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Then, as the black hole enters the main body of the star, it rapidly consumes stellar matter, blasting gamma-ray jets (magenta) outward and causing the star to explode. 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A new study finds the cluster to be triple the size previously thought — and shows that its stars are scattered across the night sky. The Schmidt telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California captured this color-composite image. Credit: NASA, ESA, and AURA/CaltechAlt text: Members of the Pleiades shine in blue. Image description: The Pleiades are shown in this image. Six of the stars, all blue-white, are larger than the others and have diffraction spikes and faint blue circles around them. Other, smaller blue stars are also scattered across the image. Patches of swirling blue dust surround some of the stars. || STScI-01EVVEYWX1TA3MGBK5F6EFQVGQ.jpg (4877x3513) [1.1 MB] || ", "hits": 438 }, { "id": 14859, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14859/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-06-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb Stellarium", "description": "Stellarium is an installation video designed for the Goddard Space Flight Center visitor center. It is playing temporarily in the room designed for Solarium, and installation built around Sun footage from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).\r\n\r\nStellarium sources James Webb Space Telescope imagery processed and provided by the Space Telescope Science Institute and available here.", "hits": 101 }, { "id": 14793, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14793/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-05-27T20:55:00-04:00", "title": "Black Holes Vertical Video", "description": "This page collects Astrophysics vertical videos with black-hole-related content", "hits": 1566 }, { "id": 14799, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14799/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-05-27T20:54:00-04:00", "title": "Astrophysics: Observing the Universe Vertical Video", "description": "This page contains vertically-formatted Astrophysics videos related to general astrophysical imagery.", "hits": 486 }, { "id": 14749, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14749/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-14T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "OpenUniverse: Simulated Universe Views for Roman", "description": "This video begins with a tiny one-square-degree portion of the full OpenUniverse simulation area (about 70 square degrees, equivalent to an area of sky covered by more than 300 full moons). It spirals in toward a particularly galaxy-dense region, zooming by a factor of 75. This simulation showcases the cosmos as NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could see it, allowing scientists to preview the next generation of cosmic discovery now. Roman’s real future surveys will enable a deep dive into the universe with highly resolved imaging, as demonstrated in this video.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and M. Troxel || OpenUniverseFullZoom_4k_Best.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [111.9 KB] || OpenUniverseFullZoom_4k_Good.mp4 (3840x2160) [101.9 MB] || OpenUniverseFullZoom_4k_Best.mp4 (3840x2160) [249.3 MB] || OpenUniverseFullZoom_ProRes_3840x2160_30.mov (3840x2160) [2.9 GB] || ", "hits": 125 }, { "id": 14720, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14720/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-22T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "COBE All-Sky Map 360 Video With Narration", "description": "View the entire sky with the microwave eyes of NASA’s COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite in this immersive video. COBE took the first baby picture of the universe, revealing slight temperature variations when the cosmos was just 380,000 years old. This image shows the entire sky using four years of observations by COBE’s Differential Microwave Radiometer. The central plane of our galaxy runs across the middle, and its center is marked by a white X. Red indicates hotter regions, blue colder. The fluctuations are extremely faint, varying by only 1 part in 100,000 from the average temperature. They represent density variations in the early universe thought to have given rise to the structures we see today. After stripping away foreground emission arising from dust, hot gas, and charged particles interacting with magnetic fields in our galaxy, COBE data revealed tiny variations in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background — the oldest light in the universe — for the first time.(This video is formatted for 360-degree use.)Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: “Meetings in Underwater Ruins,” Philippe Andre Vandenhende [SACEM], Olivier Louis Perrot [SACEM] and Idriss-El-Mehdi Bennani [SACEM], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || YTframe_Design_hybrid_COBE_360.jpg (1280x720) [235.1 KB] || YTframe_Design_hybrid_COBE_360_searchweb.png (320x180) [80.8 KB] || YTframe_Design_hybrid_COBE_360_thm.png (80x40) [9.2 KB] || 14720_COBE_360_Captions.en_US.srt [4.7 KB] || 14720_COBE_360_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.4 KB] || 14720_COBE_360_Narrated_Good.mp4 (8192x4096) [131.8 MB] || 14720_COBE_360_Narrated_Best.mp4 (8192x4096) [503.2 MB] || ", "hits": 263 }, { "id": 14677, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14677/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-10-02T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's TESS Spots Record-breaking Stellar Triplets", "description": "This artist’s concept illustrates how tightly the three stars in the system called TIC 290061484 orbit each other. If they were placed at the center of our solar system, all the stars’ orbits would be contained a space smaller than Mercury’s orbit around the Sun. The sizes of the triplet stars and the Sun are also to scale.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center || TESS_Triple_system_beauty_scale.jpg (3840x2160) [775.5 KB] || ", "hits": 408 }, { "id": 14576, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14576/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-05-06T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink", "description": "In this flight toward a supermassive black hole, labels highlight many of the fascinating features produced by the effects of general relativity along the way. This supercomputer visualization tracks a camera as it approaches, briefly orbits, and then crosses the event horizon — the point of no return — of a supersized black hole similar in mass to the one at the center of our galaxy. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. PowellMusic: “Tidal Force,” Thomas Daniel Bellingham [PRS], Universal Production Music“Memories” from Digital Juice“Path Finder,” Eric Jacobsen [TONO] and Lorenzo Castellarin [BMI], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || 14576_BHPlunge_Explain_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [1.2 MB] || 14576_PageThumbnail.jpg (3840x2160) [1.2 MB] || 14576_PageThumbnail_searchweb.png (180x320) [85.0 KB] || 14576_PageThumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [9.6 KB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [319.5 MB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_Captions.en_US.srt [2.5 KB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.4 KB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.5 GB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_4kYouTube.mp4 (3840x2160) [3.0 GB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [12.8 GB] || ", "hits": 1715 }, { "id": 14476, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14476/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-01-11T11:10:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Mission Detects Surprising Gamma-Ray Feature Beyond Our Galaxy", "description": "This artist’s concept shows the entire sky in gamma rays with magenta circles illustrating the uncertainty in the direction from which more high-energy gamma rays than average seem to be arriving. In this view, the plane of our galaxy runs across the middle of the map. The circles enclose regions with a 68% (inner) and a 95% chance of containing the origin of these gamma rays. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center || Dark_Fermi_Dipole.jpg (3840x2160) [506.2 KB] || Dark_Fermi_Dipole.png (3840x2160) [8.9 MB] || Dark_Fermi_Dipole_searchweb.png (320x180) [57.6 KB] || Dark_Fermi_Dipole_thm.png (80x40) [5.4 KB] || ", "hits": 189 }, { "id": 14399, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14399/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-12-20T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi's 14-Year Time-Lapse of the Gamma-Ray Sky", "description": "From solar flares to black hole jets: NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has produced a unique time-lapse tour of the dynamic high-energy sky. Fermi Deputy Project Scientist Judy Racusin narrates this movie, which compresses 14 years of gamma-ray observations into 6 minutes. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA/DOE/LAT CollaborationMusic: \"Expanding Shell\" written and produced by Lars Leonhard.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.Video descriptive text available. || Fermi_14Year_Narrated_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [157.6 KB] || Fermi_14Year_Narrated_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [891.9 KB] || Fermi_14Year_Narrated_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [39.2 KB] || Fermi_14Year_Narrated_Still_thm.png (80x40) [4.2 KB] || 14399_Fermi_14Year_Narrated_sub100.mp4 (1920x1080) [90.5 MB] || 14399_Fermi_14Year_Narrated_1080.webm (1920x1080) [49.4 MB] || 14399_Fermi_14Year_Narrated_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [908.7 MB] || Fermi_14Year_Narrated_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [8.4 KB] || Fermi_14Year_Narrated_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [8.0 KB] || 14399_Fermi_14Year_Narrated_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.2 GB] || 14399_Fermi_14Year_Narrated_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [19.4 GB] || ", "hits": 104 }, { "id": 14434, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14434/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-11-28T09:20:00-05:00", "title": "NASA’s Fermi Mission Finds 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars", "description": "This visualization shows 294 gamma-ray pulsars, first plotted on an image of the entire starry sky as seen from Earth and then transitioning to a view from above our galaxy. The symbols show different types of pulsars. Young pulsars blink in real time except for the Crab, which pulses slower because its rate is only slightly lower than the video frame rate. Millisecond pulsars remain steady, pulsing too quickly to see. The Crab, Vela, and Geminga were among the 11 gamma-ray pulsars known before Fermi launched. Other notable objects are also highlighted. Distances are shown in light-years (abbreviated ly).Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Fascination\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Pulsar_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [3.5 MB] || Pulsar_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [105.5 KB] || Pulsar_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || 14434_Fermi_Pulsar_Locations_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [93.9 MB] || 14434_Fermi_Pulsar_Locations_1080.webm (1920x1080) [10.0 MB] || Pulsar_Captions.en_US.srt [46 bytes] || Pulsar_Captions.en_US.vtt [56 bytes] || 14434_Fermi_Pulsar_Locations_4k_Good.mp4 (3840x2160) [112.8 MB] || 14434_Fermi_Pulsar_Locations_4k_Best.mp4 (3840x2160) [689.2 MB] || 14434_Fermi_Pulsar_Locations_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [4.5 GB] || ", "hits": 225 }, { "id": 14402, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14402/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-09-20T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Simulated Gravitational Wave All-Sky Image", "description": "Watch as gravitational waves from a simulated population of compact binary systems combine into a synthetic map of the entire sky. Such systems contain white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes in tight orbits. Maps like this using real data will be possible once space-based gravitational wave observatories become active in the next decade. The center of our Milky Way galaxy lies at the center of this all-sky view, with the galactic plane extending across the middle. 