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OSIRIS-REX is NASA's first asteroid sample return mission. It launched in September 2016 on a journey to explore a near- Earth asteroid called Bennu. In October 2020, the spacecraft ventured to the asteroid's surface and collected about 250 grams of material for delivery to Earth. Now, two years and four months after leaving Bennu, OSIRIS-REX is closing in on the place where its journey began. The mission's thrilling finale will take place on September 24, 2023, as a capsule containing the Bennu samples touches down in Utah's West Desert. Follow the journey to Bennu and back at: https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex

Follow two NASA rocket teams as they launch from Australia to study our nearest stellar neighbors - Alpha Centauri A & B - on a quest to understand how stars make the planets around them suitable for life. In this episode, hear from a local Yolngu leader and learn what it takes to make a rocket range from scratch. (Spoiler: It's not an easy task.) To learn more about NASA's Sounding Rockets Program - https://www.nasa.gov/soundingrockets Music credits: "The Wilderness" by Benjamin James Parsons [PRS]; "Epic Earth" by Andy Hopkins [PRS], Dean Mahoney [PRS], Jacob Nicholas Stonewall Jackson [PRS]; " Outback Sunset" by Randall Aaron Foat [ASCAP]; "Everlasting Armenian Hope" by Mathieu Fiset [SOCAN]; "Migration" by Giovanni Antonio Parricelli [PRS]; "Coastal Highways" by lan Paul Livingstone [PRS] from Universal Production Music Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Additional footage: Office of the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory government, Equatorial Launch Australia

Episode 1: Follow two NASA rocket teams as they launch from Australia to study our nearest stellar neighbors - Alpha Centauri A & B - on a quest to understand how stars make the planets around them suitable for life. This is the first in a six-part series released weekly starting June 27, 2023. To learn more about NASA's Sounding Rockets Program - https://www.nasa.gov/soundingrockets Music credits: "Epic Earth" by Andy Hopkins [PRS], Dean Mahoney [PRS], Jacob Nicholas Stonewall Jackson [PRS]; "Nature in Motion" and "Driving Motion" by Fred Dubois [SACEM]; "Social Issues" by Laurent Dury [SACEM]; "The Great Divide" by lan Paul Livingstone [PRS] from Universal Production Music. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Watch this video to learn more about XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission), a collaboration between JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and NASA. Music Credits: Universal Production Music Lights On by Hugh Robert Edwin Wilkinson Dreams by Jez Fox and Rohan Jones Changing Tide by Rob Manning Wandering Imagination by Joel Goodman In Unison by Samuel Sim Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific

Follow two NASA rocket teams as they launch from Australia to study our nearest stellar neighbors - Alpha Centauri A & B - on a quest to understand how stars make the planets around them suitable for life. In this episode, Miles digs into the science behind the mission. What is UV light good for anyways? To learn more about NASA's Sounding Rockets Program - https://www.nasa.gov/soundingrockets

Follow two NASA rocket teams as they launch from Australia to study our nearest stellar neighbors - Alpha Centauri A & B- on a quest to understand how stars make the planets around them suitable for life In this episode, we'll answer that question and check in on the rockets as they make their final preparation to launch into space. To learn more about NASA's Sounding Rockets Program https://www.nasa.gov/soundingrockets

Gravitational waves are invisible ripples in the fabric of space-time. They are caused by some of the most violent and energetic events in the universe. These include colliding black holes, collapsing stellar cores, merging neutron stars or white dwarf stars, the wobble of neutron stars that are not perfect spheres and possibly even the remnants of gravitational radiation created by the birth of the universe. In this video, Dr. Padi Boyd explains gravitational waves and how important Hubble is to exploring the mysteries of the universe. For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft continues gathering a wide variety of data on our Moon using its suite of scientific instruments. The information collected has led to many scientific discoveries that have shed light on the Moon's history, composition, and potential for future exploration with the upcoming Artemis missions. This video highlights some of those recent discoveries that involve impact craters, volcanic activity, and the Moon's South Pole. Video Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

