Astrophysics Galaxy Listing

  • Released Friday, September 18th, 2015
  • ID: 40110

Galaxy

  • Watch this video to learn more about XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission), a collaboration between JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and NASA.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic Credits: Universal Production MusicLights On by Hugh Robert Edwin Wilkinson Dreams by Jez Fox and Rohan JonesChanging Tide by Rob ManningWandering Imagination by Joel GoodmanIn Unison by Samuel Sim
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    Produced Video

    XRISM: Exploring the Hidden X-ray Cosmos

  • Webb Mission Overview 2023 videoExpanding Time and Space (c) 2016, Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS], Daniel Jay Nielsen Promised Lands (c) 2021, Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS], Enrico Cacace [BMI], Lorenzo Castellarin [BMI]
    ID: 14381
    B-Roll

    Webb Telescope Mission Overview 2023

  • Designing Webb FeatureAttention to Detail, (C) 2022, Model Music [PRS], Paul Richard O'Brien [PRS] Theo Maximilian Goble [PRS]Conceptual Scheme, (C) 2021, Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Production Music France [SACEM], Laurent Dury [SACEM]Moving Forward, (C) 2021, Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS], Mark Russell [PRS]Relentless Data, (C) 2020, Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS], Jay Price [PRS]Life Cycles, (C) 2016, Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS], Theo Golding [PRS]
    ID: 14185
    B-Roll

    Designing Webb

  • 4K and HD versions of How Webb captures the Universe video. Odyssey (c) August 29, 2000, Primetime Productions Ltd [PRS], Anders Eliasson [STIM], Steve Martin [PRS]
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    B-Roll

    Unfolding the Universe with Webb

  • NEW IMAGE CAN BE FOUND HERE!!!Cut broll for the live shots is posted below. Here are some additional resources for images if interested:* https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/* https://webbtelescope.org/home New 3D Visualization Highlights 5,000 Galaxies Revealed by WebbHubble/ WEBB images in our solar system
    ID: 14349
    Produced Video

    NASA Interview Opportunity: Celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope’s First Year Of Amazing Science With a New Observation Live Shots

  • This video includes music from a synthesized orchestra provided by composer Henry Dehlinger.Music credit: “Echoes of the Big Bang" from Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony by Henry Dehlinger. Courtesy of the composer.Complete list of footage usedHERE. Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
    ID: 14323
    Produced Video

    Cosmic Cycles 7: Echoes of the Big Bang

  • XMM-Newton images recorded 20 dust rings, 19 of which are shown here in arbitrary colors. This composite merges observations made two and five days after GRB 221009A erupted. Dark stripes indicate gaps between the detectors. A detailed analysis shows that the widest ring visible here, comparable to the apparent size of a full moon, came from dust clouds located about 1,300 light-years away. The innermost ring arose from dust at a distance of 61,000 light-years on the other side of our galaxy. GRB221009A is only the seventh gamma-ray burst to display X-ray rings, and it triples the number previously seen around one.Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton/M. Rigoselli (INAF)
    ID: 14317
    Produced Video

    NASA Missions Probe What May Be a 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-ray Burst

  • Still image of the above.Credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center/Daniel Kocevski
    ID: 14309
    Produced Video

    Fermi Captures Dynamic Gamma-ray Sky

  • 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
    ID: 14301
    Produced Video

    Millions of Galaxies Emerge in New Simulated Images From NASA's Roman

  • This image, containing millions of simulated galaxies strewn across space and time, shows the areas Hubble (white) and Roman (yellow) can capture in a single snapshot. It would take Hubble about 85 years to map the entire region shown in the image, but Roman could do it in just 63 days. Roman’s larger view and fast survey speeds will unveil the evolving universe in ways that have never been possible before.Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/A. Yung
    ID: 14297
    Produced Video

    How NASA's Roman Space Telescope Will Rewind the Universe

  • This all-sky mosaic was constructed from 912 TESS images. By late October 2022, when the last image of this mosaic was captured, TESS had discovered 266 exoplanets and 4,258 candidates. The north and south ecliptic poles – the ends of imaginary lines extending above and below the center of Earth's orbit around the Sun – lie at the top and bottom of the image. The Andromeda galaxy is the small, bright oval near the upper right edge. The Lage Magellanic Cloud can be seen along the bottom edge just left of center. Above and to the left of it shine the Small Magellanic Cloud and the bright star cluster 47 Tucanae. Molleweide projection. Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Ethan Kruse (University of Maryland College Park)
    ID: 14265
    Produced Video

    TESS 2022 Sky Views

  • Same as above but without text.Credit: SDSS and NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
    ID: 14269
    Produced Video

    NASA’s Webb Telescope Links Galaxies Near and Far

  • A 90-second Instagram video celebrating Webb's first year in space.
    ID: 14258
    Produced Video

    Webb 1st Anniversary Social Media Video

  • XRISM turntable animations, available both as 4K/30 and 60 fps movies and as frames. The exposed tank behind the truss structure on the side opposite the solar panels houses the Resolve instrument.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
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    Animation

    XRISM Beauty Shots

  • AAS 2023 Student winner Austin Brenner
    ID: 31210
    Hyperwall Visual

    AAS 241 student winner Austin Brenner

  • This animation illustrates how the microcalorimeter array at the heart of XRISM's revolutionary Resolve soft X-ray spectrometer works. X-ray light collected by a telescope strikes the detector. Each photon heats the material by an amount directly proportional to its energy. The instrument, which is cooled to 50 millikelvins, just above absolute zero, detects this minute temperature change.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 14244
    Produced Video

    XRISM Resolve Animation

  • New simulations carried out on the NASA Center for Climate Simulation’s Discover supercomputer show how weaker, low-luminosity jets produced by a galaxy's monster black hole interact with their galactic environment. Because these jets are more difficult to detect, the simulations help astronomers link these interactions to features they can observe, such as various gas motions and optical and X-ray emissions.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic credit: "Lost Time;" "Ascension;" "Flowing Cityscape;" "Jupiter's Eye;" "Pizzicato Piece;" "Facts;" "Final Words" all from Universal Production MusicVideo Descriptive Text available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 14217
    Produced Video

    Creating Black Hole Jets With a NASA Supercomputer

  • Interview with Lee Feinberg regarding Webb's first evaluation image.
    ID: 14226
    B-Roll

    Lee Feinberg Interview for Webb First Evaluation Image

  • Drone footage of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
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    B-Roll

    Drone footage of the Space Telescope Science Institute Facility

  • Orbiting Astronomical Observatory C stands in the Hangar AE clean room at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, following the mounting of its stationary solar panels. Once in orbit, the observatory was named Copernicus in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), the Polish astronomer regarded as the founder of modern astronomy. Credit: National Archives (255-CB-72-H-873)
    ID: 14189
    Produced Video

    50th Anniversary of NASA's Copernicus Mission

  • Webb First Images live broadcast on July 12, 2022.
    ID: 14180
    Produced Video

    The James Webb Space Telescope First Image Release Broadcast July 12, 2022

  • Scientists and engineers sit down together to discuss more about the first images taken by the Webb Space Telescope and to answer questions from the audience.
    ID: 14183
    Produced Video

    The James Webb Space Telescope First Images Press Conference July 12, 2022

  • B-roll footage of scientists seeing the first images taken by the Webb Space Telescope at the Space Telescope Science Institute on June 4th, 2022.
    ID: 14182
    B-Roll

    The James Webb Space Telescope First Image Review Meetings B-Roll

  • Webb first image promo 1 with Peter Cullen
    ID: 14178
    Produced Video

    Webb First Images Promos

  • Explore the unusual eruption of 1ES 1927+654, a galaxy located 236 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. A sudden reversal of the magnetic field around its million-solar-mass black hole may have triggered the outburst.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Music: "Water Dance" and "Alternate Worlds" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 14148
    Produced Video

    Magnetic Flip Drives Flare-Up of Monster Black Hole

  • A look at the instruments on the Webb Telescope.
    ID: 14136
    Produced Video

    Webb Instrument Overview

  • The length of a gravitational wave, or ripple in space-time, depends on its source, as shown in this infographic. Scientists need different kinds of detectors to study as much of the spectrum as possible. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
    ID: 14130
    Produced Video

    Fermi Searches for Gravitational Waves From Monster Black Holes

  • This video contains imagery of the Sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Much of this footage is in ultraviolet light and shows the hot atmosphere of the Sun, called the corona. It is edited to accompany Carl Nielsen's Helios Overture.
    ID: 14133
    Produced Video

    Concert videos

  • The press conference covering the latest update on the James Webb Space Telescope and the mirror alignment.
    ID: 14122
    Produced Video

    The James Webb Space Telescope Mirror Alignment Press Conference Update

  • The sequence and layout of the Roman Space Telescope's High Latitude Spectroscopic Survey tiling pattern.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 14074
    Produced Video

    The Roman Space Telescope's High Latitude Survey Pointing Scheme

  • 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.
    ID: 14105
    Produced Video

    Simulated Galaxy Redshift Cubes

  • Still for thumbnails
    ID: 14107
    Infographic

    Roman Space Telescope Redshift Infographic

  • "NASA’s Webb Reaches Alignment Milestone, Optics Working Successfully" produced video
    ID: 14118
    B-Roll

    NASA’s Webb Reaches Alignment Milestone, Optics Working Successfully

  • The spectrograph light path inside the Mid Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the Webb Telescope. Versions with labels and without labels.Credit: European Space Agency
    ID: 14111
    Produced Video

    Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) Light Path Animation

  • Animation of the light path inside the Near Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSpec) on the Webb Telescope. Showing simulated data.Credit: European Space Agency
    ID: 14112
    Produced Video

    Webb's Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) Instrument Light Path Animation

  • Webb Telescope mission trailer 2021
    ID: 14109
    Produced Video

    Webb Telescope Mission Trailer - Carl Sagan

  • Same as above but in the equidistant cylindrical projection.Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
    ID: 14090
    Produced Video

    Fermi's 12-year View of the Gamma-ray Sky

  • The James Webb Space Telescope is nearing completion of the first phase of the months-long process of aligning the observatory’s primary mirror using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument. The team's challenge was twofold: confirm that NIRCam was ready to collect light from celestial objects, and then identify starlight from the same star in each of the 18 primary mirror segments. The result is an image mosaic of 18 randomly organized dots of starlight, the product of Webb's unaligned mirror segments all reflecting light from the same star back at Webb's secondary mirror and into NIRCam's detectors. What looks like a simple image of blurry starlight now becomes the foundation to align and focus the telescope in order for Webb to deliver unprecedented views of the universe this summer. Over the next month or so, the team will gradually adjust the mirror segments until the 18 images become a single star.
    ID: 14100
    Produced Video

    Photons Received: Webb Sees Its First Star – 18 Times

  • Beauty shot animation with camera panning up from below to reveal the James Webb Space Telescope.
    ID: 20352
    Animation

    "29 Days On The Edge" Director's Cut Animations

  • Video capture of the Observastory Visualization Tool during the Mid-Course Correction Burn #2 and Webb's placement into its science orbit around Lagrange Point #2 (L2) on January 24, 2022. No audio
    ID: 14087
    Produced Video

    Orbital Insertion Burn - Webb Arrives at L2

  • The Webb Telescope sunshield feature.
    ID: 14064
    Produced Video

    The Webb Telescope Sunshield

  • Social media video covering the Webb Telescope's optics system.
    ID: 14072
    Produced Video

    The Webb Telescope's Optics

  • Elements of Webb EP12: Seeking Elements
    ID: 14014
    Produced Video

    Elements of Webb: Elements Seeking Elements Ep12

  • Social Media video Broad Horizons(c)2019, Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS], Christopher Timothy White [PRS]
    ID: 13375
    Animation

    The James Webb Space Telescope at L2

  • Elements of Webb EP11: Super Black
    ID: 14013
    Produced Video

    Elements of Webb: Super Black Ep11

  • Elements of Webb EP10: Salt
    ID: 14012
    Produced Video

    Elements of Webb: Salt Ep10

  • This video demonstrates how Roman could expand on Hubble’s iconic Ultra Deep Field image. While a similar Roman observation would be just as sharp as Hubble’s and see equally far back in time, it could reveal an area 300 times larger, offering a much broader view of cosmic ecosystems. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Music: "Subterranean Secret" and "Expectant Aspect" from Universal Production Music.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13921
    Produced Video

    The Roman Space Telescope's Simulated Ultra-Deep Field Image

  • Webb Telescope Secondary Mirror Deployment - Operational Coverage - Full Broadcast
    ID: 14068
    Produced Video

