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Real World: How the Hubble Telescope Is Powered in Space

admin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:20:16 +0000

In this NASA eClips video segment learn how NASA uses light from the sun to make electricity in order to keep the Hubble Space Telescope powered in space. Learn how batteries store the energy needed to keep the Hubble powered when it is in orbit at night and how solar panels help keep it powered when it orbits in the light. Demonstrations using graphs and mathematical equations help explain what it takes to keep the Hubble powered while in orbit around the Earth.

Duration : 0:7:9

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NASA | Making Hubble More Powerful

admin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:20:11 +0000

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The Hubble Space Telescope would not be able to produce its breathtaking science without the upgraded infrastructure targeted during the HST SM4 mission: Fine Guidance Sensor, Scientific Instrument Command and Data Handling, Soft Capture Mechanism, Batteries, and New Outer Blanket Layers. Along with all new cameras, scientific instruments, the Hubble telescope will work better than it ever has in its lifetime.

For more info: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/series/Hubble_space_armor.html

Duration : 0:6:0

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Rebirth Of The Hubble Space Telescope

admin — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:07:36 +0000

Hubblecast 30: The Hubble Space Telescope – Rebirth of an icon.

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After more than three months of calibration and testing, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is re-opening its rejuvenated eyes to begin probing the Universe once again. Dr. J reveals the stunning new images and the fascinating science behind them.

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Credit:
• ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser, Colleen Sharkey & Lars Lindberg Christensen)
• Visual Design & Editing: Martin Kornmesser
• Animations: Martin Kornmesser & Greg Bacon (STScI)
• Web Technical Support: Lars Holm Nielsen, Raquel Yumi Shida
• Written by: Colleen Sharkey & Ivana Horvat
• Host: Dr. J (Joe Liske)
• Narration: Gaitee Hussain
• Cinematography: Peter Rixner
• Script: Lars Lindberg Christensen, Will Gater
• Music: movetwo & John Dyson from the CD Darklight
• STS-125 Footage: NASA
• Executive Producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen
• Directed by: Colleen Sharkey
• Acknowledgement: Ray Villard, Cheryl Gundy, Lisa Frattare, Zolt Levay and Donna Weaver

Dr. J is a German astronomer at the ESO. His scientific interests are in cosmology, particularly on galaxy evolution and quasars. Dr. J’s real name is Joe Liske and he has a PhD in astronomy.

Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre
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Duration : 0:10:33

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IBEX First Skymap Release

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:05:21 +0000

The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission science team has used data from NASA’s IBEX spacecraft to construct the first-ever all-sky map of the interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system, where the sun’s influence diminishes and interacts with the interstellar medium. The interstellar boundary region shields our solar system from most of the dangerous galactic cosmic radiation that would otherwise enter from interstellar space.

This visualization illustrates the IBEX satellite in Earth orbit (the orbit reaching almost as far as the orbit of the Moon) and pulls out to beyond the heliopause boundary (the true 3-D nature of the boundary is reduced to a 2-D spherical surface). The sphere with the skymap opens to reproject the data into a near-Aitoff type map projection.

The skymap shows the measured flux of energetic neutral atoms (ENAs).

This movie pulls out from the region of the IBEX spacecraft to beyond the heliopause, illustrating the region which is the source of the IBEX data.

Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Duration : 0:0:58

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Hubble Space Telescope Journey to Galaxies, Universe, Nebulas and Stars with the Sounds of Heaven

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:05:17 +0000

Music from THE SOUNDS OF HEAVEN by Rafael Brom
http://www.marianland.com/music04.html

