Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
A team of NASA-funded researchers find there may be different criteria by which we search for life elsewhere in the universe. Also, shuttle Discovery gets a new target launch date; SOFIA flies its first science mission; NASA’s Small Business Awards, and an alternative fuels pilot program. Plus, Scott Kelly’s geography trivia from space, and the anniversary of Gemini 7.
Tags: International, Station, Life, science
International Year of Astronomy 2009, IAU and UNESCO Visual design: Martin Kornmesser & Luis Calçada Music and Sound Effects: MoveTwo (Axel Kornmesser & Markus Löffler) Footage and photos: Gemini Observatory (Kirk Puuohau-Pummill/Peter Michaud), CFHT (Jean-Charles Cuillandre), TWAN (Babak Tafreshi, Laurent Laveder), Martin Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble), NASA, NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Mars Express, Kevin Govender, NASA/Spitzer Space Telescope, ESO/VLT/ALMA, & Akira Fujii Project lead: Lars Lindberg Christensen (ESA/Hubble) Note: This trailer may be shown in its entirety without limitation. The trailer must not be edited and or shown in anything but its entirety.
Tags: reflector, Night, ASTRONOMICAL, relativity
Love is more than just a word Most people believe we are our brother’s keeper. Few ever get involved. Most folks hate bigotry. Few ever confront it. Some Christians know that the roots of our faith are Jewish and that Jesus came as a Jew. Yet anti-Semitism and other hate spread like a cancer with much of the Christian Church either unaware or uninvolved in combating it – sometimes even aiding and abetting the purveyors of prejudice. And most of the Church knows there is a suffering world that Jesus died for, yet few burn with a passion to reach it. Time to get serious Here’s where Shalom comes in. In action since 1979, we’re serious followers of Jesus Christ who are not playing church and spiritual games. Frank Eiklor serves as Shalom’s president . Today Frank and the Shalom team are in action across America, Israel and the world. Outreach ranges from one-on-one evangelism and discipleship to preaching to the masses. No time for mere religion Eiklor’s many years of experience have made him a mentor to pastors and Christian leaders as well as a role model to young people around the globe. Team members assist in reaching those who are open and searching — and teaching practical discipleship to believers who yearn for meaning and reality in their Christian lives. Jesus (not “Christianity” or mere religion) is introduced in countries where believers today still suffer and die for their faith. The meaning of a name The Internet, literature, radio and TV, conferences and …
Tags: Eiklor, Frank, Shalom, www.shalomworldwide.org
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: Herschel, NASA, Planets, exoplanets
Hail Science!! Celebrating 400 years since Galileo first peered into the milky dark with the 2009 International Year of Astronomy. With images from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes. Find free space images at nasaimages.org The Chromatics’ “Shoulders of Giants” free download and lyrics available at: www.astrocappella.com Music and Lyrics by Padi Boyd © 2008, The Johannes Kepler Project It was a calm and cloudless night but it was all still a blur A shaking of our Universe was just about to occur It was Summertime… 1609 when Galileo used his telescope for the very first time and he saw mountains and craters on the moon and a Milky Way with thousands of stars and he saw Jupiter, with four tiny moons he was the only man on Earth that night who knew That Copernicus was right come outside with me tonight and I can show you wonders of the world to surprise and delight I’ve got my telescope with me just wait until you see that on the Shoulders of Giants…. … we’ll see beyond! The world turns round and round now around 400 years have flown since Galileo’s telescope first focused the unknown Now we use bigger glass to peer into the past And we’re discovering the Universe’s secrets at last And there are geysers on Saturn’s icy moon and planets circling hundreds of stars while all the Universe expands like a balloon from Galileo’s tiny scope we’ve come so far Galileo was right when he looked out in the night and he discovered wonders of the world to surprise and delight I …
Tags: Enceladus, Orbit, chromatics, Earth
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 …
Tags: astronomy, solar, milky, zoom
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
Tags: Hogg, teaching, john, astronomy
High-speed imaging of a test with Dextre from 2010.May.04 Credit:NASA
Tags: Dextre, International, Raumfahrt, video
Best educational channels: • www.atheism-magazine.com Best Atheist Experience clips & chat: • www.atheism-magazine.com Please subscribe to: • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com The Extreme Universe: Fermi Space Telescope (NASA GLASTcast 06 in HD). NASA Renames Observatory for Fermi, Reveals Entire Gamma-Ray Sky. NASA’s newest observatory, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, has begun its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays. The spacecraft and its revolutionary instruments passed their orbital checkout with flying colors. NASA announced today that GLAST has been renamed the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The new name honors Prof. Enrico Fermi (1901 – 1954), a pioneer in high-energy physics. “Enrico Fermi was the first person to suggest how cosmic particles could be accelerated to high speeds,” said Paul Hertz, chief scientist for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “His theory provides the foundation for understanding the new phenomena his namesake telescope will discover.” Scientists expect Fermi will discover many new pulsars in our own galaxy, reveal powerful processes near supermassive black holes at the cores of thousands of active galaxies and enable a search for signs of new physical laws. For two months following the spacecraft’s June 11 launch, scientists tested and calibrated its two instruments, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM). The LAT team today unveiled …
Tags: International, Extreme, Fermi, Black
Global warming is such a heated debate..haha. Some say it is here and we must act now to stop it, while others see it all as a natural phase or a way for some new world order to make even more money off of us all. While all sides waste time debating this, the wildlife conservation community are seeing some drastic effects on animal populations and their migrations as we speak. Wildlife works in ways we cant fully understand yet. And we are trashing the planet before we can get a chance to really get to know and learn from our animal neighbors. There are so many articles on how the climate change is hurting our resources. I used a lot of ocean references in showing our current pollution trends as the ocean covers much more of the planets surface than land. So if the ocean is getting messed up, just think what we are doing to the land or to the climate! Dont take my word, check out these interesting and informative articles for yourself. Polar Bears and mercury: www.sciencedaily.com Polar Bears International www.polarbearsinternational.org Lions and Polar Bears facing climate changes: news.mongabay.com Climate change & diseased frogs: amphibiaweb.org Save The Frogs www.savethefrogs.com Reports on the garbage dump in the ocean www.youtube.com www.youtube.com China Environment Center: www.facebook.com The National Resources Defense Council: www.nrdc.org World Population: en.wikipedia.org I love this planet and all the crazy people and wildlife on it. We must work and …
Tags: climático, bush, frog, Klimaveränderung