    Webb Telescope Secondary Mirror Deployment - Operational Coverage

  • Elements of Webb EP09: Helium
    ID: 14011
    Produced Video

    Elements of Webb: Helium Ep 09

  • Elements of Webb EP07: Silicon
    ID: 14010
    Produced Video

    Elements of Webb: Silicon Ep08

  • Webb Telescope Launch Clean Feed
    ID: 14061
    Produced Video

    Webb Launch Broadcast Clean Feed

  • Webb Telescope Launch Highlights
    ID: 14062
    Produced Video

    Webb Telescope Launch Highlights

  • Part 1 of the Webb Telescope launch broadcast
    ID: 14060
    Produced Video

    Complete Webb Telescope Launch Broadcast

  • Elements of Webb EP07: Carbon
    ID: 14009
    Produced Video

    Elements of Webb: Carbon Ep07

  • Webb wide view deployment
    ID: 20339
    Animation

    Webb Deployment Animations

  • WEBB Turn Around Above the Horizon
    ID: 20342
    Animation

    WEBB Turn Arounds

  • Elements of Webb EP06: Kapton.
    ID: 14008
    Produced Video

    Elements of Webb: Kapton Ep06

  • Elements of Webb EP 05: Beryllium Part 3. Where Does Beryllium Really Come From?
    ID: 14007
    Produced Video

    Elements of Webb: Beryllium Part 3 Ep05

  • The science goals briefing
    ID: 14041
    Produced Video

    The James Webb Space Telescope L-30 Briefings

  • Webb Journey to Space EP5: Spacecraft Fueling
    ID: 14021
    Produced Video

    Webb Journey to Space EP5: Spacecraft Fueling

  • Quick link to associated B-ROLL for the live shots.Quick link to canned interview with Martin Weisskopf IXPE Principal Investigator
    ID: 14039
    Produced Video

    New NASA Spacecraft Will Help Unlock The Secrets Of Extreme Cosmic Objects Live Shots

  • Elements of Webb EP04: Beryllium. Where Does Beryllium Come From?
    ID: 14006
    Produced Video

    Elements of Webb: Beryllium Part 2 Ep04

  • Animation of a mirror segment actuator system
    ID: 14033
    Produced Video

    Webb Mirror Actuator Animation

  • Animation of Webb's sunshield deploying without the surrounding spacecraft
    ID: 14034
    Produced Video

    Sunshield Only Deployment Animation

  • B-roll of the Webb Telescope arriving at Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana
    ID: 14029
    B-Roll

    B-roll of the Webb Telescope Arriving at the Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana

  • Time lapse of engineers opening the STTARS container and lifting Webb onto the High Capacity Rollover Fixture.
    ID: 14030
    B-Roll

    B-roll of Opening Webb Shipping Container in Airlock at Launch Site

  • Time lapse of the Webb Telescope being lifted out of its special shipping container. This footage inlcudes a view from inside the shipping container.
    ID: 14031
    B-Roll

    B-roll of Webb Being Lifted Out of Shipping Container in Launch Site Airlock - Inside View

  • Time lapse b-roll of the Webb Telescope being removed from the protective enclosure the telescope was encased in while inside its shipping container. The Telescope is tilted upright in the launch site cleanroom.
    ID: 14032
    B-Roll

    B-roll of the Webb Telescope Being Removed from Shipping Enclosure and Tilted Verticle in Launch Site Cleanroom

  • B-roll of MN Colibri arriving at dock in Kourou River, French Guiana
    ID: 14026
    Produced Video

    Ship Carrying Webb Arrives in Kourou, French Guiana

  • Have you heard of beryllium? It’s a rare lightweight metal used as the primary material on the Webb Telescope. This episode explores the reason this expensive metal is perfect for Webb. Special thanks to LA Gauge for hosting the media team. #UnfoldTheUniverse
    ID: 14005
    Produced Video

    Elements of Webb: Beryllium Part 1 Ep03

  • Elements of Webb EP02: Gold Part Two
    ID: 14004
    Produced Video

    Elements of Webb: Gold Part 2 Ep02

  • Elements of Webb EP01: Gold Part One
    ID: 14003
    Produced Video

    Elements of Webb: Gold Part 1 Ep01

  • Elements of Webb EP00: Introduction
    ID: 14002
    Produced Video

    Elements of Webb: Series Introduction Ep0

  • Webb Telescope Nominal Deployment Sequence with graphics.
    ID: 14016
    Produced Video

    Webb Telescope Nominal Deployment Sequence with Graphics

  • 29 Days on the Edge video
    ID: 13952
    B-Roll

    29 Days on the Edge

  • B-roll footage from the social media video. Universal Production Music: Incredible Journey 1436055
    ID: 13955
    B-Roll

    Webb Journey to Space 1: Packing & Transport

  • B-roll footage from social media video. Universal Production Music: Time to Bloom 1546643
    ID: 13956
    B-Roll

    Webb Journey to Space 2: Loading & Departure

  • NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is one of the few space organizations that can manage a mission from beginning to end: imagine it, build it, test it, launch it and reap the scientific benefits. Come take a behind-the-scenes look at our facilities and meet some of the people who are working every day to make the impossible possible.Music Credit:After Party by Morgan Prudhomme [ SACEM ] Publishers KTSA Publishing [ SACEM ]Riviera by Armand Falco [ SACEM ] Khatchadour Babelian [ SACEM ] Publishers KTSA Publishing [ SACEM ]Digtal Dreamscape by Josselin Bordat [ SACEM ] Publishers Koka Media [ SACEM ] Universal Production Music France [ SACEM ]Up On the Mountain by Bruce Driscoll [ BMI ] Marie Seyrat [ BMI ] Publishers Killer Tracks [ BMI ]Natural Time Cycles by Laurent Dury [ SACEM ] Publishers Koka Media [ SACEM ] Universal Production Music France [ SACEM ]Summertime Chill by Xavier Rubin [ SACEM ] Publishers Koka Media [ SACEM ] Universal Production Music France [ SACEM ]Space Age Bachelor by Benjamin James Parsons [ PRS ] Publishers Sound Pocket Music [ PRS ]
    ID: 13928
    Produced Video

    Goddard Space Flight Center Virtual Tour

  • GoPro 1 time-lapse
    ID: 13912
    Produced Video

    First Half of the James Webb Space Telescope's Forward UPS Stow Time-Lapse 6.16.21

  • Camera 1 b-roll footage of the first half of the James Webb Space Telescope's forward UPS final stow.
    ID: 13914
    B-Roll

    Webb Space Telescope's Forward Sunsheild Pallet Final Stow B-Roll 6-16-2021

  • GoPro 2 time-lapse
    ID: 13915
    Produced Video

    Webb Space Telescope's AFT Sunshield Pallet Final Stow-Time-Lapse

  • GoPro 1 time-laspe
    ID: 13911
    B-Roll

    First Half of the James Webb Space Telescope's AFT UPS Final Stow Time-Lapses 6.7.21

  • B-roll footage of the first half the James Webb Space Telescope's AFT UPS Final Stow.
    ID: 13913
    B-Roll

    First Half of the James Webb Space Telescope's AFT UPS Final Stow B-Roll 6.7.21

  • GoPro 1
    ID: 13901
    Produced Video

    James Webb Space Telescope -J2 Final Wing Stow Time-Lapse 5.21.21

  • Red giant stars near and far sweep across the sky in this illustration. Measurements from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite have identified more than 158,000 pulsating red giants across nearly the entire sky. Such discoveries hold great potential for exploring the detailed structure of our home galaxy. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (KBRwyle)
    ID: 13897
    Produced Video

    TESS Tunes into an All-sky ‘Symphony’ of Red Giants

  • NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see thousands of exploding stars called supernovae across vast stretches of time and space. Using these observations, astronomers aim to shine a light on several cosmic mysteries, providing a window onto the universe’s distant past and hazy present.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Relentless Data" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13852
    Produced Video

    NASA’s Roman Mission to Probe Cosmic Secrets Using Exploding Stars

  • GoPro Camera 1 Time-Lapse of the James Webb Space Telescope forward UPS deployment.
    ID: 13789
    Produced Video

    James Webb Space Telescope's Forward UPS Depolyment Time-Lapses

  • Quick link to canned interview in Spanish with Diego Altamirano: Principal Research Fellow, University of Southampton.Quick link to associated B-ROLL for live shots.
    ID: 13841
    Produced Video

    NASA’s NICER Telescope Examined a Star on the Edge of Becoming a Black Hole Live Shots

  • Beginning with the Event Horizon Telescope's now iconic image of M87, this video takes viewers on a journey through the data from several telescopes. The video shows data across many factors of 10 in scale, both of wavelengths of light and physical size.
    ID: 4807
    Visualization

    M87: Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole

  • Episode 2 - Fancy Black HolesOnce you’ve gotten the hang of basic black holes, you might want to search for some fancier ones. That’s great! But, before you do, refer to this convenient chapter to learn just how fancy some black holes can be.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Oh Really" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.
    ID: 13834
    Produced Video

    NASA's Field Guide to Black Holes

  • As the universe expands, it stretches the wavelengths of light along with it, a process called redshift. The farther away an object is, the more the light from it has stretched by the time it reaches us. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech//R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC)
    ID: 12856
    Produced Video

    Redshift Animations

  • Watch this video to learn more about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's new near-infrared filter and the benefits it brings.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Particles and Fields" and "Final Words" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13812
    Produced Video

    New ‘Eyewear’ to Deepen the View of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope

  • Watch how a monster black hole ripping apart a star may have launched a ghost particle toward Earth. Astronomers have long predicted that tidal disruption events could produce high-energy neutrinos, nearly massless particles from outside our galaxy traveling close to the speed of light. One recent event, named AT2019dsg, provides the first proof this prediction is true but has challenged scientists’ assumptions of where and when these elusive particles might form during these destructive outbursts. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Diagnostic Report" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.
    ID: 13805
    Produced Video

    Swift Links Neutrino to Star-destroying Black Hole

  • Time-lapse footage of engineers deploying the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
    ID: 13801
    Produced Video

    James Webb Space Telescope's Sunshield Deployment Time-Lapse 2019

  • 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.
    ID: 13792
    Produced Video

    NASA Missions Unveil Magnetar Eruptions in Nearby Galaxies

  • Watch as a monster black hole partially consumes an orbiting giant star. In this illustration, the gas pulled from the star collides with the black hole’s debris disk and causes a flare. Astronomers have named this repeating event ASASSN-14ko. The flares are the most predictable and frequent yet seen from an active galaxy. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Ruminations" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.
    ID: 13798
    Produced Video

    Swift, TESS Catch Eruptions from an Active Galaxy

  • Comparative image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field to scale with the Roman field of view.
    ID: 13793
    Produced Video

    Imagining A Roman Space Telescope Ultra Deep Field Image

  • GoPro 1 time-laspe footage of engineers deploying the James Webb Space Telescope's DTA at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
    ID: 13790
    Produced Video

    James Webb Space Telescope's Deployable Tower Assembly (DTA) Deployment Test Time-Lapses

  • GoPro 1 time-lapse footage of engineers deploying the James Webb Space Telescope's AFT UPS at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
    ID: 13788
    Produced Video

    James Webb Space Telescope Aft Unitized Pallet Structure (UPS) Deployment Time-Lapses

  • Social media video covering the James Webb Space Telescopes UPS and DTA deployments at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
    ID: 13785
    Produced Video

    The James Webb Space Telescope's UPS and DTA Deployments

  • This animation explains how BAOs arose in the early universe and how astronomers can study the faint imprint they made on galaxy distribution to probe dark energy’s effects over time. In the beginning, the cosmos was filled with a hot, dense fluid called plasma. Tiny variations in density excited sound waves that rippled through the fluid. When the universe was about 400,000 years old, the waves froze where they were. Slightly more galaxies formed along the ripples. These frozen ripples stretched as the universe expanded, increasing the distance between galaxies. Astronomers can study this preferred distance between galaxies in different cosmic ages to understand the expansion history of the universe. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Pulse and Glow" from Adrift in Time. Written and Produced by Lars Leonhard.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13768
    Produced Video

    Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

  • A media reel of b-roll and time-lapse footage of the James Webb Space Telescope.
    ID: 13755
    B-Roll

    James Webb Space Telescope Media Resource B-roll & Time-Lapse Reel

  • A media reel of beauty shots of the James Webb Space Telescope.
    ID: 13758
    B-Roll

    James Webb Space Telescope Media Resource Beauty Shots Reel

  • A media reel of animations regarding the James Webb Space Telescope.
    ID: 13759
    B-Roll

