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Unmoderated Tag: Science Rating: Ok Hits: 55 Comments: 0 Living Universe Living Universe This is designed to showcase the power of today's technologies, which provides the ability to take incredibly huge and distant objects and bring them close enough and small enough for humans to study. Or to take the incredibly small and exquisitely complex aspects of life and make them big enough and static enough for humans to explore. But at its core, it is just an amateur's exploration of the beauties of the living universe ... every day I learn something new about the nature of life in the universe and the mystery just ... deepens. These images are from the Hubble Space Telescope, Molecular Probes Inc. and other bio sites on the web. The music is The River by Enya User: Curtius Apr 8, 2013 4:57 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Science Rating: Stinker Hits: 98 Comments: 0 Most Awesome Space Pics of 2012 Most Awesome Space Pics of 2012 From Universe Today, the most spectacular space images of 2012 highlighting images from the International Space Station, Curiosity rover, Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, European Southern Observatory, Cassini and more. User: spam_vigilante Jan 3, 2013 11:31 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Science Rating: Bad Hits: 165 Comments: 0 Hubble’s Hidden Treasures Hubble’s Hidden Treasures Having more than one million observations ever since the Hubble Space Telescope has been launched, quite a lot of its most wonderful photos haven't been viewed previously by any person, until recently. User: saxsax Aug 24, 2012 2:59 AM
Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Good Hits: 650 Comments: 1 Advantage of being Awestruck Advantage of being Awestruck This video was created by @Jason_Silva and shot and edited with my friends at Bravo Media, and is non-commercial and for educational and inspirational purposes only. Full credits and clip attributions can be found below. This video was inspired by three big ideas: 1) The ideas of psychologist Nicholas Humphrey who has written of "THE BIOLOGICAL ADVANTAGE OF BEING AWESTRUCK". Basically, our ability to awe was biologically selected for by evolution because it imbues our lives with sense of cosmic significance that has resulted in a species that works harder not just to survive but to flourish and thrive... 2) The Stanford study that found that AWE is clinically good for you, expanding perception of time, increasing compassion and empathy and promoting well being: More: theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/study-awe-inspiring-experiences-change-our-perception-of-time/260138/ 3) Ross Andersen's rapturous meditation on the ontological awakening of our psyches provided by the Hubble Space Telescope: "At first glancing the Deep FIELD “one might mistake it for gemstones scattered across black velvet, but a closer look reveals that each smudge of light, 2,600 in all, is a galaxy dense with billions of star-fired worlds, pinwheeling in deep time. … To that point, astronomy had imaged objects only four billion light years away, and poorly at that. Here a telescope reached 11 and a half billion light years into space and delivered an image legible to the layman: an unprecedented expansion of human vision." User: Schmoke_a_da_pancake Aug 13, 2012 1:24 AM
Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Good Hits: 348 Comments: 0 Hubbles Universe Unfiltered: Deep Universe Hubbles Universe Unfiltered: Deep Universe Take a look at some of the most distant galaxies Hubble has ever seen, and find out why, when we look at the most distant objects in the universe, we are also seeing the cosmos' earliest objects. Episode 16, RT 31:24. User: spam_vigilante Jul 22, 2012 5:11 AM
Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Good Hits: 452 Comments: 0 Violent Stellar Flare Causes Drama Violent Stellar Flare Causes Drama Hubblecast 56: Dramatic Change Spotted on a Faraway Planet. In this episode of the Hubblecast, Dr J (aka Dr Joe Liske) presents the latest discovery about HD 189733b, an exoplanet that has been repeatedly studied by Hubble. Observations taken in 2011 using Hubble and the Swift satellite showed a flare from the planet's parent star scorching the upper atmosphere and driving it off into space. This is the first time that clear change has been observed in an exoplanet's atmosphere. The observations give a tantalising glimpse of changing weather on planets outside our Solar System. User: spam_vigilante Jun 29, 2012 3:30 PM
Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Good Hits: 369 Comments: 0 The Golden Touch: Behind the Webb The Golden Touch: Behind the Webb The Webb Telescope's mirrors are coated in an extremely thin film of gold. This gold layer, only a few millionths of an inch thick, enables the mirrors to best reflect the infrared light the telescope seeks. The thinner the layer, the better off the telescope will be -- every bit of weight counts when a telescope as big as Webb is being lifted into space by a rocket. Join us at Quantum Coating in New Jersey, where engineers are vaporizing gold to apply a thin, even layer to the telescope's mirrors. "Behind the Webb" is an ongoing series that follows the construction of the Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's successor. User: spam_vigilante Jun 17, 2012 12:47 PM
