Astrophysics Star Listing

  • Released Friday, September 18th, 2015
  • ID: 40111

Star

  • Distant shot revealing both particle jets interacting with circumstellar dust and gas.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
    ID: 20378
    Animation

    Long Gamma-Ray Burst

  • Watch to learn how an update to NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory allowed it to catch a supersized black hole in a distant galaxy munching repeatedly on a circling star. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Music: "Teapot Waltz" by Benjamin Parsons from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 14408
    Produced Video

    Swift Spots a Snacking Black Hole Using a New Trick

  • 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
    ID: 14405
    Produced Video

    XRISM: Exploring the Hidden X-ray Cosmos

  • Cropped image for thumbnail
    ID: 14374
    Infographic

    A Guide to Cosmic Temperatures

  • 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]
    ID: 14347
    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

  • High Above Down Under Series TrailerWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.There are likely billions of planets in our galaxy. With over 5,000 already confirmed, how do we know which ones might hold life?Two NASA sounding rockets are launching from Australia to find out which stars make for habitable hosts. We’re following those rocket teams Down Under to show you what it takes to launch a rocket and make groundbreaking scientific measurements. Hang on tight – we’re going on an adventure High Above Down Under!Music Credit: "Epic Earth" by Andy Hopkins (PRS), Dean Mahoney (PRS), Jacob Nicholas Stonewall Jackson (PRS) via Universal Production Music
    ID: 14362
    Produced Video

    High Above Down Under Series

  • Our intrepid Traveler has decided to visit a gamma-ray burst for their next vacation. If you’d like to follow their adventure, check out this video for tips and tricks.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Wanna Be Hipster" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 14355
    Produced Video

    NASA’s Guide to Visiting a Gamma-Ray Burst

  • 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

  • An orbiting star begins to eclipse its partner, a rapidly rotating, superdense stellar remnant called a pulsar, in this illustration. The pulsar emits multiwavelength beams of light that rotate in and out of view and produces outflows that heat the star’s facing side, blowing away material and eroding its partner.Credit: NASA/Sonoma State University, Aurore Simonnet
    ID: 14281
    Produced Video

    Fermi Spots Gamma-ray Eclipsing 'Spider Systems'

  • 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

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

    Webb 1st Anniversary Social Media Video

  • B-roll footage of engineers and scientists working on the mirror alignment of the James Webb Space Telescope and the staff meeting of the final result of the mirror alignment at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD.
    ID: 14251
    B-Roll

    James Webb Mirror Alignment Completion and First Light Staff Meeting Results B-Roll

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

    AAS 241 student winner Austin Brenner

  • This sequence constructed from Fermi Large Area Telescope data reveals the sky in gamma rays centered on the location of GRB 221009A. Each frame shows gamma rays with energies greater than 100 million electron volts (MeV), where brighter colors indicate a stronger gamma-ray signal. In total, they represent more than 10 hours of observations. The glow from the midplane of our Milky Way galaxy appears as a wide diagonal band. The image is about 20 degrees across.Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
    ID: 14227
    Produced Video

    NASA Missions Detect Record-Breaking Burst

  • 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.
    ID: 14218
    B-Roll

    Drone footage of the Space Telescope Science Institute Facility

  • Master VersionHorizontal version. This is for use on any YouTube or non-YouTube platform where you want to display the video horizontally.
    ID: 14207
    Produced Video

    Hubble Spots Spiraling Stars

  • 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

  • The seemingly three-dimensional “Cosmic Cliffs” showcases Webb’s capabilities to peer through obscuring dust and shed new light on how stars form. Webb reveals emerging stellar nurseries and individual stars that are completely hidden in visible-light pictures. This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” is actually the edge of a nearby stellar nursery called NGC 3324 at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula. So-called mountains — some towering about 7 light-years high — are speckled with glittering, young stars imaged in infrared light. A cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located above the area shown in this image. The blistering, ultraviolet radiation from these stars is sculpting the nebula’s wall by slowly eroding it away. Dramatic pillars rise above the glowing wall of gas, resisting this radiation. The “steam” that appears to rise from the celestial “mountains” is actually hot, ionized gas and hot dust streaming away from the nebula due to the relentless radiation. Objects in the earliest, rapid phases of star formation are difficult to capture, but Webb’s extreme sensitivity, spatial resolution and imaging capability can chronicle these elusive events.
    ID: 31186
    Hyperwall Visual

    Webb's Science Mission Begins: First Light Images

  • NGC 3372: Eta Carinae Nebula
    ID: 31188
    Hyperwall Visual

    Webb's Science Mission Begins: First Light Images As Compared to Hubble

  • 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

  • Master VersionHorizontal version. This is for use on any YouTube or non-YouTube platform where you want to display the video horizontally.
    ID: 14169
    Produced Video

    Dead Star Caught Ripping Up Planetary System

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

    Webb Instrument Overview

  • Thumbnail
    ID: 14132
    Produced Video

    Black Hole Week: Black Hole GIFs

  • 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

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

    NASA’s Webb Reaches Alignment Milestone, Optics Working Successfully

  • Explore how NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) tracked brilliant hot spots on the surface of an erupting magnetar – from 13,000 light-years away. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Particles and Fields" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 14115
    Produced Video

    NASA's NICER Tracks a Magnetar's Hot Spots

  • 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

  • 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

  • Animation showing a wide view of SGR 1830, a magnetar that underwent an outburst in October 2020. NICER measurements from the first day of the event show that the X-ray emission exhibited three close peaks with every rotation. Astronomers think the triple peak occurred when three individual surface regions much hotter than their surroundings spun into and out of our view from Earth. NICER tracked the magnetar nearly every day for more than a month. Over that time, the hot spots dimmed, drifted relative to each other, and two even merged – a phenomenon not seen before. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
    ID: 20359
    Animation

    Migrating Magnetar Hot Spot 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

  • 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

  • Watch eight model stars stretch and deform as they approach a virtual black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun. The black hole’s gravity rips some stars apart into a stream of gas, a phenomenon called a tidal disruption event. Others manage to withstand their close encounters. These simulations show that destruction and survival depend on the stars’ initial densities. Yellow represents the greatest densities, blue the least dense. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Taeho Ryu (MPA)Music: "Lava Flow Instrumental" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 14000
    Produced Video

    Supercomputer Simulations Test Star-destroying Black Holes

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Astronomers combined data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, other space missions, and ground-based observatories to reveal the origin of GRB 200826A, a brief but powerful burst of radiation. It’s the shortest burst known to be powered by a collapsing star – and almost didn’t happen at all. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Inducing Waves" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13886
    Produced Video

    NASA's Fermi Spots 'Fizzled' Burst from Collapsing Star

  • Stellar siblings over 130 light-years away host two systems of teenage planets. Watch to learn how NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite discovered these young worlds and what they might tell us about the evolution of planetary systems everywhere, including our own.Music Credit: "Building Ideas" from Universal Production Music Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (KBRwyle)
    ID: 13876
    Produced Video

    TESS Finds Related Stars Have Young Exoplanets

  • 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

  • White Dwarf establishing shot.
    ID: 20344
    Animation

    Type Ia Supernovae Animations

  • 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

  • Watch how NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is helping physicists peer into the hearts of neutron stars, the remains of massive stars that exploded in supernovae. Scientists want to explore the nature of matter inside these objects, where it exists on the verge of collapsing into black holes. To do so, scientists need precise measurements of neutron stars’ masses and sizes, which NICER and other efforts are now making possible.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Question Time" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13832
    Produced Video

    NASA’s NICER Tests Matter’s Limits

  • JWST Science Simulations: Nebula Tour 1.This visualization shows a tour of a turbulent molecular cloud forming multiple protoplanetary disks. Credits: NCSA, NASA, A. Kritsuk, M. Norman
    ID: 10662
    Produced Video

    Webb Science Simulations: Planetary Systems and Origins of Life

  • 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

  • Observations from NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) show X-ray boosts linked in the Crab pulsar's random giant radio pulses. Watch to learn more. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "The Awakening" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13737
    Produced Video

    NASA’s NICER Finds X-ray Boosts in the Crab Pulsar’s Radio Bursts

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.
    ID: 13703
    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.
    ID: 13727
    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

  • Watch to learn how a possible giant planet may have survived its tiny star’s chaotic history. Jupiter-size WD 1856 b is nearly seven times larger than the white dwarf it orbits every day and a half. Astronomers discovered it using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Titanium" from Killer Tracks.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13708
    Produced Video

    Potential Giant World Circles a Tiny Star

  • 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

  • NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and retired Spitzer Space Telescope have found a young Neptune-size world orbiting AU Microscopii, a cool, nearby M-type red dwarf star surrounded by a vast disk of debris. The discovery makes the system a touchstone for understanding how stars and planets form and evolve. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music: "Web Of Intrigue" from Universal Production Music.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13648
    Produced Video

    TESS, Spitzer Missions Discover a Unique Young World

  • 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

  • Sound waves bouncing around inside a star cause it to expand and contract, which results in detectable brightness changes. This animation depicts one type of Delta Scuti pulsation — called a radial mode — that is driven by waves (blue arrows) traveling between the star's core and surface. In reality, a star may pulsate in many different modes, creating complicated patterns that enable scientists to learn about its interior.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 13605
    Produced Video

    TESS Aids Breakthrough in Puzzling Stellar Flashes

  • Launched on Nov. 20, 2004, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has been on the hunt to uncover the mystery of the universe’s most powerful explosions: gamma-ray bursts. These extreme events are some of the farthest objects we’ve ever detected and are associated with some of the most dramatic events in our cosmos, like the collapse of massive stars or the mergers of two neutron stars. In celebration of fifteen years of excellent science, join a Swift scientist as she describes a typical day for the team. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Fiber Optics" from Universal Production Music.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13594
    Produced Video

    A Day in the Life of a NASA Satellite Team

  • 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

  • NASA’s Fermi and NuSTAR space telescopes, together with another satellite named BRITE-Toronto, are providing new insights into a nova explosion that erupted in 2018. Detailed measurements of bright flares in the explosion clearly show that shock waves power most of the nova's visible light. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Scientist" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13578
    Produced Video

    NASA Missions Study a Nova's Shock Waves

  • 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

  • If the Earth were in Proxima b's location and the same distance from Proxima b's star and the Pacific Ocean was starside, things might look something like this.
    ID: 4777
    Visualization

    Proxima Centauri b Climate Model Scenarios

  • Proxima B is likely to be tidally locked, and therefore does not have a day/night cycle like earth. Instead one side of the planet is always in daylight and the other side is always in darkness.
    ID: 4778
    Visualization

    Earth Versus Proxima Centauri b Rotation Rates

  • This data visualization compares the relative distances and speeds of Proxima B's orbit to the Earth's orbit. Proxima B rapidly orbits its sun every 11.2 days.
    ID: 4779
    Visualization

    Orbital Differences Between Earth and Proxima Centauri b

  • This animation shows where Proxima Centauri B can be located in the Southern sky. It starts with a view of Earth and the camera moves to a view of the Southern sky, revealing the star constellations. Proxima Centauri is then highlighted and we quickly fly to it. Eventually, the planet unwraps into a flat plane showing a potential planetary surface without clouds.
    ID: 4780
    Visualization

    Where is Proxima B?

  • NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite found its first circumbinary planet, a world orbiting two stars 1,300 light-years away. Watch to learn more about this Saturn-size world called TOI 1338 b.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Albatross" from Universal Production Music.Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
    ID: 13510
    Produced Video

    TESS Satellite Discovered Its First World Orbiting Two Stars

  • This animation illustrates a preliminary model of the Thuban system, now known to be an eclipsing binary thanks to data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The stars orbit every 51.4 days at an average distance slightly greater than Mercury’s distance from the Sun. We view the system about three degrees above the stars’ orbital plane, so they undergo mutual eclipses, but neither is ever completely covered up by its partner. The primary star is 4.3 times bigger than the Sun and has a surface temperature around 17,500 degrees Fahrenheit (9,700 C), making it 70% hotter than our Sun. Its companion, which is five times fainter, is most likely half the primary’s size and 40% hotter than the Sun. Thuban, also called Alpha Draconis, is located about 270 light-years away in the northern constellation Draco.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA)Watch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel.
    ID: 13512
    Produced Video

    TESS Shows Ancient North Star Has Eclipses

  • Old WFIRST version of videoCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Flight Impressions" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13497
    Produced Video

    Simulated Image Demonstrates the Power of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

  • Watch how NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) has expanded our understanding of pulsars, the dense, spinning corpses of exploded stars. Pulsar J0030+0451 (J0030 for short), located 1,100 light-years away in the constellation Pisces, now has the most precise and reliable measurements of both a pulsar’s mass and size to date. The shapes and locations of its hot spots challenge textbook depictions of these incredible objects. Music: "Uncertain Ahead" and "Flowing Cityscape" (underscore). Both from Universal Production MusicCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13240
    Produced Video

    NASA’s NICER Sizes Up a Pulsar, Reveals First-ever Surface Map

  • 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

  • On Jan. 14, 2019, the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observatory in the Canary Islands captured the highest-energy light every recorded from a gamma-ray burst. MAGIC began observing the fading burst just 50 seconds after it was detected thanks to positions provided by NASA's Fermi and Swift spacecraft (top left and right, respectively, in this illustration). The gamma rays packed energy up to 10 times greater than previously seen. Credit: NASA/Fermi and Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University
    ID: 13427
    Produced Video

    A New Era in Gamma-ray Science

  • A thermonuclear blast on a pulsar called J1808 resulted in the brightest burst of X-rays seen to date by NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope. The explosion occurred on Aug. 20, 2019, and released as much energy in 20 seconds as our Sun does in almost 10 days. Watch to see how scientists think this incredible explosion occurred. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Business As Usual" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
    ID: 13419
    Animation

    NICER Catches Milestone X-ray Burst

  • NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) spent a year imaging the southern sky in its search for worlds beyond our solar system. Dive into a mosaic of these images to see what TESS has found so far. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: “Phenomenon" from Above and Below Written and produced by Lars LeonhardWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13285
    Produced Video

    TESS's Southern Sky Panorama

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

    NASA Science Live: Galaxy of Horrors (Episode 10)

  • 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

  • When a star strays too close to a black hole, intense tides break it apart into a stream of gas. The tail of the stream escapes the system, while the rest of it swings back around, surrounding the black hole with a disk of debris. This video includes images of a tidal disruption event called ASASSN-19bt taken by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and Swift missions, as well as an animation showing how the event unfolded. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Music: "Games Show Sphere 03" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13237
    Produced Video

    TESS Catches Its First Star-destroying Black Hole

  • 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

  • Black Hole 101: What Is a Black Hole?Want to know more about black holes, but don't have a lot of time? This short video will give you a quick overview of some of the most interesting features of black holes.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Dinner With the Vicar" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.
    ID: 13322
    Animation

    NASA's Guide To Black Hole Safety

  • 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

  • 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

  • Tour the GJ 357 system, located 31 light-years away in the constellation Hydra. Astronomers confirming a planet candidate identified by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite subsequently found two additional worlds orbiting the star. The outermost planet, GJ 357 d, is especially intriguing to scientists because it receives as much energy from its star as Mars does from the Sun. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music: "Golden Temple" from Killer Tracks.Complete transcript available.See the bottom of the page for a version without on-screen text.
    ID: 13266
    Produced Video

    TESS Discovery Leads to Surprising Find of Promising World

  • Here are highlights from TESS's first year of science operations. All exoplanet animations are illustrations.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Elapsing Time" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13238
    Produced Video

    Highlights From TESS's First Year

  • 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

  • A visualization of the 3D structure of the Ring Nebula based on visible light observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and infrared observations from the Large Binocular Telescope.
    ID: 31045
    Hyperwall Visual

    The Colorful Structure of the Ring Nebula

  • Illustration depicting a 360-degree rotation of L 98-59b. A 4K still image is also available for download.
    ID: 13223
    Produced Video

    TESS Discovers Its Tiniest World To Date

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • For the longest time, space seemed like just a big, nearly empty place. However, as we learned more about the universe around us, we discovered other planets orbiting our Sun, and even planets that orbit other stars trillions of miles away. In this video, discover how NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered thousands of planets outside of our solar system — also called exoplanets — with space telescopes like Kepler and TESS.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Virtual Memory" from Killer TracksYouTube linkComplete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
    ID: 13155
    Produced Video

    Going Interstellar with TESS and Kepler

  • 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

  • New radio observations combined with 10 years of data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have revealed a runaway pulsar that escaped the blast wave of the supernova that formed it. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Forensic Scientist" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.See the bottom of the page for a version without on-screen text.
    ID: 13156
    Produced Video

    NASA’s Fermi Satellite Clocks a ‘Cannonball’ Pulsar

  • In this illustration, an asteroid (bottom left) breaks apart under the powerful gravity of LSPM J0207+3331, the oldest, coldest white dwarf known to be surrounded by a ring of dusty debris. Scientists think the system’s infrared signal is best explained by two distinct rings composed of dust supplied by crumbling asteroids. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger
    ID: 13147
    Produced Video

    Volunteer Discovers Record-Setting White Dwarf Star

  • 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

  • Watch what scientists think happens when a black hole tears apart a hot, dense white dwarf star. A team working with observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory suggest this process explains a mysterious outburst known as AT2018cow. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Curious Events" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the JPL YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 12855
    Produced Video

    Mysterious ‘Cow’ Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes

  • 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

  • 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
    Produced Video

    Tracing the History of Starlight with NASA's Fermi Mission

  • 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

  • Explore a new “pulsar in a box” computer simulation that tracks the fate of electrons (blue) and their antimatter kin, positrons (red), as they interact with powerful magnetic and electric fields around a neutron star. Lighter colors indicate higher particle energies. Each particle seen in this visualization actually represents trillions of electrons or positrons. Better knowledge of the particle environment around neutron stars will help astronomers understand how they produce precisely timed radio and gamma-ray pulses.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Reaching for the Horizon" and "Leaving Earth" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13058
    Produced Video

    Simulations Create New Insights Into Pulsars

  • 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

  • The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) captured this strip of stars and galaxies in the southern sky during one 30-minute period on Tuesday, Aug. 7. Created by combining the view from all four of its cameras, this is TESS’ “first light,” from the first observing sector that will be used for identifying planets around other stars. Notable features in this swath of the southern sky include the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds and a globular cluster called NGC 104, also known as 47 Tucanae. The brightest stars in the image, Beta Gruis and R Doradus, saturated an entire column of camera detector pixels on the satellite’s second and fourth cameras. No object labels.Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS
    ID: 13069
    Produced Video

    NASA’s TESS Releases First Science Image

  • Digital Sky Survey optical image of Mountains of CreationBright, young stars light up the gas.
    ID: 30991
    Hyperwall Visual

    Mountains of Creation 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

  • B-roll
    ID: 13019
    Produced Video

    NASA's Mission to Touch the Sun Launches Next Week

  • 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

  • Zoom into Eta Carinae, where the outflows of two massive stars collide and shoot accelerated particles cosmic rays into space.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Music: "Expectant Aspect" from Killer Tracks.YouTube LinkComplete transcript available.
    ID: 12989
    Produced Video

    Superstar Eta Carinae Shoots Cosmic Rays

  • Infrared, optical, lo X-ray, and hi X-ray images of Supernova Remnant combined
    ID: 30970
    Hyperwall Visual

    Kepler Supernova Remnant

  • 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

  • Chandra/XMM X-ray image of Eagle Nebula
    ID: 30960
    Hyperwall Visual

    Eagle Nebula: M16 Wide

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

    Milky Way Center in Multiple Wavelengths

  • Visible image of the Orion Nebula
    ID: 30959
    Hyperwall Visual

    The Orion Nebula: Visible and Infrared Views

  • The nebula SNR 0509-67.5, nicknamed the "Red Bubble", is the result of a supernova explosion of a star.
    ID: 30956
    Hyperwall Visual