    James Webb Space Telescope Media Resource Animation Reel

  • Master VersionHorizontal version. This is for use on any YouTube or non-YouTube platform where you want to display the video horizontally.
    ID: 13749
    Produced Video

    Hubble Spots Giant Space ‘Pumpkin’

  • B-Roll footage of engineers installing the +J2 side of the clamshell tent cover around the James Webb Space Telescope at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
    ID: 13700
    B-Roll

    B-Roll footage of the James Webb Space Telescope tent cover 2020

  • Part 1 of the b-roll footage of engineers moving the James Webb Space Telescope from the M8 airlock area to the M2 testing area at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
    ID: 13705
    B-Roll

    The James Webb Space Telescope Moved To Northrop Grumman Vibration and Acoustic Test Facility

  • B-roll footage of engineers moving the James Webb Space Telescope from the M8 cleanroom to the M8 airlock before moving the telescope to the testing area at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
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    B-Roll

    The James Webb Space Telescope Moved Into Airlock for Transport To Test Facility B-roll

  • The social media video covering the James Webb Space Telescope environmental tests at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
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    Produced Video

    The James Webb Space Telescope Completes its Final Environmental Tests

  • GoPro 2 time-lapse footage of engineers moving the James Webb Space Telescope into the M8 airlock area at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
    ID: 13704
    Produced Video

    The James Webb Space Telescope Moved Into Airlock for Transport To Test Facility Time-Lapses

  • The star map in celestial coordinates, at five different resolutions. The map is centered at 0h right ascension, and r.a. increases to the left.
    ID: 4851
    Visualization

    Deep Star Maps 2020

  • The randomized star map in celestial coordinates, at five different resolutions. (Or more generically: The galactic plane is tilted 63° in the coordinate frame of the image.)
    ID: 4856
    Visualization

    An Elsewhere Starfield

  • GoPro 1 time-lapse of engineers covering the James Webb Space Telescope with the +J2 side of the protective "clamshell" tent cover at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
    ID: 13701
    Produced Video

    Time-Lapse footage of the James Webb Space Telescope Tent Cover 2020

  • Beauty shots of the James Webb Space Telescope after engineers stowed the Unitized Pallet Structure (UPS) and Deploy Tower Assembly (DTA) at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
    ID: 13676
    B-Roll

    James Webb Space Telescope Stow Beauty Shots

  • Time-lapse camera 1 of engineers stowing the James Webb Space Telescope's DTA at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
    ID: 13674
    Produced Video

    James Webb Space Telescope DTA Stowing Time-Lapses

  • Backup time-lapse 1 of engineers stowing the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield back UPS at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
    ID: 13669
    B-Roll

    James Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Back UPS Stow Time-Lapses

  • Backup time-lapse 1 of engineers stowing the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield front UPS at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
    ID: 13670
    Produced Video

    James Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Front UPS Stow Time-Lapses

  • Welcome to NASA's upcoming infrared survey mission, taking a wider view of the cosmos.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "The Decision (alternate)" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13606
    Produced Video

    A New Portrait of the Cosmos is Coming

  • Learn about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Climb the Ladder" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13607
    Produced Video

    NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: Broadening Our Cosmic Horizons

  • Part 2 of the beauty shots of the James Webb Space Telescope after the two halves of the telescope were assembled together.
    ID: 13588
    B-Roll

    James Webb Space Telescope Integration Beauty Shots

  • Hubble Space Telescope 30th anniversary logo.
    ID: 13561
    Produced Video

    Hubble 30th Anniversary Logo

  • Spacecraft assembly, and sunshield deployment milestones. Song: Everlasting Force, copyright, 2015, Atomsphere Music Ltd [PRS]
    ID: 13558
    B-Roll

    Time-Lapse Video of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Assembly, and Sunshield Deployment

  • James Webb Space Telescope orbit as seen from above the Sun's north pole and as seen from Earth's perspective.
    ID: 13553
    Produced Video

    James Webb Space Telescope Orbit

  • Master VersionHorizontal version. This is for use on any YouTube or non-YouTube platform where you want to display the video horizontally.
    ID: 13520
    Produced Video

    Happy Lunar New Year from Hubble

  • This illustration of the EGS77 galaxy group shows the galaxies surrounded by overlapping bubbles of hydrogen ionized by ultraviolet light from their stars. By transforming light-quenching hydrogen atoms to ionized gas, UV starlight is thought to have formed such bubbles throughout the early universe, gradually transitioning it from opaque to completely transparent. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 13511
    Produced Video

    Distant Galaxy Group Caught Driving Ancient Cosmic Makeover

  • Feature of the behind the scenes preperations and production of the filming for the glamour shots of the Webb Telescope while is deployed at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
    ID: 13481
    Produced Video

    What Does it Take to Film Webb

  • B-roll shot 16
    ID: 13432
    B-Roll

    James Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Deployment Beauty Shots

  • NASA Science Live: Black Hole 101 (Episode 11)
    ID: 13480
    Produced Video

    NASA Science Live: Black Hole 101 (Episode 11)

  • NASA Science Live: Galaxy of Horrors (Episode 10)
    ID: 13415
    Produced Video

    NASA Science Live: Galaxy of Horrors (Episode 10)

  • Master versionHorizontal version. This is for use on any YouTube or non-YouTube platform where you want to display the video horizontally.
    ID: 13412
    Produced Video

    Hubble's Scary New Halloween Image

  • NASA Science Live: A Telescope Like a Time Machine (Episode 9)
    ID: 13344
    Produced Video

    NASA Science Live: A Telescope Like a Time Machine (Episode 9)

  • The instagram formatted version of the social media feature.
    ID: 13337
    Produced Video

    The James Webb Space Telescope is now an Assembled Observatory

  • 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
    ID: 13326
    Produced Video

    Black Hole Accretion Disk Visualization

  • This movie is available both with and without on-screen text.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Tension Underlying" from Universal Production Music
    ID: 13239
    Produced Video

    Zoom In on Galaxy M87

  • B-Roll footage from the first day of engineers integrating the James Webb Space Telescope's optical telescope element with the Instrument package (OTIS) to the spacecraft element at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
    ID: 13317
    B-Roll

    James Webb Space Telescope Integration B-Roll

  • Watch this video to learn more about dark energy and how WFIRST will study it.Music: "Searching Everywhere" from Universal Production MusicCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13314
    Produced Video

    Unraveling the Mysteries of Dark Energy with NASA's WFIRST

  • Social Media feature of the James Webb Space Telescope's secondary mirror being deployed inside the cleanroom at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA. Music: Treacherous Path by Giles Robert Lamb Killer TracksComplete transcript available.
    ID: 13273
    Produced Video

    The Webb Telescope's Unfolding Secondary Mirror

  • Overhead view time-Lapse of the Webb Telescope's Secondary Mirror being deployed.
    ID: 13274
    B-Roll

    James Webb Space Telescope's Secondary Mirror Deployment Time-Lapse

  • The James Webb Space Telescope is the most complex telescope ever made. Over 100 different companies and various NASA facilities in the United States have contributed to the James Webb Space Telescope. This feature shows off the various groups that have helped make this telescope possible and where they are around the country.
    ID: 13165
    Produced Video

    NASA's Webb Telescope Shines with American Ingenuity

  • The James Webb Space Telescope's Spacecraft Element has cleared its Thermal Vacuum tests at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA. After completing it's testing, engineers moved the Spacecraft Element from the testing facility back into the cleanroom. While being transported, the Spacecraft Element is covered by a protective tent to prevent it from getting contaminated. Once inside the cleanroom, the tent is removed.
    ID: 13256
    Produced Video

    JWST's Spacecraft Element Returns to its Cleanroom after Successfully Thermal Vacuum Testing

  • Engineers transport the James Webb Space Telescope's spacecraft element from the thermal testing facility back into the cleanroom facility at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
    ID: 13231
    B-Roll

    James Webb Space Telescope's Spacecraft Element is Moved Back into the Cleanroom B-Roll

  • Scientists reflect on XMM-Newton’s 20th anniversary. The mission, led by ESA (European Space Agency), has dramatically improved our understanding of the cosmos thanks to detailed X-ray observations. NASA funded two of its three instruments, including the Optical/UV Monitor Telescope, which made XMM-Newton one of the first multiwavelength observatories in space.Music: "Passionate Research" and "Wondrous Planet" both from Universal Production MusicCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13199
    Produced Video

    XMM-Newton Anniversary Products

  • An unlabeled version of the image above. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 13220
    Produced Video

    Ten Years of High-Energy Gamma-ray Bursts

  • This film explores galaxies within a Hubble observation looking deep into space and across ten billion years of cosmic history.
    ID: 30805
    Hyperwall Visual

    Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time

  • B-Roll footage of engineers working in the Phil Sabelhaus Flight Control Room at the Space Telescope Science Institute within John Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.
    ID: 13213
    B-Roll

    STSCI Operation Control Room B-Roll

  • Unlabeled version of above.Credits: NASA/NICER
    ID: 13214
    Produced Video

    NICER's Night Moves

  • The Extended Groth Strip covers a small swath of sky between the constellations Ursa Major and Boötes, and yet it contains at least 50,000 galaxies visible to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and likely more that are beyond the range of light that Hubble can detect.
    ID: 31039
    Hyperwall Visual

    Extended Groth Strip

  • The James Webb Space Telescope's solar array will be used to help power the observatory by converting sunlight into electrical energy. Presently, it is being tested at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA.
    ID: 13208
    Produced Video

    The 20-foot Solar Array Powering the James Webb Space Telescope

  • Explore galaxies within the CANDELS UDS field as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
    ID: 31035
    Hyperwall Visual

    A Flight Through the CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey Field

  • Massive galaxy cluster Abell S1063 is shown at the center of this Hubble image, surrounded by more distant galaxies that are magnified and warped by the cluster’s immense gravity. A faint haze of intracluster light is visible between the galaxies, produced by free-floating stars.
    ID: 31034
    Hyperwall Visual

    Galaxy Cluster Abell S1063

  • Full Hubble mosaic image of the Triangulum galaxy (M33), composed of 54 Hubble fields of view stitched together. The borders of individual Hubble images trace the jagged edge of the mosaic, which spans 19,400 light-years across.
    ID: 31027
    Hyperwall Visual

    Triangulum Galaxy Mosaic

  • Based on a computer simulation, this visualization explores the disk, bulge, and spiral arms of a spiral galaxy.
    ID: 31025
    Hyperwall Visual

    Galaxy Traverse

  • This flight across the Whirlpool Galaxy is visualized using observations from the Hubble Space Telescope.
    ID: 31024
    Hyperwall Visual

    A Flyby of the Whirlpool Galaxy

  • This composite image of galaxy M106 focuses on its active center, where large amounts of gas are thought to be falling into and fueling a supermassive black hole.
    ID: 31021
    Hyperwall Visual

    Spiral Galaxy M106

  • B-roll footage from the social media video.
    ID: 12552
    Produced Video

    NASA's Webb is Sound after Completing Critical Milestones

  • This amazingly deep, detailed image is the result of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most substantial and ambitious observing campaign yet, CANDELS—the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey. The image displays approximately 30,000 galaxies across 6 billion years of time and space—half the age of the universe—making for a fascinating visual study of galaxy evolution.
    ID: 31020
    Hyperwall Visual

    CANDELS UDF

  • This visualization uses Hubble data to simulate a flight past the galaxies known as Stephan’s Quintet, providing an illuminating perspective on their position and gravitational relationships to one another.
    ID: 31019
    Hyperwall Visual

    Stephan's Quintet

  • NGC 4631, the Whale galaxy, shows us the edge of its spiral, appearing similar to the single arm of the Milky Way visible to us in the night sky.
    ID: 31016
    Hyperwall Visual

    Whale Galaxy Panorama

  • Hubble Space Telescope mosaic image of the Coma cluster of more than 1,000 galaxies, with 22,426 globular star clusters scattered in between.
    ID: 31012
    Hyperwall Visual

    Globular Star Clusters Scattered Between Galaxies

  • B-Roll footage of engineers at Northrop Grumman in Los Angeles California, covering the James Webb Space Telescope's Spacecraft Element with a tent cover before it was moved to the acoustic testing facility for testing.
    ID: 13109
    B-Roll

    The James Webb Space Telescope's Spacecraft Element Tent Cover B-Roll

  • A time-lapse of engineers at Northrop Grumman in Los Angeles California, covering the James Webb Space Telescope's Spacecraft Element with a tent cover before it was moved to the acoustic testing facility for testing.
    ID: 13115
    B-Roll

