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Soar through this cosmic landscape filled with bright nebulas, as well as runaway, massive and young stars. The image comes from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which sees the universe in infrared light. For more about Spitzer, visit https://www.nasa.gov/spitzer or http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu . Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech

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A Hubble Space Telescope color image of the core of the globular star cluster Omega Centauri is used to construct a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of the stellar populations in the cluster. When stars are sorted by brightness and color they can be used to create a graph that astronomers use to trace stellar evolution. Read the news release: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2010-28

This time-lapse video sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images reveals dramatic changes in a ring of material around the exploded star Supernova 1987A. The images, taken from 1994 to 2016, show the effects of a shock wave from the supernova blast smashing into the ring. The ring begins to brighten as the shock wave hits it. The ring is about one light-year across. Discovered in 1987, Supernova 1987A is the closest observed supernova to Earth since 1604. The exploded star resides 163,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. Read the news release: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2017-08

This visualization explores the Orion Nebula using both visible and infrared light. Two correlated computer models were created based on visible-light observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and infrared-light observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope. As the camera flies into the star-forming region, the sequence cross-fades back and forth between the visible and infrared views. The glowing gaseous landscape has been illuminated and carved by the high-energy radiation and strong stellar winds from the massive hot stars in the central cluster. The infrared observations generally show cooler temperature gas at a deeper layer of the nebula that extends well beyond the visible image. In addition, the infrared showcases many faint stars that shine primarily at longer wavelengths. The higher resolution visible observations show finer details including the wispy bow shocks and tadpole-shaped proplyds. In this manner, the movie illustrates the contrasting features uncovered by multi-wavelength astronomy. Read the news release: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2018-04

This video zooms in on the irregular galaxy NGC 4485, about 30 million light-years away. It starts with a view of the night sky focused on the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), as seen from the ground. It then zooms through observations from the Digitized Sky Survey 2, and ends with a view of the galaxy obtained with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. During the zoom also the neighbouring galaxy, NGC 4490 becomes visible. The gravitational pull of this galaxy is responsible for the irregular shape of NGC 4485 and also caused the intense star formation in the galaxy, as well as the bright stream of gas and stars emerging from it. More information and download options: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1910a/ Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, and it’s been hard at work ever since, studying the cosmos like no other observatory in human history. Several times in its journey, astronomers have called upon Hubble to study a single spot in the sky for weeks at a time, staring as far as it can, almost to the edge of the observable Universe. These are the deep fields, including the most recent Hubble eXtreme Deep Field. Now all of these data have been mashed together into a single image, spanning more than 250 days of observations. It’s called the Hubble Legacy Field. Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] References: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2019-17 https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/hubble/missions/sm1.html https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9601c1/ http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2004-07 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/xdf.html http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2019-17 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/webb/science/index.html

Retired NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld hosts this six-part mini-series about the tools used on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Hubble was uniquely designed to be serviced in space so that components could be repaired and upgraded. Astronauts using custom-designed tools performed challenging spacewalks on five servicing missions from 1993 to 2009 to keep Hubble operating so that it could change our fundamental understanding of the universe. Join John and EVA engineer Ed Rezac in this episode of Hubble Tool Time to learn about developing a wrench-like connector tool to replace Hubble’s Power Control Unit on Servicing Mission 3B in 2002. In addition to enabling Hubble's scientific discoveries, the tools developed by teams at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and tested in collaboration with the Johnson Space Center furthered NASA's human exploration capabilities. These tools and the knowledge gleaned from the Hubble servicing missions are used today by astronauts on the International Space Station, and will be critical to NASA's future crewed missions to the Moon and Mars. For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina Jackson. Music credits: "Wine On It" by Kevin Blanc [SACEM]; KTSA Publishing SACEM; Gum Tapes; Killer Tracks Production Music. "Breakthrough" by Donn Wilerson [BMI]; Killer Tracks BMI; Killer Tracks Production Music. This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13179 See more Hubble videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiuUQ9asub3Ta8mqP5LNiOhOygRzue8kN Follow NASA's Hubble Space Telescope: · Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASAHubble · Twitter: https://twitter.com/NASAHubble · Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/NASAHubble · Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahubble https://www.nasa.gov/hubble --- If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter https://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc · Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard

