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With this milestone complete, the primary mirror is ready for its next view: space.Music: “All This Time,” Joseph Michael Robbins [PRS], Universal Production Music Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || YTframe_RomanLastLook.jpg (1280x720) [80.5 KB] || YTframe_RomanLastLook_searchweb.png (320x180) [85.1 KB] || YTframe_RomanLastLook_thm.png (80x40) [7.9 KB] || 15049_RomanLastLook_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [71.1 MB] || 15049RomanLastLookCaptions.en_US.srt [484 bytes] || 15049RomanLastLookCaptions.en_US.vtt [474 bytes] || 15049_RomanLastLook_4kGood.mp4 (3840x2160) [139.1 MB] || 15049_RomanLastLook_4kBest.mp4 (3840x2160) [340.9 MB] || 15049_RomanLastLook_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [4.0 GB] || ", "hits": 856 }, { "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": 2146 }, { "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": 657 }, { "id": 15000, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15000/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-05-19T20:00:00-04:00", "title": "Nancy Grace Roman Telescope's Final Solar Panel and Deployable Aperture Cover Deployments", "description": "After each environmental test, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope verifies its moving pieces operate properly. These final checks demonstrate that the solar panels and Deployable Aperture Cover operate flawlessly, ensuring the observatory is ready for the demands of spaceflight.The mechanisms that drive these deployments are not engineered for gravity, where even large structures move with minimal resistance. The cleanroom’s airflow pushes against the broad surfaces of the solar panels and aperture cover, placing added stress on their hinges. To compensate, engineers conduct these tests behind a temporary plastic windscreen, carefully positioned and lifted into place by a crane.The Deployable Aperture Cover requires a weight-offloading system to operate here on Earth. Cables are attached to a network of pulleys and chains, effectively counteracting gravity and allowing the structure to move as it would in space. || ", "hits": 312 }, { "id": 15012, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15012/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-05-06T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Artemis II Mission Social Media Products", "description": "Short videos produced for and during the duration of the Artemis II flight || ", "hits": 231 }, { "id": 15004, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15004/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-04-21T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is Ready for Launch", "description": "The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch in September 2026. That is nearly eight months ahead of its required launch readiness date of May 2027.In its final years of construction, the observatory underwent rigorous environmental tests designed to prove it can withstand the demanding journey from Earth to space.These environmental tests included blasting the telescope with the intense sound of a rocket launch, vibrating the observatory while enclosed in a protective clean tent, another launch simulation, and placing it inside a thermal vacuum chamber where it was cooled to the extreme operating temperatures of space.Each of these tests proved Roman's worthiness for early flight and is a testament to the hard work from the entire team. || ", "hits": 908 }, { "id": 14997, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14997/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-04-08T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Drone Footage of The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Fully Deployed", "description": "The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope stands fully deployed as it will be in space. The solar panels reach their full width of over 14 feet (4.3 meters), and with the Deployable Aperture Cover standing tall, this observatory towers over 42 feet (12.8 meters) high –– taller than any other telescope created at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.This is the first drone footage captured inside a NASA cleanroom, fitting for Goddard's largest telescope. || ", "hits": 128 }, { "id": 14993, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14993/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-04-08T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Working on The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - Long Exposure Timelapses", "description": "Building a telescope like the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope requires long hours focusing on small regions, repeated with precision day after day. These timelapses capture that slow and steady pace with long-exposure images stitched together to highlight the continuous work behind the scenes.In much the same way, the telescope itself will stitch together vast numbers of exposures into sweeping scientific surveys. By observing millions of stars over time, it will track changes across the cosmos capturing exploding stars, belching black holes, neutron star mergers, and more phenomena as they unfold. || ", "hits": 130 }, { "id": 14948, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14948/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-03-31T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Integrating The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Two Halves", "description": "NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s telescope and two instruments onto the instrument carrier, marking the completion of the Roman payload. Now the team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will begin joining the payload to the spacecraft.The telescope and instruments were mounted to Roman’s instrument carrier and precisely aligned in the largest clean room at Goddard, where the observatory is being assembled. Now, the whole assembly is being attached to the Roman spacecraft, which will deliver the observatory to its orbit and enable it to function once there.In the footage below technicians carefully lift the outer portion of the telescope, called the OSD or Outer Barrel, SASS, Deployable Aperature Cover, and place it over the internal half. Long guard rails keep the two halves in perfect position. The solar panels open shortly after the two havles joined, marking a nearly deployed and fully assembled observatory. || ", "hits": 198 }, { "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": 97 }, { "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": 55 }, { "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": 65 }, { "id": 14960, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14960/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-02-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "A Final Look at The Roman Space Telescope's Primary Mirror: Beauty Shots", "description": "The Roman Space Telescope is nearly ready for final integration, when the outer and inner halves will be fitted together to form the full observatory. Until this