    The Red Bubble: Supernova Remnant SNR 0509-67.5

  • 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

  • A close-up of stars in the core of the globular star cluster Omega Centauri from the Hubble Space Telescope.
    ID: 30948
    Hyperwall Visual

    Core of Globular Star Cluster Omega Centauri from Hubble

  • Orion Nebula from Hubble (2006)
    ID: 30947
    Hyperwall Visual

    Orion Nebula from Hubble

  • Visible image of Herbig Haro 666.
    ID: 30945
    Hyperwall Visual

    HH666: The Hidden Jet Launch

  • Scientists analyzing the first data from the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission have found two stars that revolve around each other every 38 minutes. One of the stars in the system, called IGR J17062–6143 (J17062 for short), is a rapidly spinning, superdense star called a pulsar. The other is probably a hydrogen-poor white dwarf. The discovery bestows the stellar pair with the record for the shortest-known orbital period for a certain class of pulsar binary system.Music: "Games Show Sphere 2" from Killer TracksComplete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
    ID: 12938
    Produced Video

    NICER Finds X-ray Pulsar in Record-fast Orbit

  • Radio image of the Crab Nebula.
    ID: 30944
    Hyperwall Visual

    Vision Across the Full Spectrum: The Crab Nebula, from Radio to X-ray

  • Hubble Infrared image of the Lagoon Nebula.
    ID: 30943
    Hyperwall Visual

    Lagoon Nebula: Visible and Infrared Views

  • 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

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

    NASA Preparing to Launch New Planet-Hunting Mission Live Shots

  • Watch an overview of the TESS mission.Music: "Drive to Succeed" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 12850
    Produced Video

    NASA's New Planet Hunter: TESS

  • 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

  • Astronomers thought patterns spotted in disks around young stars could be planetary signposts. But is there another explanation? A new simulation performed on NASA's Discover supercomputing cluster shows how the dust and gas in the disk could form those patterns no planets needed.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Hyperborea" from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 12807
    Produced Video

    Debris Disks Generate Spirals, Rings and Arcs in Simulations

  • 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

  • Zoom into RZ Piscium, a star about 550 light-years away that undergoes erratic dips in brightness. This animation illustrates one possible interpretation of the system, with a giant planet near the star slowly dissolving. Gas and dust stream away from the planet, and these clouds occasionally eclipse the star as we view it from Earth.Music: "Frozen Wonder" from Killer Tracks Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Credit NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI LabComplete transcript available.
    ID: 12806
    Produced Video

    'Winking' Star May Be Devouring Wrecked Planets

  • 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

  • Learn more about HIRMES, the latest addition to NASA's airplane-based infrared telescope, SOFIA.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Sparkle Shimmer" and "The Orion Arm", both from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 12673
    Produced Video

    HIRMES: SOFIA's latest high-resolution Mid-infrared Spectrometer

  • 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

  • Complete transcript available.
    ID: 12676
    Produced Video

    Science Goals of the James Webb Space Telescope

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

    Loop of Webb Videos and Imagery 2017

  • A low-magnitude threshold version of the skymap. The threshold magnitude is 3.0 so the galactic disk is very faint. Good for when you just want the brighter stars and have a wide field of view.
    ID: 4451
    Visualization

    The Alternative Night Sky - Another Time - Another Place

  • 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

  • Music credit: "High Heelz" by Donn Wilkerson [BMI] and Lance Sumner [BMI]; Killer Tracks BMI; Killer Tracks Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
    ID: 12621
    Produced Video

    Star Gives Birth to Possible Black Hole in Hubble and Spitzer Images

  • 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

  • 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

  • Video for "Fly Your Exoplanet" contest.
    ID: 12555
    Produced Video

    TESS Fly Your Exoplanet

  • 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

  • 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
    ID: 12505
    Produced Video

    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.
    ID: 12430
    B-Roll

    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.
    ID: 12431
    B-Roll

    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.
    ID: 12435
    B-Roll

    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.
    ID: 12436
    B-Roll

    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.
    ID: 12446
    B-Roll

    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.
    ID: 12423
    Produced Video

    Webb Telescope Structure Practice Move 7-14-16

  • 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.
    ID: 12402
    B-Roll

    Webb Telescope Element Move 10-3-2016 B-Roll

  • Dive into the Kepler field and learn more about the origins of these rapidly spinning stars.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Electric Cosmos" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 12399
    Produced Video

    NASA's Kepler, Swift Missions Harvest ‘Pumpkin’ Stars

  • 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.
    ID: 12376
    Produced Video

    Fermi Finds Record-breaking Gamma-ray Binary

  • NASA Goddard astronomer Erin Kara discusses the discovery of X-ray echoes from Swift J1644+57, a black hole that shattered a passing star. X-rays produced by flares near this million-solar-mass black hole bounced off the nascent accretion disk and revealed its structure. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "The Orion Arm" and "Particle Acceleration" both from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 12265
    Produced Video

    X-ray Echoes Map a 'Killer' Black Hole

  • To mark Hubble's 26th birthday, astronomers captured this balloon-like sphere of gas.
    ID: 30773
    Hyperwall Visual

    The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) from Hubble

  • A visualization of a flight in a 3D mdoel of the Bubble Nebula.
    ID: 30782
    Hyperwall Visual

    A Flight Into the Bubble Nebula

  • 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
    Produced Video

    The Compton Legacy: A Quarter-century of Gamma-ray Science

  • A star approaching too close to a massive black hole is torn apart by tidal forces, as shown in this artist's rendering. Filaments containing much of the star's mass fall toward the black hole. Eventually these gaseous filaments merge into a smooth, hot disc glowing brightly in X-rays. As the disk forms, it's central region heats up tremendously, which drives a flow of material, called a wind, away from the disk.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI LabWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 20228
    Animation

    Massive Black Hole Shreds Passing Star (Animation Only)

  • 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.
    ID: 12153
    Produced Video

    WFIRST: The Best of Both Worlds

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

    Fermi Hyperwall--2016 AAS Technical

  • 3x3 hyperwall-resolution image of the Fermi bubbles.Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
    ID: 12102
    Produced Video

    Fermi Hyperwall--2016 AAS, A Walk Through Fermi Science

  • Labeled image. GRB 151027B, Swift's 1,000th burst (center), is shown in this composite X-ray, ultraviolet and optical image. X-rays were captured by Swift's X-Ray Telescope, which began observing the field 3.4 minutes after the Burst Alert Telescope detected the blast. Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) began observations seven seconds later and faintly detected the burst in visible light. The image includes X-rays with energies from 300 to 6,000 electron volts, primarily from the burst, and lower-energy light seen through the UVOT's visible, blue and ultraviolet filters (shown, respectively, in red, green and blue). The image has a cumulative exposure of 10.4 hours. Credit: NASA/Swift/Phil Evans, Univ. of Leicester
    ID: 12038
    Produced Video

    NASA's Swift Catches its 1,000th Gamma-ray Burst

  • A star approaching too close to a massive black hole is torn apart by tidal forces, as shown in this artist's rendering. Filaments containing much of the star's mass fall toward the black hole. Eventually these gaseous filaments merge into a smooth, hot disk glowing brightly in X-rays. As the disk forms, its central region heats up tremendously, which drives a flow of material, called a wind, away from the disk. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI LabWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 12005
    Produced Video

    Massive Black Hole Shreds Passing Star

  • 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
    Produced Video

    Poster: Fermi's Gamma-ray Cosmos

  • Flight into the "Mystic Mountain" pillars of gas in the Carina Nebula
    ID: 30683
    Hyperwall Visual

    Bright Pillars in the Carina Nebula

  • A 3D visualization of the star-formonig region Sharpless 2-106
    ID: 30682
    Hyperwall Visual

    Star-forming Region Sharpless 2-106

  • MAVEN observes a stellar occultation with its IUVS instrument. By splitting apart the light of setting stars, MAVEN can determine the composition of the Martian atmosphere.
    ID: 20223
    Animation

    MAVEN Stellar Occultation

  • Click download button to select from a range of sizes.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 11738
    Infographic

    Infographic: NASA's Swift Gamma-ray Burst Explorer

  • Swift XRT image of V404 Cygni showing the acquired at 10:51 UT on July 2, 2015. The exposure was about 27 minutes. Additional information is the same as above. Credit: Andrew Beardmore (Univ. of Leicester) and NASA/Swift
    ID: 11948
    Produced Video

    X-ray Echoes Create a Black Hole Bull's-eye

  • Coming attraction: Astronomers are expecting high-energy explosions when pulsar J2032 swings around its massive companion star in early 2018. The pulsar will plunge through a disk of gas and dust surrounding the star, triggering cosmic fireworks. Scientists are planning a global campaign to watch the event across the spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 11895
    Produced Video

    Astronomers Predict Cosmic Light Show from 2018 Stellar Encounter

  • This animation illustrates the direct relationship between a pulsar's X-ray pulses and its quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO), a flickering signal that hovers around certain frequencies. The QPO is shown here as a bright patch near the inner edge of the disk of gas that feeds matter to the pulsar at the center, called SAX J1808. Guided by magnetic fields, gas streaming onto the neutron star forms bright hot spots. As the pulsar spins 401 times a second, telescopes detect X-ray pulses as these locations swing into view from Earth. When the QPO orbits more slowly than the pulsar’s spin, the neutron star’s magnetic field holds back flowing gas, dimming the X-ray pulses. But during an outburst, the inner edge of the disk is forced closer to the pulsar, resulting in a faster-moving QPO and compression of the pulsar's magnetic field. When the QPO matches or bests the pulsar’s spin, more gas streams onto the neutron star, and the pulses brighten. Gas may even flow directly onto the pulsar's equatorial region, producing extra hot spots. NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observed this relationship during outbursts in 2002, 2005, and 2008. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
    ID: 11804
    Produced Video

