The Mars rover Opportunity was supposed to last three months. It's now going on Nine Years. It's proved so durable that in 2011 it was essentially sent on a whole new mission. From NASA/JPL.

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Added: Fri Jan 27 00:04:14 UTC 2012
Air date: Thu Jan 26 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 03:00
Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

Take a breathtaking journey into the future, five billion years from now, to see the ultimate fate of the Solar System. This gem from HubbleCast showcases stunning Hubble imagery of the death throes of Sun-like stars.

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Added: Sat Jan 21 01:47:08 UTC 2012
Air date: Fri Jan 20 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 05:31
Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

This video explores the upheaval in our understanding of the universe brought on by the discovery that the universe is not just expanding, but is accelerating outward at an ever increasing pace. A gem from Dr. J and the EsoCast.

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Added: Thu Jan 19 00:00:13 UTC 2012
Air date: Tue Jan 17 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 04:11
Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

From ESOCast. Astronomers have accurately measured the size of the remote dwarf planet Eris for the first time. They caught it as it passed in front of a faint star. Eris is so reflective it may be covered in a thin layer of frozen atmosphere.

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Added: Fri Dec 16 19:56:21 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Nov 09 08:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 03:40
Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

a team of astronomers has discovered a new object that is heading almost straight towards the black hole. The object is not a star, but a cloud of gas traveling at more than 8 million kilometers per hour.

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Added: Wed Dec 14 20:33:12 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Dec 14 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 04:53
Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

Wind the clock back to 1969 in this gem from NASA. While the Apollo astronauts trudged around on the moon, a team of aquanauts in an underwater lab drifted north in the Gulf Stream. This is the story of the Ben Franklin submersible and its legacy.

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Added: Mon Dec 05 21:28:14 UTC 2011
Air date: Sun Dec 04 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 03:59
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

From NASA Heliophysics. The number of sunspots increases and decreases over time in a regular, approximately 11-year cycle, called the sunspot cycle. This coincides with a flipping of the sun's magnetic poles.

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Added: Wed Nov 30 23:43:16 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Nov 30 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 03:18
Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

From HubbleCast and the incomparable Dr. J. The episode answers burning questions submitted by the public: how far can Hubble see? How does Hubble study black holes? What has Hubble taught us about planets beyond our solar system?

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Added: Mon Nov 28 18:31:13 UTC 2011
Air date: Thu Nov 03 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 09:12
Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

An international team of scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a surprisingly powerful millisecond pulsar that challenges existing theories about how these objects form.

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Added: Tue Nov 08 17:12:12 UTC 2011
Air date: Sun Nov 06 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 03:09
Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

A new video from NASA's Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.

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Added: Thu Sep 22 21:38:12 UTC 2011
Air date: Fri Sep 16 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 01:57
Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

Newborn stars firing out jets of matter as seen in images captured over time by the Hubble Space Telescope. Scientists have created fascinating movie sequences showing their progress out into space.

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Added: Sat Sep 17 20:30:13 UTC 2011
Air date: Fri Sep 16 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 03:37
Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

A rash of 50 new extrasolar planet discoveries made by European astronomers, including one super-Earth that is tantalizingly close to its star's life zone.

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Added: Sat Sep 17 20:30:13 UTC 2011
Air date: Fri Sep 16 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 02:51
Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

In a giant effort to take advantage of some of the clearest, driest skies on the planet, the European Southern Observatory operates its telescopes in the remote landscape of the Atacama Desert in Chile. From ESOCast.

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Added: Mon Aug 15 00:30:12 UTC 2011
Air date: Sun Aug 14 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 05:55
Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

From JPL. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted evidence of recent water flowing on Mars. They appear seasonally in gullies and washes that resemble landscapes on Earth.

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Added: Fri Aug 05 22:56:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Fri Aug 05 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 02:00
Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

The Andromeda Galaxy is revealed in unprecedented detail in four archive observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. From HubbleCast.

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Added: Fri Jul 22 19:36:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Thu Jul 21 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 03:44
Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

From NASA Astrophysics. In December 2010, a pair of mismatched stars in the southern constellation Crux whisked past each other at a distance closer than Venus orbits the sun. That's where the mystery begins.

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Added: Tue Jul 05 04:19:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Sat Jul 02 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 02:07
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

Scientists have spotted the iconic surfer's wave rolling through the atmosphere of the sun. The waves hold clues as to how energy moves through that atmosphere, known as the corona. From NASA Helioscience.

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Added: Thu Jun 30 22:29:10 UTC 2011
Air date: Tue Jun 14 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 03:24
Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

From the European Space Agency and the European Southern Observatory. This video explores recent observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster.

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Added: Thu Jun 23 03:28:10 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Jun 22 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 03:50
Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced a close-up view of the galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble's multi-wavelength image is the most detailed ever made of this dynamic and dusty galaxy. From HubbleCast and ESA.

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Added: Thu Jun 16 22:11:09 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Jun 15 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 02:49
Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

Narrated by William Shatner, from NASA An idea born in unsettled times becomes the most complex machine ever built, to bring humans to and from space and eventually construct the next stop on the road to space exploration.

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Added: Tue May 31 03:08:10 UTC 2011
Air date: Fri May 27 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 14:11
Rating: 4.3 / 5.0