The largest diamond ever found is not on Earth, but faraway across the galaxy. It's the burned out corpse of a star named BPM 37093 only about 50 lightyears away from Earth in the region of the sky we refer to as the constellation Centaurus. The white dwarf star is a chunk of crystallized carbon that weighs 5 million trillion trillion pounds. That would equal a diamond of 10 billion trillion trillion carats.

This video was actually 'recorded live' so to speak, under the silver arch! The silence you hear, is the silence of the dark night in a clearing way up high in the Sierra Nevada Mountain range. Quite a profound and moving experience.

Have you ever wondered why some telescopes are launched into space while others are built on remote mountain tops? What is actually the best for astronomy? Here we provide a ringside view of the fight for the elusive photons from deep space - is it a battle of the telescope giants?

What does it take to get a spacecraft to Mars? This 60-second video covers a few key things to remember when planning a trip to the Red Planet.

Benefits of space surround us. Exploration fuels innovation. Groundbreaking technologies we develop to explore space keep us close and safe right here at home.

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER) is an ongoing robotic space mission involving two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, exploring the planet Mars. It began in 2003 with the sending of the two rovers—MER-A Spirit and MER-B Opportunity—to explore the Martian surface and geology.

Who speaks for Earth? "In our tenure on this planet, we've accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage; propensities for agression and ritual, submission to leaders, hostility to outsiders; all of which puts our survival in some doubt. We've also acquired compassion for others, love for our children, a desire to learn from histroy and experience, and a great soaring passionate intelligence; the clear tools for our continued survival and prosperity." "National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatic ethnic, or religious, or national identifications are a little difficult to support when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars." - Carl Sagan. This clip comes from Carl Sagan's Cosmos episode 13, "Who Speaks For Earth?

As part of the Queen Elizabeth II 60 years Diamond Jubille a morph sequence video of her life was created.

A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, El Salvador, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Lake Titicaca, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line), a satellite (55sec) and the stars of our galaxy. Raw data was downloaded from;
The Gateway To Astronaut Photography of Earth http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/mrf.htm

For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released 08.18.2011 during a NASA press conference, has galvanized solar physicists, who say it could lead to important advances in space weather forecasting. "The movie sent chills down my spine," says Craig DeForest of the Southwest Researcher Institute in Boulder, Colorado. "It shows a CME swelling into an enormous wall of plasma and then washing over the tiny blue speck of Earth where we live. I felt very small."