The Hubble Legacy Field consists of 16 years of observations that "stretches back through 13.3 billion years of time to just 500 million years after the Big Bang," according to ESA and NASA. -- Epic Hubble Telescope Mosaic Is a Cosmic 'History Book' of Galaxies: https://www.space.com/hubble-telescope-photo-galactic-history-book.html Credits: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz) and G. Bacon (STScI)

Retired NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld hosts this six-part mini-series about the tools used on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Hubble was uniquely designed to be serviced in space so that components could be repaired and upgraded. Astronauts using custom-designed tools performed challenging spacewalks on five servicing missions from 1993 to 2009 to keep Hubble operating so that it could change our fundamental understanding of the universe. Join John and EVA manager Russ Werneth in this episode of Hubble Tool Time to learn about the pistol grip tool developed for Hubble's second servicing mission in 1997, a tool that astronauts now use on almost every spacewalk. In addition to enabling Hubble's scientific discoveries, the tools developed by teams at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and tested in collabo ration with the Johnson Space Center furthered NASA's human exploration capabilities. These tools and the knowledge gleaned from the Hubble servicing missions are used today by astronauts on the International Space Station, and will be critical to NASA's future crewed missions to the Moon and Mars. For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina Jackson. Music credits: "Wine On It" by Kevin Blanc [SACEM]; KTSA Publishing SACEM; Gum Tapes; Killer Tracks Production Music. "Breakthrough" by Donn Wilerson [BMI]; Killer Tracks BMI; Killer Tracks Production Music. This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13177 See more Hubble videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiuUQ9asub3Ta8mqP5LNiOhOygRzue8kN Follow NASA's Hubble Space Telescope: Facebook: https://www.facebo ok.com/NASAHubble Twitter: https://twitter.com/NASAHubble Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/NASAHubble Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahubble https://www.nasa.gov/hubble --- If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Follow NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC Twitter https://twitter.com/NASAGoddard Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard

What should we expect from the next generation of space telescopes? What key scientific questions will they help answer? Do we have the technology we need to operate them in 20-30 years? To address these issues, NASA selected four large space mission concepts to study and consider as possible future Large Strategic Science Missions. Of the NASA astrophysics division missions, these tend to be the most expensive, but also have the greatest capacity. Three of those space telescopes got the attention of the SETI Institute because of their potential to answer the question, “Are We Alone?” The Origins Space Telescope (Origins) is a large cooled infrared space telescope with higher sensitivity and better angular resolution than any prior observatory accessing similar wavelengths. Among its many science objectives covering the first stars to life, Origins could help scientists understand the abundance and availability of water for habitable planets and could look forbiosignatures on potentially habitable worlds transiting low-mass stars. The Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (or LUVOIR) is a general-purpose observatory; its key science goal is to characterize a wide range of exoplanets, including those that might be habitable and orbiting a range of stellar types. The Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx) is a space telescope, optimized to search for and image Earth-sized exoplanets in the habitable zones around sun-like stars, where liquid water might exist. HabEx would also have a suite of general astrophysics science capabilities. Each of these concepts has pros and cons, as well as other technological, cost, and risk challenges. These mission concepts will be described in detail in their final study reports, which will be delivered to the National Academy of Sciences for the Astro 2020 Decadal Survey later this year. It is still unknown whether the Decadal Survey will prioritize none, one, or even all of these concepts, but the several hundred scientists and engineers involved in these mission concept studies for the past three years are confident that we are now capable of building these telescopes, and that the science that they can deliver will be compelling and change again our view of the cosmos, just as the Hubble Space Telescope has done for the past 3 decades. We invited three scientists directly involved in each one of the three teams above to discuss these exciting future mission projects. During this SETI Talk, they will describe their projects, and tell us more about the challenges and the processes that could make these missions a reality: Prof. Courtney Dressing, astronomer and member of the LUVOIR Science and Technology Definition Team (STDT), whose research aims to detect and characterize planetary systems orbiting nearby stars. Dr. Kimberly Ennico Smith, a NASA research astrophysicist who is multidisciplinary in her approach to space instruments, telescopes, and mission concepts. She is a member of the STDT of OST. Prof. Scott Gaudi, astronomer and community chair of the HabEx STDT, who bridges the gap between theory and observations, with extensive experience in leadership roles and consensus-building, as well as experience with several exoplanet detection methods and exoplanet surveys.