    The James Webb Space Telescope's Spacecraft Element Tent Cover Time-Lapse B-Roll

  • B-Roll footage of engineers at Northrop Grumman in Los Angeles California, moving the James Webb Space Telescope's Spacecraft Element into the acoustic testing facility for testing.
    ID: 13116
    B-Roll

    The James Webb Space Telescope's Spacecraft Element Moved for Acoustic Testing B-Roll

  • Optical image of M16 (portrait)
    ID: 31007
    Hyperwall Visual

    Pillars of Creation: M16

  • Hubble optical image of Sombrero Galaxy The dust ring is partially hidden in the galaxy's visible-light glow.
    ID: 30995
    Hyperwall Visual

    Sombrero Galaxy in Multiple Wavelengths

  • Hubble optical image of Messier 82In visible light the edge-on disk highlights the geysers of hot gas shooting out of M82's core.
    ID: 30994
    Hyperwall Visual

    Messier 82: Cigar Galaxy in Multiple Wavelengths

  • B-Roll footage of the mining site where the beryllium for the James Space Telescope was found, and of the manufacturing facility where the beryllium was used to create the mirrors for the Telescope.
    ID: 13080
    B-Roll

    James Webb Space Telescope Beryllium Mining and Manufacturing B-Roll

  • 360 B-Roll of the James Webb Space Telescope being moved foward by engineers inside NASA's Johnson Space center's cleanroom in Houston, Texas.
    ID: 13091
    B-Roll

    James Webb Space Telescope in 360 at Johnson Space Center

  • Far-infrared image of Galactic Center At these long infrared wavelengths, the hottest dust glows blue, while the coldest is red.
    ID: 30992
    Hyperwall Visual

    Galactic Center in Multiple Infrared Wavelengths

  • NOAO optical image of AndromedaOptical: This is the classic visible view of the Andromeda Galaxy
    ID: 30990
    Hyperwall Visual

    Andromeda Galaxy in Visible and Infrared

  • This mosaic of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is created from images of astronomical objects captured by the satellite’s Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope which recently captured its millionth image. Each tile is 52 x 39 pixels, and at maximum resolution, the entire mosaic is 5,252 x 3,744 pixels. Zoom in to see each tile more clearly. Credit: NASA/Swift and AndreaMosaic
    ID: 12980
    Produced Video

    Swift Millionth Image Mosaic

  • Star-forming regions in M81 become evident in infrared.
    ID: 30981
    Hyperwall Visual

    Messier 81 in Multiple Wavelengths

  • ESO optical image of the NGC 253 Dust and bright stars confuse the view in visible light.
    ID: 30980
    Hyperwall Visual

    Barred Galaxy (NGC 253) in Multiple Wavelengths

  • The James Webb Space Telescope will be the world's premier space science observatory. Webb will solve mysteries of our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
    ID: 13013
    Produced Video

    NASA's Most Scientifically Complex Space Observatory Requires Precision

  • Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13014
    Produced Video

    Webb - A Tale of Precise Construction

  • Slow motion B-Roll footage of engineers in Northrop Grumman's cleanroom in Redondo Beach California working on the James Webb Space Telescope's spacecraft element and optical telescope element.
    ID: 13010
    B-Roll

    Webb's Optical Telescope Element and Spacecraft Element in Northrop Grumman's Cleanroom B-Roll

  • This animation starts with a collage of different galaxies first in visible light, and then far-infrared light.
    ID: 30972
    Hyperwall Visual

    Zoo of Galaxies

  • Spitzer Infrared image of M101
    ID: 30969
    Hyperwall Visual

    M101 (Pinwheel Galaxy)

  • Watch a five-minute video on how NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the high-energy sky over it's first 10 years in space. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Unseen Husband" from Killer TracksComplete transcript available.
    ID: 12969
    Produced Video

    Fermi Satellite Celebrates 10 Years of Discoveries

  • Infrared image of 30 Doradus
    ID: 30967
    Hyperwall Visual

    30 Doradus: A Massive Star-Forming Region

  • B-Roll footage of scientists and engineers working in NASA's Johnson Space Center's control room in Houston Texas during the cryogenic testing on the James Webb Space Telescope.
    ID: 12935
    B-Roll

    Webb Telescope Scientists and Engineers at Johnson Space Center's Control Room B-Roll

  • B-Roll footage of NASA's Johnson Space Center's Building 32 facility in Houston Texas.
    ID: 12936
    B-Roll

    NASA's Johnson Space Center's Building 32 Facility B-Roll

  • Spitzer Infrared image of the Milky Way Center
    ID: 30961
    Hyperwall Visual

    Milky Way Center in Multiple Wavelengths

  • Known as Arp 273, these two galaxies have been distorted by their mutual gravitaional pull into a shape resembling a long-stemmed rose.
    ID: 30958
    Hyperwall Visual

    A Rose of Galaxies: Interacting Galaxies Arp 273

  • This scientific visualization of a computer simulation depicts the joint evolution of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies over the next several billion years and features the inevitable massive collision.
    ID: 30955
    Hyperwall Visual

    Crash of the Titans: Milky Way & Andromeda Collision

  • This animation contrasts the visible-light (Hubble Space Telescope) and X-ray (Chandra X-ray Observatory) images of Messier 51, the majestic Whirlpool galaxy.
    ID: 30952
    Hyperwall Visual

    The Whirlpool Galaxy: Visible and X-ray Views

  • Spiral galaxies NGC 4302 and NGC 498 are similar in shape, but appear different due to their different observed orientations.
    ID: 30950
    Hyperwall Visual

    Spiral Galaxy Pair NGC 4302 and NGC 4298 from Hubble

  • The galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is so massive that it distorts the space around it and produces an effect called gravitational lensing.
    ID: 30949
    Hyperwall Visual

    Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744 from Hubble

  • Hubble Ultra Deep Field
    ID: 30946
    Hyperwall Visual

    Hubble Ultra Deep Field

  • Visible (Optical), Infrared and X-ray image of the Colliding Galaxy.
    ID: 30941
    Hyperwall Visual

    Colliding Galaxies (NGC 2207)

  • GoPro b-roll footage of an engineers working on unloading an unwrapping the Webb Telescope from the Space Telescope Transport Air Rail and Sea (STTARS) container in Northrop Grumman's M8 cleanroom in Los Angeles California.
    ID: 12896
    Produced Video

    Webb Unpacked and Mounted in Northrop Grumman's Cleanroom

  • Visible light image of the Pillars in the Carina Nebula.
    ID: 30940
    Hyperwall Visual

    Pillars in the Carina Nebula (HH901)

  • B-Roll for TESS Live Shot
    ID: 12913
    Produced Video

    NASA Preparing to Launch New Planet-Hunting Mission Live Shots

  • Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music credit: "Reborn" by Maksim Tyutmanov [PRS] and Victoria Beits [PRS]; Atmosphere Music Ltd PRS; Score Addiction; Killer Tracks Production Music
    ID: 12907
    Produced Video

    Hubble Views a Galaxy Lacking Dark Matter

  • B-Roll footage of engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas moving the STTARS container into the Chamber A cleanrrom. Once inside the cleanroom, engineers remove the lid and tent-frame from the container.
    ID: 12871
    B-Roll

    Webb Telescope Move from NASA's Johnson Space Center to Northrop Grumman B-Roll

  • Time-lapse footage of engineers loading the STTARS Container onto the C5 Super Galaxy Transport Aircraft at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston Texas.
    ID: 12881
    B-Roll

    Webb Telescope Move from NASA's Johnson Space Center to Northrop Grumman Time-Lapses

  • Webb Telescope assembly b-roll and animations
    ID: 12909
    B-Roll

    James Webb Space Telescope Update B-Roll

  • Time-lapse footage of engineers moving the Webb Telescope out of Chamber A after undergoing cryogenic testing at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas.
    ID: 12894
    B-Roll

    Webb Telescope Rolled out of Chamber A Time-Lapse

  • Animation of the James Webb Space Telescope mirror alignment and phasing process.
    ID: 12895
    B-Roll

    Alignment of the Primary Mirror Segments of The James Webb Space Telescope

  • James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) will allow the telescope to see distant galaxies, pierce stellar nurseries to spy newly formed stars, and analyze the atmospheres of exoplanets for biomarkers of potential life. MIRI's camera will provide imaging that will continue the breathtaking astrophotography that has made Hubble so admired.
    ID: 12762
    Produced Video

    James Webb Space Telescope’s Multifaceted MIRI

  • A produced time-lapse video of activity in the NASA Johnson Space Center's Chamber A cleanroom from the arrival of the Webb Telescope's optical and instrument segment through to its roll out from the chamber after completing it's cryogenic testing.
    ID: 12818
    Produced Video

    Webb Telescope's Houston Highlights Time Lapse

  • Learn about the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission.Music: "We Dissolve in Stars" and "Climb the Ladder" both from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 12238
    Produced Video

    WFIRST Will See the Big Picture of the Universe

  • Artist's interpretation of the Big Bang, with representations of the early universe and its expansion.
    ID: 12656
    Produced Video

    Big Bang Animation--5k Resolution

  • Canon B-Roll footage of engineers moving the James Webb Space Telescope out of Chamber A at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas.
    ID: 12812
    B-Roll

    Webb Telescope Moved Out of Chamber A After Cryogenic Test B-Roll

  • Webb telescope’s transporter is a specially designed container called the Space Telescope Transporter for Air, Road, and Sea, or STTARS.
    ID: 12780
    Produced Video

    A Look at Webb Telescope’s Specially Designed Shipping Container

  • Hubble Messier Catalog Facebook Live Program October, 19, 2017
    ID: 12750
    Produced Video

    Hubble Messier Catalog

  • After launch, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will use a process called wavefront sensing and control to perfect its vision in orbit. This animation illustrates that process.
    ID: 12753
    Animation

    James Webb Space Telescope Laser-Focused Sight

  • Webb Feature for the 2017 American Astronomical Society Event.
    ID: 12756
    Animation

    Discovering the First Light

  • B-Roll footage of the Chamber A door closing and engineers working in the Johnson Space Center control room.
    ID: 12757
    B-Roll

    NASA'S Johnson Space Center Chamber A Door Closing B-Roll

  • B-Roll of engineers working in NASA'S Johnson Space Center's Chamber A Plenum.
    ID: 12758
    B-Roll

    NASA's Johnson Space Center's Chamber A Plenum B-Roll

  • Produced video about a new NASA molecular contamination control technology developed by Nithin Abraham, a coatings engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Nithin Abraham is part of a contamination control team tasked with ensuring Webb remains as clean as possible during its testing in Chamber A. Abraham developed and tested a highly permeable and porous material called molecular adsorber coating (MAC), which can be sprayed onto surfaces to passively capture contaminants that could be harmful to Webb's optics and science instruments.
    ID: 12746
    Produced Video

    What Lurks Beneath NASA's Chamber A

  • Complete transcript available.
    ID: 12676
    Produced Video

    Science Goals of the James Webb Space Telescope

  • Animated illustration of the feedback process thought to be occurring in active galactic nuclei (AGN).Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 12657
    Produced Video

    AGN Feedback in Markarian 573

  • A compilation of Webb Telescope videos.
    ID: 12203
    Produced Video

    Loop of Webb Videos and Imagery 2017

  • B-Roll footage of engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas, rolling the James Webb Space Telescope into Chamber A for future cryogenic testing.
    ID: 12655
    B-Roll

    Webb Telescope Move into Chamber A

  • Music credit: Killer Tracks, Shifting Reality
    ID: 12630
    Produced Video

    NICER Mission Overview

  • Time lapse of engineers in NASA Goddard Sapce Flight Center cleanroom folding and placing the James Webb Space Telescope optical and instrument element into its shipping container called the Space Telescope Tranporter Air Road and Sea (STTARS) container.
    ID: 12624
    B-Roll

    B-roll: Webb Telescope Element Packed and Transported to Joint Base Andrews for trip to NASA Johnson Space Center

  • Short B-roll clip showing the transport of the James Webb Space Telescope optics and instrument segment from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland to the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston for cryogenic testing. More extensive b-roll is available.
    ID: 12623
    B-Roll

    B-roll Clip of Webb Telescope Transport from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland to NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston

  • B-roll footage from the social media video
    ID: 12581
    Produced Video

    Webb Telescope Acoustic Testing Social Media Video

  • The U.S. Air Force C5M Super Galaxy transport aircraft arrives at Ellington Field Reserve Joint Base near Houston, TX. The Webb Telescope inside its STTARS container and other equipment is unloaded from the aircraft.
    ID: 12609
    B-Roll

