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Space Sciences

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
Still image from: Bite-Size Science With André and Lexi: Solar Energy
Bite-Size Science With André and Lexi
Episode 2
4 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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
Space rocket launching as seen from below. Caption: I want to contribute to the first manned mission to Mars.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 3
2 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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
Person placing a magnet to one side of the path directly in front of a ramp. A dotted line projects the path of an object that will move from the ramp and curve toward the magnet. Caption: Let's place the magnet somewhere to alter the marble's course.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 6
3 minutes 13 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
ASL
An astronaut Don Pettit talks to host Joe Hanson. A rocket is seen in the background.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 30
11 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 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
Still image from: PACE Satellite Acoustic Testing With the United States Marine Band
3 minutes 12 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 giant concrete tunnel runs through a desert. Caption: Laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 10
11 minutes 27 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
Cardboard pieces cut and attached together to resemble robotic arms attempting to pick up rocks. Caption: Let's see if these robotic arms can pick up some space rocks.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 8
2 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Robot with logos for NASA and GM. Caption: that we developed to assist astronauts in space
Design Squad Nation
Episode 4
3 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 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
Computer screen displaying two uneven strands of light. Caption: that thrives where life would seem impossible.
Science Nation
Episode 184
4 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 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
Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2120)
Teen Kids News
Episode 2120
20 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two boys walking through a sun-dappled Florida forest trail surrounded by trees, grasses, and palms.
The Outsiders Club
Season 2 / Ep 3
21 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Bright, sunny view from an observation deck onto the landscape of grasses and shrubs under a blue sky with scattered clouds.
The Outsiders Club (Spanish)
Season 2 / Ep 3
21 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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
White background with faint gray grid lines with a physics equation breaking down P, E sub G or Pressure times Gravitational Potential Energy.
Untold
Episode 1
14 minutes 56 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
Computer graphic of a sphere superimposed with an infrared heat signature on a black background. Most of the globe is bright green with the middle in dark blue and purple and small red spot with yellow shooting out toward the bottom center.
Untold
Episode 8
12 minutes 29 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
Slit screen of a person in a virtual reality suit and the computer representation of her body. Caption: It actually recognizes my skeleton based on these different markers.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 2
4 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Person against a backdrop of the moon, earth, and an American flag. Caption: (female narrator) Alan Shephard, the first American in space,
World Explorers
Episode 26
5 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
ASL
Person in a space suit with the helmet removed, the moon in the background. Caption: Neil Alden Armstrong commanded a mission to the moon
World Explorers
Episode 28
5 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8