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Astronomy

Large rounded blue and white instrument with round opening at the front. Man faces it in foreground. Title card reads, "A flying telescope in a 747?!"
4 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Astronaut in a space suit working on a machine. Caption: Training takes place in the neutral buoyancy lab.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 5
3 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a Scientist: How can I watch the solar eclipse safely?
56 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a scientist: What makes solar eclipse glasses so special? Can I just wear sunglasses?
52 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a Scientist: What's happening on Aug. 21st, 2017? And what can people potentially see?
37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a scientist: Where can I get solar eclipse glasses?
50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a scientist: Where can I see the eclipse in totality?
36 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Big Astronomy: People, Places, Discoveries
26 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person holding a paper cup with rubber bands and binder clips wrapped around a tubular object. Caption: (Nate) There's lots of ways of getting the straw into the potato.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 10
3 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Person in lab coat, gloves, and mask moving a large metal machine that is place above other complex metal machinery. Caption: Also key is state-of-the-art optical and laser technology:
20 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Everything Eclipses: Eclipse Community Preparedness Explained by the EMA
Everything Eclipses
Episode 5
3 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Everything Eclipses: How to Explain an Eclipse to a Kindergartner
Everything Eclipses
Episode 7
2 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Everything Eclipses: How to Safely View an Eclipse (Pinhole Viewer)
Everything Eclipses
Episode 6
3 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Everything Eclipses: The Next Solar Eclipse (April 8, 2024)
Everything Eclipses
Episode 4
2 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Everything Eclipses: What Is a Lunar Eclipse?
Everything Eclipses
Episode 2
2 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Everything Eclipses: What Is a Solar Eclipse?
Everything Eclipses
Episode 1
2 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Everything Eclipses: What Is an Astronomer?
Everything Eclipses
Episode 3
3 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Glowing star shining light on a planet. Caption: That tells you there may be a planet around that star.
Science Out Loud
Episode 1
3 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of the surface of the sun showing disturbances caused by solar wind. Caption: It's brought to earth by solar wind from the sun.
7 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Help NASA Capture the Sounds of a Total Solar Eclipse
2 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person holding a magnet above a pile of metal shavings. Some of the metal shavings are adhering to the magnet. Caption: that exert a force on metal objects when they're nearby.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 7
3 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
ASL
Man sits and talks to us in a room with a bookcase with books and different knick-knacks on the shelf such as a Gundam toy, a mini globe, and a space rocket.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 8 / Ep 20
11 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
A view of Moon in the dark sky. Caption: Maria, Latin for seas, and Sea of Tranquility, Mare Tranquillitatis.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 15
10 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
Orange glare flares out from bright central object and is surrounded by flecks of colored light in outer space.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 8 / Ep 9
10 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
A battery gauge has 14 blocks, where 7 blocks are full. The grades of the battery gauge reads, from top to bottom, as follows. Gamma rays, X rays, U V, visible rays, and infrared. An arrow points from visible light to infrared.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 8 / Ep 4
8 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
Man looks at us with a stern expression and points his finger up like he’s telling us to stop. Behind him is a bookcase filled with books and knick-knacks like a Gundam toy, little bird figurines, and a small globe.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 8 / Ep 22
15 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
A star filled night sky. Caption: P B S.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 16
10 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Cartoon of a child in a car seat riding in the backseat of a car looking out the window. Caption: I love looking out the window when I'm riding in the car.
Everyday Science for Preschoolers
Episode 5
1 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Small spherical object in relief against a red glowing background. Caption: It's the closest planet to our sun,
4 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: NASA Goddard SFC: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Map
1 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: NASA Goddard SFC: Different Ways to View a Solar Eclipse
3 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: NASA Goddard SFC: Eclipse Phases
1 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: NASA Goddard SFC: Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope--14 Years of Observations
5 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: NASA Goddard SFC: Touching the Sun With Solar Stones
2 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 16
10 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Planet Mars. Caption: negative 63 degrees Celsius and negative 81 degrees Fahrenheit. Source, NASA.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 12
10 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
An illustration depicts some planets and their orbits, revolving around a sun. Caption: N A S A.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 18
9 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Two black holes in the center of a galaxy. Caption: L I G O slash S X S slash R Hurt and T Pyle.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 11
30 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A black hole in the center of a galaxy. Caption: Black hole.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 1
6 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A telescope built on the top of a mountain. Caption: Large synoptic survey telescope. Science office slash L S S T project slash N S F slash A U R A.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 13
9 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A cluster of telescopes pointed to the sky. Caption: at 16,500 feet in the deserts of Atacama in Chile.
Science Nation
Episode 70
2 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Concentric circles of light around a center of blackness. Caption: We can see the material around the black hole.
Science Nation
Episode 156
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Circular tunnel with pipe conduit along the walls and a large, central tube. Caption: (narrator) At CERN, the Higgs is only the beginning.
Science Nation
Episode 62
2 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
White glowing orb against a black grid. Caption: Weakly Interacting Massive Particle
Science Nation
Episode 10
3 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Points of light spaced evenly across a surface. A rod with spheres extends down the center. Caption: It's a cubic kilometer full of sensors known as IceCube,
Science Nation
Episode 145
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Glowing orb of the sun emitting a pulse of light. Caption: and washes out across the solar system.
Science Nation
Episode 199
4 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Small point of light at the center of an expanding cloud of red, magenta, and gray light. Caption: It's called a supernova.
Science Nation
Episode 126
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two people standing next to a large telescope with MEADE on the side. One person looks in the eye piece. Caption: they look way out to the Kuiper Belt,
Science Nation
Episode 42
3 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Two people sitting on a couch and talking. Caption: A black hole is a region of space and time
Scientists & Engineers On Sofas (And Other Furnishings)
Episode 6
7 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Four people in a yard holding balloons. One is on a ladder. Caption: Five, four, three, two, one.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 9
3 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Diagram of two planets, one wearing a scarf, one obscured by gas vapors. Caption: Most of these are ice giants or gas giants
Spot on Science
Episode 2
2 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
4 collaged rectangles arranged in a row. Each is composed of colorful torn paper with glimpses of text.
The Art Assignment
Season 6 / Ep 7
14 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: The Space Gal: Solar Flare
The Space Gal
Episode 13
7 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Illustration image of a satellite. Caption: Juno is an unmanned deep-space mission
Design Squad Nation
Episode 1
3 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Pointy hill with traces of snow appears in front of a lake and other snowy hills in the distance. Green Northern Lights are visible in night sky over the distant hills.
Untold
Episode 10
12 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
White background with gray grid lines with a molecule diagram on it. Text underneath the diagram reads, "Amino acid."
Untold
Episode 9
13 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Detailed photograph of the moon. Caption: In 1959 the Survey compiled a photogeologic map of the moon
3 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12