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s first servicing mission, astronauts Kathryn Thornton and Jeffrey Hoffman told the story of that successful, groundbreaking mission during a livestream event from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center on December 7, 2018. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center This video is public domain and can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12829 See more Hubble videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiuUQ9asub3Ta8mqP5LNiOhOygRzue8kN If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

On December 7, 2018, a panel of astronauts from the Hubble Space Telescope’s deployment and five servicing missions celebrated 25 years of servicing with a live discussion from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center about the challenges of working on a telescope in space. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center This video is public domain and can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12829 See more Hubble videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiuUQ9asub3Ta8mqP5LNiOhOygRzue8kN If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

A study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA's XMM-Newton and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey tracked dark engergy back to one billion years after the Big Bang. -- Learn more about it: http://chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/photo/2019/dark/ Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart

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Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Astronomy’s Future Will Be Built: New Capabilities to Assemble in Space the Largest Observatories. Scientific performance of telescopes depend strongly upon the observatory’s aperture, its capability to collect faint light. Eventually, the challenging goals of astronomers will require telescope mirrors larger than can be deployed in space without the capability to assemble them, either with astronauts or with robots, enabled by the decreasing cost of commercial launch vehicles. Join Tony Darnell as he discusses the promise, the challenges, and the capabilities being assessed to assemble the largest future space observatories with Drs. Nicholas Siegler (NASA JPL), Bradley Peterson (OSU/STScI) and Gordon Roesler (Robots in Space LLC). Come hear about a new NASA-chartered study that is looking into this potentially enabling capability. Future in Space Hangouts are endorsed by the American Astronomical Society and the American Astronautical Society. Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK #FutureInSpace #RobotsInSpace #SpaceTelescope

Speaker: Scott Fleming of the Space Telescope Science Institute In April 2018, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched and by the summer it was sending back data. What has this planet-hunter found? Dr. Scott Fleming will share several of the first exciting discoveries, plus detail about how the observatory is designed and how it compares to NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission. All of the data from TESS is available in the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST), which is based at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Host: Dr. Frank Summers Recorded live on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. More information: http://hubble.stsci.edu/about_us/public_talks/

The Hubble Space Telescope created a giant mosaic image of the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society. It's the highest-resolution image of Triangulum galaxy ever created, resolving more than 15 million individual stars. Triangulum is the third-largest galaxy in the Local Group of galaxies, which include the Andromeda galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy, and about 50 dwarf galaxies. Hubble made a similar mosaic of the Andromeda galaxy in 2015. These Hubble mosaics, combined with similar studies of the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds, will allow astronomers to better understand stellar evolution both locally and throughout the universe. 🔔 Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/christianready?sub_confirmation=1 Share this video with a fellow space traveler: https://youtu.be/8h_QZN6bxrc 🔴 Watch my most recent upload: https://youtu.be/kCpqlLeGSS4 🚀 Join the Launch Pad community on Patreon https://patreon.com/launchpadastro 🚀 Check out Launch Pad merchandise! https://teespring.com/stores/launchpadastro Disclaimer: Some of these links go to one of my websites and some are affiliate links where I'll earn a small commission if you make a purchase at no additional cost to you. From out of town? Help translate this video! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?v=uMpOOpBaeKU&ref=share ✅ Let's connect: For business inquiries - chris AT christianready DOT com Twitter - @launchpadastro Instagram - @launchpadastro Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/LaunchPadAstronomy/ Discord - https://discord.gg/yChAuUe c/o Christian Ready P.O. Box 66 Westminster, MD 21158 United States Earth

According to a report by Gizmodo, the NASA team behind the Hubble Space Telescope has temporarily suspended operations of Wide Field Camera 3 following a hardware glitch. NASA's Hubble Twitter account reportedly first tweeted about the instrument failure on Tuesday, saying only that there had been a hardware problem. Gizmodo reports that this is the second notable hardware problem that has shutdown operations for Hubble in just the last few months. This most recent glitch reportedly comes on the heels of another back in October when a gyroscope, one of six that monitor the telescope’s position and motion, failed. https://gizmodo.com/hubble-space-telescope-faces-more-hardware-trouble-1831636773 http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

