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Illustration of earth against space. Earth has a line through the north and south pole, but the line is not vertical. It is tilted. Caption: But it doesn't spin completely straight; it is slightly tilted.

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Top half of the moon floats in darkness. Text reads, "Moon Phases."

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Street view of the entrance of the Adler Planetarium, a domed building made of darker stone with a wide staircase leading up to it. It is surrounded by a building of a triangular shape made of glass.

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Exterior shot of an ancient Aztec building. Caption. Teotihuacan means "gods".

Curiosity rover stands in clay colored dirt beneath a pale orange sky. Text reads, "Curiosity. Climate Clues on a Martian Mountain." NASA icon at bottom is labeled, "Jet Propulsion Laboratory. California Institute of Technology."

We look over the side of the Curiosity rover at a rocky brown terrain. Text reads, "NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Finds a Changing Landscape." Blue NASA icon appears at bottom.

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies above sandy ridges beneath gray sky. Text reads, "Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. The First Aircraft on Mars."

We look down over the edge of the Perseverance Mars rover at a rocky brown landscape with tracks running down the middle.

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Part of a space craft as seen from space. Caption: But are the risks to the astronauts acceptable?

Mars hovers in shadows against the blackness of space. Text reads, "Opportunity. NASA Rover Completes Mars Mission." NASA icon at bottom is labeled, "Jet Propulsion Laboratory. California Institute of Technology."

A planet with different colored bands on the surface and rings outside the atmosphere. Caption: The atmosphere is mainly made up of hydrogen and helium,

Solar panels tilted toward the sky. Caption: can be used to create electricity

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Two scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider.

Planet Mars. Caption: negative 63 degrees Celsius and negative 81 degrees Fahrenheit. Source, NASA.

An illustration depicts some planets and their orbits, revolving around a sun. Caption: N A S A.

Two black holes in the center of a galaxy. Caption: L I G O slash S X S slash R Hurt and T Pyle.

A black hole in the center of a galaxy. Caption: Black hole.

A telescope built on the top of a mountain. Caption: Large synoptic survey telescope. Science office slash L S S T project slash N S F slash A U R A.

An illustration of Moon and Earth.

Diagram of our solar system. Spanish captions.

Planets in the solar system orbit the edge of a fiery sun in outer space.

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Irregular orange and yellow shapes in greenish clouds. Caption: should focus on physics, math, and computer science.

The planets of our solar system in a line. Caption: We'll begin with Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun.

The sun with a chaotic surface and a glowing ring. The glowing ring is labelled as the corona. Caption: extremely hot outermost layer of the Sun.

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An illustration of Saturn. Caption: Internal heat is visible in infrared view.

An image of Saturn's largest ring. An highlighted portion of the ring is shows a cluster of objects.

A cluster of telescopes pointed to the sky. Caption: at 16,500 feet in the deserts of Atacama in Chile.

Concentric circles of light around a center of blackness. Caption: We can see the material around the black hole.

Circular tunnel with pipe conduit along the walls and a large, central tube. Caption: (narrator) At CERN, the Higgs is only the beginning.

White glowing orb against a black grid. Caption: Weakly Interacting Massive Particle

Points of light spaced evenly across a surface. A rod with spheres extends down the center. Caption: It's a cubic kilometer full of sensors known as IceCube,

Glowing orb of a star surrounded by green, nebulous light. Stereo COR1 B. Caption: will suddenly be ejected into interplanetary space.

Glowing orb of the sun emitting a pulse of light. Caption: and washes out across the solar system.

Small point of light at the center of an expanding cloud of red, magenta, and gray light. Caption: It's called a supernova.

An electromagnetic spectrum is superimposed on the image of a galaxy. The visible spectrum is highlighted. Caption: A radio wave is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum,

Two people standing next to a large telescope with MEADE on the side. One person looks in the eye piece. Caption: they look way out to the Kuiper Belt,

Asteroids floating through the galaxy. Caption: Asteroids range in size from pebbles to 600 miles across,

Asteroids floating through the galaxy. Spanish captions

The center of a black hole. Caption: If light cannot escape a black hole, nothing can.

Black hole in front of an eclipse. Spanish captions.

Comet shooting through space. Caption: forming a long dust tail behind it.

A comet in space. Spanish captions.

Constellations in the night sky. Caption: It's like a game of connect the dots.

A constellation. Spanish captions.

