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Hashima Hasan’s love for space started at the age of five. She was standing in her grandparents’ backyard in Lucknow, India watching Sputnik go by overhead. Her ultimate goal to work for NASA materialized in 1994 when she joined NASA Headquarters to manage missions and research programs in astrophysics. Part of the "Women@NASA" series.
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Provides insights on extraterrestrial life from scholars and astronomers at premier research institutions, such as the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and NASA. Shows how proponents of the "aliens are here" theories have compiled a library of books, Internet sites, and documentaries to support their ideas. Includes an interview with Budd Hopkins, author of several alien abduction books, and a hypnosis session of a young man who recalls encountering alien creatures. Also includes a demonstration by an illusionist who shows that hypnosis is nothing more than tricking the mind.
Who are the biggest super stars in the universe? For Adam Burrows, an astrophysics professor at Princeton University, it's not who, but "what," and they are far from Hollywood, or even Earth, for that matter. Burrows reveals that the biggest super stars are the stars that die in a massive explosion called a "supernova." With support from the National Science Foundation, Burrows investigates supernovae, and he has recently created 3D computer simulations showing the actual moment of a star's death. His simulations are revealing more about these stellar performances.
For more than a decade—in the most inhospitable place on Earth-- scientists have been building an observatory to search for a “ghost.” The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a massive telescope embedded in the Antarctic ice near the South Pole. Its aim: to search for elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos that have made their way to earth from distant cosmic events like supernovas and black holes. Neutrino research is pushing the astrophysics envelope, and should provide answers to key questions about dark energy and dark matter.
Sunspots have fascinated sky gazers through the ages. Now state-of-the art telescopes combined with the muscle of a supercomputer called “Bluefire” are allowing scientists to accurately model these mysterious structures, and unlock their secrets. Michael Knoelker and Matthias Rempel are solar scientists working at the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, known as NCAR, in Boulder, Colorado. With support from the National Science Foundation, their study of sunspots is critical to the understanding of how stars, like the sun, produce magnetic fields which is still one of the big unanswered questions in stellar astrophysics.
