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Grids superposed on a multiwavelength image of the remnant represent the fields of view of two Resolve measurements made in December 2023. Each square represents one pixel of Resolve’s detector. Weaker evidence of potassium (yellow squares) in the west suggests that the original star may have had underlying asymmetries before it exploded. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Milisavljevic et al., NASA/JPL/CalTech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt and K. ArcandAlt text: The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant with the XRISM Resolve fields of viewImage description: Supernova remnant Cassiopeia A appears as a large circular object outlined by electric blue filaments, set against a black background. Strings of vibrant colors weave throughout, with blue representing Chandra data, red, green, and blue representing Webb data, and Hubble data showing a multitude of stars that dot the view. Two nearly square grids are laid on top of the remnant slightly overlapping. The upper grid has six squares filled yellow, representing weaker evidence for potassium. In the opposite corner of that grid, five squares are filled green, representing a positive potassium detection. The lower grid has six boxes filled green in a wide M-like shape. 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In all, 83 young galaxies were found, but only the 20 shown here (white diamonds) were selected for deeper study. The inset zooms into one of the galaxies. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/Bezanson et al. 2024 and Wold et al. 2025Alt text: Animation showing the locations of young, low-mass, starburst galaxies around galaxy cluster Abell 2744.Image description:White and yellow galaxies of various sizes and shapes appear against the blackness of space. Two bright stars in our own galaxy display prominent six-spike diffraction patterns with bluish rays, visible at center left and lower left. Then 20 white diamonds sweep across the image. One diamond enlarges to reveal an image of a young, low-mass, star-forming galaxy. It looks like a green oval against a red and green checked background. The enlarged image then shrinks back, and the diamonds sweep away. 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Spectral data from hundreds of wavelengths of reflected light can provide new information about Earth’s surface and atmosphere to help scientists understand Earth’s geology and biology, as well as the effects of climate change. The research project will use NASA’s Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS), the Modified Daedalus Wildfire scanning spectrometer (MASTER), and other airborne spectrocopic instruments flown on NASA’s ER-2 and Gulfstream V aircraft to collect the measurements over the country’s arid and semi-arid regions, including parts of California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico.GEMx VISIONS PortalGEMx Campaign Information || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 14707, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14707/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-25T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "XRISM's Resolve Instrument Gazes into Cygnus X-3", "description": "Cygnus X-3 is a high-mass X-ray binary system consisting of a compact object (likely a black hole) and a Wolf-Rayet star. This artist's concept shows one interpretation of the system. High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy indicates two gas components: a heavy background outflow, or wind, produced by the massive star and a turbulent structure — perhaps a wake carved into the wind — located close to the orbiting companion. As shown here, a black hole's gravity captures some of the wind into an accretion disk around it, and the disk's orbital motion sculpts a path (yellow arc) through the streaming gas. During strong outbursts, the companion emits jets of particles moving near the speed of light, seen here extending above and below the black hole.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterAlt text: Illustration of the Cygnus X-3 systemImage description: On a cloudy reddish background, a bright blue-white circle — a representation of a hot, bright, massive star — sits near the center. Wisps of blue-white border its edges, and many lines of similar color radiate from it. In the foreground at about 4 o’clock lies a yellowish ring with a black hole in its center. From the ring trails a diffuse yellow arc, sweeping from right to left and exiting at the bottom of the illustration. 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Webb reveals emerging stellar nurseries and individual stars that are completely hidden in visible-light pictures. This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” is actually the edge of a nearby stellar nursery called NGC 3324 at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula.So-called mountains — some towering about 7 light-years high — are speckled with glittering, young stars imaged in infrared light. A cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located above the area shown in this image. The blistering, ultraviolet radiation from these stars is sculpting the nebula’s wall by slowly eroding it away. Dramatic pillars rise above the glowing wall of gas, resisting this radiation. The “steam” that appears to rise from the celestial “mountains” is actually hot, ionized gas and hot dust streaming away from the nebula due to the relentless radiation.Objects in the earliest, rapid phases of star formation are difficult to capture, but Webb’s extreme sensitivity, spatial resolution and imaging capability can chronicle these elusive events. || eta-carina-cliffs-webb-STScI-01G8GX1KMWX2XA4PK2EWM7KE3R-hw_resolution_print.jpg (1024x593) [318.7 KB] || eta-carina-cliffs-webb-STScI-01G8GX1KMWX2XA4PK2EWM7KE3R-hw_resolution.png (3840x2224) [10.2 MB] || eta-carina-cliffs-webb-STScI-01G8GX1KMWX2XA4PK2EWM7KE3R.png (14575x8441) [113.7 MB] || eta-carina-cliffs-webb-STScI-01G8GX1KMWX2XA4PK2EWM7KE3R-hw_resolution_searchweb.png (320x180) [116.3 KB] || eta-carina-cliffs-webb-STScI-01G8GX1KMWX2XA4PK2EWM7KE3R-hw_resolution_thm.png (80x40) [13.5 KB] || eta-carina-cliffs-webb-STScI-01G8GX1KMWX2XA4PK2EWM7KE3R.png.dzi [179 bytes] || eta-carina-cliffs-webb-STScI-01G8GX1KMWX2XA4PK2EWM7KE3R.png_files [4.0 KB] || the-webb-space-telescope-studies-the-cosmic-cliffs-in-ngc-3324-still.hwshow [430 bytes] || ", "hits": 332 }, { "id": 5272, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5272/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-05-21T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "Methane plumes detected by EMIT Space Mission", "description": "The Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission uses an imaging spectrometer to detect the unique pattern of reflected and absorbed light – called a spectral fingerprint – from various materials on Earth's surface and in its atmosphere. Perched on the International Space Station, EMIT was originally intended to map the prevalence of minerals in Earth's arid regions, such as the deserts of Africa and Australia. Scientists verified that EMIT could also detect the spectral fingerprints of methane and carbon dioxide which enables mapping of emissions from the energy, waste, and agriculture sectors. || ", "hits": 138 }, { "id": 14463, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14463/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-04-30T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "XRISM Mission Captures Unmatched Data With Just 36 Pixels", "description": "Watch to learn more about how the Resolve instrument aboard XRISM captures extraordinary data on the make-up of galaxy clusters, exploded stars, and more using only 36 pixels.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Stop and Hide\" and \"Wading Through\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || XRISM_36_Pixels_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [959.9 KB] || XRISM_36_Pixels_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [94.7 KB] || XRISM_36_Pixels_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || 14463_XRISM_36Pixels_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [148.9 MB] || 14463_XRISM_36Pixels_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [514.8 MB] || 14463_XRISM_36Pixels_Captions.en_US.srt [4.6 KB] || 14463_XRISM_36Pixels_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.4 KB] || 14463_XRISM_36Pixels_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.4 GB] || ", "hits": 84 }, { "id": 5113, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5113/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-03-01T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Active Fires As Observed by VIIRS, 2024-Present", "description": "This animated visualization uses a moving five-day window of VIIRS measurments of fire radiative power (FRP), to present a view of fire intensities around the globe. || fires_frp_VIIRS.892_print.jpg (1024x512) [71.9 KB] || fires_frp_VIIRS.892_searchweb.png (320x180) [37.8 KB] || fires_frp_VIIRS.892_web.png (320x160) [33.5 KB] || fires_frp_VIIRS.892_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || fires_frp_VIIRS_2048p30.mp4 (4096x2048) [46.5 MB] || EIC (4096x2048) [824 Item(s)] || VIIRS_fires_latest.exr [7.0 MB] || ", "hits": 215 }, { "id": 5216, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5216/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-02-15T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "M6.8 flare at Active Region 13559 - January 29, 2024", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.Active Region 13559 now carried by solar rotation to the upper right limb of the solar disk, launches a mid-range (M6.8 class) flare. For details of this event, see the Space Weather database entry. A large arcade of plasma loops forms after the event, more visible in the 171 angstrom and 304 angstrom filters. An eclipse of the Sun by Earth provides a nice 'curtain close' for the event. For more information on the classification of solar flares, see Solar Flares: What Does It Take to Be X-Class? or X-Class: A Guide to Solar Flares. The point-spread function correction (PSF) has been applied to all this imagery. