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Hubblecast 06: A Battle Of Giants: Telescopes In Space And On The Ground (HD). — Subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com — Have you ever wondered why some telescopes are launched into space while others are built on remote mountain tops? What is actually the best for astronomy? Here we provide a ringside view of the fight for the elusive photons from deep space – is it a battle of the telescope giants? Credit: • ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser, LL Christensen & R. Shida), Luis Calçada, ESO, Spitzer Space Telescope, Keck Observatory, Subaru Observatory • Narration: Dr. Robert Fosbury • Design: Martin Kornmesser • Web Technical Support: Lars Holm Nielsen, Raquel Yumi Shida • Cinematographer: Peter Rixner (www.perix.de) • Script: Lars Lindberg Christensen, Ana Margarida Lopes • Executive Producers: Raquel Yumi Shida, Lars Lindberg Christensen • Director: Lars Lindberg Christensen Dr. J is a German astronomer at the ESO. His scientific interests are in cosmology, particularly on galaxy evolution and quasars. Dr. J’s real name is Joe Liske and he has a PhD in astronomy. Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre Garching/Munich, Germany • www.eso.org • http • hubblesite.org .
Tags: cosmic, ESA, NASA, Spitzer
Hubblecast 10: Behind The Hubble Images – Making The Universe Come To Life. We live in a Universe of unimaginable scale and almost incomprehensible beauty. How is the light from the Universe transformed into the images that have inspired generations by making the Universe come to life? — Subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com — Welcome to the Hubblecast! Hubblecast features news and Images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Hubblecast is the name for Video Podcast produced by the ESA/Hubble team. Now anyone can follow the hottest and coolest discoveries from the near and far Universe – anywhere, anytime, for free! Credit: • ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & LL Christensen) • Narration: Howard Cooper & Bob Fosbury • Design: Martin Kornmesser •Web Technical Support: Lars Holm Nielsen & Raquel Yumi Shida • Cinematography: Peter Rixner • Script: Lars Lindberg Christensen & Will Gater • Directed by: Lars Lindberg Christensen • Host: Dr. J Dr. J is a German astronomer at the ESO. His scientific interests are in cosmology, particularly on galaxy evolution and quasars. Dr. J’s real name is Joe Liske and he has a PhD in astronomy. Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre Garching/Munich, Germany • www.eso.org • http • hubblesite.org .
Tags: Holes, cosmic, Nebula, Station
Hubblecast 01: ‘Comet Galaxy’ Being Ripped Apart By Galaxy Cluster. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with several other ground- and space-based telescopes, has captured a galaxy being ripped apart by a galaxy cluster’s gravitational field and harsh environment. The finding sheds light on the mysterious process by which gas-rich spiral-shaped galaxies might evolve into gas-poor irregular- or elliptical-shaped galaxies over billions of years. — Subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com — Credit: • ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & LL Christensen) • Narration: Dr. Robert Fosbury, Francesca Granato • Design: Martin Kornmesser, Francesca Granato •Web Technical Support: Lars Holm Nielsen, Raquel Yumi Shida • Cinematographer: Peter Rixner (www.perix.de) • Script: Lars Lindberg Christensen, Aitana Vargas • Director: Lars Lindberg Christensen Dr. J is a German astronomer at the ESO. His scientific interests are in cosmology, particularly on galaxy evolution and quasars. Dr. J’s real name is Joe Liske and he has a PhD in astronomy. Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre Garching/Munich, Germany • www.eso.org • http • hubblesite.org .
