Flying Over the Earth at Night II
Recorded during 2017, timelapse sequences from the International Space Station are compiled in this serene video of planet […]
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Planet Earth at Twilight
No sudden, sharp boundary marks the passage of day into night in this gorgeous view of ocean and […]
One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From ...
Every 20 years under the cover of darkness, scientists dig up seeds that were stashed 142 years ago […]
Centaurus As Warped Magnetic Fields
When galaxies collide — what happens to their magnetic fields? To help find out, NASA pointed SOFIA, its […]
Ingenuity: First Flight over Mars
What’s the best way to explore Mars? Perhaps there is no single best way, but a newly demonstrated […]
NASA’s Mars Helicopter Completes First Flight on Another Planet by ...
The brief test of the experimental vehicle called Ingenuity shows how explorers can study the red planet from […]
The Galactic Center in Infrared
What does the center of our galaxy look like? In visible light, the Milky Way’s center is hidden […]
Rainbow Airglow over the Azores
Why would the sky glow like a giant repeating rainbow? Airglow. Now air glows all of the time, […]
Inside the Flame Nebula
The Flame Nebula is a stand out in optical images of the dusty, crowded star forming regions toward […]
The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
Light rays from accretion disks around a pair of orbiting supermassive black holes make their way through the […]