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Spacefiles: Telescopes

10 minutes 53 seconds

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For many years the Hubble Space Telescope has collected breathtaking images of the cosmos with remarkable clarity. Now, ground based telescopes are fighting back. They are combining the precision of several instruments and correcting for atmospheric shimmer. This program presents and explains the designs, uses, and outputs of different types of telescopes.

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Internal view of a telescope. Caption: It collects light like the lens of an eye.
Spacefiles
Episode 1
10 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Planets orbiting around the sun. Their elliptic are visible and there is a connection indicated between the two planets shown. Caption: Kepler explained those retrograde loops.
Spacefiles
Episode 2
11 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Dense points of light on a black background. Caption: The oldest could be 11 to 13 billion years old,
Spacefiles
Episode 3
10 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Nebulous clouds and points of light with a black hole at the center. Caption: We can't see a black hole, but it bends passing light.
Spacefiles
Episode 4
10 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12