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": 85 }, { "id": 14335, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14335/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-05-01T10:45:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Animation Sizes Up the Universe’s Biggest Black Holes", "description": "All monster black holes are not equal. Watch this video to see how they compare to each other and to our solar system. The black holes shown, which range from 100,000 to more than 60 billion times our Sun’s mass, are scaled according to the sizes of their shadows – a circular zone about twice the size of their event horizons. Only one of these colossal objects resides in our own galaxy, and it lies 26,000 light-years away. Smaller black holes are shown in bluish colors because their gas is expected to be hotter than that orbiting larger ones. Scientists think all of these objects shine most intensely in ultraviolet light. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image LabMusic: \"In the Stars\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || SMBH_Scale_Still_1.jpg (3840x2160) [3.0 MB] || SMBH_Scale_Still_1_searchweb.png (180x320) [71.4 KB] || SMBH_Scale_Still_1_thm.png (80x40) [4.2 KB] || 14335_Supermassive_Black_Hole_Scale_Comparison_V2_1080_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [166.0 MB] || 14335_Supermassive_Black_Hole_Scale_Comparison_V2_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [102.7 MB] || 14335_Supermassive_Black_Hole_Scale_Comparison_V2_1080_Best.webm (1920x1080) [13.3 MB] || 14335_Supermassive_Black_Hole_Scale_Comparison_V2_ProRes_3840x2160_60.mov (3840x2160) [12.6 GB] || 14335_Supermassive_Black_Hole_Scale_Comparison_V2_4k_Best.mp4 (3840x2160) [314.2 MB] || 14335_Supermassive_Black_Hole_Scale_Comparison_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.2 KB] || 14335_Supermassive_Black_Hole_Scale_Comparison_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.2 KB] || ", "hits": 1795 }, { "id": 14309, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14309/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-03-15T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Captures Dynamic Gamma-ray Sky", "description": "Watch a cosmic gamma-ray fireworks show in this animation using just a year of data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Each object’s magenta circle grows as it brightens and shrinks as it dims. The yellow circle represents the Sun following its apparent annual path across the sky. The animation shows a subset of the LAT gamma-ray records now available for more than 1,500 objects in a new, continually updated repository. Over 90% of these sources are a type of galaxy called a blazar, powered by the activity of a supermassive black hole.Credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center/Daniel Kocevski || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark_ProRes_3840x2160.mov (3840x2160) [170.3 MB] || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark_1600.gif (1600x900) [6.5 MB] || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark_1050.gif (1050x590) [3.2 MB] || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark.gif (800x450) [2.1 MB] || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [12.1 MB] || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark_4k.webm (3840x2160) [1.9 MB] || ", "hits": 114 }, { "id": 14301, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14301/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-03-08T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Millions of Galaxies Emerge in New Simulated Images From NASA's Roman", "description": "This video begins by showing the most distant galaxies in the simulated deep field image in red. As it zooms out, layers of nearer (yellow and white) galaxies are added to the frame. By studying different cosmic epochs, Roman will be able to trace the universe's expansion history, study how galaxies developed over time, and much more.Credit: Caltech-IPAC/R. Hurt and M. Troxel || Roman_Zoom_still.jpg (1920x1080) [515.9 KB] || Roman_Zoom_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [106.4 KB] || Roman_Zoom_still_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || Roman_Zoom-HD2K.mp4 (1920x1080) [25.3 MB] || Roman_Zoom-HD2K.webm (1920x1080) [2.7 MB] || ", "hits": 73 }, { "id": 14264, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14264/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-01-10T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "TESS Finds System’s Second Earth-Size World", "description": "Watch to learn about TOI 700 e, a newly discovered Earth-size planet with an Earth-size sibling. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Robert Hurt/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic Credit: Dream Box by Carl David HarmsWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || Title_Card_TOI700_e.jpg (1920x1080) [1.2 MB] || Second_Habitable_World_in_TOI700.00250_print.jpg (1024x576) [50.0 KB] || Second_Habitable_World_in_TOI700.00250_searchweb.png (320x180) [50.3 KB] || Second_Habitable_World_in_TOI700.00250_thm.png (80x40) [3.4 KB] || Second_Habitable_World_in_TOI700.mp4 (1920x1080) [69.1 MB] || Second_Habitable_World_in_TOI700.webm (1920x1080) [7.7 MB] || Second_Habitable_World_in_TOI700_ProRes.mov (1920x1080) [948.8 MB] || Second_Habitable_World_in_TOI700.en_US.srt [1.1 KB] || Second_Habitable_World_in_TOI700.en_US.vtt [1.1 KB] || ", "hits": 638 }, { "id": 14209, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14209/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-01-09T17:10:00-05:00", "title": "NASA’s Compton Mission Glimpses Supersized Neutron Stars", "description": "This simulation tracks the gravitational wave and density changes as two orbiting neutron stars crash together. Dark purple colors represent the lowest densities, while yellow-white shows the highest. An audible tone and a visual frequency scale (at left) track the steady rise in the frequency of gravitational waves as the neutron stars close. When the objects merge at 42 seconds, the gravitational waves suddenly jump to frequencies of thousands of hertz and bounce between two primary tones (quasiperiodic oscillations, or QPOs). The presence of these signals in such simulations led to the search and discovery of similar phenomena in the light emitted by short gamma-ray bursts.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and STAG Research Centre/Peter HammondComplete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Visual description:On a black background with a faint gray grid, two multicolored blobs representing merging neutron stars circle and close. The colors indicate density. Yellow-white indicates the highest densities, at the centers of the objects. The colors change to orange and red at their periphery, with purple colors representing matter torn from and swirling with the neutron stars as they orbit. The grid shrinks as the camera pulls back to capture a wider view of the merger. A pale orange display at left shows the changing frequency of the gravitational waves generated, which is also indicated by the rising tone. As the merger occurs, the screen shows a spinning yellow blob at center immersed in a large cloud of magneta and purple debris. || Merger_Simulation_Annotated_Still_2.jpg (1920x1080) [180.7 KB] || 14209_Hypermassive_QPO_Simulation_Zoom_YOUTUBE_1080.webm (1920x1080) [12.1 MB] || 14209_Hypermassive_QPO_Simulation_Zoom_YOUTUBE_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [129.3 MB] || 14209_Hypermassive_QPO_Simulation_Zoom_YOUTUBE_BEST_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [161.8 MB] || 14209_NS_Merger_QPO_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [1.6 KB] || 14209_NS_Merger_QPO_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.6 KB] || 14209_Hypermassive_QPO_Simulation_Zoom_YOUTUBE_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.0 GB] || ", "hits": 267 }, { "id": 14149, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14149/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-05-02T10:45:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Black Hole Orrery", "description": "Learn more about the best-known black hole systems in our galaxy and its neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This visualization presents 22 X-ray binary systems that host confirmed black holes at the same scale, with their orbits sped up by about 22,000 times. The view of each system reflects how we see it from Earth. Star colors ranging from blue-white to reddish represent temperatures from 5 times hotter to 45% cooler than our Sun. In most of these systems, a stream of matter from the star forms an accretion disk around the black hole. In others, like the famous system called Cygnus X-1, the star produces a hefty outflow that is partly swept up by the black hole’s gravity to form the disk. The accretion disks use a different color scheme because they sport even higher temperatures than the stars. The largest disk shown, belonging to a binary called GRS 1915, spans a distance greater than that separating Mercury from our Sun. The black holes themselves are shown larger than in reality using spheres scaled to reflect their masses.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Scientific Visualization StudioMusic: \"Event Horizon\" from Gravity. Written and produced by Lars LeonhardWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Black_Hole_Orrery_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [321.9 KB] || Black_Hole_Orrery_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [25.6 KB] || Black_Hole_Orrery_Still_thm.png (80x40) [4.1 KB] || 14149_Black_Hole_Orrery_FINAL_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [118.8 MB] || 14149_Black_Hole_Orrery_FINAL_1080.webm (1920x1080) [12.4 MB] || 14149_Black_Hole_Orrery_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [1.9 GB] || 14149_Black_Hole_Orrery_FINAL_4k_Best.mp4 (3840x2160) [379.2 MB] || 14149_Black_Hole_Orrery_FINAL_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [176.7 MB] || 14149_Black_Hole_Orrery_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [1.9 KB] || 14149_Black_Hole_Orrery_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.9 KB] || ", "hits": 270 }, { "id": 14132, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14132/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-04-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Black Hole Week: Black Hole GIFs", "description": "Black Hole WeekThis page provides social media assets used during previous celebrations of Black Hole Week. Join in! Below, you'll find many GIFs to use. || ", "hits": 580 }, { "id": 14074, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14074/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-03-22T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Roman Space Telescope's High Latitude Survey Pointing Scheme", "description": "The sequence and layout of the Roman Space Telescope's High Latitude Spectroscopic Survey tiling pattern.