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Each wavelength highlights different temperature plasma and reveals different layers and features of the Sun. 131 angstrom light shows both the extremely hot plasma of flares (6-10 million Kelvin) and cooler plasma (400,000 Kelvin). Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDOMusic: \"Serene Reverie\" from the album Reflections. 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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. 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A sudden reversal of the magnetic field around its million-solar-mass black hole may have triggered the outburst.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Music: \"Water Dance\" and \"Alternate Worlds\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || ChangingLookAGN_Still1.jpg (1920x1080) [822.9 KB] || ChangingLookAGN_Still1_searchweb.png (320x180) [79.5 KB] || ChangingLookAGN_Still1_thm.png (80x40) [6.2 KB] || 14148_ChangingLook_AGN_1080.webm (1920x1080) [24.8 MB] || 14148_ChangingLook_AGN_Sub100MB.mp4 (1920x1080) [91.5 MB] || 14148_ChangingLook_AGN_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [246.5 MB] || 14148_ChangingLook_AGN_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [534.7 MB] || 14148_ChangingLook_AGN_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.2 KB] || 14148_ChangingLook_AGN_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.3 KB] || 14148_ChangingLook_AGN_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [3.2 GB] || ", "hits": 232 }, { "id": 13921, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13921/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-01-10T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Roman Space Telescope's Simulated Ultra-Deep Field Image", "description": "This video demonstrates how Roman could expand on Hubble’s iconic Ultra Deep Field image. While a similar Roman observation would be just as sharp as Hubble’s and see equally far back in time, it could reveal an area 300 times larger, offering a much broader view of cosmic ecosystems. 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The black hole’s gravity rips some stars apart into a stream of gas, a phenomenon called a tidal disruption event. Others manage to withstand their close encounters. These simulations show that destruction and survival depend on the stars’ initial densities. Yellow represents the greatest densities, blue the least dense. 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This imagery captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory covers a busy few days of activity between Oct. 25-28 that ended with a significant solar flare. From late afternoon Oct. 25 through mid-morning Oct. 26, an active region on the left limb of the Sun flickered with a series of small flares and petal-like eruptions of solar material. Meanwhile, the Sun was sporting more active regions at its lower center, directly facing Earth. On Oct. 28, the biggest of these released a significant flare, which peaked at 11:35 a.m. EDT. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDOMusic: \"Immersion\" from Above and Below. 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Watch to learn more. 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The event was a giant flare from a magnetar, a type of city-sized stellar remnant that boasts the strongest magnetic fields known. 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Watch to see how this unique event helps solve the longstanding puzzle of fast radio bursts observed in other galaxies.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Jupiter's Eye\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Magnetar_FRB_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [535.5 KB] || Magnetar_FRB_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [65.5 KB] || Magnetar_FRB_Still_thm.png (80x40) [4.8 KB] || 13751_Magnetar_FRB_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [3.2 GB] || 13751_Magnetar_FRB_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [741.8 MB] || 13751_Magnetar_FRB_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [237.4 MB] || 13751_Magnetar_FRB_Best_1080.webm (1920x1080) [25.7 MB] || Fast_Radio_Burst_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.5 KB] || Fast_Radio_Burst_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.5 KB] || ", "hits": 235 }, { "id": 13710, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13710/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-10-05T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "TESS's Northern Sky Vista", "description": "NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) spent nearly a year imaging the northern sky in its search for worlds beyond our solar system. Explore this panorama to see what TESS has found so far.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Strolling\" from Above and Below. Written and produced by Lars LeonhardWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || TESS_Northern_and_Southern_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [699.1 KB] || 13710_TESS_Northern_Tour_Best_1080.webm (1920x1080) [33.4 MB] || 13710_TESS_Northern_Tour_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [423.5 MB] || 13710_TESS_Northern_Tour_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.9 KB] || 13710_TESS_Northern_Tour_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.9 KB] || 13710_TESS_Northern_Tour_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.1 GB] || 13710_TESS_Northern_Tour_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [4.0 GB] || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 13636, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13636/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-09-30T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Join the Hunt for New Worlds Through Planet Patrol", "description": "Want to hunt the skies for uncharted worlds from home? Join Planet Patrol! Watch to learn how you can collaborate with professional astronomers and analyze images from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) on your own. You'll answer questions about each TESS image and help scientists figure out if they contain signals from new worlds or planetary imposters.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image LabMusic: \"A Wonderful Loaf\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Planet_Patrol_Still-logo_print.jpg (1024x576) [111.4 KB] || Planet_Patrol_Still-logo.jpg (3840x2160) [1.1 MB] || Planet_Patrol_Still-logo_searchweb.png (320x180) [61.9 KB] || Planet_Patrol_Still-logo_thm.png (80x40) [9.8 KB] || 13636_Planet_Patrol_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [100.9 MB] || 13636_Planet_Patrol_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [39.6 MB] || 13636_Planet_Patrol_Best_1080.webm (1920x1080) [7.9 MB] || 13636_Planet_Patrol_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [3.6 GB] || 13636_Planet_Patrol_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [114.2 MB] || 13636_Planet_Patrol_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [878 bytes] || 13636_Planet_Patrol_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [890 bytes] || ", "hits": 73 }, { "id": 13663, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13663/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-08-11T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "TESS Completes Its Primary Mission", "description": "NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has completed its two-year primary mission and is continuing its search for new worlds. Watch to review some of TESS’s most interesting discoveries so far.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Drive to Succeed\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || TESS_2_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [661.7 KB] || TESS_2_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [187.0 KB] || 13663_TESS_2nd_Anniversary_Highlights.mp4 (1920x1080) [215.9 MB] || 13663_TESS_2nd_Anniversary_Highlights_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [611.5 MB] || 13663_TESS_2nd_Anniversary_Highlights_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.7 GB] || 13663_TESS_2nd_Anniversary_Highlights.webm (1920x1080) [23.4 MB] || TESS_2nd_Anniversary_Highlights_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.0 KB] || TESS_2nd_Anniversary_Highlights_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.0 KB] || ", "hits": 175 }, { "id": 13635, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13635/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-06-30T10:50:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s TESS Provides New Insights Into an Ultrahot World", "description": "Explore KELT-9 b, one of the hottest planets known. Observations from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have revealed new details about the planet’s environment. The planet follows a close, polar orbit around a squashed star with different surface temperatures, factors that make peculiar seasons for KELT-9 b. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Migrating Species\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Kelt9b_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [711.8 KB] || Kelt9b_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [77.8 KB] || Kelt9b_Still_thm.png (80x40) [6.0 KB] || 13635_KELT-9b_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [146.6 MB] || 13635_KELT-9b_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [418.4 MB] || 13635_KELT-9b_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.9 GB] || 13635_KELT-9b_1080.webm (1920x1080) [15.9 MB] || 13635_KELT-9b_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.7 KB] || 13635_KELT-9b_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.7 KB] || ", "hits": 106 }, { "id": 13641, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13641/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-06-24T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Decade of Sun", "description": "This 10-year time lapse of the Sun at 17.1nm shows the rise and fall of the solar cycle and notable events, like transiting planets and solar eruptions. Music: \"Solar Observer\" written and produced for this video by Lars Leonhard.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDOWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || SDO_Year10_Poster_1080.png (1920x1080) [7.5 MB] || SDO_Year10_Poster_1080.jpg (1920x1080) [519.0 KB] || SDO_Year10_Poster_4k.jpg (3840x2160) [972.4 KB] || SDO_Year10_Poster_4k.png (3840x2160) [27.2 MB] || SDO_10_Year_Sun_1080_15mbps.mp4 (1920x1080) [6.5 GB] || SDO_Year_10_FINAL_720FB.mp4 (1280x720) [7.3 GB] || SDO_10_Year_Sun_1080_15mbps.webm (1920x1080) [482.2 MB] || SDO_10_Year_Sun_ProRes_3840x2160_24.mov (3840x2160) [191.6 GB] || SDO_10_Year_Sun_4k_100mbps.mp4 (3840x2160) [42.9 GB] || SDO_10_Year_Sun_4k_20mbps.mp4 (3840x2160) [8.7 GB] || SDO_10_Year_Sun_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.7 KB] || SDO_10_Year_Sun_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.8 KB] || ", "hits": 398 }, { "id": 13608, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13608/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-05-22T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Names Upcoming Telescope to Honor the \"Mother of Hubble\"", "description": "Learn about Nancy Grace Roman, her contribution to NASA missions, and how NASA has honored her.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Rising Tides\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || NGR_Still_1.jpg (1920x1080) [1023.4 KB] || NGR_Still_1_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.8 KB] || NGR_Still_1_thm.png (80x40) [7.6 KB] || Roman_Biography_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.9 GB] || Roman_Biography_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [956.8 MB] || Roman_Biography_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [330.8 MB] || Roman_Biography_1080.webm (1920x1080) [23.7 MB] || Roman_Biography_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.0 KB] || Roman_Biography_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.0 KB] || ", "hits": 49 }, { "id": 13607, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13607/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-05-20T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: Broadening Our Cosmic Horizons", "description": "Learn about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Climb the Ladder\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Roman_Space_Telescope_Still_4.jpg (1920x1080) [166.9 KB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Still_4_print.jpg (1024x576) [45.8 KB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Still_4_searchweb.png (320x180) [39.6 KB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Still_4_thm.png (80x40) [3.9 KB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Overview_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.2 GB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Overview_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [701.8 MB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Overview_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [249.0 MB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Overview_1080.webm (1920x1080) [18.3 MB] || Roman_Overview_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [3.0 KB] || Roman_Overview_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [3.0 KB] || ", "hits": 88 }, { "id": 13587, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13587/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-04-21T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Tale of Two Telescopes: HST and WFIRST", "description": "AstrophysicsComplete transcript available. || Astrophysics.00144_print.jpg (1024x576) [113.3 KB] || Astrophysics.00144_searchweb.png (320x180) [82.1 KB] || Astrophysics.00144_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || Astrophysics.mp4 (1920x1080) [331.7 MB] || Astrophysics.mov (1920x1080) [3.3 GB] || Astrophysics.webm (1920x1080) [36.0 MB] || AStrophysics_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [6.2 KB] || AStrophysics_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [6.3 KB] || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 13579, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13579/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-04-15T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Kid's Guide to Making