Our Planetary Neighborhood
Other Worlds: Planets
The planets of our solar system are full of mysteries. Meet a few of the scientists who are using the James Webb Space Telescope to look at our solar system […]
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Other Worlds: Planets
A Titan Discovery
NASA Goddard scientists have made an exciting discovery on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The team has definitively detected the molecule acrylonitrile in Titan’s atmosphere – a finding that has astrobiological […]
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A Titan Discovery
JPL and the Space Age: The Hunt for Space Rocks
This episode chronicles JPLs pioneering work to understand asteroids and comets as part of NASA’s larger effort to protect our planet from asteroids and comets, before they find us.
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JPL and the Space Age: The Hunt for Space Rocks
The Year of Pluto
New Horizons is the first mission to the Kuiper Belt, a gigantic zone of icy bodies and mysterious small objects orbiting beyond Neptune. This region also is known as the […]
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The Year of Pluto
First Light
Discover how an X-ray telescope has revolutionized astronomy and our understanding of the universe. A scientific and engineering marvel, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has spent two decades (so far) exploring […]
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First Light
Designing Webb
The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful space telescope ever made – and the most complex one yet designed. Did you know that the telescope’s history stretches back […]
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Designing Webb
OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return
Watch a spacecraft deliver an asteroid sample to Earth! Our OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft is approaching Earth, and on Sept. 24, 2023, it released […]
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OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return
Hubble: The Great Space Telescope
This documentary celebrates not only the scientific and technological achievements of this telescope, but also the human spirit that’s helped to keep it up and operational for all these years. […]
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Hubble: The Great Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope Mission Overview
A brief overview of the James Webb Space Telescope mission from its construction, launch, and complex unfolding to the incredible science it achieves.
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James Webb Space Telescope Mission Overview
Hubble – Eye in the Sky: Driving The Telescope
Visit Hubble’s control center to learn about the challenges and techniques of performing extraordinarily detailed observations with an orbiting space telescope. Tour the rarely seen, life-size simulator at NASA that […]
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Hubble – Eye in the Sky: Driving The Telescope
JPL and the Space Age: Saving Galileo
“Saving Galileo” tells how, despite many challenges and limitations, Galileo proved a resounding success.
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JPL and the Space Age: Saving Galileo
Hubble – Eye in the Sky: An Unexpected Journey
With five servicing missions, upgraded instruments, and new ways of operating, Hubble is not the same telescope it was when it launched. Discover the innovative ways astronomers and engineers use […]
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Hubble – Eye in the Sky: An Unexpected Journey
Hubble – Eye in the Sky: Time Machines
Find out from Nobel laureate John Mather and Hubble Senior Project Scientist Jennifer Wiseman how Hubble will work with the future James Webb Space Telescope to revolutionize our understanding of […]
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Hubble – Eye in the Sky: Time Machines
New Horizons – Summiting the Solar System: Part 1
On January 1, 2019, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flies by a small Kuiper Belt object known scientifically as 2014 MU69, but nicknamed “Ultima Thule.” Ultima is 4 billion miles from […]
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New Horizons – Summiting the Solar System: Part 1
New Horizons – Summiting the Solar System: Part 2
On January 1, 2019, Ultima Thule, an object in the Kuiper Belt 4 billion miles from Earth, will be the most ancient and most distant world ever explored close-up. Ultima […]
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New Horizons – Summiting the Solar System: Part 2
And Then There Was Voyager
NASA’s legendary grand tour of the outer solar system from the mission conception in the early 1970’s is described. The search for the heliopause is discussed. This presentation is told […]
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And Then There Was Voyager
JPL and the Space Age: The Footsteps of Voyager
Drawing on rare film footage as well as the memories of the engineers and scientists who were there, about the first mission to orbit an outer planet.
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