Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
“Jupiter’s Moons” with Jane Houston Jones at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. — Please subscribe to: • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com — Jupiter has 63 confirmed moons, giving it the largest retinue of moons with “reasonably secure” orbits of any planet in the Solar System. The most massive of them, the four Galilean moons, were discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei and were the first objects found to orbit a body that was neither Earth nor the Sun. From the end of the 19th century, dozens of much smaller Jovian moons have been discovered and have received the names of lovers, conquests, or daughters of the Roman god Jupiter, or his Greek equivalent, Zeus. The Galileans are far and away the largest objects in orbit around Jupiter, with the remaining 59 moons and the rings together comprising just 0.003 percent of the total orbiting mass. • en.wikipedia.org — Jupiters largest moons were first seen 400 years ago in early 1610. On the seventh of January, 1610 in Padua, Italy, Galileo looked up above the constellation Orion. He aimed his telescope at the well-known starry wanderer, the planet Jupiter, which was near Orion that night. What he saw through his telescope startled him and marked the beginning of modern astronomy.Jupiter was not just one object, as he wrote and drew in his journal. There are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury around the sun, he wrote. Galileos January 7 observation showed …
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It’s that time again! Three Minute Philosophy returns with a rapid-fire lesson about the father of science, Galileo Galilei.
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This clip picks up where the one I’m responding to (“Gods retreat from cosmology”) leaves off — it is advisable that you watch that clip first. Both clips are from Neil deGrasse Tyson’s presentation titled “The Perimeter of Ignorance” at Beyond Belief 2006. Among other things, Tyson asserts that the religiosity of some of history’s greatest scientists and their willingness to invoke the philosophy of intelligent design limited the scope of their inquiry into the natural world, to the detriment of scientific progress in general.
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Johannes Kepler And The Triumph Of Modern Science Over Medieval Superstition – Best Of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos (Part 18). — • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — BEST OF CARL SAGAN’S “COSMOS”: 1) 10 Years After: Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan Reflect: www.youtube.com 2) Lost Between Immensity And Eternity: www.youtube.com 3) The Realm Of The Galaxies: www.youtube.com 4) Our Galaxy, The Milky Way: www.youtube.com 5) Our Solar System: www.youtube.com 6) Eratosthenes And The Round Earth Model: www.youtube.com 7) The Library Of Alexandria: www.youtube.com 
A Short History Of The Universe: www.youtube.com 9) Artificial And Natural Selection: www.youtube.com 10) The Cosmic Year: www.youtube.com 11) Tree Of Life – 4 Billion Years Of Evolution: www.youtube.com 12) The Miracle Of Life: www.youtube.com 13) DNA – The Common Basis Of Life: www.youtube.com 14) Abiogenesis – The Origin Of Life: www.youtube.com 15) Astronomy vs Astrology: www.youtube.com 16) Pictures In The Sky: www.youtube.com 17) Ancient Astronomy: www.youtube.com 18) Triumph Of Modern Science Over Medieval Superstition: www.youtube.com 19) The Mysterious Tunguska Event: www.youtube.com 20) Life Beyond Earth – Origin Of Life In The Universe www.youtube.com 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 …
The 1st movement of Beethoven’s 6th Symphony set against a visually stunning backdrop of a journey through the Solar System.
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Vatican searches for Aliens. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church. “The questions of life’s origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very suitable and deserve serious consideration,” said the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, an astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory. Funes, a Jesuit priest, presented the results Tuesday of a five-day conference that gathered astronomers, physicists, biologists and other experts to discuss the budding field of astrobiology — the study of the origin of life and its existence elsewhere in the cosmos.
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A Journey Through Space And Time – The Best Of Hubble – Images From The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (Part 1). — Subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — Since the earliest days of astronomy, since the time of Galileo, astronomers have shared a single goal — to see more, see farther, see deeper. The Hubble Space Telescope’s launch in 1990 sped humanity to one of its greatest advances in that journey. Hubble is a telescope that orbits Earth …
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Join Emily as she tells you all about her favourite of all the planets, Jupiter. She talks about its size, moons, its famous red spot and the impact of comet Shoemaker Levy 9. Don’t forget to visit www.sciencemadefun.org.uk Follow Science Made Fun founder Colin on Twitter for more science goodness! http
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The Hubble Space Telescope: a conduit to the cosmos from which we spring. On September 9, NASA released the first calibrated images from the Hubble Space Telescope after the Servicing Mission 4. This video shows the impressive improvements on the telescope’s optics.
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WEBSITE: www.teachertube.com Authentic Practice Galileo Kepler Jupiter Moons and using a telescope to find mass. Makes use of a FREE Jupiter Moons Clea Lab downloadable through the internet. Can be tailored for 2nd grade through 12 and undergrads. Runtime approx. 20 min.
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