Sunspot Cookies", "description": "Here are some kid-friendly instructions on how to make sugar cookies that resemble the Sun.Music: \"Day Lights\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || SunspotSugarCookieStill.jpg (1920x1080) [1.3 MB] || SunspotSugarCookieStill_searchweb.png (320x180) [158.7 KB] || SunspotSugarCookieStill_thm.png (80x40) [9.4 KB] || 13579_Sunspot_Sugar_Cookies_ProRes_1920x1080_24.mov (1920x1080) [2.4 GB] || 13579_Sunspot_Sugar_Cookies_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [227.7 MB] || 13579_Sunspot_Sugar_Cookies_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [645.4 MB] || 13579_Sunspot_Sugar_Cookies_Good.webm (1920x1080) [26.9 MB] || 13579_Sunspot_Sugar_Cookies_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [3.8 KB] || 13579_Sunspot_Sugar_Cookies_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [3.8 KB] || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 13496, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13496/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-01-06T19:15:00-05:00", "title": "TESS Mission’s First Earth-size World in Star’s Habitable-zone", "description": "Take a tour through TOI 700, a planetary system 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado. One of the system’s residents is TOI 700 d, the first Earth-size habitable-zone planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.Music: \"Family Tree\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || TOI_700d.jpg (1920x1080) [397.4 KB] || TOI_700d_print.jpg (1024x576) [128.3 KB] || TOI_700d_searchweb.png (320x180) [65.8 KB] || TOI_700d_thm.png (80x40) [5.5 KB] || 13496_TOI700_Earth-size_1080.webm (1920x1080) [25.7 MB] || 13496_TOI700_Earth-size_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [229.2 MB] || 13496_TOI700_Earth-size_1080_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [394.2 MB] || TESS_TOI700_Earth-size_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.4 KB] || TESS_TOI700_Earth-size_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.4 KB] || 13496_TOI700_Earth-size_ProRes_1920x1080.mov (1920x1080) [2.7 GB] || ", "hits": 485 }, { "id": 13332, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13332/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "How LISA Pathfinder Detected Dozens of 'Comet Crumbs'", "description": "NASA scientists used data from ESA’s (the European Space Agency’s) LISA Pathfinder mission to detect 54 micrometeoroid impacts on the spacecraft. The research will help scientists learn more about how dust behaves in our planetary system and those around other stars. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Vibrating\" (Instrumental) and \"Treacherous Path\" (Instrumental) both from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || LPF_Impacts_still_print.jpg (1024x576) [78.1 KB] || LPF_Impacts_still.jpg (3840x2160) [709.0 KB] || LPF_Impacts_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [54.4 KB] || LPF_Impacts_still_thm.png (80x40) [3.4 KB] || 13332_LPF_Impacts_2_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.6 GB] || 13332_LPF_Impacts_2_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [525.2 MB] || 13332_LPF_Impacts_2_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [214.5 MB] || 13332_LPF_Impacts_2_1080.webm (1920x1080) [23.3 MB] || LPF_Impacts_still.tif (3840x2160) [6.4 MB] || LPF_Impacts_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.1 KB] || LPF_Impacts_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.1 KB] || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 13314, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13314/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-09-13T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Unraveling the Mysteries of Dark Energy with NASA's WFIRST", "description": "Watch this video to learn more about dark energy and how WFIRST will study it.Music: \"Searching Everywhere\" from Universal Production MusicCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Dark_Energy_Expansion_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [164.5 KB] || Dark_Energy_Expansion_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [942.3 KB] || Dark_Energy_Expansion_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [50.3 KB] || Dark_Energy_Expansion_Still_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || 13314_Dark_Energy_1080_good.mp4 (1920x1080) [236.4 MB] || 13314_Dark_Energy_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [125.1 MB] || 13314_Dark_Energy_1080.webm (1920x1080) [25.4 MB] || 13314_Dark_Energy_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [5.5 GB] || 13314_Dark_Energy_4k_best.mp4 (3840x2160) [558.4 MB] || 13314_Dark_Energy_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [5.0 KB] || 13314_Dark_Energy_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.9 KB] || ", "hits": 455 }, { "id": 12854, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12854/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-01-30T12:30:00-05:00", "title": "NICER Charts the Area Around a New Black Hole", "description": "Watch how X-ray echoes, mapped by NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) revealed changes to the corona of black hole MAXI J1820+070.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Superluminal\" from Killer TracksComplete transcript available. || Black_Hole_Corona_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [317.0 KB] || Black_Hole_Corona_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [109.5 KB] || Black_Hole_Corona_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [87.9 KB] || Black_Hole_Corona_Still_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || 12854_Black_Hole_Corona_ProRes_1920x1080.mov (1920x1080) [3.3 GB] || 12854_Black_Hole_Corona_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [515.0 MB] || 12854_Black_Hole_Corona.mp4 (1920x1080) [335.5 MB] || 12854_Black_Hole_Corona_small.mp4 (1920x1080) [135.2 MB] || 12854_Black_Hole_Corona_ProRes_1920x1080.webm (1920x1080) [26.7 MB] || 12854_Black_Hole_Corona_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.5 KB] || 12854_Black_Hole_Corona_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.5 KB] || ", "hits": 107 }, { "id": 12855, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12855/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-01-10T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Mysterious ‘Cow’ Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes", "description": "Watch what scientists think happens when a black hole tears apart a hot, dense white dwarf star. A team working with observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory suggest this process explains a mysterious outburst known as AT2018cow. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Curious Events\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the JPL YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || AT2018COW_Labeled_Still_3_print.jpg (1024x576) [66.0 KB] || AT2018COW_Labeled_Still_3.jpg (3840x2160) [494.0 KB] || AT2018COW_Labeled_Still_3_searchweb.png (320x180) [56.8 KB] || AT2018COW_Labeled_Still_3_thm.png (80x40) [5.5 KB] || AT2018COW_Labeled_Music_Intro_3_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [116.5 MB] || AT2018COW_Labeled_Music_Intro_3_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [161.2 MB] || AT2018COW_Labeled_Music_Intro_3_1080.webm (1920x1080) [13.2 MB] || AT2018COW_Labeled_Music_Intro_3_ProRes_3840x2160.mov (3840x2160) [4.7 GB] || AT2018COW_Labeled_Music_Intro_3_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [436.5 MB] || AT2018COW_Labeled_Music_Intro_3_4K.mov (3840x2160) [241.6 MB] || AT2018COW_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [1.2 KB] || AT2018COW_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.3 KB] || ", "hits": 105 }, { "id": 12799, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12799/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-11-20T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "Robotic Refueling: Paving the Way for Exploration", "description": "One small box of technology is getting NASA one step closer to future exploration missions. The Robotic Refueling Mission 3, or RRM3, will prove technologies to transfer and store common spacecraft consumables in space.NASA has its eyes on human exploration, including venturing forward to the Moon and Mars. First, the agency must develop and perfect the technologies and capabilities needed for these missions.Affixed to the International Space Station, RRM3 will use a suite of three tools and the station’s robotic handyman, Dextre, to transfer and store cryogenic propellant (e.g., liquid methane). These capabilities have applications ranging from in-situ resource utilization to solar electric propulsion to maintaining long-term life support systems.RRM3 is set to launch to the space station onboard SpaceX’s 16th commercial resupply services mission. Once installed to the exterior of the station, the transfer and storage technologies will be put to the test.RRM3 builds on the first two phases of International Space Station technology demonstrations that tested tools, technologies and techniques to refuel and repair satellites in orbit. It is developed and operated by the Satellite Servicing Projects Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, under direction of NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. Learn more about RRM3: https://sspd.gsfc.nasa.gov/RRM3.html || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 13023, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13023/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-10-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Elegance: Music & Math", "description": "This past summer, sometimes before the start of the work day, Goddard interns Philip Lu and Gabriel Apaza played impromptu classical piano concerts on the Steinway in the Hinners Auditorium, tackling masters such as Liszt, Debussy, Bach, Schubert and Chopin.Lu is a physics doctoral student at UCLA. Apaza is a rising senior at Michigan State studying computer science and engineering with a math minor. Both agree that music and mathematics share a commonality of elegance and problem-solving. In this video, they explain how. || Elegance_Music_Math_V2.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [3.8 KB] || Elegance_Music_Math_V2.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [3.0 KB] || Elegance_Music_Math_V2.00001_thm.png (80x40) [594 bytes] || Elegance_Music_Math.mov (1920x1080) [7.2 GB] || Elegance_Music_Math.mp4 (1920x1080) [289.6 MB] || Elegance_Music_Math.webm (1920x1080) [30.6 MB] || Elegance_Music_Math_V2.en_US.srt [4.3 KB] || Elegance_Music_Math_V2.en_US.vtt [4.4 KB] || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 13058, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13058/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-10-10T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Simulations Create New Insights Into Pulsars", "description": "Explore a new “pulsar in a box” computer simulation that tracks the fate of electrons (blue) and their antimatter kin, positrons (red), as they interact with powerful magnetic and electric fields around a neutron star. Lighter colors indicate higher particle energies. Each particle seen in this visualization actually represents trillions of electrons or positrons. Better knowledge of the particle environment around neutron stars will help astronomers understand how they produce precisely timed radio and gamma-ray pulses.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Reaching for the Horizon\" and \"Leaving Earth\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Pulsar_Still_1_print.jpg (1024x576) [436.1 KB] || Pulsar_Still_1.jpg (3840x2160) [4.5 MB] || Pulsar_Still_1_searchweb.png (320x180) [134.5 KB] || Pulsar_Still_1_thm.png (80x40) [9.1 KB] || 13058_Pulsar_Particle_Simulation_1080.webm (1920x1080) [25.8 MB] || 13058_Pulsar_Particle_Simulation_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [208.0 MB] || 13058_Pulsar_Particle_Simulation_H264_1080.mov (1920x1080) [313.3 MB] || 13058_Pulsar_Particle_Simulation_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [3.7 KB] || 13058_Pulsar_Particle_Simulation_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [3.6 KB] || 13058_Pulsar_Particle_Simulation_2160.mp4 (3840x2160) [523.3 MB] || 13058_Pulsar_Particle_Simulation_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [10.6 GB] || ", "hits": 111 }, { "id": 13043, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13043/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-10-02T10:50:00-04:00", "title": "New Simulation Sheds Light on Spiraling Supermassive Black Holes", "description": "Gas glows brightly in this computer simulation of supermassive black holes only 40 orbits from merging. Models like this may eventually help scientists pinpoint real examples of these powerful binary systems. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018Music: \"Games Show Sphere 01\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || SMBH_Sim_Still_1.jpg (1920x1080) [333.8 KB] || SMBH_Sim_Still_1_print.jpg (1024x576) [138.8 KB] || SMBH_Sim_Still_1_searchweb.png (320x180) [69.3 KB] || SMBH_Sim_Still_1_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || 13043_SMBH_Simulation_1080.webm (1920x1080) [17.4 MB] || 13043_SMBH_Simulation_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [202.8 MB] || SMBH_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.0 KB] || SMBH_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.9 KB] || 13043_SMBH_Simulation_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.0 GB] || ", "hits": 242 }, { "id": 12994, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12994/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-07-12T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Fermi Links Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole", "description": "The discovery of a high-energy neutrino on Sept. 22, 2017, sent astronomers on a chase to locate its source -- a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. 