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07/02/2024

Goddard Year In Review 2023

From our home planet to the farthest reaches of the universe, review top highlights over 2023 from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the agency’s scientific nerve center.
Goddard is NASA’s premiere space flight complex and home to the nation’s largest organization of scientists, engineers, and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments, and new technology to study Earth, the Sun, our solar system, and the universe.

Universal Production Music: "Info Bed Underscore" "World Wide Instrumental" "Nanotech Instrumental" "The Big Rush Instrumental" "Unsmiling Seriousness Underscore"

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Swarupa Nune (eMITS) [Lead] Writer, Producer
Michael Randazzo (Abacus Technology) [Lead] Video Editor
Wade Sisler (NASA/GSFC) Producer
Rob Andreoli (ROTHE ARES Joint Venture) Videographer
John D. Philyaw (Abacus Technology) Videographer
Claire Andreoli (NASA/GSFC) Project Support
Dan Gallager (Abacus Technology) Project Support
David Ladd (Abacus Technology) Project Support
Deanna Kekesi (NASA/GSFC) Project Support
James Garvin (NASA, Chief Scientist Goddard) Project Support
Jeremy Eggers (NASA/WFF) Project Support
Katie Jepson (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) Project Support
Lacey Young (ROTHE ARES Joint Venture) Project Support
Laura Betz (Telophase) Project Support
Michael McClare (ROTHE ARES Joint Venture) Project Support
Miranda Chabot (NASA Intern) Project Support
Nancy Neal-Jones (NASA/GSFC) Project Support
Paul Morris (ROTHE ARES Joint Venture) Project Support
Ryan Fitzgibbons (ROTHE ARES Joint Venture) Project Support
Scott Wiessinger (ROTHE ARES Joint Venture) Project Support
Jamie Adkins (NASA/WFF) Social Media Support
Kathryn Mersmann (NASA/GSFC) Social Media Support



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01/02/2024

Galaxy mergers, hidden spectacles in our vast universe, play a crucial role in shaping cosmic landscapes. Unlock the secrets of these celestial events and the pivotal role of Hubble in capturing their essence.

Join us on a journey to explore the unseen forces that sculpt galaxies, unveiling the intricate tapestry of our cosmic existence.

In this video, Dr. Jennifer Wiseman goes in-depth on galaxy mergers and how important Hubble is to exploring the mysteries of the universe.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Producer, Director & Editor: James Leigh

Director of Photography: James Ball

Executive Producers: James Leigh & Matthew Duncan

Production & Post: Origin Films

Video Credits:
Hubble Space Telescope Animation:
ESA/Hubble - M. Kornmesser

The Big Bang Animation:
NASA (Animator Dana Berry – Skyworks Digital)

Galaxy Mergers Simulations:
STScl – Frank Summers

Music Credits:
"Perennial Ice" by Matthew Nicholson [PRS], and Suki Jeanette Finn [PRS] via Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS] and Universal Production Music

"Frozen Waves Instrumental" by Matthew Nicholson [PRS], and Suki Jeanette Finn [PRS] via Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS] and Universal Production Music

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“Cosmic Call” by Immersive Music

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22/01/2024

Finding a New Galactic Fossil
See More :https://youtu.be/09VJZnFTAAQ

Some 5 million years ago, a black hole eruption in the galaxy NGC 4945 set off a star-formation frenzy and shot a vast cloud of gas into intergalactic space. Watch and learn how two X-ray telescopes revealed the story.

Music Credits: Universal Production Music
Planetary Horizons by Jia Lee
Eyes Peeled by Bard
Sprinkle of Mischief by Ash and Harold

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Science writers: Jeanette Kazmierczak (University of Maryland College Park) [Lead] and Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park)
Scientist: Kim Weaver (NASA/GSFC)
Producer: Sophia Roberts (MORI Associates)
Project support: Scott Wiessinger (MORI Associates)

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18/01/2024

2023 Was the Hottest Year on Record

See More: https://youtu.be/tIGojmM_TS0
2023 was Earth’s warmest year since 1880, and the last 10 consecutive years have been the warmest 10 on record. But why does NASA, a space agency, look at Earth’s temperature? And how do we even measure global temperature?

Universal Music Production: “Busy Life Instrumental” “Spiritual Engineering Instrumental” “Promenade Instrumental” “Trusty Scalpel Instrumental” “Box of Tricks Instrumental” “Breaking Instrumental” and “Fast Progress Instrumental.”

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Kathleen Gaeta (NASA ROTHE): Lead Producer, Lead Videographer, Writer, Editor
Gavin Schmidt (NASA GISS): Lead Scientist
Peter Jacobs (NASA GSFC): Supporting Scientist
Grace Weikert (GSFC ROTHE): Associate Producer
Katie Jepson (GSFC KBR): Associate Producer
Mark Subbarao (NASA GSFC): Lead Visualizer
Krystofer Kim (GSFC ROTHE): Lead Graphics Animator

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14/01/2024

Hubble’s Inside The Image The Eagle Nebula

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken over 1.5 million observations over the years. One of them is the incredible image of The Pillars of Creation.

The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula, situated in the Serpens constellation, stand as celestial marvels. Composed of interstellar gas and dust, these towering structures captivate astronomers and stargazers alike. Shaped by the potent forces of stellar winds and radiation, the pillars, resembling cosmic sentinels, showcase vibrant hues. Functioning as crucibles for stellar birth, they facilitate the creation of new stars in a delicate dance of destruction and formation. The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula offer a captivating spectacle, inviting observers to contemplate the profound dynamics at play within our ever-evolving cosmic tapestry.