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center || Roman_HLSS_Pointing_Scheme_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [119.5 KB] || Roman_HLSS_Pointing_Scheme_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [1.1 MB] || Roman_HLSS_Pointing_Scheme_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [53.3 KB] || Roman_HLSS_Pointing_Scheme_Still_thm.png (80x40) [5.1 KB] || Roman_HLSS_Pointing_Scheme_FINAL_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [25.1 MB] || Roman_HLSS_Pointing_Scheme_FINAL_4k.webm (3840x2160) [9.1 MB] || Roman_HLSS_Pointing_Scheme_FINAL_ProRes_3840x2160_5994.mov (3840x2160) [1.7 GB] || ", "hits": 160 }, { "id": 14105, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14105/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-03-22T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Simulated Galaxy Redshift Cubes", "description": "This video dissolves between the entire collection of redshift cubes in 55 seconds. A shorter, faster version is available below.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/F. Reddy and Z. Zhai, Y. Wang (IPAC) and A. Benson (Carnegie Observatories)Watch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Cube_Spin_110-Short_mkII_still.jpg (1920x1080) [577.0 KB] || Cube_Spin_110-Short_mkII_still_print.jpg (1024x576) [158.1 KB] || Cube_Spin_110-Short_mkII_still_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || Cube_Spin_110-Short_mkII_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [79.4 KB] || 14105_110_RedshiftGalaxyCube_Dissolve_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [59.2 MB] || 14105_110_RedshiftGalaxyCube_Dissolve_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [970.0 MB] || 14105_110_RedshiftGalaxyCube_Dissolve_1080.webm (1920x1080) [7.0 MB] || 14105_110_RedshiftGalaxyCube_Dissolve_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [956 bytes] || 14105_110_RedshiftGalaxyCube_Dissolve_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [969 bytes] || ", "hits": 219 }, { "id": 14115, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14115/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-03-08T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's NICER Tracks a Magnetar's Hot Spots", "description": "Explore how NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) tracked brilliant hot spots on the surface of an erupting magnetar – from 13,000 light-years away. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Particles and Fields\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Magnetar_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [574.3 KB] || Magnetar_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [229.0 KB] || Magnetar_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [66.1 KB] || Magnetar_Still_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || 14115_Merging_Magnetar_HotSpots_1080_Best.webm (1920x1080) [17.4 MB] || 14115_Merging_Magnetar_HotSpots_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [158.9 MB] || 14115_Merging_Magnetar_HotSpots_1080_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [382.0 MB] || 14115_Migrating_Magnetar_HotSpots_1080.en_US.srt [2.1 KB] || 14115_Migrating_Magnetar_HotSpots_1080.en_US.vtt [2.1 KB] || 14115_Merging_Magnetar_HotSpots_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.1 GB] || ", "hits": 219 }, { "id": 14077, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14077/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-01-19T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Orbit Visualizations", "description": "This visualization follows the Roman Space Telescope on its trajectory to the Sun-Earth Lagrange Two point. The original \"WFIRST\" label is covered by a new \"Roman\" label. || 4470_Roman_Orbit_Cinematic.jpg (3840x2160) [865.0 KB] || 4470_Roman_Orbit_Cinematic_searchweb.png (320x180) [53.1 KB] || 4470_Roman_Orbit_Cinematic_thm.png (80x40) [3.3 KB] || 4470_Roman_Cinematic_Orbit_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [60.4 MB] || 4470_Roman_Cinematic_Orbit_4k.webm (3840x2160) [12.6 MB] || 4470_Roman_Cinematic_Orbit_ProRes_4k.mov (3840x2160) [3.3 GB] || ", "hits": 111 }, { "id": 13832, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13832/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-04-17T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s NICER Tests Matter’s Limits", "description": "Watch how NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is helping physicists peer into the hearts of neutron stars, the remains of massive stars that exploded in supernovae. Scientists want to explore the nature of matter inside these objects, where it exists on the verge of collapsing into black holes. To do so, scientists need precise measurements of neutron stars’ masses and sizes, which NICER and other efforts are now making possible.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Question Time\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Video_title_card_2.jpg (1920x1080) [206.4 KB] || Video_title_card_2_searchweb.png (320x180) [54.8 KB] || Video_title_card_2_thm.png (80x40) [5.7 KB] || 13832_NICER_TestsMattersLimits_Best_1080.webm (1920x1080) [28.5 MB] || 13832_NICER_TestsMattersLimits_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [187.8 MB] || 13832_NICER_TestsMattersLimits_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [650.1 MB] || 13832_NICER_TestsMattersLimits_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.7 KB] || 13832_NICER_TestsMattersLimits_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.8 KB] || 13832_NICER_TestsMattersLimits_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [3.5 GB] || ", "hits": 337 }, { "id": 13831, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13831/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-04-15T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Visualization Probes the Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes", "description": "Explore how the extreme gravity of two orbiting supermassive black holes distorts our view. In this visualization, disks of bright, hot, churning gas encircle both black holes, shown in red and blue to better track the light source. The red disk orbits the larger black hole, which weighs 200 million times the mass of our Sun, while its smaller blue companion weighs half as much. Zooming into each black hole reveals multiple, increasingly warped images of its partner. Watch to learn more. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. PowellMusic: \"Gravitational Field\" from Orbit. Written and produced by Lars Leonhard.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Supermassive_BlackHole_Binary_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [726.7 KB] || Supermassive_BlackHole_Binary_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [18.9 KB] || Supermassive_BlackHole_Binary_Still_thm.png (80x40) [2.5 KB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_1080.webm (1920x1080) [23.8 MB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [234.7 MB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [348.3 MB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_4k_Best.mp4 (3840x2160) [936.6 MB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_ProRes_3840x2160_30.mov (3840x2160) [4.1 GB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_4k_Best.mp4.hwshow [137 bytes] || ", "hits": 298 }, { "id": 13792, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13792/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-01-13T12:15:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Missions Unveil Magnetar Eruptions in Nearby Galaxies", "description": "On April 15, 2020, a wave of X-rays and gamma rays lasting only a fraction of a second triggered detectors on NASA and European spacecraft. The event was a giant flare from a magnetar, a type of city-sized stellar remnant that boasts the strongest magnetic fields known. Watch to learn more.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Collision Course-Alternative Version\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || MGF_Video_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [602.3 KB] || MGF_Video_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [264.7 KB] || MGF_Video_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [74.9 KB] || MGF_Video_Still_thm.png (80x40) [5.7 KB] || 13792_Magnetar_Giant_Flare_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.6 GB] || 13792_Magnetar_Giant_Flare_best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [498.6 MB] || 13792_Magnetar_Giant_Flare_good_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [221.6 MB] || 13792_Magnetar_Giant_Flare_best_1080.webm (1920x1080) [24.0 MB] || 13792_Magnetar_Giant_Flare_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.0 KB] || 13792_Magnetar_Giant_Flare_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.0 KB] || ", "hits": 265 }, { "id": 13726, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13726/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-10-05T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "TESS Northern and Southern Mosaics", "description": "This plot combines the TESS northern and southern mosaics to show the extent of its primary mission survey. The yearlong southern panorama (bottom) was completed in July 2019, and the northern imaging was completed in July 2020. The prominent glowing band is the Milky Way, our galaxy seen edgewise. The ecliptic – the plane of Earth's orbit and the apparent yearly path of the Sun through the stars – runs straight across the middle of the map. Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Ethan Kruse (USRA) || TESS_North-South_Mollweide_Ecliptic_15k.jpg (15000x7500) [40.4 MB] || TESS_North-South_Mollweide_Ecliptic_1080.jpg (2160x1080) [821.7 KB] || TESS_North-South_Mollweide_Ecliptic_7k.jpg (7500x3750) [9.9 MB] || TESS_North-South_Mollweide_Ecliptic_1080_print.jpg (1024x512) [146.3 KB] || TESS_North-South_Mollweide_Ecliptic_1080_searchweb.png (320x180) [66.5 KB] || TESS_North-South_Mollweide_Ecliptic_1080_thm.png (80x40) [7.2 KB] || TESS_North-South_Mollweide_Ecliptic_30k.png (30000x15000) [135.8 MB] || ", "hits": 88 }, { "id": 13696, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13696/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-08-25T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Young Active Galaxy with ‘TIE Fighter’ Shape", "description": "This illustration shows two views of the active galaxy TXS 0128+554, located around 500 million light-years away. Left: The galaxy’s central jets appear as they would if we viewed them both at the same angle. The black hole, embedded in a disk of dust and gas, launches a pair of particle jets traveling at nearly the speed of light. Scientists think gamma rays (magenta) detected by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope originate from the base of these jets. As the jets collide with material surrounding the galaxy, they form identical lobes seen at radio wavelengths (orange). The jets experienced two distinct bouts of activity, which created the gap between the lobes and the black hole. Right: The galaxy appears in its actual orientation, with its jets tipped out of our line of sight by about 50 degrees.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center || TXS0128_Side-by-Side_FInal.jpg (7680x2160) [1.8 MB] || TXS0128_Side-by-Side_FInal_Half.jpg (3840x1080) [601.5 KB] || TXS0128_Side-by-Side_FInal_print.jpg (1024x288) [45.4 KB] || TXS0128_Side-by-Side_FInal.jpg.dzi (7680x2160) [178 bytes] || TXS0128_Side-by-Side_FInal.jpg_files (1x1) [4.0 KB] || ", "hits": 83 }, { "id": 13605, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13605/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-05-13T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "TESS Aids Breakthrough in Puzzling Stellar Flashes", "description": "Watch the pulsations of a Delta Scuti star! In this illustration, the star changes in brightness when internal sound waves at different frequencies cause parts of the star to expand and contract. In one pattern, the whole star expands and contracts, while in a second, opposite hemispheres swell and shrink out of sync. In reality, a single star exhibits many pulsation patterns that can tell astronomers about its age, composition and internal structure. The exact light variations astronomers observe also depend on how the star's spin axis angles toward us. Delta Scuti stars spin so rapidly they flatten into ovals, which jumbles these signals and makes them harder to decode. Now, thanks to NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, astronomers are deciphering some of them.