Guest lecturer Dr. Geoff Marcy gives a lecture entitled, “Planetary Systems Around other Stars,” for Professor Lynn Rothschild’s Astrobiology and Space Exploration course.
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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.
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Volume two of the greatest high-resolution Hubble images. Set to Chopin.
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A scientist maps out the future for our galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy. What will happen when the two galaxies collide in 2 billion years? Check out this video from BBC science show ‘Super Massive Black Holes’ to find out more.
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A short video describing the contributions of Frank Summers and colleagues at the Space Telescope Science Institute to the new IMAX film “Hubble 3D.” The Hubble images are stunningly presented, and so are simulations and data animations contributed by the Advanced Visualization Lab, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, U. of Illinois.
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A little song about the universe and how insignifcant we are, and livers. from the film ‘The meaning of life’.
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Music from THE SOUNDS OF HEAVEN by Rafael Brom
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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.
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Gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132 – a cosmic fossil?
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the galaxy NGC 1132 which is, most likely, a cosmic fossil — the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up, where the carnage of collision after collision has built up a brilliant but fuzzy giant elliptical galaxy far outshining typical galaxies. The elliptical galaxy NGC 1132, seen in this latest image from Hubble, belongs to a category of galaxies called giant ellipticals. NGC 1132, together with the small dwarf galaxies surrounding it, are dubbed a “fossil group” as they are most likely the remains of a group of galaxies that merged together in the recent past.
In visible light NGC 1132 appears as a single, isolated, giant elliptical galaxy, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. Scientists have found that NGC 1132 resides in an enormous halo of dark matter, comparable to the amount of dark matter usually found in an entire group of tens or hundreds of galaxies. It also has a strong X-ray glow from an abundant amount of hot gas — an amount normally only found in galaxy groups. Its X-ray glow extends over a region of space ten times larger than the 120,000 light-year radius it has in visible light. An X-ray glow that is equal in size to that of an entire group of galaxies.
NGC 1132 is located approximately 320 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus, the River. This image of NGC 1132 was taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. Data obtained in 2005 and 2006 through green and near-infrared filters were used to produce a color composite.
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Spectacular new images from distant space that you must see to believe. The revolutionary Hubble Space Telescope will continue to open our eyes to the universe.
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