Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
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: astrobiology, relativity, universe, galaxy
How often do you get to see the moon this close up?? This is some footage I got last night, 9/8/08 of the moon. My Nexstar 8 telescope was magnifying the moon 120x, allowing the craters of the Northeastern and southeastern quadrants of the moon to be seen in detail. There was a cloud in front of the moon, however, I was still able to get some good shots. Some sections of the video are actually more than 120X, since I also used the zoom on the camera. Knowing that, there may have been segments of the video where the moon was around 200-250X (~2X zoom on camera). Sorry for the shakiness, but the mechanism for moving the telescope has a small amount of vibration and it’s difficult to use a digital camera in this way. Hope you enjoy! Please let me know what you think and leave a comment or question under Video Comments! Also Rate the video if you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching Across the Universe Eclipse Galaxy solar system star jupiter saturn rings sun science Beatles Cluster Nebula orion amazing crazy spore game creature creator fun telescopes science nature astronomy star charts sky
Tags: GPS, Hubble, astronomy, alien
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: colliding, images, science, 243
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
Tags: VY, APOD, astronomy, Nebula
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.
Tags: stars, astronomy, Exoplanet, dr.
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: the, gigagalaxy, Sky, ESO
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: 15, Exploration, Helen, Cleveland
Look for yourself! A short guide to constellations and other impressive deep space objects that hubble has managed to spot!
Tags: milky, Earth, astronaut, red
Created with a single image. Image credit: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Tags: spiral, elements, merkur, Mars