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Friday, May 1, 2015

What a Beautiful World - All Alone in the Night - Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen from the ISS


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2:29 minutes




Uploaded on Oct 6, 2011
Images: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
Music: 'Freedom Fighters' by Two Steps from Hell
Inspiration: http://youtu.be/74mhQyuyELQ

Inspired by a version of the opening sequence of this clip called 'What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth?', David tracked down the original time-lapse sequence taken on the International Space Station (ISS) via NASA, found some additional ones there, including the spectacular Aurora Australis sequences, and set it to a soundtrack that almost matches the awe and wonder I feel when I see our home from above.

To those brave men and women who fly alone in the night to take us to the stars, we salute you.
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Sequences:

1. North-to-south down the western coast of North and South America.
2. North-to-south over Florida, the Bahamas and other Caribbean islands.
3. South-East Asia, approaching the Philippine Sea
4. Western Europe, from France through Italy, Greece, Turkey and the Middle East.
5. Aurora Australis, over the Indian Ocean, approaching Australia
6. Aurora Australis, over the Indian Ocean.
7. Aurora Australis, unknown location in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Featured on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day!
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120305.html

Explanation from NASA: Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. A compilation of such visual spectacles was captured recently from the International Space Station (ISS) and set to rousing music. Passing below are white clouds, orange city lights, lightning flashes in thunderstorms, and dark blue seas. On the horizon is the golden haze of Earth's thin atmosphere, frequently decorated by dancing auroras as the video progresses. The green parts of auroras typically remain below the space station, but the station flies right through the red and purple auroral peaks. Solar panels of the ISS are seen around the frame edges. The ominous wave of approaching brightness at the end of each sequence is just the dawn of the sunlit half of Earth, a dawn that occurs every 90 minutes.

Expect the Unexpected - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope




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5:12 minutes

Published on Apr 8, 2015
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most powerful scientific instruments ever conceived. Hubble’s most important discoveries have provided answers to questions that astronomers did not yet know how to ask, and found objects that were not yet imagined. This installment of the "Hubble at 25" series looks at how Hubble far exceeds its original science goals and unveiled an even more complex and mysterious universe than once envisioned.

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Stargaze HD: Universal Beauty


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On the 25th Anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.
(1:02:45 minutes)
Originally Published on Aug 29, 2012
StarGaze HD brings the beauty and majesty of the Universe to your HD Home Theatre. Journey beyond the stars with images from the Hubble SpaceTelescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. With over an hour of astounding images set to ambient music StarGaze HD will quickly become a favorite.

Music By Opus 27 in Dolby® TrueHD 5.1
Video: 1080p

Next up:
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is a space observatory under construction and scheduled to launch in October 2018. It has an expected mass about half of Hubble's, but its primary mirror (a 6.5 meter diameter gold-coated beryllium reflector) will have a collecting area about five times larger (25 m2 vs. 4.5 m2).

The JWST is a project of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the United States space agency, with international collaboration from the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.