Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
Movie from the paper “Observing Supernova 1987A with the Refurbished Hubble Space Telescope,” by Kevin France, Richard McCray, Kevin Heng, Robert P. Kirshner, Peter Challis, Patrice Bouchet, Arlin Crotts, Eli Dwek, Claes Fransson, Peter M. Garnavich, Josefin Larsson, Stephen S. Lawrence, Peter Lundqvist, Nino Panagia, Chun SJ Pun, Nathan Smith, Jesper Sollerman, George Sonneborn, John T. Stocke, Lifan Wang, J. Craig Wheeler. Published in Science, 7 September 2010. dx.doi.org Supporting Online Material. “This movie displays the evolution of the remnant of SN1987A as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The rapidly fading and expanding central source is light from the inner radioactive supernova debris. The inner circumstellar ring is glowing initially because it was ionized by radiation from the supernova outburst. At about 1995, the first hotspot appeared at approximately 11 o’clock. Today, the ring is entirely encircled by hotspots. The radiation from the hotspots is caused by compression and heating that takes place when the supernova blast wave enters.” Abstract: “Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), conducted since 1990, now offer an unprecedented glimpse into fast astrophysical shocks in the young remnant of supernova 1987A. Comparing observations taken in 2010 using the refurbished instruments on HST with data taken in 2004, just before the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph failed, we find that the Ly and H lines from shock emission continue to …
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Prologue to Sunborn, Book 4 of The Chaos Chronicles, by Jeffrey A. Carver. Narration by the author, video design by Adam Guzewicz seastage.com and Jeffrey A. Carver http Images from Hubble and other NASA observatories. Jeffrey A. Carver has authored numerous science fiction novels, including Sunborn, Battlestar Galactica (miniseries novelization), and the Nebula-nominated Eternity’s End, all published by Tor Books. For more information and free ebook downloads, visit www.starrigger.net. Aspiring writers, check out Carver’s free online writing course at http This Sunborn audio-visualization was created for Lydia Fair, a benefit multimedia, multi-genre arts happening sponsored by the Greater Boston Vineyard in Cambridge, MA, April 2009. lydiafair.org and http
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered an extrasolar planet, for the first time using direct visible-light imaging. The strange world is far-flung from its parent star, is surrounded by a colossal belt of gas and dust, and may even have rings more impressive than Saturn’s. For more information on this exciting discovery please visit figbranch.com FigBranch.com your science news and community web site. 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: Lee Pullen & Lars Lindberg Christensen Host: Dr. J Narration: Bob Fosbury Cinematography: Peter Rixner Music: movetwo Footage and photos: A. Fujii, Digitized Sky Survey 2, NASA, ESA, and P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley). Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble) Directed by: Lars Lindberg Christensen
Tags: astrophysics, Hubble, science, Exoplanet
This video is the first in my series on the Northern Constellations. I will be going through all the major constellations, beginning with Orion. Feedback is greatly appreciated. 
Special Thanks to TheUltimateNihilist and Andrewski88, who have been encouraging me to begin this series for some time now. www.youtube.com www.youtube.com Orion Constellation Image credit: Orion Stars © Image provided by Matthew Spinelli www.biochem.szote.u-szeged.hu Betelgeuse image 1 credit 1. ©2010 Haubois / Perrin (LESIA, Observatoire de Paris www.aanda.org www.scientificamerican.com Betelgeuse image 2 Image credit: NACO adaptive optics instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VTL) in Chile. www.phys.ncku.edu.tw Orion Constellation 2 Image Credit: Celestia www.shatters.net Witch Head Nebula Image credit: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors) blog.deepskycolors.com apod.nasa.gov Image credit: Trapezium cluster: WFPC2, Hubble space telescope , NICMOS, NASA and K. Luhman Harvard-Smithsonian center for astrophysics upload.wikimedia.org Horsehead Nebula image credit: www.noao.edu Flame Nebula image credit: www.eso.org Messier 43 image credit: www.noao.edu Messier 78 image credit: www.oa.uj.edu.pl Background Music in the video is provided by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com The Intro Sequence is composed of images that I created in Gimp. http
An exploration of the Constellation Canis Major. Links: Canis major Dwarf Galaxy: www.nasaimages.org Some graphics rendered using Celestia: www.shatters.net Music by Kevin McLeod used with permission: incompetech.com
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The first national observatories were built for two practical reasons: to provide accurate timekeeping, and to assist surveyors with mapping. As technology developed, telescopes became larger and provided more detailed images. Astronomers, in turn, became increasing interested in understanding the stars and objects that they could now see using these higher-resolution telescopes. The 15″ refracting telescope featured in this video was built by the Warner and Swasey company of Cleveland, Ohio. It was originally located at Ottawa’s Dominion Observatory. With the closure of this observatory in 1970s, it was moved to the Canada Science and Technology Museum. It is now housed in the Museum’s Helen Sawyer Hogg Observatory, where it is used for public astronomy education. To learn more about telescopes, and the Helen Sawyer Hogg Observatory, visit the Canada Science and Technology Museum. www.scientech.technomuses.ca
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Carbonaceous Chondrite Asteroids – Main Belt Comets – Organic Matter … History Channel’s Series : The Universe : Amy Mainzer, John Lewis
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In 1998, astrophysicists discovered a baffling phenomenon: the Universe is expanding at an ever-faster rate. Either an enigmatic force called dark energy is to blameor a reworking of gravitational theory is in order. In this new Science Bulletins video, watch a Fermilab team assemble the Dark Energy Camera, a device that could finally solve this space-stretching mystery. Science Bulletins is a production of the National Center for Science Literacy, Education, and Technology (NCSLET), part of the Department of Education at the American Museum of Natural History. Each Bulletin is produced by AMNHs curatorial and scientific staff and a team of video producers, designers, writers, and educators using state-of-the-art technologies such as high-definition video and 3-D computer graphics to present the latest research. For more information visit www.amnh.org
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Watch Neil’s collection of short videos. Read his blog. Find out how his secret life fuels his science, and vice versa. You can watch his videos here: pbs.org/nova/secretlife
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Watch Neil’s collection of short videos. Read his blog. Find out how his secret life fuels his science, and vice versa. www.pbs.org/nova/secretlife The Secret Life of Scientists is currently just a few votes behind in the race for the Webby Awards People’s Voice Award. If you havent voted already, please vote now. Anyone can vote at this link: www.youtube.com Voting ends on April 29th.
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