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Phase three, slated to launch to the space station later this year, will demonstrate innovative methods to store, transfer and freeze standard cryogenic fluid in space. These capabilities have several applications to future human exploration and satellite servicing missions.RRM3 is developed and operated by the Satellite Servicing Projects Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and managed by the Technology Demonstration Missionsprogram office within NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate.Learn more about RRM3: https://sspd.gsfc.nasa.gov/RRM3.html || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 12969, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12969/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-06-11T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Satellite Celebrates 10 Years of Discoveries", "description": "Watch a two-minute video on how NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the high-energy sky over its first 10 years in space. 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But is there another explanation? A new simulation performed on NASA's Discover supercomputing cluster shows how the dust and gas in the disk could form those patterns no planets needed.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Hyperborea\" from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || 12807_Disk_Simulation_4k_still_print.jpg (1024x576) [241.9 KB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_4k_still.jpg (3840x2160) [2.4 MB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_4k_still_thm.png (80x40) [4.5 KB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_4k_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [71.2 KB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.5 GB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_H264_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [263.9 MB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_H264_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [131.7 MB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.webm (1920x1080) [15.3 MB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.1 KB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.0 KB] || ", "hits": 49 }, { "id": 12808, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12808/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-01-10T14:10:00-05:00", "title": "Newly Renamed Swift Mission Catches a Comet Slowdown", "description": "NASA’s Swift satellite detected an unprecedented slowdown in the rotation of comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák when it passed nearest to Earth in early 2017. Watch to learn more.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Music: \"Valley of Crystals\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Comet_3.jpg (1920x1080) [159.1 KB] || Comet_3_print.jpg (1024x576) [49.1 KB] || Comet_3_searchweb.png (320x180) [41.5 KB] || Comet_3_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || 12808_Swift_Comet_Spin_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.4 GB] || 12808_Swift_Comet_Spin-H264_Best_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [503.7 MB] || 12808_Swift_Comet_Spin_H264_Good_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [196.4 MB] || 12808_Swift_Comet_Spin-H264_Best_1080p.webm (1920x1080) [22.2 MB] || 12808_Swift_Comet_Spin_SRT_Caption.en_US.srt [3.4 KB] || 12808_Swift_Comet_Spin_SRT_Caption.en_US.vtt [3.2 KB] || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 12806, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12806/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-12-21T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "'Winking' Star May Be Devouring Wrecked Planets", "description": "Zoom into RZ Piscium, a star about 550 light-years away that undergoes erratic dips in brightness. This animation illustrates one possible interpretation of the system, with a giant planet near the star slowly dissolving. Gas and dust stream away from the planet, and these clouds occasionally eclipse the star as we view it from Earth.Music: \"Frozen Wonder\" from Killer Tracks Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Credit NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI LabComplete transcript available. || StarObscure_Plane_v06_PNG_00333.png (1920x1080) [6.1 MB] || StarObscure_Plane_v06_00333.jpg (1920x1080) [131.6 KB] || StarObscure_Plane_v06_00333_print.jpg (1024x576) [53.2 KB] || StarObscure_Plane_v06_00333_searchweb.png (320x180) [38.0 KB] || StarObscure_Plane_v06_00333_thm.png (80x40) [4.0 KB] || 12806_RZ_Piscium_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [942.8 MB] || 12806_RZ_Piscium_H264_Best_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [172.1 MB] || 12806_RZ_Piscium_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [73.4 MB] || 12806_RZ_Piscium_H264_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [72.4 MB] || 12806_RZ_Piscium_H264_1080.webm (1920x1080) [7.9 MB] || R2Piscium.en_US.srt [805 bytes] || R2Piscium.en_US.vtt [818 bytes] || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 12673, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12673/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-11-15T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "HIRMES: SOFIA's latest high-resolution Mid-infrared Spectrometer", "description": "Learn more about HIRMES, the latest addition to NASA's airplane-based infrared telescope, SOFIA.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Sparkle Shimmer\" and \"The Orion Arm\", both from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || SOFIA_Protoplanetary_Disk_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [90.0 KB] || SOFIA_Protoplanetary_Disk_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [568.6 KB] || SOFIA_Protoplanetary_Disk_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [76.3 KB] || SOFIA_Protoplanetary_Disk_Still_web.png (320x180) [76.3 KB] || SOFIA_Protoplanetary_Disk_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.2 KB] || 12673_SOFIA_HIRMES_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [3.5 GB] || 12673_SOFIA_HIRMES_H264_Best_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [768.4 MB] || 12673_SOFIA_HIRMES_Good_1920x1080_2997.m4v (1920x1080) [302.0 MB] || 12673_SOFIA_HIRMES_Compatible.m4v (960x540) [112.3 MB] || 12673_SOFIA_HIRMES_H264_Best_1920x1080_2997.webm (1920x1080) [33.6 MB] || 12673_SOFIA_HIRMES_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [5.4 KB] || 12673_SOFIA_HIRMES_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [5.1 KB] || ", "hits": 39 }, { "id": 12687, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12687/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-08-15T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA and ESA Spacecraft Track a Solar Storm Through Space", "description": "This animation follows the October 14, 2014 CME as it moves through the solar system and identifies a few of the NASA and ESA missions that observed it.Music: “Comely\" from FelicityWritten and produced by Lars LeonhardWatch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || CME_Solar_System_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [555.5 KB] || CME_Solar_System_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [38.4 KB] || CME_Solar_System_Still_thm.png (80x40) [4.0 KB] || 12687_CME_Solar_System_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [90.8 MB] || 12687_CME_Solar_System_FINAL_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [71.7 MB] || 12687_CME_Solar_System_1080p.webm (1920x1080) [10.4 MB] || 12687_CME_Solar_System_FINAL_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [71.7 MB] || FACEBOOK_720_12687_CME_Solar_System_FINAL_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [158.9 MB] || 12687_CME_Solar_System_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [1.2 KB] || 12687_CME_Solar_System_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.2 KB] || 12687_CME_Solar_System_-4K.mov (3840x2160) [287.7 MB] || 12687_CME_Solar_System_Apple_Devices_4K.m4v (3840x2160) [340.2 MB] || YOUTUBE_4K_12687_CME_Solar_System_FINAL_youtube_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [627.2 MB] || 12687_CME_Solar_System_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [2.5 GB] || ", "hits": 106 }, { "id": 12517, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12517/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-06-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Watching the Friendly Skies - 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The simulation shows the gravitational disturbance resulting from the distant flyby of a galaxy cluster about a tenth the mass of the Perseus cluster. The event causes cooler gas at the heart of the Perseus cluster to form a vast expanding spiral, which ultimately forms giant waves lasting hundreds of millions of years at its periphery. Merger events like this are thought to occur as often as every three to four billion years in clusters like Perseus.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"The Undiscovered\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Perseus_Simulation_Final_Frame_print.jpg (1024x575) [47.6 KB] || Perseus_Simulation_Final_Frame.png (7342x4129) [4.0 MB] || Perseus_Simulation_Final_Frame_thm.png (80x40) [3.3 KB] || Perseus_Simulation_Final_Frame_searchweb.png (320x180) [39.3 KB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_FINAL_VX-281959_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [85.7 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_1080.webm (1920x1080) [18.2 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_FINAL_VX-281959_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [85.6 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [160.3 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_1080.mov (1920x1080) [241.7 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_SRT_Caption.en_US.vtt [1.7 KB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_SRT_Caption.en_US.srt [1.7 KB] || WMV_12587_Perseus_Wind_FINAL_VX-281959_HD.wmv (3840x2160) [154.8 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind.mp4 (3840x2160) [306.3 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_Good_4k.mov (3840x2160) [468.4 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_4K.m4v (3840x2160) [792.0 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_FINAL_VX-281959_youtube_hq.mov (3840x2160) [1.2 GB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [5.2 GB] || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 12452, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12452/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-04-24T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Fermi Catches Gamma-ray Flashes from Tropical Storms", "description": "Storm clouds produce some of the highest-energy light naturally made on Earth: terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs). Using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and ground-based lightning detection networks, scientists tracking these fleeting outbursts are beginning to learn more about how conditions in hurricanes, typhoons and other tropical weather systems set the stage for TGFs. 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Watch to learn more. 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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab/Krystofer D.J. 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This time lapse shows that full run from two of SDO's instruments. The large orange sun is visible light captured by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager, or HMI. The smaller golden sun is extreme ultraviolet light from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, or AIA, and reveals some of the sun's atmosphere, the corona. Both appear at one frame every 12 hours. SDO's nearly unbroken run is now long enough to watch the rise and fall of the current solar cycle. The graph of solar activity shows the sunspot number, a measurement based on the number of individual spots and the number of sunspot groups. In this case, the line represents a smoothed 26-day average to more clearly show the overall trend.Music: \"Web of Intrigue\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || SDO_Year7_Graph_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [1.2 MB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_Good_H264_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [239.0 MB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_1080.mov (1920x1080) [366.0 MB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_FINAL_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [142.4 MB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_Compatible.m4v (960x540) [98.1 MB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_FINAL_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [142.5 MB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_Compatible.webm (960x540) [24.9 MB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [12.1 GB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_FINAL_youtube_hq.mov (3840x2160) [6.8 GB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7-Good_H264_4K.m4v (3840x2160) [1.1 GB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_H264_4K.mov (3840x2160) [474.8 MB] || WMV_12500_SDO_Year_7_FINAL_HD.wmv (3840x2160) [2.2 GB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [1.4 KB] || 12500_SDO_Year_7_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.4 KB] || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 12451, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12451/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-01-30T11:30:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Sees Gamma Rays from Far Side Solar Flares", "description": "On three occasions, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected gamma rays from solar storms on the far side of the sun, emission the Earth-orbiting satellite shouldn't be able to detect. Particles accelerated by these eruptions somehow reach around to produce a gamma-ray glow on the side of the sun facing Earth and Fermi. Watch to learn more. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.This illustration shows large magnetic structures extending high above the sun from the active region hosting the Sept. 1, 2014, solar blast. Left: Scientists think particles accelerated at the leading edge of the event's coronal mass ejection followed magnetic lines high above the sun. Right: Some of the particles followed similar magnetic structures rooted in the Earth-facing side of the sun. They rained down on the sun and interacted with the solar surface, producing gamma rays (magenta). The solar images shown here come from (left) STEREO B and (right) NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: NASA/STEREO and NASA/SDO || STEREO-SDO_Fermi_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [433.9 KB] || STEREO-SDO_Fermi_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [101.1 KB] || STEREO-SDO_Fermi_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.7 KB] || 12451_Fermi_Farside_Flares_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.5 GB] || 12451_Fermi_Farside_Flares_FINAL_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [1.2 GB] || 12451_Fermi_Farside_Flares-H264_1080.mov (1920x1080) [286.5 MB] || 12451_Fermi_Farside_Flares-H264_Good_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [190.5 MB] || 12451_Fermi_Farside_Flares_FINAL_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [100.4 MB] || 12451_Fermi_Farside_Flares-H264_Compatible.m4v (960x540) [74.4 MB] || 12451_Fermi_Farside_Flares_FINAL_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [100.5 MB] || 12451_Fermi_Farside_Flares-H264_Compatible.webm (960x540) [20.5 MB] || 12451_Fermi_Farside_Flares_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [3.3 KB] || 12451_Fermi_Farside_Flares_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [3.3 KB] || ", "hits": 81 }, { "id": 12454, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12454/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-01-30T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Finds the Farthest Blazars", "description": "NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered the five most distant gamma-ray blazars yet known. The light detected by Fermi left these galaxies by the time the universe was two billion years old. 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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Hurricanes Wrap My Heart\" from Stockmusic.netWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || MOA_II_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [117.4 KB] || MOA_II_Still.png (3356x1888) [8.3 MB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [3.3 GB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_FINAL_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [821.9 MB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_H264_Good_1080.mov (1920x1080) [369.1 MB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_FINAL_HD.wmv (1920x1080) [167.7 MB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_H264_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [246.3 MB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_FINAL_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [124.2 MB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_Compatible_540.m4v (960x540) [94.7 MB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.webm (1920x1080) [24.6 MB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_FINAL_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [124.4 MB] || Microlensing_Neptunes_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.5 KB] || Microlensing_Neptunes_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.5 KB] || 12425_Microlensing_Neptunes_FINAL_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [42.6 MB] || ", "hits": 112 }, { "id": 12399, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12399/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-10-27T12:55:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Kepler, Swift Missions Harvest ‘Pumpkin’ Stars", "description": "Dive into the Kepler field and learn more about the origins of these rapidly spinning stars.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Electric Cosmos\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Pumpkin_Star_Still.png (1920x1080) [10.8 MB] || Pumpkin_Star_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [85.7 KB] || Pumpkin_Star_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [66.5 KB] || Pumpkin_Star_Still_thm.png (80x40) [4.4 KB] || 12399_Swift_Pumpkin_Star2_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.0 GB] || 12399_Swift_Pumpkin_Star_FINAL2_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [1.2 GB] || 12399_Swift_Pumpkin_Star2_H264_1080.mov (1920x1080) [221.8 MB] || 12399_Swift_Pumpkin_Star2_1080_Good.m4v (1920x1080) [147.1 MB] || 12399_Swift_Pumpkin_Star2_1080_Most_Compatible.m4v (960x540) [59.7 MB] || 12399_Swift_Pumpkin_Star_FINAL2_HD.wmv (1920x1080) [332.6 MB] || 12399_Swift_Pumpkin_Star2_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.webm (1920x1080) [17.0 MB] || 12399_Swift_Pumpkin_Star_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.3 KB] || 12399_Swift_Pumpkin_Star_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.3 KB] || 12399_Swift_Pumpkin_Star_FINAL2_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [26.8 MB] || ", "hits": 133 }, { "id": 12309, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12309/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-07-25T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Technology: OVIRS", "description": "OSIRIS-REx will use its visible and infrared spectrometer (OVIRS) to study the chemical composition of Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid that may hold clues to the origins of life.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || OvirsPreview3.jpg (1920x1080) [859.9 KB] || OvirsPreview3_searchweb.png (320x180) [122.7 KB] || OvirsPreview3_thm.png (80x40) [8.7 KB] || 12309_OVIRS_Profile_APR.mov (1920x1080) [8.7 GB] || 12309_OVIRS_Profile_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [340.1 MB] || 12309_OVIRS_Profile_H264.mp4 (1280x720) [340.6 MB] || 12309_OVIRS_Profile_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [169.3 MB] || 12309_OVIRS_Profile.webm (960x540) [135.6 MB] || 12309_OVIRS_Profile_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [169.4 MB] || 12309_OVIRS_Profile_APR_Output.en_US.srt [7.0 KB] || 12309_OVIRS_Profile_APR_Output.en_US.vtt [7.0 KB] || 12309_OVIRS_Profile_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [58.3 MB] || ", "hits": 135 }, { "id": 12264, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12264/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-06-07T09:30:00-04:00", "title": "LISA Pathfinder Spaceflight Experiment a Rousing Success", "description": "The LISA Pathfinder mission is an ESA-led effort to demonstrate technologies for a future gravitational wave observatory in space. NASA Goddard astrophysicist Ira Thorpe, a member of the team, discusses the mission and its spectacular results so far. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || LPF_Still.png (1920x1080) [3.1 MB] || LPF_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [110.1 KB] || LPF_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [98.0 KB] || LPF_Still_thm.png (80x40) [9.8 KB] || 12264_LISA_Pathfinder_Final_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [3.6 GB] || YOUTUBE_HQ_12264_LISA_Pathfinder_Final_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [1.2 GB] || 12264_LISA_Pathfinder_Final-HD_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [409.0 MB] || 12264_LISA_Pathfinder_Final-Apple_Devices_HD_Best.m4v (1920x1080) [272.7 MB] || 12264_LISA_Pathfinder_Final_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [138.6 MB] || 12264_LISA_Pathfinder_Final_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [278.0 MB] || 12264_LISA_Pathfinder_Final_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [138.7 MB] || 12264_LISA_Pathfinder_Final_appletv.webm (1280x720) [24.4 MB] || 12264_LISA_Pathfinder_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [5.6 KB] || 12264_LISA_Pathfinder_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [5.6 KB] || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 12019, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12019/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-01-07T14:15:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Fermi Mission Sharpens its High-energy View", "description": "Tour the best view of the high-energy gamma-ray sky yet seen. This video highlights the plane of our galaxy and identifies objects producing gamma rays with energies greater than 1 TeV. 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Dr. Ott made these points on a media telecon in advance of the United Nations COP-21 climate meeting in Paris, 2015.For complete transcript, click here.Music credit: Piano Dreams by Jon Wygens || Lesley_Ott_Poster-no_text.jpg (1280x720) [219.6 KB] || Lesley_Ott_Poster-no_text_searchweb.png (320x180) [82.4 KB] || Lesley_Ott_Poster-no_text_thm.png (80x40) [17.1 KB] || Lesley_Ott_MASTER_prores.mov (1280x720) [596.5 MB] || Lesley_Ott_MASTER_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [137.3 MB] || Lesley_Ott_MASTER_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [20.8 MB] || Lesley_Ott_Carbon_Climate.mp4 (1280x720) [41.2 MB] || Lesley_Ott_MASTER.mpeg (1280x720) [140.0 MB] || Lesley_Ott_MASTER.webm (960x540) [16.7 MB] || Lesley_Ott_MASTER_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [20.9 MB] || 12065_Lesley_Ott-captions.en_US.srt [953 bytes] || 12065_Lesley_Ott-captions.en_US.vtt [963 bytes] || Lesley_Ott_MASTER_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [7.2 MB] || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 12035, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12035/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-10-28T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Brazil’s Extreme Drought Seen From Space", "description": "Empty water reservoirs, severe water rationing, and electrical blackouts are the new status quo in major cities across southeastern Brazil where the worst drought in 35 years has desiccated the region. A new NASA study estimates that the region has lost an average of 15 trillion gallons of water per year from 2012 to 2015. Eastern Brazil as a whole has lost on average 28 trillion gallons of water per year over the same time period.Augusto Getirana, a hydrologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland, analyzed the amount of water stored in aquifers and rivers across Brazil from 2002 to 2015, interested in understanding the depth of the current drought.A new data visualization of 13 years of GRACE data shows the distribution of water across Brazil. Blues indicate increases in water, mostly occurring in the western regions of Brazil in the rainforest. Meanwhile red and orange shows where water stores have declined, occurring mainly in the north and southeast. At the beginning of the data collection, in 2002, Brazil was just coming out of a drought that began in 2000. A wet period followed until 2012 when dry conditions set in again due to a lack of precipitation and higher than usual temperatures, according to supplemental data.Southeastern Brazil was hardest hit by drought conditions, said Getirana. To make matters worse, Brazil relies on rivers that feed into reservoirs and dams that generate about 75 percent of the electrical power for the country. By September 2014, for example, the Cantareira reservoir system that provides water for 8.8 million people in São Paulo's metro region reported that it was filled to 10.7 percent of its total capacity, a situation that has led to major water rationing.Research: Extreme water deficit in Brazil detected from space.Journal: Hydrometeorology, October 27, 2015.Link to paper: http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JHM-D-15-0096.1Here is the YouTube video.Additional footage from: Itaipu Binacional Files. || ", "hits": 38 }, { "id": 11742, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11742/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "SDO: Year 5", "description": "Highlights from the Solar Dynamics Observatory's five years of watching the sun.The music is \"Expanding Universe\" and \"Facing the Unknown\" both from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.Information about the individual clips used in this video is here.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO || Year_5_STILL_print.jpg (1024x576) [73.2 KB] || Year_5_STILL_1080.jpg (1920x1080) [289.2 KB] || Year_5_STILL_1080.png (1920x1080) [2.2 MB] || Year_5_STILL.png (3840x2160) [8.1 MB] || SDO_Year_5_List.jpg (2550x3300) [988.9 KB] || Year_5_STILL.jpg (3840x2160) [857.5 KB] || Year_5_STILL_web.jpg (320x180) [14.0 KB] || Year_5_STILL_searchweb.png (180x320) [31.7 KB] || Year_5_STILL_thm.png (80x40) [6.0 KB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_appletv.webm (960x540) [35.1 MB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_appletv_subtitles.m4v (960x540) [123.0 MB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_appletv.m4v (960x540) [123.2 MB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [145.5 MB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_MPEG4_1920X1080_2997.mp4 (1920x1080) [373.3 MB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_H264_Good_1280x720_2997.mov (1280x720) [737.8 MB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [50.5 MB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5.en_US.vtt [1.3 KB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5.en_US.srt [1.3 KB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_H264_Good_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.6 GB] || SDO-Year_5_Final_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [26.7 MB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [4.0 GB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_H264_Best_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [5.1 GB] || 11742_SDO-Year_5_MPEG4_1920X1080_2997.hwshow [123 bytes] || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 11725, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11725/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-01-07T13:15:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Missions Take an Unparalleled Look into Superstar Eta Carinae", "description": "Explore Eta Carinae from the inside out with the help of supercomputer simulations and data from NASA satellites and ground-based observatories. 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Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. 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When the central black holes in these galaxies combine, a \"kick\" launches the merged black hole on a wide orbit taking it far from the galaxy's core. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/L. 