Purchase: http://hilaroad.com/video/ This video demonstrates how to find the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). This galaxy is 2.5 million light years from earth but with some basic knowledge of the night sky and a pair of binoculars it is actually possible to see it! The video is designed for anyone interested in astronomy and it also provides support for the astronomy component of any science curriculum.
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The video starts looking at Pluto’s moon, Charon, and it visits all the planets of our solar system, including Earth. Then we move 100 light years away to circle the Sun, away again to 15.000 light years, travelling outside the galaxy, to finally travel 500.000 light years away from it.
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Second in the series with an inderterminate number of parts.
Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot tells us a lot more about our place in the Cosmos than any creation myth cooked up by men. The reality of how stars and worlds are born makes the primitive explanations of our ancestors pale in comparison. The fact that no scripture holds a description of the creation of the Earth that comes even vaguely close to the reality we have discovered speaks volumes as the origins of these texts. They do not contain the facts because the facts are beyond the comprehension and imagination of the human brain.
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Discover main extrasolar planet types, while enjoying artistic concepts based on the data available for them.
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/26/Ian_Morison_400_Years_of_the_Telescope
Gresham Professor of Astronomy Ian Morison discusses some of the most memorable images from NASA’s nearly 20-year-old Hubble Space Telescope.
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A lecture to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first use of a telescope to observe the heavens by Galileo Galilei in 1609.
The lecture charts the development of optical telescopes since then, the subtle ideas that are greatly improving their performance and how they are bringing ever-further parts of the universe within our reach. – Gresham College
Ian Morison – Gresham Professor of Astronomy Ian Morison made his first telescope at the age of 12 with lenses given to him by his optician. Having studied Physics, Maths and Astronomy at Oxford, he became a radio astronomer at the Jodrell Bank Observatory and teaches Astronomy and Cosmology at the University of Manchester.
Over 25 years he has also taught Observational Astronomy to many hundreds of adult students in the North West of England. An active amateur optical astronomer, he is a council member and past president of the Society for Popular Astronomy in the United Kingdom.
At Jodrell Bank he was a designer of the 217 KM MERLIN array and has coordinated the Project Phoenix SETI Observations using the Lovell Radio Telescope. He contributes astronomy articles and reviews for New Scientist and Astronomy Now, and produces a monthly sky guide on the Observatory’s website.
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Part 9 in a series of videos produced by the ESA for public distribution about the Hubble Space Telescope and much more.
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Part 6 in a series of videos produced by the ESA for public distribution about the Hubble Space Telescope and much more.
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Part 9 1/2 in a series of videos produced by the ESA for public distribution about the Hubble Space Telescope and much more.
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Save The Hubble!
space pictures from the improved hubble telescope