Tag: nasa

Who are you and what are you currently working on?
- by Chester McEachern
- 1 week ago
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Well, I’m Jim Garvin. I’m the chief scientist here at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center — great job. Um, my job is strategic. We have a large workforce of scientists who study the cosmos, the Earth, here at Goddard, and
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Bomb Cyclone, Albania Earthquake, & Typhoon Halong
- by Chester McEachern
- 1 week ago
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Welcome back for another Monthly What’s What! I’m Mr. Weather, joined by Mr. Relevant. Let’s venture into Earth Science events that occurred this past November. This past month in the Northwest Pacific, one of the strongest Tropical Cyclones was seen
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News Now Stream 12/02/19 (FNN)
- by Chester McEachern
- 1 week ago
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Voyager 2’s Notes from Interstellar Space | SciShow News
- by Chester McEachern
- 4 weeks ago
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[♪ INTRO] Sending a spacecraft to explore far-off places in the solar system is cool. But you know what’s even cooler? Sending spacecraft to explore outside the solar system. It’s new terrain for human-made objects, and we’ve only done it
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Why Physics Can’t Totally Explain the Universe’s Expansion | SciShow News
- by Chester McEachern
- 1 month ago
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{ ♪ INTRO ♪ } Since the moment it began, the universe has been expanding. It took humanity a while to figure that out, but over the last century, astronomers have gotten pretty good at calculating how fast it’s happening
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Pluto Might Have a Liquid Water Ocean?! | SciShow News
- by Chester McEachern
- 1 month ago
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[ INTRO ] Pluto might once have seemed like the last place in the solar system to look for liquid water, given that its balmiest days peak around negative two hundred twenty-five degrees Celsius. But ever since the New Horizons
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NASA’s Analysis of 2016 Global Temperature
- by Chester McEachern
- 2 months ago
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Earth just experienced the warmest year on record, again. 2016 was the third year in a row with record-high surface temperature, part of a decades-long warming trend. NASA scientists track global temperature changes to better understand Earth’s changing climate.
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Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy (Version 1)
- by Chester McEachern
- 2 months ago
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From a distance, our galaxy would look something like this. A flat spiral, some 100,000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxy’s center. That center – bulging up
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