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Black holes are mysterious, far away, and can bend the fabric of reality itself—but we're learning more about them all the time. Ronald Gamble, a NASA theoretical astrophysicist, uses math, computer coding, and a dash of creativity to peer inside some of the universe's most extreme objects. We'll explore what it would feel like to get pulled into a black hole and what people get wrong about black holes. And we'll answer questions from curious listeners, including, "What would happen if a black hole ate nothing but magnetized material?"
Episode transcript available: nasa.gov/podcasts/curious-universe/the-mind-bending-math-inside-black-holes
Introducing NASA’s Curious Universe!
Get curious with NASA. As an official NASA podcast, Curious Universe brings you mind-blowing science and space adventures you won’t find anywhere else. Explore the cosmos alongside astronauts, scientists, engineers, and other top NASA experts who are achieving remarkable feats in science, space exploration, and aeronautics. Learn something new about the wild and wonderful universe we share. All you need to get started is a little curiosity.
NASA’s Curious Universe is an official NASA podcast hosted by Padi Boyd and Jacob Pinter
Discover more ad-free, original NASA shows at nasa.gov/podcasts
Find the full NASA’s Curious Universe catalog at nasa.gov/curiousuniverse
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Music: "Curiosity" by SYSTEM Sounds [Matt Russo and Andrew Santaguida]
Executive Producer: Katie Konans
Producer/Host: Jacob Pinter
Videographer: Rob Andreoli
Videographer: John Philyaw
Video Editor: Scott Wiessinger
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#NASA #Podcast #BlackHoles
Black holes are mysterious, far away, and can bend the fabric of reality itself—but we're learning more about them all the time. Ronald Gamble, a NASA theoretical astrophysicist, uses math, computer coding, and a dash of creativity to peer inside some of the universe's most extreme objects. We'll explore what it would feel like to get pulled into a black hole and what people get wrong about black holes. And we'll answer questions from curious listeners, including, "What would happen if a black hole ate nothing but magnetized material?"
Episode transcript available: nasa.gov/podcasts/curious-universe/the-mind-bending-math-inside-black-holes
Introducing NASA’s Curious Universe!
Get curious with NASA. As an official NASA podcast, Curious Universe brings you mind-blowing science and space adventures you won’t find anywhere else. Explore the cosmos alongside astronauts, scientists, engineers, and other top NASA experts who are achieving remarkable feats in science, space exploration, and aeronautics. Learn something new about the wild and wonderful universe we share. All you need to get started is a little curiosity.
NASA’s Curious Universe is an official NASA podcast hosted by Padi Boyd and Jacob Pinter
Discover more ad-free, original NASA shows at nasa.gov/podcasts
Find the full NASA’s Curious Universe catalog at nasa.gov/curiousuniverse
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Music: "Curiosity" by SYSTEM Sounds [Matt Russo and Andrew Santaguida]
Executive Producer: Katie Konans
Producer/Host: Jacob Pinter
Videographer: Rob Andreoli
Videographer: John Philyaw
Video Editor: Scott Wiessinger
This video can be freely shared and downloaded at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14737. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14737. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines.
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![NASA’s Roman Space Telescope: Widening Our Gaze
The NASA Astrophysics fleet of spacecraft has an impressive range of capabilities. What is the next step in exploring the cosmos? The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s upcoming flagship mission, will take Hubble’s resolution and widen its infrared view to more than 100 times the coverage in every single image. Roman is a survey telescope that can peer through the Milky Way’s obscuring dust, and see faint, distant galaxies. Roman’s rigid design allows it to scan large regions of sky very quickly. Hubble would take 1,000 years to observe what Roman can see in one. Roman’s 18 4k x 4k detectors create 300-megapixel images covering an area of sky slightly larger than the full Moon. Roman will also look at the same regions of space repeatedly over time, allowing astronomers to see changes and observe temporary events like supernovae. Roman’s surveys of deep space and the center of our Milky Way galaxy will find thousands of new exoplanets, survey millions of galaxies, help us understand dark matter and dark energy, and learn more about the evolution of the universe.
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Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Opening Webb visualization credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Danielle Kirshenblat (STScI); Acknowledgment: VISTA, DSS, Akira Fujii
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![Beyond the Visible: Landsat Nexts New Spectral Bands
For over 50 years, Landsat satellites have captured stunning images of Earth, allowing us to see beyond the visible spectrum. And with Landsat Nexts 26 new spectral bands, well be able to see our planet like never before. From tracking vegetation health and monitoring water quality to studying atmospheric changes and mapping land use, Landsat Next’s enhanced capabilities will provide scientists, farmers, and decision-makers with critical data to tackle global challenges.
