BEAM Expansion Time Lapse (NASA's Inflatable Room)

It took over 3 days, but NASA finally inflated BEAM (Bigelow Expandable Activity Module), aka the expandable/inflatable room - the first of it's kind...

This short time-lapse video shows the complete Bigelow Aerospace BEAM expansion from start to finish to its full expanded, pressurized volume on Saturday, April 28. BEAM was installed April 16 on the Tranquility module after being delivered aboard the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft.

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Williams and his five crewmates will have to wait a week before venturing inside. NASA wants to make certain the chamber is airtight before opening the door. It was NASA's second shot at inflating the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, named for the aerospace company that built it as a precursor to moon and Mars habitats, and orbiting tourist hotels.

BEAM barely expanded during Thursday's inflation attempt. Experts believe the soft-sided compartment was packed up tight for so long before last month's launch that the fabric layers had trouble unfolding.

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Stunning Aurora Borealis from Space in Ultra-High Definition (4K)

NASA Television’s newest offering, NASA TV UHD, brings ultra-high definition video to a new level with the kind of imagery only the world’s leader in space exploration could provide.

Harmonic produced this show exclusively for NASA TV UHD, using time-lapses shot from the International Space Station, showing both the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis phenomena that occur when electrically charged electrons and protons in the Earth's magnetic field collide with neutral atoms in the upper atmosphere.

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Outer Space Music (Parts 1 and 2) | NASA's Unexplained Files

Cool! In 1969, NASA astronauts transiting around the far side of the moon during the Apollo 10 mission, recorded strange "music" on their communication equipment. Now these recently discovered recordings from transcripts released back in 2008, will be featured in an upcoming episode of NASA's Unexplained Files, a show on the Science Channel featuring dramatized stories from the US space agency...

During transits around the far side of the moon, Apollo astronauts recorded strange "music" on their communication equipment. A new season of NASA'S UNEXPLAINED FILES premieres Tuesday 2/23 at 10/9c on Science.

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Info source: theverge

Here's What Earth Would Look Like With Saturn's Rings

A NASA software engineer has released photos of different parts of the U.S. with the skies edited to include his concept of what it would look like if Earth had planetary rings.

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Astronauts Grow First Flower In Space

So have you heard? An edible flower was grown in space - for the first time! Astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted the first image last Saturday!...

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NASA Releases Historic, Colorful Video of Pluto

Well, it's not the type of colour video we were thinking of but perhaps you guys can appreciate (and understand) this historic video better than we did...

NASA's New Horizon spacecraft recorded the first-ever movie of Pluto. Using a special infrared imaging device, the video depicts the dwarf planet in brilliant stained glass colors...

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Satellite Movie Sees Record-Breaking Hurricane Patricia

Hold onto your hats!! According to nasa.gov:

On October 22, Patricia was a Category one hurricane. By 8 a.m. EDT on October 23, 2015, the National Hurricane Center reported Patricia became the strongest eastern north pacific hurricane on record with sustained winds near 200 mph.

An animation of images captured from October 20 to 23 from NOAA's GOES-West satellite showed Hurricane Patricia intensify within 24 hours and develop a clear eye near the coast of western Mexico. The animation was created at NASA/NOAA GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

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From @CNN, these are the strongest hurricane's in history. Hope everyone is safe. #HurricanePatricia pic.twitter.com/1tV2IK9Prt

— Rishi Talati™ (@MrTalati) October 24, 2015

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— World Pictures (@Iandscaped) October 24, 2015

How it looks inside #HurricanePatricia pic.twitter.com/Lj2Av66t2H

— Gabriella (@kissmymistakes) October 23, 2015

NASA Launches New Website - See EARTH From SPACE - Everyday!

Snapshot of New website

Thanks to NASA, we can now view images of the sunlit Earth every day with its recently launched new website.

“Each daily sequence of images will show the Earth as it rotates, thus revealing the whole globe over the course of a day,” NASA says in a statement. The images are taken by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC).

The images are taken by a NASA camera located one million miles away on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). NASA says that once a day it will post at least a dozen new color images of the earth that were taken 12 to 36 hours earlier.

The goal of the DSCOVR mission is to maintain the capability of the U.S. to provide real-time solar wind monitoring which allow for accurate space weather alerts and forecasts.

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22 Images from Oct. 17th, 2015 have been compiled to show one full rotation. (looped several times)

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Source: time

NEW PHOTOS of Pluto's Largest Moon Reveals Mountains and more

New photos of Pluto's largest moon, Charon reveal a vista of mountains, canyons and other geographical features...

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RED 4K Camera Captures Riveting Footage of Unique Fluid Behavior in Space Laboratory

*Before watching the vid, remember to change resolution under "Settings" to "2160p 4k" to really appreciate it in 4k.*

This footage is said to be one of the first of its kind for the NASA crew over at the International Space Station as the camera used to capture this floating ball of water containing a dissolved effervescent tablet, is capable of recording four times the resolution of normal high-def cameras...

The higher resolution images and higher frame rate videos can reveal more information when used on science investigations, giving researchers a valuable new tool aboard the space station. The cameras are being evaluated for capturing science data and vehicle operations by engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

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NASA | SDO: Year 5

Amazing time lapse vid from NASA's SDO capturing the sun in all its glory!.....