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 14498, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14498/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-01-11T11:05:00-05:00", "title": "Finding A New Galactic 'Fossil'", "description": "Some 5 million years ago, a black hole eruption in the galaxy NGC 4945 set off a star-formation frenzy and shot a vast cloud of gas into intergalactic space. Watch and learn how two X-ray telescopes revealed the story.Music Credits: Universal Production Music\"Planetary Horizons\" by Jia Lee\"Eyes Peeled\" by Bard\"Sprinkle of Mischief\" by Ash and HaroldWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center", "hits": 119 }, { "id": 14492, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14492/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-01-05T08:50:00-05:00", "title": "XRISM Reveals Its First Look at X-ray Cosmos", "description": "XRISM’s Resolve instrument captured data from supernova remnant N132D in the Large Magellanic Cloud to create the most detailed X-ray spectrum of the object ever made. The spectrum reveals peaks associated with silicon, sulfur, argon, calcium, and iron. 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Brighter spots indicate sources with stronger signals and lighter colors indicate those with higher frequencies. Larger colored patches show sources whose positions are less well known. The inset shows the frequency and strength of the gravitational signal, as well as the sensitivity limit for LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), an observatory now being designed by ESA (European Space Agency) in collaboration with NASA for launch in the 2030s.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Shadowless\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || LISA_AllSky_withInset_Still.jpg (2985x1497) [795.1 KB] || LISA_AllSky_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [22.8 MB] || LISA_AllSky_1080.webm (1920x1080) [2.5 MB] || LISA_AllSky_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [60.4 MB] || LISA_AllSky_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [205 bytes] || LISA_AllSky_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [218 bytes] || LISA_AllSky_ProRes_3840x2160_30.mov (3840x2160) [992.4 MB] || ", "hits": 113 }, { "id": 14405, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14405/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-08-25T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "XRISM: Exploring the Hidden X-ray Cosmos", "description": "Watch this video to learn more about XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission), a collaboration between JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and NASA.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic Credits: Universal Production MusicLights On by Hugh Robert Edwin Wilkinson Dreams by Jez Fox and Rohan JonesChanging Tide by Rob ManningWandering Imagination by Joel GoodmanIn Unison by Samuel Sim || YTframe_XRISM_Exploring_XrayCosmos.jpg (1280x720) [668.5 KB] || YTframe_XRISM_Exploring_XrayCosmos_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.3 KB] || YTframe_XRISM_Exploring_XrayCosmos_thm.png (80x40) [7.6 KB] || XRISM_Exploring_the_Hidden_Xray_Cosmos.en_US_FR.en_US.srt [7.8 KB] || XRISM_Exploring_the_Hidden_Xray_Cosmos.en_US_FR.en_US.vtt [7.4 KB] || XRISM_Exploring_the_Hidden_Xray_Cosmos.webm (3840x2160) [107.8 MB] || XRISM_Exploring_the_Hidden_Xray_Cosmos.mp4 (3840x2160) [3.4 GB] || XRISM_Exploring_the_Hidden_Xray_Cosmos.mov (3840x2160) [21.6 GB] || ", "hits": 256 }, { "id": 14374, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14374/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2023-08-03T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Guide to Cosmic Temperatures", "description": "Explore the temperatures of the cosmos, from absolute zero to the hottest temperatures yet achieved, with this infographic. Targets for the XRISM mission include supernova remnants, binary systems with stellar-mass black holes, galaxies powered by supermassive black holes, and vast clusters of galaxies.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott WiessingerMachine-readable PDF copy || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_small.jpg (1383x2048) [1.3 MB] || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_Full.png (5530x8192) [60.5 MB] || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_Full.jpg (5530x8192) [10.3 MB] || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_8bit.png (5530x8192) [24.5 MB] || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_Half.png (2765x4096) [7.0 MB] || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_Half.jpg (2765x4096) [4.7 MB] || ", "hits": 847 }, { "id": 5084, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5084/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2023-06-06T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Several impressive filament eruptions leading up to an M 8.7 Flare at Active Region 13234 - February 27-28, 2023", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.Some impressive filaments erupt on the solar limb (lower left and lower right) in the early part of this image series. Later (17:46:42 TAI), an active region in the upper right quadrant of the solar disk launches a mid-level M 8.7 class flare.Event Description || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 5102, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5102/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2023-05-11T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "When Coronal Holes are Smiling.... - October 26, 2022", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.In another example of pareidolia (Wikipedia) we have what appears to be a smiling face in the SDO/AIA 193 Angstrom filters formed by the arrangement of the darker coronal holes. Coronal holes form at the footpoints of open magnetic field lines which form a 'fast track' for the outflowing solar wind. These 'open' field lines do not connect back to the Sun but instead reach out to the heliopause and interstellar medium. The fast solar wind has an average speed of about 750 kilometers per second, compared to the slow solar wind with speeds from 300 to 500 kilometers per second.For comparison, we include the same time frame from the AIA 171 Angstrom filter where the 'face' is much less pronounced. || ", "hits": 96 }, { "id": 31224, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31224/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2023-04-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dark Nights in Antakya", "description": "An animation showing the amount of light emitted by Antakya’s city center and surrounding communities before and after the earthquake. || turkey_earthquake_feb_2023_black_marble_print.jpg (1024x576) [301.1 KB] || turkey_earthquake_feb_2023_black_marble_searchweb.png (320x180) [101.7 KB] || turkey_earthquake_feb_2023_black_marble_thm.png (80x40) [15.6 KB] || turkey_earthquake_feb_2023_black_marble_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [3.2 MB] || turkey_earthquake_feb_2023_black_marble_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [1.4 MB] || turkey_earthquake_feb_2023_black_marble.tif (2880x1620) [6.9 MB] || turkey_earthquake_feb_2023_black_marble_1620p30.mp4 (2880x1620) [6.3 MB] || turkey_earthquake_feb_2023_black_marble_1080p30.hwshow [135 bytes] || turkey_earthquake_feb_2023_black_marble_1620p30.hwshow [135 bytes] || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 5077, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5077/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2023-02-27T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "M1 Flare and Eruption on Solar Limb - February 7, 2023", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.An active region coming around the left limb of the sun launches a small M1 class flare and then an impressive flame-like eruption of solar material. The point-spread function correction (PSF) has been applied to all the imagery on this page. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 5063, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5063/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2023-02-10T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "An X1.9 Class Solar Flare and its Aftermath - January 9, 2023", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.Here, Active Region 13164 (near the lower left limb of the solar disk) fires off a hefty X-class flare (X1.9). (Solar Flares: What does it take to be X-class?). The region continues some active evolution with loops and filaments more visible in the 171A and 304A filters. Smaller M-Class flares erupt later in this sequence, an M 5.1 at the upper left limb and an M 2.6 in the lower right center. The point-spread function correction (PSF) has been applied to all the imagery on this page. || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 5055, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5055/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2023-01-10T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "A Cluster of M-class solar flares from Active Region 13165", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.Here, Active Region 13165 (lower right of solar disk) fires of a cluster of M-class flares over a couple of days in mid-December 2022 (Solar Flares: What does it take to be X-class?). The point-spread function correction (PSF) has been applied to all the imagery on this page. An M6.3 flare erupts followed shortly by a smaller M3.2 flare. || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 5016, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5016/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "A Small (M5) but Complex flare from Active Region 13141", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.Here, Active Region 13141 (upper left of solar disk) erupts with a class M5.2 solar flare (more visible in the 304 angstrom image) and a thin stream of plasma. || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 14227, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14227/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-10-13T15:30:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Missions Detect Record-Breaking Burst", "description": "Swift’s X-Ray Telescope captured the afterglow of GRB 221009A about an hour after it was first detected. The bright rings form as a result of X-rays scattered by otherwise unobservable dust layers within our galaxy that lie in the direction of the burst. The dark vertical line is an artifact of the imaging system.Credit: NASA/Swift/A. Beardmore (University of Leicester) || XRT_image_crop.jpg (1084x1080) [629.3 KB] || XRT_image_crop_print.jpg (1024x1020) [657.0 KB] || XRT_image_crop_searchweb.png (320x180) [133.7 KB] || XRT_image_crop_web.png (320x318) [191.7 KB] || XRT_image_crop_thm.png (80x40) [26.1 KB] || ", "hits": 270 }, { "id": 4999, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4999/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-09-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar X-Flare - April 20, 2022 (X2.2 class)", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.An X2.2 class solar flare erupts on the southern limb of the Sun in the early hours of April 20, 2022. This flare is very close to the lower right of the solar limb and most visible in the 131 Angstrom filter (teal color table). Solar flares are classified by the amount of energy released (Solar Flares: What Does It Take to Be X-Class?) || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 31186, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31186/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2022-08-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb's Science Mission Begins: First Light Images", "description": "The Cartwheel Galaxy, a rare ring galaxy once shrouded in dust and mystery, has been unveiled by the imaging capabilities of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy, which formed as a result of a collision between a large spiral galaxy and another smaller galaxy, not only retained a lot of its spiral character, but has also experienced massive changes throughout its structure. Webb’s high-precision instruments resolved individual stars and star-forming regions within the Cartwheel, and revealed the behavior of the black hole within its galactic center. These new details provide a renewed understanding of a galaxy in the midst of a slow transformation. || cartwheel_348_print.jpg (1024x576) [152.0 KB] || cartwheel_348.png (3840x2160) [9.1 MB] || webbs-science-mission-begins-first-light-images-cartwheel-galaxy.hwshow [314 bytes] || ", "hits": 97 }, { "id": 14164, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14164/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-06-07T19:00:00-04:00", "title": "Australia Sounding Rocket Campaign Press Kit", "description": "NASA will launch three suborbital sounding rockets in June and July 2022 from the Arnhem Space Center in Australia’s Northern Territory to conduct astrophysics studies that can only be done from the Southern Hemisphere. The three missions will focus on α Centauri A and B, two of the three-star α Centauri system that are the closest stars to our Sun, and X-rays emanating from the interstellar medium, clouds of gases and particles between stars.The three sounding rocket night-time missions will be launched between June 26 and July 12 on two-stage Black Brant IX sounding rockets, from the Arnhem Space Center, which is owned and operated by Equatorial Launch Australia or ELA. The Arnhem Space Center is a commercial space launch facility, located on the Dhupuma Plateau near Nhulunbuy. The NASA missions will be the first launches from Arnhem.Learn more: Australia Sounding Rocket Fact SheetWatch more: Sounding Rockets: Cutting Edge Science, 15 Minutes at a TimeWhat Is a Sounding Rocket?Riding Along with a NASA Sounding Rocket || ", "hits": 109 }, { "id": 14150, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14150/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2022-05-02T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Webb Telescope Completes Alignment Phase", "description": "It is official, alignment of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now complete. The alignment of the telescope across all of Webb’s instruments can be seen in a series of images that captures the observatory’s full field of view. Featured in this video are engineering images demonstrating the sharp focus of each instrument. For this test, Webb pointed at part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, providing a dense field of hundreds of thousands of stars across all the observatory’s sensors. The sizes and positions of the images shown depict the relative arrangement of each of Webb’s instruments in the telescope’s focal plane, each pointing at a slightly offset part of the sky relative to one another. Webb’s three imaging instruments are NIRCam (images shown here at a wavelength of 2 microns), NIRISS (image shown here at 1.5 microns), and MIRI (shown at 7.7 microns, a longer wavelength revealing emission from interstellar clouds as well as starlight). NIRSpec is a spectrograph rather than imager but can take images, such as the 1.1 micron image shown here, for calibrations and target acquisition. The dark regions visible in parts of the NIRSpec data are due to structures of its microshutter array, which has several hundred thousand controllable shutters that can be opened or shut to select which light is sent into the spectrograph. Lastly, Webb’s Fine Guidance Sensor tracks guide stars to point the observatory accurately and precisely; its two sensors are not generally used for scientific imaging but can take calibration images such as those shown here. This image data is used not just to assess image sharpness but also to precisely measure and calibrate subtle image distortions and alignments between the instrument sensors as part of Webb’s overall instrument calibration process. || ", "hits": 71 }, { "id": 14126, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14126/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-04-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "SDO Video Toolkit", "description": "The Trebuchet eruption (upper left) as seen in the SDO AIA 304 angstrom filter. This is probably one of the more popular views of the event.4k source files || New_Trebuchet_mkII.00300_print.jpg (1024x576) [336.5 KB] || New_Trebuchet_mkII.00300_print_searchweb.png (320x180) [95.4 KB] || New_Trebuchet_mkII.00300_print_thm.png (80x40) [6.2 KB] || New_Trebuchet_mkII.mp4 (1920x1080) [32.4 MB] || New_Trebuchet_mkII.webm (1920x1080) [3.7 MB] || New_Trebuchet_mkII.mov (1920x1080) [443.3 MB] || New_Trebuchet_mkII.mp4.hwshow [115 bytes] || ", "hits": 290 }, { "id": 14111, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14111/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-02-28T07:00:00-05:00", "title": "Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) Light Path Animation", "description": "The spectrograph light path inside the Mid Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the Webb Telescope. Versions with labels and without labels.Credit: European Space Agency || MIRI_SPECTRO_v2.00030_print.jpg (1024x576) [40.5 KB] || MIRI_SPECTRO_v2.00030_searchweb.png (320x180) [21.1 KB] || MIRI_SPECTRO_v2.00030_web.png (320x180) [21.1 KB] || MIRI_SPECTRO_v2.00030_thm.png (80x40) [2.1 KB] || MIRI_SPECTRO_v2.mp4 (1920x1080) [156.3 MB] || MIRI_SPECTRO_labels_v3.mp4 (1920x1080) [177.9 MB] || MIRI_SPECTRO_v2.webm (1920x1080) [9.0 MB] || ", "hits": 67 }, { "id": 14094, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14094/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-02-09T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Earth Valentines", "description": "We've got that look of love! Earth-observing satellites and astronauts capture our planet’s beauty every day. Share a Valentine with the one you can’t keep your eyes off of, inspired by some of our NASA missions. || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 4892, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4892/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-01-18T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Faculae and Sunspots at Solar Maximum and Solar Minimum", "description": "Movie of SDO/AIA 1700 angstrom imagery, collected near solar maximum (April 2014). Note the small dark regions (sunspots) and the brighter speckled regions (faculae) around them. || SolarMax_AIA1700A_stand.HD1080i.00300_print.jpg (1024x576) [61.4 KB] || SolarMax_AIA1700A_stand.HD1080i.00300_searchweb.png (320x180) [35.9 KB] || SolarMax_AIA1700A_stand.HD1080i.00300_thm.png (80x40) [3.3 KB] || SolarMax_AIA1700A (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || SolarMax_AIA1700A_stand.