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Explore the Solar System: The Gas Giants - Part 2

Explore the four giant planets of our solar system, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune. Learn more about their terrain and features and how they relate to each other and our solar system.
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Want To Work At NASA? You Don’t Have To Be a Rocket Scientist

Scientists, engineers, writers, artists, and many more are all NASA team members and all contribute to the organization’s mission. For NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory astrobiologist Lindsey Hays, her team’s diverse skillset is what makes every day exciting...
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Por qué los lobos se asocian con la luna llena

Las leyendas hablan de las noches de invierno en las que resuenan los aullidos de los lobos, y aunque tal vez la ciencia no relacione directamente estos aullidos con la luna, te invitamos a descubrir las fascinantes actividades nocturnas de estas...
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Mission: Mars

The Museum of Science has partnered with Filament Games to design and build Mission: Mars, a Roblox game set on the Red Planet. Players use the engineering design process to figure out how to design, build, explore and survive on Mars.
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Museum of Science, Boston enters the metaverse with new Roblox experience “Mission: Mars”

Developed in partnership with Filament Games, “Mission: Mars” challenges participants to engage in the Engineering Design Process, developing and iterating on vehicles ready to navigate the mysterious red planet and complete exploratory missions with...
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What’s a Typical Day Like for a Mars Rover?

Kim Steadman, a systems engineer for the Perseverance Mars rover, details the how, when, what, and why behind our incredible discoveries on Mars.
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What's Your Favorite Unsolved Space Mystery?

While there's a lot that we know about the universe, sometimes the most exciting things to talk about are the current mysteries that have astronomers scratching their heads. Georgia from our programs team tells us about the mystery of fast radio bursts...
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Will Any Stars In Our Sky Explode Soon?

We chat with astronomy graduate student Daisuke Taniguchi about his clever method of looking back in time at the peculiar behavior of the star Betelgeuse, which will (relatively) soon explode and disappear from our skies.
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What Happens When the Sun Runs Out of Fuel?

We talk with astronomer Dr. Joshua Blackman about the fate of the Earth at the very end of our solar system, when the sun will render our planet quite uninhabitable.
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Explore the Galaxy

Exclusively for school groups. Travel through the solar system and beyond in a tour of our stellar neighborhood.
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Explore the Solar System

Exclusively for school groups. Explore our beautiful solar system and its thousands of varied worlds that are changing the way we view our neighborhood in space.
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Could the Earth Be Destroyed by a Black Hole?

If a black hole came wandering through the solar system, would we notice? We're joined by the Bad Astronomer, Dr. Phil Plait, to chat about the possibility of Earth meeting its end via gravitational catastrophe.
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Museum of Science, Roblox Partner on New Digital Experience Transforming Students into Mars Astronauts

“The Roblox partnership is a quantum leap toward the Museum of Science’s goal of meeting everyone, everywhere, to develop a lifelong love of science,” said Museum of Science President Tim Ritchie
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What's the Fastest Thing in the Universe? Part Two

Celebrated science fiction author Jack McDevitt discusses how we can imagine a universe where human space travel is not limited to the speed of light, and our civilization can explore the galaxy and beyond.
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What's the Fastest Thing in the Universe? Part One

We ask Caity from our Charles Hayden Planetarium what the universe's speed limit is, and how that restricts our ability to explore beyond the solar system in this Pulsar podcast brought to you by #MOSatHome.