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 11: Space-Time Vortex
NASA has announced the results of an epic physics experiment ...
NASA has announced the results of an epic physics experiment which confirms the reality of a space-time vortex around our planet.
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ScienceCast 10: Morning Planet Show
The Great Morning Planet Show of May 2011 is underway. ...
The Great Morning Planet Show of May 2011 is underway. Wake up before sunrise any day this month to see a shape-shifting alignment of heavenly lights.
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ScienceCast 09: Voyager
More than 30 years after they were launched, NASA's two ...
More than 30 years after they were launched, NASA's two Voyager probes have traveled to the edge of the solar system and are on the doorstep of interstellar space.
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ScienceCast 08: Meteors from Halley's Comet
Earth is about to pass through a stream of dust ...
Earth is about to pass through a stream of dust from Halley's Comet, source of the annual eta Aquarid meteor shower. The show begins before sunrise on May 6th.
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ScienceCast 07: Solar Activity
With a burst of solar flares and Northern Lights, the ...
With a burst of solar flares and Northern Lights, the sun is waking up from a three-year slumber.
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ScienceCast 06: Fireballs
For reasons researchers do not understand, the rate of midnight ...
For reasons researchers do not understand, the rate of midnight fireballs increases during the weeks around the vernal equinox. It's a beautiful display, but where do they come from?
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ScienceCast 05: Superfluids
Strange quantum fluids that love to sneak out of cups ...
Strange quantum fluids that love to sneak out of cups have been found trapped inside the core of a dead neutron star.
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ScienceCast 04: Missing Sunspots
When solar activity recently plunged into a century-class minimum, many ...
When solar activity recently plunged into a century-class minimum, many experts were puzzled. Now a group of researchers say they have cracked the mystery of the missing sunspots.
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ScienceCast 03: Super Moon
Mark your calendar. On March 19th, a full Moon of ...
Mark your calendar. On March 19th, a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years.
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ScienceCast 02: Thundersnow
Last month, NASA scientists got a rare chance to study ...
Last month, NASA scientists got a rare chance to study "thundersnow" first-hand when a freak winter storm rolled right over their research center.
