how do we know what air is like on other planets
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how do we know what the air is like on planets we haven039t visited this video explains how to see air from 150 light years awaythanks to nasas james webb space telescope project at the space telescope science institute for supporting this videolink to patreon supporters here: wwwminutephysicscomsupportershtmlif you want to learn more about how we detect transiting exoplanet atmospheres via emission or absorption spectroscopy here039s sara seagers website:http:seagerexoplanetsmiteduresearchhtmwe know the atmospheric composition of jupiter europa etc but how do we know the atmospheres of places we can039t gomusic by nathaniel schroeder http:wwwsoundcloudcomdrschroeder minutephysics is on google - http:bitlyqzewc6 and facebook - http:facebookcomminutephysicsand twitter - minutephysicsminute physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute

apollo: the alignment optical telescope
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bill describes the alignment optical telescope used in the lunar module on the apollo missions to the moon this telescope took star sightings which were used to align the module039s guidance system bill shows how the telescope used an archimedes spiral inscribed on its eyepiece to replace the heavy motors worm gears and rigid tracks used in a traditional sextant -- this shaved weight from the lunar module and allowed it to carry more fuelyou can bundle watch bill039s videos using this playlist: https:wwwyoutubecomplaylistlist=pl0insttu1k2uo-2-awomfmas4nuzu9ht3if you are interested in mechanical computers you039ll likely enjoy his series on albert michelson039s harmonic analyzer -- a 19th century machine that calculates fourier transforms:https:wwwyoutubecomplaylistlist=pl0insttu1k2uyo9mck-i5hnqgnw5aeewq

how the arecibo telescope could help save the world
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the radio telescope at the arecibo observatory in puerto rico can do something that most radio telescopes can039t: it can transmit and that039s useful for something other than sending messages to the stars: it might just help save the world one daymore about the arecibo observatory: http:wwwnaicedubehind the scenes including helmet-cam footage of the walk to the telescope over on the park bench: https:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=qzawqk-wrzccamera and audio mix: matt gray http:mattgcoukanimation: mat hill https:mat-hillgithubioedited by: michelle martin mrsmmartini039m at http:tomscottcomon twitter at http:twittercomtomscotton facebook at http:facebookcomtomscottand on snapchat and instagram as tomscottgo

hubble sees a star 039inflating039 a giant bubble
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a zoom into the hubble space telescope photograph of an enormous balloon-like bubble being blown into space by a super-hot massive star astronomers trained the iconic telescope on this colorful feature called the bubble nebula or ngc 7635 credit: nasa esa and the hubble heritage team stsciaura f summers g bacon z levay and l frattare viz 3d team stsci

the telescope with 24 eyes - backstage science
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a new telescope instrument called kmos will use 24 tiny quotpick offquot mirrors to look at individual galaxies it039s being built in scotland but will soon be fitted to the side of one of the giant telescopes at the vlt in chilenote to clarify the introduction the infrared detectors within kmos form part of the overall instrumentkmos is being built at the united kingdom astronomy technology centre

lightning from 330 miles up
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comedy ensues when capcom story musgrave asks pilot charlie bolden about the camcorder039s reflections while watching the limb of the earth and lightning during sts-31 the first hubble telescope mission

building the largest space telescope ever
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in a global collaboration between nasa esa and csa a team of more than a thousand scientists and engineers are building the largest telescope ever sent into spacethe james webb space telescope bigger and more powerful than its famous predecessor the hubble space telescope the webb telescope will be able to observe some of the earliest light that ever existed in the universe and possibly find clues to where we came fromlearn more about what039s next for the webb telescope:http:newsnationalgeographiccomnews201402140204-nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-top-sciencevideographers: jason kurtis and kathryn carlsonproducer: jason kurtiseditor: jennifer murphyadditional video ampamp animations: nasagoddard space flight center and advanced visualization laboratory at nsca