point, the two halves have undergone individual environmental testing. Once united, the observatory will continue environmental testing and verification. || ", "hits": 395 }, { "id": 14961, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14961/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-30T18:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Roman Space Telescope - Just Before Integration: Beauty Shots", "description": "The Roman Space Telescope team is preparing to join the two halves that will form the full observatory. Currently, Roman consists of the internal section, housing the mirror assembly and science instruments, and the outer portion, which includes the solar panels and deployable aperture cover.In this footage, team members inspect their work and take final looks before the mirror assembly disappears beneath the Outer Barrel Assembly. Once fully integrated, Roman will move on to its final environmental tests. || ", "hits": 192 }, { "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": 155 }, { "id": 14937, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14937/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-12-23T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Roman Space Telescope: Widening Our Gaze", "description": "The NASA Astrophysics fleet of spacecraft has an impressive range of capabilities. What is the next step in exploring the cosmos? The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s upcoming flagship mission, will take Hubble’s resolution and widen its infrared view to more than 100 times the coverage in every single image. Roman is a survey telescope that can peer through the Milky Way’s obscuring dust, and see faint, distant galaxies. Roman’s rigid design allows it to scan large regions of sky very quickly. Hubble would take 1,000 years to observe what Roman can see in one. Roman’s 18 4k x 4k detectors create 300-megapixel images covering an area of sky slightly larger than the full Moon. Roman will also look at the same regions of space repeatedly over time, allowing astronomers to see changes and observe temporary events like supernovae. Roman’s surveys of deep space and the center of our Milky Way galaxy will find thousands of new exoplanets, survey millions of galaxies, help us understand dark matter and dark energy, and learn more about the evolution of the universe. || ", "hits": 307 }, { "id": 14939, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14939/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Multi-camera Time-lapse of Roman's Assembly Completion", "description": "NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. || ", "hits": 131 }, { "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": 244 }, { "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": 468 }, { "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": 187 }, { "id": 14818, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14818/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-26T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Plunge: Behind the Scenes Creating NASA's Black Hole Visualization", "description": "Behind the scenes video about the Black Hole visualization from 2024", "hits": 466 }, { "id": 14897, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14897/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-16T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Our Interstellar Medium", "description": "Our Milky Way galaxy is home to more than 100 billion stars that are often separated by trillions of miles. The spaces in between, called the interstellar medium, aren't empty –– they're sprinkled with gas and dust that are both the seeds of new stars and the leftover crumbs from stars long dead. Studying the interstellar medium with observatories like NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will reveal new insight into the galactic dust recycling system.Music Credit: Building Heroes by Enrico Cacace [BMI], Universal Production MusicCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Our_Interstellar_Medium_Thumbnail.jpg (1280x720) [658.8 KB] || Our_Interstellar_Medium_Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [105.7 KB] || Our_Interstellar_Medium_Thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [7.3 KB] || Our_Interstellar_Medium.en_US.srt [1.1 KB] || Our_Interstellar_Medium.en_US.vtt [1.0 KB] || 14897_-_Our_Interstellar_Medium.mp4 (3840x2160) [651.7 MB] || 14897_-_Our_Interstellar_Medium_-_NO_TEXT.mov (3840x2160) [3.7 GB] || ", "hits": 442 }, { "id": 14890, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14890/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-26T11:05:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Deployment Test", "description": "Technicians recently tested two major deployments for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: the Deployable Aperture Cover (DAC) and the Solar Array Sun Shield (SASS). The DAC will protect Roman’s instruments before launch, then swing open once the telescope is in space. To simulate weightlessness, engineers used a gravity offload system precisely counterbalanced to reduce drag during deployment. The SASS unfurled in true flight-like fashion, with its solar panels swinging into place under powerful spring tension. Each release was marked by the sharp pop of a non-explosive actuator. Both deployments were successful, bringing Roman one step closer to its mission to study dark energy, exoplanets, and the distant universe. To learn more, check out the link in our Roman highlight.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Sophia Roberts: Videographer / ProducerScott Weissinger: Videographer / ProducerPaul Morris: EditorMusic Credit:“History in Motion” by Fred Dubois [SACEM], Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Publishing Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production Music. || ", "hits": 39 }, { "id": 14878, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14878/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-31T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Installing the Roman Space Telescope Lower Instrument Sun Shade", "description": "Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s inner segment. Along with the observatory’s Solar Array Sun Shield and Deployable Aperture Cover, the panels (together called the Lower Instrument Sun Shade), will play a critical role in keeping Roman’s instruments cool and stable as the mission explores the infrared universe. || ", "hits": 75 }, { "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": 47 }, { "id": 14864, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14864/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-10T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope Solar Panels are Fully Installed", "description": "On June 14 and 16, technicians installed solar panels onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, one of the final steps in assembling the observatory. Collectively called the Solar Array Sun Shield, these panels will power and shade the observatory, enabling all the mission’s observations and helping keep the instruments cool.The Solar Array Sun Shield is made up of six panels, each covered in solar cells. The two central panels will remain fixed to the outer barrel assembly (the observatory’s outer shell) while the other four will deploy once Roman is in space, swinging up to align with the center panels.In this video, watch how the technicians carefully place each solar panel. || ", "hits": 131 }, { "id": 14859, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14859/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-06-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb Stellarium", "description": "Stellarium is an installation video designed for the Goddard Space Flight Center visitor center. It is playing temporarily in the room designed for Solarium, and installation built around Sun footage from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).