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel. || Exterior_still.jpg (1920x1080) [460.3 KB] || 13605_Delta_Scuti_Pulsation_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [523.3 MB] || 13605_Delta_Scuti_Pulsation.mp4 (1920x1080) [36.1 MB] || 13605_Delta_Scuti_Pulsation.webm (1920x1080) [3.6 MB] || ", "hits": 68 }, { "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": 493 }, { "id": 13240, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13240/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-12T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA’s NICER Sizes Up a Pulsar, Reveals First-ever Surface Map", "description": "Watch how NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) has expanded our understanding of pulsars, the dense, spinning corpses of exploded stars. Pulsar J0030+0451 (J0030 for short), located 1,100 light-years away in the constellation Pisces, now has the most precise and reliable measurements of both a pulsar’s mass and size to date. The shapes and locations of its hot spots challenge textbook depictions of these incredible objects. Music: \"Uncertain Ahead\" and \"Flowing Cityscape\" (underscore). Both from Universal Production MusicCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Two_NS_Model_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [308.5 KB] || Two_NS_Model_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [140.4 KB] || Two_NS_Model_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [87.0 KB] || Two_NS_Model_Still_thm.png (80x40) [8.0 KB] || 13240_NICER_J0030_MassRadius_1080.webm (1920x1080) [33.5 MB] || 13240_NICER_J0030_MassRadius_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [301.1 MB] || 13240_NICER_J0030_MassRadius_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [804.5 MB] || 13240_NICER_J0030_MassRadius_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [5.9 KB] || 13240_NICER_J0030_MassRadius_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [5.9 KB] || 13240_NICER_J0030_MassRadius_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.9 GB] || ", "hits": 172 }, { "id": 13326, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13326/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-09-25T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Black Hole Accretion Disk Visualization", "description": "This movie shows a complete revolution around a simulated black hole and its accretion disk following a path that is perpendicular to the disk. The black hole’s extreme gravitational field redirects and distorts light coming from different parts of the disk, but exactly what we see depends on our viewing angle. The greatest distortion occurs when viewing the system nearly edgewise. As our viewpoint rotates around the black hole, we see different parts of the fast-moving gas in the accretion disk moving directly toward us. Due to a phenomenon called \"relativistic Doppler beaming,\" gas in the disk that's moving toward us makes that side of the disk appear brighter, the opposite side darker. This effect disappears when we're directly above or below the disk because, from that angle, none of the gas is moving directly toward us.When our viewpoint passes beneath the disk, it looks like the gas is moving in the opposite direction. This is no different that viewing a clock from behind, which would make it look like the hands are moving counter-clockwise.CORRECTION: In earlier versions of the 360-degree movies on this page, these important effects were not apparent. This was due to a minor mistake in orienting the camera relative to the disk. The fact that it was not initially discovered by the NASA scientist who made the movie reflects just how bizarre and counter-intuitive black holes can be! Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k_Prores.00001_print.jpg (1024x1024) [33.2 KB] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k_Prores.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [17.0 KB] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k_Prores.00001_thm.png (80x40) [1.9 KB] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_1080.mp4 (1080x1080) [19.0 MB] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_1080.webm (1080x1080) [2.8 MB] || 360 (3840x3840) [0 Item(s)] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k.mp4 (3840x3840) [119.2 MB] || BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k_Prores.mov (3840x3840) [1020.1 MB] || ", "hits": 2507 }, { "id": 13239, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13239/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-09-24T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Zoom In on Galaxy M87", "description": "This movie zooms into galaxy M87 using real visible light, X-ray and radio pictures of the galaxy, its jet of high-speed particles, and the shadow of its central black hole. || ", "hits": 130 }, { "id": 13061, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13061/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-03-04T11:50:00-05:00", "title": "Hubble Treasure Trove Sonification", "description": "Space becomes “sonified” in this visualization of a cluster of galaxies imaged by Hubble. Time flows left to right, and the frequency of sound changes from bottom to top, ranging from 30 to 1,000 hertz. Objects near the bottom of the image produce lower notes, while those near the top produce higher ones. Most of the visible specks are galaxies housing countless stars. A few individual stars shine brightly in the foreground. Stars and compact galaxies create short, clear tones, while sprawling spiral galaxies emit longer notes that change pitch. The higher density of galaxies near the center of the image — the heart of this galaxy cluster, known as RXC J0142.9+4438 — results in a swell of mid-range tones halfway through the video. Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3 acquired this image on Aug. 13, 2018. Read more about it here.Credit: NASA/Hubble/SYSTEM Sounds (Matt Russo, Andrew Santaguida)Complete transcript available. || Hubble_Treasure_Aug._21_No_Logo.00450_print.jpg (1024x576) [57.8 KB] || Hubble_Treasure_Aug._21_No_Logo.00450_searchweb.png (320x180) [49.8 KB] || Hubble_Treasure_Aug._21_No_Logo.00450_thm.png (80x40) [3.9 KB] || Hubble_Treasure_Aug_21_No_Logo.mov (1920x1080) [26.4 MB] || Hubble_Treasure_Aug_21_No_Logo.mp4 (1920x1080) [40.5 MB] || Hubble_Treasure_Aug_21_No_Logo.webm (1920x1080) [4.1 MB] || Hubble_Treasure_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [243 bytes] || Hubble_Treasure_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [241 bytes] || ", "hits": 136 }, { "id": 12853, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12853/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-01-07T17:15:00-05:00", "title": "TESS Rounds Up its First Planets, Snares Far-flung Supernovae", "description": "This visualization shows TESS's first field image and information about three early exoplanet detections. The locations of Pi Mensae c, LHS 3844b, and HD21749b appear, as well as information about the systems and animations of what the planets might look like. || TESS_First_Planets_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [174.7 KB] || TESS_First_Planets_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [2.1 MB] || TESS_First_Planets_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [92.2 KB] || TESS_First_Planets_Still_thm.png (80x40) [6.5 KB] || TESS_First_Planet_Locations-1080p.mov (1920x1080) [90.9 MB] || TESS_First_Planet_Locations-1080p.webm (1920x1080) [5.8 MB] || TESS_First_Planet_Locations-4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [114.1 MB] || TESS_First_Planet_Locations-4K.mov (3840x2160) [118.8 MB] || TESS_First_Planet_Locations_ProRes_3840x2160.mov (3840x2160) [3.4 GB] || TESS_First_Planet_Locations-4k.hwshow [490 bytes] || ", "hits": 137 }, { "id": 4637, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4637/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2018-10-10T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Pulsars and their Magnetic Field - Vacuum solution", "description": "This movie presents a basic tour around the vacuum magnetic field solution. 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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": 271 }, { "id": 13086, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13086/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-10-02T10:50:00-04:00", "title": "Supermassive Black Hole Binary Simulation Visualizations in 4k", "description": "Simulation of the light emitted by a supermassive black hole binary system where the surrounding gas is optically thin (transparent). 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They include gravitational waves (pale arcs), a near-light-speed jet that produced gamma rays (magenta), expanding debris from a kilonova that produced ultraviolet (violet), optical and infrared (blue-white to red) emission, and, once the jet directed toward us expanded into our view from Earth, X-rays (blue). 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It will perform a microlensing survey of the inner Milky Way to find ~2,600 exoplanets. || ", "hits": 167 }, { "id": 4470, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4470/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2016-09-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "WFIRST: The Road to L2", "description": "This visualization follows the WFIRST telescope on its trajectory to the Sun-Earth Lagrange Two point. || WFIRST.path2L2.relative_RigRHS.HD1080i.1400_print.jpg (1024x576) [92.9 KB] || WFIRST.path2L2.relative_RigRHS.HD1080i.1400_searchweb.png (180x320) [60.8 KB] || WFIRST.path2L2.relative_RigRHS.HD1080i.1400_thm.png (80x40) [3.2 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || WFIRST.path2L2.relative.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [50.6 MB] || WFIRST.path2L2.relative.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [6.0 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || WFIRST.path2L2.relative.UHD2160_p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [178.1 MB] || WFIRST.path2L2.relative.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [201 bytes] || ", "hits": 104 }, { "id": 4471, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4471/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2016-09-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "WFIRST: The Road to L2. 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Oblique view", "description": "This visualization views the WFIRST trajectory to Sun-Earth Lagrange Two point from above the ecliptic plane. || WFIRST.oblique.relative_RigRHS.HD1080i.1500_print.jpg (1024x576) [115.7 KB] || WFIRST.oblique.relative_RigRHS.HD1080i.1500_searchweb.png (320x180) [70.4 KB] || WFIRST.oblique.relative_RigRHS.HD1080i.1500_thm.png (80x40) [4.2 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || WFIRST.oblique.relative.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [8.4 MB] || WFIRST.oblique.relative.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [112.2 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || WFIRST.oblique.relative.UHD2160_p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [357.3 MB] || WFIRST.oblique.relative.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [201 bytes] || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 12101, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12101/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-01-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Hyperwall--2016 AAS Technical", "description": "Upresed 5760x3240 animation of the Fermi spacecraft.