In this video, Dr. Jennifer Wiseman explains this breathtaking image and how important Hubble is to exploring the mysteries of the universe.

For More : https://youtu.be/ItogxKkDCU0

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Producer, Director & Editor: James Leigh

Director of Photography: James Ball

Executive Producers: James Leigh & Matthew Duncan

Production & Post: Origin Films

Video Credits:
Hubble Space Telescope Animation
ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

Light Echo Animation
NASA/ESA/Hubble - M. Kornmesser

Music Credits:
"Transcode" by Lee Groves [PRS], and Peter George Marett [PRS] via Universal Production Music

“Transitions” by Ben Niblett [PRS] and Jon Cotton [PRS] via Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS] and Universal Production Music.


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10/01/2024

Narrated Tour of Fermi's 14-Year Gamma-Ray Time-Lapse

More Info : https://youtu.be/EVIG6g_RcLg

The cosmos comes alive in an all-sky time-lapse movie made from 14 years of data acquired by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Our Sun, occasionally flaring into prominence, serenely traces a path though the sky against the backdrop of high-energy sources within our galaxy and beyond.

Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of light. The movie shows the intensity of gamma rays with energies above 200 million electron volts (MeV) detected by Fermi’s Large Area Telescope (LAT) between August 2008 and August 2022. For comparison, visible light has energies between 2 and 3 electron volts. Brighter colors mark the locations of more intense gamma-ray sources.

The movie shows the sky in two different views. The rectangular view shows the entire sky with the center of our galaxy in the middle. This highlights the central plane of the Milky Way, which glows in gamma rays produced from cosmic rays striking interstellar gas and starlight. It’s also flecked with many other sources, including neutron stars and supernova remnants. Above and below this central band, we’re looking out of our galaxy and into the wider universe, peppered with bright, rapidly changing sources.

Most of these are actually distant galaxies, and they’re better seen in a different view centered on our galaxy’s north and south poles. Each of these galaxies, called blazars, hosts a central black hole with a mass of a million or more Suns. Somehow, the black holes produce extremely fast-moving jets of matter, and with blazars we’re looking almost directly down one of these jets, a view that enhances their brightness and variability.

Many of these galaxies are extremely far away. For example, the light from a blazar known as 4C +21.35 has been traveling for 4.6 billion years, which means that a flare up we see today actually occurred as our Sun and solar system were beginning to form. Other bright blazars are more than twice as distant, and together provide striking snapshots of black hole activity throughout cosmic time.

Not seen in the time-lapse are many short-duration events that Fermi studies, such as gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful cosmic explosions. This is a result of processing data across several days to sharpen the images.

Music credit: "Expanding Shell" written and produced by Lars Leonhard.

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA/DOE/LAT Collaboration
Producer: Scott Wiessinger (Rothe Ares Joint Venture)
Science writer: Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park)
Visualizer: Seth Digel (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Narrator: Judith Racusin (NASA/GSFC)
Scientist: Judith Racusin (NASA/GSFC)


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01/01/2024

Fermi's 14-Year Time-Lapse of the Gamma-Ray Sky

See also on Youtube: https://youtu.be/oAq5f1TMN0o

The entire gamma-ray sky is unwrapped into a rectangular map, with the center of our Milky Way galaxy located in the middle, in this 14-year time-lapse of the gamma-ray sky. A moving source, our Sun, can be seen following a curving path through the sky, a reflection of Earth’s annual orbital motion. Watch for strong flares that occasionally brighten the Sun. The central plane of our galaxy is on full display, glowing in gamma rays produced when accelerated particles (cosmic rays) interact with interstellar gas and starlight. Pulsars and supernova remnants, all bright gamma-ray sources for Fermi, also fleck the Milky Way band. Above and below the bright central plane, where our view of the broader cosmos becomes clearer, splotches of color brighten and fade. These sources are jets of particles moving at nearly the speed of light driven by supermassive black holes in distant galaxies. The jets happen to point almost directly toward Earth, which enhances their brightness and variability. Over a few days, these galaxies can erupt to become some of the brighest objects in the gamma-ray sky and then fade to obscurity. In these maps, brighter colors indicate greater numbers of gamma rays detected by Fermi’s Large Area Telescope from Aug. 10, 2008, to Aug. 2, 2022.

Music credit: "Expanding Shell" written and produced by Lars Leonhard.

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA/DOE/LAT Collaboration
Producer: Scott Wiessinger (Rothe Ares Joint Venture)
Science writer: Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park)
Visualizer: Seth Digel (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Scientist: Judith Racusin (NASA/GSFC)


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31/12/2023

Hubble’s Inside The Image: RS Puppis

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken over 1.5 million observations over the years. One of them is the incredible image of RS Puppis.

RS Puppis is a remarkable and highly luminous Cepheid variable star located in the constellation Puppis, known for its regular pulsations and dramatic changes in brightness.

In this video, Dr. Padi Boyd explains this breathtaking image and how important Hubble is to exploring the mysteries of the universe.

For more information, visit https://youtu.be/1_49UIdiWfE

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Producer, Director & Editor: James Leigh

Director of Photography: James Ball

Executive Producers: James Leigh & Matthew Duncan

Production & Post: Origin Films

Video Credits:
Hubble Space Telescope Animation
ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

Light Echo Animation
NASA/ESA/Hubble - M. Kornmesser

Music Credits:
"Transcode" by Lee Groves [PRS], and Peter George Marett [PRS] via Universal Production Music

“Transitions” by Ben Niblett [PRS] and Jon Cotton [PRS] via Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS] and Universal Production Music.


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