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A Near-Full Rotation of Uranus
For the first timewe are witnessing outer planetUranus take center stage andpirouette.Uranus is one of the Solar System’s strangest planets, lying on its side and spinning like a…
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Flying over the North Pole of Mars
If you could fly over the North Pole of Mars , what would you see? Images from ESA’s Mars Express mission in 2019 were compiled into the featured video which shows just such a…
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The Moon During a Total Lunar Eclipse
How does the Moon's appearance change during a total lunar eclipse? The featured time-lapse video was digitally processed to keep the Moon bright and centered during the 5-hour…
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A Solar Eruption from SDO
What just leapt from the Sun? A towering structure of solar plasma suddenly rose from the Sun's surface and unfurled into space -- a structure so large that many Earths would…
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Solstice on a Spinning Earth
Can you tell that today is a solstice by the tilt of the Earth? Yes. At a solstice, the Earth's terminator -- the dividing line between night and day -- is tilted the most. The…
Juno Flyby of Ganymede and Jupiter
What would it be like to fly over the largest moon in the Solar System? In 2021, the robotic Juno spacecraft flew past Jupiter's huge moon Ganymede) and took images that have been…
Flying Over the Earth at Night
Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. Such visual spectacles occur every day for astronauts in low Earth orbit, but the featured video captured several…
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The Galactic Plane: Radio Versus Visible
What does the Milky Way look like in radio waves? To better find out, GLEAM surveyed the central band of our galaxy in high resolution radio light as imaged by the Murchison…
The Rotating Moon
No one on Earth sees the Moon rotate like this. That's because the Moon is tidally locked in synchronous rotation, showing only one side to denizens of our fair planet. Still,…
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Earth During a Powerful Solar Storm
Can our Sun become dangerous? Yes, sometimes. Every few years our Sun ejects a scary-large bubble of hot gas into the Solar System . Every hundred years or so, when the timing,…
Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins
How does your favorite planet spin? Does it spin rapidly around a nearly vertical axis, or horizontally, or backwards? The featured video animates NASA images of all eight planets…
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A Leaky Solar Prominence
What's hovering above the Sun? A solar prominence . A prominence is a crest of hot gas expelled from the Sun's surface that is held aloft by the Sun's magnetic field . Prominences…
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Closest Ever Images Near the Sun
Everybody sees the Sun. Nobody's been there. Starting in 2018, though, NASA launch ed the robotic Parker Solar Probe (PSP) to investigate regions near to the Sun for the first…
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Collision at Asteroid Dimorphos
Why was this collision so strange? In 2022, to develop Earth-saving technology, NASA deliberately crashed the DART spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos. The hope was…
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Charon Flyover from New Horizons
What if you could fly over Pluto 's moon Charon -- what might you see? The New Horizons spacecraft did just this in 2015 July as it zipped past Pluto and Charon with cameras…
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Pluto Flyover from New Horizons
What if you could fly over Pluto -- what might you see? The New Horizons spacecraft did just this in 2015 July as it shot past the distant world at a speed of about 80,000…
The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
If one black hole looks strange, what about two? Light rays from accretion disks around a pair of orbiting supermassive black holes make their way through the warped space-time…
A Double Sunrise from a Partial Eclipse
Can the Sun appear to rise twice at the same time? This was just the case a few days ago from Les Escoumins, Quebec, Canada as our Solar System's bright central orb rose just as…
Parker: The Solar System from Near the Sun
If you watch long enough, a comet will appear. Before then, you will see our Solar System from inside the orbit of Mercury as recorded by NASA's Parker Solar Probe looping around…
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A Total Lunar Eclipse Over Uruguay
If the full Moon suddenly faded, what would you see? The answer was recorded in a dramatic time lapse video taken during the total lunar eclipse last week from Uruguay . During a…
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The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Light and Sound
Have you heard about the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field? Either way, you've likely not heard about it like this -- please run your cursor over the featured image and listen! The Hubble…
Perijove 11: Passing Jupiter
Here comes Jupiter. NASA's robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its highly elongated orbits around our Solar System's largest planet. The featured video is from perijove 11 in…
Asteroid Bennu Holds the Building Blocks of Life
What can a space rock tell us about life on Earth? NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made a careful approach to the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu in October of 2020 to collect…
Comet G3 ATLAS Setting over a Chilean Hill
Where is Comet ATLAS going? In the featured time-lapse video, the comet is not itself moving very much, but the Earth's rotation makes it appear to be setting over a hill. The…
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