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ssc2016-01v1 03.30.16 Possible Lava World (Animation)This animation shows one possible scenario for the rocky exoplanet 55 Cancri e, nearly two times the size of Earth. N... watch now |
sig15-015v1 12.10.15 Cool Star Marked by Long-Lived Storm AnimationThis animation shows a cool star, called W1906+40, marked by a raging storm near one of its poles. The storm is thoug... watch now |
ssc2015-02v1 07.30.15 NASA's Spitzer Confirms Closest Rocky ExoplanetThis animated movie zooms into the location of a newfound planet dubbed HD 219134b -- the closest confirmed rocky pla... watch now |
ssc2014-02v1 03.20.14 Panning Through the Milky WayThis video shows a continually looping view of the Spitzer Space Telescope's new infrared view of our Milky Way Galaxy. watch now |
ssc2013-04v1 02.08.13 Strobe-like Flashes Discovered in a Suspected Binary ProtostarThis video, created from a sequence of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a pulse of light emanating from ... watch now |
ssc2012-11v1 07.18.12 Flying Out to GJ 436 and its PlanetsStarting from Earth, we quickly zoom out of the solar system into our sun's local neighborhood, populated by the clos... watch now |
ssc2012-07v1 05.08.12 Super Earth Reveals Itself to SpitzerNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has, for the first time, captured the light emanating from a distant super Earth, a pl... watch now |
ssc2012-07v2 05.08.12 Super Earth Reveals Itself to Spitzer (Narrated)NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has, for the first time, captured the light emanating from a distant super Earth, a pl... watch now |
ssc2010-08v2 10.19.10 Weird Warm Spot on Exoplanet (Narrated)This animation illustrates an unexpected warm spot on the surface of a gaseous exoplanet. NASA's Spitzer Space Telesc... watch now |
ssc2010-08v1 10.19.10 Weird Warm Spot on ExoplanetThis animation illustrates an unexpected warm spot on the surface of a gaseous exoplanet. NASA's Spitzer Space Telesc... watch now |
ssc2009-19v1 10.06.09 Saturn Family TourThis video showcases the Saturnian system, beginning with the planet itself and panning out to its newest addition --... watch now |
ssc2009-16v1 08.10.09 Planetary Demolition DerbyThis artist's animation shows a celestial body about the size of our moon slamming at great speed into a body the siz... watch now |
ssc2009-02v1 06.04.09 Tour of Planet with Extreme Temperature SwingsThis animation shows a computer simulation of the planet HD 80606b from an observer located at a point in space lying... watch now |
ssc2009-11v1 06.04.09 Silicate Crystal Formation in the Disk of an Erupting StarThis artist's animation illustrates how silicate crystals like those found in comets can be created by an outburst fr... watch now |
ssc2008-13v1 07.15.08 Zooming in on Second-Brightest Star in Milky WayThis movie zooms in to reveal the "Peony nebula" star -- the new second-brightest star in the Milky Way, discovered i... watch now |
ssc2008-09v1 05.05.08 Cauldron of LightIn this animation, a seething cauldron of light appears to bubble and ooze around the remains of a giant star that as... watch now |
ssc2008-09v2 05.05.08 Dissecting a Light EchoThis animation illustrates how a light echo works, and how an optical illusion of material moving outward is created.... watch now |
ssc2007-19v1 11.29.07 Pulling Back the Curtain of DustThis artist's animation begins by showing a dark and dusty corner of space where little visible light can escape. The... watch now |
ssc2007-09v2 05.09.07 Mapping Exotic WorldsThis animation shows the first-ever map of the surface of an exoplanet, or a planet beyond our solar system. The map,... watch now |
ssc2007-09v3 05.09.07 How to Map a Very Faraway PlanetScientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope were able to create the first-ever map of the surface of a planet bey... watch now |
ssc2007-09v1 05.09.07 Blacker than BlackThis artist's animation illustrates the hottest planet yet observed in the universe. The scorching ball of gas, a "ho... watch now |
ssc2007-08v2 04.18.07 Highway to the Danger Zone"The further on the edge, the hotter the intensity," sings Kenny Loggins in "Danger Zone," a song made famous by the ... watch now |
ssc2007-08v1 04.18.07 Infrared RoseThis movie begins by showing an optical image of the Rosette nebula, a turbulent star-forming region located 5,000 li... watch now |
ssc2007-05v1 03.29.07 Two Suns Raise Family of Planetary BodiesThis artist's animation depicts a faraway solar system like our own -- except for one big difference. Planets and ast... watch now |
ssc2007-04v1 02.21.07 Hot, Dry, and Cloudy (Artist Concept)This artist's concept animation shows a cloudy Jupiter-like planet that orbits very close to its fiery hot star. NASA... watch now |