A ricocheting jet blasting from a giant black hole has been captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Chandra's data reveal the presence of a powerful jet of particles and electromagnetic energy that has shot out from the black hole and slammed into a wall of hot gas, then ricocheted to punch a hole in a cloud of energetic particles, before it collides with another part of the gas wall. Cygnus A is a large galaxy that sits in the middle of a cluster of galaxies about 760 million light years from Earth. A supermassive black hole at the center of Cygnus A is rapidly growing as it pulls material swirling around it into its gravitational grasp. During this process, some of this material is redirected away from the black hole in the form of a narrow beam, or jet. Such jets can significantly affect how the galaxy and its surroundings evolve. In a deep observation that lasted 23 days, scientists used Chandra to create a highly detailed map of both the jet and the intergalactic gas, which they used to track the path of the jets from the black hole. The jet expanded after ricocheting and created a hole in a nearby cloud of particles that is between 50,000 and 100,000 light years deep and 26,000 light years wide. For context, the Earth is located about 26,000 light years away from the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Energy produced by jets from black holes can heat intergalactic gas in galaxy clusters and prevent it from cooling and forming large numbers of stars in a central galaxy like Cygnus A. By studying Cygnus A, scientists can tell more about how jets from black holes interact with their surroundings.

In a galaxy about 290 million light years from Earth, a star wandered too close to a black hole. The immense gravitational forces of the black hole shredded the star, sending the stellar remains into orbit around it. Scientists used several telescopes including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to study this "tidal disruption" event called ASASSN-14li. They were able to use the data to measure the spin of the giant black hole at the center of the galaxy containing ASASSN-14li. The scientists determined that the black hole in ASASSN-14li is spinning incredibly quickly — about half as fast as the speed of light or faster. Since the spins of black holes have been difficult to measure, this discovery is exciting for astronomers.

In November 2014, a network of optical telescopes picked up a bright outburst from a galaxy about 290 million light years from Earth. Scientists determined that this was a so-called tidal disruption event, where a star wandered too close to a black hole and was ripped apart by immense gravitational forces. Astronomers used other telescopes including a flotilla of high-energy telescopes in space — NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift observatory — to study the X-rays emitted as the remains of a star swirled toward the black hole at the center of the galaxy. Some of the remains of the star are pulled into a disk where they circle the black hole before passing over the "event horizon," the boundary beyond which nothing, including light, can escape. The tidal disruption in ASASSN-14li allowed astronomers to estimate the spin rate of the black hole. A black hole has two fundamental properties: mass and spin. While it has been relatively easy for astronomers to determine the mass of black holes, it has been much more difficult to get accurate measurements of their spins. This debris from the shredded star gave astronomers an avenue to directly estimate the black hole's spin in ASASSN-14li. They found that the event horizon around this black hole is about 300 times the diameter of the Earth, yet rotates once every two minutes (compared to the 24 hours it takes to complete one rotation). This means that the black hole is spinning at least about half as fast as the speed of light. These results will likely encourage astronomers to observe future tidal disruption events for long durations to look for similar, regular variations in their X-ray brightness.

Black holes are notorious for pulling things toward them. But in some cases, black holes can act as powerful engines to blast material away. One of those black holes is found in Cygnus A, a large galaxy embedded within in a cluster of galaxies. Cygnus A's black hole is blasting a jet — a tightly-wound column of material — away from it at extremely high speeds. Astronomers found that his jet ricocheted off a wall of hot gas, then punched a hole in a cloud of energetic particles, leaving behind a gigantic hole. By studying this kind of behavior, scientists can better understand how black holes affect their surroundings. Only an X-ray telescope with the sharp vision of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory could make such a discovery.

