Dr. Jason Tumlinson, Space Telescope Science Institute
From Cosmic Birth to Living Earth: The Next Great Space Telescope Beyond JWST

Are we alone? How did we get here? These are perennial questions that pique our curiosity and probe to the very heart of our existence. While our historical attempts to address these questions have progressed from the philosophical toward the scientific, astronomy is currently in a golden age that promises to get even brighter. New technologies, new telescopes, and new discoveries will bring forth exciting prospects for broad advances in understanding the cosmos and the life within it over the next two decades.

Hosted by Dr. Frank Summers. Recorded live on February 3, 2015 at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD, USA

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Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere’s skywatching events with “Tonight’s Sky.” Venus and Mars huddle together on cold February nights, and star clusters are prominent in the month’s constellations.

“Tonight’s Sky” is produced by HubbleSite.org, online home of the Hubble Space Telescope. This is a recurring show, and you can find more episodes — and other astronomy videos — at HubbleSite.org.

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In this video I show you the effects of hot ice on an iPhone 6! Can it survive sodium acetate?

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This segment looks at the state of astronomy before Hubble and the difficulties of observing from the ground that drove the need for a space telescope. Astronomers instrumental in the Hubble project in the 60s and 70s reflect on how the design of the telescope was forced to evolve because methods used by ground-based observatories weren’t practical in space.

Given the long, storied history of the Hubble Space Telescope including 25 years of discoveries, we are holding a series of Hubble Hangouts dedicated to exploring its history.  This is the second hangout in that series.

Please join +Tony Darnell, Dr +Carol Christian and +Scott Lewis  as they discuss some of the early discoveries of Hubble with the author of several books on Hubble, +Carolyn Collins Petersen

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It’s that time again, time for +Tony Darnell and Dr. +Frank Summers  to get together and fill you in on all the latest science and happenings from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hope you can all make it, please bring your questions and comments!

At a time when our earliest human ancestors had recently mastered walking upright, the heart of our Milky Way galaxy underwent a titanic eruption, driving gases and other material outward at 2 million miles per hour. Now, at least 2 million years later, astronomers are witnessing the aftermath of the explosion: billowing clouds of gas towering about 30,000 light-years above and below the plane of our galaxy.

The enormous structure, dubbed the Fermi Bubbles, was discovered five years ago as a gamma-ray glow on the sky in the direction of the galactic center. The balloon-like features have since been observed in X-rays and radio waves. But astronomers needed NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to measure for the first time the velocity and composition of the mystery lobes. They now seek to calculate the mass of the material being blown out of our galaxy, which could lead them to determine the outburst’s cause from several competing scenarios. The graphic shows how Hubble probed the light from a distant quasar to analyze the outflow. The quasar’s light passed through one of the bubbles. Imprinted on that light is information about the outflow’s speed, composition, and eventually mass.

Please join +Tony Darnell, Dr +Carol Christian and +Scott Lewis  as they examine this discovery with the PI’s who made it!

Read more here:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/03/

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Astronomers gathered at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society on January 6, 2015 to discuss the future of space telescopes in the Ultraviolet, Optical, and Infrared (UVOIR) wavelengths.

Here are presentations outlining what may be achieved and how.

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