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab || frame-000020_print.jpg (1024x576) [147.2 KB] || Fermi_Beauty_EarthandStars_1080p.webm (1920x1080) [1.4 MB] || Fermi_Beauty_EarthandStars_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [25.4 MB] || FermiBeautyDraft (5760x3240) [0 Item(s)] || Fermi_Beauty_EarthandStars_4k.mov (4096x2304) [47.9 MB] || Fermi_Beauty_EarthandStars_4k_ProRes.mov (5760x3240) [808.7 MB] || ", "hits": 80 }, { "id": 12102, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12102/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-01-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Hyperwall--2016 AAS, A Walk Through Fermi Science", "description": "3x3 hyperwall-resolution image of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with instruments labeled.Credit: NASA/JIm Grossmann || Fermi_Hyperwall_2_2_Instruments_5760_print.jpg (1024x576) [86.4 KB] || Fermi_Hyperwall_2_2_Instruments_5760.png (5760x3240) [32.3 MB] || fermi-2-2-Instruments.hwshow [294 bytes] || For additional Fermi hyperwall visuals please check the second hyperwall page || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 11947, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11947/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-07-10T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Spots a Record Flare from Blazar 3C 279", "description": "This visualization shows gamma rays detected during 3C 279's big flare by the LAT instrument on NASA's Fermi satellite. The flare is an abrupt shower of \"rain\" that trails off toward the end of the movie. Gamma rays are represented as expanding circles reminiscent of raindrops on water. Both the maximum size of the circle and its color represent the energy of the gamma ray, with white lowest and magenta highest. The highest-energy gamma ray the LAT detected during this flare, 52 billion electron volts, arrives near the end. In a second version of the visualization, a background map shows how the LAT detects 3C 279 and other sources by accumulating high-energy photons over time (brighter squares reflect higher numbers of gamma rays). The movie starts on June 14 and ends June 17. The area shown is a region of the sky five degrees on a side and centered on the position of 3C 279.  Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT CollaborationWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here. || Fermi_Rain_Still2.jpg (1920x1080) [144.1 KB] || Fermi_Rain_Still2_print.jpg (1024x576) [51.2 KB] || Fermi_Rain_Still2_searchweb.png (320x180) [24.0 KB] || Fermi_Rain_Still2_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || Fermi_GammaRay_Rain_Final_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [81.8 MB] || WMV_Fermi_GammaRay_Rain_Final_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [24.3 MB] || APPLE_TV_Fermi_GammaRay_Rain_Final_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [39.3 MB] || YOUTUBE_HQ_Fermi_GammaRay_Rain_Final_youtube_hq.webm (1280x720) [8.5 MB] || APPLE_TV_Fermi_GammaRay_Rain_Final_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [39.3 MB] || Fermi_GammaRay_Rain_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [110.6 MB] || Fermi_GammaRay_Rain_Final_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [530.3 MB] || Fermi_GammaRay_Rain_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [415 bytes] || Fermi_GammaRay_Rain_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [428 bytes] || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 4317, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4317/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-06-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Exoplanet Disks In Formation", "description": "This visualization provides a full 360-degree rotating tour of the disk, face-on to edge-on and back. || NesvoldDiskMergeOrtho.brightness_orbit.0000_print.jpg (1024x576) [108.8 KB] || NesvoldDiskMergeOrtho.brightness_orbit.0000_searchweb.png (320x180) [41.0 KB] || NesvoldDiskMergeOrtho.brightness_orbit.0000_thm.png (80x40) [3.1 KB] || OrbitDisk (1920x1080) [64.0 KB] || NesvoldDiskMergeOrtho_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [24.0 MB] || NesvoldDiskMergeOrtho_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [2.2 MB] || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 4183, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4183/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-06-23T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Capturing Dark Matter with Black Holes", "description": "In this visualization, we plot the trajectories of random-distribution of hypothesized dark matter particles around a maximally-rotating black hole. The particles captured by the hole are seen collecting around the event horizon in the center, the particles experiencing stronger and stronger redshift, respresented by the stronger red coloration of the particle trail.The ergosphere is represented by the bluish oblate spheroid shape around the spherical event horizon. Inside the ergosphere, the distortion of space is so strong that particles must be deflected and carried with the rotation of the black hole. Hence, while the particles are traveling all different directions far from the black hole, we see them carried in the same direction close to the event horizon. || ", "hits": 330 }, { "id": 11894, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11894/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-06-23T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Turning Black Holes into Dark Matter Labs", "description": "This video introduces a new computer simulation exploring the connection between two of the most elusive phenomena in the universe, black holes and dark matter. In the visualization, dark matter particles are gray spheres attached to shaded trails representing their motion. Redder trails indicate particles more strongly affected by the black hole's gravitation and closer to its event horizon (black sphere at center, mostly hidden by trails). The ergosphere, where all matter and light must follow the black hole's spin, is shown in teal. Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterFor complete transcript, click here. || DMBH_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [555.7 KB] || 11894_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_H264_Good_1920x1080_2997.webm (1920x1080) [25.0 MB] || 11894_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [3.1 GB] || 11894_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_MPEG4_1920X1080_2997.mp4 (1920x1080) [135.4 MB] || 11894_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_H264_Best_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.1 GB] || 11894_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_H264_Good_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [356.2 MB] || G2015-040_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_appletv.m4v (960x540) [93.0 MB] || G2015-040_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [103.5 MB] || G2015-040_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_appletv_subtitles.m4v (960x540) [92.9 MB] || G2015-040_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [37.6 MB] || 11894_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_SRT_Captions.en_us.en_US.srt [4.2 KB] || 11894_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_SRT_Captions.en_us.en_US.vtt [4.2 KB] || G2015-040_Dark_Matter_Black_Hole_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [20.1 MB] || ", "hits": 286 }, { "id": 11513, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11513/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-04-03T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Hints at Dark Matter", "description": "Using public data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, independent scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Harvard University, MIT and the University of Chicago have developed new maps showing that the galactic center produces more high-energy gamma rays than can be explained by known sources and that this excess emission is consistent with some forms of dark matter. No one knows the true nature of dark matter, but WIMPs, or Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, represent a leading class of candidates. Theorists have envisioned a wide range of WIMP types, some of which may either mutually annihilate or produce an intermediate, quickly decaying particle when they collide. Both of these pathways end with the production of gamma rays — the most energetic form of light — at energies within the detection range of Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT).The galactic center teems with gamma-ray sources, from interacting binary systems and isolated pulsars to supernova remnants and particles colliding with interstellar gas. It's also where astronomers expect to find the galaxy's highest density of dark matter, which only affects normal matter and radiation through its gravity. Large amounts of dark matter attract normal matter, forming a foundation upon which visible structures, like galaxies, are built. When the astronomers carefully subtract all known gamma-ray sources from LAT observations of the galactic center, a patch of leftover emission remains. This excess appears most prominent at energies between 1 and 3 billion electron volts (GeV) — roughly a billion times greater than that of visible light — and extends outward at least 5,000 light-years from the galactic center. The researchers find these features difficult to reconcile with other explanations proposed, such as undiscovered pulsars. The gamma-ray spectrum of the excess, its symmetry around the galactic center and its overall brightness, is, however, consistent with annihilations of dark matter particles in the mass range of 31 and 40 GeV. The scientists note that discoveries in other astronomical objects, such as dwarf galaxies, and experiments on Earth designed to directly detect dark matter particles will be needed to confirm this interpretation. For more information: Fermi Data Tantalize With New Clues To Dark Matter || ", "hits": 102 }, { "id": 11118, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11118/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-01-08T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Swift Catches X-ray Activity at the Galaxy's Center", "description": "A seven-year campaign to monitor the center of our galaxy with NASA's Swift spacecraft has provided astronomers with a unique bounty, more than doubling the number of bright X-ray flares observed from our galaxy's central black hole and leading to the discovery of a rare type of neutron star.The innermost region of our galaxy lies 26,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. At the center of it all lurks Sgr A* (pronounced \"saj a-star\"), a behemoth black hole containing 4 million times the sun's mass.Sgr A* regularly produces bright X-ray flares today, but astronomers know it was much more active in the past. To better understand its long-term behavior, the Swift team began regular observations of the galactic center in February 2006. Every few days, the spacecraft turns toward the inmost galaxy and takes a 17-minute-long \"snapshot\" with its X-Ray Telescope (XRT). Swift's XRT has now detected six bright flares, during which the black hole's X-ray emission brightened by up to 150 times for a couple of hours. These new detections, in addition to four found by other spacecraft, enabled astronomers to estimate that similar flares occur every five to 10 days. The Swift XRT team is on the lookout for the first sign that a small cold gas cloud named G2, which is swinging near Sgr A*, has begun emitting X-rays. This is expected to start sometime in spring 2014. The event will unfold for years and may fuel strong activity from the monster black hole. The monitoring campaign has already yielded one important discovery: SGR J1745-29, an object called a magnetar. This subclass of neutron star has a magnetic field thousands of times stronger than normal; so