This new Hubblecast episode takes a detailed look into the refined Pointing Control System that allows Hubble to keep its gaze into the Universe firm and steady. More information and download options: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/hubblecast114a/ Subscribe to Hubblecast in iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/hubblecast-hd/id258935617 Receive future episodes on YouTube by pressing the Subscribe button above or follow us on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/hubbleesa Watch more Hubblecavideo.web_category.allst episodes: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/archive/category/hubblecast/ Credit: Directed by: Mathias Jäger Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser Written by: Ivana Kurecic Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa Images: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI) Videos: NASA, ESA, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser, L. Calçada, N. Bartmann Music: Johan B. Monell (www.johanmonell.com) Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen

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Kepler was NASA’s first mission dedicated to the search for planets around other stars, called exoplanets. The first exoplanet was discovered just 20 years prior to launch, and only a few hundred more were discovered in that time, with most of them inhabitable and more similar to gas giants like Jupiter than Earth. In the nearly ten years since Kepler’s launch, data from the spacecraft has resulted in the detection of thousands of exoplanets, with a multitude of them the size of Earth or smaller, and many of them at the right distance from their star to possibly support life. Thanks to data from Kepler, we now have greater understanding of two terms of the Drake Equation that had eluded us for fifty-seven years --- we now know there are even more planets than stars in our galaxy and that a significant number of them could have the right conditions to be habitable. Thanks to Kepler, we know that Earth is not alone. The odds of humanity not being alone in the cosmos seem high. But there are still a lot of big terms in that simple little Drake Equation to figure out. The search will continue with new space telescopes like TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), and future generation of large space telescopes like JWST (James Webb Space Telescope). We invited Natalie Batalha, Professor at U.C. Santa Cruz, and Doug Caldwell, Senior Research Scientist at the SETI Institute to discuss the state of the search for exoplanets. What did we learn from the Kepler mission? What are the most exotic planetary systems discovered so far? What are the chances of finding extraterrestrial life in the next decade using new telescopes? These are the questions that will be addressed during our special SETI Talk on the end of the Kepler spacecraft on November 13 at 7pm at SRI International, Menlo Park, CA. Join us for a special tribute to the Kepler spacecraft.

With NASA's Kepler being retired, is this the end of exoplanet hunting? Thankfully, no it isn't! NASA has just launched TESS, and we will soon be getting the James Webb Space telescope and ESA's Plato. Find out all about them in this video! https://brilliant.org/astrum/ ************** A big thank you to Brilliant for supporting this video. Sign up for free using the link above. That link will also get the first 200 subscribers 20% off a premium subscription to the website if you like what you see. ************** SUBSCRIBE for more videos about our other planets. Subscribe! http://goo.gl/WX4iMN Facebook! http://goo.gl/uaOlWW Twitter! http://goo.gl/VCfejs Donate! Patreon: http://goo.gl/GGA5xT Ethereum Wallet: 0x5F8cf793962ae8Df4Cba017E7A6159a104744038 Become a Patron today and support my channel! Donate link above. I can't do it without you. Thanks to those who have supported so far, especially: Aber And also: Tariq Mulla Garthvater Milo Schuman Solar Anamnesis Alexander Simpson Richard Smiles Flint Corey Patrick Ketaner Paul Bertin Steven Rumpel Dermot Carthy Christina Schreiber Jesse Myles Doug Felt Will DeRousse Guy Taylor Thomas Burk Matthias Randon John Steve Mcjibbers Matthias Randon Derrick Ciaran Browne Anastasia Junette Ginger Stefan Spieler Antiroo Nico Neuweiler Phillip Desanto Julio Ojeda Mr Fluffington Mark Steven Mark Helland Michael L. Kent Mr Fluffington Jacquie Van Wagner Petri Holopainen Space Ventures Investors Marek Terry Rose Asbjørn Larsen Support to have your own name added to the list! Image Credits: NASA/ESA Music: Above the Clouds - Neutrin05, Equation 17 - Mark LaFountain Audio mastered by Eric Peel Music - https://www.youtube.com/user/reeldeelpeel

The Kepler Space Telescope ended its nine-year extrasolar planet (exoplanet) discovery mission. NASA ended the Kepler mission after it ran out of fuel. Kepler discovered more than 2,600 exoplanets and discovered there are more planets than stars, and that our solar system is very different from most. 🔴 Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/christianready?sub_confirmation=1 🔴 Support Launch Pad on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/launchpadastro 🔴 Share this video with a friend: https://youtu.be/72u03O8p2gY 🔴 From out of town? Translate this video! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?ref=share&v=72u03O8p2gY 🔴 Check out Ethan Kruse's mesmerizing Kepler Orrey: https://youtu.be/Td_YeAdygJE 🔴 More about NASA's Kepler mission and its legacy: https://www.nasa.gov/kepler 🔴 More exoplanet videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72u03O8p2gY&list=PLrAnGxL8nxOFkCQe8XOAql958ELDOrSxO

