Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
Hubblecast 41: Hubble’s History Told by Hubble’s Scientists Hubble’s history of scientific breakthroughs has made us think afresh about our Universe. But behind the astronomical successes is a rollercoaster ride of scientific and technical challenges going back decades. The Hubblecast caught up with some of the key players in Hubble’s history, including an astronaut, a Nobel Prize winner and one of the scientists who diagnosed Hubble’s blurred vision in 1990. In this episode, narrated by veteran ESA scientist Bob Fosbury, they tell Hubble’s story through their personal experiences. — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — Venice is just a few centimetres above sea level, about as far from space as you can get. But in 1609, Galileo Galilei brought this city a bit closer to the stars when he gave one of the very first demonstrations of his telescope. A few months after that, he discovered Jupiter’s moons, Io, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. Four centuries later, another telescope is making history here, as scientists gather to discuss the latest results from Hubble. Hubble was launched in 1990. And that’s of course when its history of scientific discoveries starts. But Hubble’s history isn’t just about science and technology. Like Galileo’s story, it’s also one of politics, money … and extremely smart people doing very difficult things. Bob O’Dell: “I became the first project scientist for the …
Tags: formation, galaxies, exoplanets, Hubble's
This montage was created to demonstrate that it is the scientific method alone that has elevated the standard of living of many populations to soaring heights and can do so for all the world’s people. Science is not an ideology, but a method. A method which can free us from the shackles of destructive, divisive, superstitious thinking and create a peaceful, sustainable world where the united human race harmonises with the laws of nature, rather than arrogantly ignores them. —————————— You as a human being have evolved to respond to the world around you on impulse. You will instinctively jump out of the way if, say, a bus comes careening towards you. You know it would have a fatal effect if you didn’t. Even if you had never seen such a thing happen to a person before, you can instinctively calculate the weight of the bus, its size, its speed, and you will know that your frail body does not stand a chance. You know this because your very perception is built to comprehend the world in which you live. Defy it, and you will perish. As soon as you realise that this is a certain fact of life, you can apply that mentality to everything that you do. As the old Stoic saying goes: ‘Virtue exists in a will which is in agreement with nature’. This means that if what you choose to do is done without resistance to what you cannot control, then you will not encounter suffering as much. It is a certainty that you cannot break the laws of nature. They are firmly stuck …
Tags: Carl Sagan, Nebula, Sagan, nebulae
This is a video podcast I made for the podcast I run, The Big Bang and Creationism (my homepage can be found at lucretius1.blogspot.com/) It goes over the history of our universe, with some nice visuals, mostly courtesy of Wikipedia and the Hubble Space Telescope gallery site. I had to split it into two parts. This is part 1. Part two can be found: www.youtube.com
Tags: creationism, theism, Bang, Atheism
- – - Tracks: 1. John Williams, Christopher Parkening – The Days Between 2. The Cinematic Orchestra — Breathe Clip extracts from; BBC – Wonders of the Solar System (Prof Cox), Secret Life of Chaos, Life (Attenborough) History Channel – Universe
Tags: Hubble, Sagan, Telescope, Evolution
Hubblecast 31: Sky merger yields sparkling dividends. A recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures what appears to be one very bright and bizarre galaxy, but is actually the result of a pair of spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way smashing together at breakneck speeds. The product of this dramatic collision, called NGC 2623, or Arp 243, is about 250 million light-years away in the constellation of Cancer (the Crab). This object was a target of Hubble’s and a handful of its “sibling” spacecraft as part of a massive comprehensive sky survey called GOALS. — • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — Not surprisingly, interacting galaxies have a dramatic effect on each other. Studies have revealed that as galaxies approach one another massive amounts of gas are pulled from each galaxy towards the centre of the other, until ultimately, the two merge into one massive galaxy. The object in the image, NGC 2623, is in the late stages of the merging process with the centres of the original galaxy pair now merged into one nucleus. However, stretching out from the centre are two tidal tails of young stars showing that a merger has taken place. During such a collision, the dramatic exchange of mass and gases initiates star formation, seen here in both the tails. The prominent lower tail is richly populated with bright star clusters — 100 of them have been found in these observations. The large star clusters that the team have observed in the merged galaxy are brighter …
Tags: merger, Evolution, spectrum, astronomer
Coast to Coast AM : UFO Revelations, CERN, & Extinctions – 11/19/2009 – Part 2/16 www.youtube.com KARMELITA Vincent
Tags: time, UFO, nevada, large
Coast to Coast AM : UFO Revelations, CERN, & Extinctions – 11/19/2009 – Part 1/16 www.youtube.com KARMELITA Vincent
Tags: Dreamland, to, disclosure, Evolution
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s extemporaneous “testimonial” delivered at the 2006 Beyond Belief conference. This version is the longest (8 mins) and with the most added visuals. Contains one of the clips used in Symphony of Science “We Are All Connected.” Extraordinary example of how a worldview grounded in mainstream science can be exhilarating and evoke “religious” feelings of belongingness to the Cosmos. This is the version that Michael Dowd uses in his long programs on science and the sacred. The extra segments are at the end: (1) Neil challenging that scientific study of his own brain while contemplating the cosmos might light up the same circuits as those active in the brains of religious people having a spiritual experience., and (2) Neil reminding listeners that it was the public that rose up and demanded the Hubble Space Telescope be maintained beyond its planned termination.
Tags: cosmos, humanism, kinship, naturalism
The Science of Inflation Theory by Dr. Michio KakuDear viewer, please read the description before placing a comment, thank you for all your support . If you are a creationist read the following instructions: 1st please get a real job, 2nd do some research, 3rd educate yourself, 4th read some books, 5th acquire some culture and knowledge, 6th then make a comment. Thank you. Some Christian, Islamic or other theistic extremists, mix, by pure ignorance, the big bang with evolution, wich are two completely different branches of science. THE BIG BANG The Big Bang is the cosmological model of the initial conditions and subsequent development of the Universe that is supported by the most comprehensive and accurate explanations from current scientific evidence and observation. As used by cosmologists, the term Big Bang generally refers to the idea that the Universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition at some finite time in the past (best available measurements in 2009 suggest that the initial conditions occurred around 13.3 to 13.9 billion years ago), and continues to expand to this day. Extrapolation of the expansion of the Universe backwards in time using general relativity yields an infinite density and temperature at a finite time in the past. This singularity signals the breakdown of general relativity. How closely we can extrapolate towards the singularity is debated—certainly not earlier than the Planck epoch. The early hot, dense phase is itself …
Tags: Bang, Genesis, creation, AronRa
What about Comets? This is a clip from: Seminar 1 – The age of the earth – Part 2 View the entire video at: www.origintruth.info
Tags: research, Evolution, astronomy, creation