How do we study the stars? - Yuan-Sen Ting
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Our best technology can send men to the Moon and probes to the edge of our solar system, but these distances are vanishingly small compared to the size of the universe. How then can we learn about the galaxies beyond our own? Yuan-Sen Ting takes us into deep space to show how astronomers study the stars beyond our reach.
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Read how rainbows can be used to study the composition of stars, and to obtain the temperature of stars. Plasma in hotter stars moves more vigorously. This vigorous movement broadens the features in spectra due to the Doppler Effect. Visit the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian for more information!
The following are some of the cutting-edge telescopes in different wavelengths. Click on the link for each and find lots of information about the science that is being done using these telescopes. To get an idea of how things seen through each of these telescopes vary, check out the Crab Nebula in different wavelengths. Wow!
Radio/Sub-millimeter:
• Planck
• Very Large Array
• ALMA
Infrared:
• Herschel Space Observatory
• Spitzer Space Telescope
Optical:
• Hubble Telescope
• Gemini Telescope
Ultraviolet:
• FUSE
• GALEX
X-ray:
• Chandra X-ray Observatory
• XMM-Newton
The following are some of the cutting-edge telescopes in different wavelengths. Click on the link for each and find lots of information about the science that is being done using these telescopes. To get an idea of how things seen through each of these telescopes vary, check out the Crab Nebula in different wavelengths. Wow!
Radio/Sub-millimeter:
• Planck
• Very Large Array
• ALMA
Infrared:
• Herschel Space Observatory
• Spitzer Space Telescope
Optical:
• Hubble Telescope
• Gemini Telescope
Ultraviolet:
• FUSE
• GALEX
X-ray:
• Chandra X-ray Observatory
• XMM-Newton
About Space Ed
Space Ed helps you untangle the mysteries of space with the universe’s best videos on everything from Einstein's theory of relativity to what it would take to live on Mars. Brush up on the science, philosophy and mystery of space, because the fabric of the universe is the same fabric that connects us all.
Meet The Creators
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Director Tolga Yıldız, Serin İnan
- Educator Yuan-Sen Ting, Gautham Narayan, Amali Vaz
- Composer Ismail Genc
- Sound Designer Himalaya Sound