far, only 26 magnetars are known. A magnetar orbiting Sgr A* may allow scientists to explore important properties of the black hole and test predictions of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. || ", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 4098, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4098/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-09-24T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Chasing Comet ISON", "description": "Comet ISON approaches the inner solar system having just passed the orbit of Jupiter. It passes very close to Mars in early October 2013 before dipping below the ecliptic on its way towards perihelion on November 28, 2013. Comet ISON will make its closest pass to the Earth in January 2014 when it should be visible in the northern hemisphere.In these movies, the cameras chase the comet from two different points of view. || ", "hits": 43 }, { "id": 11293, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11293/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-06-03T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Swift Provides the Best-Ever UV View of the Nearest Galaxies", "description": "Astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pa., have used NASA's Swift satellite to create the most detailed surveys of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two closest major galaxies, in ultraviolet light.Thousands of images were assembled into seamless portraits of the main body of each galaxy to produce the highest-resolution surveys of the Magellanic Clouds at ultraviolet wavelengths. The project was proposed by Stefan Immler, an astronomer at Goddard.The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, or LMC and SMC for short, lie about 163,000 and 200,000 light-years away, respectively, and orbit each other as well as our own Milky Way galaxy. Compared to the Milky Way, the LMC has about one-tenth its physical size and only 1 percent of its mass. The SMC is only half the size of the LMC and contains about two-thirds of its mass. The new images reveal about a million ultraviolet sources within the LMC and about 250,000 in the SMC. Viewing in the ultraviolet allows astronomers to suppress the light of normal stars like the sun, which are not very bright at these higher energies, and provide a clearer picture of the hottest stars and star-formation regions. Only Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope, or UVOT, is capable of producing such high-resolution wide-field multi-color surveys in the ultraviolet. The LMC and SMC images range from 1,600 to 3,300 angstroms, UV wavelengths largely blocked by Earth's atmosphere. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are readily visible from the Southern Hemisphere as faint, glowing patches in the night sky. The galaxies are named after Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese explorer who in 1519 led an expedition to sail around the world. He and his crew were among the first Europeans to sight the objects.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 160 }, { "id": 4017, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4017/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-03-29T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Comet ISON Approaches Perihelion", "description": "Currently located beyond the orbit of Jupiter, Comet ISON is heading for a very close encounter with the sun next year. In November 2013, it will pass less than 0.012 Astronomical Units (Wikipedia) (1.8 million kilometers) from the center of the Sun, 1.2 million kilometers from the solar surface. The fierce heating it experiences in that approach could turn the comet into a bright naked-eye object.NOTE: This visualization was revised in March 2013 to fix an ephemeris error. Other enhancements were included in the revision. Also fixed an error where perihelion distance was mistakenly labeled as distance from solar surface. || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 11222, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11222/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-03-29T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Path of Comet ISON", "description": "Comet C/2012 S1, better known as comet ISON, may become a dazzling sight as it traverses the inner solar system in late 2013. During the weeks before its Nov. 28 close approach to the sun, the comet will be observable with small telescopes, and binoculars. Observatories around the world and in space will track the comet during its fiery trek around the sun. If ISON survives its searing solar passage, which seems likely but is not certain, the comet may be visible to the unaided eye in the pre-dawn sky during December.Watch the animations on this page to visualize ISON's voyage through the inner solar system, or build the paper model of its orbit to track the changing positions of Earth and the comet.Like all comets, ISON is a clump of frozen gases mixed with dust. Often described as \"dirty snowballs,\" comets emit gas and dust whenever they venture near enough to the sun that the icy material transforms from a solid to gas, a process called sublimation. Jets powered by sublimating ice also release dust, which reflects sunlight and brightens the comet. On Nov. 28, ISON will make a sweltering passage around the sun. The comet will approach within about 730,000 miles (1.2 million km) of its visible surface, which classifies ISON as a sungrazing comet. In late November, its icy material will furiously sublimate and release torrents of dust as the surface erodes under the sun's fierce heat, all as sun-monitoring satellites look on. Around this time, the comet may become bright enough to glimpse just by holding up a hand to block the sun's glare.Sungrazing comets often shed large fragments or even completely disrupt following close encounters with the sun, but for ISON neither fate is a forgone conclusion.Following ISON's solar swingby, the comet will depart the sun and move toward Earth, appearing in morning twilight through December. The comet will swing past Earth on Dec. 26, approaching within 39.9 million miles (64.2 million km) or about 167 times farther than the moon.The comet was discovered on Sept 21, 2012, by Russian astronomers Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok using a telescope of the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) located near Kislovodsk.Learn more about sungrazing comets. || ", "hits": 180 }, { "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": 49 }, { "id": 3959, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3959/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-09-27T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "RXTE Views X-ray Pulsar Occulted by the Moon", "description": "On Oct. 13, 2010, NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), a satellite in low-Earth orbit, observed a bursting X-ray pulsar as it was eclipsed by the Moon. This provided scientists with an unusual opportunity to calculate the precise position of the pulsar by timing its disappearance and reappearance at the edge of the Moon's disk.The story began a few days earlier, on Oct. 10, when the European Space Agency's INTEGRAL satellite detected a transient X-ray source in the direction of Terzan 5, a globular star cluster about 25,000 light-years away toward the constellation Sagittarius. This was the start of an extradordinary series of outbursts that ended Nov. 19. The object, dubbed IGR J17480-2446, is classed as a low-mass X-ray binary system, where a neutron star orbits a star much like the Sun and draws a stream of matter from it. As only the second bright X-ray source to be found in Terzan 5, scientists shortened the name of the system to T5X2. As shown in this animation, ingress (the moment when the pulsar disappeared) occurred on the Moon's eastern limb just above the equator. Egress, 8 minutes 32 seconds later, was near the south pole on the western limb. The timing of ingress and egress depended delicately on the shape of the terrain. In other words, it mattered whether the pulsar passed behind a mountain or a valley. So the calculation relied on the detailed topography measured by both JAXA's Kaguya and NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.The animation faithfully reproduces the angle of the Sun, the position of RXTE, the position and orientation of the Moon as seen from the satellite, the Moon's topography, and the starry background. RXTE's position was derived from the Goddard Flight Dynamics Facility ephemeris for day 6129 of the satellite's orbit, while the Sun and Moon positions came from JPL's DE421 solar system ephemeris. All of the positions and the viewing direction were transformed into Moon body-fixed coordinates, so that in the animation software, the Moon remained stationary at the origin, while the camera moved and pointed appropriately. The Moon, the stars, the pulsar, and the clock were all rendered separately and layered together. || ", "hits": 147 }, { "id": 10878, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10878/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-28T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Gamma rays in the Heart of Cygnus", "description": "Located in the vicinity of the second-magnitude star Gamma Cygni, the Cygnus X star-forming region was discovered as a diffuse radio source by surveys in the 1950s. Now, a study using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope finds that the tumult of star birth and death in Cygnus X has managed to corral fast-moving particles called cosmic rays.Cosmic rays are subatomic particles — mainly protons — that move through space at nearly the speed of light. In their journey across the galaxy, the particles are deflected by magnetic fields, which scramble their paths and make it impossible to backtrack the particles to their sources. Yet when cosmic rays collide with interstellar gas, they produce gamma rays — the most energetic and penetrating form of light — that travel to us straight from the source.The Cygnus X star factory is located about 4,500 light-years away and is believed to contain enough raw material to make two million stars like our sun. Within it are many young star clusters and several sprawling groups of related O- and B-type stars, called OB associations. One, called Cygnus OB2, contains 65 O stars — the most massive, luminous and hottest type — and nearly 500 B stars. These massive stars possess intense outflows that clear out cavities in the region's gas clouds. A tangled web of shockwaves associated with this process impedes the movement of cosmic rays throughout the region. Cosmic rays striking gas nuclei or photons from starlight produce the gamma rays Fermi detects.The release on NASA.gov is here. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 10858, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10858/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-03T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Discovers Youngest Millisecond Pulsar", "description": "An international team of scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a surprisingly powerful millisecond pulsar that challenges existing theories about how these objects form. At the same time, another team has exploited improved analytical techniques to locate nine new gamma-ray pulsars in Fermi data.A pulsar, also called a neutron star, is the closest thing to a black hole astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times more mass than Earth into a sphere no larger than a city. This matter is so compressed that even a teaspoonful weighs as much as Mount Everest.Typically, millisecond pulsars are a billion years or more old, ages commensurate with a stellar lifetime. But in the Nov. 3 issue of Science, the Fermi team reveals a bright, energetic millisecond pulsar only 25 million years old.The object, named PSR J1823—3021A, lies within NGC 6624, a spherical assemblage of ancient stars called a globular cluster, one of about 160 similar objects that orbit our galaxy. The cluster is about 10 billion years old and lies about 27,000 light-years away toward the constellation Sagittarius.