Headline Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 1590 Comments: 18 Milky Way vs Andromeda as Seen from Earth Milky Way vs Andromeda as Seen from Earth From HubbleCast. Scientists have been using Hubble observations to predict the future of the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way, and how the collision will look from Earth. Projecting the motion of Andromeda's stars over the next 8 billion years, the astronomers now know the path that galaxy is taking through space. And it's heading straight for us! Computer simulations based on Hubble observations show how the two galaxies will crash together in around 4 billion years' time. The Andromeda Galaxy, some 2.2 million light-years away, is the closest spiral galaxy to our home, the Milky Way. For around a century, astronomers have known it is moving towards us, but whether or not the two galaxies would actually collide, or simply fly past each other, remained unclear. Now, a team of astronomers has used the Hubble Space Telescope to shed light on this question, by looking at the motion stars in the Andromeda Galaxy. We wanted to figure out how Andromeda was moving through space. So in order to do that we measured the location of the Andromeda stars relative to the background galaxies. In 2002 they were in one place, and in 2010 they were in a slightly different place. And that allowed us to measure the motion over a period of eight years. The motion is actually incredibly subtle, and not obvious to the human eye, even when looking at Hubble's sharp images. However, sophisticated image analysis revealed tiny movements that the scientists were able to project into the future. Based on these findings, it is finally possible to show what will happen to the Milky Way over the next eight billion years, as the galaxies drift closer, then collide and gradually merge into a single, larger, elliptical galaxy with reddish stars. And yet the Solar System should in fact survive this huge crash. The reason we think that our Solar System will not be much affected by this collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda is that galaxies are mostly empty space. Even though our galaxy, as well as the Andromeda Galaxy, has a hundred billion stars in it, they are very far apart. So if two galaxies actually collide with each other, the stars basically pass right between each other and the chance of two stars directly hitting each other is really, really small. So the likelihood that our Solar System will be directly impacted by another star, for example, in Andromeda as we collide with it is really, really small. Well, if life is still present on Earth when this happens, the changes in the sky will be quite spectacular. Now they will be very very slow because the timescales on the scales of galaxies in the Universe are very very long. So you have to think, millions of years but even then over these timescales over millions of years, we will see big changes. If we wait a few billion years, Andromeda will be huge on the sky. It will be as big as our Milky Way because we'll be very close to it. And then later, when the galaxies merge, the merged remnant of the Milky Way Galaxy and Andromeda will look more like an elliptical galaxy and we'll be sitting right in it. So the view of the Milky Way on the night sky will be completely gone and this band of light will be replaced by a more spheroidal distribution of light. And so, the Sun, born in the Milky Way almost 5 billion years ago will end its life in a new orbit, as part of a new galaxy. User: spam_vigilante Jun 5, 2012 12:33 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Music Rating: No Votes Hits: 200 Comments: 0 Today in History for April 25Th Today in History for April 25Th Highlights of this day in history: Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi born; 'America' first used on a world map; U.S. and Soviet troops meet in World War II; The Hubble Space Telescope deployed into orbit; Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald born. (April 25) Apr 24, 2012 11:03 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Science Rating: No Votes Hits: 325 Comments: 0 The Feynman Series - The Key To Science The Feynman Series - The Key To Science The Key to Science - Part 4 of the Feynman Series by Reid Gower. This piece features his sister, Joan Feynman. Beauty - http://mcooki.es/270088 Honors - http://mcooki.es/270089 Curiosity - http://mcooki.es/270090 User: loqi Apr 3, 2012 2:47 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Science Rating: No Votes Hits: 230 Comments: 0 Burrito Making in Space! Burrito Making in Space! One of my fav scenes from the recent Hubble Telescope movie. This clip obviously does not belong to me! I just wanted to share this very short clip of an astronaut eating a burrito in space. There's no crime in that! Mar 21, 2012 10:56 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 1675 Comments: 1 Neil deGrasse Tyson: We Stopped Dreaming Neil deGrasse Tyson: We Stopped Dreaming (Episode One) Inspired by the acclaimed “Sagan Series,” Evan Schurr pieced together powerful statements made by world-renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson that serve as an alarming wake up call to a nation that has stopped dreaming and underfunded tomorrow. User: spam_vigilante Mar 11, 2012 12:51 AM
Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Good Hits: 443 Comments: 0 The Spectacle of Star Death The Spectacle of Star Death Take a breathtaking journey into the future, five billion years from now, to see the ultimate fate of the Solar System. This gem from HubbleCast showcases stunning Hubble imagery of the death throes of Sun-like stars. The wreckage of these dying stars form the building blocks of new generations of stars. User: spam_vigilante Jan 22, 2012 9:26 AM
Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 503 Comments: 0 Destiny in Space IMAX, BluRay, 720p Destiny in Space IMAX, BluRay, 720p This eye-opening IMAX program is filmed from a satellite in outer space. From there, the viewer can see the space shuttle as it orbits the earth, and accompany the astronauts as they embark on the dangerous mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Then the satellite moves farther out, and travels to Mars and Venus, offering breathtaking shots of the two planets and their unusual features. Even further into deep space, there are new planets to explore, as well as the exciting possibility that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Release Date: January 1, 1993.Rated: NR.Runtime: 40 min. User: spam_vigilante Dec 19, 2011 11:48 AM
Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Good Hits: 1306 Comments: 2 Kiss Hubble Goodbye Kiss Hubble Goodbye A slide show with some great background music of the best of the Hubble Telescope. User: spam_vigilante Jan 20, 2004 3:10 PM
 
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