The Hubble Space Telescope is back in business after the operations team managed to fix a faulty gyroscope by "shaking" the telescope. And the Chandra X-Ray Observatory also returned to science operations following a glitch in one of its gyroscopes. 🔴 Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/christianready?sub_confirmation=1 🔴 Support Launch Pad on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/launchpadastro 🔴 Share this video with a friend: https://youtu.be/hmPLaYSyDu4 🔴 From out of town? Translate this video! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?v=qJ6m-lhY3EQ&ref=share 🔴 More on Hubble's gyro problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCuzKYU7tuQ&list=PLrAnGxL8nxOHmZLl1UCDc7YWSmUIAuEmB

The Kepler space telescope is out of fuel. NASA officials say the observatory will now shut down and be left to drift. Learn more about this story at https://www.newsy.com/84887/ Find more videos like this at https://www.newsy.com Follow Newsy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newsyvideos Follow Newsy on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/newsy

The Hubble Space Telescope has given us some of the most amazing views of the universe for 25 years and although it could go on for many years more, things are starting to go wrong but without the shuttle, we have no real way the fix it. But its successor the James Webb Space Telescope was due to have been in space years ago. However, now it isn't due to launch until 2021, so could we save Hubble and why is the JWST taking so long. Patreon https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsored by Kosmonaut, Muhammad Tauha Ali, Pascal Hausammann, Florian Hesse. Also Alan Johns Allan Versaevel Blair Leduc Cameron Dyer Chad Mellor Cody Belichesky Collin Copfer coolascats Dale Kirkwood Daniele Noacco Giacomo Catenazzi Harry Whelan Hunter Schwisow Johan Roman Johan Rombaut John Rumpf Jonathan Merage Jorn Magnus Karlsen Katy Kevin Hinnen László Antal Mitchel J. Mullin II Morten Grønvold Oscar Anderson Robert Goldwein Rodney Aries SHAMIR Tim Allen And a big thank you to all our other Patreon supporters. Presented by Paul Shillito Written and Researched by Paul Shillito Images and Footage NASA, Northrop Grumman ESA/Hubble Intro Music by Mike Mullen BMI www.positrosmic.com

In HD1080p/30fps Margaret Meixner STScI Host: Gary Melnick Abstract: The Origins Space Telescope (OST) is a low risk, high science impact mission concept that is executable in the 2030’s. OST will trace the history of our origins from the time dust and heavy elements permanently altered the cosmic landscape to present-day life. It will address all three key questions in NASA’s astrophysical roadmap: Are we alone? How did we get here? and How does the Universe work? Specifically, OST will address the questions “How common are life-bearing planets orbiting dwarf stars?”, “How do the conditions for habitability develop during the process of planet formation?” and “How do galaxies form stars, grow their central supermassive black holes, and make heavy elements over cosmic time?” To accomplish its scientific objectives, OST will operate between ~3 to ~600 microns with a JWST sized telescope. Enabled by ~4 K optics and improved detector technology, OST will far exceed previous missions’ sensitivity by up to 1000 times. The observatory has the agility to conduct large surveys and the pointing stability to support pointed observations. The instruments feature improved sensitivity and new spectroscopic capabilities compared to prior or planned missions. This study is one of four science and technology definition studies supported by NASA Headquarters to prepare for the 2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey.

The mission engineers and scientists for the Hubble Space Telescope have been working to correct some technical issues with the gyros that point the venerable space telescope. Hubble went into safe mode a couple of weeks ago and now seems to be back to resuming normal operations. Join Tony Darnell and Carol Christian as they discuss what happened with Hubble, how the problems were discovered and a fix found. We'll also explore other topics related to Hubble, such as, how much longer will it be around? Will Hubble last long enough to overlap JWST? Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

How Hubble points is a really interesting question. Instead of thrusters, Hubble uses a sophisticated system of reaction wheels and magnetic torque rods (magnetorquers) to point itself from one target to the next. Hubble also uses rate sensing gyroscopes (gyros), fixed head star trackers (FHST), Sun sensors, magnetometers, and three fine guidance sensors (FGS) that allow Hubble to maintain ultra-steady pointing on a target for up to 24 hours at a time! 🔴 Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/christianready?sub_confirmation=1 🔴 Share this video with a friend: https://youtu.be/qEZI9DxIQss 🔴 From out of town? Translate this video! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?v=qEZI9DxIQss&ref=share 🔴 More telescope videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAnGxL8nxOHR01diTRdgqhUto6Jqxgx9