\"With this new batch of pulsars, Fermi now has detected more than 100, which is an exciting milestone when you consider that before Fermi's launch only seven of them were known to emit gamma rays,\" said Pablo Saz Parkinson, an astrophysicist at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California Santa Cruz. || ", "hits": 168 }, { "id": 10819, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10819/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-09-09T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi's Latest Gamma-ray Census Highlights Cosmic Mysteries", "description": "Every three hours, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope scans the entire sky and deepens its portrait of the high-energy universe. Every year, the satellite's scientists reanalyze all of the data it has collected, exploiting updated analysis methods to tease out new sources. These relatively steady sources are in addition to the numerous transient events Fermi detects, such as gamma-ray bursts in the distant universe and flares from the sun.Earlier this year, the Fermi team released its second catalog of sources detected by the satellite's Large Area Telescope (LAT), producing an inventory of 1,873 objects shining with the highest-energy form of light. More than half of these sources are active galaxies whose supermassive black hole centers are causing the gamma-ray emissions. || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 10770, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10770/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-05-20T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Radio Telescopes Capture Best-Ever Snapshot of a Black Hole's Jets", "description": "Centaurus A is a giant elliptical active galaxy 12 million light years away. Radio and X-ray images reveal features associated with jets emanating from near the galaxy's central supermassive black hole, which has a mass of 55 million suns. Now, the TANAMI project has provided the best-ever view of these jets. In the radio image of the galaxy's core, the black hole is invisible but the jets show in great detail. Features as small as 15 light-days across can be resolved. The powerful jets feed vast lobes of radio-emitting gas that reach far beyond the visible galaxy. || ", "hits": 87 }, { "id": 10776, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10776/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-05-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb Mirror Size Comparison with Hubble Animation", "description": "Animation comparing the relative sizes of James Webb's primary mirror to Hubble's primary mirror. || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 10767, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10767/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-05-11T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Fermi Spots 'Superflares' in the Crab Nebula", "description": "The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any previously seen from the object. The outburst was first detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on April 12 and lasted six days.The nebula, which is the wreckage of an exploded star whose light reached Earth in 1054, is one of the most studied objects in the sky. At the heart of an expanding gas cloud lies what's left of the original star's core, a superdense neutron star that spins 30 times a second. With each rotation, the star swings intense beams of radiation toward Earth, creating the pulsed emission characteristic of spinning neutron stars (also known as pulsars). Apart from these pulses, astrophysicists regarded the Crab Nebula to be a virtually constant source of high-energy radiation. But in January, scientists associated with several orbiting observatories — including NASA's Fermi, Swift and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer — reported long-term brightness changes at X-ray energies.Scientists think that the flares occur as the intense magnetic field near the pulsar undergoes sudden restructuring. Such changes can accelerate particles like electrons to velocities near the speed of light. As these high-speed electrons interact with the magnetic field, they emit gamma rays in a process known as synchrotron emission.To account for the observed emission, scientists say that the electrons must have energies 100 times greater than can be achieved in any particle accelerator on Earth. This makes them the highest-energy electrons known to be associated with any cosmic source.Based on the rise and fall of gamma rays during the April outbursts, scientists estimate that the size of the emitting region must be comparable in size to the solar system. If circular, the region must be smaller than roughly twice Pluto's average distance from the sun.For more Crab Nebula media go to #10708. || ", "hits": 115 }, { "id": 3747, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3747/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-01-10T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "Terrestrial Gamma Flashes (TGFs) from Fermi with Static Earth", "description": "In this visualization, we plot the timing and locations of terrestrial gamma flashes (TGFs) observed by the Gamma Ray Burst Monitor aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray observatory.One version of the map includes the global lightning probability (the light blue glow overlaying the global map) which varies with season. We see that TGFs are roughly correlated with lightning probability. || ", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 3748, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3748/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-01-10T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "Terrestrial Gamma Flashes (TGFs) from Fermi with Seasonal Earth", "description": "In this visualization, we plot the timing and locations of terrestrial gamma flashes (TGFs) observed by the Gamma Ray Burst Monitor aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray observatory.This version of the map includes the global lightning probability (the light blue glow overlaying the global map) which varies with season. The Earth's surface also illustrates some seasonal variations. We see that TGFs are roughly correlated with lightning probability, and the lightning probability correlated with seaons. There is more lightning in the summer season. || ", "hits": 50 }, { "id": 3702, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3702/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-04-19T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Swift Detects its 500th Gamma Ray Burst", "description": "The NASA Swift mission has detected 500 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) to-date.This movie is presented as an all-sky map in a Hammer projection (Wikipedia). Each burst lights on the appropriate date and then fades to a green dot to emphasize the random distribution of GRBs on the sky.Another version of this visualization is available at Swift's 500 Gamma-ray Bursts. || ", "hits": 49 }, { "id": 10580, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10580/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-03-10T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Dark Flow", "description": "Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. A new study led by Alexander Kashlinsky at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., tracks this collective motion — dubbed the \"dark flow\" — to twice the distance originally reported, out to more than 2.5 billion light-years. The study used a new technique to determine the motion of X-ray-emitting galaxy clusters. The clusters appear to be moving along a line extending from our solar system toward Centaurus/Hydra, but the direction of this motion is less certain. Evidence indicates that the clusters are headed outward along this path, away from Earth, but the team cannot yet rule out the opposite flow. The video shows the team's catalog of galaxy clusters separated into four \"slices\" representing different distance ranges. A colored ellipse shows the flow axis for the clusters within each slice. While the size and exact position of the ellipses vary, the overall trends show remarkable agreement. The video includes images of representative clusters in each distance slice. The dark flow is controversial because the distribution of matter in the observed universe cannot account for it. Its existence suggests that some structure beyond the visible universe — outside our \"horizon\" — is pulling on matter in our vicinity. || ", "hits": 235 }, { "id": 10566, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10566/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-02-13T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Explores Supernova Remnants", "description": "Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) resolved gamma rays with energies a billion times greater than that of visible light from supernova remnants of different ages and in different environments. W51C, W44 and IC 443 are middle-aged remnants between 4,000 and 30,000 years old. The youngest remnant, Cassiopeia A, is only 330 years old and appears to the LAT as a point source. The images bring astronomers a step closer to understanding the source of some of the universe's most energetic particles — cosmic rays. The emissions are likely the result of accelerated protons interacting with nearby gas clouds, but other possibilities have not been eliminated. Astrophysicists believe that supernova remnants are the galaxy's best candidate sites for cosmic-ray acceleration. These observations provide further validation to the notion that supernova remnants act as enormous accelerators for cosmic particles. || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 10561, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10561/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-01-27T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Central Engine Supernova", "description": "In March 2009, NASA's Swift observed the supernova SN 2009bb in the spiral galaxy NGC 3278. The explosion is apparent in visible light, but not at ultraviolet and X-ray energies, and satellites recorded no gamma-ray burst. Nevertheless, particle jets reaching 85 percent the speed of light accompanied the explosion. Astronomers believe these jets are powered by a \"central engine\" — likely a newborn black hole at the star's center, a scenario that also fits most gamma-ray bursts. || ", "hits": 117 }, { "id": 10540, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10540/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-12-09T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Brightest-ever Flare From Blazar 3C 454.3", "description": "The blazar 3C 454.3, which lies 7.2 billion light-years away in the constellation Pegasus, underwent a series of intense flares in the fall of 2009. By December, it had become the brightest persistent gamma-ray source in the sky — more than ten times brighter than it was in the summer. These all-sky images, which record the numbers of high-energy gamma-rays captured by Fermi's Large Area Telescope on Dec. 3 and Nov. 18, clearly show the change. Typically, the Vela pulsar, which lies only 1,000 light-years away, is the sky's brightest persistent source of gamma rays. Blazar 3C 454.3, which is millions of times farther away, rose to twice Vela's brightness. Astronomers suspect the activity is driven by some change within the galaxy's black-hole-powered particle jet, but they do not understand the details. || ", "hits": 50 }, { "id": 10505, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10505/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-28T01:45:00-04:00", "title": "Blazars at Galactic North Pole, Seen in Fermi's First Year of Observations", "description": "Fermi