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[Silent] The Planck mission was designed to measure the cosmic microwave background better than it's ever been measured before. It sees light from stars, from star-forming regions and...

A study was conducted a few years ago showing what would happen if an asteroid struck Earth, splintering off a thousand different chunks of Earth matter that would bear biochemical elements. A hundred...

Your guide to constellations, deep-sky objects, planets and events, Tonight's Sky, Highlights of the December Sky Evening Planets Lovely Venus hangs low in the southwestern sky after sunset....

I'm not very good at singing songs, but here is, here is a try [music] If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch You must first invent the universe Space is filled with a network of...

We have an extremely full program. Everything is open to discussion, including the touchy subjects. The idea is that when we reach the end of these two days we should be able to present concrete...

Galactic Ridge in 60 Seconds Narrator (Megan Watzke, CXC): This sequence begins with an infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope of the central region of the Milky Way. We then zoom into a...

This video shows how the Triangulum galaxy M33, Andromeda M31 and the Milky Way are situated in space. The Milky Way is part of a local group of about 30 galaxies. Andromeda and the Milky Way are the...

The NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered an extra-solar planet for the first time using direct visible light imaging. The strange world is far-flung from its parent star, is surrounded by...

Jupiter's moons. Jupiter's largest moons were first seen 400 years ago in early 1610. Hello, and welcome. I'm Jane Houston Jones at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...

Music. Jane Houston Jones: What's Up for January. Close encounters of the planetary kind. Hello and welcome. I'm Jane Houston Jones at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...