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2:31
ScienceCasts: Total Eclipse of the Moon
ScienceCasts: Total Eclipse of the Moon
ScienceCasts: Total Eclipse of the Moon
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On Saturday morning, April 4th, sky watchers in the USA can see a brief but beautiful total eclipse of the Moon.
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3:27
ScienceCasts: Andromeda vs. the Milky Way: Astronomers Predict a Titanic Collision
ScienceCasts: Andromeda vs. the Milky Way: Astronomers Predict a Titanic Collision
ScienceCasts: Andromeda vs. the Milky Way: Astronomers Predict a Titanic Collision
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. Astronomers no longer have any doubt: Our Milky Way Galaxy will have a head-on collision with Andromeda. Fortunately...
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3:28
ScienceCasts: Electric-Blue Clouds Appear Over Antarctica
ScienceCasts: Electric-Blue Clouds Appear Over Antarctica
ScienceCasts: Electric-Blue Clouds Appear Over Antarctica
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/23dec_antarctica/ for more. A vast bank of electric-blue clouds has appeared over Antarctica,...
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4:11
ScienceCasts: A Colorful Lunar Eclipse
ScienceCasts: A Colorful Lunar Eclipse
ScienceCasts: A Colorful Lunar Eclipse
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Mark your calendar: On Oct. 8th, the Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth for a total lunar eclipse. Sky watchers in the USA will see the Moon turn a beautiful shade of celestial red and maybe turquoise, too.
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2:02
ScienceCasts: Morning Planet Show
ScienceCasts: Morning Planet Show
ScienceCasts: Morning Planet Show
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09may_morningplanets/ for more! The Great Morning Planet Show of May 2011 is underway. Wake u...
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4:01
ScienceCasts: Bright Explosion on the Moon
ScienceCasts: Bright Explosion on the Moon
ScienceCasts: Bright Explosion on the Moon
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for breaking science news. NASA researchers who monitor the Moon for meteoroid impacts have detected the brightest explosion i...
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3:49
ScienceCasts: Don't Judge a Moon by its Cover
ScienceCasts: Don't Judge a Moon by its Cover
ScienceCasts: Don't Judge a Moon by its Cover
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. Superficially, Saturn's moon Phoebe doesn't look much like a planet, but on the inside, the little gray moon has a l...
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4:04
ScienceCasts: The Sun's Magnetic Field is About to Flip
ScienceCasts: The Sun's Magnetic Field is About to Flip
ScienceCasts: The Sun's Magnetic Field is About to Flip
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/05aug_fieldflip/ for more! Something big is happening on the sun. The sun's global magnetic f...
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3:26
ScienceCasts: Starting Fire in Water
ScienceCasts: Starting Fire in Water
ScienceCasts: Starting Fire in Water
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/10jan_firewater/ for more. Astronauts on the ISS are experimenting with a form of water that ...
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2:47
ScienceCasts: Summer Meteor Shower
ScienceCasts: Summer Meteor Shower
ScienceCasts: Summer Meteor Shower
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09aug_perseids2011/ for the full story. If you're camping out and can't sleep, maybe your slu...
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3:25
ScienceCasts: Embers from a Rock Comet: The 2014 Geminid Meteor Shower
ScienceCasts: Embers from a Rock Comet: The 2014 Geminid Meteor Shower
ScienceCasts: Embers from a Rock Comet: The 2014 Geminid Meteor Shower
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Check out NASA's Geminid Meteor Shower page! http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/geminids_2014.html
Earth is passing through a stream of debris from "rock comet" 3200 Phaethon, source of the annual Geminid meteor shower. Forecasters expect as many as 120 meteors per hour when the shower peaks on Dec. 13-14.
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4:22
ScienceCasts: The Mystery of Nanoflares
ScienceCasts: The Mystery of Nanoflares
ScienceCasts: The Mystery of Nanoflares
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Tiny solar flares on the sun may be having an outsized effect on the temperature of the sun's atmosphere. To investigate, scientists will observe these "nanoflares" using a space telescope built for black holes.