In this artist's rendition, we explore a metallic world named Psyche, an asteroid that offers a unique window into the building blocks of planet formation. The NASA Psyche mission launches in 2023 and will arrive at the asteroid Psyche, which orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, in 2026. The spacecraft, also named Psyche, will spend 21 months orbiting the asteroid, mapping it and studying its properties. The mission is led by Principal Investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is responsible for the mission's overall management, system engineering, integration and test, and mission operations. Maxar Technologies is providing a high-power solar electric propulsion spacecraft chassis.

This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2022, as viewed from the Southern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the Moon's orbit position, sub-Earth and subsolar points, and distance from the Earth at true scale. Craters near the terminator are labeled, as are Apollo landing sites, maria, and other albedo features in sunlight. Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Data visualization by Ernie Wright (USRA) Producer & Editor - David Ladd (AIMM)

This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2022, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the Moon's orbit position, sub-Earth and subsolar points, and distance from the Earth at true scale. Craters near the terminator are labeled, as are Apollo landing sites, maria, and other albedo features in sunlight. Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

The people who get to see the Earth from space marvel at its beauty, the colors, the fragility they feel about the planet 250 miles below them. Now it's your turn: this ultra-high definition video, captured during the International Space Station's Expedition 65, allows you an extended, appreciative gawk at the home planet in all its glory. Hit play, and go into orbit mode.

This video chronicles solar activity from Aug. 12 to Dec. 22, 2022, as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). From its orbit in space around Earth, SDO has steadily imaged the Sun in 4K x 4K resolution for nearly 13 years. This information has enabled countless new discoveries about the workings of our closest star and how it influences the solar system. With a triad of instruments, SDO captures an image of the Sun every 0.75 seconds. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument alone captures images every 12 seconds at 10 different wavelengths of light. This 133-day time lapse showcases photos taken at a wavelength of 17.1 nanometers, which is an extreme-ultraviolet wavelength that shows the Sun's outermost atmospheric layer: the corona. Compiling images taken 108 seconds apart, the movie condenses 133 days, or about four months, of solar observations into 59 minutes. The video shows bright active regions passing across the face of the Sun as it rotates. The Sun rotates approximately once every 27 days. The loops extending above the bright regions are magnetic fields that have trapped hot, glowing plasma. These bright regions are also the source of solar flares, which appear as bright flashes as magnetic fields snap together in a process called magnetic reconnection. While SDO has kept an unblinking eye pointed toward the Sun, there have been a few moments it missed. Some of the dark frames in the video are caused by Earth or the Moon eclipsing SDO as they pass between the spacecraft and the Sun. Other blackouts are caused by instrumentation being down or dataerrors. SDO transmits 1.4 terabytes of data to the ground every day. The images where the Sun is off-center were observed when SDO was calibrating its instruments. SDO and other NASA missions will continue to watch our Sun in the years to come, providing further insights about our place in space and information to keep our astronauts and assets safe. The music is a continuous mix from Lars Leonhard's "Geometric Shapes" album, courtesy of the artist. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scott Wiessinger (PAO): Lead Producer Tom Bridgman (SVS): Lead Visualizer Scott Wiessinger (PAO): Editor This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14263. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14263. For more information on NASA's media guidelines, visit https://nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines. Video Description: On the left side of the frame is the full circle of the Sun. It appears in a golden yellow color, but splotchy and with thin yellow wisps extending from the surface. Some areas are very bright and others almost black. The whole Sun rotates steadily, with onealmost black. The whole Sun rotates steadily, with one full rotation taking 12 minutes in this time lapse. There are usually only a few bright regions visible at a time and they shift and flash like small fires. From these regions there are wispy loops reaching up above the surface that rapidly change shape and size. On the right side of the frame are two white-outlined squares with enlargements of interesting regions of the Sun.