\r\n\r\nStellarium sources James Webb Space Telescope imagery processed and provided by the Space Telescope Science Institute and available here.", "hits": 151 }, { "id": 14852, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14852/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-06-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Roman Space Telescope's Outer Shell Moves to the Thermal Vacuum Chamber", "description": "The outer half of NASA’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just passed a lengthy test to ensure it will function properly in the space environment. This video shows the structure, which consists of the Outer Barrel Assembly, Solar Array Sun Shield, and Deployable Aperture Cover (collectively called OSD), entering the Space Environment Simulator. Technicians removed air from this thermal vacuum chamber and exposed the structure to a wide range of temperatures. || ", "hits": 152 }, { "id": 14792, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14792/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-05-27T20:57:00-04:00", "title": "Astrophysics Missions Vertical Video", "description": "This page collects vertical videos related to specific Astrophysics missions and their hardware or capabilities.", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 14793, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14793/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-05-27T20:55:00-04:00", "title": "Black Holes Vertical Video", "description": "This page collects Astrophysics vertical videos with black-hole-related content", "hits": 1488 }, { "id": 14801, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14801/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-05-27T20:53:00-04:00", "title": "Astrophysics Explainer Vertical Video", "description": "This page contains vertically-formatted Astrophysics videos related to explainer videos.", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 14842, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14842/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2025-05-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope's Outer Shell Passes Thermal Test - Drone Footage", "description": "The outer portion of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope recently passed a major milestone: thermal cycling. Drone footage captures its emergence from the test facility and return to the clean room. The Roman Space Telescope is a NASA observatory designed to perform wide-field imaging and surveys of the near-infrared sky. || ", "hits": 47 }, { "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": 213 }, { "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": 36 }, { "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": 33 }, { "id": 14788, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14788/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-03-03T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Vertical Video", "description": "This page collects all the vertically-formatted videos produced for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission. ||", "hits": 225 }, { "id": 14786, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14786/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-02-20T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Swift Spacecraft Animations: 2025", "description": "NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, shown in this artist’s concept, orbits Earth as it studies the ever-changing universe. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab || SWIFT_S1_v2_4k_60fps_proRes.00005_print.jpg (1024x576) [148.3 KB] || SWIFT_S1_v2_4k_60fps_proRes.00005_searchweb.png (320x180) [64.4 KB] || SWIFT_S1_v2_4k_60fps_proRes.00005_thm.png [4.4 KB] || Swift_S1_v2_4k60.mp4 (3840x2160) [25.6 MB] || SWIFT_S1_v2_4k_60fps_proRes.mov (3840x2160) [4.2 GB] || Swift_S1_v2_4k60.hwshow [423 bytes] || ", "hits": 113 }, { "id": 14777, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14777/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-31T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Coming Together : Roman's Internal Pieces are now Installed", "description": "NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is in the SCIPA configuation or the Spacecraft Integrated Payload Assembly. It includes the spacecraft bus, with all the support systems and electronics, the Wide Field Instrument, the Coronagraph Instrument, and the Optical Telescope Assembly, which is built around the 2.4 meter (7.9 foot) primary mirror. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 14761, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14761/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-29T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope's Instruments and Mirror attached to the Spacecraft Bus", "description": "NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now in the formation of SCIPA (Spacecraft Integrated Payload Assembly). The footage captures the Integrated Payload Assembly, which contains the Mirror assembly, Instrument Carrier, and the two science instruments, the Wide Field Instrument and Coronagraph, along with the hexagonal Spacecraft bus, which houses electronics and the propulsion system. SCIPA includes all the primary internal parts of the telescope. This whole assembly will undergo further testing until integrated with the Outer Barrel assembly, deployable aperture cover, and solar panels. || ", "hits": 69 }, { "id": 14757, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14757/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-21T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope's Coronagraph Instrument Integration into the Instrument Carrier", "description": "The Coronagraph, one of two science instruments, finds it home in NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Instrument Carrier.Designed and built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Roman Coronagraph will advance scientists’ ability to directly image planets and disks around other stars (exoplanets). Coronagraphs work by blocking light from a bright object, like a star, so that the observer can more easily see a faint object, like a planet. The Roman Coronagraph is designed to detect planets 100 million times fainter than their stars, or 100 to 1,000 