Science & Technology

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.

This 133-day time lapse of the Sun at 17.1nm shows brilliant active regions, dynamic loops of plasma and numerous solar eruptions. Music (in order): Concave Hexagon, Heptagon, Tetrahedron, Triangular Prism, Square-based Pyramid, Irregular Quadrilateral, Equilateral Triangle, Dodecahedron, Icosahedron, all from "Geometric Shapes" written and produced by Lars Leonhard.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO

This video uses data gathered from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft to recreate some of the stunning views of the Moon that the Apollo 13 astronauts saw on their journey in 1970. Music provided by Universal Production Music: "Visions of Grandeur" - Frederick Wiedmann

In the fall of 2011, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission released its original Tour of the Moon, a five-minute animation that takes the viewer on a virtual tour of our nearest neighbor in space. Six years later, the tour has been recreated in eye-popping 4K resolution, using the same camera path and drawing from the vastly expanded data trove collected by LRO in the intervening years.

The orbit of the Moon in 2020, viewed from the south pole of the ecliptic, with the vernal equinox to the right. The sizes of the Earth and Moon are exaggerated by a factor of 15, 20, or 25, depending on the frame size. The frames include an alpha channel.