut broll for the live shots is posted below. Here are some additional resources for images if interested:* https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/* https://webbtelescope.org/home New 3D Visualization Highlights 5,000 Galaxies Revealed by WebbHubble/ WEBB images in our solar system || English_JWST_w_logos.jpg (1312x600) [653.4 KB] || English_JWST_w_logos_print.jpg (1024x468) [450.1 KB] || English_JWST_w_logos_searchweb.png (320x180) [80.6 KB] || English_JWST_w_logos_thm.png (80x40) [6.5 KB] || JWSTAnniversary_B-roll.webm (1920x1080) [77.1 MB] || ", "hits": 45 }, { "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": 86 }, { "id": 14309, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14309/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-03-15T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Captures Dynamic Gamma-ray Sky", "description": "Watch a cosmic gamma-ray fireworks show in this animation using just a year of data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Each object’s magenta circle grows as it brightens and shrinks as it dims. The yellow circle represents the Sun following its apparent annual path across the sky. The animation shows a subset of the LAT gamma-ray records now available for more than 1,500 objects in a new, continually updated repository. Over 90% of these sources are a type of galaxy called a blazar, powered by the activity of a supermassive black hole.Credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center/Daniel Kocevski || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark_ProRes_3840x2160.mov (3840x2160) [170.3 MB] || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark_1600.gif (1600x900) [6.5 MB] || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark_1050.gif (1050x590) [3.2 MB] || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark.gif (800x450) [2.1 MB] || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [12.1 MB] || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark_4k.webm (3840x2160) [1.9 MB] || ", "hits": 108 }, { "id": 14297, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14297/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-03-01T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "How NASA's Roman Space Telescope Will Rewind the Universe", "description": "In this simulated view of the deep cosmos, each dot represents a galaxy. The three small squares show Hubble's field of view, and each reveals a different region of the synthetic universe. Roman will be able to quickly survey an area as large as the whole zoomed-out image, which will give us a glimpse of the universe’s largest structures.Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/A. Yung || Yung_Stucture_Survey-Hubble.gif (800x800) [10.9 MB] || Yung_Structure_Survey-Hubble_ProRes.mov (800x800) [36.3 MB] || Yung_Structure_Survey-Hubble_800.mp4 (800x800) [6.4 MB] || Yung_Structure_Survey-Hubble_800.webm (800x800) [1.6 MB] || ", "hits": 309 }, { "id": 14265, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14265/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-01-20T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "TESS 2022 Sky Views", "description": "This all-sky mosaic was constructed from 912 TESS images. By late October 2022, when the last image of this mosaic was captured, TESS had discovered 266 exoplanets and 4,258 candidates. The north and south ecliptic poles – the ends of imaginary lines extending above and below the center of Earth's orbit around the Sun – lie at the top and bottom of the image. The Andromeda galaxy is the small, bright oval near the upper right edge. The Lage Magellanic Cloud can be seen along the bottom edge just left of center. Above and to the left of it shine the Small Magellanic Cloud and the bright star cluster 47 Tucanae. Molleweide projection. Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Ethan Kruse (University of Maryland College Park) || TESS_NandS_12-2022.png (15000x7500) [85.3 MB] || TESS_NandS_12-2022.jpg (15000x7500) [43.4 MB] || TESS_NandS_12-2022_5k.jpg (5000x2500) [4.0 MB] || TESS_NandS_12-2022_5k_print.jpg (1024x512) [104.0 KB] || TESS_NandS_12-2022_5k_searchweb.png (320x180) [55.7 KB] || TESS_NandS_12-2022_5k_thm.png (80x40) [4.8 KB] || ", "hits": 107 }, { "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": 290 }, { "id": 14269, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14269/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-01-09T13:10:00-05:00", "title": "NASA’s Webb Telescope Links Galaxies Near and Far", "description": "A trio of faint objects (circled) captured in the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep image of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 exhibit properties remarkably similar to rare, small galaxies called “green peas” found much closer to home. The cluster’s mass makes it a gravitational lens, which both magnifies and distorts the appearance of background galaxies. We view these early peas as they existed when the universe was about 5% its current age of 13.8 billion years. The farthest pea, at left, contains just 2% the oxygen abundance of a galaxy like our own and might be the most chemically primitive galaxy yet identified. 