Video: Topics: Science & Nature: Astronomy
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NOVA | Hubble's Amazing Rescue | Trailer | PBS (#3611)
For two years leading up to launch, NOVA followed the mission closely, with unprecedented access to every aspect of the endeavor, from NASA's training facilities for flight preparation to the... 00:31
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NOVA | Hubble's Amazing Rescue | PBS (#3611)
After nearly 20 years in space and hundreds of thousands of spectacular images, the Hubble Space Telescope's gyroscopes and sensors were failing, its batteries running down, and some of its... 03:23
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NOVA scienceNOW | Saving Hubble Update, Gangster Birds, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, How Memory Works | PBS (#407)
Full Program: The repair mission for the Hubble space telescope, as astronauts try to fix crucial equipment that was not designed to be repaired in orbit; common backyard birds with a dark secret, and a clue that... 52:47
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NOVA scienceNOW | Bird Brains, Space Storms, Profile: Yoky Matsuoka, Smart Bridges | PBS (#304)
Full Program: “Finch Brains”--What can the songs of zebra finches tells us about the human evolution of language? A lot more than we once thought. The way a finch learns to sing is similar to the way babies... 51:53
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NOVA scienceNOW | Marathon Mouse, Dinosaur Plague, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Space Storms | PBS (#403)
Full Program: Two drugs that may help kids with muscular dystrophy or the frail elderly, who don’t have the option of hopping on a treadmill to build strength and endurance; renowned paleontologist George... 52:32
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NOVA scienceNOW | Martian Salt | PBS (#405)
If cellulose survived 250 million years on Earth, could it survive in salt deposits on Mars? 03:06
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NOVA scienceNOW | Going Lunar for Less | PBS (#405)
See how a mission to search for water on the moon is exploring a big question on a small budget. 03:10
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NOVA scienceNOW | Hunt for Alien Earths, Art Authentication, Maydianne Andrade, Autism Genes | PBS (#402)
Full Program: Astronomers on the brink of finding “another Earth” in our galaxy, using a new planet-hunting machine: the Kepler telescope; Rudy Tanzi, a pioneer in discovering genes for Alzheimer’s disease, and... 52:19
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NOVA scienceNOW | Detecting Life | PBS (#402)
Once we find a planet that has Earth-like potential, how can we tell if there is life on it? Harvard astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger explains how scientists might sniff out life by looking at the... 04:07
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NOVA scienceNOW | Leeches, The Search for ET, Stem Cell Breakthroughs, Edith Widder | PBS (#305)
Full Program: “Leeches”--Leeches, those innocent bloodsuckers, have been bad-mouthed to the point that they’ve become synonymous with obnoxious freeloaders. Even host Neil deGrasse Tyson is creeped out while... 51:58
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NOVA scienceNOW | Saving Hubble, First Primates, Alfredo Quinones Hinojosa, Killer Microbe | PBS (#303)
Full Program: “Hubble Repair”--NOVA scienceNOW covers the upcoming repair mission for the Hubble space telescope — one of the most famous orbiting telescopes — which has advanced our knowledge of the... 51:45
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NOVA | Monster of the Milky Way | PBS (#3314)
Full Program: Does a supermassive black hole lurk at the center of our galaxy? 51:53
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NOVA | Sputnik Declassified | PBS (#3415)
Full Program: Top-secret documents rewrite the history of the famous satellite and the space race. 52:37
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NOVA | Space Shuttle Disaster | PBS (#3512)
Full Program: An investigation uncovers the failures and design flaws behind the 2003 Columbia tragedy. 52:18
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NOVA | Is There Life on Mars? | PBS (#3518)
Full Program: The search for life on the Red Planet heats up with the discovery of frozen water. 51:57
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