The instantaneous effects on a human when exposed to near-vacuum conditions. Found at YouTube from NaOHKDBO.

NASA satellites capture the oil spill since it began in April. You can clearly see how the oil spill is expanding over time. Found at YouTube from NASATelevision.

Twenty years ago a shuttle carrying NASA’s Hubble telescope was launched into space. As Jeff Glor reports, NASA is sharing thousands of new incredible images from outer space. Found at YouTube from CBSNewsOnline.

Via Mashable: The recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory has been taking some unique portraits of our solar companion using four telescopes looking at the sun in different wavelengths. The results are unusual and beautiful, fulfilling the mission’s goal of exploring “solar activity in unprecedented detail.” A Prominence Eruption Observed By AIA AIA caught this beautiful prominence eruption [...]

In a live interview with Japan’s Fuji TV, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut and Expedition 22 Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi demonstrates his love for cooking aboard the International Space Station with the first hand-rolled sushi in space (with salmon). Found at YouTube from NASATelevision via Popsci via Holy Kaw!

High definition footage of the space shuttle Atlantis launch, accompanied by music. Found at YouTube from millitaryexcellence.

An aerial video crew observed the October 28, 2009 Ares I-X test flight from a Cessna Skymaster aircraft positioned approx. 10 nautical miles away from the vehicle at an altitude of 12,000 feet. Found at YouTube from NASATelevision.

Considered a leader in the search for planets outside our solar system, Alan Boss says we are at a turning point in our search for extraterrestrial life. He expects we are on the verge of finding many different Earth-like planets across the universe, and he expects it will be common to find life on those planets. [...]

NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, created twin impacts on the moon’s surface early Friday in a search for water ice. Scientists will analyze data from the spacecraft’s instruments to assess whether water ice is present. Found at YouTube from NASAtelevision.

What NASA calls its ‘Heliophysics Observatory’ is an impressive fleet of spacecraft designed (often with international partnership) to study the relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Solar System. Flying in an array of trajectories and orbits, many of these satellites do not take images in the conventional sense but record fields, particle energies and fluxes [...]