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X-ray light collected by a telescope strikes the detector. Each photon heats the material by an amount directly proportional to its energy. The instrument, which is cooled to 50 millikelvins, just above absolute zero, detects this minute temperature change.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center || XRISM_Calorimeter-STILL_print.jpg (1024x576) [64.0 KB] || XRISM_Calorimeter-STILL.jpg (3840x2160) [716.3 KB] || XRISM_Calorimeter-STILL_searchweb.png (320x180) [55.3 KB] || XRISM_Calorimeter-STILL_thm.png (80x40) [5.5 KB] || XRISM_Calorimeter-STILL_web.png (320x180) [55.3 KB] || XRISM_Calorimeter-STILL.tiff (3840x2160) [63.3 MB] || XRISM_Calorimeter_Simple_ProRes_3840x2160_60.mov (3840x2160) [1.8 GB] || 3840x2160_16x9_60p (3840x2160) [64.0 KB] || XRISM_Calorimeter_Simple-H264_Best_3840x2160_5994.mov (3840x2160) [448.6 MB] || XRISM_Calorimeter_Simple-H264_Good_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [27.1 MB] || XRISM_Calorimeter_Simple_ProRes_3840x2160_60.webm (3840x2160) [4.9 MB] || ", "hits": 114 }, { "id": 14217, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14217/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-11-15T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Creating Black Hole Jets With a NASA Supercomputer", "description": "New simulations carried out on the NASA Center for Climate Simulation’s Discover supercomputer show how weaker, low-luminosity jets produced by a galaxy's monster black hole interact with their galactic environment. Because these jets are more difficult to detect, the simulations help astronomers link these interactions to features they can observe, such as various gas motions and optical and X-ray emissions.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic credit: \"Lost Time;\" \"Ascension;\" \"Flowing Cityscape;\" \"Jupiter's Eye;\" \"Pizzicato Piece;\" \"Facts;\" \"Final Words\" all from Universal Production MusicVideo Descriptive Text available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || 14217_AGN_OUtflow_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [1.0 MB] || 14217_AGN_OUtflow_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [92.9 KB] || 14217_AGN_OUtflow_Still_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || 14217_AGN_Outflow_FINAL_1080.webm (1920x1080) [67.5 MB] || AGN_Outflow_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [11.4 KB] || 14217_AGN_Outflow_FINAL_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [632.4 MB] || 14217_AGN_Outflow_FINAL_1080_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.5 GB] || 14217_AGN_Outflow_FINAL_ProRes_1920x1080_24.mov (1920x1080) [6.4 GB] || ", "hits": 2849 }, { "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": 51 }, { "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": 45 }, { "id": 14226, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14226/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2022-10-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lee Feinberg Interview for Webb First Evaluation Image", "description": "Interview with Lee Feinberg regarding Webb's first evaluation image. || Lee_Feinberg_Interview_Cover_Image_print.jpg (1024x574) [131.9 KB] || Lee_Feinberg_Interview_Cover_Image.png (3340x1874) [8.2 MB] || Lee_Feinberg_Interview_Cover_Image_searchweb.png (320x180) [104.6 KB] || Lee_Feinberg_Interview_Cover_Image_thm.png (80x40) [11.2 KB] || Lee_Feinberg_Interview_for_Webb_First_Evaluation_Image_HD.mov (1920x1080) [4.5 GB] || Lee_Feinberg_Interview_for_Webb_First_Evaluation_Image_HD.mp4 (1920x1080) [985.4 MB] || Lee_Feinberg_Interview_for_Webb_First_Evaluation_Image_HD.webm (1920x1080) [54.3 MB] || Lee_Feinberg_Interview_for_Webb_First_Evaluation_Image_4K.mov (4608x2592) [29.7 GB] || Lee_Feinberg_Interview_for_Webb_First_Evaluation_Image_4K.mp4 (4608x2592) [984.7 MB] || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 14218, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14218/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2022-10-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Drone