IYA Resources
NASA missions and programs continue to develop a growing collection of dynamic podcasts, vodcasts, interactive web features, and other multi-media resources, and 2009 will be no exception! Especially for IYA2009, NASA will be sponsoring a series of radio programs and podcasts around the topic “Are We Alone?” hosted by Dr. Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute. These programs will highlight the exciting NASA research that builds on Galileo’s legacy of observation and discovery, including the 2009 launch of the extra-solar planet-hunting Kepler mission.
Get ready for IYA2009 by checking out the following multimedia sources that feature NASA's space science research:
Sky-Spy-Safari A working Planisphere that explores celestial objects, and how NASA telescopes work. (Flash required)
Science @ NASA Feature Stories Podcast Helping the public understand how exciting NASA research is and to help NASA scientists fulfill their outreach responsibilities.
This Week @ NASA Audio Podcasts The latest mission news, features and the This Week @NASA report.
NASA's Latest Interactive Features Games and interactives of NASA's many programs and projects.
Ask an Astrophysicist Specializing in cosmic-ray, gamma-ray, and X-ray astrophysics, and other satellite based astronomical observations.
Anomalous Arms
To get the full picture of what is happening in the universe, you need to look beyond the visible. Here, a composite image of spiral galaxy M106 is constructed with an optical image shown in yellow, an infrared image colored red, a radio image colored purple and an X-ray image colored blue. Astronomers discovered two anomalous arms that are invisible at optical wavelengths.