MyVidster Tag results for astrophysics

a flight through the universe by the sloan digital sky survey
Bookmarked 708 weeks ago by popscreen
this animated flight through the universe was made by miguel aragon of johns hopkins university with mark subbarao of the adler planetarium and alex s

is pluto a planet
Bookmarked 718 weeks ago by popscreen
the debate over pluto039s planetary state still rages on t-shirts now for sale help support making more videos: http:googlsuqxtthe blog is undergoing

the most astounding fact neil degrasse tyson
Bookmarked 731 weeks ago by popscreen
watch the original interview belowastrophysicist dr neil degrasse tyson was asked by a reader of time magazine quotwhat is the most astounding fact yo

euronews science - a black hole awaits its galactic dinner
Bookmarked 713 weeks ago
http:wwweuronewscom a huge gas cloud is floating through our milky way its end is near it is going to be swallowed up by a great black hole astronomers at the max planck institute in munich discovered this future collision and now they have the chance of a ring-side seat to see this event due sometime in the middle of next yearthe black hole at the centre of our galaxy was discovered in 1992 and has a mass of about four million times that of the sunthe distance to the earth is roughly 27000 light years - it is the closest black hole astronomers can observe and has been in their focus for many yearsthe vlt - very large telescope in chile is europe039s ground-based eye into the sky astronomers here have been studying the galactic centre the telescope is playing an important role in helping to know just what will happen in 2013in the last few years the edges of the cloud have already started to shred astronomers are excited that they will be able to observe how a black hole sucks up another interstellar objectfind us on: youtube http:bitlyzr3upy facebook http:wwwfacebookcomeuronewsfanstwitter http:twittercomeuronews

eris: world039s first realistic simulation of the formation of the milky way
Bookmarked 757 weeks ago
for almost 20 years astrophysicists have been trying to recreate the formation of spiral galaxies such as our milky way realistically now astrophysicists from the university of zurich present the world039s first realistic simulation of the formation of our home galaxy together with astronomers from the university of california at santa cruz the new results were partly calculated on the computer of the swiss national supercomputing center cscs and show for instance that there has to be stars on the outer edge of the milky waysee also the interview with lucio mayer from the university of zurich explaining the relevance of this research work http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=gytbqr2oi4u

new discoveries about the fabric of space and time
Bookmarked 820 weeks ago
scientists have turned up rare evidence that space-time is smooth as einstein predicted while pushing closer to a complete theory of gravity from nasa goddard space flight center fermi gamma ray space telescope

janna levin: the sound the universe makes current
Bookmarked 781 weeks ago
we think of space as a silent place but physicist janna levin says the universe has a soundtrack -- a sonic composition that records some of the most dramatic

neil degrasse tyson: colonizing the moon funding space exploration
Bookmarked 736 weeks ago
neil039s interview begins at 1:28neil degrasse tyson discusses newt gingrich039s intentions to colonize the moon by 2020 and to the funding of space exploration in generalvideo from and copyright of msnbc: http:googldx24ureproduced for dissemination purposes only without any material gain

neil degrasse tyson opens a rocket in his office
Bookmarked 757 weeks ago
listen to full audio: http:tinyurlcom5ekcqftime recently went to interview neil degrasse tyson and we noticed a huge crate had been delivered to his office he was then kind enough to open it on-camera the back story of this gift is that neil was adamant that abc news include the saturn v rocket on its list of the 7 wonders of america the folks at the marshall space flight center in huntsville alabama were so grateful they sent neil a replica

a flight through the universe by the sloan digital sky survey
Bookmarked 708 weeks ago
this animated flight through the universe was made by miguel aragon of johns hopkins university with mark subbarao of the adler planetarium and alex szalay of johns hopkins there are close to 400000 galaxies in the animation with images of the actual galaxies in these positions or in some cases their near cousins in type derived from the sloan digital sky survey sdss data release 7 vast as this slice of the universe seems its most distant reach is to redshift 01 corresponding to roughly 13 billion light years from earth sdss data release 9 from the baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey boss led by berkeley lab scientists includes spectroscopic data for well over half a million galaxies at redshifts up to 08 -- roughly 7 billion light years distant -- and over a hundred thousand quasars to redshift 30 and beyondfor more information about boss and the latest data release go to http:newscenterlblgovnews-releases20120808boss-sdss-dr9

