1998 SPACE SCIENCE VIDEOTAPES |
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| HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SECOND SERVICING MISSION RESOURCE REEL | G98-013 | 00/00/98 | 00:53:18 | Every few years, the telescope is visited by a Space Shuttle to allow astronauts to switch old instruments for new. The Second Servicing Mission for the Hubble Space Telescope started on February 11th, 1997. The primary goals of the Mission were: the replacement of two 1st generation Scientific Instruments [Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) and the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS)] with two new ones [Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) and Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS)] , and the replacement of a variety of failing or degraded units (FGS, DIU-2, ESTRs, RSU-1, SADE-2). These new instruments will act like eyes sharing the 2.4-meter telescope mirror with the remaining instruments: the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and the Faint Object Camera. The Hubble Space Telescope can take clearer pictures than ground based telescopes because its images are not blurred by the Earth's atmosphere.
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| ITEM (1 ): BIPOLAR PLANETARY NEBULA ANIMATION
- (part 1) The Giant Star expands and engulfs the Companion. Inside the Giant, the core of the Giant and the Companion Star act like an egg beater and make the star rotate rapidly. (part 2) This equatorial disk acts like a belt which forces fast winds to expand material into huge lobes, forming one of the common bipolar nebular shapes. (TRT: :40) Courtesy: Animator - Thomas Goertel
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| ITEM (2): M2-9 "TWINJET NEBULA" - A pair of collimated jets of hot air shoot out in opposite directions at high speeds. The jets are powered by material from the outer layers of a close pair of stars at the center. Exquisite cores of gas are shed from these stars in the later stages of their lives. Courtesy: Bruce Balick, University of Washington/NASA
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| ITEM (3): NGC 3568 "LEMON SLICE" - This "lemon slice" planetary nebula is an example of a "simple" shape. The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed detailed structure that is refining theories about the last stages in stars' lives. Courtesy: Howard Bond, The Space Telescope Science Institute/NASA
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| ITEM (4): NGC 3918 A PLANETARY NEBULA - Hubble Space Telescope images of a planetary nebula show a great variety of shapes, such as this elongated nebula with nested concentric shells that were ejected by the aging star. Courtesy: Howard Bond, The Space Telescope Science Institute/NASA
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| ITEM (5): NGC 5307 - The pinwheel pattern of the nebula, imaged by Hubble, has structures mirrored on the opposite side of the star. Courtesy: Howard Bond, The Space Telescope Science Institute/NASA
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| ITEM (6): NGC 6826 - Hubble image reveals the green shell which is a bubble of hot gas that pushed away from the star. The two glowing red "fliers" on the sides might be chunks of older gas caught by the wind of material blown out of the dying star. Courtesy: Bruce Balick, University of Washington/NASA
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| ITEM (7): NGC 7009 - The Hubble image shows shells of gas and a pair of bipolar jets with "fliers" caught in the outflow on both sides of the nebula. Such beautiful shapes offer clues about events at the end of stars' lives. Courtesy: Bruce Balick, University of Washington/NASA
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| ITEM (8): HUBBLE 5 BIPOLAR NEBULA - Hubble image of a bipolar nebula. The two lobes, like balloons expanded from the heat, are caused by high-speed winds hitting shocks of older material. The white hot star at the center illuminates the nebula. Courtesy: Bruce Balick, University of Washington/NASA
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| ITEM (9): ARTIST CONCEPTION: THE SUN: FINAL BLAZE OF GLORY - An artists concept of how our solar system might look 5 billion years from now, when the Sun has burned out and cast off an incandescent shell of glowing gases. Courtesy: James Gitlin, The Space Telescope Science Institute/NASA
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| ITEM (10): 11/2/95 EAGLE NEBULA - Hubble reveals a stellar nursery in the gaseous pillars of the Eagle Nebula.
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| ITEM (11): 11/20/95 VIEW OF THE CENTER OF THE ORION NEBULA - Hubble exposes a star forming region. Fifteen separate images are needed for this mosaic to view the center of the Orion Nebula, 2.5 light years across.
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| ITEM (12): 1/5/96 STAR FIELD - Hubble looks billions of years into the past for the deepest image into space ever taken.
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| ITEM (13): 4/5/96 ANIMATION OF A DYING STAR - Animation showing the ring of gases blown off a dying star. Hubble uncovers comet-shaped knots around the inner ring of the Helix Nebula.
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| ITEM (14): 11/19/96 ANIMATION OF A ERUPTING QUASAR - Animation showing a quasar erupting in the core of a normal spiral galaxy. The quasar is so bright it outshines all of the other stars in the galaxy.
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| ITEM (15): 11/19/96 HUBBLE IMAGES OF GALACTIC HOMES OF QUASARS
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| ITEM (16): THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM (ANIMATION) - Animations of the electromagnetic spectrum, the communication path, and the Hubble Telescope.
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| ITEM (17): ANIMATION OF HST - Communications through TDRSS, White Sands, NM, and DOMSAT, to the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). (TRT: :23:04)COMMUNICATION
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| ITEM (18): TDRS ANIMATION Animation of the TDRS Communications Satellite depicting the data flow from TDRS to Earth, equivalent to a set of encyclopedias every second. (TRT: :23:04)
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| ITEM (19): HST ANIMATION - "Glamour" shots of the telescope in space (5 sequences). (TRT: 1:49:06)
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| ITEM (20): STS-82 LAUNCH AND EVA HIGHLIGHTS
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| ITEM (21): STOCC - Activity in Space Telescope Operations Control Center (STOCC) at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) during the mission.
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| ITEM (22): PRE-MISSION TRAINING IN CLEANROOM AT GSFC
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| ITEM (23): ANIMATION OF THE NICMOS INSTRUMENT
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| ITEM (24): B-ROLL OF NICMOS AT BALL AEROSPACE CLEANROOM
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| ITEM (25): ANIMATION OF THE STIS INSTRUMENT
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| ITEM (26): B-ROLL BALL AEROSPACE CLEANROOM
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