Carl Sagan explains Kepler’s laws of planetary motion.
Clip from COSMOS: A Personal Journey.
Duration : 0:5:53
Carl Sagan: Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion
Solar System POV-Ray Animation
Finished animation for a school project. The Solar System.
Note: Celestial bodies’ sizes, distances and speeds are not realistic.
There are stars in the background but the compression erased them so they are not really visible.
Music is:
Grains of Sound – “Siamese Twilight”
from the Rays of Life album,
http://www.GrainsOfSound.net/,
Produced/composed: Jason Sevanick & Chris Sevanick,
(C)2007 AlterCulture Records
Texture maps are from:
http://planetpixelemporium.com/
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Duration : 0:1:16
Planet Earth Solar System – Milky Way Galaxy Orion Nebula…
View NASA images of earth, her solar system of planets, the moon and sun. Awesome nebulae and galaxies in our universe including: The Andromeda Galaxy, Milky Way Galaxy, Galaxia Sombrero Galaxy, Planets and Asteroids Circling Two Suns, Magellanic Clouds, Cygnus Loop, Eagle Nebula, Horsehead Nebula, The Orion Nebula, The Helix Nebula, The Alnitak Region of the Orion Nebula. See NASA photos of The Sun, The Moon, The Planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
Duration : 0:2:39
New Planetary Systems In The Orion Nebula
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.
Learn more: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0917.html
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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.
Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre
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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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Duration : 0:6:15
Hubble Space Telescope Directly Observes Exoplanet
Hubblecast 22: Hubble Space Telescope Directly Observes Exoplanet Orbiting Fomalhaut.
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.
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Credit:
- ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
- Visual design & Editing: Martin Kornmesser
- Animations: Martin Kornmesser & Luis Calçada
- Web Hosting: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ)
- Web Technical Support: Lars Holm Nielsen & Raquel Yumi Shida
- Written by: Lee Pullen & Lars Lindberg Christensen
- Host: Dr. J
- Narration: Bob Fosbury
- Cinematography: Peter Rixner
- Music: movetwo
- Footage and photos: A. Fujii, Digitized Sky Survey 2, NASA, ESA, and P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley). Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
- Directed by: Lars Lindberg Christensen
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
Garching/Munich, Germany
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Duration : 0:5:2
4of5 Complete Cosmos-Secrets of The Solar System
ALL 5 PARTS OF: Complete Cosmos-Secrets of The Solar System, http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E13C44C103D8427D
A journey through the Solar System. A documentary on the 8 Planets of our Solar System (9 if you still count Pluto) Detailed descriptions of each of the planets including what each Planet is made of and other interesting facts.
Duration : 0:9:0
The Solar System
See all the planets in our solar system and fly inside a comet.
Duration : 0:1:27
Space School- Solar System
Scientists are still discovering hidden objects in the 7 billion mile long region of space we call home.
Duration : 0:4:20
Hubble Space Telescope – Chapter 7
Part 7 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
Duration : 0:6:9
Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler and Planetary Motion (1 of 2)
An episode of “Great Moments in Science and Technology”
Duration : 0:9:48