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  1. Ask the Astronomers Live: Image Your Own Erupting Star

    May 3, 2022 Virtual Science Talk

    What happened to make the star Eta Carinae become the second brightest star in the sky in 1843? Why did it then dim over the next century and once again brighten? How can YOU take images of this star and ...

  2. Ask the Astronomers Live: 5,000 Alien Worlds and Counting ...

    March 30, 2022 Virtual Science Talk

    Thirty years ago we knew of no planets orbiting other stars. In the '90s, discoveries of the first exoplanets (planets orbiting stars other than the Sun) began to grow slowly. In the past 10 years, ...

  3. Ask the Astronomers Live: Do Look Up!

    February 24, 2022 Virtual Science Talk

    Are we helpless against the kind of asteroid impacts that wiped out the dinosaurs? Not if we look up! For several decades there have been multiple surveys to chart and track potentially hazardous Near-Earth ...

  4. Ask the Astronomers Live: Seeing New Frontiers with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

    December 9, 2021 Virtual Science Talk

    The James Webb Space Telescope is NASA’s next major space observatory. With its 20-foot (6-meter) diameter mirror and its vantage point 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) away from the Earth, ...

  5. Ask the Astronomers Live: A Planet in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

    November 16, 2021 Virtual Science Talk

    A planet may have been detected in a galaxy outside our own. There are thousands of planets detected around stars in our own Milky Way galaxy, but for the first time we may have detected a planet in another ...

  6. Ask the Astronomers Live: Your M87 Galaxy Images

    October 21, 2021 Virtual Science Talk

    Join us to view the standout entries from NASA's Astrophoto Challenges 2021. Explore More  

  7. Ask the Astronomers Live: 'Oumuamua

    September 21, 2021 Virtual Science Talk

    ‘Oumuamua: Space Rock or Alien Tech? In 2017 astronomers remarkably detected the first known example of an object originating from outside our Solar System as it was briefly passing through. Originally ...

  8. Ask the Astronomers Live: What Would YOUR Galaxy Look Like?

    June 30, 2021 Virtual Science Talk

    Make your own images of the amazing galaxy M87 – host to a supermassive black hole – using data from NASA’s space telescopes or ground-based telescopes. Try these challenges and your ...

  9. Ask the Astronomers Live: A Wake in the Dark (Matter)

    May 28, 2021 Virtual Science Talk

    What happens when you map out the farthest stars in our Milky Way galaxy? You can trace how the gravity of a neighboring galaxy affected those distant stars' positions as our neighboring galaxy heads ...

  10. Ask the Astronomers Live: Diving into the Deep End of the Universe

    April 29, 2021 Virtual Science Talk

    When the Hubble Space Telescope imaged a seemingly empty region of sky for over 11 days, it turned out to not be empty at all, but full of the faintest and farthest galaxies in the universe. This was named ...

  11. Ask the Astronomers Live: 150K Volunteers Find the Sun's Smallest Neighbors

    March 18, 2021 Virtual Science Talk

    Learn how you can help astronomers discover new worlds! This show was originally broadcast live on March 18, 2021 @ 5:30 PM (ET) / 2:30 PM (PT). WATCH THE VIDEO  

  12. Ask the Astronomers Live: How to Weigh an Exoplanet

    February 18, 2021 Virtual Science Talk

    Come learn the latest about seven Earth-sized planets around a nearby star! This show was originally broadcast live on February 18, 2021 @ 5:30 PM (ET) / 2:30 PM (PT). Explore More  

  13. Ask the Astronomers Live: Gravity: The Ultimate Magnifying Glass

    December 17, 2020 Virtual Science Talk

    How does the gravity of a cluster of galaxies magnify the far universe? This show was originally broadcast live on December 17, 2020 @ 4:30 PM (ET) / 1:30 PM (PT).   Explore More  

  14. Ask the Astronomers Live: Hunting Monster Black Holes

    November 18, 2020 Virtual Science Talk

    Where are black holes located and how do we find them? This show was originally broadcast live on November 18, 2020 @ 4:30 PM (ET) / 1:30 PM (PT). Explore More  

  15. Ask the Astronomers Live: Listening to Space Images

    October 15, 2020 Virtual Science Talk

    What if we converted an image of the Milky Way galaxy’s center to sound? What would you hear? Phil LaMarr takes us on a journey of converting the Milky Way’s sights to sounds with Kim Arcand ...