ssc2006-22v1 12.18.06 Stars Spring Up Out of the DarknessThis artist's animation illustrates the universe's early years, from its explosive formation to its dark ages to its ... watch now |
ssc2006-21v2 11.07.06 Hubble-Spitzer OrionThis video cycles between the Hubble view, the Spitzer view, and the combined Hubble-Spitzer view of the Orion Nebula. watch now |
ssc2006-21v1 11.07.06 Making a Great Observatories CompositeThis video shows how a Hubble image and a Spitzer image of the Orion Nebula were combined to create a new, multi-wave... watch now |
ssc2006-20v1 10.30.06 Who Ya Gonna Call?NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is a galactic ghost buster, spotting hidden massive stars and other monsters lurking i... watch now |
ssc2006-19v1 10.26.06 Order Amidst Chaos of Star's ExplosionThis artist's animation shows the explosion of a massive star, the remains of which are named Cassiopeia A. NASA's Sp... watch now |
ssc2006-18v2 10.12.06 Fire and Ice Planet (without data plot)This artist's animation shows a blistering world revolving around its nearby "sun." NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Tel... watch now |
ssc2006-18v1 10.12.06 Fire and Ice PlanetThis artist's animation shows a blistering world revolving around its nearby "sun." NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Tel... watch now |
ssc2006-16v1 08.14.06 Journey to OrionThis movie begins with a visible view of the famous Orion constellation. Superimposed on the area near Orion's sword ... watch now |
ssc2006-15v1 07.24.06 Stars Can't Spin Out of ControlThis artist's animation demonstrates how a dusty planet-forming disk can slow down a whirling young star, essentially... watch now |
ssc2006-14v1 06.05.06 Fade to RedThis animation shows the Andromeda galaxy, first as seen in visible light by the National Optical Astronomy Observato... watch now |
ssc2006-10v1 04.05.06 Birth of 'Phoenix' Planets?This artist's animation depicts the explosive death of a massive star, followed by the creation of a disk made up of ... watch now |
ssc2006-09v1 03.16.06 Cigar Galaxy up in SmokeThis movie compares a visible-light view of the "Cigar galaxy" to an infrared view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescop... watch now |
ssc2005-14v1 06.09.05 The Cry of Cassiopeia AThis animation begins with a stunning false-color picture of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. It is made up of ima... watch now |
ssc2005-13v1 06.02.05 Space Eyes See Comet Tempel 1This artist's concept of Tempel 1 illustrates the comet's shape, reflectivity, rotation rate and surface temperature,... watch now |
ssc2005-12v2 05.30.05 Carina in ContextThis animation starts with an image of a larger but lower resolution image of the Carina Nebula from the Midcourse Sp... watch now |
ssc2005-12v1 05.30.05 Pillars Behind the DustThe movie begins with a visible-light picture of the southern region of our Milky Way galaxy then slowly zooms into t... watch now |
ssc2005-11v1 05.04.05 A More Spectacular SombreroThis movie shifts from the well-known visible-light picture of Messier 104 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope to inf... watch now |
ssc2005-10v2 04.20.05 Sunset on an Alien WorldThis artist's animation illustrates what the night sky might look like from a hypothetical alien planet in a star sys... watch now |
ssc2005-10v1 04.20.05 Band of RubbleThis artist's animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun. ... watch now |
ssc2005-09v3 03.22.05 How to Measure a Planetary EclipseThis artist's animation shows a close-up view of a distant giant planet passing behind its star as a regular part of ... watch now |
ssc2005-09v1 03.22.05 A Planet in a Different LightThis artist's animation shows first what a fiery hot star and its close-knit planetary companion might look like clos... watch now |
ssc2005-09v2 03.22.05 Distant Planet Flaunts its LightThis artist's animation shows a close-up view of a distant giant planet passing behind its star as a regular part of ... watch now |
ssc2005-08v1 03.01.05 Invisible Galaxies Come to LifeThis artist's animation demonstrates that an invisible galaxy shrouded in dust can become glaringly bright when viewe... watch now |
ssc2005-07v1 02.11.05 Spitzer's Delicate Ring FlowerNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope finds a delicate flower in the Ring Nebula, as shown in this animation. The outer shel... watch now |
ssc2005-06v1 02.07.05 Birth of an Unusual Planetary SystemThis artist's animation shows a brown dwarf surrounded by a swirling disk of planet-building dust. NASA's Spitzer Spa... watch now |
ssc2005-02v1 01.12.05 Trifid's Shifting SidesThis movie shifts from the well-known visible-light picture of the glowing Trifid Nebula to infrared views from NASA'... watch now |