Eagle Nebula, The Pleiades is one of the most famous open clusters. Table of all 110 Messier objects. A shorter exposure shows less nebulosity. A Spitzer image of the Pleiades in infrared light, showing the associated dust. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. A map of the Pleiades. Star Formation. LH 95 stellar nursery in Large Magellanic Cloud. The Orion Nebula. The Messier 80 globular cluster in the constellation. The giant elliptical galaxy ESO 325-G004. The Spindle Galaxy (NGC 5866), a lenticular galaxy in the Draco constellation. Credit:NASA/ESA. Milky Way Galaxy. the spiral structure of the Milky Way. NGC 1300, viewed nearly face-on. Hubble Space Telescope image. The Sculptor Galaxy. A Hubble Space Telescope (HST) close up view of NGC 253. Credit: HST/NASA/ESA. Florida, USA, taken from NASA Shuttle Mission STS-95 on October 31, 1998. The Antennae Galaxies. Starburst activity in the central region of nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 1569. I Zw 18. Irregular Galaxy IC 10. Large Magellanic Cloud. LH 95 stellar nursery in Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA/ESA. NGC 1705. Palomar 12, believed to have been captured from the Sag DEG about 1.7 Gya. SagDIG. Sextans A. Small Magellanic Cloud. Coma Cluster. NGC 1427A, an example of an irregular galaxy about 52 Mly distant. NGC 604 in the Triangulum Galaxy. Andromeda Galaxy. The Andromeda Galaxy seen in infrared by the Spitzer Space Telescope, one of NASA’s four Great Space Observatories. Image of Andromeda Galaxy (M31) taken by Spitzer in infrared, 24 micrometres (Credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Gordon (University of Arizona). As viewed from our position 12.2 billion light years away, the Baby Boom Galaxy is seen to be creating 4000 stars per year. Credit: NASA. Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy IRAS 19297-0406. supermassive black hole & accretion disk. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. black hole and a main sequence star. Sagittarius A* The Galactic Center as seen by one of the 2MASS infrared telescopes. NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 17,000 parsecs in diameter and approximately 20 million parsecs distant. The Sombrero Galaxy, an example of an unbarred spiral galaxy. M82, the archetype starburst galaxy. I Zwicky 18 (lower left) resembles a newly formed galaxy. Seyfert’s Sextet is an example of a compact galaxy group. Strong gravitational lensing as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope in Abell 1689 indicates the presence of dark matter – Enlarge the image to see the lensing arcs. The galaxies of HCG 87, about four hundred million light-years distant. “Panoramic view of the entire near-infrared sky reveals the distribution of galaxies beyond the Milky Way. An artist’s impression of a growing quasar. Hubble Space Telescope image of nebula M1-67 around Wolf-Rayet star WR 124. SN 1994D in the NGC 4526 galaxy. This composite image shows X-ray (blue) and optical (red) radiation from the Crab Nebula’s core region. Supernova remnant N 63A. Hoag’s Object, a ring galaxy. The Circinus Galaxy, a Seyfert 2 galaxy. Messier 82. NGC 3314. Messier 81. An infrared image of Messier 81 taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Mayall’s Object. Sunflower Galaxy. Tadpole Galaxy. Whirlpool Galaxy. Arp 220. Circinus Galaxy. A Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the dust disk in front of the nucleus of Centaurus A. Credit: HST/NASA/ESA. The full disk by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Hubble telescope image known as pillars of creation, where stars are forming in the Eagle Nebula. Planetary nebulae, here represented by the Ring Nebula, are examples of emission nebulae. Hourglass Nebula. Optical images reveal clouds of gas and dust in the Orion Nebula. This view is about 2. Infant stars. Trifid Nebula. Veil nebula. M78. IC 2118. Horsehead Nebula. Zeta Orionis Aa/Ab/B. Crab Nebula. Remnant of Tycho’s Nova, SN 1572. Detail of Hubble image. Courtesy of NASA/ESA. SL9 (Shoemaker-Levy). Brown spots mark impact sites on Jupiter’s southern hemisphere. A reddish, asymmetric ejecta pattern. Planet Fomalhaut b (inset against Fomalhaut’s interplanetary dust cloud) imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope’s coronagraph (NASA photo. the planet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb . An artist’s conception of extrasolar planet HD 189733 b. rtist’s impression of the pulsar planet PSR B1620-26. A WFPC2 image of a small region of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Tarantula Nebula.

Duration : 0:7:30

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Near Earth Objects and Planetary Defence – Part 1 of 4

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:05:14 +0000

Near Earth Objects and Planetary Defence is a volunteer made documentary about the current issues surrounding defending the Earth from Asteroid and Comet impacts.

Scientists and Astronomers have long worried about the potential devastation that an impact from space could cause, but recently Engineers have been designing realistic missions to stop these natural disasters.

In this documentary, International Experts give their opinions on how to plan, pay for, build and safely execute a mission to stop an Asteroid or Comet.

The complete documentary playlist is here –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68yuWYNztM&feature=PlayList&p=DC5F91F6EAD53191&index=0&playnext=1

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All the views expressed by the interviewees are their own opinions and not necessarily that of their organisations.

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Directed by Andrew Bacon
Edited by Gavin Childs
Narrated by Ryan Anderson

Interviews conducted by Andrew Bacon and Tejal Thakore at 2009 Planetary Defence Conference

Animations by
Shiblee Imtiaz Hasan
and Jeffrey Rivera

Korean Translation by
Yeongju Kim

Music by DoKashiteru
http://ccmixter.org/people/DoKashiteru

All original content published under the Creative Commons 3.0 Share-Alike License

Content that must not be adapted or republished without permission from the copyright holder:
Space Generation Advisory Council Logo
Spaceworks Engineering Ltd Images

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FURTHER INFORMATION

SGAC Projects on Near Earth Objects
http://www.spacegeneration.org/node/1138

B612 Foundation
http://www.b612foundation.org

Secure World Foundation
http://www.secureworldfoundation.org

The Planetary Society
http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/near_earth_objects/

NASA/JPL Near Earth Object Program
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov

Duration : 0:8:57

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“Hubble 3-D”, Tech Trek and Scientist “Lives with a Star” on This Week @ NASA

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:05:11 +0000

Plus, the shuttle crew and support teams are on target for launch; and, what they talked about at Goddard’s Space Symposium.

Duration : 0:6:43

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See The Birth Of A Solar System

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:05:08 +0000

The Hubble Space Telescop delivers something rare to the human eye: the formation of a solar system.

Duration : 0:2:51

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Hubble Success Chronicled By IMAX in 3-D

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:21:14 +0000

The final space shuttle mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope is the subject of a new IMAX film. Narrated by Leonardo Di Caprio, “Hubble 3-D” was premiered during a special event held at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. The movie features the NASA astronauts from STS-125 who serviced Hubble in May 2009; an IMAX 3D camera mounted in space shuttle Atlantis’ payload bay filmed their progress.

Duration : 0:1:52

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Behind the Scenes: When Galaxies Collide (Felicia Day, Sean Astin)

admin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:23:28 +0000

Felicia Day explains some of the science behind galactic “collisions,” including the upcoming collision between the galaxy Andromeda and our own galaxy, in this mock behind-the-scenes look at the making of a NASA educational video. Starring Felicia Day (”The Guild,” “Do You Wanna Date My Avatar”) and Sean Astin (”Lord of the Rings” Trilogy, “Special Agent Oso”).

To view more comedic (but educational!) NASA videos featuring Sean Astin, Mark Hamill, Linda Hamilton, Dean Stockwell, George Takei, Ed Wasser, Betty White and more, visit:

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/videos/irrelevant

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope

Duration : 0:10:0

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