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Triple feature bonus. A splendid video that expands on and ties the first two together!

The Ultimate Guide to Black Holes
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Dan, you are too cool for school:

Pick on me if you want, I'm awaiting the new Cosmos:

http://youtu.be/gMJxjYRXYkU

Vicente says

http://www.gMJxjYRXYkU

Fuck yeah! I think I just had an orgasm.

I'll admit that I normally would be skeptical about a remake of a classic like Carl Sagan's The Cosmos, but if anyone can pull it off it's Neil deGrasse Tyson. Plus all the discoveries since the original... I'm totally there.

I love cartoons.
I'm a Looney Toons man my self.

I just love these animations, and artist renditions of the latest hubble discoveries.

Almost never do they show you the original image, that is because in most cases it is no more than 3 pixels of data.

Just three pixels, and the Scientists deduce the atmosphere is blue and it rains glass in winds of 1400mph.

(queue Theremin music)

CaptainShuddup says

Just three pixels, and the Scientists deduce the atmosphere is blue and it rains glass in winds of 1400mph.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/laser-analysis2.htm

One pixel is enough if you understand spectroscopy.

Dan8267 says

CaptainShuddup says

Just three pixels, and the Scientists deduce the atmosphere is blue and it rains glass in winds of 1400mph.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/laser-analysis2.htm

One pixel is enough if you understand spectroscopy.

Good general description of laser spectroscopy. Try this one as well.

http://ssed.gsfc.nasa.gov/hipwac/howitworks.html

SO you're telling me that pixel if information isn't tainted by billions and billions of other particles floating in space by time the light travels that far through space?

Like the time Scientist accidentally caught a gyser gushing off Enceladus now they have every sun in the universe with a few gas planets with gigantic flatulent moons.

It's speculative pondering, careers are built and institutions are funded by these illusions. And nobody dares not say anything, because damn it, they want some of that!
Look I'm not saying that there is not a lot of good science involved.
A lot of space huey crap, that we're so great at inventing and selling, BUT!!!
While these assholes are making highdef pictures and animations playing out their wildest space cowboy adventures.
The damn Ruskies are utilizing the science in a practical way like their uncrackable quantum encryption, that is beyond anything we've got.

CaptainShuddup says

SO you're telling me that pixel if information isn't tainted by billions and billions of other particles floating in space by time the light travels that far through space?

Dust would block that light or diffract it? The pixel is the light of a star not the light of dust. If there was that much dust you wouldn't see the star.

"One that scorns the improbable is like the caterpillar that, setting up to cross a forest trail, refuses to believe it will be made into a freeway before it reaches the other side."

Then why does our atmosphere tint the sun light in a wide spectrum of colors, rather than just block the sun outright, and just shroud the earth in darkness?

CaptainShuddup says

SO you're telling me that pixel if information isn't tainted by billions and billions of other particles floating in space by time the light travels that far through space?

The dust attenuates the light, it might skew the overall color a bit to the red by preferentially scattering the bluer colors but the pattern of the line spectra remain characteristic of the compounds that emitted them.

The doppler shift caused by the movement of the source and the detector will blue or red shift these spectra a bit, that's how you get the wind speed

CaptainShuddup says

Then why does our atmosphere tint the sun light in a wide spectrum of colors, rather than just block the sun outright, and just shroud the earth in darkness?

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/blsky.htm

Heraclitusstudent says

Dust would block that light or diffract it?

Dust scatters light.

CaptainShuddup says

The damn Ruskies are utilizing the science in a practical way like their uncrackable quantum encryption, that is beyond anything we've got.

That you know of...

CaptainShuddup says

why does our atmosphere tint the sun light in a wide spectrum of colors

The atmosphere angle at sun set and dawn may also decompose the light and make it red. This is still part of the spectrum coming from the sun.

New Renter says

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/blsky.htm

I know the answer, I just laugh at you clowns the honestly believe that the light we're seeing from millions of light years away, isn't effected in someway, and the spectrum analyses can be taken as undisputed findings. Pretty pictures and all.

CaptainShuddup says

New Renter says

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/blsky.htm

I know the answer, I just laugh at you clowns the honestly believe that the light we're seeing from millions of light years away, isn't effected in someway, and the spectrum analyses can be taken as undisputed findings. Pretty pictures and all.

Oh its affected. Doppler shifts, attenuation, gravitational lensing, and other phenomena absolutely DO affect what happens to the light between here and there.

Its accounted for in the data analysis.

sbh says

CaptainShuddup says

I know the answer, I just laugh at you clowns the honestly believe that the light we're seeing from millions of light years away, isn't effected in someway, and the spectrum analyses can be taken as undisputed findings. Pretty pictures and all.

The evidence of your ignorance grows exponentially with your every utterance.

I think he's trolling.

Trolling, or out of his depth. Captain, read up on emission and absorbtion spectra. One can tell not only the composition and speed relative to earth of the star emitting the light, but also the composition of all the matter that affects the light along its path.

There is a huge difference between raw (and BORING) scientific data, and artwork inspired by it to hold the attention of the masses.
The beautiful artistic graphics depict the hard science of the subject matter as "faithfully" as the artists who make covers for science fiction books and leave you wondering if they even read the book (but they got you to pick it up off the shelf!)