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What Happens If You Fill Up Propane Tank with iPhone XS?

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We cut open a slot in a propane tank, put an iPhone XS in, sealed it shut and filled it up with propane for 24 hours. Will it survive?

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Recycle Your Used Pulsars: Explaining the Extra Gamma-Radiation from the Central Milky Way

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Recycle Your Used Pulsars: Explaining the Extra Gamma-Radiation from the Central Milky Way
Christopher Britt of the Space Telescope Science Institute

Gamma rays, the highest energy light in the electromagnetic spectrum, generally arise from extreme events. For over a decade, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has mapped these energetic cosmic emissions and helped characterize their sources. A particular conundrum is found in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, which emits significantly more gamma-ray light than can be easily explained. Join us to probe the possible origins of this mysterious gamma radiation, from dark matter to ancient remnants of old dead stars, and explore a method to potentially solve this powerful puzzle.

Host: Dr. Frank Summers of the Space Telescope Science Institute

Recorded live on Tuesday, June 4, 2019, at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

More information: https://hubblesite.org/resource-gallery/learning-resources/public-lecture-series

Constructing the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram for Globular Star Cluster

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A Hubble Space Telescope color image of the core of the globular star cluster Omega Centauri is used to construct a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of the stellar populations in the cluster. When stars are sorted by brightness and color they can be used to create a graph that astronomers use to trace stellar evolution.

Read the news release: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2010-28

Hubble Chronicles Brightening of Ring around an Exploded Star

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This time-lapse video sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images reveals dramatic changes in a ring of material around the exploded star Supernova 1987A.

The images, taken from 1994 to 2016, show the effects of a shock wave from the supernova blast smashing into the ring. The ring begins to brighten as the shock wave hits it. The ring is about one light-year across.

Discovered in 1987, Supernova 1987A is the closest observed supernova to Earth since 1604. The exploded star resides 163,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.

Read the news release: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2017-08

Visible and Infrared Visualization of the Orion Nebula

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This visualization explores the Orion Nebula using both visible and infrared light. Two correlated computer models were created based on visible-light observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and infrared-light observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope.

As the camera flies into the star-forming region, the sequence cross-fades back and forth between the visible and infrared views. The glowing gaseous landscape has been illuminated and carved by the high-energy radiation and strong stellar winds from the massive hot stars in the central cluster. The infrared observations generally show cooler temperature gas at a deeper layer of the nebula that extends well beyond the visible image. In addition, the infrared showcases many faint stars that shine primarily at longer wavelengths. The higher resolution visible observations show finer details including the wispy bow shocks and tadpole-shaped proplyds. In this manner, the movie illustrates the contrasting features uncovered by multi-wavelength astronomy.

Read the news release: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2018-04

Hubble Observes Atmospheres of TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone

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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have conducted the first spectroscopic survey of Earth-sized planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system’s habitable zone. Hubble reveals that at least the inner five planets do not seem to contain puffy, hydrogen-rich atmospheres similar to gaseous planets such as Neptune. This means the atmospheres may be more shallow and rich in heavier gases like carbon dioxide, methane, and oxygen.

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NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and K. Jackson;
Music: “Deep Groove” by Danny McCarthy [ASCAP] and Thomas Dill [ASCAP]; Soundcast Music SESAC; Chronic Trax; Killer Tracks Production Music

The Fiery Fate of Exoplanets

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The Fiery Fate of Exoplanets
Joleen Carlberg of the Space Telescope Science Institute

What happens to planets when their stars begin to die? For many planets discovered outside our solar system, the answer is a trip into the fiery depths of their host star. The most successful ways that astronomers discover exoplanets are biased toward finding both large planets and planets orbiting close to their host stars. Consequently, the population of known exoplanets includes a sizeable subpopulation of massive planets in tiny orbits. During the late stages of its life, a star will expand 10 to 100 times—well beyond the orbits of many of these exoplanets. Such planetary engulfment can alter the properties of the host star. Dr. Joleen Carlberg will discuss various scenarios of these planet swallowing events as well as the observational clues they may leave behind.

Host: Dr. Frank Summers of the Space Telescope Science Institute

Recorded live on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

More information: https://hubblesite.org/resource-gallery/learning-resources/public-lecture-series