footage of the Space Telescope Science Institute Facility", "description": "Drone footage of the Space Telescope Science Institute. || Drone_Footage_of_STSCI_Facility_Cover_Image_print.jpg (1024x572) [207.8 KB] || Drone_Footage_of_STSCI_Facility_Cover_Image.png (3336x1866) [10.1 MB] || Drone_Footage_of_STSCI_Facility_Cover_Image_searchweb.png (320x180) [128.3 KB] || Drone_Footage_of_STSCI_Facility_Cover_Image_thm.png (80x40) [12.6 KB] || Drone_Footage_of_STSCI_Facility_HD.mp4 (1920x1080) [519.3 MB] || Drone_Footage_of_STSCI_Facility_4K.mp4 (3840x2160) [522.1 MB] || Drone_Footage_of_STSCI_Facility_4K.webm (3840x2160) [40.2 MB] || ", "hits": 75 }, { "id": 14189, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14189/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-08-19T12:45:00-04:00", "title": "50th Anniversary of NASA's Copernicus Mission", "description": "Watch: This vintage segment on Copernicus comes from a 1973 edition of “The Science Report,” a long-running film series produced by the U.S. Information Agency. Credit: National Archives (306-SR-138B)Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || OAO-CopernicusFilm.02735_print.jpg (1024x768) [108.8 KB] || OAO-CopernicusFilm.mov (1440x1080) [2.1 GB] || OAO-CopernicusFilm.mp4 (1440x1080) [235.2 MB] || OAO-CopernicusFilm.webm (1440x1080) [24.5 MB] || OAO-CopernicusFilm.en_US.srt [3.8 KB] || OAO-CopernicusFilm.en_US.vtt [3.8 KB] || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 14170, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14170/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-08-10T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s Fermi Confirms 'PeVatron' Supernova Remnant", "description": "Explore how astronomers located a supernova remnant that fires up protons to energies 10 times greater than the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: New Philosopher by Laurent Dury; Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channelComplete transcript available. || 14170-Found__A_PeVatron.01978_print.jpg (1024x576) [61.1 KB] || 14170-_PeVatron.webm (1920x1080) [15.1 MB] || 14170-_PeVatron.mp4 (1920x1080) [136.6 MB] || 14170-PeVatron.en_US.vtt [2.3 KB] || 14170-PeVatron.mov (1920x1080) [1.8 GB] || ", "hits": 259 }, { "id": 14183, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14183/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-07-25T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "The James Webb Space Telescope First Images Press Conference July 12, 2022", "description": "Webb Telescope First Images media briefing - Scientists discuss more about the first images that have been taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, an answer questions from the public about the images following the broadcast at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD on July 12th, 2022. || ", "hits": 110 }, { "id": 14182, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14182/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2022-07-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The James Webb Space Telescope First Image Review Meetings B-Roll", "description": "B-roll footage of scientists reviewing the first images from the Webb Space Telescope in the early release obseravation review meetings at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD. || ", "hits": 111 }, { "id": 14178, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14178/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-07-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb First Images Promos", "description": "Webb first image promo 1 with Peter Cullen || First_Image_Promo_1_SS_print.jpg (1024x570) [95.6 KB] || First_Image_Promo_1_SS.png (3338x1860) [5.3 MB] || First_Image_Promo_1_SS_searchweb.png (320x180) [81.4 KB] || First_Image_Promo_1_SS_thm.png (80x40) [9.8 KB] || WEBB_FIRST_IMAGES_PROMO1.mp4 (1920x1080) [47.9 MB] || WEBB_FIRST_IMAGES_PROMO-Cullen-IG_VERSIONS.mp4 (1920x1080) [34.9 MB] || WEBB_FIRST_IMAGES_PROMO1.webm (1920x1080) [2.8 MB] || Peter_Cullen_Promo_for_First_Light_Output.en_US.srt [423 bytes] || Peter_Cullen_Promo_for_First_Light_Output.en_US.vtt [435 bytes] || ", "hits": 78 }, { "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": 22 }, { "id": 14130, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14130/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-04-07T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Searches for Gravitational Waves From Monster Black Holes", "description": "The length of a gravitational wave, or ripple in space-time, depends on its source, as shown in this infographic. 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