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“Circa” - AJ Steel [APRA], Ninja Tune Production Music
“Small Adventure” - Laurent Dury [SACEM], Koka Media
“Playing With Narrative” - Cathleen Flynn [ASCAP] & Micah Barnes [BMI], Freshworx Music Limited
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Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center
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![Embracing Commercial Capabilities with Lunar Relays
NASA is partnering with the aerospace industry to develop lunar relays. Establishing a network of communication relay satellites in lunar orbit will enable continuous and reliable communication between Earth and lunar missions, even in locations where the Earth is not directly visible from the Moon. This effort is being done through the Near Space Network’s Services Request for Proposal.
Music Provided by Universal Production Music: “Awakening” by Nicholas Smith [PRS]
Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: David Ryan
Writers: Katherine Schauer and Kendall Murphy
Talent: Jaime Esper
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![NASAs Roman Space Telescope Hardware Highlights: Winter/Spring 2025
Every day, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope moves closer to completion. This video highlights some of the important hardware milestones from this journey. Roman now exists as two main pieces: a telescope section that includes the mirrors, instruments and support systems; and an outer section comprised of the solar panels and protective coverings. These two sections are tested separately prior to being joined together to create the complete observatory.
This video, covering the first half of 2025, opens with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s SES (Space Environment Simulator.) This thermal vacuum chamber can simulate the vacuum of space and the wide temperature range that Roman will experience there: from -310° Fahrenheit (-190° C) to 302° Fahrenheit (150° C).
The test versions of the Solar Array Sun Shield panels are installed onto the Outer Barrel Assembly inside Goddard’s largest clean room in preparation for testing. Multiple copies of hardware often exist, typically for testing purposes; flight hardware is the version that will actually fly in space on the final spacecraft. The flight solar panels are the only ones covered with delicate solar cells. The Outer Barrel Assembly, which is flight hardware, will protect and shade the primary mirror. With the solar panels and a deployable front cover that functions like a visor, it forms the outer, protective section of the spacecraft.
Romans telescope section is covered in a protective tent and pushed outside of the clean room using pressurized air to float it like a hovercraft. Technicians and engineers lift it onto one of two shaker tables where it undergoes vibration testing. Roman undergoes a series of tests along each axis with increasing intensity to simulate components of launch stress. For the most intense tests of each axis, the spacecraft systems are powered up to ensure that everything can handle the stress.
Finally, Roman’s outer section is lowered over a structure made to simulate the telescope portion. Then it is covered in a protective tent, pushed out of the clean room, and crane-lifted into the SES chamber. With the tent around it, it’s a very tight fit and requires several rotations to clear hardware in the chamber. The tent is lifted out and the chamber closed. This outer section underwent around a month of testing at low pressure and different temperatures. Because the main tent was getting ready for Roman’s other section, a more temporary covering protected the outer section on the way out, and then technicians pushed it, uncovered, the last stretch into the clean room, giving the best-possible view of it at the end.
To learn more about all these systems and where they fit into Roman, visit: https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/interactive/.
Launching no later than May 2027, Roman is NASA’s next flagship astrophysics mission. An infrared survey telescope with the same resolution as Hubble but at least 100 times the field of view, Roman is being built and tested at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Partners from around the globe are contributing to this effort.
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Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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Drone Pilot: Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park)
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![Are Titan’s Lakes Teeming with Primitive Cells?
Could exotic lifeforms be brewing on Titan? Saturn’s largest moon is covered with the carbon-based building blocks of life and is the only place that we know of besides Earth with large lakes on its surface – made from super-chilled methane instead of water.
In 2017, NASA discovered that Titan’s thick, hazy atmosphere contains acrylonitrile, a lipid-like molecule that could cluster together within the moon’s lakes to form vesicles. These hollow spheres strongly resemble cell membranes on Earth, but a follow-up study determined that vesicles would be unlikely to form on Titan without an additional source of energy, casting doubt on their emergence. Now, a recent study coauthored by NASA shows that the missing spark could come from rainfall.
Learn more: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/planetary-science/astrobiology/path-toward-protocells-on-titan/
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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![Far and Wide Part 4: Teamwork
The James Webb and Nancy Grace Roman space telescopes are NASA’s latest flagship astrophysics observatories. One is in space already and the other will join it there soon. These two telescopes look very different, have different objectives, and together will advance our understanding of the universe. This four-part video series explores the differences and synergies of Roman and Webb.
Despite different observational strategies, both telescopes will be stationed in space at the Legrange Point 2, a relatively stable region a million miles away from Earth. From there, both will have an almost unobstructed view of the whole sky and low temperatures to keep their instruments cool.
Roman’s broad and enduring view will mesh perfectly with Webb’s focused gaze. As Roman discovers new wonders throughout the cosmos, Webb can follow up with detailed observations to help astronomers understand them better.
Learn more at https://science.nasa.gov/roman-and-webb
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Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center
Scott Wiessinger (eMITS): Producer/editor
Barb Mattson (University of Maryland College Park): Narrator
Scott Wiessinger (eMITS): Writer
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Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park):Science Writer
Claire Andreoli (NASA/GSFC): Public Affairs Officer
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