To find out more visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/first_year.html
In its first year of operations, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has mapped the entire sky with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity in gamma-rays, the highest-energy form of light. On May 10, 2009 a pair of gamma-ray photons reached Fermi only 900 milliseconds apart after traveling for 7 billion years. Fermi’s measurement gives us rare experimental evidence that space-time is smooth as Einstein predicted, and has shut the door on several approaches to gravity where space-time is foamy enough to interfere strongly with light.
Stefanie Misztal and Scott Wiessinger produced and edited this video.
To find out more visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/first_year.html
In its first year of operations, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has mapped the entire sky with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity in gamma-rays, the highest-energy form of light. On May 10, 2009 a pair of gamma-ray photons reached Fermi only 900 milliseconds apart after traveling for 7 billion years. Fermi’s measurement gives us rare experimental evidence that space-time is smooth as Einstein predicted, and has shut the door on several approaches to gravity where space-time is foamy enough to interfere strongly with light.
Stefanie Misztal and Scott Wiessinger produced and edited this video.
Dean Pesnell, the SDO Project Scientist, explains how the the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) instrument will allow us to better measure solar irradiance in extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. This type of irradiance, which is absorbed completely by Earth's upper atmosphere, can be dangerous to astronauts and electronics in space.
Learn more about the SDO mission at:
http://www.nasa.gov/SDO
This video was produced by Chris Smith.
As the 2009 hurricane season reaches its peak, NASA and NOAA are tracking storms using the GOES series of satellites including the newest GOES-14 spacecraft. On the morning of September 22, TV stations nationwide interviewed NASA GOES Deputy Project
Manager Andre Dress to get more information about the 2009 hurricane season.
Learn more about the GOES-14 mission at:
http://www.nasa.gov/GOES-O
This video was produced by Silvia Stoyanova.
The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) instrument on board NASA's LRO spacecraft will be responsible for building the highest detail topography available of the lunar terrain. In this video David Smith, LOLA's Principal Investigator, explains how this technology works.
Learn more about the LRO mission at:
http://www.nasa.gov/LRO
This video was produced by Andy Freeberg.
For more info visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/uv_andromeda.html
NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31. Also known as the Andromeda Galaxy, M31 is the largest and closest such galaxy to our own. It's more than 220,000 light-years across and lies 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. Between May 25 and July 26, 2008, Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) acquired 330 images of M31 at wavelengths of 192.8, 224.6, and 260 nanometers. The images represent a total exposure time of 24 hours. Some 20,000 ultraviolet sources are visible in the image, including M32, a small galaxy in orbit around M31. Dense clusters of hot, young, blue stars sparkle in the disk beyond the galaxy's smooth, redder central bulge. Star clusters are especially plentiful along a ring about 150,000 light-years across.
This video was produced and edited by Stefanie Misztal.
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