A Window On The Universe

[ladyboylizard]

so the galaxy doesn't really look like the images from humble. the elastomer used fits liberator to make it visually more stunning?

[makelelemakelele]

i hate his voice

[Fnordicus]

Yea, hut why does the announcer pronounce hubblecast like holocaust? Bloody Americans ;-)

[puncheex]

@Fnordicus: Dr. Joe Liske is a German astronomer with ESO.

[MrMicraphone]

My Great Uncle made a lot of money making this telescope ..

[gulllars]

What they don't say in this video that i think they should, is the brightness filtering they use is simelar to High Dynamic Range filtering, like some cameras have. I would love to play around with this thing, but i don't have CS3 installed right now :(

HDR works great when you have a Gamma variable as well as RGB. Some things that are white are brighter than others, and some things that are black are darker than others. With a gamma variable you can bring out more information from white/black.

[marklethanarkle]

really educational, thanks for the video!

[AeroJimE27]

I love the topics and the videos but OMG! What a horrible representation of what happens. You have CG, use it to show what really happens, not to show an analogy! Buckets on a conveyor, give me a break.

[tubester4567]

I volunteer to be blasted off into space.

[religionOFFENDSme]

Thank You... I had a few questions answered there.

[YoungDoGood]

2:37

when he put that glove i was o man. not a rectal exam

[MeansDarling]

That's super cool.

[sigurd83]

using a nightvision monocular you can see much more star in the night sky. btw never use nightvision googles during the day you'll ruins the filters inside ;) keep them the protective case until you need to use them

[chopin65]

I feel a bit disenchanted, now that I have a small insight into how these images are captured and made. : (

[omegavalerius]

why?

[deefsound]

Sorry to repeat the previous reply but why?

[chopin65]

It stems from a crutch, a rational view of the natural world and the cosmos. I am an artist and poet. I was raised Baptist (am now an agnostic), so I am still recovering from my education. My ego gets the better of my imagination, and can cloud my judgment. I have (to my detriment) an irrational attraction to mystery. There just seemed to be a deflation of my aesthetic experience when I learned how the images were made. Crazy, right?

[IFloridaMotocrossI]

Post more of these. They are the best!

[butlerproman]

The universe is just CGI programmed into the Matrix.

[tarose71]

how dare you blaspheme & claim this is anything other than the creator god at work!!!

...just kidding LOL, i couldnt help myself ;-P

great show guys, love it !!

[sigurd83]

don't start it mate :D there's enough stupid religions people on youtube :p

[tarose71]

lol... sorry :-)

[EdgeRatedR007]

joe liske= my hero

[Ormaaj]

So hubble images are basically uber HDR images?

You could probably do this with any HDR processing software, or even just gimp.

[ZepMan63]

Fascinating video...

What I'd really like to see is an actual photograph of our own galaxy from the outside. Unfortunately traveling almost 100K LY is impossible.

[jjmblue7]

On the bright side, at least we are able to see accurate representations of what it would look like. ^.^'

[sigurd83]

google "astronomy picture of the day" archives and you'll have plenty images from the nasa at very high resolution ;) you might find some nice wallpapers too.

[DarthHuru]

"miniature buckets to collect light"

i love this metaphor :D

[gilraen789]

I always wondered about the images we see from Hubble and their relationship to what we would actually see in space. Thanks ESA, NASA, Hubblecast, Dr. J. and especially you, Best of Science.

[teddirez]

its HDR imaging for stars.. groovy

[NecipPerver]

These images are just incredible!!! I have a telescope and do my own stacked astro images what I see from the hubble images really puts into perspective how valueable the hubble images are, these really are jaw dropping!

[odin92681]

Google FITS LIBERATOR to make our own images... tight.

[Hereticbooks]

Isn't science fantastic?

[A1gregjockca]

@Hereticbooks especially when it's in a hoity-toity british accent.

[Hereticbooks]

@A1gregjockca

ah that doesn't hurt either.

[A1gregjockca]

@Hereticbooks nah that doesn't hurt at all. but you know what does hurt? eating a live grenade.

[Hereticbooks]

@A1gregjockca

or shoving that grenade up your ass whether live or not.

[A1gregjockca]

@Hereticbooks or being slowly inflated with a tire pump.

[puncheex]

@A1gregjockca: Uhhh...German, actually.

[a12gregjockca]

@puncheex shut up, cuntpad. nobody gave you permission to speak, you insolent slave pig. eat up my cum.

[puncheex]

@a12gregjockca: Well, I can understand that. "A shameless psychotically deranged asshole wreaks havoc on YouTube for sick lulz." Pretty small havoc, that.

[a12gregjockca]

@puncheex not as small as your shrivelled clit you call a penis, asshole. ROFL!

[InfiniteGXT]

arent they making a new space telescope thats going to replace hubble soon?

[godlessmessiah]

yes its called the James Webb telescope, its far bigger and will travel far further away from earth than hubble.

I presume many of the shadow planets that appear to look like earth (from what we can see so far) will be seen in full view.

Ofcourse it may be some years before this gets launched.

[puncheex]

See .jwst(dot)nasa(dot)gov. The Webb telescope will be primarily an ultraviolet instrument (don't worry, you'll still get lots of good visuals) and will be launched into the L2 Lagrange point, about 1 million miles beyond the earth away from the sun, and so will be well beyond any possibility of a rescue mission. It will be launched in 2014 according to current schedules.

[InfiniteGXT]

Well I certainly hope it doesnt get destroyed in a launch sequence or something. If it does arrive safely into its orbit then that will revolutionize astronomy forever!

[bjeh001]

Great info.

[Heroasango]

Great information!

Thanks for posting.

Please keep up the good work.

All the best to you.

[Xenolupa]

Indeed. But, we all must die, eventually. So, you are 14 years old, a fan of metal music, and you thought it would be a fun idea to post silly comments on intelligent videos. Wow. Good career move. Make a lot of friends, that way. Ah, wonderful life you are going to have. My respect for you is, well, how would I describe it, like respect for a turd. I should avoid it. Too late, I just stepped into it. I should have respected it, stepped around it. Be a good kid and never do this again, please.

[Distpg7]

hahahaha, thank you. you have made my day.

[bangNL94]

Well, I'm 15 years old now, but yeah you're right. I was childish, very childish...

*shame*

please forgive me

[Xenolupa]

Thanks for saying that in public.

It's not my video. This is from BestOfScience. Ask them.

[3tangle3]

@Xenolupa I have seen indefinite life span skin cells....still growing..and non cancerous.....you can freely die if you wish mate heheh...but I will give life a try to answer a few epic questions first

[StrawHatSushi]

@Xenolupa Im 14 years old, and a fan of metal music, but i still like science and biology.i hate prejudices. a lot of people think that all germans wear leather pants and are always drinking beer and are nazis,or that all poles steal cars and other stuff.childrens arent innocent,not all teens are sexiest and horniest drugdealers. each person is an individual.