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In a new video, join NASA scientists on a 40-minute visual tour of Earth from space, presented at the IMAX Theater at National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. on September 10. “Vital Signs: Taking the Pulse of Our Planet\" was the theme for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center's fifteenth installment of its annual lecture and reception sponsored by the Maryland Space Business Roundtable. Earth is a complex, dynamic system we do not yet fully understand. Like the human body, the Earth system comprises diverse components that interact in complex ways.On this global tour, scientists lead the viewer through Earth’s water cycle, forests and frozen regions as seen through the eyes of NASA’s Earth observing satellite fleet. They share a story of how we can make life better today and into the future.NASA's Earth science program aims to develop a greater understanding of Earth's system and its response to natural or human-induced changes, and to improve predictions of climate, weather and natural disasters. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 11670, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11670/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-10-03T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sun Emits Mid-Level Flare on October 2, 2014", "description": "The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 3:01 p.m. EDT on Oct. 2, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun 24-hours a day, captured images of the flare. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.This flare is classified as an M7.3 flare. M-class flares are one-tenth as powerful as the most powerful flares, which are designated X-class flares. || ", "hits": 95 }, { "id": 11531, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11531/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-09-30T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Swift Catches Mega Flares from a Mini Star", "description": "On April 23, NASA's Swift satellite detected the strongest, hottest, and longest-lasting sequence of stellar flares ever seen from a nearby red dwarf star. The initial blast from this record-setting series of explosions was as much as 10,000 times more powerful than the largest solar flare ever recorded. At its peak, the flare reached temperatures of 360 million degrees Fahrenheit (200 million Celsius), more than 12 times hotter than the center of the sun. The \"superflare\" came from one of the stars in a close binary system known as DG Canum Venaticorum, or DG CVn for short, located about 60 light-years away. Both stars are dim red dwarfs with masses and sizes about one-third of our sun's. They orbit each other at about three times Earth's average distance from the sun, which is too close for Swift to determine which star erupted. At 5:07 p.m. EDT on April 23, the rising tide of X-rays from DG CVn's superflare triggered Swift's Burst Alert Telescope (BAT). Swift turned to observe the source in greater detail with other instruments and, at the same time, notified astronomers around the globe that a powerful outburst was in progress.For about three minutes after the BAT trigger, the superflare's X-ray brightness was greater than the combined luminosity of both stars at all wavelengths under normal conditions.The largest solar explosions are classified as extraordinary, or X class, solar flares based on their X-ray emission. The biggest flare ever seen from the sun occurred in November 2003 and is rated as X 45. But if the flare on DG CVn were viewed from a planet the same distance as Earth is from the sun and measured the same way, it would have been ranked 10,000 times greater, at about X 100,000. How can a star just a third the size of the sun produce such a giant eruption? The key factor is its rapid spin, a crucial ingredient for amplifying magnetic fields. The flaring star in DG CVn rotates in under a day, about 30 or more times faster than our sun. The sun also rotated much faster in its youth and may well have produced superflares of its own, but, fortunately for us, it no longer appears capable of doing so. || ", "hits": 112 }, { "id": 11625, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11625/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-08-18T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's RXTE Satellite Catches the Beat of a Midsize Black Hole", "description": "Astronomers from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have uncovered rhythmic pulsations from a rare breed of black hole in archival data from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite. The signals provide compelling evidence that the object, known as M82 X-1, is one of only a few midsize black holes known.Dying stars form modest black holes measuring up to around 25 times the mass of our sun. At the opposite extreme, most large galaxies contain a supermassive black hole with a mass tens of thousands of times greater. Just as drivers traveling a highway packed with compact cars and monster trucks might start looking for sedans, astronomers are searching for a middle range of the black hole population and wondering why they see so few.M82 X-1 is the brightest X-ray source in Messier 82, a galaxy located about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. While astronomers have suspected the object of being a midsize, or intermediate-mass, black hole for at least a decade, estimates have varied from 20 to 1,000 solar masses, preventing a definitive classification.Working with Mushotzky and Strohmayer, UMCP graduate student Dheeraj Pasham sifted through about 800 RXTE observations of M82 in a search for specific types of brightness changes that would help pin down the mass of the X-ray source.As gas streams toward the black hole it piles up into a disk around it. Friction within the disk heats the gas to millions of degrees, which is hot enough to emit X-rays. Cyclical intensity variations in these X-rays reflect processes occurring within the disk.Scientists think the most rapid changes occur near the inner edge of the disk on the brink of the black hole's event horizon, the point beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape. With such close proximity to the black hole, the effects of Einstein's general relativity come into play, resulting in X-ray variations that repeat at nearly regular intervals.Astronomers call these signals quasi-periodic oscillations, or QPOs, and have shown that for black holes produced by stars, their frequencies scale up or down depending on the size of the black hole.When astronomers study X-ray fluctuations from many stellar-mass black holes, they see both slow and fast QPOs, but the fast ones often come in pairs with a specific 3:2 rhythmic relationship. For every three flashes from one member of the QPO pair, its partner flashes twice.The combined presence of slow QPOs and a faster pair in a 3:2 rhythm effectively sets a standard scale that gives scientists a powerful tool for establishing the masses of stellar black holes.A decade ago, Strohmayer and Mushotzky showed the presence of slow QPO signals from M82 X-1. In order to apply the tried-and-true relationship used for stellar-mass black holes, the researchers needed to identify a pair of steady fluctuations exhibiting the same 3:2 beat in RXTE observations. By analyzing six years of data, they located X-ray variations that reliably repeated about 3.3 and 5.1 times each second, just the 3:2 relationship they needed.This allowed them to calculate that M82 X-1 weighs about 400 solar masses — the most accurate determination to date for this object and one that clearly places it in the category of intermediate-mass black holes.Read the paper at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13710.html.Read the press release at http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/index.html. || ", "hits": 124 }, { "id": 11609, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11609/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-07-22T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Fermi Catches a 'Transformer' Pulsar", "description": "In late June 2013, an exceptional binary system containing a rapidly spinning neutron star underwent a dramatic change in behavior never before observed. The pulsar's radio beacon vanished, while at the same time the system brightened fivefold in gamma rays, the most powerful form of light, according to measurements by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.The system, known as AY Sextantis, is located about 4,400 light-years away in the constellation Sextans. It pairs a 1.7-millisecond pulsar named PSR J1023+0038 — J1023 for short — with a star containing about one-fifth the mass of the sun. The stars complete an orbit in only 4.8 hours, which places them so close together that the pulsar will gradually evaporate its companion. To better understand J1023's spin and orbital evolution, the system was routinely monitored in radio. These observations revealed that the pulsar's radio signal had turned off and prompted the search for an associated change in its gamma-ray properties.What's happening, astronomers say, are the last sputtering throes of the pulsar spin-up process. Researchers regard the system as a unique laboratory for understanding how millisecond pulsars form and for studying details of how accretion takes place on neutron stars. In J1023, the stars are close enough that a stream of gas flows from the sun-like star toward the pulsar. The pulsar's rapid rotation and intense magnetic field are responsible for both the radio beam and its powerful pulsar wind. When the radio beam is detectable, the pulsar wind holds back the companion's gas stream, preventing it from approaching too closely. But now and then the stream surges, pushing its way closer to the pulsar and establishing an accretion disk. When gas from the disk falls to an altitude of about 50 miles (80 km), processes involved in creating the radio beam are either shut down or, more likely, obscured. Some of the gas may be accelerated outward at nearly the speed of light, forming dual particle jets firing in opposite directions. Shock waves within and along the periphery of these jets are a likely source of the bright gamma-ray emission detected by Fermi. || ", "hits": 110 }, { "id": 11580, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11580/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-06-25T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Disk Detective Tutorial", "description": "Have you discovered a planetary system today? At DiskDetective.org, you can help NASA scientists find new planetary systems, by searching for disks of dust around nearby stars using images from the WISE space telescope and other telescopes. This tutorial, made by top citizen scientists based on their experience, will help you get started working together with professional astronomers on cutting-edge research, hunting through the Galaxy. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 11553, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11553/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-05-30T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "WFIRST: Uncovering the Mysteries of the Universe", "description": "The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is an upcoming space telescope designed to perform wide-field imaging and spectroscopy of the infrared sky. One of WFIRST’s objectives will be looking for clues about dark energy—the mysterious force that is accelerating the expansion of the universe. Another objective of the mission will be finding and studying exoplanets. WFIRST uses the same 2.4 meter telescope size as Hubble, but with 18 cutting-edge fourth-generation image sensors compared to Hubble's single first-generation sensor. As a result, each WFIRST image will cover over 200 times as much as a Hubble Wide Field Camera 3/IR image and be 300 megapixels in size. Hubble images reveal thousands of galaxies; a single WFIRST image will uncover millions.To help uncover the mystery of dark energy, WFIRST will make incredibly precise measurements of the universe. These measurements, like the distance and position of galaxies, can be compared to other measurements—such as the cosmic microwave background from the WMAP mission—to determine how dark energy has changed over time. WFIRST can also measure the slight distortions in light from distant galaxies as it passes more nearby mass concentrations. These data will build a three dimensional picture of how mass is distributed throughout the universe, and provide independent confirmation of its structure.Because WFIRST has such a large and sensitive field of view, it can find thousands of new exoplanets through a process called microlensing. When one star in the sky appears to pass nearly in front of another, the light rays of the background source star become bent due to the gravitational \"attraction\" of the foreground star. This \"lens\" star is then a virtual magnifying glass, amplifying the brightness of the background source star. If the lens star harbors a planetary system, then those planets can also act as lenses, each one producing a short deviation in the brightness of the source. For closer planets, WFIRST will open a new era of direct observation. Currently only a handful of planets are observable in light reflected off of them, and they are all large planets close to their stars. WFIRST will be able to detect planets as small as Neptune, and as far from their stars as Saturn is from the sun. This is possible thanks to newly developed coronagraphs, which block the bright light from the star to make the planet more visible. || ", "hits": 169 }, { "id": 11499, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11499/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-03-06T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Beta Pictoris: Icy Debris Suggests 'Shepherd' Planet", "description": "An international team of astronomers exploring the disk of gas and dust the bright star Beta Pictoris have uncovered a compact cloud of poisonous gas formed by ongoing rapid-fire collisions among a swarm of icy, comet-like bodies. The researchers suggest the comet swarm may be frozen debris trapped and concentrated by the gravity of an as-yet-unseen planet.Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, astronomers mapped millimeter-wavelength light from dust and carbon monoxide (CO) molecules in a disk surrounding the star. Located about 63 light-years away and only 20 million years old, Beta Pictoris hosts one of the closest, brightest and youngest debris disks known, making it an ideal laboratory for studying the early development of planetary systems. The ALMA images reveal a vast belt of carbon monoxide located at the fringes of the system. Much of the gas is concentrated in a single clump located about 8 billion miles (13 billion kilometers) from the star, or nearly three times the distance between the planet Neptune and the sun. The total amount of CO observed, the scientists say, exceeds 200 million billion tons, equivalent to about one-sixth the mass of Earth’s oceans.The presence of all this gas is a clue that something interesting is going on because ultraviolet starlight breaks up CO molecules in about 100 years, much faster than the main cloud can complete a single orbit around the star. Scientists calculate that a large comet must be completely destroyed every five minutes to offset the destruction of CO molecules. Only an unusually massive and compact swarm of comets could support such an astonishingly high collision rate.The researchers think these comet swarms formed when a as-yet-undetected planet migrated outward, sweeping icy bodies into resonant orbits. When the orbital periods of the comets matched the planet's in some simple ratio – say, two orbits for every three of the planet – the comets received a nudge from the planet at the same location each orbit. Like the regular push of a child's swing, these accelerations amplify over time and work to confine the comets in a small region. || ", "hits": 86 }, { "id": 11216, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11216/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-02-20T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Black Widow Pulsars Consume Their Mates", "description": "Black widow spiders and their Australian cousins, known as redbacks, are notorious for an unsettling tendency to kill and devour their male partners. Astronomers have noted similar behavior among two rare breeds of binary system that contain rapidly spinning neutron stars, also known as pulsars. The essential features of black widow and redback binaries are that they place a normal but very low-mass star in close proximity to a millisecond pulsar, which has disastrous consequences for the star. Black widow systems contain stars that are both physically smaller and of much lower mass than those found in redbacks.So far, astronomers have found at least 18 black widows and nine redbacks within the Milky Way, and additional members of each class have been discovered within the dense globular star clusters that orbit our galaxy. One black widow system, named PSR J1311-3430 and discovered in 2012, sets the record for the tightest orbit of its class and contains one of the heaviest neutron stars known. The pulsar's featherweight companion, which is only a dozen or so times the mass of Jupiter and just 60 percent of its size, completes an orbit every 93 minutes – less time than it takes to watch most movies. The side of the star facing the pulsar is heated to more than 21,000 degrees Fahrenheit (nearly 12,000 C), or more than twice as hot as the sun's surface. Recent studies allow a range of values extending down to 2 solar masses for the pulsar, making it one of the most massive neutron stars known. Watch the video to learn more about this system and its discovery from some of the scientists involved. || ", "hits": 69 }, { "id": 11457, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11457/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-01-21T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "GPM: Meet the Team", "description": "This is a series of short profiles that showcase the systems engineers and designers who helped develop, build, and test the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory spacecraft. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 11037, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11037/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-11-05T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "MAVEN: Mars Atmospheric Loss", "description": "When you take a look at Mars, you probably wouldn't think that it looks like a nice place to live. It's dry, it's dusty, and there's practically no atmosphere. But some scientists think that Mars may have once looked like a much nicer place to live, with a thicker atmosphere, cloudy skies, and possibly even liquid water flowing over the surface. So how did Mars transform from a warm, wet world to a cold, barren desert? NASA's MAVEN spacecraft will give us a clearer idea of how Mars lost its atmosphere (and thus its water), and scientists think that several processes have had an impact.Learn more about these processes in the videos below! || ", "hits": 295 }, { "id": 11311, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11311/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-08-21T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Highlights of Fermi's First Five Years", "description": "This compilation summarizes the wide range of science from the first five years of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Fermi is a NASA observatory designed to reveal the high-energy universe in never-before-seen detail. Launched in 2008, Fermi continues to give astronomers a unique tool for exploring high-energy processes associated with solar flares, spinning neutron stars, outbursts from black holes, exploding stars, supernova remnants and energetic particles to gain insight into how the universe works. Fermi detects gamma rays, the most powerful form of light, with energies thousands to billions of times greater than the visible spectrum.The mission has discovered pulsars, proved that supernova remnants can accelerate particles to near the speed of light, monitored eruptions of black holes in distant galaxies, and found giant bubbles linked to the central black hole in our own galaxy. From blazars to thunderstorms, from dark matter to supernova remnants, catch the highlights of NASA Fermi’s first five years in space.View all the Fermi-related media from the last 5 years in the Fermi Gallery.For more information about Fermi, visit NASA's Fermi webpage. || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 11229, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11229/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-04-30T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "When Fermi Dodged a 1.5-ton Bullet", "description": "NASA scientists don't often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite. But when Julie McEnery, the project scientist for NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, checked her email on March 29, 2012, she found herself facing this precise situation. While Fermi is in fine shape today, continuing its mission to map the highest-energy light in the universe, the story of how it sidestepped a potential disaster offers a glimpse at an underappreciated aspect of managing a space mission: orbital traffic control. As McEnery worked through her inbox, an automatically generated report arrived from NASA's Robotic Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis (CARA) team based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. On scanning the document, she discovered that Fermi was just one week away from an unusually close encounter with Cosmos 1805, a dead Cold-War era spy satellite. The two objects, speeding around Earth at thousands of miles an hour in nearly perpendicular orbits, were expected to miss each other by a mere 700 feet.Although the forecast indicated a close call, satellite operators have learned the hard way that they can't be too careful. The uncertainties in predicting spacecraft positions a week into the future can be much larger than the distances forecast for their closest approach. With a speed relative to Fermi of 27,000 mph, a direct hit by the 3,100-pound Cosmos 1805 would release as much energy as two and a half tons of high explosives, destroying both spacecraft. The update on Friday, March 30, indicated that the satellites would occupy the same point in space within 30 milliseconds of each other. Fermi would have to move out of the way if the threat failed to recede. Because Fermi's thrusters were designed to de-orbit the satellite at the end of its mission, they had never before been used or tested, adding a new source of anxiety for the team.By Tuesday, April 3, the close approach was certain, and all plans were in place for firing Fermi's thrusters. The maneuver was performed by the spacecraft based on previously developed procedures. Fermi fired all thrusters for one second and was back doing science within the hour.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 69 }, { "id": 11255, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11255/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-04-22T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Three Years of SDO Images", "description": "In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun's rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle. This video shows those three years of the sun at a pace of two images per day. Each image is displayed for two frames at a 29.97 frame rate.SDO's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) captures a shot of the sun every 12 seconds in 10 different wavelengths. The images shown here are based on a wavelength of 171 angstroms, which is in the extreme ultraviolet range and shows solar material at around 600,000 Kelvin. In this wavelength it is easy to see the sun's 25-day rotation as well as how solar activity has increased over three years.During the course of the video, the sun subtly increases and decreases in apparent size. This is because the distance between the SDO spacecraft and the sun varies over time. The image is, however, remarkably consistent and stable despite the fact that SDO orbits the Earth at 6,876 miles per hour and the Earth orbits the sun at 67,062 miles per hour.Such stability is crucial for scientists, who use SDO to learn more about our closest star. These images have regularly caught solar flares and coronal mass ejections in the act, types of space weather that can send radiation and solar material toward Earth and interfere with satellites in space. SDO's glimpses into the violent dance on the sun help scientists understand what causes these giant explosions — with the hopes of some day improving our ability to predict this space weather.The four wavelength view at the end of the video shows light at 4500 angstroms, which is basically the visible light view of the sun, and reveals sunspots; light at 193 angstroms which highlights material at 1 million Kelvin and reveals more of the sun's corona; light at 304 angstroms which highlights material at around 50,000 Kelvin and shows features in the transition region and chromosphere of the sun; and light at 171 angstroms.Noteworthy events that appear briefly in the main sequence of this video:00:30;24 Partial eclipse by the moon00:31;16 Roll maneuver01:11;02 August 9, 2011 X6.9 Flare, currently the largest of this solar cycle01:28;07 Comet Lovejoy, December 15, 201101:42;29 Roll Maneuver01:51;07 Transit of Venus, June 5, 201202:28;13 Partial eclipse by the moonWatch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 131 }, { "id": 11250, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11250/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-04-16T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Trio of Swift Bursts Form A New Class of GRBs", "description": "Three unusually long-lasting stellar explosions discovered by NASA's Swift satellite represent a previously unrecognized class of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Two international teams of astronomers studying these events conclude that they likely arose from the catastrophic death of supergiant stars hundreds of times larger than the sun. GRBs are the most luminous and mysterious explosions in the universe. The blasts emit surges of gamma rays — the most powerful form of light — as well as X-rays, and they produce afterglows that can be observed at optical and radio energies. Swift, Fermi and other spacecraft detect an average of about one GRB each day.Traditionally, astronomers have recognized two GRB types, short and long, based on the duration of the gamma-ray signal. Short bursts last two seconds or less and are thought to represent a merger of compact objects in a binary system, with the most likely suspects being neutron stars and black holes. Long GRBs may last anywhere from several seconds to several minutes, with typical durations falling between 20 and 50 seconds. These events are thought to be associated with the collapse of a star several times the sun's mass and the resulting birth of a new black hole. Both scenarios give rise to powerful jets that propel matter at nearly the speed of light in opposite directions. As they interact with matter in and around the star, the jets produce a spike of high-energy light. A detailed study of GRB 111209A, which erupted on Dec. 9, 2011, and continued to produce high-energy emission for an astonishing seven hours, making it by far the longest-duration GRB ever recorded.Another event, GRB 101225A, exploded on Christmas Day in 2010 and produced high-energy emission for at least two hours. Subsequently nicknamed the \"Christmas burst,\" the event's distance was unknown, which led two teams to arrive at radically different physical interpretations. One group concluded the blast was caused by an asteroid or comet falling onto a neutron star within our own galaxy. Another team determined that the burst was the outcome of a merger event in an exotic binary system located some 3.5 billion light-years away.Using the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii, a team led by Andrew Levan at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, obtained a spectrum of the faint galaxy that hosted the Christmas burst. This enabled the scientists to identify emission lines of oxygen and hydrogen and determine how much these lines were displaced to lower energies compared to their appearance in a laboratory. This difference, known to astronomers as a redshift, places the burst some 7 billion light-years away. Levan and his colleagues also examined 111209A and the more recent burst 121027A, which exploded on Oct. 27, 2012. All show similar X-ray, ultraviolet and optical emission and all arose from the central regions of compact galaxies that were actively forming stars. The astronomers conclude that all three GRBs constitute a hitherto unrecognized group of \"ultra-long\" bursts.To account for the normal class of long GRBs, astronomers envision a star similar to the size sun's size but with many times its mass. The mass must be high enough for the star to undergo an energy crisis, with its core ultimately running out of fuel and collapsing under its own weight to form a black hole. Some of the matter falling onto the nascent black hole becomes redirected into powerful jets that drill through the star, creating the gamma-ray spike, but because this burst is short-lived, the star must be comparatively small. Because ultra-long GRBs persist for periods up to 100 times greater than long GRBs, they require a stellar source of correspondingly greater physical size. Both groups suggest that the likely candidate is a supergiant, a star with about 20 times the sun's mass that still retains its deep hydrogen atmosphere, making it hundreds of times the sun's diameter.