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A New Planet in our Solar System? NASA Takes a Look
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NASA’s Director of Planetary Science, Jim Green, discusses the Jan. 20, 2016 Astronomical Journal science paper that points to the possibility of a new “Planet 9” in our solar system beyond Pluto, examining the scientific process and inviting you to have a front row seat to our exploration of the solar system....
NASA KEPLER OPENS THE STUDY OF THE GALAXY’S PLANET POPULATION
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NASA's Kepler mission released its eighth Kepler Candidate Catalog, which contains the best measured and most reliable planet candidates from the space telescope's final survey of the Cygnus Field. In the data are 219 new planet candidates, of which 10 are less than twice the size of the Earth and orbit in the habitable zone....
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How Do Planets Get Their Names? We Asked A NASA Expert
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How do planets get their names? With the exception of Earth, the planets in our solar system were named after Greek or Roman gods. Now, the job of naming things in space falls to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the internationally recognized authority for naming celestial bodies and their surface features. NASA scientist Dr. Henry Throop explains more....
How to Find a Living Planet
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The more we see other planets, the more the question comes into focus: Maybe we're the weird one? Decades of observing Earth from space has informed our search for signs of habitability and life on exoplanets and even planets in our own solar system. We're taking a closer look at what we've learned about Earth - our only example of a planet with life - to search for life in the universe....
TESS NASA’s Next Planet Hunter
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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars in the sky. In a two-year survey of the solar neighborhood, TESS will monitor more than 200,000 stars for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits. This first-ever space-borne all-sky transit survey will identify planets ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, around a wide range of stellar types and orbital...
Our Planet, Our Home: An Earth Day Perspective
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We are all connected to and by Earth --- whether it's the trees and plants that give us the oxygen we breathe, the snow-capped mountains that provide the water we drink, or the breathtaking geophysical forces that shape the land beneath our feet. NASA has over 20 satellites measuring the height of oceans and inland water, clouds and precipitation, carbon dioxide and much more. By understanding our changing world, we improve lives and safeguard ou...
Our Planet, Our Home: An Earth Day Perspective
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We are all connected to and by Earth --- whether it's the trees and plants that give us the oxygen we breathe, the snow-capped mountains that provide the water we drink, or the breathtaking geophysical forces that shape the land beneath our feet. NASA has over 20 satellites measuring the height of oceans and inland water, clouds and precipitation, carbon dioxide and much more. By understanding our changing world, we improve lives and safeguard ou...
ScienceCast 195: Dawn Triangle of Planets
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Look east before sunrise in late October for a beautiful conjunction of bright planets....
ScienceCast 40: Smallest Terrestrial Planet?
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NASA's Dawn probe has found some surprising things on the giant asteroid Vesta--things that have prompted one researcher to declare Vesta "the smallest terrestrial planet."...
ScienceCast 10: Morning Planet Show
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The Great Morning Planet Show of May 2011 is underway. Wake up before sunrise any day this month to see a shape-shifting alignment of heavenly lights....
NASA ScienceCasts: New InSight into the Red Planet
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We’ve always referred to Mars as the red planet because of its surface color. But what’s below that dusty crust? NASA's InSight mission is determined to find out....
Getting Ready to Image Faraway Planets on This Week @NASA – May 24, 2024
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Getting ready to image faraway planets, discussing artificial intelligence at NASA, and a milestone for our supersonic X-plane … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!...
NASA Discusses Upcoming Launch of Next Planet Hunter
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During a press conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., astrophysics experts discussed the upcoming launch of NASA’s next planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Scheduled to launch April 16, TESS is expected to find thousands of planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, orbiting the nearest and brightest stars in our cosmic neighborhood. Powerful telescopes like NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space...
NASA Science Live: The Science Behind Your Favorite Planet Being in Retrograde [Episode 51]
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Do you groan when you hear of a certain planet going into retrograde? Have you ever wondered what planets in retrograde actually means? Join planetary experts Thursday, Nov. 16, to learn about this fascinating phenomenon and other interesting facts about the orbits of planets. Submit your questions during our live chat for a chance to have them answered live on the show. Dive into the planets of our solar system: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-sy...
TESS Discovers Its Tiniest World To Date: Standalone Radiation with lables
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NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby star. The planet, called L 98-59b, marks the smallest found by TESS yet. Two other worlds orbit the same star. While all three planets’ sizes are known, further study with other telescopes will be needed to determine if they have atmospheres and, if so, which gases are present. The L 98-59 worlds nearly ...
TESS Discovers Its Tiniest World To Date: Comparision L98-59b
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NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby star. The planet, called L 98-59b, marks the smallest found by TESS yet. Two other worlds orbit the same star. While all three planets’ sizes are known, further study with other telescopes will be needed to determine if they have atmospheres and, if so, which gases are present. The L 98-59 worlds nearly ...
TESS Discovers Its Tiniest World To Date: Standalone Radiation without lables
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NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby star. The planet, called L 98-59b, marks the smallest found by TESS yet. Two other worlds orbit the same star. While all three planets’ sizes are known, further study with other telescopes will be needed to determine if they have atmospheres and, if so, which gases are present. The L 98-59 worlds nearly ...
NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Its Smallest Habitable Zone Planets (Reporter Pkg)
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NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the 'habitable zone,' the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water. Scientists do not know whether life could exist on the newfound planets, but their discovery signals we are another step closer to finding a world similar to Earth around a star like our sun. Kepl...
ScienceCast 136: A Sudden Multiplication of Planets
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Today, NASA announced a breakthrough addition to the catalog of new planets. Researchers using Kepler have confirmed 715 new worlds, almost quadrupling the number of planets previously confirmed by the planet-hunting spacecraft....
TESS Discovers Its Tiniest World To Date: Comparision L98-59cd
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NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby star. The planet, called L 98-59b, marks the smallest found by TESS yet. Two other worlds orbit the same star. While all three planets’ sizes are known, further study with other telescopes will be needed to determine if they have atmospheres and, if so, which gases are present. The L 98-59 worlds nearly ...
TESS Discovers Its Tiniest World To Date
Type: video
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby star. The planet, called L 98-59b, marks the smallest found by TESS yet. Two other worlds orbit the same star. While all three planets’ sizes are known, further study with other telescopes will be needed to determine if they have atmospheres and, if so, which gases are present. The L 98-59 worlds nearly ...
Our Living Planet From Space
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Life. It's the one thing that, so far, makes Earth unique among the thousands of other planets we've discovered. Since the fall of 1997, NASA satellites have continuously and globally observed all plant life at the surface of the land and ocean. Earth is still the only planet we know of with life - with that in mind, our habitable home world seems evermore fragile and beautiful when considering the vastness of unlivable space....
A Candid Look at NASA's "Living Planet"
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Creating a major scientific visualization takes considerable time and expertise. A team of scientists and data visualizers work together to building an artful depiction of hard data - whether it be an animation of sea surface temperature, hurricane paths, or life on Planet Earth. Get a closer look at how the "Living Planet" visualization was created from the perspective of scientists Gene Feldman and Compton Tucker and SVS data visualizer, Alex K...
ScienceCast 92: Pink Planet at Sunset
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The planet Mercury is about to make its best apparition of the year for backyard sky watchers. Look west at sunset for a piercing pink planet surrounded by twilight blue....