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Monty python – universe song

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:27:20 +0000

A little song about the universe and how insignifcant we are, and livers. from the film ‘The meaning of life’.

Duration : 0:2:44

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Planets and stars size in scale

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:35:54 +0000

planets and stars size in scale, Uranus isn’t shown but it’s barely bigger than Neptune.

It shows:
Mercury Mars Venus Earth Neptune Saturn Jupiter Sun Sirius Pollux Arcturus Rigel Betelgeuse Antares MY Cephei W Cephei

Duration : 0:1:25

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How Large is the Universe?

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:32:12 +0000

The universe has long captivated us with its immense scales of distance and time. How far does it stretch? Where does it end and what lies beyond its star fields and streams of galaxies extending as far as telescopes can see? These questions are beginning to yield to a series of extraordinary new lines of investigation and technologies that are letting us to peer into the most distant realms of the cosmosBut also at the behavior of matter and energy on the smallest of scales. The mind-blowing answer comes from a theory describing the birth of the universe in the first instant of time.

Duration : 0:20:13

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What Hubble Taught Us About The Planets

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:36:12 +0000

Hubblecast 27: What Hubble Taught Us About The Planets.

For nineteen years, NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made some of the most dramatic discoveries in the history of astronomy but it has also helped scientists learn more about our own Solar System. From its vantage point 600 km above the Earth, Hubble has studied every planet in our Solar System except Mercury where light from the Sun would damage its instruments.

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Hubble has captured the impact of a comet on Jupiter, immense storms on Neptune and even tiny dwarf planets at the edge of our Solar System. The veteran telescope keeps a watchful eye on our solar backyard.

Regarded by many as the most valuable astronomical tool, the Hubble Space Telescope is approaching its 19th anniversary in space. Hubble sees into the far reaches of the Universe but its powerful instruments have also surveyed our planetary neighbours. In this episode, well see what Hubble has revealed to us in our own solar backyard.

Even those who, for some strange reason, arent astronomy enthusiasts are likely to recognise some of Hubbles most famous images, like the “Pillars of Creation”in the Eagle Nebula or the Hubble Deep, and Ultra Deep, Fields which have shown us some of the most distant galaxies ever observed. The Hubble space Telescope has really fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe at large, but with its high resolution images of planets and moons in our own Solar System, it has also taught us a lot about our own cosmic neighbourhood.

Hubble cannot observe our Sun, or the closest planet, Mercury, because its instruments are light-sensitive and would be damaged. However, the telescope has examined every other planet in the solar system, including dwarf planets Pluto, Ceres and Eris. But, of course, Hubble does not just produce pretty pictures, it provides planetary scientists with vital information about our neighbours that may help us better understand our own home planet, Earth.

More (PDF): http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/scripts/hubblecast27a.pdf

Credits:
• ESA/Hubble (Martin Kornmesser, Colleen Sharkey & Lars Lindberg Christensen)
• Visual design & Editing: Martin Kornmesser
• Animations: Martin Kornmesser
• Host: Dr. J
• Narration: Robert Fosbury
• Cinematography: Peter Rixner
• Music: movetwo
• Web Hosting: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ)
• Web Technical Support: Lars Holm Nielsen & Raquel Yumi Shida
• Written by: Lars Lindberg Christensen
• Directed by: Colleen Sharkey
• Additional photos and footage: United States Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Strang, NASA-JPL/ESA, NASA/JHU/APL,

Dr. J is a German astronomer at the ESO. His scientific interests are in cosmology, particularly on galaxy evolution and quasars. Dr. J’s real name is Joe Liske and he has a PhD in astronomy.

Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre
Garching/Munich, Germany
• http://www.eso.org
• http://www.spacetelescope.org
• http://hubblesite.org
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Duration : 0:6:44

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Hubble Space Telescope – Chapter 3

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:06:09 +0000

Part 3 in a series of videos produced by the ESA for public distribution about the Hubble Space Telescope and much more.

This video is Copyright Free material with some restrictions.

Find out more at: http://www.spacetelescope.org

Interested in scientific theory relating to the creation of our universe and beyond? Try some of these links:

http://scienceline.org/2006/08/21/ask-snyder-bang/

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/white_hole_030917.html

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/03/16_hawking_text.shtml

Wrap some brain cells around that!

Duration : 0:8:35

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The universe – How big are you?

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:07:23 +0000

1 Dec 08 Update
Thanks for watching my video. I never thought it would reach more than a million views. I don’t interact too much because of my poor English. But there are a few things I need to set clear.
1. “Why did you stop at the Milky Way?”: Because I didn’t have more images.
2. This video is not about God. When I made it I wasn’t thinking in God, it’s more a video about humility and humanity. But each person interprets the video in a different way, and that’s okay.
3. I never said we humans are “insignificant”; saying that the true greatness is not in (or only in) the Earth doesn’t mean we are insignificant. I just wanted to say that we humans need to stop thinking we are te greatest thing in the universe, since we don’t know the universe well enough to say that. You don’t need to be the greatest thing in the universe to be significant.
4. Please excuse my terrible English, I know there are a lot of grammar and spelling mistakes in the video, but the important thing is the message of the video, and I know that the great majority of viewers understand that.
5. “The scales are wrong”: This was made two years ago, with some images I found in the web. Besides, as I said before, the important thing is the message. If you want correct scales search in a book and not in YouTube.
Information about “Death Star”(Saturn’s satellite):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(moon)

Images showing the size of the planets compared to the Sun, and the Sun compared with other stars.

Music: Title Music from A Clockwork Orange, Wendy Carlos. (Original version: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, by Henry Purcell).

Duration : 0:2:22

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Black Holes, Neutron Stars, White Dwars, Space and Time

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:10:12 +0000

A journey of simulations of Black Holes, Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs and space and Time. Though, it is only a simulation, nothing more.

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth–it is the truth which conceals that there is none.

The simulacrum is true.

Ecclesiastes

Duration : 0:2:32

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Planets, Stars, Nebulae, Galaxies – Universe Size Comparison 2009 [HD]

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:48:03 +0000

***READ THIS BEFORE ASKING ANYTHING***

This is the ultimate size comparison video that you can find on the internet in HD.
Starts with the tinyest dwarf planets of our solar system, then continues with large planets, dwarf stars, stars giant/supergiant/hypergiant stars, nebulae, globular clusters and galaxies.
There is the famous VY Canis Majoris rated as the biggest star known, but very few know that that the incredible IC 1101 is the largest known object in the entire universe. Only galaxy clusters are bigger than it.
Hope you enjoy this one.

FAQ:
-Sizes are not 100% accurate as there is no way to directly measure them.
-Star sizes may change in the future, and new stars may eventually appear into this biggest stars list
-Song: Celtic Panpipes – Ride on

Duration : 0:4:0

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The Known Universe by AMNH

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:51:06 +0000

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.

Data: Digital Universe, American Museum of Natural History

http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/

Visualization Software: Uniview by SCISS

Director: Carter Emmart
Curator: Ben R. Oppenheimer
Producer: Michael Hoffman
Executive Producer: Ro Kinzler
Co-Executive Producer: Martin Brauen
Manager, Digital universe Atlas: Brian Abbott

Music: Suke Cerulo

For more information visit http://www.amnh.org

Duration : 0:6:31

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Planets and Stars in Scale (With Music)

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:51:04 +0000

A mind blowing animation showing the relative size of planets and stars in our universe.

Background music is from the song “Such Great Heights” by “The Postal Service”.

Original animation was made by http://www.cycomedia.net, this version was found on http://www.transbuddha.com

Duration : 0:1:26

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