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101955 Bennu is like a giant skyscraper-sized rock that's pretty close to Earth. NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been studying it since late 2018. On May 10, 2021, OSIRIS-REx left Bennu and is coming back to Earth with some pieces it collected from the asteroid. This video shows the whole journey OSIRIS-REx took while it was at Bennu

133 Days on the Sun's Surface it was recorded by a NASA spacecraft called the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). SDO has been taking pictures of the Sun for more than 13 years from space. These pictures have helped us learn a lot about how the Sun works and how it affects our solar system. SDO has three special cameras that take pictures of the Sun very often. One of them, called the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), takes pictures every 12 seconds using different colors of light. In this video, you're seeing images taken in a special kind of light that shows the Sun's outer layer, called the corona. This video compresses 133 days of Sun-watching into 59 minutes. You can see bright areas moving across the Sun's surface as it turns. The loops you see above the bright areas are magnetic fields holding hot, glowing gas. These bright areas can also cause solar flares, which are like bright flashes when magnetic fields snap together. Sometimes, the video has dark frames because the Earth or the Moon passed between SDO and the Sun, blocking its view. Other times, it happened because of technical issues. SDO sends a huge amount of data to Earth every day. Some of the pictures where the Sun isn't in the center were taken when SDO was adjusting its cameras

We're looking at a shiny world called Psyche. Psyche is not a planet, but a big rock floating in space. It's like a puzzle piece that can help us understand how planets are made. In the year 2023, a special mission by NASA called Psyche will start. It will send a spacecraft into space. This spacecraft will travel to the asteroid Psyche, which is between Mars and Jupiter. It will reach Psyche in 2026. The spacecraft, also named Psyche, will spend almost 2 years flying around the asteroid. It will take pictures and gather information about Psyche. Scientists want to learn a lot about this asteroid. They're curious about what it's made of and how it formed. The person in charge of this mission is Lindy Elkins-Tanton from Arizona State University. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is making sure everything goes smoothly. They're in charge of planning and running the mission. Another company called Maxar Technologies is building a special spacecraft. This spacecraft will use powerful sunlight to move through space.