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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Hubblecast 32: Born in Beauty – Proplyds in the Orion Nebula.
Visible to the naked eye, only 1500 light-years from Earth, the great Orion Nebula has been known and revered since ancient times.
A popular target of Hubble, researchers have now identified 42 new discs within it that could be the beginnings of new planetary systems like our own.
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14-Dec-2009: A collection of 30 never-before-released images of embryonic planetary systems in the Orion Nebula are the highlight of the longest single Hubble Space Telescope project ever dedicated to the topic of star and planet formation.
Also known as proplyds, or protoplanetary discs, these modest blobs surrounding baby stars are shedding light on the mechanism behind planet formation. Only the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with its high resolution and sensitivity, can take such detailed pictures of circumstellar discs at optical wavelengths.
Looking like a graceful watercolour painting, the Orion Nebula is one of the most photogenic objects in space and one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s favourite targets. As newborn stars emerge from the nebula’s mixture of gas and dust, protoplanetary discs, also known as proplyds, form around them: the centre of the spinning disc heats up and becomes a new star, but remnants around the outskirts of the disc attract other bits of dust and clump together.
Proplyds are thought to be young planetary systems in the making. In an ambitious survey of the familiar nebula using Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), researchers have discovered 42 protoplanetary discs.
Visible to the naked eye, the Orion Nebula has been known since ancient times, but was first described in the early 17th century by the French astronomer Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc — who is given credit for discovering it. At 1500 light-years away, the nebula, also known as Messier 42, is the closest star-forming region to Earth with stars massive enough to heat up the surrounding gas, setting it ablaze with colour, and making the region stand out to stargazers.
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Hubblecast features news and Images from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
The space-based observatory is a collaboration between NASA and ESA. The observations are carried out in visible, infrared and ultraviolet light. In many ways Hubble has revolutionised modern astronomy.
The Hubble Space Telescope has made some of the most dramatic discoveries in the history of astronomy. From its vantage point 600 km above the Earth, Hubble can detect light with “eyes” five times sharper than the best ground-based telescopes and looks deep into space where some of the most profound mysteries are still buried in the mists of time.
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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.
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Reissued in HD. Bad Astronomer Phil Plait explores his favorite images from the early days of Hubble. Visit Phil on http://www.badastronomy.com. His amazing book “Death from the Skies” is now available in paperback via Amazon.com.
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Awesome Stunning Images of the Universe Hubble Heritage project
music: The Far River artist: Jonn Serrie relax and enjoy ….
PLEASE NOTE: The photos used in this video is the property of the respective owners. All photos property of NASA.
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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.
This video is Copyright Free material with some restrictions.
Find out more at: http://www.spacetelescope.org
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Designed to cause reflection and deep thought, this video & instrumental take the viewer on a journey past a fictional planet.
By Praylu Productions
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Ultra high-res images from some of Hubble’s recent turns around the universe.
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This is an edited version of Part 4 from the Hubble series. A small cut from the beginning and 2 minutes off the end are missing. However, for the most part, this video is worth watching. If you would like to have the full version, please visit spacetelescope.org and search the video archives.
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“Le ciel étoilé est une des plus grandes merveilles de la nature. Mais il y a différentes manières de regarder les étoiles. Vous pouvez prendre une carte du ciel et un livre dastronomie qui expose en détail tout ce que lon sait sur les astres et les planètes. Cest certainement très utile pour votre compréhension de lunivers. Mais quest-ce que tout cela apportera à votre âme et à votre esprit ?
Et surtout quelle différence avec les expériences que vous pouvez faire en contemplant le ciel étoilé sans autre préoccupation que de vous fondre dans cette immensité ! La paix dont vous êtes peu à peu envahi vous soulève, vous navez plus que le désir de vous arracher à la terre, de vous transporter très loin dans lespace afin dentrer en relation avec les entités spirituelles dont les astres sont les manifestations physiques. Dans ces régions où vous vous trouvez projeté, vous sentez que rien nest plus important que de vous unir à lEsprit cosmique, de vous laisser pénétrer par lui, afin de parvenir à la véritable compréhension des choses, une compréhension qui imprègne toutes vos cellules.”
- Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
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space pictures from the improved hubble telescope