    Webb Telescope Element Arrives at NASA JSC for Cryogenic Testing

  • Music credit: "Midtown Moonshine" by Brent Woods [ASCAP] and Enrico Cacace [BMI]; Atmosphere Music Ltd PRS; Volta Music; Killer Tracks Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
    ID: 12599
    Produced Video

    Hubble's Galaxy-Observing Superpowers

  • A wave spanning 200,000 light-years is rolling through the Perseus galaxy cluster, according to observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory coupled with a computer simulation. The simulation shows the gravitational disturbance resulting from the distant flyby of a galaxy cluster about a tenth the mass of the Perseus cluster. The event causes cooler gas at the heart of the Perseus cluster to form a vast expanding spiral, which ultimately forms giant waves lasting hundreds of millions of years at its periphery. Merger events like this are thought to occur as often as every three to four billion years in clusters like Perseus.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "The Undiscovered" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 12587
    Produced Video

    Gigantic Wave Discovered in Perseus Galaxy Cluster

  • NICER observes X-ray light from the surfaces of neutron stars. In these strong-gravity environments, light paths are distorted so that NICER can see emission from the star's far side, especially for smaller, denser stars.
    ID: 20268
    Animation

    NICER Lensing

  • Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center move the Webb telescope from the cleanroom to the acoustic chamber for testing. Once these tests are complete, the telescope will be moved back to the cleanroom.
    ID: 12572
    B-Roll

    Webb Telescope Acoustic Testing B-Roll

  • Engineers at Goddard Space Flight Center move the Webb Telescope out of the cleanroom and onto the vibration facility. Sine vibration tests are then conducted on the telescope to demonstrate that the hardware is safe to launch.
    ID: 12562
    B-Roll

    Webb Telescope Sine Vibration Testing B-Roll

  • B-roll footage from the social media video
    ID: 12546
    Produced Video

    Vibration Testing of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

  • The James Webb Sapce Telescope sits inside the vibration and acoustics test facilities at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md
    ID: 12536
    Produced Video

    James Webb Space Telescope Environmental Testing Highlights

  • An image of the spiral galaxy M106 created through a comibination of Hubble data and ground-based images
    ID: 30864
    Hyperwall Visual

    Spiral Galaxy Messier 106 from Hubble

  • The galaxies of Arp 273 have recently interacted via gravity to make a shape resembling a cosmic rose.
    ID: 30857
    Hyperwall Visual

    Interacting Galaxies Arp 273 from Hubble

  • The majestic Sombrero Galaxy as observed by Hubble
    ID: 30855
    Hyperwall Visual

    The Sombrero Galaxy from Hubble

  • Plumes of glowing hydrogen blast from the central nucleus of the starburst galaxy Messier 82.
    ID: 30856
    Hyperwall Visual

    Starburst Galaxy Messier 82 from Hubble

  • Central Region of Spiral Galaxy Messier 83
    ID: 30853
    Hyperwall Visual

    Central Region of Spiral Galaxy M83 from Hubble

  • The Whirlpool Galaxy and Companion Galaxy
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    The Whirlpool Galaxy from Hubble

  • Hubble's High-Definition View of the Spiral Galaxy Messier 101
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    Spiral Galaxy Messier 101 in High-Definition from Hubble

  • The gamma-ray excess (shown in yellow-white) at the heart of M31 hints at unexpected goings-on in the galaxy's central region. Scientists think the signal could be produced by a variety of processes, including a population of pulsars or even dark matter. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration and Bill Schoening, Vanessa Harvey/REU program/NOAO/AURA/NSF
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    Fermi Detects Gamma-ray Puzzle from M31

  • 4K B-roll footage of the Webb Telescope's first flight mirror being installed onto the backplane at GSFC.
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    Webb Telescope First Golden Mirror Installation 4K B-Roll

  • 4K B-roll footage of the 18th golden mirror being installed to the backplane structure of the Webb Telescope.
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    Webb Telescope's 18th Golden Mirror Installation 4K B-Roll

  • 4K B-roll footage of the Webb Telescope Observatory being moved from the rollover fixture to the assembly stand inside the cleanroom.
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    Telescope Structure Move 5/5/16 4K B-Roll

  • 4K B-roll footage of the Webb Telescope structure being moved from the assembly stand to the rollover fixture inside the cleanroom.
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    Telescope Structure Move 3/22/2016 4K B-Roll

  • 4K b-roll footage of the Integrated Science Instrument Module being installed into the James Webb Space Telescope's Optical Telescope Element.
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    ISIM Installation 4K B-Roll

  • A short featurette about how engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland practice moving a mock up version of the James Webb Space Telescope onto the vibration facility, before moving the actual telescope for sine vibration tests.
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    Webb Telescope Structure Practice Move 7-14-16

  • The Webb Telescope team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center take a football through some of the same tests the Webb Telescope must pass in order to survive launch and operate in space.
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    NASA Puts Football Through Same Paces as World's Most Advanced Space Telescope

  • NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered the five most distant gamma-ray blazars yet known. The light detected by Fermi left these galaxies by the time the universe was two billion years old. Two of these galaxies harbor billion-solar-mass black holes that challenge current ideas about how quickly such monsters could grow.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
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    Fermi Finds the Farthest Blazars

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    Astronomical Object Beauty Sequences

  • Part 2 of engineers at Goddard Space Flight Center moving the James Webb Space Telescope onto the rollover fixture, and then rotating and tilting the telescope inside the cleanroom.
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    Webb Telescope Element Move 10-3-2016 B-Roll

  • Dive into the Large Magellanic Cloud and see a visualization of LMC P3, an extraordinary gamma-ray binary system discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
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    Fermi Finds Record-breaking Gamma-ray Binary

  • Animation illustrating light from a cluster of galaxies being lensed by dark matter.
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    Dark Matter Gravitational Lensing Animation

  • The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), at center, is the second-largest satellite galaxy orbiting our own. This image superimposes a photograph of the SMC with one half of a model of its dark matter (right of center). Lighter colors indicate greater density and show a strong concentration toward the galaxy's center. Ninety-five percent of the dark matter is contained within a circle tracing the outer edge of the model shown. In six years of data, Fermi finds no indication of gamma rays from the SMC's dark matter.Credits: Dark matter, R. Caputo et al. 2016; background, Axel Mellinger, Central Michigan University
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    NASA's Fermi Mission Broadens its Dark Matter Search

  • Interview with NASA Senior Hubble Scientist Dr. Jennifer Wiseman. Transition of text is included. Soundbites are separated by a slate. TRT: 6:21Questions include:1. Tell us about the new Frontier Field image2. How is this image helping us explore the final frontier?3. How does Hubble compar in seeking out life and new civilizations?4. What are some of the coolest things Hubble has seen?5. How has science fiction like Star Trek inspired you?6. Where can we see more of Hubble's images?
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    New Hubble "Frontier Field" Image Live Shots

  • A revolutionary instrument aboard the ill-fated Hitomi satellite returned the most detailed measurements yet made of the million-degree atmosphere at the core of a galaxy cluster. Watch the video to learn more.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Natural Awe" and "To the Tower" from Killer TracksComplete transcript available.
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    Hitomi Measures X-ray Winds of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster

  • Nearly 10 billion years ago, the black hole at the center of a distant galaxy produced a powerful outburst, and light from this blast began arriving at Earth in 2012. Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other space- and ground-based observatories have shown that a record-breaking neutrino seen around the same time likely was born in the same event. Neutrinos are the fastest, lightest, most unsociable and least understood fundamental particles. The study provides the first plausible association between a single extragalactic object and a high-energy cosmic neutrino. Although neutrinos far outnumber all the atoms in the universe, they rarely interact with matter. While this property makes them hard to detect, it lets neutrinos make a fast exit from places where light cannot easily escape -- such as the core of a collapsing star -- and zip across the universe almost completely unimpeded. Neutrinos can provide information about processes and environments that simply aren't available through a study of light alone. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, built into a cubic kilometer of clear glacial ice at the South Pole, detects neutrinos when they interact with atoms in the ice. Some of the most extreme particles detected by IceCube receive nicknames based on characters on the children's TV series "Sesame Street." On Dec. 4, 2012, IceCube detected an event known as Big Bird, a neutrino with an energy exceeding 2 quadrillion electron volts (PeV), the highest-energy neutrino ever detected at the time. But the best IceCube position only narrowed the source to a patch of the southern sky about 32 degrees across, equivalent to the apparent size of 64 full moons. In the summer of 2012, Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) witnessed the onset of a dramatic brightening of PKS B1424-418, an active galaxy classified as a gamma-ray blazar. An active galaxy is an otherwise typical galaxy with a compact and unusually bright core; this excess luminosity is produced by matter falling toward a supermassive black hole weighing millions of times the mass of our sun. As it approaches the black hole, some of the material becomes channeled into particle jets moving outward in opposite directions at nearly the speed of light. In blazars, one of these jets happens to point almost directly toward Earth. During the year-long outburst, PKS B1424-418 shone between 15 and 30 times brighter in gamma rays than its average before the eruption. The blazar is located within the Big Bird source region, but so are many other active galaxies detected by Fermi. Was it the culprit? Astronomers investigating the link turned to the TANAMI project, which since 2007 has routinely monitored dozens of active galaxies in the southern sky. The program includes regular radio observations using the Australian Long Baseline Array (LBA) and associated telescopes in Chile, South Africa, New Zealand and Antarctica. When networked together, they operate as a single radio telescope more than 6,000 miles across and provide a unique high-resolution look into the jets of active galaxies. Three radio observations of PKS B1424-418 between 2011 and 2013 cover the period of the Fermi outburst. They reveal that the core of the galaxy's jet had brightened by about four times. No other galaxy observed by TANAMI over the life of the program has exhibited such a dramatic change. The team suggests the PKS B1424-418 outburst and Big Bird are connected, calculating only a 5-percent probability the two events occurred by chance alone. Using data from Fermi, NASA’s Swift and WISE satellites, the LBA and other facilities, the researchers determined how the energy of the eruption was distributed across the electromagnetic spectrum and showed that it was sufficiently powerful to produce a neutrino at PeV energies.
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    Fermi Helps Link a Cosmic Neutrino to a Blazar Outburst

  • This illustration of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory shows the locations of its four instruments, the Burst And Transient Source Experiment (BATSE), the Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE), the Imaging Compton Telescope (COMPTEL), and the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET). Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 12194
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    The Compton Legacy: A Quarter-century of Gamma-ray Science

  • With a view 100 times bigger than that of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope WFIRST will aid researchers in their efforts to unravel the secrets of dark energy and dark matter, and explore the evolution of the cosmos. It also will discover new worlds outside our solar system and advance the search for worlds that could be suitable for life. Scientists participating in the mission discuss the spacecraft, the science, and its potential. Slated to launch in the mid-2020s, the observatory will operate at a gravitational balance point known as Earth-sun L2, which is located about 930,000 miles from Earth and directly opposite the sun.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
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    WFIRST: The Best of Both Worlds

  • Hyperwall-resolution graphic showing the amount of silicon in various detectors.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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    Fermi Hyperwall--2016 AAS Technical

  • 3x3 hyperwall-resolution image of the Fermi bubbles.Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
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    Fermi Hyperwall--2016 AAS, A Walk Through Fermi Science

  • Explore how gamma-ray telescopes in space and on Earth captured an outburst of high-energy light from PKS 1441+25, a black-hole-powered galaxy more than halfway across the universe.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 12004
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    NASA's Fermi Satellite Kicks Off a Blazar Bonanza

  • Explore Fermi's discovery of the first gamma-ray pulsar detected in a galaxy other than our own.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
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    Fermi finds the first extragalactic gamma-ray pulsar

  • Suzaku mapped iron, magnesium, silicon and sulfur in four directions all across the Virgo Galaxy Cluster for the first time. The northern arm of the survey (top) extends 5 million light-years from M87 (center), the massive galaxy at the cluster's heart. Ratios of these elements are constant throughout the cluster, which means they were mixed well early in cosmic history. The dashed circle shows what astronomers call the virial radius, the boundary where gas clouds are just entering the cluster. Some prominent members of the cluster are labeled as well. The background image is part of the all-sky X-ray survey acquired by the German ROSAT satellite. The blue box at center indicates the area shown in the visible light image. Credit: A. Simionescu (JAXA) and Hans Boehringer (MPE)
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    Suzaku Finds Common Chemical Composition at Largest Cosmic Scales