capturing saturn - sixty symbols
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we meet australian astronomy photographer paul haese at clayton bay near adelaide see paul039s work at http:paulhaesenethe was recently named runner-up in the solar system category of astronomy photographer of the year for an image he captured of saturn you can also see the winner at http:wwwnmmacukvisitexhibitionsastronomy-photographer-of-the-yearwinners-2011our-solar-systemvisit our website at http:wwwsixtysymbolscomwe039re on facebook at http:wwwfacebookcomsixtysymbolsand twitter at http:twittercomperiodicvideos

the us town with no cell phones or wi-fi
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pocahontas county in west virginia falls within the national radio quiet zone its home to quiet country living friendly people and one of the most impressive engineering marvels in the worldthe green bank telescope the gbt measures radio waves from throughout the universe but due to the telescope039s extreme sensitivity any operating wireless device can have a negative effect on its observations but to the people who live in the nrqz the restrictions and the quiet peaceful life that comes with them are welcomewatch a video about the gbt the largest fully steerable telescope in the world:https:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=nggvy_m0zbyread more about the green bank telescope and national radio quiet zone:http:newsnationalgeographiccomnews201410141010-radio-telescope-green-bank-west-virginia-astronomyproducer ampamp videographer: jason kurtisfield producer: sasha ingbereditor: nick lunn

nasa: re-thinking an alien world 720p
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forty light years from earth a rocky world named quot55 cancri equot circles perilously close to a stellar inferno completing one orbit in only 18 hours the alien planet is 26 times closer to its parent star than mercury is to the sun if earth were in the same position the soil beneath our feet would heat up to about 3200 f researchers have long thought that 55 cancri e must be a wasteland of parched rocknow they039re thinking again new observations by nasa039s spitzer space telescope suggest that 55 cancri e may be wetter and weirder than anyone imaginedcredit: nasasource: http:sciencenasagovscience-newsscience-at-nasa201213jan_rethink

the largest fully steerable telescope in the world
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the green bank telescope located in green bank west virginia is home to the largest fully steerable telescope in the world taller than the statue of liberty and with a diameter equivalent to the length of three us football fields this engineering marvel is precise enough to capture the faintest radio waves in the cosmos using the data from the gbt researchers and scientists are able to study the faintest radio objects in the universeread more about the green bank telescope and national radio quiet zone:http:newsnationalgeographiccomnews201410141010-radio-telescope-green-bank-west-virginia-astronomyproducer ampamp videographer: jason kurtisfield producer: sasha ingbereditor: nick lunn

supersonic stellar jets in motion: nasa039s hubble telescope brings jets to life videos
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we039ve seen some amazing imagery from space but video like this is hard to come by compiling time-lapse videos using images taken by nasa039s hubble telescope scientists have been able to bring to life these stellar matter jets that lie millions of lightyears from earth for the first time

nasa039s hubble discovers moon orbiting dwarf planet makemake
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astronomers using the hubble space telescope discovered a moon orbiting dwarf planet makemake -- the third largest known object past the orbit of neptune about two thirds the size of pluto further observations of this moon may allow astronomers to calculate makemake039s mass which will give them a better idea of its density and thus its bulk composition the hubble space telescope has been instrumental in studying our outer solar system it also discovered four of the five moons orbiting plutothis video is public domain and can be downloaded from the scientific visualization studio at: http:svsgsfcnasagov12223read more: http:wwwnasagovfeaturegoddard2016hubble-discovers-moon-orbiting-the-dwarf-planet-makemakemusic - quotdigital conquestquot by jc lemay and laurent dury koka media and universal publishing production music

alma telescope offers new look at antennae galaxies images
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the atacama large millimetresub-millimetre array alma telescope in northern chile has opened its eyes for the first time and the results are a solid example of what

hubble: stellar jet hh 47 1080p
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this video shows the evolution over time of herbig-haro object hh 47 a jet expelled from a newborn star in the southern constellation of vela the video was made by stitching together observations of hh 47 made in 1994 1999 and 2008credit: nasa esa p hartigan rice university g bacon stscisource: http:wwwspacetelescopeorgvideosheic1113b