has detected more than 1,000 gamma-ray sources. Half are associated with active galaxies called blazars. This movie shows one year of blazar activity, starting on Aug. 4, 2008, around the galactic north pole. This region includes the constellations Ursa Major, Virgo, Leo, Boötes, and Coma Berenices. || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 10508, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10508/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-28T01:45:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi All-Sky First Year Progress", "description": "This view of the gamma-ray sky constructed from one year of Fermi LAT observations is the best view of the extreme universe to date. The map shows the rate at which the LAT detects gamma rays with energies above 300 million electron volts — about 120 million times the energy of visible light — from different sky directions. Brighter colors equal higher rates. || ", "hits": 80 }, { "id": 10426, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10426/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-07-02T13:50:00-04:00", "title": "Vela Pulsar in Gamma Rays", "description": "This movie shows pulsed gamma rays from the Vela pulsar as constructed from photons detected by Fermi's Large Area Telescope. The Vela pulsar, which spins 11 times a second, is the brightest persistent source of gamma rays in the sky. The movie includes data from August 4 to Sept. 15, 2008. The bluer color in the latter part of the pulse indicates the presence of gamma rays with energies exceeding a billion electron volts (1 GeV). For comparison, visible light has energies between two and three electron volts. Red indicates gamma rays with energies less than 300 million electron volts (MeV); green, gamma rays between 300 MeV and 1 GeV; and blue shows gamma rays greater than 1 GeV. The movie frame is 30 degrees across. The background, which shows diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Milky Way, is about 15 times brighter here than it actually is. || ", "hits": 94 }, { "id": 10407, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10407/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-04-03T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi All-sky Movie Shows Flaring, Fading Blazars", "description": "This all-sky movie shows counts of gamma rays with energies greater than 300 million electron volts from August 4 to October 30, 2008, detected by Fermi's Large Area Telescope. Brighter colors indicate brighter gamma-ray sources. The circles show the northern (left) and southern galactic sky. Their edges lie along the plane of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Because this is an unusual view of the sky, the movies first overlay the stars and establish the locations of well- known constellations: Ursa Major (which includes the Big Dipper), Boötes, and Virgo in the northern galactic map; Cetus, Aries, and Pegasus in the southern galactic map. Notable gamma-ray sources include the sun (moving through the northern sky), the gamma-ray-only pulsar PSR J1836+5925 — a member of a new pulsar class discovered by Fermi — and numerous blazars (active galaxies). The blazars 3C 273, AO 0235+164, and PKS 1502+106 are highlighted. || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 10344, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10344/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi LAT movie of Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) 080916C", "description": "This movie compresses about 8 minutes of Fermi LAT observations of GRB 080916C into 6 seconds. Colored dots represent gamma rays of different energies. Visible light has energy between about 2 and 3 electron volts (eV). The blue dots represent lower-energy gamma rays (less than 100 million eV); green, moderate energies (100 million to 1 billion eV); and red, the highest energies (more than 1 billion eV). || ", "hits": 113 }, { "id": 10366, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10366/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-10T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Soft Gamma-Ray Repeater Light Echoes Captured by Swift Satellite", "description": "The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) aboard NASA's Swift satellite captured light echoes from a soft-gamma-ray repeater. These stellar remnants, which are thought to be highly magnetized neutron stars called magnetars, occasionally belt out a series of X- and gamma-ray flares. On Jan. 22, 2009, an object known as SGR J1550-5418 began its second and most intense round of outbursts since October 2008. In the following days, Swift's XRT captured what appears to be an expanding halo as X-rays from the brightest bursts scatter off of intervening dust. Multiple rings form as the X-rays interact with different dust clouds. Closer clouds produce larger rings. Both the rings and their apparent expansion are an effect of light's finite speed and the longer path the scattered light must travel. They will be studied to make a more reliable measurement of the distance to the source and to the dust clouds. || ", "hits": 43 }, { "id": 3572, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3572/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-01-26T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Tycho Catalog Skymap - Version 2.0", "description": "This image set is a skymap of stars from the Tycho and Hipparcos star catalogs, provided by the ESO/ECF generic catalog server. The maps are plotted in plate carrée projection (Cylindrical-Equidistant) using celestial coordinates making them suitable for mapping onto spheres in many popular animation programs. The stars are plotted as gaussian point-spread functions (PSF) so the size and amplitude of the stars corresponds to their relative intensity. The stars are also elongated in Right Ascension (celestial longitude) based on declination (celestial latitude) so stars in the polar regions will still be round when projected on a sphere. Stars fainter than the threshold magnitude, usually selected as 5th magnitude, have their magnitude-intensity curve adjusted so they appear brighter than they really are. This makes the band of the Milky Way more visible. Stellar colors are assigned based on B and V magnitudes (B and V are stellar magnitudes measured through different filters). If Johnson B and V magnitudes are unavailable, Tycho B and V magnitudes are used instead. From these, an effective stellar temperature is derived using the algorithms described in Flower (ApJ 469, 355 1996). Corrections were noted from Siobahn Morgan (UNI). The effective temperature was then converted to CIE tristimulus X,Y,Z triples assuming a black-body emission distribution. The X,Y,Z values are then converted to red-green-blue color pixels. About 2.4 million stars are plotted, but many may be below the pixel intensity resolution. The three most conspicuously missing objects on these maps are the Andromeda galaxy (M31) and the two Magellanic Clouds. Changes from the first version #3442, The Tycho Catalog Skymap: The star generation algorithm now favors use of the Johnson magnitudes when available. This improves the star colors over the previous method. The star intensity profiles are also slightly modified to make the cores brighter with a faster intensity falloff. We have also set the color standard to SMPTE with a gamma of 1.8.Update: This skymap has been revised. The newer version is available at Deep Star Maps. || ", "hits": 236 }, { "id": 10347, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10347/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "GLAST First Light All Sky Map", "description": "NASA's newest observatory, the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), has begun its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays. The spacecraft and its revolutionary instruments passed their orbital checkout with flying colors. NASA announced today that GLAST has been renamed the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The new name honors Prof. Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954), a pioneer in high-energy physics. Scientists expect Fermi will discover many new pulsars in our own galaxy, reveal powerful processes near supermassive black holes at the cores of thousands of active galaxies across, and enable a search for signs of new physical laws. || ", "hits": 126 }, { "id": 10120, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10120/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2007-07-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Comparison of Hubble's Instruments", "description": "This visualization compares the relative fields of view of three of the Hubble Space Telescope's instruments: ACS, WFC3, and NICMOS. Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutioned astronomy by providing unprecedented views of the Universe. Hubble's spectral range extends from teh ultraviolet, through the visible, to the near-infrared. NASA will fly a servicing mission (SM4) in 2008 to bring two new science instruments to Hubble - the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and the Wide Field Camera 3. New gyros and batteries will extend Hubble's life through 2013. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 10123, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10123/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2007-07-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "WMAP's Portrait of the Early Universe", "description": "Scientists using NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy Probe (WMAP) have created the most detailed portrait of the infant Universe. By capturing the afterglow of the Big Bang, called the cosmic microwave background (CMB), we now believe the Universe to be 13.7 billion years old. Encoded in these patterns is much—anticipated information about the fundamental properties of the early Universe. WMAP launched on June 30, 2001. || ", "hits": 374 }, { "id": 10136, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10136/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2007-07-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sloan Digital Sky Survey", "description": "This visualization presents a 3-D view of the largest structures in the Universe via data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The SDSS is the most ambitious astronomical survey ever undertaken. It provides a 3-dimensional map of about a million galaxies and quasars. As the survey progresses, the data are released to the scientific community and the general public in annual increments. || ", "hits": 259 }, { "id": 10138, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10138/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2007-07-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "'Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time' (IMAX Short Film)", "description": "This short film created for the IMAX screen features a computer-generated flight through more than 10,000 real galaxies originally imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Great Observatory Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) project. Hubble scientists and imaging specialists worked for months to extract individual galaxy images, placing them in a 3D model according to their approximate true distances as determined by ground-based photometric redshift data. || ", "hits": 106 }, { "id": 10145, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10145/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2007-07-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Cepheid Variable in Spiral Galaxy", "description": "A Cepheid is a star that varies in light intensity over regular, measurable periods. The period of pulsation is directly related to a Cepheid's intrinsic brightness making observations of these stars a powerful tool for determining distance. This animation shows a Cepheid variable star varying in brightness in the arm of a spiral galaxy. || ", "hits": 118 } ] }