Finding Exoplanets with Microlensing; WFIRST Mission
In addition to the transit and radial velocity methods for finding exoplanets, there is a relatively new technique being used by wide field telescopes: microlensing.
Today Alberto Conti and I talked with Dr. Scott Gaudi from The Ohio State University about how microlensing is used to find extra solar planets. He is also a member of the WFIRST Science Team and he and Jason Kalirai give us an introduction to that mission. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjwZszyu0dE
The search for planets around other stars is heating up. So far, there are over 4,000 confirmed exoplanets. What would the Earth look like in one of these searches?
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This video is the first of a series that will highlight the science behind The James Webb Space Telescope.
JWST will have the capability of showing us a part of the universe we've never seen before: a time when the first stars were born, lived their lives, and died.
Here, the concepts of recombination, reionization, the first stars and black holes are presented. JWST will give us our first glimpse into this time in our universal history.
This video was produced over the summer as part of the STScI Summer Student Program. I had the privilege of working with Aimei Kutt and +Tiffany Davis to make a video highlighting some of the amazing science The James Webb Space Telescope will allow us to accomplish.
Aimei produced the wonderful animation sequences you see and Tiffany edited the video and created the graphics and titles. They both worked on the music (and learned how time consuming that part is).
It is my pleasure to offer this to you, I hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it.
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Documentary mentioned by Jake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytplt0vNJOY
Cosmic Variance Blog:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/
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Watch "In the Shadow of Saturn" here:
http://youtu.be/xrcahpRACcE
+Scott Lewis of http://knowthecosmos.com will guest host next week's episode, please tune in and let me know what you think!
Earth from Space (again):
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-229&cid=release_2013-229#5
http://www.ciclops.org/view.php?id=7697&js=1
Wave at Saturn:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/waveatsaturn/
ALMA Looks at Starburst Galaxy
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1334/
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Based on a Hubble Heritage image processed by Zolt Levay and a visualization from Frank Summers and Greg Bacon (and others) at the Space Telescope Science Institute, I thought I'd make an Infinite Minute.
Hadn't done one in a while and thought this image was amazing. It has been out for a while (since April) and have only now gotten around to it. Hope you like it!
Here's a link to the original press release:
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Space Week may be over in Long Beach, but it's just getting started on our channel. I have lots of stuff to upload over the next few days. I hope you'll let me know what you think!
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This month marks the 25th year of observations and discovery of the Hubble Space Telescope. No other instrument built by humanity has done more to show us our place in the cosmos.
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