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 52: Mysterious Objects at the Edge of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope is finding hundreds of new objects ...
NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope is finding hundreds of new objects at the very edge of the electromagnetic spectrum. Many of them have one thing in common: Astronomers have no idea what they are.
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ScienceCast 51: The Super Moon of May 2012
Another "super-Moon" is in the offing. The perigee full Moon ...
Another "super-Moon" is in the offing. The perigee full Moon in May will be as much as 14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full moons of 2012.
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ScienceCast 50: Auroras Underfoot
Lately, the International Space Station has been flying through geomagnetic ...
Lately, the International Space Station has been flying through geomagnetic storms, giving astronauts an close-up view of the aurora borealis just outside their windows.
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ScienceCast 49: Curiosity, The Stunt Double
En route to the Red Planet, Mars rover Curiosity is ...
En route to the Red Planet, Mars rover Curiosity is serving as a 'stunt double' for human astronauts.
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ScienceCast 48: An Alignment of Planets
The brightest planets in the night sky are aligning for ...
The brightest planets in the night sky are aligning for a must-see show in late February and March 2012. Start looking tonight!
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ScienceCast 47: Alien Matter in the Solar System - A Galactic Mismatch
"Alien matter" detected by a NASA spacecraft orbiting Earth shows ...
"Alien matter" detected by a NASA spacecraft orbiting Earth shows that the chemical make-up of our solar system differs from that of the surrounding galaxy.
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ScienceCast 46: Mission to Land on a Comet
In 2014, Rosetta will enter orbit around 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and land ...
In 2014, Rosetta will enter orbit around 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and land a probe on it for a front row seat as the comet heads toward the sun.
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ScienceCast 45: Solar Eclipse in the USA
A "ring of fire" solar eclipse is coming to the ...
A "ring of fire" solar eclipse is coming to the USA this spring. It's the first annular eclipse visible from the contiguous United States in almost 18 years.
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ScienceCast 44: What Happened to all the Snow?
Winter seems to have been on hold this year in ...
Winter seems to have been on hold this year in some parts of the US. Why has snowfall been so scarce? JPL climatologist Bill Patzert explains what's going on.
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ScienceCast 43: Some Comets Like It Hot
Astronomers are still scratching their heads over Comet Lovejoy, which ...
Astronomers are still scratching their heads over Comet Lovejoy, which plunged through the atmosphere of the sun in December and, against all odds, survived.