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [66.8 MB] || SolarMax_AIA1700A_stand.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [3.0 MB] || SolarMax_AIA1700A (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || SolarMax_AIA1700A_stand.UHD2160_p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [270.8 MB] || SolarMax_AIA1700A_stand.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [201 bytes] || ", "hits": 122 }, { "id": 14055, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14055/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-12-20T22:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe's WISPR Images Inside The Sun's Atmosphere", "description": "For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. As Parker Solar Probe flew through the corona, its WISPR instrument captured images.The Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) is the only imaging instrument aboard the spacecraft. WISPR looks at the large-scale structure of the corona and solar wind before the spacecraft flies through it. About the size of a shoebox, WISPR takes images from afar of structures like coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, jets and other ejecta from the Sun. These structures travel out from the Sun and eventually overtake the spacecraft, where the spacecraft’s other instruments take in-situ measurements. WISPR helps link what’s happening in the large-scale coronal structure to the detailed physical measurements being captured directly in the near-Sun environment.To image the solar atmosphere, WISPR uses the heat shield to block most of the Sun’s light, which would otherwise obscure the much fainter corona. Specially designed baffles and occulters reflect and absorb the residual stray light that has been reflected or diffracted off the edge of the heat shield or other parts of the spacecraft.WISPR uses two cameras with radiation-hardened Active Pixel Sensor CMOS detectors. These detectors are used in place of traditional CCDs because they are lighter and use less power. They are also less susceptible to effects of radiation damage from cosmic rays and other high-energy particles, which are a big concern close to the Sun. The camera’s lenses are made of a radiation hard BK7, a common type of glass used for space telescopes, which is also sufficiently hardened against the impacts of dust.WISPR was designed and developed by the Solar and Heliophysics Physics Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. (principal investigator Russell Howard), which will also develop the observing program. || ", "hits": 525 }, { "id": 4917, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4917/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2021-11-29T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "ICON Snaps a Peek at the Ionospheric Dynamo", "description": "Visualization of ICON in Earth orbit, camera ahead of the spacecraft looking back on spacecraft and limb of Earth. Magenta curves are lines of Earth's geomagnetic field. Field-of-view (FOV) of MIGHTI imagers (green frustums) and the longitudinal wind vectors (green arrows) it measures are shown. MIGHTI imagers FOV eventually fades out. Vertical plasma speed (red arrows) is measured at the spacecraft. Magnetic field lines turn yellow as measurements of winds by MIGHT provide a connection to influence the plasma velocity measured at the spacecraft, redirecting the plasma flow from upward to downward. || ICONDataView.ICONSyncView+x_.clockSlate_CRTT.HD1080i.000750_print.jpg (1024x576) [135.0 KB] || ICONDataView.ICONSyncView+x_.clockSlate_CRTT.HD1080i.000750_searchweb.png (320x180) [79.4 KB] || ICONDataView.ICONSyncView+x_.clockSlate_CRTT.HD1080i.000750_thm.png (80x40) [5.7 KB] || ICONSyncView+x (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || ICONDataView.ICONSyncView+x.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [36.4 MB] || ICONDataView.ICONSyncView+x.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [5.1 MB] || ICONSyncView+x (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || ICONDataView.ICONSyncView+x.2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [114.3 MB] || ICONDataView.ICONSyncView+x.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow || ", "hits": 71 }, { "id": 20351, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20351/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2021-11-09T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "The DAVINCI Mission to Venus", "description": "DAVINCI the Movie || DaVinci1021cut422HQ.00130_print.jpg (1024x438) [75.7 KB] || DaVinci1021cut422HQ.00130_searchweb.png (180x320) [61.3 KB] || DaVinci1021cut422HQ.00130_thm.png (80x40) [5.3 KB] || DaVinci1021cut1080h264.mp4 (1920x820) [208.7 MB] || DaVinci1021cut720422HQ.mov (1682x720) [3.5 GB] || DaVinci1021cut720h264.mp4 (1280x548) [133.2 MB] || DaVinci1021cut720h264.webm (1280x548) [22.0 MB] || DaVinci1021cut422HQ.mov (5045x2160) [20.3 GB] || DaVinci1021cut1080422HQ.mov (2523x1080) [5.6 GB] || 20351_DAVINCIMissiontoVenus_CAPTIONS.en_US.srt [3.8 KB] || 20351_DAVINCIMissiontoVenus_CAPTIONS.en_US.vtt [3.6 KB] || ", "hits": 175 }, { "id": 4945, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4945/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2021-10-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Active Fires As Observed by VIIRS, January-September 2021", "description": "This animated visualization uses a moving three-day average of summed VIIRS measurments of fire radiative power (FRP), to present a view of fire intensities around the globe. || 2021_wildfire_intensity.1000_print.jpg (1024x576) [122.0 KB] || 2021_wildfire_intensity.1000_searchweb.png (320x180) [44.8 KB] || 2021_wildfire_intensity.1000_thm.png (80x40) [11.2 KB] || 2021_wildfire_intensity (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || 2021_wildfire_intensity_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [18.9 MB] || 2021_wildfire_intensity_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [5.5 MB] || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 4907, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4907/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2021-06-18T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Big Sunspot from Solar Cycle 24", "description": "A large sunspot rotates across the view in SDO/HMI || BigSunspot_HMIintensity_stand.HD1080i.00300_print.jpg (1024x576) [50.6 KB] || BigSunspot_HMIintensity_stand.HD1080i.00300_searchweb.png (320x180) [21.8 KB] || BigSunspot_HMIintensity_stand.HD1080i.00300_thm.png (80x40) [2.6 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || BigSunspot_HMIintensity.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [29.1 MB] || BigSunspot_HMIintensity.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [2.2 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || BigSunspot_HMIintensity.UHD2160_p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [171.4 MB] || BigSunspot_HMIintensity.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [201 bytes] || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 4899, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4899/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2021-04-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Active Fires As Observed by VIIRS, 2020", "description": "This animated visualization uses a moving three-day average of measured fire radiative power (FRP), summing the 375 m resolution data into one-quarter degree bins, to present a view of fire intensities around the globe. || fires__2020_robinson.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [69.5 KB] || fires__2020_robinson.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [34.5 KB] || fires__2020_robinson.00001_thm.png (80x40) [4.4 KB] || fires__2020_robinson.webm (1920x1080) [5.3 MB] || fires__2020_robinson.mp4 (1920x1080) [86.7 MB] || fires__2020_robinson.mp4.hwshow [186 bytes] || ", "hits": 85 }, { "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": 46 }, { "id": 13664, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13664/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-07-16T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "ESA and NASA Release First Images From Solar Orbiter Mission", "description": "Scientists from ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA will present the first images captured by Solar Orbiter, the joint ESA/NASA mission to study the Sun, during an online news briefing at 8 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 16. Launched on Feb. 9, 2020, Solar Orbiter turned on all 10 of its instruments together for the first time in mid-June as it made its first close pass of the Sun. The flyby captured the closest images ever taken of the Sun. During the briefing, mission experts will discuss what these closeup images reveal about our star, including what we can learn from Solar Orbiter’s new measurements of particles and magnetic fields flowing from the Sun.The briefing will stream live at:https://www.nasa.gov/solarorbiterfirstlight/Participants in the call include:•Daniel Müller – Solar Orbiter Project Scientist at ESA•Holly R. Gilbert – Solar Orbiter Project Scientist at NASA•José Luis Pellón Bailón – Solar Orbiter Deputy Spacecraft Operations Manager at ESA•David Berghmans – Principal investigator of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) at the Royal Observatory of Belgium•Sami Solanki – Principal investigator of the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) and director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research•Christopher J. Owen – Principal investigator of the Solar Wind Analyser (SWA) at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London•ESA’s first light images•ESA press release •NASA feature story || ", "hits": 197 }, { "id": 13606, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13606/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-05-20T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "A New Portrait of the Cosmos is Coming", "description": "Welcome to NASA's upcoming infrared survey mission, taking a wider view of the cosmos.