View of Earth from space. Caption: The other half of the Earth faces away from the sun,

Golden sunset behind hills and water. Spanish captions.

Close up image of the sun with the Earth in the background. Caption: Earth orbits, or travels around, the sun

Earth in space with the moon behind it. Spanish captions.

The nine planets orbiting around the sun. Caption: The shape of a planet's orbit is an ellipse.

The Earth with arrows circling it. Spanish captions.

Calendar image of September 20th. Caption: The autumn equinox usually happens around September 20.

Diagram of Earth with angles. Spanish captions.

Swirling red galaxy. Caption: Galaxies are divided in three basic types

Stars shining in the galaxy. Spanish captions.

Diagram of the nine planets with the sun in the background. Caption: Distance is a very important aspect of gravitational force.

The moon orbiting around Earth. Spanish captions.

A sliding scale weighing something. Caption: The force of gravity gives every object weight.

Earth in space. Spanish captions.

Diagram of the moon orbiting Earth. Caption: As the new moon begins its orbit,

Earth in space with the moon behind it. Spanish captions.

Earth directly in front of the sun. Caption: This creates a lunar eclipse.

A waning moon. Spanish captions.

Comet shooting through space. Caption: First, meteoroids come from comets and asteroids.

A comet above Earth. Spanish captions.

Moon behind a hazy sky. Caption: The moon looks bright because it reflects light from the sun.

Earth and Moon in space. Spanish captions.

The nine planets lined up behind the sun. Caption: Earth is the 3rd planet from the sun.

The nine planets in line behind the sun. Spanish captions.

View of Earth from the Sun. Caption: While the earth is revolving around the sun,

Earth in space with moon in the distance. Spanish captions.

Earth in space with the sun in the distance. Caption: of the earth around its axis.

Earth in space. Spanish captions.

The moon directly in front of the sun. Caption: Seeing a solar eclipse can be an unforgettable experience.

Two planets directly in line with the sun. Spanish captions.

Plants growing through the dirt. Caption: All plants use the sun's energy to make their own food.

Asteroids moving through space. Caption: It has a large number of irregularly-shaped asteroids.

Nine planets orbiting around the sun. Spanish captions.

Diagram of Earth orbiting the sun. Caption: is called the summer solstice.

Diagram of Earth orbiting the sun. Spanish captions.

A swirling galaxy. Caption: which is a part of your universe.

Nine planets orbiting around the sun. Spanish captions.

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Two people sitting on a couch and talking. Caption: A black hole is a region of space and time

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Spatial view of a crater on the moon. Caption: then we head straight down to the bottom of a crater,

Four observatory telescopes pointed towards a starry sky. Caption: We have one record of the universe streaming by us.

Four people in a yard holding balloons. One is on a ladder. Caption: Five, four, three, two, one.

A diagram illustrates a solar eclipse. The Moon between the Sun and the Earth.

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An illustration depicts migration from Earth to Mars.

An illustration of a space colony.

An illustration of two astronauts in a foreign planet surface.

Two people, one of them singing. Caption: A hundred thousand miles an hour

Five people dancing and singing. Caption: It's a marvelous night for a moon dance

Group of young people singing and dancing. Caption: We are the place to be in the galaxy

Young girl sitting in her bed singing. Caption: S-P-A-C-E

Four people, one man tossing an apple into the air. Caption: Gravity rules our planet

Planets orbiting around the sun. Their elliptic are visible and there is a connection indicated between the two planets shown. Caption: Kepler explained those retrograde loops.

Dense points of light on a black background. Caption: The oldest could be 11 to 13 billion years old,

Internal view of a telescope. Caption: It collects light like the lens of an eye.

Nebulous clouds and points of light with a black hole at the center. Caption: We can't see a black hole, but it bends passing light.

Diagram of two planets, one wearing a scarf, one obscured by gas vapors. Caption: Most of these are ice giants or gas giants

Illustration of a child playing on a city street, imagining that he is flying the rocket in his hand. Caption: His imagination took him out of his neighborhood.

Nebulous clouds of brightly colored gas with points of light visible through the gas. Caption: They are giant gas clouds of hydrogen and dust

Spiral shaped galaxy in space. Caption: Astronomy is the study of objects in space,

Flat surface with arching lines of light emanating from localized points. Caption: They originate and terminate at the local magnetic poles,

Large sphere of glowing light dwarfs object labelled as Earth's orbit around sun. Caption: larger than Earth's orbit around the Sun,

Sunset over the ocean. Spanish captions.