    RXTE Data Link Pulsar Pulses with a QPO

  • 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
    ID: 11821
    Produced Video

    Suzaku, Herschel Link a Black-hole 'Wind' to a Galactic Gush

  • This video is a trailer of the upcoming TESS mission.
    ID: 11817
    Produced Video

    TESS Mission Trailer

  • Dr. John Mather presents - Traveling in Space and Time and the JamesWebb Telescope (TRT: 60 minutes)
    ID: 11808
    Produced Video

    Dr. John Mather Presentation: Traveling in Space and Time with the James Webb Space Telescope

  • Explore NASA Goddard's Clean Room with Laura Betz
    ID: 11771
    Produced Video

    Explore NASA Goddard's Clean Room with Laura Betz

  • JWST's Sunshield Full Deploy Test Time Lapse
    ID: 11769
    Produced Video

    JWST's Sunshield Full Deploy Test Time Lapse

  • JWST's Backplane Arrives at Marshall for Testing
    ID: 11770
    Produced Video

    JWST's Backplane Arrives at Marshall for Testing

  • Explore Eta Carinae from the inside out with the help of supercomputer simulations and data from NASA satellites and ground-based observatories. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 11725
    Produced Video

    NASA Missions Take an Unparalleled Look into Superstar Eta Carinae

  • Volunteers using DiskDetective, a NASA-sponsored citizen science website to find potential planetary nurseries, have made 1 million classifications in less than a year. Goddard astrophysicist Marc Kuchner, the project's principal investigator, explains how it works.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10628
    Produced Video

    'Disk Detectives' Top 1 Million Classifications in Search for Planetary Habitats

  • 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.
    ID: 10170
    Produced Video

    Highlights of Swift's Decade of Discovery

  • A rupture in the crust of a highly magnetized neutron star, shown here in an artist's rendering, can trigger high-energy eruptions. Fermi observations of these blasts include information on how the star's surface twists and vibrates, providing new insights into what lies beneath. The subtle pattern on the surface represents a twisting motion imparted to the magnetar by the explosion.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger
    ID: 11713
    Produced Video

    Fermi Finds Hints of Starquakes in Magnetar 'Storm'

  • NASA's Swift mission detected a record-setting series of X-ray flares unleashed by DG CVn, a nearby binary consisting of two red dwarf stars, illustrated here. At its peak, the initial flare was brighter in X-rays than the combined light from both stars at all wavelengths under normal conditions. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger
    ID: 11531
    Produced Video

    Swift Catches Mega Flares from a Mini Star

  • Same as above but without labels.Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
    ID: 11608
    Produced Video

    Fermi Reveals Novae as a New Class of Gamma-Ray Sources

  • This animation illustrates one possible model for the dramatic changes observed from J1023. The two stars of AY Sextantis orbit closely enough that a stream of gas flows from the sun-like star toward the pulsar. The pulsar's rapid rotation and intense magnetic field produce both the radio beam and the high-energy wind, which is eroding its companion. When the radio beam (green) is detectable, the pulsar wind holds back the companion's gas stream, preventing it from approaching too closely. Now and then the stream surges, reaches toward the pulsar and establishes an accretion disk. Processes involved in producing the radio beam are either shut down or, more likely, obscured. Meanwhile, some of the gas falling toward the pulsar may be accelerated outward at nearly the speed of light, forming dual particle jets firing in opposite directions. Shock waves within and along the periphery of these jets are a likely source of the bright gamma-ray emission (magenta) detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 11567
    Produced Video

    PSR J1023, A 'Transformer' Pulsar—Animations

  • Narrated video. Zoom into an artist's rendering of AY Sextantis, a binary star system whose pulsar switched from radio emissions to high-energy gamma rays in 2013. This transition likely means the pulsar's spin-up process is nearing its end.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 11609
    Produced Video

    NASA's Fermi Catches a 'Transformer' Pulsar

  • A short basic tutorial video for using the Disk Detective website.Watch this video on YouTube.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 11580
    Produced Video

    Disk Detective Tutorial

  • Images from Hubble show light echo surrounding V838 from 2002 to 2006.
    ID: 30513
    Hyperwall Visual

    Hubble Sees Rare Stellar Light Echo

  • Edited video with music of the 4k neutron star merger simulation.Credit: NASA/AEI/ZIB/M. Koppitz and L. RezzollaMusic: "Approaching Eclipse" from stock music site Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 11530
    Produced Video

    Neutron Stars Rip Each Other Apart to Form Black Hole

  • Images of Circumnuclear Ring (CNR) at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
    ID: 30497
    Hyperwall Visual

    The Milky Way Galaxy's Circumnuclear Ring

  • This artist's concept illustrates the preferred model for explaining ALMA observations of Beta Pictoris. At the outer fringes of the system, the gravitational influence of a hypothetical giant planet (bottom left) captures comets into a dense, massive swarm (right) where frequent collisions occur. The one planet known in the system, Beta Pictoris b, is shown near the star.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/F. Reddy
    ID: 11499
    Produced Video

    Beta Pictoris: Icy Debris Suggests 'Shepherd' Planet

  • Slower version of the above animation.
    ID: 11215
    Produced Video

    PSR J1311-3430 'Black Widow' Pulsar Animations

  • Learn how astronomers discovered PSR J1311−3430, a record-breaking black widow binary and the first of its kind discovered solely through gamma-ray observations. Greenbank Telescope image credit: NRAO/AUIWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 11216
    Produced Video

    Black Widow Pulsars Consume Their Mates

  • Take a tour of DiskDetective.org with Goddard astrophysicist Marc Kuchner, the project's principal investigator.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 11436
    Produced Video

    Disk Detective: Search for Planetary Habitats

  • 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
    ID: 11459
    Produced Video

    NASA's Swift Images SN 2014J in M82

  • Measurements of polarized light in the afterglow of GRB 120308A by the Liverpool Telescope and its RINGO2 instrument indicate the presence of a large-scale stable magnetic field linked with a young black hole, as shown in this illustration.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger
    ID: 11423
    Produced Video

    Glimpsing the Infrastructure of a Gamma-ray Burst Jet

  • Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the cosmos. Astronomers think most occur when the core of a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel, collapses under its own weight, and forms a black hole. The black hole then drives jets of particles that drill all the way through the collapsing star at nearly the speed of light. Artist's rendering.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 11407
    Produced Video

    Briefing Materials: NASA Missions Explore Record-Setting Cosmic Blast

  • Composite image of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872.
    ID: 30111
    Hyperwall Visual

    The Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy

  • Image comparison shows four protostars observed by Herschel Observatory.
    ID: 30156
    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.
    ID: 11360
    Produced Video

    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.
    ID: 11311
    Produced Video

    Highlights of Fermi's First Five Years

  • 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.
    ID: 11293
    Produced Video

    NASA Swift Provides the Best-Ever UV View of the Nearest Galaxies

  • An artist's rendering of an outburst on an ultra-magnetic neutron star, also called a magnetar.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 11260
    Produced Video

    NASA's Swift Catches an Anti-glitch from a Neutron Star

  • These maps, both centered on the north galactic pole, show how the sky looks at gamma-ray energies above 100 million electron volts (MeV). The first frame shows the sky during a three-hour interval prior to GRB 130427A. The second frame shows a three-hour interval starting 2.5 hours before the burst, and ending 30 minutes into the event. The Fermi team chose this interval to demonstrate how bright the burst was relative to the rest of the gamma-ray sky. This burst was bright enough that Fermi autonomously left its normal surveying mode to give the LAT instrument a better view, so the three-hour exposure following the burst does not cover the whole sky in the usual way. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
    ID: 11261
    Produced Video

    NASA's Fermi, Swift See 'Shockingly Bright' Gamma-ray Burst

  • Blue supergiant star to scale with the Sun. Unlabeled.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger
    ID: 11250
    Produced Video

    A Trio of Swift Bursts Form A New Class of GRBs

  • Navigating by Cosmic BeaconA promotional teaser for SEXTANT.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10857
    Produced Video

    SEXTANT: Navigating by Cosmic Beacon

  • The Vela pulsar outlines a fascinating pattern in this movie showing 51 months of position and exposure data from Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT). The pattern reflects numerous motions of the spacecraft, including its orbit around Earth, the precession of its orbital plane, the manner in which the LAT nods north and south on alternate orbits, and more. The movie renders Vela's position in a fisheye perspective, where the middle of the pattern corresponds to the central and most sensitive portion of the LAT's field of view. The edge of the pattern is 90 degrees away from the center and well beyond what scientists regard as the effective limit of the LAT's vision. Better knowledge of how the LAT's sensitivity changes across its field of view helps Fermi scientists better understand both the instrument and the data it returns.Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT CollaborationFor complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 11205
    Produced Video

    Fermi Traces a Celestial Spirograph

  • 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.
    ID: 11209
    Produced Video

    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.
    ID: 11117
    Produced Video

    NASA's Fermi Explores the Early Universe

  • Still from animation
    ID: 11130
    Produced Video

    Fermi Observation of Early Background Light Animation

  • On November 13, 2008 Fomalhaut b was announced as an exoplanet. Then on January 20, 2012, a paper was published calling this status into question. Now, a new study has reanimated this formerly "dead" exoplanet.
    ID: 11116
    Produced Video

    Reviving Fomalhaut b

  • Short narrated video.
    ID: 11109
    Produced Video

    X-ray Satellites Monitor the Clashing Winds of a Colossal Binary

  • Artist's interpretation of Swift J1745-26, a newly discovered black hole with a flaring accretion disk.
    ID: 11110
    Produced Video

    X-ray Nova Flaring Black Hole animation

  • Short narrated video.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 11108
    Produced Video

    X-ray Nova Reveals a New Black Hole in Our Galaxy

  • As seen from the Rossi XTE satellite, the Moon passes in front of X-ray pulsar IGR J17480-2446.
    ID: 3959
    Visualization

