PS Vita Overview

LuisMacintosh: http://www.youtube.com/luismacintosh

In this video Luis from LuisMacintosh gives us an in-depth overview of the PS Vita, the new Sony PlayStation Vita which is the successor to the original PSP. The PS Vita sports a 5 inch OLED touchscreen, quad core CPU, dual cameras, dual analog sticks as well as a custom UI and OS. You can see some gameplay to take a closer look at the graphics as well as a general look at the hardware and software.

Tour of Star-Forming Region Sharpless 2-106

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A 3-D visualization of the star-forming region Sharpless 2-106 (a.k.a. S106) takes us through a wonderland of stars and glowing gas.

For information on how these animations are made, try these links:

http://hubblesite.org/blog/2012/01/a-new-perspective-on-hubble-images/

http://webcast.stsci.edu/webcast/detail.xhtml?talkid=1583&parent=1

Hubble Space Telescope Observations Map

This animation starts with a flat projection of the entire sky. In this projection the sky is bisected by the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Hubble Space Telescope target locations over the 21 years are shown sequentially, from solar system to extragalactic. Stellar targets are spread over the entire celestial sphere; planets lie along the solar system’s ecliptic plane (S-shaped in this projection), and distant targets are at high galactic latitudes. As of July 4, 2011, Hubble has made one million science observations.

The Butterfly Nebula

This slow pan of the Butterfly or Bug Nebula captures the detail available in the Hubble image of the planetary nebula, located 3,800 light-years away from Earth. The nebula’s gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles per hour.

Find out more on HubbleSite: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/25/video/h/

The Helix Nebula

A 3-D model of the Helix Nebula shows a structure much more complex than suspected. The Helix Nebula is a planetary nebula, created when gas is expelled by a dying, Sun-sized star. The star becomes a white dwarf — look for it in the center of the Helix.

Find out more on HubbleSite: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/32/