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Hubblecast 25: What’s Next? Amazing Telescopes Of The Future. The telescope has been mankind’s window on the Universe for four hundred years. It has provided scientists with unprecedented views of planets, stars and galaxies from our cosmic doorstep to the very depths of space and time. But despite their incredible performance, even the newest and most powerful telescopes leave room for improvement. Astronomers always want to venture beyond their current horizons. In this final chapter we take a look at things to come – the revolutionary ground-based telescopes and space observatories of the future. One thing is certain: there is much left to discover. — Subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com — Welcome to the Hubblecast! Hubblecast features news and Images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Hubblecast is the name for Video Podcast produced by the ESA/Hubble team. Now anyone can follow the hottest and coolest discoveries from the near and far Universe – anywhere, anytime, for free! Credit: • ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & LL Christensen) • Visual design & Editing: Martin Kornmesser • Animations: Martin Kornmesser & Luis Calçada • Web Hosting: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) •Web Technical Support: Lars Holm Nielsen, Raquel Yumi Shida • Written by: Govert Schilling & Lars Lindberg Christensen • Host: Dr. J • Narration: Howard Cooper & Bob Fosbury • Design: Martin Kornmesser • Cinematography: Peter Rixner • Music: movetwo …
Tags: ISS, gamma, Holes, comets
Science@ESA (Episode 4): Following The Redshift (Part 1) – The Earliest Stars and Galaxies In The Universe. From HST (Hubble Space Telescope) to JWST (James Webb Space Telescope). In this fourth episode of the Science@ESA vodcast series Rebecca Barnes will identify some of the key discoveries achieved with the famous Hubble Space Telescope, look at the concept of redshift, and meet a new telescope that will be used to uncover the early Universe. — • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — ‘Redshift’ is a key concept for astronomers. The term can be understood literally – the wavelength of the light is stretched, so the light is seen as ‘shifted’ towards the red part of the spectrum. Something similar happens to sound waves when a source of sound moves relative to an observer. This effect is called the ‘Doppler effect’ after Christian Andreas Doppler, an Austrian mathematician who discovered that the frequency of sound waves changes if the source of sound and the observer are moving relative to each other. If the two are approaching, then the frequency heard by the observer is higher; if they move away from each other, the frequency heard is lower. There are many everyday examples of the Doppler effect – the changing pitch of police and ambulance sirens, or train whistles and racing car engines as they pass by. In every case, there is an audible change in pitch as the source approaches and then passes an observer. Everyone has heard the increased pitch of an approaching …
Tags: Light, astronomy, expansion, Frequency
Hubblecast 08: Where Do We Come From? A Step Closer To Our Origin. By scrutinising the Hubble Ultra Deep field – the deepest image of the sky ever made – the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed in the distant Universe. — Subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com — Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & LL Christensen), Hubble Ultra Deep Field and GOODS Flythroughs: NASA, ESA and F. Summers (STScI) – Narration: Dr. Robert Fosbury – Special Guest: Dr. Martin Kümmel – Design: Martin Kornmesser -Web Technical Support: Lars Holm Nielsen, Raquel Yumi Shida – Cinematographer: Peter Rixner (www.perix.de) – Script: Lars Lindberg Christensen – Director: Lars Lindberg Christensen Dr. J is a German astronomer at the ESO. His scientific interests are in cosmology, particularly on galaxy evolution and quasars. Dr. J’s real name is Joe Liske and he has a PhD in astronomy. Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre Garching/Munich, Germany • www.eso.org • http • hubblesite.org .
Tags: images, HD, Nebula, Come
Hubblecast 28: The fifth and final Hubble servicing mission. Shuttle astronauts will visit the Hubble Space Telescope for the final time in May 2009. In five bold and daring spacewalks, they will upgrade Hubble’s instruments allowing it to continue making remarkable scientific discoveries well into the next decade. — Subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com — Credits: • ESA/Hubble (Martin Kornmesser, Lars Lindberg Christensen, Colleen Sharkey) • Visual design: Martin Kornmesser • Animations: Martin Kornmesser • Host: Dr. J • Narration: Gaitee Hussain • Cinematography: Peter Rixner • Music: movetwo • Web Hosting: Leibniz Rechenzentrum (LRZ) •Web Technical Support: Lars Holm Nielsen & Raquel Yumi Shida • Music: movetwo • Additional photos and footage: NASA • Written by: Chris Lawton & Lars Lindberg Christensen • Directed by: Lars Lindberg Christensen & Colleen Sharkey Dr. J is a German astronomer at the ESO. His scientific interests are in cosmology, particularly on galaxy evolution and quasars. Dr. J’s real name is Joe Liske and he has a PhD in astronomy. Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre Garching/Munich, Germany • www.eso.org • http • hubblesite.org .