    RXTE Views X-ray Pulsar Occulted by the Moon

  • Short narrated video and print-resolution still.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10991
    Produced Video

    A Young Star Flaunts its X-ray Spots

  • This artist's rendering illustrates the evaporation of HD 189733b's atmosphere in response to a powerful eruption from its host star. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected the escaping gases and NASA's Swift satellite caught the stellar flare.
    ID: 11019
    Produced Video

    Hubble, Swift Detect First-ever Changes in an Exoplanet Atmosphere

  • Artist's interpretation of what the exoplanet, flare, and atmosphere loss might have looked like.
    ID: 11026
    Produced Video

    HD 189733b Exoplanet Animation

  • Goddard Spring Interns 2012For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10995
    Produced Video

    Goddard Spring Interns 2012

  • Animation of Near-InfraRed Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument rotating (with embedded alpha channel)
    ID: 10994
    Produced Video

    Webb Telescope Instrument Animations

  • A side view of the Earth's radiation belt and its variation in time.
    ID: 3949
    Visualization

    Earth's Radiation Belts (side view)

  • A short tour of the sky demonstrating the use of the star maps.
    ID: 3895
    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
    ID: 10887
    Produced Video

    NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Explores New Energy Extremes

  • This animation compares the X-ray 'heartbeats' of GRS 1915 and IGR J17091, two black holes that ingest gas from companion stars. GRS 1915 has nearly five times the mass of IGR J17091, which at three solar masses may be the smallest black hole known. A fly-through relates the heartbeats to hypothesized changes in the black hole's jet and disk.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10875
    Produced Video

    RXTE Detects 'Heartbeat' Of Smallest Black Hole Candidate

  • Animation showing the pulsing behavior of the black hole in system IGR J17091-3624. This animation shows the pulsing at its real-time speed of 5 seconds per cycle.
    ID: 10876
    Produced Video

    Black Hole Pulse Animation

  • These animations illustrate two wildly different explanations for GRB 101225A, better known as the "Christmas burst." First, a solitary neutron star in our own galaxy shreds and accretes an approaching comet-like body. In the second, a neutron star is engulfed by, spirals into and merges with an evolved giant star in a distant galaxy.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10808
    Produced Video

    The Dual Personality of the 'Christmas Burst'

  • Tour the Cygnus X star factory. This video opens with wide optical and infrared images of the constellation Cygnus, then zooms into the Cygnus X region using radio, infrared and gamma-ray images. Fermi LAT shows that gamma rays fill cavities in the star-forming clouds. The emission occurs when fast-moving cosmic rays strike hot gas and starlight.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.
    ID: 10878
    Produced Video

    Gamma rays in the Heart of Cygnus

  • This plot shows the positions of nine new pulsars (magenta) discovered by Fermi and of an unusual millisecond pulsar (green) that Fermi data reveal to be the youngest such object known. With this new batch of discoveries, Fermi has detected more than 100 pulsars in gamma rays. Credit: Credit: AEI and NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
    ID: 10858
    Produced Video

    Fermi Discovers Youngest Millisecond Pulsar

  • 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

  • Two spiral arms emerge from the gas-rich disk around SAO 206462, a young star in the constellation Lupus. This image, acquired by the Subaru Telescope and its HiCIAO instrument, is the first to show spiral arms in a circumstellar disk. The disk itself is some 14 billion miles across, or about twice the size of Pluto's orbit in our own solar system. No Labels. Credit: NAOJ/Subaru
    ID: 10847
    Produced Video

    Spiral Arms Point to Possible Planets in a Star's Dusty Disk

  • 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
    ID: 10807
    Produced Video

    NASA's Swift Satellite Spots Black Hole Devouring A Star

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

    Beyond Einstein

  • Short narrated video about B1259.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10798
    Produced Video

    Stellar Odd Couple Makes Striking Flares

  • There are strange goings-on in the Crab Nebula. On April 12, 2011, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the most powerful in a series of gamma-ray flares occurring somewhere within the supernova remnant.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10767
    Produced Video

    NASA's Fermi Spots 'Superflares' in the Crab Nebula

  • A short narrated video about the Crab Nebula's variability.Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10708
    Produced Video

    A Flickering X-ray Candle

  • 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
    Produced Video

    JWST Feature - Evolution of the Universe

  • 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
    Produced Video

    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
    Produced Video

    JWST Science Simulation: Galaxy Collision

  • Animation depicting the binary star system. When viewed from its orbital plane, the red giant eclipses the pulsar.
    ID: 10625
    Produced Video

    RXTE Sees Eclipses from Fast X-ray Pulsar

  • 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
    Produced Video

    20 Years of Hubble Science

  • This animation shows a supernova from a distance and its expanding shell of matter.
    ID: 10547
    Produced Video

    Supernova with Expanding Shell

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

    Stellar Nursery

  • High resolution layered Photoshop TIFF containing both UV and Optical image layers.
    ID: 10485
    Produced Video

    Swift's UV portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy

  • A new model of oddly shaped debris disks around stars incorporates the drag effect from interstellar gas on the disk's outermost small particles. The force only affects the smallest particles — those about one micrometer across, or about the size of particles in smoke.
    ID: 10470
    Produced Video

    Interstellar "Wind" Sculpts Dusty Disks Around Stars

  • Animated with dissolves between frames
    ID: 10374
    Produced Video

    Spitzer Exoplanet Observation of HD 80606b

  • This movie is a sample tour of the skymap. It starts looking at the North Celestial Pole (the Little Dipper is visible). We then make short trips to the Big Dipper, the Summer Triangle (Cygnus, Lyra, and Aquila), the Orion and Taurus region, southward to Canis Major, and over to Scorpius and Saggitarius. The movie ends pointed at the South Celestial Pole (the Southern Cross is visible to the right).
    ID: 3572
    Visualization

    The Tycho Catalog Skymap - Version 2.0

  • 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
    Produced Video

    Vision. Hope. Triumph.

  • Swift leaves the darkness, camera zooms in to catch the spacecraft crossing Earth.
    ID: 20155
    Animation

    Swift Spacecraft Animations

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

    Neutron Stars - A Closer Perspective:

  • This movie is a sample tour of the skymap. It starts looking at the North Celestial Pole (the Little Dipper is visible). We then make short trips to the Big Dipper, the Summer Triangle (Cygnus, Lyra, and Aquila), the Orion and Taurus region, southward to Canis Major, and over to Scorpius and Saggitarius. The movie ends pointed at the South Celestial Pole (the Southern Cross is visible to the right).
    ID: 3442
    Visualization

    The Tycho Catalog Skymap

Supernova

  • Distant shot revealing both particle jets interacting with circumstellar dust and gas.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
    ID: 20378
    Animation

    Long Gamma-Ray Burst

  • 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
    ID: 14405
    Produced Video

    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

  • Cropped image for thumbnail
    ID: 14374
    Infographic

    A Guide to Cosmic Temperatures

  • 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

  • Our intrepid Traveler has decided to visit a gamma-ray burst for their next vacation. If you’d like to follow their adventure, check out this video for tips and tricks.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Wanna Be Hipster" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 14355
    Produced Video

    NASA’s Guide to Visiting a Gamma-Ray Burst

  • 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

  • Full version of the simulation above, but without labels or other annotations.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and STAG Research Centre/Peter HammondComplete transcript available.
    ID: 14209
    Produced Video

    NASA’s Compton Mission Glimpses Supersized Neutron Stars

  • 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
    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
    ID: 14244
    Produced Video

    XRISM Resolve Animation

  • Master VersionHorizontal version. This is for use on any YouTube or non-YouTube platform where you want to display the video horizontally.
    ID: 14239
    Produced Video

    Hubble Captures 3 Faces of Evolving Supernova

  • Because cosmic ray protons, nuclei, and electrons carry electric charge, their direction changes as they wend their way through the galaxy's magnetic field. By the time the particles reach us, their paths can be completely scrambled, and astronomers cannot trace them back to their sources. Gamma rays — including those produced by cosmic rays interacting with interstellar matter — instead travel straight to us from their sources.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 14170
    Produced Video

    NASA’s Fermi Confirms 'PeVatron' Supernova Remnant

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

    Webb First Images Promos

  • Title slide.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 14174
    Produced Video

    Rebekah Hounsell 2022 AAS Roman Hyperwall Talk

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

    Webb Instrument Overview

  • Thumbnail
    ID: 14132
    Produced Video

    Black Hole Week: Black Hole GIFs

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Elements of Webb: Elements Seeking Elements Ep12

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • Astronomers combined data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, other space missions, and ground-based observatories to reveal the origin of GRB 200826A, a brief but powerful burst of radiation. It’s the shortest burst known to be powered by a collapsing star – and almost didn’t happen at all. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Inducing Waves" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13886
    Produced Video

    NASA's Fermi Spots 'Fizzled' Burst from Collapsing Star

  • This periodic table depicts the primary source on Earth for each element. In cases where two sources contribute fairly equally, both appear.
    ID: 13873
    Produced Video

    Periodic Table of the Elements: Origins of the Elements

  • 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

  • White Dwarf establishing shot.
    ID: 20344
    Animation

    Type Ia Supernovae Animations

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Launched on Nov. 20, 2004, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has been on the hunt to uncover the mystery of the universe’s most powerful explosions: gamma-ray bursts. These extreme events are some of the farthest objects we’ve ever detected and are associated with some of the most dramatic events in our cosmos, like the collapse of massive stars or the mergers of two neutron stars. In celebration of fifteen years of excellent science, join a Swift scientist as she describes a typical day for the team. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Fiber Optics" from Universal Production Music.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13594
    Produced Video

    A Day in the Life of a NASA Satellite Team

  • 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

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

    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
    ID: 13326
    Produced Video