times better than existing space-based coronagraphs. The Roman Coronagraph will be capable of directly imaging reflected starlight from a planet akin to Jupiter in size, temperature, and distance from its parent star. || ", "hits": 40 }, { "id": 14758, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14758/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-21T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope's Coronagraph Instrument Arrives to Goddard Space Flight Center", "description": "The first of two scientific instruments for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has arrived to Goddard Space Flight Center.Designed and built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Roman Coronagraph will advance scientists’ ability to directly image planets and disks around other stars (exoplanets). Coronagraphs work by blocking light from a bright object, like a star, so that the observer can more easily see a faint object, like a planet.The Roman Coronagraph is designed to detect planets 100 million times fainter than their stars, or 100 to 1,000 times better than existing space-based coronagraphs. The Roman Coronagraph will be capable of directly imaging reflected starlight from a planet akin to Jupiter in size, temperature, and distance from its parent star. || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 14759, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14759/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-21T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman's Wide Field Instrument added to the Mirror Assembly", "description": "B-roll footage slowed from 60 frames per second and 30 frames per second of the Wide Field Instrument (WFI) installation. || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly.03840_print.jpg (1024x576) [202.4 KB] || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly.03840_searchweb.png (320x180) [103.9 KB] || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly.03840_web.png (320x180) [103.9 KB] || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [35.6 MB] || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly.03840_thm.png [6.9 KB] || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly.mp4 (3840x2160) [3.8 GB] || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 14760, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14760/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-21T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Mirror Assembly for Roman Space Telescope Arrives to NASA Goddard", "description": "This footage depicts the mirror assembly for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arriving at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. It is transported at night to accommodate the slow-moving specialized transport vehicle called the \"Chariot.\" Within hours of arriving, the lid of the Chariot was removed, and the lower portion was pushed into NASA's largest cleanroom for further unpacking.Designed and built by L3Harris Technologies in Rochester, New York, the assembly incorporates key optics (including the primary mirror) that were made available to NASA by the National Reconnaissance Office. The team at L3Harris then reshaped the mirror and built upon the inherited hardware to ensure it would meet Roman's specifications for expansive, sensitive infrared observations.Roman's primary mirror is 7.9 feet (2.4 meters) across. While it's the same size as the Hubble Space Telescope's main mirror, it is less than one-fourth the weight. Roman's mirror weighs only 410 pounds (186 kilograms) thanks to major improvements in technology.The newly resurfaced mirror sports a layer of silver less than 400 nanometers thick – about 200 times thinner than a human hair. The silver coating was specifically chosen for Roman because of how well it reflects near-infrared light. The primary mirror, in concert with other optics, will send light to Roman's two science instruments – the Wide Field Instrument and Coronagraph Instrument. The first is essentially a giant 300-megapixel camera that provides the same sharp resolution as Hubble across nearly 100 times the field of view. Using this instrument, scientists will be able to map the structure and distribution of invisible dark matter, study planetary systems around other stars, and explore how the universe evolved to its present state. || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 14746, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14746/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-14T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman SCIPA Hyperwall Time-lapse", "description": "This 3x3-hyperwall-resolution time-lapse video of Roman shows the major integration steps of the key systems to form SCIPA, or the Spacecraft Integrated Payload Assembly. It includes the spacecraft bus, with all the support systems and electronics, the Wide Field Instrument, the Coronagraph Instrument, and the Optical Telescope Assembly, which is built around the 2.4 meter (7.9 foot) primary mirror. This sequence does not have sound and is available as video and frames.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center || Roman_SCIPA_TL_Still.jpg (5760x3240) [8.6 MB] || Roman_SCIPA_TL_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [126.8 KB] || Roman_SCIPA_TL_Still_thm.png [8.3 KB] || 5760x3240_16x9_30p (5760x3240) [17806 Item(s)] || Roman_SCIPA_TL_Still.jpg.dzi [178 bytes] || Roman_SCIPA_TL_Still.jpg_files [4.0 KB] || Roman_SCIPA_Time-lapse_D4.mp4 (5760x3240) [1.4 GB] || ", "hits": 46 }, { "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": 86 }, { "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": 95 }, { "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": 66 }, { "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": 56 }, { "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": 41 }, { "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": 69 }, { "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": 703 }, { "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": 108 }, { "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": 39 }, { "id": 14695, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14695/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-10-16T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman's Outer Barrel Assembly Testing Time Lapse", "description": "Watch a condensed seven-minute version of the time-lapse with labels explaining the steps.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic credit: \"Concave Hexagon\" from the album Geometric Shapes. Written and produced by Lars Leonhard.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || YTframe_OBA_TL.jpg (1280x720) [367.9 KB] || YTframe_OBA_TL_searchweb.png (320x180) [102.0 KB] || YTframe_OBA_TL_thm.png (80x40) [10.3 KB] || 14695_OBA_Timelapse_Medium_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [259.0 MB] || 14695OBATimelapseMedium.en_US.srt [2.6 KB] || 14695OBATimelapseMedium.en_US.vtt [2.5 KB] || 14695_OBA_Timelapse_Medium_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [495.7 MB] || 14695_OBA_Timelapse_Medium_4k_HighQuality.