ssc2004-22v1 12.09.04 A Distant Solar SystemThis animation portrays an artist's concept of a distant hypothetical solar system, about the same age as our own. It... watch now |
ssc2004-22v2 12.09.04 The Evolution of a Planet-Forming DiskThis animation shows the evolution of a planet-forming disk around a star. Initially, the young disk is bright and th... watch now |
ssc2004-20v1 11.09.04 Icy Dawn of a Newborn StarIn this animation, we observe what a young star with a circumstellar disc would look like when viewed from different ... watch now |
ssc2004-17v1 10.18.04 When Worlds CollideThis animation illustrates a massive collision between rocky, embryonic planets as big as mountain ranges. Such colli... watch now |
ssc2004-17v2 10.18.04 Swirling Rings of DustThis animation depicts colliding rocky bodies in an early planetary system. Such collisions form the basis of the pla... watch now |
ssc2004-16v1 10.12.04 Galactic Fossil Revealed in Infrared LightThis animation demonstrates the power of infrared light to see what visible light cannot -- a newfound bundle of star... watch now |
ssc2004-19v1 10.07.04 Visible-Infrared WhirlpoolThis animation transitions from the more familiar visible light image of the "Whirlpool Galaxy" to the dramatic new v... watch now |
ssc2004-15v2 10.06.04 Kepler's Supernova Remnant - Zoom-InThis "zoom" starts in the Scorpius constellation and pushes through deeper and narrower telescopic fields to at last ... watch now |
ssc2004-15v3 10.06.04 Supernova ExplosionThis animation of a supernova explosion demonstrates what happens when a massive star explodes and creates a shell of... watch now |
ssc2004-15v1 10.06.04 Kepler's Supernova Remnant - Composite ImageThe composite view of the supernova splits into its three components: blue-green for Chandra, yellow for Hubble, and ... watch now |
ssc2004-13v1 08.09.04 Spitzer Discovers Hidden RingThis animation transitions from a visible light image of the planetary nebula called NGC 246 to Spitzer's new infrare... watch now |
ssc2004-10v2 06.01.04 Missing Host Galaxies Found in Infrared - 2In a collaborative effort between NASA's three Great Observatories, astronomers have solved a cosmic mystery by ident... watch now |
ssc2004-10v1 06.01.04 Missing Host Galaxies Found in Infrared - 1In a collaborative effort between NASA's three Great Observatories, astronomers have solved a cosmic mystery by ident... watch now |
ssc2004-09v1 06.01.04 The Making of a Galactic ParallelogramIn this animation, the elliptical galaxy Centaurus A is seen through the eyes of three different telescopes. Initiall... watch now |
ssc2004-08v2 05.27.04 Icy Organics in Planet-Forming DisksUsing the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers are probing the chemistry of circumstellar disks, the dusty discs that... watch now |
ssc2004-08v1 05.27.04 Spitzer Sheds Infrared Light on Hundreds of Newborn StarsObservations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal hundreds of newly forming stars in the nebula RCW49, located ... watch now |
ssc2004-08v3 05.27.04 Forming a Planetary GapAstronomers are using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to probe the structures of circumstellar disks, the dusty disks ... watch now |
ssc2004-06v1 04.14.04 Star Formation in the DR21 RegionObservations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a turbulent nest of giant newborn stars too shrouded in dust ... watch now |
ssc2004-05v1 03.15.04 Orbit of SednaThis animation shows the location of the newly discovered planet-like object, dubbed "Sedna," in relation to the rest... watch now |
ssc2004-04v1 03.08.04 Star Formation in Henize 206Starting with a wide view of the environment surrounding the Henize 206 star formation region, the animation moves in... watch now |
ssc2004-04v2 03.08.04 Triggered Star FormationThis animation illustrates the process of triggered star formation. First, a massive star in its final death throes e... watch now |
ssc2004-01v1 01.13.04 The Tarantula NebulaNASA's new Spitzer Space Telescope has captured in stunning detail the spidery filaments and newborn stars of the Tar... watch now |
ssc2003-06v4 12.18.03 Herbig-Haro 46/47This 18-second animation zooms in on Herbig-Haro 46/47 and its embedded protostar with molecular outflows. Spitzer/IR... watch now |
ssc2003-06v2 12.18.03 Dark Globule in IC 1396This 22-second animation shows how our view of a dark globule in IC 1396 changes as we move from visible light throug... watch now |
ssc2003-06v3 12.18.03 Messier 81This 22-second animation uses an "infrared spotlight" to highlight differences between a visible-light image of Messi... watch now |
ssc2003-06v5 03.18.03 Model Dust RingA 12-second animation shows how ansae are created, by taking a model dust ring and tilting it from a face-on orientat... watch now |
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