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The story begins in 2024 when Elon Musk and SpaceX launch 5 cargo ships to Mars. They land at Erebus Montes, paving the way for future humans to land, the construction of Mars Base Alpha, plants to grow, and later for a self sustainable Mars colony. This Mars colonization mini documentary also covers what it is like living on Mars, how many people will be landing during each launch window mission, the Starship fleet, and how the Martian colony grows over the years, between 2024 to 2050. Additional footage from: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona, European Space Agency, SpaceX, AI Space Factory, HASSEL, Tesla, The Boring Company

Follow two NASA rocket teams as they launch from Australia to study our nearest stellar neighbors – Alpha Centauri A & B – on a quest to understand how stars make the planets around them suitable for life. In this final episode, head into the outback to find the fallen rockets and learn what’s being discovered about the search for habitable environments. To learn more about NASA’s Sounding Rockets Program - https://www.nasa.gov/soundingrockets Music credits: “Algorithmic Agitation” by Jack Berman [PRS], Juno Morse [SUISA]; “Uluru (Ayers Rock Theme)” by Klaus Tropp [GEMA], Torsten Weber [GEMA]; “Epic Earth” by Andy Hopkins [PRS], Dean Mahoney [PRS], Jacob Nicholas Stonewall Jackson [PRS]; “Heading to the Red Centre” by Ian Paul Livingstone [PRS]; “Sahara Spirit” by Eric Heber Suffrin [SACEM]; “Decisive Dimension” by Samuel Wells Ecoff [ASCAP]; “Microscopic Musings” by Samuel Wells Ecoff [ASCAP] from Universal Production Music. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Additional footage: Office of the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory government, Equatorial Launch Australia Additional graphics: Vecteezy.com Sound effects: Pixabay Host: Miles Hatfield (NASA/GSFC)

Description: On Oct. 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse will cross North, Central, and South America. Visible in parts of the United States, Mexico, and many countries in South and Central America, millions of people in the Western Hemisphere can experience this eclipse. But what is an annular eclipse? Why does it happen? And why does it create a “ring of fire” in the sky? Credits: Music: “Insect Village” by Anthony Donje [PRS], Paul Simon Elliott [PRS] via Universal Production Music Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Producer: Joy Ng (KBRwyle) Writer: Vanessa J. Thomas (KBRwyle) Editor: Beth Anthony (KBRwyle) Animator: Beth Anthony (KBRwyle) Scientist: Michael S. Kirk (GSFC)

Recent observations from the Hubble Space Telescope show that Neptune's clouds are almost completely disappearing! Astronomers report that their continual monitoring of Neptune’s weather uncovered a link between its shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, where the Sun’s activity waxes and wanes under the driving force of its entangled magnetic field. At present, the cloud coverage seen on Neptune is extremely low, with the exception of some clouds hovering over the giant planet’s south pole. A team of astronomers discovered that the abundance of clouds normally seen at the icy giant’s mid-latitudes started to fade in 2019. For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris: Lead Producer Music Credit: “Outer Rim” by Brandon Seliga [BMI] via Emperia Beta Publishing [BMI] and Universal Production Music

There’s an invisible monster on the loose! It’s barreling through intergalactic space fast enough to travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes. But don’t worry, luckily this beast is very, very far away! This potential supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a never-before-seen 200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars. The streamer is twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy. It’s likely the result of a rare, bizarre game of galactic billiards among three massive black holes. For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris: Lead Producer Video Credit: Black Hole Animation NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman Image of Chandra X-Ray Observatory NASA/CXC and J. Vaughan 3 Black Hole Orbits and Slingshots Image from paper “A candidate runaway supermassive black hole identified by shocks and star formation in its wake” by PI Pieter Von Dokkum et al. Schematic illustration of the runaway SMBH scenario as an explanation of the key observed features. Panels 1–5 show a “classical” slingshot scenario (e.g., Saslaw et al. 1974). The background of panel 6 is a frame from an Illustris TNG simulation (Pillepich et al. 2018) Music Credit: “Unclaimed Space” by Peter Nickalls [PRS] via Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS] and Universal Production Music.

A young planet whirling around a petulant red dwarf star is changing in unpredictable ways orbit-by-orbit. It is so close to its parent star that it experiences a consistent, torrential blast of energy, which evaporates its hydrogen atmosphere – causing it to puff off the planet. But during one orbit observed with the Hubble Space Telescope, the planet looked like it wasn’t losing any material at all, while an orbit observed with Hubble a year and a half later showed clear signs of atmospheric loss. For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris: Lead Producer Cassandra Morris: Narrator Music Credit “Red Shift” by Arun Ganapathy [BMI], David Naroth [BMI], and Victor Mercader [BMI] via Emperia Beta Publishing [BMI], and Universal Production Music. Animation Credit: Light interacting with atmosphere: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser Escaping atmosphere of an exoplanet: ESA/Hubble, NASA, M. Kornmesser Planet orbiting a red dwarf star (artist's impression): ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser) Red Dwarf Flare Star (Artist's Illustration): NASA, ESA, and D. Player (STScI)

The Perseid Meteor Shower 2023 was one the best meteor showers of the year. With minimal interference from the moon, up to 100 meteors per hour were seen. This video was recorded in Devon, UK on Friday 11th/Saturday 12th August (1 day before the peak) and many of the meteors had persistent trains with a few fireballs thrown in for good measure. The video was shot on a Sony A7SIII. Music: Go Outside - Lost in a Sea

In October 2023, NASA is launching the Heliophysics Big Year – a global celebration of solar science and the Sun’s influence on Earth, our solar system, and beyond. Modeled after the “Big Year” concept from citizen scientists in the bird-watching community, the Heliophysics Big Year challenges everyone to get involved with fun Sun-related activities. Visit https://go.nasa.gov/HelioBigYear to learn more! Credits: Music: “Nanofiber” by Andrew Michael Britton [PRS], David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS]; “Climbing the Ladder” by Jose Tomas Novoa Espinosa [BMI] via Universal Production Music Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Producer: Beth Anthony (KBRwyle), Joy Ng (KBRwyle), Lacey Young (KBRwyle) Writer: Denise Hill (ADNET Systems) Editor: Beth Anthony (KBRwyle)

This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2022, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the Moon's orbit position, sub-Earth and subsolar points, and distance from the Earth at true scale. Craters near the terminator are labeled, as are Apollo landing sites, maria, and other albedo features in sunlight. Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Data visualization by Ernie Wright (USRA) Producer & Editor - David Ladd (AIMM) Music provided by Universal Production Music: “Build the Future” – Alexander Hitchens