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  • Cosmic Dawn (NASA+ Original Documentary)

    Cosmic Dawn (NASA+ Original Documentary)

    What does it take to gaze through time to our universe’s very first stars, galaxies, and light? “Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space Telescope,” a NASA+ documentary, takes you behind the scenes of Webb’s journey, through the eyes of the dreamers who made it possible.

    The documentary brings viewers on an unprecedented journey through Webb’s delicate assembly, rigorous testing, and triumphant launch, showcasing the sheer complexity and breathtaking risks involved in creating a telescope capable of peering billions of years into the past. Follow the telescope from an idea developed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center all the way to the launchpad in French Guiana, with never-before-seen footage captured by the Webb film crew offering intimate access to the challenges and triumphs along the way.

    Find screenings and download bonus content: https://www.nasa.gov/cosmicdawn/

    Credit: NASA

  • Cosmic Dawn (Official NASA Trailer)

    Cosmic Dawn (Official NASA Trailer)

    Coming June 2025 to NASA+, YouTube, and other platforms, the original documentary film “Cosmic Dawn” takes you behind the scenes of the James Webb Space Telescope.

    Relive the pitfalls and the triumphs of the world’s most powerful space telescope—from developing the idea of an impossible machine to watching with bated breath as it unfolded, hurtling through space a million miles away from Earth.

    You’ve seen the universe through the eyes of Webb. Now discover how this technological marvel came about through the eyes of the scientists, engineers, and dreamers who made it possible.

    Watch the full documentary now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSMGENDH_QI />
    Credit: NASA

    June 4, 2025
  • The Closest Spacecraft to the Sun on This Week @NASA – November 2, 2018

    The Closest Spacecraft to the Sun on This Week @NASA – November 2, 2018

    A new record for our mission to the Sun, the end of an era for a prolific planet hunter, and our next mission to Mars is closing in on its destination … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

    This video is available for download from NASA’s Image and Video Library: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ_2018_1102_The%20Closest%20Spacecraft%20to%20the%20Sun%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20November%202,%202018.html

  • NASA’s Dawn Mission Nears the End

    NASA’s Dawn Mission Nears the End

    After 11 years of 🌌breathtaking imagery, ⚙️unprecedented feats of engineering & 🛰️spacecraft records broken — it’s nearly time to bid farewell to NASA’s Dawn spacecraft as it comes to the expected end of the mission. Learn about its final orbits at Ceres: https://go.nasa.gov/dawnfinale

  • What is Dark Matter? A New Clue!

    What is Dark Matter? A New Clue!

    Scientists may have found clues to the nature of dark matter in a signal from the universe’s first stars.
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    Here is the research paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25792
    Authors: Judd D. Bowman, Alan E. E. Rogers, Raul A. Monsalve, Thomas J. Mozdzen & Nivedita Mahesh

    This evidence seems to suggest that the dark matter is particles that are less than four times the mass of a proton and are moving at non-relativistic speeds. This is consistent with dark matter particles being so-called WIMPs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly_interacting_massive_particles.

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    Special thanks: Avi Loeb, entire NOVA team
    Media Courtesy of: NASA, ESO, and CERN
    Dark matter halo footage courtesy of ESO/L. Calçada.
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  • NASA’s Dawn Defines Vesta’s Role in Solar System History

    NASA’s Dawn Defines Vesta’s Role in Solar System History

    During a NASA Television Science briefing, scientists discussed the findings of the first global analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. The Dawn mission has confirmed Vesta’s status as a special fossil of the early solar system and revealed a more varied, diverse world than originally thought. Dawn has shown Vesta is the only known intact, layered planetary building block with an iron core surviving from the earliest days of the solar system. It therefore more closely resembles a small planet or Earth’s moon, not another asteroid.