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.3 GB] || 14695_OBA_Timelapse_Medium_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [26.3 GB] || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 14694, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14694/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-10-03T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Legacy of Light Concluding Video", "description": "This video appeared at the conclusion of the Legacy of Light event on September 25, 2024. It foregrounds the importance of the Hubble, Webb and Roman observatories in enabling the Habitable Worlds Observatory, which could answer one of our most fundamental questions: are we alone?Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Infinite Horizons,\" Dan Thiessen [BMI] Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available. || NASM_HWO_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [409.5 KB] || NASM_HWO_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [35.4 KB] || NASM_HWO_Still_thm.png (80x40) [3.3 KB] || LegacyOfLightConclusionCaptions.en_US.srt [972 bytes] || LegacyOfLightConclusionCaptions.en_US.vtt [934 bytes] || LegacyOfLightConclusion_ProRes_1920x1080_2398.mov (1920x1080) [2.0 GB] || LegacyOfLightConclusion_better.mp4 (1920x1080) [455.3 MB] || LegacyOfLightConclusion_good.mp4 (1920x1080) [204.0 MB] || LegacyOfLightConclusion_YT.mp4 (1920x1080) [842.2 MB] || ", "hits": 81 }, { "id": 14693, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14693/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-10-02T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: Systems, Assemble!", "description": "In September 2024, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope passed a key milestone and was approved for the next stage of construction. Work on the main systems that will make up the final spacecraft is finishing, and the team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is ready to begin integration, the process of connecting them together. This video celebrates the effort to reach the final stages of assembly.Music: “The Call,” Torsti Juhani Spoof [BMI] Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || YTframe_Building_Roman_Main2.jpg (1280x720) [451.7 KB] || YTframe_Building_Roman_Main2_searchweb.png (320x180) [124.6 KB] || YTframe_Building_Roman_Main2_thm.png (80x40) [11.0 KB] || 14693_RomanSystemsAssemble_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [234.1 MB] || 14693_RomanSystemsAssemble_Better.mp4 (1920x1080) [444.0 MB] || 14693RomanSystemsAssembleCaptions.en_US.srt [491 bytes] || 14693RomanSystemsAssembleCaptions.en_US.vtt [475 bytes] || 14693_RomanSystemsAssemble_YouTube.mp4 (1920x1080) [1012.1 MB] || 14693_RomanSystemsAssemble_ProRes1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.8 GB] || 14693_RomanSystemsAssemble_Better.hwshow [508 bytes] || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 14649, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14649/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-08-09T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Roman Space Telescope's Deployable Aperture Cover", "description": "Located at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the Space Environment Simulator is a large, vertical cryopumped test chamber capable of achieving ultra-low pressures and a wide range of thermal conditions. Here engineers are testing the the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Deployable Aperture Cover. The DAC is responsible for keeping light out of the telescope barrel. This sunshade is deployed once in orbit using a soft material attached to support booms and remains in this position throughout the observatory's lifetime. || ", "hits": 74 }, { "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": 42 }, { "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": 57 }, { "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": 49 }, { "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": 35 }, { "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": 112 }, { "id": 14463, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14463/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-04-30T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "XRISM Mission Captures Unmatched Data With Just 36 Pixels", "description": "Watch to learn more about how the Resolve instrument aboard XRISM captures extraordinary data on the make-up of galaxy clusters, exploded stars, and more using only 36 pixels.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Stop and Hide\" and \"Wading Through\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || XRISM_36_Pixels_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [959.9 KB] || XRISM_36_Pixels_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [94.7 KB] || XRISM_36_Pixels_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || 14463_XRISM_36Pixels_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [148.9 MB] || 14463_XRISM_36Pixels_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [514.8 MB] || 14463_XRISM_36Pixels_Captions.en_US.srt [4.6 KB] || 14463_XRISM_36Pixels_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.4 KB] || 14463_XRISM_36Pixels_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.4 GB] || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 14575, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14575/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-04-26T13:30:00-04:00", "title": "Moving Roman - Propulsion", "description": "Moving Roman: Propulsion. Fuel is a finite resource for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Watch this video to learn more about how the tanks for propellent are installed and why they are an essential part of the mission.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.Music Credits: Univeral Production Music: \"Black Nebula\" by Thomas Daniel Bellingham\"Maelstrom Dream\" by Lucie Rose\"Evolution of Life\" by David Stephen Goldsmith\"Maximist\" by Michael Blainey\"Greatness Takes Time\" by Beth Perry and Chris Doney\"Asthma inhaler\" by natty23\"Compressed Air\" by thompsonmanWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion-Thumbnail.jpg (1280x720) [979.8 KB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion-Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [120.8 KB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion-Thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [8.2 KB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [727.4 MB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion-4k.webm (3840x2160) [78.9 MB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion.en_US.srt [4.4 KB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion.en_US.vtt [4.2 KB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion-4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [720.5 MB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.4 GB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [16.6 GB] || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 14573, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14573/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-04-25T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Reaction Wheel and Thruster Animations", "description": "Beauty pass of Roman, coming over the top of the solar panels.