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Telescopes In Space And On The Ground: A Battle of the Giants |
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Have you ever wondered why some telescopes are launched into space while others are built on remote mountain tops? What is actually the best for astronomy? Here we provide a ringside view of the fight for the elusive photons from deep space - is it a battle of the telescope giants?
Date: 2012-04-08 18:23:04 |
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Danger of Asteroids |
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Asteroids are a scientific and economic opportunity in that they contain the original building blocks of the Solar System. They are targets for future human exploration, and may contain valuable raw materials for mining. These asteroids are also a threat in that they can pose great risk to humanity ...
Date: 2012-06-28 17:30:56 |
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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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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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Solar Flare: gets HD Close Up |
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This movie of the March 6, 2012 X5.4 flare was captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in the 171 and 131 Angstrom wavelength. One of the most dramatic features is the way the entire surface of the sun seems to ripple with the force of the eruption. This movement comes from something called...
Date: 2012-03-08 20:58:09 |
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LIVE Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse LIVE!! January 20, 2019 |
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The moon will pass through Earth's shadow tonight in the only total lunar eclipse of 2019 and you won't want to miss it! If you do, you'll have to wait two years for the next one. And if you're in North America, you'd have to wait even longer, until 2022!
The partial stage of the lunar eclipse b...
Date: 2019-01-21 01:07:45 |
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