  • This poster summarizes the career to date of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The central image is a map of the whole sky at gamma-ray wavelengths accumulated over six years of operations. The poster also discusses other Fermi findings, including a black widow pulsar, the Fermi Bubbles rising thousands of light-years out of our galaxy's center, a giant gamma-ray flare from the Crab Nebula, and many more.The poster is available in a variety of resolutions.Credit: NASA/Fermi/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
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    Poster: Fermi's Gamma-ray Cosmos

  • A flight through the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
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    Across the Universe: The Hubble Ultra Deep Field

  • A galaxy collision simualtion compared, at different stages, to different galaxy collision images from Hubble
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    Galaxy Collisions: Simulation vs Observations

  • A comparison of visible and radio views of the active galaxy Hercules A
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    Active Galaxy Hercules A: Visible & Radio Comparison

  • A flight through the galaxies of the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field
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    Exploring the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field

  • 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.
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    Fermi Spots a Record Flare from Blazar 3C 279

  • JWST Arm-Over Deploy
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    JWST Arm Over-Deploy at GSFC

  • Backplane Pathfinder Mirror Placement
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    JWST Pathfinder Backplane Mirror Placement GSFC

  • JWST's Backplane Pathfinder enters into Chamber A
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    JWST Backplane Pathfinder Prepped for Cryo Test in Chamber A B-roll Part 1

  • This movie illustrates how black-hole feedback works in quasars. Dense gas and dust in the center simultaneously fuels the black hole and shrouds it from view. The black-hole wind propels large-scale outflows of cold gas and powers a shock wave that clears gas and dust from the central galaxy.Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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    Suzaku, Herschel Link a Black-hole 'Wind' to a Galactic Gush

  • Dr. John Mather presents - Traveling in Space and Time and the JamesWebb Telescope (TRT: 60 minutes)
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    Dr. John Mather Presentation: Traveling in Space and Time with the James Webb Space Telescope

  • Explore NASA Goddard's Clean Room with Laura Betz
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    Explore NASA Goddard's Clean Room with Laura Betz

  • JWST's Backplane Arrives at Marshall for Testing
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    JWST's Backplane Arrives at Marshall for Testing

  • A Chandra X-ray telescope image of Sagittarius-A
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    Hyperwall Visual

    X-ray Telescopes Find Black Hole May Be a Neutrino Factory

  • A cropped view of the Andromeda Galaxy PHAT Mosaic.
    ID: 30561
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    Andromeda Galaxy PHAT Mosaic

  • A collection of some of Swift's most noteworthy and interesting discoveries and observations from its ten years of viewing the sky.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
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    Highlights of Swift's Decade of Discovery

  • A simulation of two colliding galaxies (left) shows how their coalescing supermassive black holes can launch the resulting larger black hole (dot, lower left) on a wide orbit. Right: Compare the simulation with this Keck II near-infrared image of Markarian 177 and SDSS1133 (lower left). Credit: Simulation, L. Blecha (UMD); image, W. M. Keck Observatory/M. Koss (ETH Zurich) et al.
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    Swift Probes Exotic Object: 'Kicked' Black Hole or Mega Star?

  • Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.Explore M82 X-1 and learn more about how astronomers used X-ray fluctuations to determine its status as an intermediate-mass black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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    NASA's RXTE Satellite Catches the Beat of a Midsize Black Hole

  • Broll for JWST Microshutters are moved for thermal, accoustic and vibration testing
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    JWST Microshutters Moved for Thermal, Accoustic and Vibration Testing

  • BROLL for JWST ISIM Structure moves into the SES for Cryogenic TestingFor complete transcript, click here.
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    JWST ISIM Structure moves into SES
    for Second Cryogenic Test

  • What astronomers once thought were two blazar families may in fact be one, as shown in this artist's concept. Energy stored in the black hole during its salad days of intense accretion may later be tapped by the blazar to continue its high-energy emissions long after this gas has been depleted.
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    Black Hole 'Batteries' Keep Blazars Going and Going

  • Movie, no labels, dissolving from the unprocessed map to one with sources removed and back to unprocessed. Details as above. The first file—labeled MPEG—is an animated GIF. Credit: T. Linden (Univ. of Chicago)
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    Fermi Hints at Dark Matter

  • Images of Circumnuclear Ring (CNR) at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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    The Milky Way Galaxy's Circumnuclear Ring

  • --THESE ANIMATIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE CURRENT DESIGN OF THE SPACECRAFT--Please use the WFIRST Updated Spacecraft Beauty Pass AnimationsA five-shot beauty pass of the WFIRST spacecraft on orbit
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    OLD WFIRST Spacecraft Animations

  • This animation shows an artist's rendition of the cloudy structure revealed by a study of data from NASA's Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer satellite.Credit: Wolfgang Steffen, UNAM
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    The Cloudy Cores of Active Galaxies

  • Swift's UVOT captured the new supernova in three exposures taken on Jan. 22, 2014. Mid-ultraviolet light is shown in blue, near-UV light in green, and visible light in red. Thick dust in M82 scatters much of the highest-energy light, which is why the supernova appears yellowish here. The image is 17 arcminutes across, or slightly more than half the apparent diameter of a full moon.Credit: NASA/Swift/P. Brown, TAMU
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    NASA's Swift Images SN 2014J in M82

  • This sequence from the X-ray Telescope on NASA’s Swift mission shows changes in the central region of the Milky Way galaxy from 2006 through 2013. Watch for flares from binary systems containing a neutron star or black hole and the changing brightness of Sgr A* (center), the galaxy’s monster black hole.Credit: NASA/Swift/N. Degenaar (Univ. of Michigan)
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    Swift Catches X-ray Activity at the Galaxy's Center

  • This movie illustrates the components of a gravitational lens system known as B0218+357. Different sight lines to a background blazar result in two images that show outbursts at slightly different times. NASA's Fermi made the first gamma-ray measurements of this delay in a lens system. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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    First Gamma-ray Measurement of a Gravitational Lens

  • Composite image shows solar-type stars under Small Magellanic Cloud wing.
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    Under the 'Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud

  • Image from Hubble Space Telescope shows close encounters between galaxies.
    ID: 30468
    Hyperwall Visual

    Colliding Galaxies

  • Chandra X-ray data shows a hot gas cloud caused by colliding galaxies.
    ID: 30472
    Hyperwall Visual

    Dwarf Galaxy Caught Ramming into a Large Spiral

  • Spiral Galaxy M81
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    Hyperwall Visual

    Hubble Photographs Grand Design Spiral Galaxy M81

  • Composite image of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872.
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    Hyperwall Visual

    The Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy

  • Andromeda galaxy as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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    Hyperwall Visual

    A Journey Into Andromeda

  • Image comparison shows four protostars observed by Herschel Observatory.
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    Hyperwall Visual

    The Youngest Stars Ever

  • A Webb Video Snap Shot of the Integrated Science Instrument Module being moved from NASA Goddard Space Flight cleanroom to the Space Environment Simulator for cryogenic testing.
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    ISIM Goes into NASA's Huge Space Environment Simulator for Another Cryo Test

  • Short video containing highlights from Fermi's first 5 years of operation.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
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    Highlights of Fermi's First Five Years

  • The Fermi LAT 60-month image, constructed from front-converting gamma rays with energies greater than 1 GeV. The most prominent feature is the bright band of diffuse glow along the map's center, which marks the central plane of our Milky Way galaxy. The gamma rays are mostly produced when energetic particles accelerated in the shock waves of supernova remnants collide with gas atoms and even light between the stars. Hammer projection. Image credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
    ID: 11342
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    Fermi's Five-year View of the Gamma-ray Sky

  • This animation of supercomputer data takes you to the inner zone of the accretion disk of a stellar-mass black hole. Gas heated to 20 million degrees F as it spirals toward the black hole glows in low-energy, or soft, X-rays. Just before the gas plunges to the center, its orbital motion is approaching the speed of light. X-rays up to hundreds of times more powerful ("harder") than those in the disk arise from the corona, a region of tenuous and much hotter gas around the disk. Coronal temperatures reach billions of degrees. The event horizon is the boundary where all trajectories, including those of light, must go inward. Nothing, not even light, can pass outward across the event horizon and escape the black hole.Music: "Lost in Space" by Lars Leonhard, courtesy of artist.For complete transcript, click here.
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    NASA-led Study Explains How Black Holes Shine in Hard X-rays

  • New surveys conducted by NASA's Swift provide the most detailed overviews ever captured in ultraviolet light of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two closest major galaxies to our own. Swift team member Stefan Immler, who proposed the imaging project, narrates this quick tour. All visible light imagery provided by Axel Mellinger, Central Michigan UniversityFor complete transcript, click here.
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    NASA Swift Provides the Best-Ever UV View of the Nearest Galaxies

  • This video supports the Science in the Media curriculum module, which culminates with students playing the role of reporters viewing this simulated press conference and writing a story about it. The findings discussed in the video are actual results from the Suzaku satellite.For complete transcript with timecode, click here.For complete transcript without timecode, click here.
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    Science in the Media Press Conference

  • Navigating by Cosmic BeaconA promotional teaser for SEXTANT.For complete transcript, click here.
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    SEXTANT: Navigating by Cosmic Beacon

  • The husks of exploded stars produce some of the fastest particles in the cosmos. New findings by NASA's Fermi show that two supernova remnants accelerate protons to near the speed of light. The protons interact with nearby interstellar gas clouds, which then emit gamma rays. Short narrated video.For complete transcript, click here.
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    Fermi Proves Supernova Remnants Produce Cosmic Rays

  • This animation tracks several gamma rays through space and time, from their emission in the jet of a distant blazar to their arrival in Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT). During their journey, the number of randomly moving ultraviolet and optical photons (blue) increases as more and more stars are born in the universe. Eventually, one of the gamma rays encounters a photon of starlight and the gamma ray transforms into an electron and a positron. The remaining gamma-ray photons arrive at Fermi, interact with tungsten plates in the LAT, and produce the electrons and positrons whose paths through the detector allows astronomers to backtrack the gamma rays to their source. This version has music and additional elements on it. For an animation-only version, go here.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Cruz deWildeWatch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
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    NASA's Fermi Explores the Early Universe

  • Still from animation
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    Fermi Observation of Early Background Light Animation

  • A study of 544 star-forming galaxies observed by the Keck and Hubble telescopes shows that disk galaxies like our own Milky Way unexpectedly reached their current state long after much of the universe's star formation had ceased. Over the past 8 billion years, the galaxies lose chaotic motions and spin faster as they develop into settled disk galaxies. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterPlease note: The closing time-lapse in this video is Copyright
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    Astronomers Uncover a Surprising Trend in Galaxy Evolution

  • Astronomers using data from the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite have found a long-sought X-ray signal from NGC 4151, a galaxy that contains a supermassive black hole. When the black hole's X-ray source flares, its accretion disk reflects the emission about half an hour later. The discovery promises a new way to unravel what's happening in the neighborhood of these powerful objects.For complete transcript, click here.
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    X-ray 'Echoes' Probe Habitat
    of Monster Black Hole

  • Animation of Near-InfraRed Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument rotating (with embedded alpha channel)
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    Webb Telescope Instrument Animations

  • Pursuit of Light movieWatch on YouTube: http://youtu.be/5tE5XJzZ-Rw.
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    Pursuit of Light

  • No one knows what dark matter is, but it constitutes 80 percent of the matter in our universe. By studying numerous dwarf galaxies — satellite systems that orbit our own Milky Way galaxy — NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has produced some of the strongest limits yet on the nature of the hypothetical particles suspected of making up dark matter. Short, narrated video.Poster image, and dark matter simulations credit: Simulation: Wu, Hahn, Wechsler, Abel(KIPAC), Visualization: Kaehler (KIPAC)Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
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    Fermi Observations of Dwarf Galaxies Provide New Insights on Dark Matter

  • Still from animation.
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    Interstellar Neutral Atoms

  • A short tour of the sky demonstrating the use of the star maps.
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    Visualization

    Deep Star Maps

  • Fermi's view of the gamma-ray sky continually improves. This image of the entire sky includes three years of observations by Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT). It shows how the sky appears at energies greater than 1 billion electron volts (1 GeV). Brighter colors indicate brighter gamma-ray sources. A diffuse glow fills the sky and is brightest along the plane of our galaxy (middle). Discrete gamma-ray sources include pulsars and supernova remnants within our galaxy as well as distant galaxies powered by supermassive black holes. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
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    NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Explores New Energy Extremes

  • What is Fermi. Narrated short video.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
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    Fermi Pulsar Interactive Videos

