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Daniel Pomarède
Daniel Pomarède
@pomarede@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

It's Stephen Hawking's birthday. The occasion to share this fantastic video he produced as part of his Genius documentatry series. Hawking elaborates on our place in the Universe, including our membership to the Laniakea supercluster of galaxies that we discovered back in 2014.

The complete documentary: https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/hawking_genius_ep06_full/where-are-we-full-episode-genius-by-stephen-hawking/

#StephenHawking #Cosmology #Laniakea #LaniakeaSupercluster #galaxies #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #science #cosmography

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Where Are We?: Full Episode | Genius by Stephen Hawking | PBS LearningMedia

Have you ever thought about where you are in the universe? In this episode of Genius by Stephen Hawking, learn with a group of volunteers how scientists have oriented themselves on the Earth’s surface, within the solar system, out to the reaches of the galaxy, and beyond.
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Daniel Pomarède
Daniel Pomarède
@pomarede@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

It's Stephen Hawking's birthday. The occasion to share this fantastic video he produced as part of his Genius documentatry series. Hawking elaborates on our place in the Universe, including our membership to the Laniakea supercluster of galaxies that we discovered back in 2014.

The complete documentary: https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/hawking_genius_ep06_full/where-are-we-full-episode-genius-by-stephen-hawking/

#StephenHawking #Cosmology #Laniakea #LaniakeaSupercluster #galaxies #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #science #cosmography

PBS LearningMedia

Where Are We?: Full Episode | Genius by Stephen Hawking | PBS LearningMedia

Have you ever thought about where you are in the universe? In this episode of Genius by Stephen Hawking, learn with a group of volunteers how scientists have oriented themselves on the Earth’s surface, within the solar system, out to the reaches of the galaxy, and beyond.
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@nasa@social.beachcom.org  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

NASA Webb Finds Early-Universe Analog’s Unexpected Talent for Making Dust https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-early-universe-analogs-unexpected-talent-for-making-dust/ #NASA #Astrophysics #Galaxies #IrregularGalaxies #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #OriginEvolutionOfTheUniverse #ScienceResearch #TheUniverse

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NASA Webb Finds Early-Universe Analog’s Unexpected Talent for Making Dust

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one of the most chemically primitive
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Scientists Identify ‘Astronomy’s Platypus’ with NASA’s Webb Telescope https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/scientists-identify-astronomys-platypus-with-nasas-webb-telescope/ #NASA #Astrophysics #Galaxies #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #ScienceResearch #TheUniverse

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Scientists Identify ‘Astronomy’s Platypus’ with NASA’s Webb Telescope

After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of
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@nasa@social.beachcom.org  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

NASA’s Hubble Examines Cloud-9, First of New Type of Object https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-examines-cloud-9-first-of-new-type-of-object/ #NASA #Astrophysics #AstrophysicsDivision #DarkMatter #Galaxies #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #HubbleSpaceTelescope

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NASA’s Hubble Examines Cloud-9, First of New Type of Object

A team using Hubble uncovered a new type of astronomical object — a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud, a remnant of early galaxy formation.
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