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab || RST_Beauty_S1_4K_60_ProRes.00458_print.jpg (1024x576) [164.9 KB] || RST_Beauty_S1_1080.mp4 [19.0 MB] || RST_Beauty_S1_4K_60.mp4 [92.2 MB] || RST_Beauty_S1_4K_60_ProRes.webm [10.4 MB] || RST_Beauty_S1_4K_60_ProRes.mov [2.0 GB] || ", "hits": 135 }, { "id": 14525, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14525/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-04-23T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Moving Roman - Reaction Wheels", "description": "Moving Roman: Reaction Wheels. Watch this video to learn more about how reaction wheels work and how they will be an essential part of pointing the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.Music credit: \"Breaking the Code\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Moving_Roman_Reaction_Wheels_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [613.0 KB] || Moving_Roman_Reaction_Wheels_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [67.7 KB] || Moving_Roman_Reaction_Wheels_Still_thm.png (80x40) [6.0 KB] || 14525_MovingRoman_ReactionWheels_Good.webm (1920x1080) [23.2 MB] || 14525_MovingRoman_ReactionWheels_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [153.7 MB] || 14525_MovingRoman_ReactionWheels_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [531.5 MB] || 14525_MovingRoman_ReactionWheels_Captions.en_US.srt [4.7 KB] || 14525_MovingRoman_ReactionWheels_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.4 KB] || 14525_MovingRoman_ReactionWheels_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.7 GB] || ", "hits": 333 }, { "id": 14560, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14560/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-03-26T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Installing NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Propulsion System - Timelapses", "description": "The construction of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is fully underway now that the propulsion system is installed into the spacecraft bus. This video shows activity in the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center cleanroom, where technicians position the hexagonal spacecraft bus on the work platform called the Pantheon. The four fuel tanks on their deck are placed onto a specialized jack and lifted carefully into the spacecraft bus. This whole system is built to supply the tiny thrusters hidden by red caps on the propulsion tank system. The tanks supply hydrazine fuel to the thrusters. The observatory uses the thrusters to maneuver into the correct orbit after launch and make large movements once operational. || ", "hits": 71 }, { "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": 40 }, { "id": 14498, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14498/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-01-11T11:05:00-05:00", "title": "Finding A New Galactic 'Fossil'", "description": "Some 5 million years ago, a black hole eruption in the galaxy NGC 4945 set off a star-formation frenzy and shot a vast cloud of gas into intergalactic space. Watch and learn how two X-ray telescopes revealed the story.Music Credits: Universal Production Music\"Planetary Horizons\" by Jia Lee\"Eyes Peeled\" by Bard\"Sprinkle of Mischief\" by Ash and HaroldWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center", "hits": 101 }, { "id": 14492, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14492/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-01-05T08:50:00-05:00", "title": "XRISM Reveals Its First Look at X-ray Cosmos", "description": "XRISM’s Resolve instrument captured data from supernova remnant N132D in the Large Magellanic Cloud to create the most detailed X-ray spectrum of the object ever made. The spectrum reveals peaks associated with silicon, sulfur, argon, calcium, and iron. Inset at right is an image of N132D captured by XRISM’s Xtend instrument.Credit: JAXA/NASA/XRISM Resolve and Xtend || Resolve_N132D_Spectrum.jpg (3840x2395) [1.0 MB] || Resolve_N132D_Spectrum_searchweb.png (320x180) [45.7 KB] || Resolve_N132D_Spectrum_thm.png (80x40) [4.7 KB] || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 14491, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14491/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-12-26T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Hardware Highlights", "description": "This video, covering the second half of 2025, opens with a person entering NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s largest clean room, the Spacecraft Systems Development and Integration Facility. The room is a class 10,000 clean room with over one million cubic feet of space.The outside half of Roman, called OSD, contains the solar panels and protective layers. The Deployable Aperture Cover, which protects the mirrors during launch and then unfolds to help shield them from sunlight does a test deployment. During this test, lines connect to it and pull upward to negate Earth’s gravitational forces, which Roman will not experience in space. Then the Solar Array Sun Shield panels deploy. There are four panels that move. They fold against the spacecraft to fit inside the rocket fairing and then deploy in space to make a large flat plane that both collects light to generate electricity and helps keep the rest of Roman cool.In preparation for additional testing, technicians put a clean tent over OSD and transport it out of the clean room. They push it into the acoustic test chamber where a six-foot-tall horn projects up to 150-decibel sound at varying frequencies. The other tests are on two vibration tables that shake Roman along all three axes: up/down, left/right, and forward/backward. Engineers attach hundreds of sensors and run tests of increasing intensity. During and after each test, they carefully study the data to make sure that Roman is behaving as they anticipated.While these tests occur, Roman’s inside half, containing the mirrors, instruments and support equipment, move into Goddard’s largest thermal vacuum chamber, the SES (Space Environment Simulator). This 40-foot-tall chamber can simulate the vacuum of space and the wide temperature range that Roman will experience there: from -310° Fahrenheit (-190° C) to 302° Fahrenheit (150° C). The move to the chamber happens without a clean tent, so the entire path was cleaned, and all the workers dress in full clean-room garb to ensure that no dirt contaminates the sensitive parts of the spacecraft. Once the two layers of doors are sealed, Roman spends 72 days inside running through tests at various temperatures and with equipment turned on to ensure that it works at low temperature in a vacuum. A special array installed above the mirror projects light that engineers use to test the optics and sensors.After leaving the SES chamber and returning to the SSDIF, Roman’s primary and secondary mirrors are carefully cleaned and inspected. It is a balance to get the mirrors as clean as possible while