  • Active galaxies called blazars make up the largest class of objects detected by Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT). Massive black holes in the hearts of these galaxies fire particle jets in our direction. Fermi team member Elizabeth Hays narrates this quick tour of blazars, which includes LAT movies showing how rapidly their emissions can change. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/CI LabWatch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10819
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    Fermi's Latest Gamma-ray Census Highlights Cosmic Mysteries

  • On March 28, 2011, NASA's Swift detected intense X-ray flares thought to be caused by a black hole devouring a star. In one model, illustrated here, a sun-like star on an eccentric orbit plunges too close to its galaxy's central black hole. About half of the star's mass feeds an accretion disk around the black hole, which in turn powers a particle jet that beams radiation toward Earth. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab
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    NASA's Swift Satellite Spots Black Hole Devouring A Star

  • Narrated Beyond Einstein production.For complete transcript, click here.
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    Produced Video

    Beyond Einstein

  • Normally the size of an office desk, this far-infrared spectrometer can fit in the palm of your hand.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10799
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    MicroSpec: Revolutionary Instrument on a Chip

  • Zoom into Markarian 739, a nearby galaxy hosting two monster black holes. Using NASA's Swift and Chandra, astronomers have shown that both black holes are producing energy as gas falls into them. The object is only the second-known binary active galactic nucleus within half a billion light-years.
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    Nearby Galaxy Boasts Two Monster Black Holes, Both Active

  • No Labels. Left: The giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128 is the radio source known as Centaurus A. Vast radio-emitting lobes (shown as orange in this optical/radio composite) extend nearly a million light-years from the galaxy. Credit: Capella Observatory (optical), with radio data from Ilana Feain, Tim Cornwell, and Ron Ekers (CSIRO/ATNF), R. Morganti (ASTRON), and N. Junkes (MPIfR). Right: This radio image from the TANAMI project provides the sharpest-ever view of a supermassive black hole's jets. As seen here, the full extent of the jet and counterjet is 4.16 light-years, smaller than the distance between our sun and the nearest star. The image resolves details as small as 15 light-days across. Undetected between the jets is the galaxy's 55-million-solar-mass black hole. Credit: NASA/TANAMI/Müller et al.
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    Radio Telescopes Capture Best-Ever Snapshot of a Black Hole's Jets

  • View of AGN with center occluded by edge
    ID: 10698
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    NASA's Swift Finds 'Missing' Active Galaxies

  • From end to end, the gamma-ray bubbles extend 50,000 light-years, or roughly half of the Milky Way's diameter, as shown in this illustration. The bubbles stretch across 100 degrees, spanning the sky from the constellation Virgo to the constellation Grus. If the structure were rotated into the galaxy's plane, it would extend beyond our solar system. Hints of the bubbles' edges were first observed in X-rays (blue) by ROSAT (Röntgen Satellite), a Germany-led mission operating in the 1990s. The gamma rays mapped by Fermi (magenta) extend much farther from the galaxy's plane. No Labels.
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    Fermi discovers giant gamma-ray bubbles in the Milky Way

  • Artist's interpretation of the Milky Way and the gamma-ray lobes.
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    Fermi gamma-ray lobes animation

  • Webb Telescope planetary studies web feature. Total run time: 6:02
    ID: 10689
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    Planetary Studies Web Feature

  • A fully produced video about the evolution of the universe and how the Webb Telescope will help us better understand how early stars gathered into galaxies and the stucture of the universe, the "cosmic web," evolved from the big bang to what we see today. Total run time: 3:40
    ID: 10656
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    JWST Feature - Evolution of the Universe

  • A fully produced video feature about the evolution of galaxies and how the Webb Telescope, optimized to see in the infrared, will help us better understand the origin and development of galaxies. Total Run time: 2:43
    ID: 10657
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    JWST Feature - Galaxy Evolution

  • JWST Science Simulations: Galaxy Evolution wideshot. This visualization shows small galaxies forming, interacting, and merging to form Milky Way-type galaxies with spiral arms.
    ID: 10661
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    JWST Science Simulations: Galaxy Formation

  • JWST Science Simulations: Galaxy Evolution tracking animation. This visualization shows galaxies, composed of gas, stars and dark matter, colliding and forming filaments in the large-scale universe providing in a view of the Cosmic Web.
    ID: 10663
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    Webb Science Simulations: Re-Ionization Era

  • This visualization shows two colliding galaxies that merge into a single elliptical galaxy over a period spanning two billion years. Credits: NCSA, NASA, B. Robertson, L. Hernquist
    ID: 10687
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    JWST Science Simulation: Galaxy Collision

  • A fully produced video feature about galaxy collisions and how the Webb Telescope will help us better understand galaxy evolution. Total run time: 3:57
    ID: 10658
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    Webb Science Feature - Colliding Galaxies

  • A fully produced video about planetary evolution, the creation of solar systems and how the Webb Telescope will improve our understanding of this process. Total run time: 3:20
    ID: 10659
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    JWST Feature - Planetary Evolution

  • Episode 1: ExoplanetsThree astronomers in NASA Goddard's Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory discuss how Hubble's coronagraph and resulting images have helped scientists find planets orbiting distant stars.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10619
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    20 Years of Hubble Science

  • This simulation follows the collision of two spiral galaxies that harbor giant black holes. The collision merges the black holes and stirs up gas in both galaxies. The merged black hole gorges on the feast and lights up, forming an active galactic nucleus called a quasar and creating a "wind" that blows away much of the galaxy's gas. See the original animation at: http://web.phys.cmu.edu/~tiziana/BHGrow/.Credit:Volker Springel and Tiziana Di Matteo (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics), Lars Hernquist (Harvard Univ.)
    ID: 10549
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    Swift Survey Finds 'Smoking Gun' of Black Hole Activation

  • This movie presents a frame for each Swift-detected gamma-ray burst.
    ID: 3702
    Visualization

    Swift Detects its 500th Gamma Ray Burst

  • Video showing direction of travel of galaxy clusters at four distances from Earth. The colored dots are clusters within one of four distance ranges, with redder colors indicating greater distance. Colored ellipses show the axis of bulk motion for clusters of the corresponding color. Images of representative galaxy clusters in each distance slice are also shown. Credit: NASA/GSFC/A. Kashlinsky et al.
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    Dark Flow

  • This video labels the galaxy and supernova, and moves through visible, ultraviolet and X-ray images.
    ID: 10561
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    Central Engine Supernova

  • This animation shows the destruction of a red giant by a black hole. As the gas that makes up the star accelerates and crosses the event horizon, vast plumes of relativistic particles and radiation are emitted from the black hole's poles.
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    Neutron Star and Red Giant Binary Destruction

  • This animation shows a supernova from a distance and its expanding shell of matter.
    ID: 10547
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    Supernova with Expanding Shell

  • This animation details what the scientists are calling the perfect cosmic storm: galaxy clusters that collided like two high-pressure weather fronts and created hurricane-like conditions, tossing galaxies far from their paths and churning shock waves of 100-million-degree gas through intergalactic space. Tiny dots represent galaxies, each containing billions of stars.
    ID: 10555
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    Massive Merger of Galaxies is Most Powerful on Record

  • Animation of stellar nursery with shockwaves.
    ID: 20217
    Animation

    Stellar Nursery

  • Milky Way Galaxy Zoom
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    Zoom from the Milky Way Galaxy to our Heliosphere

  • High resolution layered Photoshop TIFF containing both UV and Optical image layers.
    ID: 10485
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    Swift's UV portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy

  • Astronaut Kathryn Thornton and NASA engineer Russ Werneth look back at the challenges and triumphs of the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. With footage from Servicing Mission 1 and the recent Servicing Mission 4, Thornton and Werneth look back at the problems, solutions, and legacy of Hubble.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10473
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    The Hubble Legacy: A Collegiate Case Study

  • Vision. Hope. Triumph.This is an excerpt from the STS-125 Preflight Science Briefing recorded at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on September 15, 2008.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10259
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    Vision. Hope. Triumph.

  • Close in as a Neutron Star emits a Gamma Ray Burst.
    ID: 20157
    Animation

    Neutron Stars - A Closer Perspective:

  • Wide Field Camera 3 potential observations at different wavelengths. (This animation does not include wavelength labels)
    ID: 10220
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    Wide Field Camera 3: Seeing in Different Wavelengths (no labels)

  • Wide Field Camera 3 potential observations at different wavelengths. (This animation displays labels for the wavelengths)
    ID: 10221
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    Wide Field Camera 3: Seeing in Different Wavelengths (with labels)

  • Potential Wide Field Camera 3 observations at various redshifts correlated to the object's distance from Earth.
    ID: 10222
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    Wide Field Camera 3: Redshift

  • From Greenbelt to GalaxiesDiscover Earth, Discover Space,Discover Excellence... Discovery in Maryland.
    ID: 10187
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    Goddard Day in Annapolis: From Greenbelt to Galaxies

  • Heliopause movie
    ID: 20107
    Animation

    Journey to the Heliopause

  • Galaxy frames
    ID: 20108
    Animation

    Milkyway Galaxy zoom

  • This animation takes us past a red giant, through a spiral galaxy and flies over a massive black hole.
    ID: 10134
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    Journey Through the Universe

  • This animation flies through a series of galaxy clusters.
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    Dark Energy Expands the Universe

  • This visualization presents a 3-D view of the largest structures in the universe. It begins with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and zooms out to reveal data from WMAP.
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    Sloan Digital Sky Survey

  • This is a computer-generated flight through more than 10,000 real galaxies.
    ID: 10138
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    'Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time' (IMAX Short Film)

  • A closer look at the center of a spiral galaxy reveals a pair of black holes locked in a death spiral. When they merge, a massive amount of energy is released in the form of jets.
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    Merging Black Holes

  • This animation shows a Cepheid variable star varying in brightness in the arm of a spiral galaxy.
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    Cepheid Variable in Spiral Galaxy

  • This is a conceptual animation of the Milky Way Galaxy.
    ID: 127
    Visualization

    Horizon to full Galaxy

  • Antimatter plume in the Galactic Center?
    ID: 181
    Visualization

    Milky Way Antimatter Plume

  • The full, narrated 17-minute Images video
    ID: 97
    Visualization

    Images of Earth and Space: The Role of Visualization in NASA Science

Blazar

  • Watch this video to learn more about XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission), a collaboration between JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and NASA.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic Credits: Universal Production MusicLights On by Hugh Robert Edwin Wilkinson Dreams by Jez Fox and Rohan JonesChanging Tide by Rob ManningWandering Imagination by Joel GoodmanIn Unison by Samuel Sim
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    XRISM: Exploring the Hidden X-ray Cosmos

  • These elements from the infographic above show the ComPair instrument on the left and its location on the gondola on the right.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 14373
    Infographic

    ComPair Infographic

  • This video includes music from a synthesized orchestra provided by composer Henry Dehlinger.Music credit: “Echoes of the Big Bang" from Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony by Henry Dehlinger. Courtesy of the composer.Complete list of footage usedHERE. Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
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    Cosmic Cycles 7: Echoes of the Big Bang

  • Still image of the above.Credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center/Daniel Kocevski
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    Fermi Captures Dynamic Gamma-ray Sky

  • XRISM turntable animations, available both as 4K/30 and 60 fps movies and as frames. The exposed tank behind the truss structure on the side opposite the solar panels houses the Resolve instrument.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
    ID: 20374
    Animation

    XRISM Beauty Shots

  • AAS 2023 Student winner Austin Brenner
    ID: 31210
    Hyperwall Visual

    AAS 241 student winner Austin Brenner

  • This animation illustrates how the microcalorimeter array at the heart of XRISM's revolutionary Resolve soft X-ray spectrometer works. X-ray light collected by a telescope strikes the detector. Each photon heats the material by an amount directly proportional to its energy. The instrument, which is cooled to 50 millikelvins, just above absolute zero, detects this minute temperature change.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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    XRISM Resolve Animation

  • WEBB Turn Around Above the Horizon
    ID: 20342
    Animation

    WEBB Turn Arounds

  • Quick link to associated B-ROLL for the live shots.Quick link to canned interview with Martin Weisskopf IXPE Principal Investigator
    ID: 14039
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    New NASA Spacecraft Will Help Unlock The Secrets Of Extreme Cosmic Objects Live Shots

  • Elements of Webb EP00: Introduction
    ID: 14002
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    Elements of Webb: Series Introduction Ep0

  • 29 Days on the Edge video
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    29 Days on the Edge

