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Stars

2011
Provides a brief overview of stars, explaining how they are born and how they die, what it means to go supernova, what neutron stars, pulsars, and black holes are, and how scientists observe stars.

Solar system

2011
Provides an overview of the solar system, with information on the sun, each of the planets, dwarf planets, the asteroid belt, and other related topics.

Sky watch

2011
Provides a brief overview of the methods scientists use to explore the night sky, focusing on the large telescopes that have been launched into space to collect images of distant galaxies, stars, and planets.

Robots & rovers

2011
Provides a brief overview of the robots and rovers that are used by NASA to explore space, describing how they work and what they have taught astronomers about the universe.

Exploration

2011
Provides a brief overview of space exploration, describing how scientists have studied distant galaxies as well as other planets in the solar system.

Astronaut firsts

2011
Highlights momentous first in the history of space exploration, including the first animals and humans in space, the first American to orbit Earth, the first woman in space, the first spacewalk, and the first people to live in space.
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