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"The Decision (alternate)\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Trailer_still_1_print.jpg (1024x576) [181.5 KB] || Trailer_still_1.jpg (3840x2160) [2.0 MB] || Trailer_still_1_searchweb.png (180x320) [104.8 KB] || Trailer_still_1_thm.png (80x40) [7.9 KB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Trailer_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [797.0 MB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Trailer_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [281.5 MB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Trailer_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [132.9 MB] || Roman_Space_Telescope_Trailer_1080.webm (1920x1080) [7.2 MB] || Roman_Trailer_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [740 bytes] || Roman_Trailer_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [753 bytes] || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 40413, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/earth-science-playlist/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2020-04-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Science Playlist", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 2 }, { "id": 31095, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31095/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2020-02-12T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Change Over Time—Chicago, Illinois", "description": "Change Over Time—Chicago, Illinois || Page15_ChicagoHyperwall_5760x3240_19.2x10.8_print.jpg (1024x576) [143.0 KB] || Page15_ChicagoHyperwall_5760x3240_19.2x10.8.png (5760x3240) [3.5 MB] || Page15_ChicagoHyperwall_5760x3240_19.2x10.8_searchweb.png (320x180) [89.1 KB] || Page15_ChicagoHyperwall_5760x3240_19.2x10.8_thm.png (80x40) [6.9 KB] || change-over-timechicago-illinois.hwshow [342 bytes] || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 31099, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31099/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2020-02-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "A Changing Earth at Night (Regions)", "description": "NASA’s Black Marble products are also being used by scientists and decision-makers to monitor gradual changes driven by urbanization, out-migration, economic changes, and electrification. These images show the rapid electrification of India’s rural settlements in recent years. Huge swaths of northern India, relatively dark in 2012 night shots, are lit up in NASA’s Black Marble imagery from 2016. || NightLights.010_print.jpg (1024x576) [175.5 KB] || NightLights.010.png (5760x3240) [20.0 MB] || NightLights.010_searchweb.png (320x180) [101.2 KB] || NightLights.010_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || ", "hits": 293 }, { "id": 40409, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/fermi-stills/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2020-01-22T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Stills", "description": "A collection of Fermi-related still images, illustrations, graphics and short clips.", "hits": 300 }, { "id": 13497, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13497/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-01-05T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Simulated Image Demonstrates the Power of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope", "description": "Watch the video to learn more about the Roman Space Telescope's simulated image.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Flight Impressions\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Roman_Simulated_Image_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [891.1 KB] || 13497_Simulated_Image_Roman_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.6 GB] || 13497_Simulated_Image_Roman_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [936.5 MB] || 13497_Simulated_Image_Roman_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [291.8 MB] || 13497_Simulated_Image_Roman_1080.webm (1920x1080) [22.4 MB] || Simulated_Image_Roman_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [3.6 KB] || Simulated_Image_Roman_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [3.6 KB] || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 13427, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13427/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-11-20T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "A New Era in Gamma-ray Science", "description": "On Jan. 14, 2019, the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observatory in the Canary Islands captured the highest-energy light every recorded from a gamma-ray burst. MAGIC began observing the fading burst just 50 seconds after it was detected thanks to positions provided by NASA's Fermi and Swift spacecraft (top left and right, respectively, in this illustration). The gamma rays packed energy up to 10 times greater than previously seen. Credit: NASA/Fermi and Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University || GRB190114CbASimonnet.jpg (2475x3300) [4.5 MB] || GRB190114CbASimonnet_searchweb.png (320x180) [106.4 KB] || GRB190114CbASimonnet_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || ", "hits": 134 }, { "id": 13285, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13285/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-11-05T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "TESS's Southern Sky Panorama", "description": "NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) spent a year imaging the southern sky in its search for worlds beyond our solar system. Dive into a mosaic of these images to see what TESS has found so far. 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SDO/HMI provides the background image. || Sept2016_CHROMIS4000A_stand.HD1080i.00100_print.jpg (1024x576) [200.8 KB] || Sept2016_CHROMIS4000A_stand.HD1080i.00100_searchweb.png (180x320) [136.4 KB] || Sept2016_CHROMIS4000A_stand.HD1080i.00100_thm.png (80x40) [9.1 KB] || SwedishST (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || Sept2016_CHROMIS4000A.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [19.4 MB] || Sept2016_CHROMIS4000A.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [1.5 MB] || SwedishST (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || Sept2016_CHROMIS4000A.UHD3840_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [50.6 MB] || Sept2016_CHROMIS4000A.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [199 bytes] || ", "hits": 136 }, { "id": 40365, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/earth-science-oct2018-briefing/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2018-10-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Science Overview Oct 2018 Briefing", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 82 }, { "id": 4623, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4623/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2018-04-30T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Dynamic Solar Magnetic Field with Introduction", "description": "This narrated visualization transitions from a view of the Sun in visible light, to a view in ultraviolet light showing the plasma flowing along solar magnetic structures, to the underlying magnetic field of the solar photosphere, to a model construction of magnetic fieldlines above the photosphere.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || SolarMagnetism_UHD3840.04000_print.jpg (1024x576) [198.9 KB] || SolarMagnetism_UHD3840.04000_thm.png (80x40) [6.0 KB] || SolarMagnetism_UHD3840.04000_web.png (320x180) [84.1 KB] || SolarMagnetism_ProRes3_HD1080_p30_Narrated.webm (1280x720) [33.9 MB] || SolarMagnetism_ProRes3_HD1080_p30_Narrated.mov (1280x720) [7.4 GB] || SolarMagnetism_ProRes3_UHD2160_p30_Narrated.mov (3840x2160) [12.8 GB] || ", "hits": 134 }, { "id": 40348, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/esddatafor-societal-benefits/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2018-04-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "ESD data for Societal Benefit", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 203 }, { "id": 12796, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12796/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-12-13T11:30:00-05:00", "title": "2017 AGU Habitability Press Conference", "description": "Spanning Disciplines to Search for Life Beyond EarthThe search for life beyond Earth is riding a surge of creativity and innovation. Following a gold rush of exoplanet discovery over the past two decades, it is time to tackle the next step: determining which of the known exoplanets are proper candidates for life. Scientists from NASA and two universities presented new results dedicated to this task in fields spanning astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics and planetary science — demonstrating how a cross-disciplinary approach is essential to finding life on other worlds — at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Dec. 13, 2017, in New Orleans, Louisiana.PANELISTS:• Giada Arney, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center• Stephen