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 |
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