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Astronomy

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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?!"

Astronaut in a space suit working on a machine. Caption: Training takes place in the neutral buoyancy lab.

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a Scientist: How can I watch the solar eclipse safely?

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a scientist: What makes solar eclipse glasses so special? Can I just wear sunglasses?

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?

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a scientist: Where can I get solar eclipse glasses?

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a scientist: Where can I see the eclipse in totality?

Still image from: Big Astronomy: People, Places, Discoveries

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.

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:

Still image from: Everything Eclipses: Eclipse Community Preparedness Explained by the EMA

Still image from: Everything Eclipses: How to Explain an Eclipse to a Kindergartner

Still image from: Everything Eclipses: How to Safely View an Eclipse (Pinhole Viewer)

Still image from: Everything Eclipses: The Next Solar Eclipse (April 8, 2024)

Still image from: Everything Eclipses: What Is a Lunar Eclipse?

Still image from: Everything Eclipses: What Is a Solar Eclipse?

Still image from: Everything Eclipses: What Is an Astronomer?

Glowing star shining light on a planet. Caption: That tells you there may be a planet around that star.

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.

Still image from: Help NASA Capture the Sounds of a Total Solar Eclipse

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.

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.

A view of Moon in the dark sky. Caption: Maria, Latin for seas, and Sea of Tranquility, Mare Tranquillitatis.

Orange glare flares out from bright central object and is surrounded by flecks of colored light in outer space.

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.

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.

A star filled night sky. Caption: P B S.

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.

Small spherical object in relief against a red glowing background. Caption: It's the closest planet to our sun,

Still image from: NASA Goddard SFC: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Map

Still image from: NASA Goddard SFC: Different Ways to View a Solar Eclipse

Still image from: NASA Goddard SFC: Eclipse Phases

Still image from: NASA Goddard SFC: Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope--14 Years of Observations

Still image from: NASA Goddard SFC: Touching the Sun With Solar Stones

Two scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider.

Planet Mars. Caption: negative 63 degrees Celsius and negative 81 degrees Fahrenheit. Source, NASA.

An illustration depicts some planets and their orbits, revolving around a sun. Caption: N A S A.

Two black holes in the center of a galaxy. Caption: L I G O slash S X S slash R Hurt and T Pyle.

A black hole in the center of a galaxy. Caption: Black hole.

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.

A cluster of telescopes pointed to the sky. Caption: at 16,500 feet in the deserts of Atacama in Chile.

Concentric circles of light around a center of blackness. Caption: We can see the material around the black hole.

Circular tunnel with pipe conduit along the walls and a large, central tube. Caption: (narrator) At CERN, the Higgs is only the beginning.

White glowing orb against a black grid. Caption: Weakly Interacting Massive Particle

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,

Glowing orb of the sun emitting a pulse of light. Caption: and washes out across the solar system.

Small point of light at the center of an expanding cloud of red, magenta, and gray light. Caption: It's called a supernova.

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,

Two people sitting on a couch and talking. Caption: A black hole is a region of space and time

Four people in a yard holding balloons. One is on a ladder. Caption: Five, four, three, two, one.

Diagram of two planets, one wearing a scarf, one obscured by gas vapors. Caption: Most of these are ice giants or gas giants

4 collaged rectangles arranged in a row. Each is composed of colorful torn paper with glimpses of text.

Still image from: The Space Gal: Solar Flare

Illustration image of a satellite. Caption: Juno is an unmanned deep-space mission

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.

White background with gray grid lines with a molecule diagram on it. Text underneath the diagram reads, "Amino acid."

Detailed photograph of the moon. Caption: In 1959 the Survey compiled a photogeologic map of the moon