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ssc2018-06v1 02.22.18 Homes Away From Home? Revisiting the Seven Planets of TRAPPIST-1One year ago, astronomers announced the discovery that seven roughly Earth-sized worlds orbited around the nearby sta... watch now |
ssc2017-10v2 08.17.17 Brown Dwarf Weather AnnotatedThis artist's concept animation shows a brown dwarf with bands of clouds, thought to resemble those seen on Neptune a... watch now |
ssc2017-04v1 05.03.17 5000 Days in the Life of an Astronomy RobotMay 3rd, 2017 marks the 5,000th day of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope mission. This video gives us a detailed look at... watch now |
feature16-13v1 08.26.16 Spitzer BeyondNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which launched Aug. 25, 2003, will begin an extended mission—the “Beyond” phase—on Oc... watch now |
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 |
sig16-007v1 03.28.16 The Wild Temperature Swings of an ExoplanetThe exoplanet HD80606 b spends most of its time far from its star, but every 111 days it swings in feverishly close. ... watch now |
irastro028 12.16.15 Stampy! The Science-Loving Postage Stamp!Stampy helps a student learn about the engineering behind NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Featuring Richard Horvitz, ... 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 |
hiddenuniverse-040 03.20.14 Catching a GLIMPSE of the Milky WayWelcome home! This is our Milky Way galaxy as you’ve never seen it before. Ten years in the making, this is the clear... 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 |
irastro027 02.12.14 Fusion vs. FissionWhen a science-mad A.I. system is installed at NASA, two hapless computer technicians learn the process behind nuclea... watch now |
hiddenuniverse-039 08.23.13 10 Years of InnovationOn August 25, 2003, NASA launched the Spitzer Space Telescope to reveal secrets of the infrared universe. watch now |
irastro026 07.16.13 Ask an Astronomy Brain ParasiteDeep inside an astronomer's head, a parasite (voiced by Alan Tudyk) taps into his brain to learn about...science! Spe... watch now |
irastro025 02.26.13 Robot Astronomy Talk Show In Progress: The Mass of AsteroidsCameron Diaz teaches Robot IR-2 (Ed Wasser) how astronomers can measure the mass of asteroids from tremendous distances. 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 |
hiddenuniverse-038 08.07.12 Possible Nearby Exoplanet Smaller than Earth (Update)Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is an alien world just two-thirds th... 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 |
hiddenuniverse-037 05.21.12 Cygnus X Marks the Spot (Gallery Explorer)Over the last half century this Cygnus X has been yielding its secrets to the scrutiny of infrared observations. NASA... 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 |
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 |
hiddenuniverse-036 08.23.11 The Galactic Center Revisited (Gallery Explorer)Hiding behind the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius is the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, over 25,000 ligh... watch now |
irastro024 03.18.11 Big Bang MusicalDid you know 13.7 billion year old radiation from the Big Bang can be seen on any analogue TV set? In this mini-music... watch now |
irastro023 02.16.11 Astronomy AnemoneVeronica Belmont co-hosts a space-themed talk show with Astronomy Anemone, a carnivorous man-eating sea polyp. WARNIN... watch now |
hiddenuniverse-035 02.10.11 The North America Nebula (Gallery Explorer)Seen here in visible light, the North America Nebula strangely resembles its namesake continent. Expanding our view t... watch now |
hiddenuniverse-034 12.23.10 The Art of ExoplanetsWhile astronomers have identified over 500 planets around other stars, they’re all too small and distant to fill even... watch now |
irastro022 11.28.10 Robot Astronomy Talk Show: Destroyer of WorldsRobot IR-2 (Ed Wasser) meets The Physician (Wil Wheaton), an intergalactic buttinsky in a small blue box spaceship. T... 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 |
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 |
hiddenuniverse-033 10.07.10 The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (Special)Today's telescopes study the sky across the electromagnetic spectrum. Each part of the spectrum tells us different th... watch now |
irastro021 08.10.10 Behind the Scenes: Dead StarsActor Sean Astin is hired by a bullying educational film Director and her Flunky sidekick to explain about the life a... watch now |
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hiddenuniverse-032 07.09.10 The Dragon and the Swan (Gallery Explorer)Hidden behind a dark veil of dust in the constellation Sagittarius, a lurking dragon has been revealed by the infrare... watch now |
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hiddenuniverse-031 06.01.10 When Worlds Collide (Showcase)When worlds collide, the result is spectacular, and astronomers think they’ve detected the aftermath of such an event... watch now |
irastro020 05.25.10 Spaceship Spitzer: Bots of Both WorldsAmy Okuda flies to Saturn to observe a new giant ring around the planet: the largest ring ever discovered in our Sola... watch now |
hiddenuniverse-030 03.19.10 The Wise Sky (Gallery Explorer)In December of 2009, NASA launched its latest infrared telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. This satel... watch now |
irastroSD019 03.09.10 Spitzer Space Telescope: The MusicalA singing NASA supervisor uses song to explain about NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and how infrared astronomy diffe... watch now |
hiddenuniverse029 02.05.10 The Many Views of the Milky Way (Gallery Explorer)In May of 2009, the European Space Agency successfully launched the Herschel Space Observatory, a new eye for the inf... watch now |
hiddenuniverse028 11.25.09 The One Ring of Saturn (Showcase)Astronomers have found One Ring to rule them all, not in the land of Mordor, but around Saturn, the Lord of the Rings... watch now |
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