February 11, 2015 marks five years in space for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which provides incredibly detailed images of the whole sun 24 hours a day. Capturing an image more than once per second, SDO has provided an unprecedentedly clear picture of how massive explosions on the sun grow and erupt ever since its launch on Feb. 11, 2010. The imagery is also captivating, allowing one to watch the constant ballet of solar material through the sun's atmosphere, the corona.

In honor of SDO's fifth anniversary, NASA has released a video showcasing highlights from the last five years of sun watching. Watch the movie to see giant clouds of solar material hurled out into space, the dance of giant loops hovering in the corona, and huge sunspots growing and shrinking on the sun's surface.

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Asteroid 2004 BL86 Has a Small Moon

If you haven't heard by now, there was an asteroid that flew-by close to earth yesterday and as we've discovered, even an asteroid can have its own moon! Actually, in 1993, a tiny moon called Dactyl was discovered orbiting the large asteroid Ida and since then, several other moons have been discovered orbiting asteroids. 

This recent one, called the Asteroid 2004 BL86 that flew by Earth yesterday, is approximately 1,100 feet (325 meters) across and has a small moon approximately 230 feet (70 meters) across with it. The radar images of the asteroid were taken at its closest distance to Earth - about 800,000 miles (1.3 million kilometers, or 3.1 times the distance from Earth to the moon).
The asteroid fly-by vid below is a compilation from 20 images taken Monday by NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, California...

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Info source: jpl.nasa

Gigapixels of Andromeda [4K]

Never mind megapixels! Check out these gigapixels of amazing images the NASA Hubble Space Telescope has ever assembled of our galactic next-door neighbour - Andromeda! This vid has received almost 6M views since being uploaded on Jan. 6, 2015...

Though the galaxy is over 2 million light-years away, The Hubble Space Telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000-light-year-long stretch of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disk. It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand. And there are lots of stars in this sweeping view -- over 100 million, with some of them in thousands of star clusters seen embedded in the disk.

 

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All About That Space

These NASA interns may succeed in the music industry if the space industry doesn't work out cause this viral vid is taking off like a rocket! Check them out parodying Meghan Trainor’s huge hit ‘All About that Bass’, to raise interest and excitement for Orion's first flight...

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Launch of NASA's Orion deep-space capsule

Orion - the next-generation spacecraft by NASA that promises to take 'tourists' deeper into space to Mars by the 2030s, finally had it's first test flight - and it was a success. 

... Orion needs to be able to reach very high speeds and withstand extreme temperatures and radiation levels.

Orion's first test flight saw no astronauts on board but loaded with nearly 1,200 sensors to measure every aspect of the mission. That will allow NASA to assess whether the journey would have been suitable for astronauts.

The mission tested how Orion fares in the extreme conditions of space travel. NASA has designed the capsule to take up to six astronauts into deep space, and its 16ft-wide heat shield and sophisticated service module are among the features whose durability will be inspected upon return. The capsule not only survived launch and orbit, but temperatures of about 2,200C (4,000F) as it returned through Earth’s atmosphere. NASA also tested an emergency abort function developed to save astronauts in the event of a malfunction during launch. - theguardian

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Space Station Astronauts Grow a Water Bubble in Space

We sure wished we had a pair of these 'red and blue stereoscopic 3D vision glasses' they recommended to view this vid but nevertheless, it was equally just as cool to watch! See the 2nd vid of the 3-D version below...

During Expedition 40 in the summer of 2014, NASA astronauts Steve Swanson and Reid Wiseman — along with European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst — explored the phenomenon of water surface tension in microgravity on the International Space Station. The crew "submerged" a sealed GoPro camera into a floating ball of water the size of a softball and recorded the activity with a 3-D camera. (Video: NASA)

Note: You will need red-blue stereoscopic 3D vision glasses to view the video.

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Preparing for #CometLanding

This is history in the making folks! If this mission is successful, it could be the key to unlocking answers about the formation of the Solar System, the origins of water on Planet Earth and maybe even life itself! 
On November 12th, after a decade long journey of almost 7 billion kilometres, ESA (The European Space Agency) is going to try to land on a comet - that’s a comet traveling 40 times faster than a speeding bullet, with their Rosetta spacecraft that will deploy the Philae lander on the surface of a tiny, spinning, comet called the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko aka Comet 67P/C-G. Watch the short introductory animated video by ESA below:

Now watch the entire video below by ScienceAtNASA on How To Land On A Comet:

Brian Cox visits the world's biggest vacuum chamber - Human Universe: Episode 4 Preview - BBC Two

Whoa! That was fascinating to watch! Amazing experiment done by Brian Cox to show us the true nature of gravity when a bowling ball and a feather were dropped at the same time under conditions similar to outer space at the  NASA’s Space Power Facility in Ohio ...

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ANTARES EXPLODES!!! Panic at the press site! Orbital's rocket blows up

A unmanned cargo rocket, the Antares rocket, ready to transport supplies to astronauts at the International Space Station, exploded during lift-off from NASA's Wallops flight facility in Virginia on October 28, as seen captured in this viralling vid by Matthew Travis...  

Candy Corn In Space

Candy corn - yum! Candy corn ball in space - well that's a whole other story! NASA astronaut Don Pettit explains how soap works using some candy corn during his stint aboard the International Space Station, as seen in this viral vid by SciFri...