NOVA (PBS) - Hunting the Edge of Space - Part 1 (2010)

NOVA (PBS) Season 37 - Episode 15 - 2010/04/06 - Hunting the Edge of Space: The Mystery of the Milky Way

NOVA celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope with a comprehensive look at how a simple instrument, the telescope, has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the universe. Hunting the Edge of Space takes viewers on a global adventure of discovery, dramatizing the innovations in technology and the achievements in science that have marked the rich history of the telescope. Then NOVA turns its attention to a new generation of ever-larger telescopes, poised to reveal answers to longstanding questions about our universe and, in turn, to raise new questions.

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[lmos26]

Remarkable quality for a 360p... Thank u for uploading!!

[creekstar7]

I just LOVE watching NOVA episodes like this one, but I can't help but curse the show when it makes me feel so small in this universe... XD

[adamrspears1981]

@shoshanish ...As I was previously explaining, water wants to be a vapor. The only reason water can also be a liquid or a solid on Earth is because, (1) the Earth's sky is heavy enough to press down on solid or liquid water to keep it from doing what it naturally wants to do which is exist as a vapor, & (2) at this amount of pressure pushing down on water from the sky, its temperature (the measure of the rate at which its molecules vibrate) will also keep it from naturally existing as a vapor

[adamrspears1981]

@shoshanish I've seen liquid water boil at 40 degrees F. Yes it boils in a vacuum because of less atmosphere exerting pressure on the liquid water; or as you stated a lack of pressure. I don't think there is such a thing as a frozen vapor state of matter. The reason why something (like water) is frozen is because its molecules lack the thermal energy needed to vibrate them enough to have the properties that (water) vapor has. Really water naturally wants to be in a vapor state.

[2eelShmeal]

@lmos26 Imagination is better than any video quality. (imo)

[shoshanish]

@alexamada doesnt water boil in a vacuum because of the lack of pressure?

if it can freeze fast enough, its possible for ti to stay that way.

im sorry i didnt respond earlier, youtubes newer layout makes it had to know when i have comment replies.

[RyanDemaree]

I highly doubt Galileo saw jupiter in even that much detail

I own a moder 50mm refractor and it shows nowhere near that much detail

[jorgepeterbarton]

@bbizzy89 i do have some issue with the cern thing, mainly journalists saying that its paving the way for time travel. there have been theories within general relativity about tachyonic neutrinos, although problems of causality arise, not real problems with math. thats one problem its only neutrinos which are particles that don't do anything! not heard the program you talk about, where can i find? the universe is expanding faster than light-its the actual space expanding, not things through it.

[bbizzy89]

@supahcanfly Good looks mang. Chase the poonani but grow your mind to, it actually helps with the ladies to, being deep and brooding and whatnot. But you have to be careful, Kurt Gödel literally drove himself into an asylum pondering deep concepts and the universe,the nature of reality and things like that. And that was the guy that Einstein thought was the smartest person around.

[bbizzy89]

@jorgepeterbarton i get that. though traversing a wormhole is like cheating in that we're not moving 'faster' than light but getting to the destination before light does. that being said, i recently saw something about "cracks" in space-time where light moves faster than light speed, then there was the reports that CERN propelled sub atomic particles slightly faster than light speed. We should keep our minds open is all I'm saying.

[supahcanfly]

@bbizzy89 oh yeah and im not a geek... im a really good athlete for someone whos the youngest in his grade