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Can You See the Moon Landing Site with A Telescope?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Yes, it is theoretically possible to use telescopes to see if the moon landings were real, but practically no. It would take an incredibly powerful telescope to see signs of moon landings on the lunar surface, and even the best...
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Cosmic Journeys: A Look through the Hubble Telescope

12th - Higher Ed
Pass through the eye of the Hubble Telescope to get an incredible glimpse of some of the most unbelievable galactic phenomena ever captured. Take a look at such unbelievable sights as interacting galaxies, planetary nebula ad pinwheel...
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Instructional Video0:38
Next Animation Studio

NASA's Hubble Telescope experiences mechanical failure

12th - Higher Ed
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has gone into safe mode after two of its four functioning gyroscopes stopped working.
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Instructional Video4:34
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Did the Hubble Telescope Confirm the First Exomoon?

3rd - 11th
The Hubble and Kepler space telescopes found evidence for what could be a giant moon accompanying a gas-giant planet that orbits the star Kepler-1625, located 8,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The moon may be as big as...
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Instructional Video0:55
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Hubble telescope finds most distant star ever seen

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers have sighted the outermost star the in known universe. Icarus, or LS1, is 9 billion years from Earth. Hubble saw it because of gravitational lensing, where distant star light is bent and magnified via the gravity of a passing...
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NASA’s Incredible Discovery Machine: The Story of the Hubble Space Telescope

3rd - 11th
Hubble's launch and deployment in April 1990 marked the most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo's telescope. Thanks to five servicing missions and more than 30 years of operation, our view of the universe and our place within...
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Instructional Video4:00
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The Evolution of Telescopes: From Galileo to Hubble

Pre-K - Higher Ed
People have been looking at outer space through telescopes since the time of Galileo. Learn how telescopes work and how they have expanded what we know about our solar system.
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Instructional Video10:55
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The Most Unbelievable Image Ever Captured by Hubble Space Telescope

12th - Higher Ed
The Most Unbelievable Image Ever Captured by Hubble Space Telescope
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Instructional Video1:18
Next Animation Studio

NASA renames its next-gen telescope after woman chief astronomer credited with launching the Hubble telescope

12th - Higher Ed
NASA has renamed its next-generation Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope after Nancy Roman, the agency’s first chief astronomer known as the Mother of Hubble.
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Instructional Video5:19
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The Hubble was Almost a $15B Disaster

12th - Higher Ed
The Hubble Space Telescope has been sending home images of the universe for more than thirty years, but none of its work would have been possible without the many servicing missions that kept it up to date.
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Instructional Video3:50
SciShow

The Future of Space Telescopes: Umbrellas & Glitter!

12th - Higher Ed
After Hubble and Webb, what's the future of space telescopes? Two ideas in planning stages right now involve the space-age versions of umbrellas and glitter.
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Instructional Video5:08
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ALMA: What We've Learned from One of the Best Telescopes on Earth

12th - Higher Ed
Move over Hubble, ALMA sees what you can't!
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Instructional Video3:55
SciShow

From Kepler to Webb: The History of the Telescope

12th - Higher Ed
Hank regales us with the history of the telescope, and then introduces us to some folks from the team who are working on the newest telescope in the chronology - the James Webb Space Telescope, an infrared telescope due to launch in 2018.
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Why It Took a Decade to Launch The James Webb Space Telescope | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
The James Webb Space Telescope has launched! But it was a very long road to get to this point, and we’ve been following the progress for a decade!
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Telescopes of Tomorrow

12th - Higher Ed
The telescopes of tomorrow will see in infrared and ultraviolet. They will peer through space and scan across time. They will allow us to find new supernovae, spot potentially hazardous asteroids, better understand dark energy and peer...
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Instructional Video12:00
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Science of the James Webb Telescope Explained!

12th - Higher Ed
You’ve probably heard about the James Webb Space Telescope and seen some cool pictures. But why should astronomers have all the fun? How do we get to use this new toy ourselves?
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Instructional Video5:22
SciShow

Mystery Solved: We Finally Know Why Betelgeuse Suddenly Faded | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Our neighboring star Betelgeuse got noticeably dimmer a few months ago, and thanks to the Hubble telescope, we recently figured out what was going on. Also, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico suffered some damage this week.
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TED-Ed

TED-ED: How small are we in the scale of the universe? - Alex Hofeldt

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In 1995, scientists pointed the Hubble Telescope at an area of the sky near the Big Dipper. The location was apparently empty, and the whole endeavor was risky _ what, if anything, was going to show up? But what came back was nothing...
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One Minute History

177 - The Hubble Space Telescope - One Minute History

12th - Higher Ed
The Hubble Space Telescope, launched on April 24, 1990 by the Space Shuttle Discovery, has revolutionized astronomy and captured the imagination of people around the world. Hubble's launch quickly turned into disappointment when it was...
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Instructional Video2:47
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NASA | Senator Mikulski Celebrates Hubble Success

3rd - 11th
The Hubble Space Telescope has been with us for nearly two decades. In that time, its breathtaking images have captured peoples imaginations and its groundbreaking science has revealed some of the many secrets of our universe. After five...
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Instructional Video1:22
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NASA | Hubble Team Reactions at the Telescope's Release

3rd - 11th
The Hubble Space Telescope has been with us for nearly two decades. In that time, its breathtaking images have captured peoples imaginations and its groundbreaking science has revealed some of the many secrets of our universe. After five...
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Instructional Video7:24
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NASA | Update: Hubble SM4 Flight Day 3

3rd - 11th
The Space Operations Control Center, also known as the STOCC, is responsible 24/7, 365 days a year for monitoring all Hubble systems and facilitating all of the telescope's science observations. Two teams of flight controllers designated...
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Instructional Video5:59
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NASA | Making Hubble More Powerful

3rd - 11th
The Hubble Space Telescope would not be able to produce its breathtaking science without the upgraded infrastructure targeted during the HST SM4 mission: Fine Guidance Sensor, Scientific Instrument Command and Data Handling, Soft Capture...
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Instructional Video8:42
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NASA | Update: Hubble SM4 Flight Day 8

3rd - 11th
The Space Operations Control Center, also known as the STOCC, is responsible 24/7, 365 days a year for monitoring all Hubble systems and facilitating all of the telescope's science observations. Two teams of flight controllers designated...

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