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Hubble Telescope - Spectacular Images |
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Launched nearly 28 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope has changed our understanding of the cosmos, allowing us to calculate the age of the universe and the rate at which it is expanding. Hubble has allow us to peer back to almost the origins of the universe, to locations more than 13.4 billion li...
Date: 2018-04-04 20:36:39
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Lagoon Nebula Zoom and Flythrough |
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This video zooms into the core of a rich star-birth region called the Lagoon Nebula, located in the constellation Sagittarius in the direction of our Milky Way galaxy’s central bulge.
Date: 2018-04-22 17:09:44
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The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization Breaks Ground in Chile |
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The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is slated to be the first in a new class of extremely large telescopes, capable of producing images with 10 times the clarity of those captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The GMT aims to discover Earth-like planets around nearby stars and the tiny distortions t...
Date: 2015-12-08 16:25:03
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Neutron Star Merger - NASA Animation |
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On Monday, scientists announced the first-ever observation of a cosmic event using both gravitational wave detectors and conventional telescopes. They witnessed a kilonova, a violent, brilliant explosion that occurs when two neutron stars collide. The discovery was a massive undertaking. Thousands o...
Date: 2017-10-16 17:21:40
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The Largest Black Holes in the Universe |
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How big can they get? What's the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide? We've never seen them directly, yet we know they are there. Lurking within dense star clusters or wandering the dust lanes of the galaxy. Where they prey on stars. Or swallow planets whole....
Date: 2011-08-26 15:28:04
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