Tags: Telescopes, Supernova, Meteorites, Matter
Hubblecast 24: Beyond Earth – Telescopes In Space. There’s no better place for a telescope than space itself. Above the Earth’s atmosphere observations are no longer hampered by air turbulence, so telescopic images of distant stars and galaxies are razor-sharp. Unlike a ground-based telescope, an instrument in Earth orbit can operate twenty-four hours a day and reach every part of the sky. Observing from space also makes it possible to study types of radiation that are otherwise absorbed by the atmosphere. Little wonder that the Hubble Space Telescope has made so many contributions to astronomy. And Hubble is not alone – more than 100 space observatories have been launched since the 1960s. Watch this Hubblecast episode and find out more. — Subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com — Credit: • ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & LL Christensen) • Host: Dr. J • Narration: Howard Cooper & Bob Fosbury • Visual design & Editing: Martin Kornmesser • Animations: Martin Kornmesser & Luis Calçada • Web Hosting: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) •Web Technical Support: Lars Holm Nielsen & Raquel Yumi Shida • Cinematographer: Peter Rixner • Written by: Govert Schilling & Lars Lindberg Christensen • Executive Producers: Raquel Yumi Shida, Lars Lindberg Christensen • Music: movetwo • Director: Lars Lindberg Christensen Dr. J is a German astronomer at the ESO. His scientific interests are in cosmology, particularly on galaxy evolution and quasars. Dr …
Tags: kepler, Spitzer, International, astronomy
ESOcast 10: GigaGalaxy Zoom Project – The Sky, From The Eye To The Telescope. — Subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — In the framework of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, ESO has launched a new project aimed at connecting the sky as seen by the unaided eye with that seen by hobby and professional astronomers. The project, called GigaGalaxy Zoom, reveals three amazing, ultra-high-resolution images of the night sky that online stargazers can zoom in on and explore in an incredible level of detail. The reward is the most breathtaking dive ever made into our Galaxy, linking the sky seen by all with the cosmos studied by astronomers. In this episode of ESOcast we will explore the unique and amazing GigaGalaxy Zoom project, which reveals the whole night sky as it appears with the unaided eye from one of the darkest deserts on Earth. The project allows users to zoom in on a rich region of the Milky Way with the magnification offered by a hobby telescope and then to go one step further, using the power of a professional telescope to explore details of an iconic nebula. Most of the photographs comprising the three GigaGalaxy Zoom images were taken from La Silla and Paranal, two of ESOs observing sites in Chile. The wonderful quality of the images is a testament to the splendour of the night sky at these ESO sites, which are the most productive astronomical observatories in the world. — ESOcast is produced by ESO, the …
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Life Beyond Earth: Origin And Evolution Of Life In The Universe – Best Of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos (Part 20). Carl Edward Sagan, Ph.D. (1934-1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage”, which has been seen by more than 600 million people in over 60 countries, making it the most widely watched PBS program in history. A book to accompany the program was also published. He also wrote the novel “Contact”, the basis for the 1997 Robert Zemecki’s film of the same name starring Jodie Foster. During his lifetime, Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and popular articles and was author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books. In his works, he frequently advocated sceptical inquiry, secular humanism, and the scientific method. • www.carlsagan.com ‘Our Place in the Cosmos’ (ft. Sagan, Dawkins, Kaku, Jastrow)- Symphony of Science- http Carl Sagan – We Are All Connected- www.youtube.com The Size of The Universe- www.youtube.com The Known Universe (Take A Journey through The Stars)- www.youtube.com What Are the Odds that- Aliens Exist? (Find Out)- www.youtube.com CNN:NASA Search For Earth Like Planets & Alien Life- www.youtube.com …
Tags: Inhabited, alien, Astronomers, Extraterrestrials