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0:44 Perseid Meteors over HET mcdonaldobservatory 233 views 9 months ago The Perseid meteor shower peaked August 11, 2012. Here, it rains meteors over the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory. About 2/3 of the way through, look for the...
3:29 Teachers Talk About Workshop Experience at McDonald Observatory mcdonaldobservatory 244 views 1 year ago Future and current K-12 teachers from the UTeach program attended a 3-day workshop at McDonald Observatory in June 2011. They learned about the life cycle of stars, black h...
8:39 Black Holes: Stranger Than Fiction mcdonaldobservatory 1,799 views 1 year ago The concept of black holes has intrigued scientists for hundreds of years. This video from the Texas Cosmology Center at The University of Texas at Austin provides an intro...
7:22 UT-Austin and Texas A&M: Partners in the Giant Magellan Telescope mcdonaldobservatory 627 views 1 year ago The University of Texas and Texas A&M University are founding partners of the Giant Magellan Telescope. This next-generation giant telescope, still in the planning and fund...
0:05 Four Planets Huddle Up in Pre-Dawn Sky May 9-12 mcdonaldobservatory 337 views 2 years ago Four of the five planets visible to the unaided eye huddle quite close together in the pre-dawn sky May 9-12, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. For complete in...
9:02 Cosmic Inflation: Puffing up the Universe mcdonaldobservatory 1,709 views 2 years ago Learn how astronomers at the Texas Cosmology Center are studying the era of cosmic inflation. For more information, see: http://www.tcc.utexas.edu/
1:01:10 Extreme Black Holes Press Conference mcdonaldobservatory 764 views 2 years ago This press conference on Extreme Black Holes features research from Univ. of Texas at Austin astronomers Karl Gebhardt and Jeremy Murphy. Their work was carried out at both...
2:13 A Powerful Instrument for Astronomy: VIRUS-P mcdonaldobservatory 2,920 views 2 years ago Astronomer Karl Gebhardt describes the VIRUS-P instrument, which is used on the Harlan J. Smith Telescope at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory. VIRUS...
0:08 Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday, November 17 mcdonaldobservatory 156 views 2 years ago This year, the Leonid meteor shower best viewing will be in the two to three hours before dawn on November 17 and 18, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. There ...
0:06 Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks Tuesday, Dec. 14 mcdonaldobservatory 530 views 2 years ago The Geminid meteor shower will be at its best a few hours before dawn on Dec. 14, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. The Geminids are one of the most reliabl...

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