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            "title": "The Cloud Connection",
            "description": "When a brutal cold fell over much of eastern North America this winter, scientists linked the record low temperatures to unusual wind cycles in the Arctic stratosphere, roughly five to 10 miles above the surface. But data from NASA’s AIM satellite revealed these anomalous winds were also tied to an event at the opposite pole—the disappearance of noctilucent clouds. Noctilucent, or “night shining,” clouds are visible right after sunset or just before sunrise. They exist near the edge of space, 50 miles above the ground, mainly at high latitudes. About two weeks after temperatures plummeted in the Northern Hemisphere, these delicate, electric-blue clouds mysteriously began vanishing from the sky over Antarctica. Now scientists believe they’ve found the reason why. The answer lies in a hidden connection that spans half the globe and influences multiple layers of Earth’s atmosphere. Watch the video to learn more. || ",
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            "title": "The Gamma-ray Sky",
            "description": "Gamma rays are the most powerful form of light in the universe. In the darkness of space, these luminous rays, which are invisible to humans but detectable by spacecraft, act as celestial beacons that alert us to some of the most extreme events and objects in the cosmos. For instance, when dying stars explode as supernovae, they emit gamma rays; so do particles being sucked into supermassive black holes; as do pulsars, the rapidly rotating stars that are as massive as our sun but only about the size of Manhattan. Since 2008, NASA’s Fermi spacecraft has observed gamma rays in the Milky Way and beyond. Plotted on a map, the locations of different sources appear as bright spots in the night sky. Watch the video to see how the spacecraft detects gamma rays. || ",
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            "title": "Discover Mercury",
            "description": "The solar system’s smallest planet may look like Earth’s moon, but don’t mistake Mercury for another familiar face. Before 2008, fewer than half of the planet’s surface features had ever been seen by humans. Now, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft has imaged over 90 percent of the planet to help paint a complete picture of its geologic past. Like the moon, scores of craters pock Mercury’s exterior. But unlike the moon, gigantic scarps, or cliffs, climb thousands of feet above its terrain. Such features are the result of the planet’s crust shrinking during a period of cooling after its formation. As scientists piece together its history, they hope to ultimately learn about the processes that forged Mercury over four billion years ago. Watch the video to see close-up views of the surface taken from orbit. || ",
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            "release_date": "2014-06-12T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Galaxy Panorama",
            "description": "Light shining from stars in the Milky Way can take thousands of years to reach our eyes. That is, if clouds of interstellar gas and dust don’t get in the way. But dust isn’t just some astronomical nuisance. These tiny particles may one day condense into newborn stars, which may then go on to host a system of planets. Over the past 10 years, NASA’s Spitzer space telescope has snapped more than 2 million images of the Milky Way’s gas, dust and stars in infrared light—a type of light that is invisible to humans but pierces through dense cosmic clouds. Now, the images have been stitched into a seamless portrait that provides a 360-degree view of our galaxy from the perspective of Earth. Watch the video to learn more. || ",
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            "title": "El Niño Watch",
            "description": "After enduring an especially cold winter in the Northeast and years of drought in the Southwest, the United States could use a strong El Niño. An El Niño is a weather phenomenon that occurs about every three to seven years. One benefit is that it keeps the northern two-thirds of the contiguous U.S. much warmer than normal during winter, while drenching the lower third of the country with rain. However, it can also disrupt normal weather patterns, resulting in severe floods and forest fires. This year, scientists have already spotted precursors to El Niño conditions brewing in the Pacific Ocean. Masses of warm water have migrated from southeast Asia toward the typically cool waters off South America in what are called Kelvin waves. If these waves persist through the summer, the country may experience the strongest El Niño since 1997. Watch the video to learn more. || ",
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            "title": "Creating Gas Giants",
            "description": "Ancient civilizations observed Jupiter in the night sky, but humanity still doesn’t completely understand how it and other giant gas planets are born. One theory is that they began as rocky planets that slowly accumulated thick atmospheres and expanded into big gaseous bodies over millions of years. But there might be a faster route. Solar systems grow from protoplanetary disks, a large stew of primordial gases surrounding a massive solar seed called a protostar. Over thousands of years, the protostar’s gravity sucks in material from the disk’s outer reaches. As more gas swirls inward, it’s packed into dense spiral arms. While the protostar will eventually consume the gas closest to it, material farther away may spin off and condense into a Jupiter-like planet. Watch the video to see this process unfold. || ",
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            "title": "Another Earth?",
            "description": "Since NASA’s Kepler space telescope launched in 2009, it has found hundreds of new worlds within the Milky Way. Now it has spotted the first planet outside our solar system that could support life. The planet, called Kepler-186f, is located about 500 light-years from Earth and orbits a star similar to our sun. Its orbit is within the star’s habitable zone, the region where temperatures should be neither too hot nor too cold, but just right for liquid water to exist—a precursor for life as we know it. Scientists are unsure if the planet is habitable or what it’s made of, but this discovery proves there are worlds like our own that reside in life’s celestial sweet spot. Watch the video for a tour of Kepler-186f. || ",
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            "release_date": "2014-05-15T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Moon Makeover",
            "description": "Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, has a rich and intricate geologic history. Roughly two billion years ago, tectonic forces shifted chunks of the moon’s crust, producing extensive faults and ridges that stretched across its icy plains. Other landforms were created over the past four billion years, including legions of craters formed from bombardment by asteroids, meteoroids and comets. Using images collected by NASA's Voyager and Galileo spacecraft, scientists examined nearly every square mile of Ganymede—a sphere bigger than the planet Mercury—and generated a color-coded map that visualizes the age and type of material found on its surface. Watch the video to see a colorful new view of this distant world. || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-05-13T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Galaxy Formation",
            "description": "Galaxies are collections of stars, gas, dust and dark matter held together by gravity. Their appearance and composition are shaped over billions of years by interactions with groups of stars and other galaxies. Using supercomputers, scientists can look back in time and simulate how a galaxy may have formed in the early universe and grown into what we see today. Galaxies are thought to begin as small clouds of stars and dust swirling through space. As other clouds get close, gravity sends these objects careening into one another and knits them into larger spinning packs. Subsequent collisions can sling material toward a galaxy’s outskirts, creating extensive spiral arms filled with colonies of stars. Watch the video to see this process unfold. || ",
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            "release_date": "2014-05-08T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Magnetic Microstructures",
            "description": "Everyone likes playing with magnets, even astronauts. Since 2002, NASA has been experimenting with tiny magnetic particles suspended in liquid aboard the International Space Station. The particles exhibit no special properties when moving through the liquid at random. But under the influence of a magnet, the particles are pulled into order, forming aggregate structures that force the liquid itself to become rigid. The process is similar to how chilling water coerces individual molecules to bond and produce ice crystals. The research has multiple applications for future technologies being developed here on Earth, including the design of new robotics systems used in aircraft and automobiles. Watch the video to learn more. || ",
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            "release_date": "2014-04-22T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Hunting Black Holes",
            "description": "Spotting black holes is tricky. Because they don’t give off light, astronomers have a difficult time pinpointing their location. But when a black hole gets close enough to an object, like a star, for example, and begins consuming the object's mass, the matter that pours into its gravitational clutches can get so hot that it glows and releases energy in the form of X-ray light. The most powerful X-rays are emitted from the hottest material swirling just outside the edge of the black hole. By observing this light with space telescopes, scientists can determine where black holes are hiding in the cosmos. Watch the video to see a black hole in action. || ",
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