the poetry of science: richard dawkins and neil degrasse tyson
Bookmarked 731 weeks ago
the richard dawkins foundation for reason and science http:richarddawkinsnet presents: quotthe poetry of science: discussions of the beauty of sciencequottwo of science039s luminaries converse on the beauty of science neil degrasse tyson astrophysicist and host of nova and evolutionary biologist richard dawkins will explore the wonders of the cosmos and of life its origins its inspirations and why science is not just an option it is the only reality we possess

neil degrasse tyson - a conversation about communicating science
Bookmarked 780 weeks ago
the moon the tides and why neil degrasse tyson is colbert039s god a conversation about communicating sciencerecorded: january 20 2011http:wwwthesciencenetworkorgastrophysicist neil degrasse tyson is the director of the hayden planetarium in new york city host of the pbs series nova science now and co-host with comedienne lynne koplitz of the radio show star talk he is the author of nine books including his memoir the sky is not the limit: adventures of an urban astrophysicist and his most recent the pluto files: the rise and fall of america039s favorite planetall content copyright 2007-2011 the science network

nasa colliding neutron stars create black hole and gamma-ray burst
Bookmarked 745 weeks ago
armed with state-of-the-art supercomputer models scientists have shown that colliding neutron stars can produce the energetic jet required for a gamma-ray burst earlier simulations demonstrated that mergers could make black holes others had shown that the high-speed particle jets needed to make a gamma-ray burst would continue if placed in the swirling wreckage of a recent mergernow the simulations reveal the middle step of the process--how the merging stars039 magnetic field organizes itself into outwardly directed components capable of forming a jet the damiana supercomputer at germany039s max planck institute for gravitational physics needed six weeks to reveal the details of a process that unfolds in just 35 thousandths of a second--less than the blink of an eyethis video is public domain and can be downloaded at: http:svsgsfcnasagovgoto10740like our videos subscribe to nasa039s goddard shorts hd podcast:http:svsgsfcnasagovvisitunesf0004_indexhtmlor find nasa goddard space flight center on facebook:http:wwwfacebookcomnasagsfcor find us on twitter:http:twittercomnasagoddard

nasa terrestrial gamma-ray flashes create antimatter
Bookmarked 790 weeks ago
nasa039s fermi gamma-ray space telescope has detected beams of antimatter launched by thunderstorms acting like enormous particle accelerators the storms can emit gamma-ray flashes called tgfs and high-energy electrons and positrons scientists now think that most tgfs produce particle beams and antimatterthis video is public domain and can be downloaded at: http:svsgsfcnasagovgoto10706like our videos subscribe to nasa039s goddard shorts hd podcast:http:svsgsfcnasagovvisitunesf0004_indexhtmlor find nasa goddard space flight center on facebook:http:wwwfacebookcomnasagsfcor find us on twitter:http:twittercomnasagoddard

10 questions for neil degrasse tyson
Bookmarked 757 weeks ago
listen to full audio: http:tinyurlcom5ekcqftyson is the director of the hayden planetarium at the american museum of natural history and host of nova sciencenow here he answers reader questions and talks about the universe and how he039d save the world

how developments in nuclear fusion change everything neil degrasse tyson explains - youtube
Bookmarked 168 weeks ago
what is thermonuclear fusion neil degrasse tyson and chuck nice discuss the department of energyrsquos breakthrough in nuclear fusion and what it means for our

neil de grasse tyson: we stopped dreaming
Bookmarked 710 weeks ago
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stephen hawking - the mad scientist paradox
Bookmarked 723 weeks ago
stephen hawking discusses one example of a paradox that can occur when traveling to the pastinto the universe with stephen hawking - time travelthis video belongs to discovery communications and is being used for educational purposes only