    Black Hole Accretion Disk Visualization

  • Black Hole 101: What Is a Black Hole?Want to know more about black holes, but don't have a lot of time? This short video will give you a quick overview of some of the most interesting features of black holes.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Dinner With the Vicar" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.
    ID: 13322
    Animation

    NASA's Guide To Black Hole Safety

  • 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

  • Here are highlights from TESS's first year of science operations. All exoplanet animations are illustrations.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Elapsing Time" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13238
    Produced Video

    Highlights From TESS's First Year

  • 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

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

    NICER's Night Moves

  • New radio observations combined with 10 years of data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have revealed a runaway pulsar that escaped the blast wave of the supernova that formed it. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Forensic Scientist" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.See the bottom of the page for a version without on-screen text.
    ID: 13156
    Produced Video

    NASA’s Fermi Satellite Clocks a ‘Cannonball’ Pulsar

  • This visualization shows TESS's first field image and information about three early exoplanet detections. The locations of Pi Mensae c, LHS 3844b, and HD21749b appear, as well as information about the systems and animations of what the planets might look like.
    ID: 12853
    Produced Video

    TESS Rounds Up its First Planets, Snares Far-flung Supernovae

  • 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

  • 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

  • Infrared, optical, lo X-ray, and hi X-ray images of Supernova Remnant combined
    ID: 30970
    Hyperwall Visual

    Kepler Supernova Remnant

  • 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

  • The nebula SNR 0509-67.5, nicknamed the "Red Bubble", is the result of a supernova explosion of a star.
    ID: 30956
    Hyperwall Visual

    The Red Bubble: Supernova Remnant SNR 0509-67.5

  • The nebula known as Cassiopeia A is composed of tattered remains of a star that exploded more than 300 years ago.
    ID: 30951
    Hyperwall Visual

    Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A from Hubble

  • Radio image of the Crab Nebula.
    ID: 30944
    Hyperwall Visual

    Vision Across the Full Spectrum: The Crab Nebula, from Radio to X-ray

  • Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 12783
    Infographic

    SuperTIGER Ready to Fly Again in Study of Heavy Cosmic Rays

  • Music credit: "Little Effort" by Christopher Franke [BMI]; Killer Tracks [BMI]; Killer Tracks Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
    ID: 12773
    Produced Video

    Hubble Captures Supernova's Light Echo

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

    Hubble Messier Catalog

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

    Loop of Webb Videos and Imagery 2017

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

    NICER Mission Overview

  • Music credit: "High Heelz" by Donn Wilkerson [BMI] and Lance Sumner [BMI]; Killer Tracks BMI; Killer Tracks Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
    ID: 12621
    Produced Video

    Star Gives Birth to Possible Black Hole in Hubble and Spitzer Images

  • 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

  • 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
    Produced Video

    James Webb Space Telescope Environmental Testing Highlights

  • This scientific visualization shows the development of Supernova 1987A, from the initial explosion observed three decades ago to the luminous ring of material we see today.
    ID: 30863
    Hyperwall Visual

    Blast Wave from Supernova 1987A

  • 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
    ID: 12505
    Produced Video

    Fermi Detects Gamma-ray Puzzle from M31

  • 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.
    ID: 12376
    Produced Video

    Fermi Finds Record-breaking Gamma-ray Binary

  • 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
    Produced Video

    The Compton Legacy: A Quarter-century of Gamma-ray Science

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

    Fermi Hyperwall--2016 AAS Technical

  • 3x3 hyperwall-resolution image of the Fermi bubbles.Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
    ID: 12102
    Produced Video

    Fermi Hyperwall--2016 AAS, A Walk Through Fermi Science

  • 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.
    ID: 12003
    Produced Video

    Fermi finds the first extragalactic gamma-ray pulsar

  • Labeled image. GRB 151027B, Swift's 1,000th burst (center), is shown in this composite X-ray, ultraviolet and optical image. X-rays were captured by Swift's X-Ray Telescope, which began observing the field 3.4 minutes after the Burst Alert Telescope detected the blast. Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) began observations seven seconds later and faintly detected the burst in visible light. The image includes X-rays with energies from 300 to 6,000 electron volts, primarily from the burst, and lower-energy light seen through the UVOT's visible, blue and ultraviolet filters (shown, respectively, in red, green and blue). The image has a cumulative exposure of 10.4 hours. Credit: NASA/Swift/Phil Evans, Univ. of Leicester
    ID: 12038
    Produced Video

    NASA's Swift Catches its 1,000th Gamma-ray Burst

  • 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
    Produced Video

    Poster: Fermi's Gamma-ray Cosmos

  • Visualization of a small region of the Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant
    ID: 30667
    Hyperwall Visual

    Visualization of the Veil Supernova Remnant

  • Click download button to select from a range of sizes.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 11738
    Infographic

    Infographic: NASA's Swift Gamma-ray Burst Explorer

  • Coming attraction: Astronomers are expecting high-energy explosions when pulsar J2032 swings around its massive companion star in early 2018. The pulsar will plunge through a disk of gas and dust surrounding the star, triggering cosmic fireworks. Scientists are planning a global campaign to watch the event across the spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 11895
    Produced Video

    Astronomers Predict Cosmic Light Show from 2018 Stellar Encounter

  • Dr. John Mather presents - Traveling in Space and Time and the JamesWebb Telescope (TRT: 60 minutes)
    ID: 11808
    Produced Video

    Dr. John Mather Presentation: Traveling in Space and Time with the James Webb Space Telescope

  • Frontier Fields by Steve Rodney, Johns Hopkins University. First slide in presentation.
    ID: 30574
    Hyperwall Visual

    Science from the Frontier Fields

  • Four images of supernova remnants from Chandra
    ID: 30575
    Hyperwall Visual

    Chandra X-ray Observatory Celebrates 15th Anniversary

  • 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.
    ID: 10170
    Produced Video

    Highlights of Swift's Decade of Discovery

  • How stars blow up is a mystery finally being unraveled.
    ID: 30506
    Hyperwall Visual

    Sloshing Supernovas

  • --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
    ID: 20209
    Animation

    OLD WFIRST Spacecraft Animations

  • 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
    ID: 11459
    Produced Video

    NASA's Swift Images SN 2014J in M82

  • Measurements of polarized light in the afterglow of GRB 120308A by the Liverpool Telescope and its RINGO2 instrument indicate the presence of a large-scale stable magnetic field linked with a young black hole, as shown in this illustration.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger
    ID: 11423
    Produced Video

    Glimpsing the Infrastructure of a Gamma-ray Burst Jet

  • Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the cosmos. Astronomers think most occur when the core of a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel, collapses under its own weight, and forms a black hole. The black hole then drives jets of particles that drill all the way through the collapsing star at nearly the speed of light. Artist's rendering.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 11407
    Produced Video

    Briefing Materials: NASA Missions Explore Record-Setting Cosmic Blast

  • 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
    Produced Video

    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
    Produced Video

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

  • 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.
    ID: 11293
    Produced Video

    NASA Swift Provides the Best-Ever UV View of the Nearest Galaxies

  • Blue supergiant star to scale with the Sun. Unlabeled.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger
    ID: 11250
    Produced Video

    A Trio of Swift Bursts Form A New Class of GRBs

  • 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.
    ID: 11209
    Produced Video

    Fermi Proves Supernova Remnants Produce Cosmic Rays

  • 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
    Produced Video

    NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Explores New Energy Extremes

  • Tour the Cygnus X star factory. This video opens with wide optical and infrared images of the constellation Cygnus, then zooms into the Cygnus X region using radio, infrared and gamma-ray images. Fermi LAT shows that gamma rays fill cavities in the star-forming clouds. The emission occurs when fast-moving cosmic rays strike hot gas and starlight.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.
    ID: 10878
    Produced Video

    Gamma rays in the Heart of Cygnus

  • This plot shows the positions of nine new pulsars (magenta) discovered by Fermi and of an unusual millisecond pulsar (green) that Fermi data reveal to be the youngest such object known. With this new batch of discoveries, Fermi has detected more than 100 pulsars in gamma rays. Credit: Credit: AEI and NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
    ID: 10858
    Produced Video

    Fermi Discovers Youngest Millisecond Pulsar

  • 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

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

    Beyond Einstein

  • There are strange goings-on in the Crab Nebula. On April 12, 2011, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the most powerful in a series of gamma-ray flares occurring somewhere within the supernova remnant.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10767
    Produced Video

    NASA's Fermi Spots 'Superflares' in the Crab Nebula

  • Supernova Can CrunchFor complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10116
    Produced Video

    Afterschool Universe

  • A short narrated video about the Crab Nebula's variability.Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10708
    Produced Video

    A Flickering X-ray Candle

  • Inverse Compton scattering animation. An electron travelling at close the speed of light has a head-on collision with a lower-energy photon (from microwave to ultraviolet). The photon picks up energy from the electron and becomes a gamma ray.
    ID: 10690
    Produced Video

    How to make a gamma ray

  • Watch V407 Cyg go nova! In this animation, gamma rays (magenta) arise when accelerated particles in the explosion's shock wave crash into the red giant's stellar wind.
    ID: 20184
    Animation

    Fermi Sees a Nova

  • Video showing all 500 bursts detected by Swift. Some notable bursts are identified.(music only, no narration)
    ID: 10590
    Produced Video

    Swift's 500 Gamma-ray Bursts

  • Supernova Remnant video showing specific remnants and their appearance at different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation.For Photoshop file, click here.
    ID: 10566
    Produced Video

    Fermi Explores Supernova Remnants

  • Simple animation of proton-proton interaction resulting in netural pion that decays into two gamma rays.
    ID: 10567
    Produced Video

    How Cosmic-ray Protons Make Gamma rays

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

    Central Engine Supernova

  • This animation shows a supernova from a distance and its expanding shell of matter.
    ID: 10547
    Produced Video

    Supernova with Expanding Shell

  • Short, narrated video about the Suzaku metals discovery.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10536
    Produced Video

