NASA ScienceCasts
NASA Science news is too exciting for plain text. Educational "ScienceCast" videos are fun, lively, entertaining--anything but plain. Join us for a new episode weekly as we look into the science behind discoveries on Earth, the Solar System, and beyond...
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ScienceCast 162: Jellyfish Flame on the ISS
Astronauts onboard the International Space Station report seeing flames that ...
Astronauts onboard the International Space Station report seeing flames that behave like jellyfish. Video of the microgravity phenomenon is a must-see.
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ScienceCast 161: Mystery in the Ozone Layer
Almost 30 years after the Montreal Protocol put the brakes ...
Almost 30 years after the Montreal Protocol put the brakes on ozone-depleting chemicals, one compound remains stubbornly and mysteriously abundant in the atmosphere.
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ScienceCast 160: Evidence for Supernovas Near Earth
A NASA sounding rocket has confirmed that the solar system ...
A NASA sounding rocket has confirmed that the solar system is inside an ancient supernova remnant. Life on Earth survived despite the nearby blasts.
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ScienceCast 159: Sizing up an Exoplanet
Astronomers are not only discovering planets around distant suns, they ...
Astronomers are not only discovering planets around distant suns, they are also starting to measure those worlds with astonishing precision.
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ScienceCast 158: Beautiful Conjunction
Wake up early in mid-August to see Venus and Jupiter ...
Wake up early in mid-August to see Venus and Jupiter shining side-by-side.
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ScienceCast 157: Colliding Atmospheres - Mars vs Comet Siding Spring
Comet Siding Spring is about to fly historically close to ...
Comet Siding Spring is about to fly historically close to Mars. The encounter could spark Martian auroras, a meteor shower, and other unpredictable effects. Whatever happens, NASA's fleet of Mars satellites will have a ringside seat.
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ScienceCast 156: Perseid Meteors vs the Supermoon
Which is brighter--a flurry of Perseid fireballs or a supermoon? ...
Which is brighter--a flurry of Perseid fireballs or a supermoon? Sky watchers will find out this August when the biggest and brightest full Moon of 2014 arrives just in time for the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower.
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ScienceCast 155: Big Mystery in the Perseus Cluster
A mysterious X-ray signal from the Perseus cluster of galaxies, ...
A mysterious X-ray signal from the Perseus cluster of galaxies, which researchers say cannot be explained by known physics, could be a key clue to the nature of Dark Matter.
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ScienceCast 154: One Year to Pluto
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is only a year away from ...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is only a year away from Pluto. Researchers are buzzing with anticipation as NASA prepares to encounter a new world for the first time in decades.
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ScienceCast 153: A Summer of Super Moons
The summer of 2014 will be bathed in moonlight as ...
The summer of 2014 will be bathed in moonlight as three perigee "supermoons" occur in consecutive months: July, August, September.
