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5:22 Robot Astronomy Talk Show: The Mass of Asteroids (Cameron Diaz, Ed Wasser) SpitzerScienceCenter 904 views 2 months ago Cameron Diaz teaches Robot IR-2 (Ed Wasser) how astronomers can measure the mass of asteroids from tremendous distances. Specifically, it describes the formula "F=ma" and ...
3:02 NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program SpitzerScienceCenter 1,281 views 9 months ago A video that explains what the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) program is about.
3:24 Cygnus X Marks the Spot (Gallery Explorer) SpitzerScienceCenter 989 views 1 year ago Over the last half century this Cygnus X has been yielding its secrets to the scrutiny of infrared observations. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has now provided the best vi...
3:02 The Galactic Center Revisited (Hidden Universe Gallery Explorer) SpitzerScienceCenter 3,502 views 1 year ago Hiding behind the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius is the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, over 25,000 light years away. This patch of sky is mostly dark in visib...
4:52 Big Bang: The Musical SpitzerScienceCenter 8,810 views 2 years ago Did you know radiation from the Big Bang can be seen on any analogue television set? In this mini-musical, a young couple (Brigitte Dale, Marc Helou) discuss the real scien...
5:21 Astronomy Anemone (Veronica Belmont) SpitzerScienceCenter 10,575 views 2 years ago Veronica Belmont co-hosts a space-themed talk show with Astronomy Anemone, a carnivorous man-eating sea polyp. WARNING: contains scenes of cartoon violence and scientific j...
2:08 The North American Nebula (Hidden Universe Galaxy Explorer) SpitzerScienceCenter 20,261 views 2 years ago Seen here in visible light, the North American Nebula strangely resembles its namesake continent. Expanding our view to include infrared light, the dark dust lanes and conc...
10:00 Robot Astronomy Talk Show: Destroyer of Worlds (Ed Wasser, Wil Wheaton) SpitzerScienceCenter 11,267 views 2 years ago Robot IR-2 (Ed Wasser) meets The Physician (Wil Wheaton), an intergalactic buttinsky in a small blue box spaceship. Together, they work to escape "The Destroyer of Worlds,"...
9:36 Behind the Scenes: Dead Stars (Sean Astin, Sandeep Parikh) SpitzerScienceCenter 8,402 views 2 years ago Actor Sean Astin is hired by a bullying educational film Director and her Flunky #2 sidekick to explain about the life and death of stars. But when things go wrong on the s...
2:36 The Dragon and the Swan (Hidden Universe Gallery Explorer) SpitzerScienceCenter 3,027 views 2 years ago Hidden behind a dark veil of dust in the constellation Sagittarius, a lurking dragon has been revealed by the infrared eye of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. It gives us a ...

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Science education videos from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Infrared astronomy and general astronomy topics in a variety of formats. These stunning, hilarious and compelling videos are produced by the Spitzer Science Center (SSC) located at the California Institute of Technology.

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