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• 02:25

  NASA Seeks Bounty Hunters for Asteroids - $35K in Awards | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 489 Views / 0 Likes

  NASA's Asteroid Grand Challenge is asking citizen scientists to improve how we identify asteroids. The contest runs through August 2014.

• 02:05

  Rare Hypergiant Star Revealed - 1300X More Massive Than Sun | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 636 Views / 0 Likes

  A yellow hypergiant star and its 'joined at the hip' companion star have been observed using ESO's Very Large Telescope's interferometer. This is the largest yellow star ever discovered.

• 01:36

  NASA's 9th Morpheus Lander -- Highest Flight Yet | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 737 Views / 0 Likes

  NASA JSC's prototype planetary lander made its fastest (~30 mph) and highest ascent (580 feet) on March 11, 2014. The flight lasted 83-seconds and it touched down on a landing pad 837 feet 'downrange' from the launchpad.

• 01:20

  Solar Flare's 'Psychedelic' Burst Seen In Different Wavelength | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 628 Views / 0 Likes

  NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured the M9.3-class flare on March 12, 2014. SDO cameras capture imagery at many wavelengths to study solar material and processes that are not visible to the human eye.

• 04:44

  Producing 'Live From Space' - Soledad O'Brien | Video Interview

  by shub Added 8 years ago 504 Views / 0 Likes

  As anchor of National Geographic Channel's two hour special on March 14th, 2014 at 8pm EST, O'Brien will turn to astronauts Mike Massimino for color commentary on the ground while talking with Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata on ISS.

• 02:50

  Probe To Fly Between Saturn And Its Rings | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 662 Views / 0 Likes

  On its final orbit In 2017, NASA's Cassini probe will fly between the inner edge of the D ring and the upper atmosphere of the gas giant. It will also fly though an Enceladus plume in the next few years.

• 03:15

  Big Bang Gravitational Waves Discovered | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 633 Views / 0 Likes

  Evidence that the universe rapidly expanded in its first few nanoseconds has been found by an instrument in Antarctica: Gravitational waves, which have long eluded astronomers, were spotted, supporting this cosmic inflation model.

• 05:31

  Hubble Snaps 'Monkey Head' Nebula | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 605 Views / 0 Likes

  To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 24th year in orbit, astronomers set their sights on NGC 2174, the Monkey Head Nebula. Young stars are sculpting gas and dust of this Orion constellation nebula.

• 08:21

  'Star Wars' Toys Movie 'Plastic Galaxy' - Director Speaks | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 480 Views / 0 Likes

  Producer/Director Brian Stillman brought some classic Star Wars toys to Space.com to talk about how this phenomenon changed movie merchandising forever, the subject of his documentary 'Plastic Galaxy'.

• 01:45

  Asteroid Will Block Bright Star - How To Watch Online | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 565 Views / 0 Likes

  On March 20th, 2014, Asteroid 163 Erigone will 'occult' Regulus, one of the brightest stars in the sky. This event will be visible from parts of the Northeast United States. Slooh.com will have live coverage.

• 01:06

  Mid-Atlantic Has A White St. Patrick's Day | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 606 Views / 0 Likes

  This animation of NOAA's GOES satellite data shows the progression of another major winter storm over the U.S. Mid-Atlantic on March 16 and 17.

• 00:51

  Space Station 3D Printer Slated To Launch This Summer | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 559 Views / 0 Likes

  NASA astronaut G. Reid Wiseman is excited about the long term implications of 3D printers in space. Wiseman and the 'Made In Space' printer are scheduled to meet on ISS in Aug. 2014. He spoke at a NASA event on Mar. 19th, 2014.

• 03:13

  Life On Mars Sim: Rover Deployed In High And Dry Utah | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 648 Views / 0 Likes

  MarsCrew134's crew engineer Ewan Reid is testing a rover carrying a terrain mapping pair of stereo cameras and equipment to test long range robotic control during a two week human Mars mission simulation in high altitude Utah.

• 03:37

  'Diaper Rash' Fungus Resistant To Cream In Space | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 469 Views / 0 Likes

  Candida yeast, producer of diaper rash and thrush, was experimented on in the microgravity environment aboard the International Space Station in 2012. Principal investigator Sheila Nielson-Preiss talks about the findings.

• 01:14

  Old Sunspot Pops New Flare-Crackling Tricks and A Lunar Transit | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 658 Views / 0 Likes

  The sunspot cluster (now called Region 1967) that exploded with m and x class flares at the beginning of January 2014 has returned with m-class crackle. The Moon orbits between Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Sun as well.

• 06:50

  Jupiter's Blazes Bright Near Orion's 'Supergiants' | February 2014 Skywatching Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 552 Views / 0 Likes

  The bright 'star' overhead after the Sun sets, in the winter of 2014, is our closest gas giant, Jupiter and the red supergiant Betelgeuse, 650X bigger than the Sun, is one of the shoulder of the 'Great Hunter' (Orion Constellation).

• 02:23

  Help Find Planetary Habitats: Citizen Science Project Launches | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 463 Views / 0 Likes

  NASA sponsored DiskDetective.org allows the public to sift through data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission to discover embryonic planetary systems. WISE has measurements of more that 745 million objects to be investigated.

• 03:52

  Coldest Spot In Known Universe In Space Station? | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 648 Views / 0 Likes

  An atomic refrigerator, aka Cold Atom Lab, is slated to be delivered to ISS in 2016. They hope to discover new forms of matter and new quantum phenomenon.

• 03:13

  Life On Mars Sim: Extracting Fuel Making Hydrogen From 'Mars' Soil | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 708 Views / 1 Likes

  MarsCrew134's crew scientist Vibha Srivastava describes extracting hydrogen fuel from soil sampled outside a simulated Mars habitat in Utah, a process called "in-situ resource utilization."

• 09:58

  Super Bowl In Space - Orbiting Astronaut Talks Big Game | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 656 Views / 0 Likes

  NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio talks to Space.com's @MiriKramer about the Super Bowl, Olympics and more on Jan. 31st, 2014.

• 06:41

  International Space Station Prepares To Deploy Tiny Satellites | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 653 Views / 0 Likes

  A CubeSat deployer brought to the International Space Station on the Cyngus capsule in January has been installed in in the Japanese Experiment Module Airlock and will start deploying the tiny satellites Februay 6th.

• 03:40

  A Look At The James Webb Space Telescope's High Tech Spectrometer | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 653 Views / 0 Likes

  The James Webb Space Telescope will be able to spot multiple objects at the same time with its NIRspec instrument, the first for a satellite spectrometer.

• 02:20

  Human Eyes in Orbit Swell&Change Shape: Space-Sightedness | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 505 Views / 0 Likes

  NASA studies of microgravity effects on vision have found that tissue at the back of the eyes swells and distorts in shape. This causes both nearsightedness and farsightedness for astronauts.

• 01:02

  1,800-Foot-Long 'Peanut' Asteroid Spins Through Space In New Animation | Video

  by shub Added 8 years ago 576 Views / 0 Likes

  By analyzing brightness, as it rotates, astronomers see how asteroid 25143 Itokawa's surface may be changing and gain clues to its interior. Images collected by Japan's Hayabusa probe in 2005, plus ESO's New Technology Telescope, form this animation. Read