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Cyan-toned vintage photo of a stack of papers bound together with binder rings, whose cover page reads "Landmark Maps." Next to the papers, a round diagram of the Moon.

Black-and-white frame shows a blurry in-motion abstract view.

Crowd of children waving handheld American flags gathered on a street.

Woman holding a stack of index cards shields her eyes with her hand as she looks up toward the sky. Many people in the background are doing the same.

4 collaged rectangles arranged in a row. Each is composed of colorful torn paper with glimpses of text.

A tock is placed on a table. In a close up, Emily Graslie halds the rock in her hand. Caption: I'm gonna go with, this is not a meterorite.

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An illustration of a giant cloud of gas.

Solar eclipse. Caption: Birds roost, flowers close, and, like heralds, dogs bark.

Black and white photograph of a spherical object against a black sky. Caption: Mercury is scorched and irradiated

Glowing ball of the sun with heat visibly radiating off it. Caption: An inferno spewing energy, heat, and light.

Ms. Frizzle and Liz at the controls of a spaceship. Caption: And how are all my astronauts doing?

Student from the magic school bus standing in front of a model of the Earth and moon with a miniature school bus traveling between them. Caption: We need to go this way!

Ms. Frizzle in a space suit in front of a control panel on a spaceship. Her arms are raised. Caption: They're called supernovas.

Aerial view of a large depression in the earth. Caption: In the heart of the Outback, these are the Henbury craters.

Circular cloud with a bright center against space. Caption: To understand comets, we return to the earliest solar system,

Large blue planet with a darker blue spot. Caption: Neptune is so remote,

Brown, tan, and beige banded planet with rings. A smaller spherical object is next to it. Caption: In a class of its own is Titan, Saturn's single big moon.

An illustration of a galaxy.

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Blurry image of glowing orange dots. Caption: Five million tons of hydrogen fuse into helium every second.

Planets with smiley faces and accessories circle around a sun wearing sunglasses in outer space. Text reads, "The Sun Is Kind of a Big Deal."

Six planets orbiting around the sun. Caption: (narrator) It is gravity that holds our solar system together.

Illustration of Jupiter's radiation. Caption: Its electromagnetic radiation is intense.

Image of the sun from above Earth. Caption: And the clock is ticking toward magnetic apocalypse.

Illustration of Mars in space. Caption: (narrator) How could life have first formed on Mars?

Earth and Mars passing each other in space. Caption: Mars and the Earth had been passing each other

Meteor on fire traveling downwards. Caption: Venus has been hit hard with meteors…

View of Saturn in space. Caption: "Saturn: Lord of the Rings."

Bubbling hot plasma. Caption: superheated into a plasma that burns at millions of degrees.

Two red orange planets in space. Caption: coalesced to shape our moon.

Close up view of Neptune in space. Caption: What happened to Neptune's great dark spot?

Galaxy filled with swirling stars. Caption: is that it both was and wasn't there.

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Digital map of the United States divided into six vertical blocks of color with clocks above each section. Text reads, "Time Zones."

Man writing with a quill in a candle lit room. Caption: Matter of fact, he studied and studied and studied.

Small patch of dirt showing through haze. Caption: TITAN'S DENSE HAZE BEGAN TO CLEAR ABOUT 45 MILES (70 KILOMETERS) ABOVE THE SURFACE

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A photo of the surface of the Moon.

Illustration image of a satellite. Caption: Juno is an unmanned deep-space mission

A view of the earth from space. One vertical half of the earth is in darkness. Caption: The whole planet is made of bits of exploding stars.

Pointy hill with traces of snow appears in front of a lake and other snowy hills in the distance. Green Northern Lights are visible in night sky over the distant hills.

White background with gray grid lines with a molecule diagram on it. Text underneath the diagram reads, "Amino acid."

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Detailed photograph of the moon. Caption: In 1959 the Survey compiled a photogeologic map of the moon

A diagram comapres the color data from the planet Earth. Red and Blue lights are shown as reflected lights.

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Light shines on the top of the Earth as the rest fades into the darkness around it. Text reads, "Voyager. Images from the Odyssey."

An illustration of a planet.

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Illustration of a solar system with planets on similar orbits except for one that is travelling on a skewed, debris filled elliptic. Caption: A dwarf planet could have a bumpy ride as it travels.

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