NASA ScienceCasts
NASA Science news is too exciting for plain text. Educational "ScienceCast" videos are fun, lively, entertaining--anything but plain. Join us for a new episode weekly as we look into the science behind discoveries on Earth, the Solar System, and beyond...
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ScienceCast 82: Total Eclipse of the Sun
Scientists and sky watchers are converging on the northeast coast ...
Scientists and sky watchers are converging on the northeast coast of Australia, near the Great Barrier Reef, for a total eclipse of the sun.
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ScienceCast 81: Fried Planets
Astronomers have caught a red giant star in the act ...
Astronomers have caught a red giant star in the act of devouring one of its planets. It could be a preview of what will happen to Earth five billion years from now.
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ScienceCast 80: A Meteor Shower from Halley's Comet
Soon, Earth will pass through a stream of debris from ...
Soon, Earth will pass through a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, source of the annual Orionid meteor shower. Forecasters expect 25 meteors per hour when the shower peaks on Oct. 21st.
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ScienceCast 79: The Sound of Earthsong
A NASA spacecraft has recorded eerie-sounding radio emissions coming from ...
A NASA spacecraft has recorded eerie-sounding radio emissions coming from our own planet, which could be responsible for the proliferation of deadly electrons in the Van Allen Belts.
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ScienceCast 78: Why Curiosity Matters
A former rock-n-roller turned NASA engineer explains why he thinks ...
A former rock-n-roller turned NASA engineer explains why he thinks Curiosity--both the Mars rover and the human desire to learn new things--matters to ordinary people on Earth.
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ScienceCast 77: Weird Planets
Once, astronomers thought planets couldn't form around binary stars. Now ...
Once, astronomers thought planets couldn't form around binary stars. Now Kepler has found a whole system of planers orbiting a double star. This finding shows that planetary systems are weirder and more abundant than previously thought.
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ScienceCast 76: The Radiation Belt Storm Probes
This morning NASA launched two heavily-shielded spacecraft directly into the ...
This morning NASA launched two heavily-shielded spacecraft directly into the Van Allen Belts. The Radiation Belt Storm Probes are on a two-year mission to study the Van Allen Belts and to unravel the mystery of their unpredictability.
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ScienceCast 75: Watch Out For The Blue Moon
The second full Moon of August--a "Blue Moon"--is just around ...
The second full Moon of August--a "Blue Moon"--is just around the corner. It will probably look just like any other full Moon but, on rare occasions, the Moon really does turn blue. Could it happen this month?
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ScienceCast 74: Where Will Curiosity Go First?
Curiosity is safe on Mars and ready to roll. In ...
Curiosity is safe on Mars and ready to roll. In this video from Science@NASA, project scientist John Grotzinger discusses where the rover might go first.
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ScienceCast 73: 2012 Perseid Meteor Shower
The Perseid meteor shower is underway. There's more to see ...
The Perseid meteor shower is underway. There's more to see than meteors, however, when the shower peaks on August 11th through 13th. The brightest planets in the solar system are lining up in the middle of the display.
