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WFIRST: The Best of Both Worlds
NASA officially is beginning work on an astrophysics mission designed to help unlock the secrets of the universe -- the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). With a view 100 times bigger than that of NASA’s Hubble Space...
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Episode 3: Time Machines (Hubble – Eye in the Sky miniseries)
Episode 3: Time Machines – Hubble has looked back billions of years in time to see some of the earliest galaxies in their infancy, and it has fundamentally changed what we know about the universe itself. Find out from Nobel laureate John...
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James Webb Space Telescope: Worth the Wait
Building the James Webb Space Telescope is challenging. It is NASA's most ambitious and complex space science observatory. The mission required 10 new technologies to be invented, the dedication of hundreds of scientists, engineers and...
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I WONDER - What Is The Milky Way Made Of?
This video is answering the question of what is the Milky Way made of.
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Science Comes Alive at NASA Goddard
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is home to the nation's largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study Earth, the sun, our solar...
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Hubble's Messier Marathon Madness
In mid-March, skywatchers in the northern hemisphere can try to observe all 110 objects from the Messier catalog in one night. To celebrate the Messier Marathon, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is releasing 12 new images to add to its...
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Quasars Can Trigger Tsunamis That Tear Across Galaxies And Snuff Out Star Formation
Quasar black holes emit radiation so powerful that they can prevent star formation in the surrounding galaxy, according to a study in the Astrophysical Journal Supplementary Letters.
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Galaxies Don't Spin The Way You Think
Galaxies are not spinning tops. So how do stars move within them?
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NASA | Vision. Hope. Triumph
During the STS-125 pre-launch press conference Heidi Hammel, a Senior Research Scientist from the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, expresses her views on the past, present, and future of the Hubble Space Telescope and its...
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Hubble Science: Black Holes, From Myth to Reality
For the past 30 years the Hubble Space Telescope has continued its important mission of uncovering the mysteries of the universe. One of those mysteries that Hubble has helped us understand is black holes. Director, Producer & Editor:...
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Hubble Explores the Final Frontier
In celebration of Star Trek's new movie and 50th anniversary, the Hubble Space Telescope is sharing its newest Frontier Field image, which uses a clever trick from nature to boldly observe what no telescope has observed before. Credit:...
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Lyman Spitzer: Making Space For Hubble
Seventy-five years ago, astronomer Lyman Spitzer envisioned a future for space exploration that deepened humanity’s curiosity about the cosmos. A visionary behind the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer was among the earliest astronomers...
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Science Comes Alive at NASA Goddard - (short cut)
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is home to the nation's largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study Earth, the sun, our solar...
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NASA | MicroSpec: Revolutionary Instrument on a Chip
Scientists may finally get a glimpse at our adolescent universe from a revolutionary new technology being developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. An instrument on a chip. This new, potentially game-changing instrument, called...
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We Asked NASA Scientists and Astronauts “What is your Favorite Hubble Image?”
Over the years, Hubble video producer Paul Morris has had the amazing opportunity to interview some of the brightest minds in astrophysics, and some of the coolest astronauts and people in the world. As a rule, he always asked every...
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Visit Hubble Operations for its 28th Anniversary in 360°
The Hubble Space Telescope has orbited Earth for more than 28 years, changing the way we look at the universe. Here at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, we’ll take you inside the Space Telescope Operations...
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Michelle Thaller Explains Cosmic Dawn
Bringing astrophysics into everyone’s home: That is the goal with NASA’s Roman Space Telescope series “Celestial Sunday.” In this video, astronomer and science communicator Michelle Thaller explains the complex topic of Cosmic Dawn....
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Hubble Spots Giant Space ‘Pumpkin’
Halloween is scarier with Hubble! What looks like two glowing eyes and a crooked carved smile is a snapshot of the early stages of a collision between two galaxies. The entire view is nearly 109,000 light-years across, approximately the...
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How is it possible to measure the distance to stars and galaxies?
We can't use tape measures, rulers or lasers to measure the astronomical distances to stars and galaxies, so how do we do it?
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One Image, One Million Galaxies
One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic images is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which unveiled myriad galaxies across the universe, stretching back to within a few hundred million years of the Big Bang. Hubble peered at a single...
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NASA | JWST Feature - Evolution of the Universe
Astrophyscists and astonomers will use the James Webb Space Telescope to unravel mysteries about the evolution of the Universe. The Webb telscope will help observe how the first stars gathered into the first galaxies, and those first...
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Cosmic Calendar: History of The Universe In Just 365 days!
The concept of the cosmic calendar was popularized by famous astronomer Carl Sagan to help people understand just how far apart on a time scale events in the Universe are. Basically, he arranged the 13.8 billion years of the Universe’s...
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Intro Space Science
What is space science? What fields does a space scientist study? In this program students will learn that space scientists work in many non-engineering fields including astrophysics, cosmochemistry, planetary geology space weather and...
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The most peculiar galaxies Hubble has ever seen | Episode 8
We all know the perfect, symmetrical and flawless galaxies Hubble has set its lense on, but there is also a catalogue dedicated to the most peculiar galaxies out there... The Arp Catalogue