Kane, University of California-Riverside• Katherine Garcia-Sage, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Catholic University of America• Dave Brain, University of Colorado-Boulder || ", "hits": 134 }, { "id": 12789, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12789/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-12-11T12:30:00-05:00", "title": "AGU Press Conference - Eclipse 2017: Studying the Sun-Earth Connection and More from the Moon’s Shadow", "description": "While people across North America took in the Aug. 21 eclipse, hundreds of citizen, student, and professional scientists were collecting scientific data. They gathered data with telescopes on the ground, balloons launched to the stratosphere, jets chasing the Moon’s shadow, and satellites far above Earth. In this panel, participants will share some of the initial results from a cross-section of these studies, in fields ranging from solar physics to Earth science to space biology. Panelists:•Lika Guhathakurta, NASA Headquarters/NASA Ames Research Center•Amir Caspi, Southwest Research Institute•Matt Penn, National Solar Observatory •Angela Des Jardins, Montana State University•Greg Earle, Virginia Tech •Jay Herman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland Baltimore County || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 30919, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30919/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2017-12-06T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "A Changing Earth at Night", "description": "Changes in lights from 2012 to 2016 || BlackMarble20162012diff500m_cb_print.jpg (1024x574) [96.1 KB] || BlackMarble20162012diff500m_cb_searchweb.png (180x320) [32.4 KB] || BlackMarble20162012diff500m_cb_thm.png (80x40) [4.4 KB] || BlackMarble20162012diff500m_cb.tif (4104x2304) [3.6 MB] || BlackMarble20162012diff500m.tif (4104x2052) [3.5 MB] || BlackMarble20162012diff500m_huge.tif (86400x43200) [868.6 MB] || a-changing-earth-at-night.hwshow [223 bytes] || ", "hits": 239 }, { "id": 30908, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30908/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2017-10-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Pinpointing Where the Lights Went Out in Puerto Rico", "description": "Night lights across Puerto Rico before and after Hurricane Maria, 2017 || maria_pr_1080p.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [55.4 KB] || maria_pr_1080p.00001_searchweb.png (180x320) [32.7 KB] || maria_pr_1080p.00001_thm.png (80x40) [3.3 KB] || maria_pr_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.8 MB] || maria_pr_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [961.0 KB] || maria_pr_1080p.webm (1920x1080) [3.4 MB] || maria_pr_2304p.mp4 (4096x2304) [5.0 MB] || maria_pr (4104x2304) [64.0 KB] || ", "hits": 81 }, { "id": 30901, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30901/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2017-10-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Cassini's Final Image", "description": "Cassini's final image || PIA21895_print.jpg (1024x1030) [71.7 KB] || PIA21895_searchweb.png (320x180) [29.7 KB] || PIA21895_thm.png (80x40) [2.5 KB] || PIA21895.tif (505x508) [190.2 KB] || cassinis-final-image.hwshow [260 bytes] || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 30898, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30898/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2017-09-18T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Menacing Line of Hurricanes", "description": "VIIRS imagery of Katia, Irma, and Jose || hurricanes_vir_2017251_lrg.jpg (4095x2730) [5.7 MB] || hurricanes_vir_2017251_lrg_searchweb.png (180x320) [109.1 KB] || hurricanes_vir_2017251_lrg_thm.png (80x40) [7.2 KB] || a-menacing-line-of-hurricanes.hwshow [223 bytes] || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 12704, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12704/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-08-31T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Eclipse Imagery", "description": "As millions of people across the United States experienced a total eclipse as the umbra, or Moon’s shadow passed over them, only six people witnessed the umbra from space. Viewing the eclipse from orbit were NASA’s Randy Bresnik, Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson, ESA (European Space Agency’s) Paolo Nespoli, and Roscosmos’ Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Sergey Ryazanskiy. The space station crossed the path of the eclipse three times as it orbited above the continental United States at an altitude of 250 miles. Credit: NASA || iss052e056122.jpg (4928x3280) [844.0 KB] || ", "hits": 439 }, { "id": 30893, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30893/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2017-08-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "2017 Eclipse Image Collection", "description": "This image is a composite photograph that shows the progression of the total solar eclipse over Madras, Oregon.http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=90796 || eclipsecomposite_pho_lrg.jpg (2231x1487) [541.4 KB] || eclipsecomposite_pho_lrg_searchweb.png (320x180) [47.2 KB] || eclipsecomposite_pho_lrg_thm.png (80x40) [3.3 KB] || 2017-eclipse-images-7.hwshow [293 bytes] || ", "hits": 214 }, { "id": 4352, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4352/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2017-08-20T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Incredible Solar Flare, Prominence Eruption and CME Event (SDO/HMI visible light)", "description": "These movies present the six hour interval around the event, a one minute per animation frame. || MonsterFilament_HMI_stand.HD1080i.00100_print.jpg (1024x576) [40.8 KB] || MonsterFilament_HMI_stand.HD1080i.00100_searchweb.png (320x180) [21.8 KB] || MonsterFilament_HMI_stand.HD1080i.00100_thm.png (80x40) [2.7 KB] || MonsterFilament_HMI_stand.HD1080i.00100_web.png (320x180) [21.8 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || MonsterFilament_HMI.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [12.1 MB] || MonsterFilament_HMI.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [1.2 MB] || MonsterFilament_HMI.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [197 bytes] || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 4002, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4002/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2017-08-04T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "AR2665: The Lonely Sunspot of Solar Minimum", "description": "Full-disk view of sunspot group moving across the solar disk, AIA 171 ångstrom band. || July2017_AR2665_AIA171_stand.HD1080i.01000_print.jpg (1024x576) [53.8 KB] || AIA171 (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || July2017_AR2665_AIA171.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [53.5 MB] || July2017_AR2665_AIA171.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [8.5 MB] || July2017_AR2665_AIA171_2048p30.mp4 (2048x2048) [264.8 MB] || 171A-Frames (4096x4096) [0 Item(s)] || 171A-Time (4096x4096) [0 Item(s)] || July2017_AR2665_AIA171.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [200 bytes] || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 40337, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/lrosolar-eclipse/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2017-07-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO and Solar Eclipse Events", "description": "This page features videos for the 2017 Solar Eclipse Events being coordinated with the LRO Mission production team.", "hits": 118 }, { "id": 12613, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12613/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-06-02T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "SDO 4k Slow-rotation Sun Resource Page", "description": "Still Image for page || SDO_Slow_Gallery.jpg (1920x1080) [235.4 KB] || SDO_Slow_Gallery_searchweb.png (320x180) [43.0 KB] || SDO_Slow_Gallery_thm.png (80x40) [3.6 KB] || ", "hits": 157 }, { "id": 12614, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12614/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-06-02T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "SDO Anniversary Series", "description": "The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on the entire disk of the sun, with a prime view of the graceful dance of solar material coursing through the sun's atmosphere, the corona.Year 1 || ", "hits": 57 }, { "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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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": 95 }, { "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": 71 }, { "id": 4269, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4269/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2016-10-17T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Various Sun Images for the Hyperwall", "description": "The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) provides ultra high-definition imagery of the Sun in 13 different wavelengths, utilizing two imaging instruments, the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument and the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI). These images were captured by SDO on December 6, 2010. || ", "hits": 143 }, { "id": 12313, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12313/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-09-20T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope Milky Way Exoplanet Locations Animation", "description": "Animation illustrating the idea of finding many new exoplanets through gravitational microlensing. These new discoveries will compliment the exoplanet survey begun by Kepler.Visible light imagery provided by Axel Mellinger, Central Michigan Univ.Credit: NASA Goddard/A. 