Hubble Space Telescope Movies at Rice University

When it comes to big-budget action movies, Rice University astronomer Patrick Hartigan prefers Hubble to Hollywood.

Using Hubble Space Telescope images collected over the past 17 years, Hartigan has created short movies that offer astronomers their first glimpse of the fluid dynamics that occur in stellar jets, huge gouts of gas and particles that spew from the poles of newborn stars.

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[Rushthatspeaks]

Wow and it only took 17 years to get this footage. That's like what 20 years less than it took to make Avatar?

[nearspaceresearch]

What a delight to stumble upon a video of a professor of mine from Rice! Glad to see you are still studying stellar jets Dr. Hartigan! Brings back memories of our Nebular Astrophysics class.

[AJ06]

Up next, watch a solar system form! Id definitely love to see that, hopefully our decedents are lucky enough.

[amiranGo]

@mgmirkin sparky.rice.edu/~hartigan/movi­es.html

[mgmirkin]

Is there a link to the ACTUAL Hubble animation / video around somewhere? For those of us who want to see the original for ourselves?

[FTLFactor]

For processes that take as long as anatomically modern humans have walked the Earth, it's amazing how much can be learned from images taken over just a few short years.

[dr3w604life]

Did anybody else notice that from 2:18 to 2:37, the green cloud looks like the space rip from Futurama?

[tampafloridabeachbum]

Excellent!!! Now we only need about another 100,000 years or so of observations and we'll start to have a pretty good idea about what's really going on. I'd say the guys working on this project have some pretty good job security! lol ;-)