NuSTAR Mission Site: http://www.nustar.caltech.edu/
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4:17
ScienceCasts: The Mystery of the Missing Waves on Titan
ScienceCasts: The Mystery of the Missing Waves on Titan
ScienceCasts: The Mystery of the Missing Waves on Titan
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for breaking science news. Saturn's giant moon Titan is dotted with hydrocarbon lakes and seas that bear an uncanny resemblanc...
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4:14
ScienceCasts: Studying Earth’s Magnetic Personality
ScienceCasts: Studying Earth’s Magnetic Personality
ScienceCasts: Studying Earth’s Magnetic Personality
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NASA is about to launch a fleet of spacecraft to investigate the mystery of "magnetic reconnection," which is making things explode across the cosmos.
MMS Page: http://www.nasa.gov/mms/
MMS Blog: http://blogs.nasa.gov/mms/
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3:52
ScienceCasts: Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow Balls in Space
ScienceCasts: Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow Balls in Space
ScienceCasts: Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow Balls in Space
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Citizen scientists scanning images from a NASA observatory have found "yellow balls" in space that may hold important clues to the mysteries of starbirth.
Spitzer Space Telescope: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/
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3:50
ScienceCasts: Rock Comet Sprouts a Tail
ScienceCasts: Rock Comet Sprouts a Tail
ScienceCasts: Rock Comet Sprouts a Tail
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/27nov_rockcomet/ for more! "Rock Comet" 3200 Phaethon has sprouted a tail, proving that the m...
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4:03
ScienceCasts: NASA Mission Seeks Lunar Air
ScienceCasts: NASA Mission Seeks Lunar Air
ScienceCasts: NASA Mission Seeks Lunar Air
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for breaking science news. A NASA spacecraft slated for launch in September will fly to the Moon to investigate the tenuous lu...
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3:18
ScienceCasts: Mud Matters
ScienceCasts: Mud Matters
ScienceCasts: Mud Matters
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NASA has launched SMAP, a new satellite to study water, not in oceans or lakes but in the soil beneath our feet. This often overlooked repository of water can have big effects on weather, climate, drought and agriculture.
http://smap.jpl.nasa.gov/
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3:26
ScienceCasts: Subtracting Gravity from Alzheimer's
ScienceCasts: Subtracting Gravity from Alzheimer's
ScienceCasts: Subtracting Gravity from Alzheimer's
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The key to unraveling the mysterious cause of Alzheimer's disease may not lie in the recesses of the human brain, but rather in the weightless expanses of outer space.
SABOL Experiment Details:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/1374.html
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3:37
ScienceCasts: A Star With Spiral Arms
ScienceCasts: A Star With Spiral Arms
ScienceCasts: A Star With Spiral Arms
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/31oct_spiralarms/ for the full story. Using a Japanese telescope, NASA-supported researchers ...
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3:48
ScienceCasts: Terrifying Auroras
ScienceCasts: Terrifying Auroras
ScienceCasts: Terrifying Auroras
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. A distant world is being hit by solar storms so ferocious, the entire planet is probably enveloped in auroras. Resea...
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3:32
ScienceCasts: Fried Planets
ScienceCasts: Fried Planets
ScienceCasts: Fried Planets
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. Astronomers have caught a red giant star in the act of devouring one of its planets. It could be a preview of what w...
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3:31
ScienceCasts: The Cloudy Future of Arctic Sea Ice
ScienceCasts: The Cloudy Future of Arctic Sea Ice
ScienceCasts: The Cloudy Future of Arctic Sea Ice
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As climate change continues to hammer Arctic sea ice, pushing back its summertime boundaries to record-high latitudes, NASA is flying an innovative airborne mission to find out how these developments will affect worldwide weather.