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Scientists have observed the Earth’s lights at night for more than four decades using military satellites and astronaut photography; however, the view became significantly clearer after using satellite data from a low-light sensor onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite, launched in October 2011. The satellite’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) “day-night band” can observe dim signals such as city lights (down to the scale of an isolated highway lamp), wildfires, gas flares, auroras, and reflected moonlight during nighttime hours. Swaths of VIIRS data are processed to find moonless, non-cloudy pixels. These “good” pixels are averaged at each location to produce a global image that depicts the Earth’s lights at night. Each pixel shows roughly 0.46 miles (742 meters) across.The top image, centered on France, is a composite of VIIRS data acquired between October 1, 2014 and April 30, 2015. Paris is visible just above the center of the image. North of Paris and across the English Channel (black), London is visible. The relatively dim Alps, characterized by their crescent-shaped geography, are speckled with lights from car headlights and lit roadways. South of the Alps several major cities in Italy are visible with the brightest spot being Milan. Rome is visible in the bottom right of the image. Strings and clusters of light out at sea are produced by ship lights. The second image, centered on France, is a composite of data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS) acquired during 2013. Each pixel shows roughly 1.86 miles (3 kilometers) across. The DMSP OLS night-lights data are available starting in 1992, and provide the ability to measure changes in light extent and locations over the past two decades.The image of Australia at night is a composite of VIIRS data acquired between January 1, 2015 and July 31, 2015. Major cities such as Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth are well lit along the coast. Alice Springs—situated in the geographic center of Australia—is some 1,500 kilometers from the nearest major city. Transient lights—those visible in only one monthly image—are colored red. These lights are mainly from brushfires burning during the dry season (May-July) in Australia’s Northern Territory and northern parts of Western Australia. Aside from fires, some of the transient lights could be attributed to natural gas flares, lightning, oil drilling, or mining operations. || ", "hits": 98 }, { "id": 11948, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11948/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-07-09T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "X-ray Echoes Create a Black Hole Bull's-eye", "description": "Rings of X-ray light centered on V404 Cygni, a binary system containing an erupting black hole (dot at center), were imaged by the X-ray Telescope aboard NASA's Swift satellite from June 30 to July 4. A narrow gap splits the middle ring in two. Color indicates the energy of the X-rays, with red representing the lowest (800 to 1,500 electron volts, eV), green for medium (1,500 to 2,500 eV), and the most energetic (2,500 to 5,000 eV) shown in blue. For comparison, visible light has energies ranging from about 2 to 3 eV. The dark lines running diagonally through the image are artifacts of the imaging system.Credit: Andrew Beardmore (Univ. of Leicester) and NASA/Swift || rings_1080.gif (1080x1080) [1.3 MB] || ", "hits": 101 }, { "id": 4246, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4246/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Big Sunspot of 2014", "description": "The view from the SDO AIA 171 angstrom filter of AR 12192 moving across the solar disk. || Oct2014BigSpot_171A_stand.HD1080i.01300_print.jpg (1024x576) [64.8 KB] || Oct2014BigSpot_171A_stand.HD1080i.01300_searchweb.png (320x180) [44.4 KB] || Oct2014BigSpot_171A_stand.HD1080i.01300_web.png (320x180) [44.4 KB] || Oct2014BigSpot_171A_stand.HD1080i.01300_thm.png (80x40) [4.1 KB] || Oct2014BigSpot_171AHD (1920x1080) [256.0 KB] || Oct2014BigSpot_171A_stand_HD1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [73.8 MB] || Oct2014BigSpot_171A.HD1080.webm (1920x1080) [9.1 MB] || Oct2014BigSpot_171A.HD1080.mov (1920x1080) [218.3 MB] || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 30517, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30517/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2014-07-28T17:00:00-04:00", "title": "Japan at Night", "description": "Data acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite were used to create this nighttime view of Japan and the Korean Peninsula in May 2014. NOAA’s Earth Observation Group creates monthly composite nighttime images from the VIIRS day-night band (DNB) by combining cloud-free data from nights without moonlight (i.e., during the new moon phase). Here the monthly composite image has been combined with a cloud-free MODIS image that has been modified to appear more “night-like” to highlight the Earth’s land surface.City lights make several urban centers easily discernable. For example, Tokyo, Japan, located on the southeastern side of the main island, is the brightest location on the image. It is also the most populous metropolitan area in the world. Clusters of light out at sea—particularly in and around the Korean Straight—are produced by the lights from hundreds of fishing boats engaged in night fishing. One such cluster surrounds Jeju Island, South Korea—a popular tourist destination—where fishermen shine torchlights on the water to attract squid, a traditional Jeju food. The reason the lights are so prominent around the island in this image is because the time the data were collected (i.e., May during new moon) overlaps with one of the peak fishing seasons for this region—spring, during new moon. || ", "hits": 362 }, { "id": 4177, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4177/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-07-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "As Seen by STEREO-A: The Carrington-Class CME of 2012", "description": "STEREO-A, at a position along Earth's orbit where it has an unobstructed view of the far side of the Sun, could clearly observe possibly the most powerful coronal mass ejection (CME) of solar cyle 24 on July 23, 2012. The visualizations on this page cover the entire day.We see the flare erupt in the lower right quadrant of the solar disk from a large active region. The material is launched into space in a direction towards STEREO-A. This creates the ring-like 'halo' CME visible in the STEREO-A coronagraph, COR-2 (blue circular image).As the CME expands beyond the field of view of the COR-2 imager, the high energy particles reach STEREO-A, creating the snow-like noise in the image. The particles also strike the HI-2 imager (blue square) brightening the image.The HI-1 imager has had 'bloom removal' enabled and filled with contents of the immediately previous HI-1 image, which creates a linear artifact above and below bright stars and planets. || ", "hits": 123 }, { "id": 4178, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4178/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-07-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "As Seen by STEREO-B: The Carrington-Class CME of 2012", "description": "Like SDO, STEREO-B did not have a direct view of the coronal mass ejection (CME) launched by the sun on July 23, 2012. However, the active region involved was very close to the limb of the sun (lower left quadrant) and STEREO-B provided an excellent view of plasma launched in both ultraviolet light and the white-light coronagraph. || ", "hits": 68 }, { "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": 171 }, { "id": 11522, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11522/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-05-07T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Best Observed X-class Flare", "description": "On March 29, 2014 the sun released an X-class flare. It was observed by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS; NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO; NASA's Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, or RHESSI; the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hinode; and the National Solar Observatory's Dunn Solar Telescope located at Sacramento Peak in New Mexico. To have a record of such an intense flare from so many observatories is unprecedented. Such research can help scientists better understand what catalyst sets off these large explosions on the sun. Perhaps we may even some day be able to predict their onset and forewarn of the radio blackouts solar flares can cause near Earth – blackouts that can interfere with airplane, ship and military communications. || ", "hits": 81 }, { "id": 4164, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4164/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-05-07T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Multi-Mission View of a Solar Flare: Optical to Gamma-rays", "description": "To improve our understanding of complex phenomena such as solar flares, a wide variety of tools are needed. In the case of astronomy, those tools enable us to analyze the light in many different wavelengths and many different ways.Many different instruments are observing the Sun almost continuously, both from space and on the surface of the Earth. On March 29, 2014, the Dunn Solar Telescope at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico was observing a solar active region and requested other observatories to watch as well. As a result of this coordination, the region was being observed by a large number of different instruments, ground and space-based, when it subsequently erupted with an X-class flare. This visualization presents various combinations of the datasets collected during this effort. The color text represents the dominant color of the dataset in the imagery.Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO): HMI (617.1nm). This data represents the Sun is visible light similar to how we see it from the ground.Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO): AIA (17.1nm). Solar ultraviolet emission, which can only be seen from space, reveals plasma flowing, and escaping, along magnetic fields.IRIS Slit-Jaw Imager: 140.0nm. This high-resolution imager also contains a slit (the dark vertical line in the center of the field) which directs the light to an ultraviolet spectrometer which is used to extract even more information about the light. The imager slews back-and-forth across the region, providing spectra over a larger area of the Sun.Hinode/X-ray Telescope: x-ray band. Indicates very hot plasma.RHESSI: 50-100 keV. High-energy gamma-ray emission. Emission from these locations represent the very highest energy photons from the flare event.Dunn Solar Telescope: G-band filter. This filter, showing much of the solar surface (photosphere) in visible light, provides a detailed view of the sunspots and convection cells. The view moves because the instrument was repointed several times during the observation.Dunn Solar Telescope: IBIS ( Hydrogen alpha, 656.3nm; Calcium 854.2 nm; Iron 630.15nm). This is the small rectangular view within the Dunn Solar Telescope G-band view. This instrument can tune the wavelength during the observation, which provides views of the solar atmosphere at different depths. || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 11460, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11460/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-02-11T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "SDO: Year 4", "description": "The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on the entire disk of the sun, with a prime view of the graceful dance of solar material coursing through the sun's atmosphere, the corona. SDO's fourth year in orbit was no exception: NASA is releasing a movie of some of SDO's best sightings of the year, including massive solar explosions and giant sunspot shows. SDO captures images of the sun in 10 different wavelengths, each of which helps highlight a different temperature of solar material. Different temperatures can, in turn, show specific structures on the sun such as solar flares, which are giant explosions of light and x-rays, or coronal loops, which are streams of solar material traveling up and down looping magnetic field lines. The movie shows examples of both, as well as what's called prominence eruptions, when masses of solar material leap off the sun. The movie also shows a sunspot group on the solar surface. This sunspot, a magnetically strong and complex region appearing in mid-January 2014, was one of the largest in nine years. Scientists study these images to better understand the complex electromagnetic system causing the constant movement on the sun, which can ultimately have an effect closer to Earth, too: Flares and another type of solar explosion called coronal mass ejections can sometimes disrupt technology in space. Moreover, studying our closest star is one way of learning about other stars in the galaxy. 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.SDO: Year 3 here.Information about the individual clips used in this video is here. || ", "hits": 74 }, { "id": 4065, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4065/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "The X-Class Flare of January 2014", "description": "Early January of 2014 saw one of the largest sunspot groups of solar cycle 24 and some X-class flares near the center of the solar disk from active region AR 11943. These flares launched a few small coronal mass ejections towards the Earth. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 4133, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4133/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "February 2013: The Busy Sun", "description": "Even near solar maximum, with sunspots dotting the photosphere, the Sun can look tranquil and serene in visible light. In the case of these images from the HMI instrument on the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the only obvious changes are the constant shimmering of the solar disk due to the bubbling of solar granulation.But in ultraviolet light, in particular the 30.4 nanometer line of the helium ion, we see much more activity. Dark, wispy lines of cooler solar filaments (the term used for solar prominences when seen against the disk) stretch across the disk. The same structures, seen against the fainter glow of the solar corona, resemble slowly evolving flames on the limb of the Sun. Solar active regions surrounding the sunspots, appear bright in ultraviolet light. || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 4128, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4128/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-12-24T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Dynamics Observatory - Argo view - Slices of SDO", "description": "Argos (or Argus Panoptes) was the 100-eyed giant in Greek mythology (wikipedia).While the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has significantly less than 100 eyes, (see \"SDO Jewelbox: The Many Eyes of SDO\"), seeing connections in the solar atmosphere through the many filters of SDO presents a number of interesting challenges. This visualization experiment illustrates a mechanism for highlighting these connections. This visualization is a variation of the original Solar Dynamics Observatory - Argo view. In this case, the different wavelength filters are presented in three sets around the Sun at full 4Kx4K resolution. This enables monitoring of changes in time over all wavelengths at any location around the limb of the Sun. The wavelengths presented are: 617.3nm optical light from SDO/HMI. From SDO/AIA we have 170nm (pink), then 160nm (green), 33.5nm (blue), 30.4nm (orange), 21.1nm (violet), 19.3nm (bronze), 17.1nm (gold), 13.1nm (aqua) and 9.4nm (green).We've locked the camera to rotate the view of the Sun so each wedge-shaped wavelength filter passes over a region of the Sun. As the features pass from one wavelength to the next, we can see dramatic differences in solar structures that appear in different wavelengths.Filaments extending off the limb of the Sun which are bright in 30.4 nanometers, appear dark in many other wavelengths.Sunspots which appear dark in optical wavelengths, are festooned with glowing ribbons in ultraviolet wavelengths.small flares, invisible in optical wavelengths, are bright ribbons in ultraviolet wavelengths.if we compare the visible light limb of the Sun with the 170 nanometer filter on the left, with the visible light limb and the 9.4 nanometer filter on the right, we see that the 'edge' is at different heights. This effect is due to the different amounts of absorption, and emission, of the solar atmosphere in ultraviolet light.in far ultraviolet light, the photosphere is dark since the black-body spectrum at a temperature of 5700 Kelvin emits very little light in this wavelength. || ", "hits": 111 }, { "id": 4117, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4117/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-12-17T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Dynamics Observatory - Argo view", "description": "Argos (or Argus Panoptes) was the 100-eyed giant in Greek mythology (wikipedia).While the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has significantly less than 100 eyes, (see \"SDO Jewelbox: The Many Eyes of SDO\"), seeing connections in the solar atmosphere through the many filters of SDO presents a number of interesting challenges. This visualization experiment illustrates a mechanism for highlighting these connections.The wavelengths presented are: 617.3nm optical light from SDO/HMI. From SDO/AIA we have 170nm (pink), then 160nm (green), 33.5nm (blue), 30.4nm (orange), 21.1nm (violet), 19.3nm (bronze), 17.1nm (gold), 13.1nm (aqua) and 9.4nm (green).We've locked the camera to rotate the view of the Sun so each wedge-shaped wavelength filter passes over a region of the Sun. As the features pass from one wavelength to the next, we can see dramatic differences in solar structures that appear in different wavelengths.Filaments extending off the limb of the Sun which are bright in 30.4 nanometers, appear dark in many other wavelengths.Sunspots which appear dark in optical wavelengths, are festooned with glowing ribbons in ultraviolet wavelengths.Small flares, invisible in optical wavelengths, are bright ribbons in ultraviolet wavelengths.If we compare the visible light limb of the Sun with the 170 nanometer filter on the left, with the visible light limb and the 9.4 nanometer filter on the right, we see that the 'edge' is at different heights. This effect is due to the different amounts of absorption, and emission, of the solar atmosphere in ultraviolet light.In far ultraviolet light, the photosphere is dark since the black-body spectrum at a temperature of 5700 Kelvin emits very little light in this wavelength. || ", "hits": 73 } ] }