not cleaning too aggressively and damaging the delicate surfaces. The mirrors are cleaned both horizontally with a gentle vacuum cleaner and vertically with brushes. After this cleaning, every inch is visually inspected and photographed to record the exact optical characteristics. This was the last time the primary mirror would be accessible.Finally, in late November, Roman’s two halves are joined together to form the complete observatory. The process takes the better part of a day. Two guide poles are installed on the inside half to help direct OSD down onto it. At various times, the clearances between the two halves are only a few inches. With the observatory complete, it begins preparing for another round of deployments and testing.Music credit: “Our Journey Begins,” Dan Thiessen [BMI], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || YTframe_Roman_Hardware_Highlights_SummerFall2025_3.jpg (1280x720) [473.7 KB] || Roman_HH_Summer-Fall2025_10mbps.mp4 (1920x1080) [185.0 MB] || Roman_HH_Summer-Fall2025_25mbps.mp4 (1920x1080) [452.7 MB] || Roman_HH_Summer-Fall2025_YT.mp4 (1920x1080) [880.2 MB] || RomanHHLate2025Captions.en_US.srt [588 bytes] || RomanHHLate2025Captions.en_US.vtt [570 bytes] || Roman_HH_Summer-Fall2025_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.5 GB] || ", "hits": 149 }, { "id": 14487, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14487/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-12-18T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "BurstCube Completes Magnetic Calibration", "description": "BurstCube is a mission developed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. It is expected to launch in March 2024. 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. BurstCube will use Earth’s magnetic field to orientate itself as it scans the sky. To do so, the mission team had to map the spacecraft’s own magnetic field using a special facility at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The magnetic calibration chamber generates a known magnetic field that cancels out Earth’s. The team's measurements of BurstCube’s field in the chamber will help figure out where the satellite is pointing once in space, so scientists can locate gamma-ray bursts and tell other observatories where to look. || ", "hits": 68 }, { "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": 79 }, { "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": 64 }, { "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": 56 }, { "id": 14441, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14441/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-10-25T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lucy's Journey: Episode 8 - \"Dinkinesh\"", "description": "The 8th episode in the Lucy's Journey series.Music is \"Space Adventure\" by Franco Micalizzi of Universal Production Music. || lucythumb.jpg (3840x2160) [1.4 MB] || 14441_LUCY_EP8.01052_searchweb.png (320x180) [71.5 KB] || 14441_LUCY_EP8.01052_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || EPISODE8_caption.en_US.srt [2.7 KB] || EPISODE8_caption.en_US.vtt [2.6 KB] || EPISODE8_FINAL_lowres.mp4 (1280x720) [279.4 MB] || 14441_LUCY_EP8.mp4 (3840x2160) [409.2 MB] || ", "hits": 35 }, { "id": 14443, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14443/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2023-10-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Aerial Views of Goddard: Integration and Test Facilities", "description": "Building 29, home of the largest high-bay clean room in the world, stands prominently in this panoramic aerial view of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The clean room is as tall as an eight-story building and as wide as two basketball courts. The circular structure left of center houses the High Capacity Centrifuge, which is used to simulate launch and landing loads on spacecraft hardware. Imaged Oct. 5, 2023, looking south-southwest.Credit: NASA/Francis Reddy || B29_pano_01_10_05_2023_looking_SSW_1080.jpg (2434x1080) [1.7 MB] || B29_pano_01_10_05_2023_looking_SSW_3840.jpg (8653x3840) [16.5 MB] || B29_pano_01_10_05_2023_looking_SSW_1080_searchweb.png (320x180) [128.1 KB] || B29_pano_01_10_05_2023_looking_SSW_1080_thm.png (80x40) [23.3 KB] || B29_pano_01_10_05_2023_looking_SSW.tif (13745x6100) [479.8 MB] || ", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 14415, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14415/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-09-24T18:00:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Broadcast and Landing Highlights", "description": "This page includes multimedia from the OSIRIS-REx sample return broadcast.It will be updated periodically with additional b-roll footage. Date: 9/24/2023 || ", "hits": 152 }, { "id": 14416, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14416/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2023-09-24T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Broadcast Media", "description": "On September 24, 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample of the pristine asteroid Bennu to Earth. Its sample return capsule, containing rocks and dust collected from Bennu, touched down at the Department of Defense Utah Test and Training Range shortly before 9:00 am, Mountain Time. This page contains video packages and graphics that were broadcast by NASA during the event. View the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Broadcast and Landing Highlights. || ", "hits": 181 }, { "id": 14409, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14409/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-09-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman High-Gain Antenna Dish Integration", "description": "The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s high-gain antenna system has been integrated onto the spacecraft’s communications panel. The almost-6-foot dish is integral to Roman’s communications process; once Roman is launched, the dish will “beam down” data to ground systems across the globe.Music: \"Chasing Rainbows\" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available. || HGA_Integration_16x9_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [943.8 KB] || HGA_Integration_16x9_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [107.9 KB] || HGA_Integration_16x9_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.9 KB] || HGA_Integration_1080.webm (1920x1080) [6.8 MB] || HGA_Integration_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [122.5 MB] || HGA_Integration_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [897.2 MB] || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 14408, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14408/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-09-07T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Swift Spots a Snacking Black Hole Using a New Trick", "description": "Watch to learn how an update to NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory allowed it to catch a supersized black hole in a distant galaxy munching repeatedly on a circling star. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Teapot Waltz\" by Benjamin Parsons from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Repeating_TDE_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [446.8 KB] || Repeating_TDE_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [63.3 KB] || Repeating_TDE_Still_thm.png (80x40) [4.6 KB] || 14408_Repeating_TDE_sub100.mp4 (1920x1080) [89.7 MB] || Repeating_TDE_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [1.7 KB] || Repeating_TDE_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.6 KB] || 14408_Repeating_TDE_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.2 GB] || 14408_Repeating_TDE_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [186.2 MB] || ", "hits": 139 }, { "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": 181 }, { "id": 14404, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14404/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-08-23T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Installing the Roman Space Telescope's Nervous System", "description": "NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has begun integrating and testing the spacecraft’s electrical cabling, or harness, which enables different parts of the observatory to communicate with one another.The wire harness is so intricate that it was first built on a mock-up structure. The video shows it lifted from that first structure, using a custom-built basket called the harness transfer tool and placed into the primary structure that will fly with the observatory.Now, engineers will weave the harness through the flight structure in Goddard’s big clean room. This ongoing process will continue until most of the spacecraft components are assembled. In the meantime, the Goddard team will soon begin installing electronics boxes that will eventually provide power via the harness to all the spacecraft’s science instruments. || ", "hits": 77 }, { "id": 12956, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12956/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-08-15T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Spectroscopy, Explained", "description": "Video producer Sophia Roberts explains the basic principles behind spectroscopy, the science of reading light to determine the size, distance, spin and chemical composition of distant objects in space. Complete transcript available.Music Credits:Universal Production MusicOxygenate the Idea – by Amon Turner, Banksman, Eben StoneJungle Bounce – by Siddharth NadkarniSilent Patient – by Paul Reeves Background Story - by Peter LarsenData Dynamism – by Florian Moenks and Aron Wright Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || Spectroscopy,_Explained_Thumbnail.jpg (3840x2160) [2.2 MB] || Spectroscopy,_Explained_Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [75.1 KB] || Spectroscopy,_Explained_Thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || Spectroscopy,_Explained_Final_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [412.9 MB] || SpectroscopyExplainedAdjustedCaptions.en_US.srt [11.1 KB] || SpectroscopyExplainedAdjustedCaptions.en_US.vtt [10.5 KB] || Spectroscopy_Explained.webm (3840x2160) [125.6 MB] || Spectroscopy_Explained.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.1 GB] || Spectroscopy,_Explained_Final_Best_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.5 GB] || Spectroscopy,_Explained_Final_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [43.3 GB] || ", "hits": 318 }, { "id": 14389, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14389/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-08-01T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "XRISM Additional Images", "description": "The XRISM spacecraft during acoustic testing at JAXA's Tsukuba Space Center in December 2022. These and other tests confirm that the spacecraft can withstand the severe vibrations and sounds of its rocket launch.Credit: JAXA || XRISM_Acoustic_12_23_22.jpg (2832x4240) [6.9 MB] || ", "hits": 29 }, { "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": 74 }, { "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": 45 }, { "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": 60 }, { "id": 14354, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14354/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2023-05-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "ComPair Gamma-Ray Balloon Mission", "description": "Carolyn Kierans, principal investigator for the ComPair balloon mission at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, works on the instrument in this video. First, she assembles a layer of the tracker, which is housed in an aluminum casing. Next, she shows one of the tracker’s silicon detectors. Then she takes the lid off the tracker.Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts || Unassembled_Parts_of_ComPair.01740_print.jpg (1024x540) [148.3 KB] || Unassembled_Parts_of_ComPair.01740_searchweb.png (320x180) [94.0 KB] || Unassembled_Parts_of_ComPair.01740_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || Unassembled_Parts_of_ComPair.webm (4096x2160) [18.2 MB] || Unassembled_Parts_of_ComPair.mp4 (4096x2160) [570.8 MB] || ", "hits": 43 }, { "id": 14344, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14344/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2023-05-05T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman's Primary Structure - B-Roll Footage", "description": "The primary structure that will serve as the “bones” of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has moved into the big clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The spacecraft bus, Roman’s primary support element, will now be built upon this skeletal framework. Roman will help unravel the secrets of dark energy and dark matter, search for and image exoplanets, and explore many topics in infrared astrophysics.It’s partly made up of a central cylinder with a top deck that will support most of the observatory. Each of its six sides has a compartment that will house key electronics and other hardware needed to operate the observatory. Major spacecraft elements, such as its power, attitude control and propulsion systems, will be housed within the primary structure. The high-gain antenna will be installed beneath it, and the lowermost part of the primary structure will attach the spacecraft to the rocket during launch.The structure is mainly made of a special grade of aluminum that’s strong, yet lightweight. To reduce the weight even further, most of its exterior is partly hollowed out in a triangular pattern called an isogrid. Even though it’s large – about 14 feet (4.3 meters) long, 12 feet (3.7 meters) wide, and 6.5 feet (2 meters) tall – the primary structure weighs just 3,600 pounds (1,600 kilograms). || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 14342, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14342/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-05-01T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman's Central Cylinder Enters the Cleanroom", "description": "Music Credits: By Design - Ben BeinyMicroworld - Benji Paul Merrison and Will SlaterComplete transcript available.