The James Webb Space Telescope will use an innovative instrument called an integral field unit (IFU) to capture images and spectra at the same time. This video gives a basic overview of how the IFU works. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and L. Hustak (STScI)

Hubble Space Telescope update on the effort to recover its flaky backup gyro. Meanwhile, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory went into safe mode on Oct 10, and the Kepler Space Telescope is almost out of fuel. Our space telescopes are getting old and we're still waiting for the James Webb Space Telescope. 🔴 Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/christianready?sub_confirmation=1 🔴 Share this video with a friend: https://youtu.be/ZY9TCzpd6Bo 🔴 From out of town? Translate this video! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?ref=share&v=ZY9TCzpd6Bo 🔴 More cool space news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDykhzVT15w&t=0s&index=2&list=PLrAnGxL8nxOE8WyIR3KM8Jrklyn63A_aJ 🔴 More on Hubble: https://youtu.be/NCuzKYU7tuQ

Think about it: Hubble is down to one gyro, maybe two; Kepler is in safe mode; and today, the Chandra X-ray telescope went into safe mode; Spitzer has run out of coolant but still doing science - our fleet of space telescopes is getting older what are we replacing them with? Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

Is the Hubble Space Telescope dead? No, but Hubble is in trouble. It lost one of the three gyros it needs to point and maintain its pointing during science operations. Hubble is in safe mode and engineers are working to determine the best course of action. Chances are HST may go to a single gyro mode, which would keep Hubble operational a little longer, but it may have to change the way it goes about its business. 🔴 Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/christianready?sub_confirmation=1 🔴 Share this video with a friend: https://youtu.be/NCuzKYU7tuQ 🔴 From out of town? Translate this video! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?ref=share&v=NCuzKYU7tuQ 🔴 More cool space news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDykhzVT15w&t=0s&index=2&list=PLrAnGxL8nxOE8WyIR3KM8Jrklyn63A_aJ 🔴 More telescope videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAnGxL8nxOHR01diTRdgqhUto6Jqxgx9

Chasing Supernovae with Kepler Gautham Narayan of the Space Telescope Science Institute The Kepler spacecraft launched in 2009 with the goal of discovering exoplanets. However, its highly precise brightness measurements can be used for much more science. When Kepler was repurposed as the K2 mission, one team of astronomers decided to use it to hunt for supernovas. By catching the critical first few hours of an exploding star, scientists can learn more about these colossal blasts. Host: Dr. Frank Summers Recorded live on Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. More information: http://hubble.stsci.edu/about_us/public_talks/

Lynx is one of four flagship concepts for the next great space telescope. NASA has funded a series of studies of four concepts that will in less than a year's time produce candidate designs for a major space observatory to begin construction later next decade. One of these has been dubbed Lynx, an x-ray “flagship" mission will probe some of the most explosive and high-energy objects in our Universe, and will provide insight into the seeds of black holes, the formation and evolution of galaxies and clusters of galaxies and even of the stars themselves. Please join our regular hosts Tony Darnell and Harley Thronson, as they discuss with Drs. Alexey Vikhlinin from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Feryal Ozel from the University of Arizona the science that will be revealed by a telescope investigating the x-ray universe. This is an informal, relaxed chat, so we hope that you can join us live and ask questions or leave comments for our guests. Learn more here: https://www.lynxobservatory.com Visuals from hangout available here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1E8WAxeRmkIDZzdxTCDVuwJ8Sw0U3IMDL Join our Discord Chat Server here: https://discord.gg/nqGpvtK

