Media in category space exploration:
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GRAIL Launch Coverage Begins |
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NASA Launch Commentator George Diller opens coverage of the Grail mission right before launch on September 10, 2011.
Date: 2011-09-10 15:39:28
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Earth: Space Time Lapse |
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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 Is...
Date: 2011-09-10 01:02:43
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Exotic Planet Made of Diamonds Found in Our Milky Way Neighborhood |
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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 t...
Date: 2011-08-28 01:26:22
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The Amazing Universe |
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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.
Date: 2011-08-26 15:37:47
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The Largest Black Holes in the Universe |
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How big can they get? What's the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide? We've never seen them directly, yet we know they are there. Lurking within dense star clusters or wandering the dust lanes of the galaxy. Where they prey on stars. Or swallow planets whole....
Date: 2011-08-26 15:28:04
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Juno Launch Towards Jupiter |
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An Atlas V rocket lofted the Juno spacecraft toward Jupiter from Space Launch Complex-41. The 4-ton Juno spacecraft will take five years to reach Jupiter on a mission to study its structure and decipher its history.
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Date: 2011-08-10 14:09:08
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NASA unveils Orion Spacecraft on National Mall |
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On March 30, 2009, NASA unveiled the new Orion Spacecraft in front of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. The module is still undergoing tests, but is planned to make its first journey to the International Space Station in 2015.
Date: 2011-07-08 19:07:45
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