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The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall NASA: We have booster ignition and liftoff of Columbia, reaching new heights for women and X-ray Astronomy. Martin Elvis: The main thing Chandra does is take...
Kepler's Supernova Remnant in 60 Seconds Narrator (April Hobart, CXC): Over 400 years ago, Johannes Kepler and many others witnessed the appearance of a new "star" in the...
Astronomers are interested not only in the bright stars in our neighborhood which are easily seen here around the sun, but also the small, dim objects we can't readily see. Finding these is...
The local food system here, we are blessed. We have amazing soil. We have a lot of biodiversity. We can get ahold of all kinds of good food. As long as we're willing to rotate seasonally with...
Deep out on the rim of the galaxy there lies a tiny place that no one knows about. It's the place where all good things come from. All the generations of and for love and kindness and bliss...
Music. What's up for April? Ice in the solar system! Hello and welcome! I'm Jane Houston Jones at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Ice is common in our...
Episode 54: 22 years in pictures On 24 April 1990, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space. In the 22 years since, it has sent back more than a million observations. Here are a few...
Countdown to Pluto - presented by Science@NASA Are we there yet? One of the fastest spacecraft ever built -- NASA's New Horizons -- is hurtling through the void at nearly one million miles per...
The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has reached a fever pitch. With some 500 planets revealed by ground telescopes, now, the ultimate planet finder, the Kepler space telescope, has released a...
Hi I'm Dan Burbank. Commander of the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station. This is my third flight in space and I'm still amazed by the view of Earth from orbit...