For the first time ever, scientists using Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found the source of a high-energy neutrino from outside our galaxy. This neutrino travelled 3.7 billion years at nearly light speed before being detected on Earth -- farther than any other neutrino we know the origin of. High-energy neutrinos are hard-to-catch particles that scientists think are created by the most powerful events in the cosmos, like galaxy mergers and material falling onto supermassive black holes. They travel a whisker shy of the speed of light and rarely interact with other matter, so they can travel unimpeded across billions of light-years. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole detected signs of a neutrino striking the Antarctic ice with an energy of about 300 trillion electron volts -- more than 45 times the energy achievable in the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth. This high energy strongly suggested that the neutrino had to be from beyond our solar system. Backtracking the path through IceCube indicated where in the sky the neutrino came from, and automated alerts notified astronomers around the globe to search this region for flares or outbursts that could be associated with the event. Data from Fermi’s Large Area Telescope revealed enhanced gamma-ray emission from a well-known active galaxy at the time the neutrino arrived. This active galaxy is a type called a blazar, where a supermassive black hole with millions to billions of times the Sun’s mass that blasts particle jets outward in opposite directions at nearly the speed of light. Blazars are especially bright and active because one of these jets happens to point almost directly toward Earth. Fermi showed that at the time of the neutrino detection, the blazar TXS 0506+056 was the most active it had been in a decade. The discovery is a giant leap forward in a growing field called multimessenger astronomy, where new cosmic signals like neutrinos and gravitational waves are definitively linked to sources that emit light. Light Years Away

Initially scheduled for a 2.5-year primary mission, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has gone far beyond its expected lifetime -- and is still going strong after 15 years. Mission members reflect on some of Spitzer’s most amazing and surprising discoveries. For more about the mission, visit http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/ and https://www.nasa.gov/spitzer

Astronomers all over the world are eagerly awaiting the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. The infrared space telescope, which will carry the largest astronomical mirror ever flown in space is one of the most complex observatories ever built. It will allow unprecedented science, including investigations into the atmospheres of exoplanets and the formation of galaxies, addressing fundamental questions in astronomy. The mission is an international collaboration between NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency, and is planned for launch in 2021 on a European Ariane 5 rocket. Learn more about the JWST: http://bit.ly/ESAJWST ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe

Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! In this episode, we’ve all heard about the delays and cost overruns of NASA’s flagship observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope. It is over budget by a lot and over a decade late from its original scheduled launch date. But will congress approve the increase? What impact will these delays have on everything else NASA is trying to do? Well on casualty may be WFIRST, the follow on project to JWST. Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Cool DA T-shirts: https://sfsf.shop/support-deepastronomy/

Picardo visits the Space Telescope Science Institute to learn about how Hubble and the OPAL program make images of planets. Hubble Images by NASA/ESA http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2018-29 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: http://planet.ly/ytsubscribe Follow us! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/planetarysociety Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/exploreplanets Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/planetarysociety On the web: http://www.planetary.org ---- Join us: http://www.planetary.org/join Stay in touch with our monthly e-newsletter: http://www.planetary.org/connect About The Planetary Society: The Planetary Society has inspired millions of people to explore other worlds and seek other life. With the mission to empower the world's citizens to advance space science and exploration, its international membership makes the non-governmental Planetary Society the largest space interest group in the world. Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray and Louis Friedman founded the Planetary Society in 1980. Bill Nye, a longtime member of the Planetary Society's Board, serves as CEO.

How do planetary systems start? Webb will seek these answers.

Dr. Amber Straughn describes how the James Webb Space Telescope will reveal a part of the early universe not yet seen before. The video is available for download here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12676 Credits Lead Producers: Sophia Roberts (AIMM) Michael McClare (KBRwyle) Cinematographer: Rob Andreoli (AIMM) John Caldwell (AIMM) Animators: Josh Masters (USRA) Brian Monroe (USRA) Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA) Interviewees: Amber Straughn (NASA/GSFC)

How do we learn about a planet's atmosphere with a telescope like the James Webb Space Telescope? This animation explains the science of breaking light into "color" - spectroscopy - to study the chemical make up of the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and L. Hustak (STScI)

The James Webb Space Telescope will be the largest telescope ever sent into space. It is the result of efforts from NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency and will peer to the edges of the visible universe. This video highlights some of the Webb’s most impressive facts. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Sophia Roberts Music: Expanding Time and Space by Daniel jay Nielsen This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12803

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 technicians testing and retesting each component. It is by no means easy, but the telescope is so incredibly powerful that major findings are expected in nearly every branch of astronomy. It is worth the wait. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Producer, Writer, Editor: Sophia Roberts Videography: Sophia Roberts, Michael McClare This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12987