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 156 }, { "id": 11226, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11226/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-03-18T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "STEREO Watches the Sun Blast Comet PanSTARRS", "description": "This movie from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) shows comet PanSTARRS as it moved around the sun from March 10-15,2013 (repeated three times). The images were captured by the Heliospheric Imager (HI), an instrument that looks to the side of the sun to watch coronal mass ejections (CMEs) as they travel toward Earth, which is the unmoving bright orb on the right. The bright light on the left comes from the sun and the bursts from the left represent the solar material erupting off the sun in a CME. While it appears from STEREO's point of view that the CME passes right by the comet, the two are not lying in the same plane, which scientists know since the comet's tail didn't move or change in response to the CME's passage. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 11205, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11205/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-02-27T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Traces a Celestial Spirograph", "description": "NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with every circuit. Its wide-eyed Large Area Telescope (LAT) sweeps across the entire sky every three hours, capturing the highest-energy form of light — gamma rays — from sources across the universe. These range from supermassive black holes billions of light-years away to intriguing objects in our own galaxy, such as X-ray binaries, supernova remnants and pulsars. Now a Fermi scientist has transformed LAT data of a famous pulsar into a mesmerizing movie that visually encapsulates the spacecraft's complex motion. Pulsars are neutron stars, the crushed cores of massive suns that destroyed themselves when they ran out of fuel, collapsed and exploded. The blast simultaneously shattered the star and compressed its core into a body as small as a city yet more massive than the sun. One pulsar, called Vela, shines especially bright for Fermi. It spins 11 times a second and is the brightest persistent source of gamma rays the LAT sees. The movie renders Vela's position in a fisheye perspective, where the middle of the pattern corresponds to the central and most sensitive portion of the LAT's field of view. The edge of the pattern is 90 degrees away from the center and well beyond what scientists regard as the effective limit of the LAT's vision. The movie tracks both Vela's position relative to the center of the LAT's field of view and the instrument's exposure of the pulsar during the first 51 months of Fermi's mission, from Aug. 4, 2008, to Nov. 15, 2012. The pattern Vela traces reflects numerous motions of the spacecraft. The first is Fermi's 95-minute orbit around Earth, but there's another, subtler motion related to it. The orbit itself also rotates, a phenomenon called precession. Similar to the wobble of an unsteady top, Fermi's orbital plane makes a slow circuit around Earth every 54 days. In order to capture the entire sky every two orbits, scientists deliberately nod the LAT in a repeating pattern from one orbit to the next. It first looks north on one orbit, south on the next, and then north again. Every few weeks, the LAT deviates from this pattern to concentrate on particularly interesting targets, such as eruptions on the sun, brief but brilliant gamma-ray bursts associated with the birth of stellar-mass black holes, and outbursts from supermassive black holes in distant galaxies. The Vela movie captures one other Fermi motion. The spacecraft rolls to keep the sun from shining on and warming up the LAT's radiators, which regulate its temperature by bleeding excess heat into space.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 40 }, { "id": 11209, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11209/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-02-14T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Proves Supernova Remnants Produce Cosmic Rays", "description": "A new study using observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals the first clear-cut evidence that the expanding debris of exploded stars produces some of the fastest-moving matter in the universe. This discovery is a major step toward meeting one of Fermi's primary mission goals.Cosmic rays are subatomic particles that move through space at nearly the speed of light. About 90 percent of them are protons, with the remainder consisting of electrons and atomic nuclei. In their journey across the galaxy, the electrically charged particles become deflected by magnetic fields. This scrambles their paths and makes it impossible to trace their origins directly.Through a variety of mechanisms, these speedy particles can lead to the emission of gamma rays, the most powerful form of light and a signal that travels to us directly from its sources.Two supernova remnants, known as IC 443 and W44, are expanding into cold, dense clouds of interstellar gas. This material emits gamma rays when struck by high-speed particles escaping the remnants.Scientists have been unable to ascertain which particle is responsible for this emission because cosmic-ray protons and electrons give rise to gamma rays with similar energies. Now, after analyzing four years of data, Fermi scientists see a gamma-ray feature from both remnants that, like a fingerprint, proves the culprits are protons.When cosmic-ray protons smash into normal protons, they produce a short-lived particle called a neutral pion. The pion quickly decays into a pair of gamma rays. This emission falls within a specific band of energies associated with the rest mass of the neutral pion, and it declines steeply toward lower energies. Detecting this low-end cutoff is clear proof that the gamma rays arise from decaying pions formed by protons accelerated within the supernova remnants.In 1949, the Fermi telescope's namesake, physicist Enrico Fermi, suggested that the highest-energy cosmic rays were accelerated in the magnetic fields of interstellar gas clouds. In the decades that followed, astronomers showed that supernova remnants were the galaxy's best candidate sites for this process.?A charged particle trapped in a supernova remnant's magnetic field moves randomly throughout it and occasionally crosses through the explosion's leading shock wave. Each round trip through the shock ramps up the particle's speed by about 1 percent. After many crossings, the particle obtains enough energy to break free and escapes into the galaxy as a newborn cosmic ray. The Fermi discovery builds on a strong hint of neutral pion decay in W44 observed by the Italian Space Agency's AGILE gamma-ray observatory and published in late 2011.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 261 }, { "id": 11203, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11203/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "SDO: Year 3", "description": "On Feb. 11, 2010, NASA launched an unprecedented solar observatory into space. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) flew up on an Atlas V rocket, carrying instruments that scientists hoped would revolutionize observations of the sun. If all went according to plan, SDO would provide incredibly high-resolution data of the entire solar disk almost as quickly as once a second. When the science team released its first images in April of 2010, SDO's data exceeded everyone's hopes and expectations, providing stunningly detailed views of the sun. In the three years since then, SDO's images have continued to show breathtaking pictures and movies of eruptive events on the sun. Such imagery is more than just pretty, they are the very data that scientists study. By highlighting different wavelengths of light, scientists can track how material on the sun moves. Such movement, in turn, holds clues as to what causes these giant explosions, which, when Earth-directed, can disrupt technology in space. SDO is the first mission in a NASA's Living With a Star program, the goal of which is to develop the scientific understanding necessary to address those aspects of the sun-Earth system that directly affect our lives and society. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. built, operates, and manages the SDO spacecraft for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C.SDO: Year One here.SDO: Year 2 here.Information about the individual clips used in this video is here.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 10988, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10988/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-02-08T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Robotic Refueling Mission", "description": "Robotic refueling is challenging. Before a satellite leaves the ground, technicians fill its fuel tank through a valve that's then triple-sealed and covered with a protective blanket&mdashdesigned never to be accessed again. RRM paves the way for a future robotic servicing mission by demonstrating that a remote-controlled robot can overcome these obstacles to service and refuel a satellite on orbit. A joint effort between NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), this mission will use the station's robotic arm known as Dextre to conduct these experiments. Normally employed for maintenance of the orbiting superstructure, Dextre becomes experimental hardware in RRM, pushing the limits of robotic teleoperation. It's a first step to making routine robotic servicing on orbit a reality. || ", "hits": 141 }, { "id": 11180, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11180/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-01-31T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "SDO Provides First Sightings of How
a CME Forms", "description": "On July 18, 2012, a fairly small explosion of light burst off the lower right limb of the sun. Such flares often come with an associated eruption of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection or CME — but this one did not. Something interesting did happen, however. Magnetic field lines in this area of the sun's atmosphere, the corona, began to twist and kink, generating the hottest solar material — a charged gas called plasma — to trace out the newly-formed slinky shape. The plasma glowed brightly in extreme ultraviolet images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and scientists were able to watch for the first time the very formation of something they had long theorized was at the heart of many eruptive events on the sun: a flux rope. Eight hours later, on July 19, the same region flared again. This time the flux rope's connection to the sun was severed, and the magnetic fields escaped into space, dragging billions of tons of solar material along for the ride — a classic CME. More than just gorgeous to see, such direct observation offers one case study on how this crucial kernel at the heart of a CME forms. Such flux ropes have been seen in images of CMEs as they fly away from the sun, but it's never been known — indeed, has been strongly debated — whether the flux rope formed before or in conjunction with a CME's launch. This case shows a clear-cut example of the flux rope forming ahead of time.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 11201, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11201/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-01-31T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "January 31, 2013 CME and Prominence Eruption", "description": "On Jan. 31, 2013 at 2:09am EST, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME. Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and ESA/NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, show that the CME left the sun at speeds of around 575 miles per second, which is a fairly typical speed for CMEs. Historically, CMEs at this speed are mild.Not to be confused with a solar flare, a CME is a solar phenomenon that can send solar particles into space and reach Earth one to three days later.Earth-directed CMEs can cause a space weather phenomenon called a geomagnetic storm, which occurs when they connect with the outside of the Earth's magnetic envelope, the magnetosphere, for an extended period of time. In the past, CME's such as this have caused auroras near the poles but didn't disrupt electrical systems on Earth or interfere with GPS or satellite-based communications systems. || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 11137, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11137/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-01-17T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon", "description": "As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the spacecraft from Earth.The iconic image traveled nearly 240,000 miles in digital form from the Next Generation Satellite Laser Ranging (NGSLR) Station at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, to the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) instrument on the spacecraft. By transmitting the image piggyback on laser pulses that are routinely sent to track LOLA's position, the team achieved simultaneous laser communication and tracking.To learn more about how it happened, watch the video below! || ", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 11131, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11131/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-12-06T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Improves Its Vision For Thunderstorm Gamma-ray Flashes", "description": "Thanks to improved data analysis techniques and a new operating mode, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) aboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is now 10 times better at catching the brief outbursts of high-energy light mysteriously produced above thunderstorms. The outbursts, known as terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs), last only a few thousandths of a second, but their gamma rays rank among the highest-energy light that naturally occurs on Earth. The enhanced GBM discovery rate helped scientists show most TGFs also generate a strong burst of radio waves, a finding that will change how scientists study this poorly understood phenomenon.Lightning emits a broad range of very low frequency (VLF) radio waves, often heard as pop-and-crackle static when listening to AM radio. The World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN), a research collaboration operated by the University of Washington in Seattle, routinely detects these radio signals and uses them to pinpoint the location of lightning discharges anywhere on the globe to within about 12 miles (20 km).Scientists have known for a long time TGFs were linked to strong VLF bursts, but they interpreted these signals as originating from lightning strokes somehow associated with the gamma-ray emission.