    Suzaku: Intergalactic Prospector

  • Supernova animation
    ID: 10532
    Produced Video

    Type Ia supernova

  • This movie shows Fermi Large Area Telescope observations of GRB 080916C. About 8 minutes of data are compressed into 6 seconds. Colored dots represent gamma rays of different energies. The blue dots represent lower-energy gamma rays; green, moderate energies; and red, the highest energies. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
    ID: 10344
    Produced Video

    Fermi LAT movie of Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) 080916C

  • As the star explodes, the narrow beam (white) of gamma rays is emitted first, followed by the wider beam (purple).
    ID: 10369
    Produced Video

    Naked-Eye Gamma-ray Burst Model for GRB 080319B

  • This animation depicts what happens to the most massive stars when they die.
    ID: 10253
    Produced Video

    Scientists Watch Baby Black Hole Get to Work Fast

  • This animation shows the changing habitable zone as the sun expands to become a Red Giant.
    ID: 20154
    Animation

    Red Giant Sun

  • GLAST PreludeCelebrating the launch and science of NASA's Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope. [GLAST has since been renamed to the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.]
    ID: 10251
    Produced Video

    GLAST Prelude, for Brass Quintet, Op.12

  • A frame from the movie. Notice that some sources visible in the first frame are no longer visible and some new sources have appeared.
    ID: 3439
    Visualization

    Simulations of the Gamma-Ray Sky

  • This animation illustrates Neutron star SGR 1806-20 which produced a gamma ray flare that disrupted Earth's ionosphere.
    ID: 20077
    Animation

    Cosmic Explosion Second Only to the Sun in Brightness

  • RHESSI observes a gamma-ray burst
    ID: 20034
    Animation

    RHESSI Sees a Gamma-Ray Burst

  • Evolution of the density in a supernova explosion, in both a fixed reference frame and in the blast wave reference frame
    ID: 39
    Visualization

    Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in Supernovae Explosions: Density

  • Evolution of the hydrogen mass fraction in a supernova explosion, in both a fixed reference frame and in the blast wave reference frame
    ID: 40
    Visualization

    Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in Supernovae Explosions: Hydrogen Mass Fraction

  • Evolution of the partial density of hydrogen in a supernova explosion, in both a fixed reference frame and in the blast wave reference frame
    ID: 41
    Visualization

    Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in Supernovae Explosions: Partial Density of Hydrogen

  • Evolution of the helium mass fraction in a supernova explosion, in both a fixed reference frame and in the blast wave reference frame
    ID: 42
    Visualization

    Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in Supernovae Explosions: Helium Mass Fraction

  • Evolution of the partial density of helium in a supernova explosion, in both a fixed reference frame and in the blast wave reference frame
    ID: 43
    Visualization

    Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in Supernovae Explosions: Partial Density of Helium

  • Evolution of the oxygen mass fraction in a supernova explosion, in both a fixed reference frame and in the blast wave reference frame
    ID: 44
    Visualization

    Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in Supernovae Explosions: Oxygen Mass Fraction

  • Evolution of the partial density of oxygen in a supernova explosion, in both a fixed reference frame and in the blast wave reference frame
    ID: 45
    Visualization

    Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in Supernovae Explosions: Partial Density of Oxygen

  • Evolution of the density during the first 20 milliseconds in the life of a neutron star formed from a Type II supernova
    ID: 46
    Visualization

    Instabilities in Very Young Neutron Stars: Density

  • Evolution of the temperature during the first 20 milliseconds in the life of a neutron star formed from a Type II supernova
    ID: 47
    Visualization

    Instabilities in Very Young Neutron Stars: Temperature

  • Evolution of the electron fraction during the first 20 milliseconds in the life of a neutron star formed from a Type II supernova
    ID: 48
    Visualization

    Instabilities in Very Young Neutron Stars: Electron Fraction

  • Evolution of the density during the first 20 milliseconds in the life of a neutron star formed from a Type II supernova
    ID: 1381
    Visualization

    Instabilities in Very Young Neutron Stars: Density

  • Evolution of the temperature during the first 20 milliseconds in the life of a neutron star formed from a Type II supernova
    ID: 1382
    Visualization

    Instabilities in Very Young Neutron Stars: Temperature

  • Evolution of the electron fraction during the first 20 milliseconds in the life of a neutron star formed from a Type II supernova
    ID: 1383
    Visualization

    Instabilities in Very Young Neutron Stars: Electron Fraction

Pulsar

  • 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
    ID: 14405
    Produced Video

    XRISM: Exploring the Hidden X-ray Cosmos

  • Our intrepid Traveler has decided to visit a gamma-ray burst for their next vacation. If you’d like to follow their adventure, check out this video for tips and tricks.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Wanna Be Hipster" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 14355
    Produced Video

    NASA’s Guide to Visiting a Gamma-Ray Burst

  • 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

  • An orbiting star begins to eclipse its partner, a rapidly rotating, superdense stellar remnant called a pulsar, in this illustration. The pulsar emits multiwavelength beams of light that rotate in and out of view and produces outflows that heat the star’s facing side, blowing away material and eroding its partner.Credit: NASA/Sonoma State University, Aurore Simonnet
    ID: 14281
    Produced Video

    Fermi Spots Gamma-ray Eclipsing 'Spider Systems'

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

    AAS 241 student winner Austin Brenner

  • 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

  • Because cosmic ray protons, nuclei, and electrons carry electric charge, their direction changes as they wend their way through the galaxy's magnetic field. By the time the particles reach us, their paths can be completely scrambled, and astronomers cannot trace them back to their sources. Gamma rays — including those produced by cosmic rays interacting with interstellar matter — instead travel straight to us from their sources.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 14170
    Produced Video

    NASA’s Fermi Confirms 'PeVatron' Supernova Remnant

  • 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

  • Explore how NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) tracked brilliant hot spots on the surface of an erupting magnetar – from 13,000 light-years away. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Particles and Fields" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 14115
    Produced Video

    NASA's NICER Tracks a Magnetar's Hot Spots

  • 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

  • Animation showing a wide view of SGR 1830, a magnetar that underwent an outburst in October 2020. NICER measurements from the first day of the event show that the X-ray emission exhibited three close peaks with every rotation. Astronomers think the triple peak occurred when three individual surface regions much hotter than their surroundings spun into and out of our view from Earth. NICER tracked the magnetar nearly every day for more than a month. Over that time, the hot spots dimmed, drifted relative to each other, and two even merged – a phenomenon not seen before. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
    ID: 20359
    Animation

    Migrating Magnetar Hot Spot Animations

  • 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
    Produced Video

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

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

    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
    Produced Video

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

  • Watch how NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is helping physicists peer into the hearts of neutron stars, the remains of massive stars that exploded in supernovae. Scientists want to explore the nature of matter inside these objects, where it exists on the verge of collapsing into black holes. To do so, scientists need precise measurements of neutron stars’ masses and sizes, which NICER and other efforts are now making possible.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Question Time" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13832
    Produced Video

    NASA’s NICER Tests Matter’s Limits

  • Observations from NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) show X-ray boosts linked in the Crab pulsar's random giant radio pulses. Watch to learn more. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "The Awakening" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13737
    Produced Video

    NASA’s NICER Finds X-ray Boosts in the Crab Pulsar’s Radio Bursts

  • Astronomers using data from NASA’s Fermi mission have discovered a pulsar with a faint gamma-ray glow that spans a huge part of the sky. Watch to learn more.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Insight" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13209
    Produced Video

    NASA’s Fermi Finds Vast ‘Halo’ Around Nearby Pulsar

  • Watch how NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) has expanded our understanding of pulsars, the dense, spinning corpses of exploded stars. Pulsar J0030+0451 (J0030 for short), located 1,100 light-years away in the constellation Pisces, now has the most precise and reliable measurements of both a pulsar’s mass and size to date. The shapes and locations of its hot spots challenge textbook depictions of these incredible objects. Music: "Uncertain Ahead" and "Flowing Cityscape" (underscore). Both from Universal Production MusicCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13240
    Produced Video

    NASA’s NICER Sizes Up a Pulsar, Reveals First-ever Surface Map

  • A thermonuclear blast on a pulsar called J1808 resulted in the brightest burst of X-rays seen to date by NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope. The explosion occurred on Aug. 20, 2019, and released as much energy in 20 seconds as our Sun does in almost 10 days. Watch to see how scientists think this incredible explosion occurred. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Business As Usual" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
    ID: 13419
    Animation

    NICER Catches Milestone X-ray Burst

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

    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
    ID: 13326
    Produced Video

    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.
    ID: 13199
    Produced Video

    XMM-Newton Anniversary Products

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

    NICER's Night Moves

  • New radio observations combined with 10 years of data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have revealed a runaway pulsar that escaped the blast wave of the supernova that formed it. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Forensic Scientist" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.See the bottom of the page for a version without on-screen text.
    ID: 13156
    Produced Video

    NASA’s Fermi Satellite Clocks a ‘Cannonball’ Pulsar

  • This movie presents a basic tour around the simulation magnetic field. This version is generated with no background objects and an alpha channel for custom compositing.
    ID: 4638
    Visualization

    Pulsar Current Sheets - Magnetic Field Solution

  • Explore a new “pulsar in a box” computer simulation that tracks the fate of electrons (blue) and their antimatter kin, positrons (red), as they interact with powerful magnetic and electric fields around a neutron star. Lighter colors indicate higher particle energies. Each particle seen in this visualization actually represents trillions of electrons or positrons. Better knowledge of the particle environment around neutron stars will help astronomers understand how they produce precisely timed radio and gamma-ray pulses.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Reaching for the Horizon" and "Leaving Earth" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13058
    Produced Video

    Simulations Create New Insights Into Pulsars

  • This movie presents a basic tour around the simulation magnetic field including motion of the bulk particles and high-energy electrons and positrons. This version is generated with no background objects and an alpha channel for custom compositing.
    ID: 4648
    Visualization