  • Quick link to canned interview in Spanish with Diego Altamirano: Principal Research Fellow, University of Southampton.Quick link to associated B-ROLL for live shots.
    ID: 13841
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    NASA’s NICER Telescope Examined a Star on the Edge of Becoming a Black Hole Live Shots

  • NASA Science Live: Galaxy of Horrors (Episode 10)
    ID: 13415
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    NASA Science Live: Galaxy of Horrors (Episode 10)

  • 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
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    Black Hole Accretion Disk Visualization

  • Scientists reflect on XMM-Newton’s 20th anniversary. The mission, led by ESA (European Space Agency), has dramatically improved our understanding of the cosmos thanks to detailed X-ray observations. NASA funded two of its three instruments, including the Optical/UV Monitor Telescope, which made XMM-Newton one of the first multiwavelength observatories in space.Music: "Passionate Research" and "Wondrous Planet" both from Universal Production MusicCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
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    XMM-Newton Anniversary Products

  • Gamma rays from distant galaxies called blazars interact with starlight as they travel across the universe. As shown in this video, those reaching the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope can help scientists learn about the history of star formation throughout the cosmos. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Inducing Waves" from Killer Tracks Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13104
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    Tracing the History of Starlight with NASA's Fermi Mission

  • This animation shows the central supermassive black hole of a blazar. The black hole is surrounded by a bright accretion disk and a darker torus of gas and dust. A bright jet of particles emerges from above and below the black hole. Collisions within the jet produce high-energy photons such as gamma rays. A flare from the blazar results in an additional burst of gamma rays and neutrinos.
    ID: 20281
    Animation

    Blazar Animations

  • The discovery of a high-energy neutrino on Sept. 22, 2017, sent astronomers on a chase to locate its source -- a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. Watch to learn more.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Hidden Tides" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
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    NASA's Fermi Links Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole

  • Watch a five-minute video on how NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the high-energy sky over it's first 10 years in space. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Unseen Husband" from Killer TracksComplete transcript available.
    ID: 12969
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    Fermi Satellite Celebrates 10 Years of Discoveries

  • Hubble Messier Catalog Facebook Live Program October, 19, 2017
    ID: 12750
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    Hubble Messier Catalog

  • A compilation of Webb Telescope videos.
    ID: 12203
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    Loop of Webb Videos and Imagery 2017

  • Music credit: Killer Tracks, Shifting Reality
    ID: 12630
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    NICER Mission Overview

  • The U.S. Air Force C5M Super Galaxy transport aircraft arrives at Ellington Field Reserve Joint Base near Houston, TX. The Webb Telescope inside its STTARS container and other equipment is unloaded from the aircraft.
    ID: 12609
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    Webb Telescope Element Arrives at NASA JSC for Cryogenic Testing

  • NICER observes X-ray light from the surfaces of neutron stars. In these strong-gravity environments, light paths are distorted so that NICER can see emission from the star's far side, especially for smaller, denser stars.
    ID: 20268
    Animation

    NICER Lensing

  • The James Webb Sapce Telescope sits inside the vibration and acoustics test facilities at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md
    ID: 12536
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    James Webb Space Telescope Environmental Testing Highlights

  • NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered the five most distant gamma-ray blazars yet known. The light detected by Fermi left these galaxies by the time the universe was two billion years old. Two of these galaxies harbor billion-solar-mass black holes that challenge current ideas about how quickly such monsters could grow.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 12454
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    Fermi Finds the Farthest Blazars

  • The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), at center, is the second-largest satellite galaxy orbiting our own. This image superimposes a photograph of the SMC with one half of a model of its dark matter (right of center). Lighter colors indicate greater density and show a strong concentration toward the galaxy's center. Ninety-five percent of the dark matter is contained within a circle tracing the outer edge of the model shown. In six years of data, Fermi finds no indication of gamma rays from the SMC's dark matter.Credits: Dark matter, R. Caputo et al. 2016; background, Axel Mellinger, Central Michigan University
    ID: 12317
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    NASA's Fermi Mission Broadens its Dark Matter Search

  • Nearly 10 billion years ago, the black hole at the center of a distant galaxy produced a powerful outburst, and light from this blast began arriving at Earth in 2012. Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other space- and ground-based observatories have shown that a record-breaking neutrino seen around the same time likely was born in the same event. Neutrinos are the fastest, lightest, most unsociable and least understood fundamental particles. The study provides the first plausible association between a single extragalactic object and a high-energy cosmic neutrino. Although neutrinos far outnumber all the atoms in the universe, they rarely interact with matter. While this property makes them hard to detect, it lets neutrinos make a fast exit from places where light cannot easily escape -- such as the core of a collapsing star -- and zip across the universe almost completely unimpeded. Neutrinos can provide information about processes and environments that simply aren't available through a study of light alone. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, built into a cubic kilometer of clear glacial ice at the South Pole, detects neutrinos when they interact with atoms in the ice. Some of the most extreme particles detected by IceCube receive nicknames based on characters on the children's TV series "Sesame Street." On Dec. 4, 2012, IceCube detected an event known as Big Bird, a neutrino with an energy exceeding 2 quadrillion electron volts (PeV), the highest-energy neutrino ever detected at the time. But the best IceCube position only narrowed the source to a patch of the southern sky about 32 degrees across, equivalent to the apparent size of 64 full moons. In the summer of 2012, Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) witnessed the onset of a dramatic brightening of PKS B1424-418, an active galaxy classified as a gamma-ray blazar. An active galaxy is an otherwise typical galaxy with a compact and unusually bright core; this excess luminosity is produced by matter falling toward a supermassive black hole weighing millions of times the mass of our sun. As it approaches the black hole, some of the material becomes channeled into particle jets moving outward in opposite directions at nearly the speed of light. In blazars, one of these jets happens to point almost directly toward Earth. During the year-long outburst, PKS B1424-418 shone between 15 and 30 times brighter in gamma rays than its average before the eruption. The blazar is located within the Big Bird source region, but so are many other active galaxies detected by Fermi. Was it the culprit? Astronomers investigating the link turned to the TANAMI project, which since 2007 has routinely monitored dozens of active galaxies in the southern sky. The program includes regular radio observations using the Australian Long Baseline Array (LBA) and associated telescopes in Chile, South Africa, New Zealand and Antarctica. When networked together, they operate as a single radio telescope more than 6,000 miles across and provide a unique high-resolution look into the jets of active galaxies. Three radio observations of PKS B1424-418 between 2011 and 2013 cover the period of the Fermi outburst. They reveal that the core of the galaxy's jet had brightened by about four times. No other galaxy observed by TANAMI over the life of the program has exhibited such a dramatic change. The team suggests the PKS B1424-418 outburst and Big Bird are connected, calculating only a 5-percent probability the two events occurred by chance alone. Using data from Fermi, NASA’s Swift and WISE satellites, the LBA and other facilities, the researchers determined how the energy of the eruption was distributed across the electromagnetic spectrum and showed that it was sufficiently powerful to produce a neutrino at PeV energies.
    ID: 12218
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    Fermi Helps Link a Cosmic Neutrino to a Blazar Outburst

  • This illustration of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory shows the locations of its four instruments, the Burst And Transient Source Experiment (BATSE), the Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE), the Imaging Compton Telescope (COMPTEL), and the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET). Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 12194
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    The Compton Legacy: A Quarter-century of Gamma-ray Science

  • Watch Fermi scientists explain why they're so excited about Pass 8, a complete reprocessing of all data collected by the mission's Large Area Telescope. This analysis increased the LAT's sensitivity, widened its energy range, and effectively sharpened its view through improved backtracking of incoming gamma rays. Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 12019
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    NASA's Fermi Mission Sharpens its High-energy View

  • 3x3 hyperwall-resolution image of the Fermi bubbles.Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
    ID: 12102
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    Fermi Hyperwall--2016 AAS, A Walk Through Fermi Science

  • Hyperwall-resolution graphic showing the amount of silicon in various detectors.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 12101
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    Fermi Hyperwall--2016 AAS Technical

  • Explore how gamma-ray telescopes in space and on Earth captured an outburst of high-energy light from PKS 1441+25, a black-hole-powered galaxy more than halfway across the universe.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 12004
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    NASA's Fermi Satellite Kicks Off a Blazar Bonanza

  • This poster summarizes the career to date of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The central image is a map of the whole sky at gamma-ray wavelengths accumulated over six years of operations. The poster also discusses other Fermi findings, including a black widow pulsar, the Fermi Bubbles rising thousands of light-years out of our galaxy's center, a giant gamma-ray flare from the Crab Nebula, and many more.The poster is available in a variety of resolutions.Credit: NASA/Fermi/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
    ID: 12022
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    Poster: Fermi's Gamma-ray Cosmos

  • 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.
    ID: 11947
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    Fermi Spots a Record Flare from Blazar 3C 279

  • What astronomers once thought were two blazar families may in fact be one, as shown in this artist's concept. Energy stored in the black hole during its salad days of intense accretion may later be tapped by the blazar to continue its high-energy emissions long after this gas has been depleted.
    ID: 11563
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    Black Hole 'Batteries' Keep Blazars Going and Going

  • This animation shows an artist's rendition of the cloudy structure revealed by a study of data from NASA's Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer satellite.Credit: Wolfgang Steffen, UNAM
    ID: 11482
    Produced Video

    The Cloudy Cores of Active Galaxies

  • This movie illustrates the components of a gravitational lens system known as B0218+357. Different sight lines to a background blazar result in two images that show outbursts at slightly different times. NASA's Fermi made the first gamma-ray measurements of this delay in a lens system. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 11437
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    First Gamma-ray Measurement of a Gravitational Lens

  • The Fermi LAT 60-month image, constructed from front-converting gamma rays with energies greater than 1 GeV. The most prominent feature is the bright band of diffuse glow along the map's center, which marks the central plane of our Milky Way galaxy. The gamma rays are mostly produced when energetic particles accelerated in the shock waves of supernova remnants collide with gas atoms and even light between the stars. Hammer projection. Image credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
    ID: 11342
    Produced Video

    Fermi's Five-year View of the Gamma-ray Sky

  • Short video containing highlights from Fermi's first 5 years of operation.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 11311
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    Highlights of Fermi's First Five Years

  • Still from animation
    ID: 11130
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    Fermi Observation of Early Background Light Animation

  • This animation tracks several gamma rays through space and time, from their emission in the jet of a distant blazar to their arrival in Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT). During their journey, the number of randomly moving ultraviolet and optical photons (blue) increases as more and more stars are born in the universe. Eventually, one of the gamma rays encounters a photon of starlight and the gamma ray transforms into an electron and a positron. The remaining gamma-ray photons arrive at Fermi, interact with tungsten plates in the LAT, and produce the electrons and positrons whose paths through the detector allows astronomers to backtrack the gamma rays to their source. This version has music and additional elements on it. For an animation-only version, go here.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Cruz deWildeWatch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 11117
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    NASA's Fermi Explores the Early Universe

  • Fermi's view of the gamma-ray sky continually improves. This image of the entire sky includes three years of observations by Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT). It shows how the sky appears at energies greater than 1 billion electron volts (1 GeV). Brighter colors indicate brighter gamma-ray sources. A diffuse glow fills the sky and is brightest along the plane of our galaxy (middle). Discrete gamma-ray sources include pulsars and supernova remnants within our galaxy as well as distant galaxies powered by supermassive black holes. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
    ID: 10887
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    NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Explores New Energy Extremes

  • What is Fermi. Narrated short video.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10861
    Produced Video

    Fermi Pulsar Interactive Videos

  • Active galaxies called blazars make up the largest class of objects detected by Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT). Massive black holes in the hearts of these galaxies fire particle jets in our direction. Fermi team member Elizabeth Hays narrates this quick tour of blazars, which includes LAT movies showing how rapidly their emissions can change. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/CI LabWatch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10819
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    Fermi's Latest Gamma-ray Census Highlights Cosmic Mysteries

  • Narrated Beyond Einstein production.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10806
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    Beyond Einstein

  • View of AGN with center occluded by edge
    ID: 10698
    Produced Video

    NASA's Swift Finds 'Missing' Active Galaxies

  • Dissolve showing change in brightness of Blazar 3C 454.3
    ID: 10540
    Produced Video

    Brightest-ever Flare From Blazar 3C 454.3

  • Galactic north pole map of blazars observed by Fermi, without overlays.
    ID: 10505
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    Blazars at Galactic North Pole, Seen in Fermi's First Year of Observations

  • This all-sky movie shows Fermi LAT counts of gamma rays with energies greater than 300 million electron volts from August 4 to October 30, 2008. 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.
    ID: 10407
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    Fermi All-sky Movie Shows Flaring, Fading Blazars