\"Instead, we've found when a strong radio burst occurs almost simultaneously with a TGF, the radio emission is coming from the TGF itself,\" said co-author Michael Briggs, a member of the GBM team. The researchers identified much weaker radio bursts that occur up to several thousandths of a second before or after a TGF. They interpret these signals as intracloud lightning strokes related to, but not created by, the gamma-ray flash. Scientists suspect TGFs arise from the strong electric fields near the tops of thunderstorms. Under certain conditions, the field becomes strong enough that it drives a high-speed upward avalanche of electrons, which give off gamma rays when they are deflected by air molecules. \"What's new here is that the same electron avalanche likely responsible for the gamma-ray emission also produces the VLF radio bursts, and this gives us a new window into understanding this phenomenon,\" said Joseph Dwyer, a physics professor at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Fla., and a member of the study team. Because the WWLLN radio positions are far more precise than those based on Fermi's orbit, scientists will develop a much clearer picture of where TGFs occur and perhaps which types of thunderstorms tend to produce them.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 20193, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20193/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2012-12-03T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Curiosity Rover Shakes, Bakes, and Tastes Mars with SAM", "description": "NASA's Curiosity rover analyzed its first solid sample of Mars with a variety of instruments, including the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite. Developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., SAM is a portable chemistry lab tucked inside the Curiosity rover. SAM examines the chemistry of samples it ingests, checking particularly for chemistry relevant to whether an environment can support or could have supported life. Learn more about how SAM processes samples by watching this video! || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 11116, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11116/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-10-25T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Reviving Fomalhaut b", "description": "A second look at data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reanimating the claim that the nearby star Fomalhaut hosts a massive exoplanet. The study suggests that the planet, named Fomalhaut b, is a rare and possibly unique object that is completely shrouded by dust. Fomalhaut is the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus and lies 25 light-years away. In November 2008, Hubble astronomers announced the exoplanet, named Fomalhaut b, as the first one ever directly imaged in visible light around another star. The object was imaged just inside a vast ring of debris surrounding but offset from the host star. The planet's location and mass — about three times Jupiter's — seemed just right for its gravity to explain the ring's appearance. Recent studies have claimed that this planetary interpretation is incorrect. Based on the object's apparent motion and the lack of an infrared detection by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, they argue that the object is a short-lived dust cloud unrelated to any planet. A new analysis, however, brings the planet conclusion back to life.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 384 }, { "id": 11087, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11087/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-10-19T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Astronomers Uncover a Surprising Trend in Galaxy Evolution", "description": "A comprehensive study of hundreds of galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected pattern of change that extends back 8 billion years, or more than half the age of the universe.\"Astronomers thought disk galaxies in the nearby universe had settled into their present form by about 8 billion years ago, with little additional development since,\" said Susan Kassin, an astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the study's lead researcher. \"The trend we've observed instead shows the opposite, that galaxies were steadily changing over this time period.\"Today, star-forming galaxies take the form of orderly disk-shaped systems, such as the Andromeda Galaxy or the Milky Way, where rotation dominates over other internal motions. The most distant blue galaxies in the study tend to be very different, exhibiting disorganized motions in multiple directions. There is a steady shift toward greater organization to the present time as the disorganized motions dissipate and rotation speeds increase. These galaxies are gradually settling into well-behaved disks.Blue galaxies — their color indicates stars are forming within them — show less disorganized motions and ever-faster rotation speeds the closer they are observed to the present. This trend holds true for galaxies of all masses, but the most massive systems always show the highest level of organization.Researchers say the distant blue galaxies they studied are gradually transforming into rotating disk galaxies like our own Milky Way.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 123 }, { "id": 10811, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10811/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-10-16T22:00:00-04:00", "title": "Media Produced for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center by Montana State University SNHF Alumni", "description": "The Science and Natural History Filmmaking MFA program at Montana State University was the first program of its kind and is still the largest. There is a long-standing tradition of some graduates going on to work at the Goddard Space Flight Center as video producers. This short video samples some of the animations, visualizations and clips that they have produced. || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 11109, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11109/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-10-12T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "X-ray Satellites Monitor the Clashing Winds of a Colossal Binary", "description": "One of the nearest and richest OB associations in our galaxy is Cygnus OB2, which is located about 4,700 light-years away and hosts some 3,000 hot stars, including about 100 in the O class. Weighing in at more than a dozen times the sun's mass and sporting surface temperatures five to ten times hotter, these ginormous blue-white stars blast their surroundings with intense ultraviolet light and powerful outflows called stellar winds. Two of these stars can be found in the intriguing binary system known as Cygnus OB2 #9. In 2011, NASA's Swift satellite, the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton observatory and several ground-based facilities took part in a campaign to monitor the system as the giant stars raced toward their closest approach. The observations are giving astronomers a more detailed picture of the stars, their orbits and the interaction of their stellar winds. An O-type star is so luminous that the pressure of its starlight actually drives material from its surface, creating particle outflows with speeds of several million miles an hour. Put two of these humongous stars in the same system and their winds can collide during all or part of the orbit, creating both radio emission and X-rays.In 2008, research showed that Cygnus OB2 #9 emitted radio signals that varied every 2.355 years. In parallel, Yael Naz || ", "hits": 94 }, { "id": 11108, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11108/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-10-05T13:29:00-04:00", "title": "X-ray Nova Reveals a New Black Hole in Our Galaxy", "description": "On Sept. 16, NASA's Swift satellite detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The outburst, produced by a rare X-ray nova, announced the presence of a previously unknown stellar-mass black hole. An X-ray nova is a short-lived X-ray source that appears suddenly, reaches its emission peak in a few days and then fades out over a period of months. The outburst arises when a torrent of stored gas suddenly rushes toward one of the most compact objects known, either a neutron star or a black hole. Named Swift J1745-26 after the coordinates of its sky position, the nova is located a few degrees from the center of our galaxy toward the constellation Sagittarius. While astronomers do not know its precise distance, they think the object resides about 20,000 to 30,000 light-years away in the galaxy's inner region. The pattern of X-rays from the nova signals that the central object is a black hole.Ground-based observatories detected infrared and radio emissions, but thick clouds of obscuring dust have prevented astronomers from catching Swift J1745-26 in visible light.The black hole must be a member of a low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) system, which includes a normal, sun-like star. A stream of gas flows from the normal star and enters into a storage disk around the black hole. In most LMXBs, the gas in the disk spirals inward, heats up as it heads toward the black hole, and produces a steady stream of X-rays. But under certain conditions, stable flow within the disk depends on the rate of matter flowing into it from the companion star. At certain rates, the disk fails to maintain a steady internal flow and instead flips between two dramatically different conditions — a cooler, less ionized state where gas simply collects in the outer portion of the disk like water behind a dam, and a hotter, more ionized state that sends a tidal wave of gas surging toward the center.This phenomenon, called the thermal-viscous limit cycle, helps astronomers explain transient outbursts across a wide range of systems, from protoplanetary disks around young stars, to dwarf novae - where the central object is a white dwarf star - and even bright emission from supermassive black holes in the hearts of distant galaxies. || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 11086, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11086/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-09-27T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Simulations Uncover 'Flashy' Secrets of Merging Black Holes", "description": "According to Einstein, whenever massive objects interact, they produce gravitational waves — distortions in the very fabric of space and time — that ripple outward across the universe at the speed of light. While astronomers have found indirect evidence of these disturbances, the waves have so far eluded direct detection. Ground-based observatories designed to find them are on the verge of achieving greater sensitivities, and many scientists think that this discovery is just a few years away. Catching gravitational waves from some of the strongest sources — colliding black holes with millions of times the sun's mass — will take a little longer. These waves undulate so slowly that they won't be detectable by ground-based facilities. Instead, scientists will need much larger space-based instruments, such as the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, which was endorsed as a high-priority future project by the astronomical community. A team that includes astrophysicists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is looking forward to that day by using computational models to explore the mergers of supersized black holes. Their most recent work investigates what kind of \"flash\" might be seen by telescopes when astronomers ultimately find gravitational signals from such an event. To explore the problem, a team led by Bruno Giacomazzo at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and including Baker developed computer simulations that for the first time show what happens in the magnetized gas (also called a plasma) in the last stages of a black hole merger. In the turbulent environment near the merging black holes, the magnetic field intensifies as it becomes twisted and compressed. The team suggests that running the simulation for additional orbits would result in even greater amplification. The most interesting outcome of the magnetic simulation is the development of a funnel-like structure — a cleared-out zone that extends up out of the accretion disk near the merged black hole. The most important aspect of the study is the brightness of the merger's flash. The team finds that the magnetic model produces beamed emission that is some 10,000 times brighter than those seen in previous studies, which took the simplifying step of ignoring plasma effects in the merging disks. || ", "hits": 128 }, { "id": 11036, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11036/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-09-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Laser Comm: That's a Bright Idea", "description": "Laser light made records obsolete. NASA is on the verge of doing the same thing with space based communications. Before the end of the decade, the Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) mission will revolutionize the way we move tons of data from orbit to ground and all around the solar system. || ", "hits": 45 } ] }