Saturn with the Hubble telescope 2

Posted by admin on March 6th, 2010 and filed under hubble telescope | 25 Comments »

A movie from the Hubble telescope

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MPL3D Solar System Tour 1

Posted by admin on March 6th, 2010 and filed under solarsystem | 25 Comments »

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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Hubble Views Saturn’s Northern/Southern Lights [HD]

Posted by admin on February 19th, 2010 and filed under hubble | 21 Comments »

In January and March 2009, Hubble took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings are edge-on, resulting in a unique movie featuring both of the giant planet’s poles. Saturn is only in this position every 15 years and this favourable orientation has allowed a sustained study of Saturn’s almost symmetric northern and southern lights. At the same time Saturn was approaching its equinox so both poles were equally illuminated by the Sun’s rays.

These recent observations have allowed researchers to monitor the behaviour of both Saturn’s poles in the same shot over a sustained period of time and to study the planet’s northern and southern aurorae simultaneously. Given the rarity of such an event, this new footage will likely be the last and best equinox movie that Hubble captures of our planetary neighbour. Besides the double aurora show, the movie also features an added bonus, as some of Saturn’s moons, or satellites, are seen passing the disc of their parent planet.

credit: NASA, ESA and Jonathan Nichols (University of Leicester)

source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/html/heic1003b.html

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Planet Earth Solar System – Milky Way Galaxy Orion Nebula…

Posted by admin on February 16th, 2010 and filed under solarsystem | 16 Comments »

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.

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1of 5 — Hubble And Beyond – Telescope in Space

Posted by admin on January 30th, 2010 and filed under hubble | 5 Comments »

All 5 Parts of Hubble And Beyond – Telescope in Space
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A5555EF116D45358

Original Air Date 2005 — We search the night sky wondering what lies out there but our telescopes could only take us so far. As far as the light of the universe has traveled to reach us its way is blocked in its finale mile by the blurring effect by our atmosphere. Astronomers realized to capture the pristine light of the universe they would need to put a telescope into outer space. For fifteen years the Hubble Space Telescope has been capturing breath taking images of Stars, Galaxies, Nebulas and more. But after fifteen years in space the light from the fabled telescope is now fading. The question before NASA and the public can Hubble be fixed by robots or will it take a daring rescue in space. Is Hubbles cosmic rein now coming to and end?

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MPL3D Solar System – Extrasolar planets

Posted by admin on January 30th, 2010 and filed under solarsystem | 25 Comments »

Discover main extrasolar planet types, while enjoying artistic concepts based on the data available for them.

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Bad Astronomy: Hubble’s Hotties

Posted by admin on January 16th, 2010 and filed under hubble | 11 Comments »

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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(HD) Hubble Space Telescope Photo’s 2009 NASA

Posted by admin on January 7th, 2010 and filed under hubble | 2 Comments »

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.

Duration : 0:9:35

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AstronomyBuff #2: Stellarium and Planetary Alignment 6/30/07

Posted by admin on November 27th, 2009 and filed under planetary | 14 Comments »

There is a cool planetary alignment this Saturday, June 30th. I wanted to play with Stellarium and my new screen grabber software to produce a ‘planetarium-style’ presentation.

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Hubble Space Telescope – Chapter 2

Posted by admin on October 27th, 2009 and filed under hubble | 25 Comments »

Part 2 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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