    Pulsar Current Sheets - All Particle Flows

  • This movie presents a basic tour around the simulation magnetic field including motion of the high-energy electrons and positrons. This version is generated with no background objects and an alpha channel for custom compositing.
    ID: 4647
    Visualization

    Pulsar Current Sheets - Electron & Positron Flows

  • This movie presents a basic tour around the simulation magnetic field including motion of the high-energy positrons. This version is generated with no background objects and an alpha channel for custom compositing.
    ID: 4646
    Visualization

    Pulsar Current Sheets - Positron Flows

  • This movie presents a basic tour around the simulation magnetic field including motion of the high-energy electrons. This version is generated with no background objects and an alpha channel for custom compositing.
    ID: 4645
    Visualization

    Pulsar Current Sheets - Electron flows

  • This movie presents a basic tour around the vacuum magnetic field solution. This version is generated with some simple reference objects for more general use.
    ID: 4637
    Visualization

    Pulsars and their Magnetic Field - Vacuum solution

  • This movie presents a basic tour around the simulation magnetic field including motion of the bulk particles, held fixed by co-rotating with the pulsar. This version is generated with no background objects and an alpha channel for custom compositing.
    ID: 4644
    Visualization

    Pulsar Current Sheets - Bulk Particle Trajectories

  • The Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is one of the instruments aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The GBM studies gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, as well as other flashes of gamma rays. Gamma-ray bursts are created when massive stars collapse into black holes or when two superdense stars merge, also producing a black hole. The GBM sees these bursts across the entire sky, and scientists are using its observations to learn more about the universe.Music:The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoonMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_USWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.
    ID: 13041
    Produced Video

    Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor

  • 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

  • Scientists analyzing the first data from the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission have found two stars that revolve around each other every 38 minutes. One of the stars in the system, called IGR J17062–6143 (J17062 for short), is a rapidly spinning, superdense star called a pulsar. The other is probably a hydrogen-poor white dwarf. The discovery bestows the stellar pair with the record for the shortest-known orbital period for a certain class of pulsar binary system.Music: "Games Show Sphere 2" from Killer TracksComplete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
    ID: 12938
    Produced Video

    NICER Finds X-ray Pulsar in Record-fast Orbit

  • Radio image of the Crab Nebula.
    ID: 30944
    Hyperwall Visual

    Vision Across the Full Spectrum: The Crab Nebula, from Radio to X-ray

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

    Loop of Webb Videos and Imagery 2017

  • Music Credit: KillerTracks, Strange Reality (KOK2310-11)
    ID: 12668
    Produced Video

    NICER in Space

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

    NICER Mission Overview

  • B-roll of engineers deploying the Webb Telescope's Aft Deployable ISIM Radiator (ADIR). 4K and 1080p B-roll
    ID: 12627
    Produced Video

    Engineers Test the Webb Telescope's Aft Deployable ISIM Radiator (ADIR)

  • 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

  • This video explains some of what's known about neutron stars and previews NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer mission (NICER).Music: Killer Tracks, Choose (NM318); Calamitous Computations (ICON011); Dreaming Solitude (PKT017)
    ID: 12605
    Produced Video

    What is a Neutron Star?

  • This animation shows the size and scale of a neutron star over San Francisco. Neutron stars squeeze up to two solar masses into a city-size volume, giving rise to the highest stable densities known anywhere. The nature of matter under these conditions is a decades-old unsolved problem.
    ID: 20267
    Animation

    Neutron Star Animations

  • 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
    Produced Video

    James Webb Space Telescope Environmental Testing Highlights

  • 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
    ID: 12505
    Produced Video

    Fermi Detects Gamma-ray Puzzle from M31

  • 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
    Produced Video

    NASA's Fermi Mission Sharpens its High-energy View

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

    Fermi Hyperwall--2016 AAS Technical

  • 3x3 hyperwall-resolution image of the Fermi bubbles.Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
    ID: 12102
    Produced Video

    Fermi Hyperwall--2016 AAS, A Walk Through Fermi Science

  • 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.
    ID: 12003
    Produced Video

    Fermi finds the first extragalactic gamma-ray pulsar

  • 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
    Produced Video

    Poster: Fermi's Gamma-ray Cosmos

  • Binary Pulsar J2032 animation
    ID: 20225
    Animation

    Binary Pulsar J2032 animation

  • Coming attraction: Astronomers are expecting high-energy explosions when pulsar J2032 swings around its massive companion star in early 2018. The pulsar will plunge through a disk of gas and dust surrounding the star, triggering cosmic fireworks. Scientists are planning a global campaign to watch the event across the spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 11895
    Produced Video

    Astronomers Predict Cosmic Light Show from 2018 Stellar Encounter

  • This animation illustrates the direct relationship between a pulsar's X-ray pulses and its quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO), a flickering signal that hovers around certain frequencies. The QPO is shown here as a bright patch near the inner edge of the disk of gas that feeds matter to the pulsar at the center, called SAX J1808. Guided by magnetic fields, gas streaming onto the neutron star forms bright hot spots. As the pulsar spins 401 times a second, telescopes detect X-ray pulses as these locations swing into view from Earth. When the QPO orbits more slowly than the pulsar’s spin, the neutron star’s magnetic field holds back flowing gas, dimming the X-ray pulses. But during an outburst, the inner edge of the disk is forced closer to the pulsar, resulting in a faster-moving QPO and compression of the pulsar's magnetic field. When the QPO matches or bests the pulsar’s spin, more gas streams onto the neutron star, and the pulses brighten. Gas may even flow directly onto the pulsar's equatorial region, producing extra hot spots. NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observed this relationship during outbursts in 2002, 2005, and 2008. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
    ID: 11804
    Produced Video

    RXTE Data Link Pulsar Pulses with a QPO

  • 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.
    ID: 10170
    Produced Video

    Highlights of Swift's Decade of Discovery

  • Narrated video. Zoom into an artist's rendering of AY Sextantis, a binary star system whose pulsar switched from radio emissions to high-energy gamma rays in 2013. This transition likely means the pulsar's spin-up process is nearing its end.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 11609
    Produced Video

    NASA's Fermi Catches a 'Transformer' Pulsar

  • This animation illustrates one possible model for the dramatic changes observed from J1023. The two stars of AY Sextantis orbit closely enough that a stream of gas flows from the sun-like star toward the pulsar. The pulsar's rapid rotation and intense magnetic field produce both the radio beam and the high-energy wind, which is eroding its companion. When the radio beam (green) is detectable, the pulsar wind holds back the companion's gas stream, preventing it from approaching too closely. Now and then the stream surges, reaches toward the pulsar and establishes an accretion disk. Processes involved in producing the radio beam are either shut down or, more likely, obscured. Meanwhile, some of the gas falling toward the pulsar may be accelerated outward at nearly the speed of light, forming dual particle jets firing in opposite directions. Shock waves within and along the periphery of these jets are a likely source of the bright gamma-ray emission (magenta) detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 11567
    Produced Video

    PSR J1023, A 'Transformer' Pulsar—Animations

  • First time ever, a pulsar wind nebula is imaged in high-energy X-rays.
    ID: 30505
    Hyperwall Visual

    Hand of God

  • 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)
    ID: 11513
    Produced Video

    Fermi Hints at Dark Matter

  • Learn how astronomers discovered PSR J1311−3430, a record-breaking black widow binary and the first of its kind discovered solely through gamma-ray observations. Greenbank Telescope image credit: NRAO/AUIWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 11216
    Produced Video

    Black Widow Pulsars Consume Their Mates

  • Slower version of the above animation.
    ID: 11215
    Produced Video

    PSR J1311-3430 'Black Widow' Pulsar Animations

  • 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
    Produced Video

    Highlights of Fermi's First Five Years

  • An artist's rendering of an outburst on an ultra-magnetic neutron star, also called a magnetar.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
    ID: 11260
    Produced Video

    NASA's Swift Catches an Anti-glitch from a Neutron Star

  • Navigating by Cosmic BeaconA promotional teaser for SEXTANT.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10857
    Produced Video

    SEXTANT: Navigating by Cosmic Beacon

  • The Vela pulsar outlines a fascinating pattern in this movie showing 51 months of position and exposure data from Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT). The pattern reflects numerous motions of the spacecraft, including its orbit around Earth, the precession of its orbital plane, the manner in which the LAT nods north and south on alternate orbits, and more. The movie renders Vela's position in a fisheye perspective, where the middle of the pattern corresponds to the central and most sensitive portion of the LAT's field of view. The edge of the pattern is 90 degrees away from the center and well beyond what scientists regard as the effective limit of the LAT's vision. Better knowledge of how the LAT's sensitivity changes across its field of view helps Fermi scientists better understand both the instrument and the data it returns.Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT CollaborationFor complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 11205
    Produced Video

    Fermi Traces a Celestial Spirograph

  • As seen from the Rossi XTE satellite, the Moon passes in front of X-ray pulsar IGR J17480-2446.
    ID: 3959
    Visualization

    RXTE Views X-ray Pulsar Occulted by the Moon

  • A side view of the Earth's radiation belt and its variation in time.
    ID: 3949
    Visualization

    Earth's Radiation Belts (side view)

  • 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
    Produced Video

    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

  • This plot shows the positions of nine new pulsars (magenta) discovered by Fermi and of an unusual millisecond pulsar (green) that Fermi data reveal to be the youngest such object known. With this new batch of discoveries, Fermi has detected more than 100 pulsars in gamma rays. Credit: Credit: AEI and NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
    ID: 10858
    Produced Video

    Fermi Discovers Youngest Millisecond Pulsar

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

    Beyond Einstein

  • Short narrated video about B1259.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10798
    Produced Video

    Stellar Odd Couple Makes Striking Flares

  • Second view from perpective following the pulsar in its orbit.
    ID: 10802
    Produced Video

    B1259-63 Binary Animation

  • There are strange goings-on in the Crab Nebula. On April 12, 2011, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the most powerful in a series of gamma-ray flares occurring somewhere within the supernova remnant.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.
    ID: 10767