For the past few months I’ve been doing a series of short astronomy videos with producer/director Tom Lucas. Unlike my own videos I do in my house, these are professionally made, and I’ve been very happy with the past few.
Yesterday the sixth episode was posted, called "Hubble’s Hotties". It’s a Top Ten List of Hubble images, except it’s only really the Top Six. Sorry, but there’s only so much you can squeeze into five minutes!
It’s also available in high-res (click the link under the video on the YouTube page).
We filmed this at the Denver Museum of Science & Nature, and I’m grateful for the use of their facility. And I’ll be back there on the 11th of December to give a talk about asteroid impacts and my book, Death from the Skies! It’s a great place, and I hope some of you can join me there.
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Great Job Phil!
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Nice museum, looks like a disco to me!
PS: Watch out the new Big Picture images of Hubble, pretty sweet aswell
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
And here I was expecting pictures of the ladies who work with the Hubble. I am such a sexist pig! *hangs his head in shame*
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
PS2: images not yet on the website
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Interesting short intros to the Hubble pictures.
May I suggest that, if available, you also present a link to a full or high res picture you are talking about. I think youtube enables links on videos somehow. Use the full possibilities of multimedia.
Keep on filming, nice videos.
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:55 pm
What are the other four?
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Great job! I will have this on my blog!
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Ithere a way to add this as a video podcast, so I could watch this on my ipod while riding the bus?
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Phil;
Good little video, but I cannot believe that you said “when they shed this mortal coil” in reference to “the death” of sun-size stars. Not exactly scientifically accurate.
Loved your book by-the-way.
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Great vid Phil!
with regards to HST…WOW…simply breathtaking
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Phil Plait in one of his best moments.
Thank you Phil
December 2nd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Hi Phil
I’m getting a warning that the video has an embedded Actns/Swif.T virus. You may want to check that. For more info see:
http://www.ajax-blog.com/actnsswift-virus-affecting-embedded-youtube-vids.html
December 2nd, 2008 at 7:20 pm
hdhondt: Thanks for the heads up. I’m going to stop putting off that move to Linux now.
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:02 am
Nice work, Phil! I will link to this later today so my reader (;>)} can see it, too!
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:53 am
Phi,
Great video! Minor point of constructive criticism: you seem to be over-using the word “literally” lately. It’s a bit distracting.
Ryan
December 5th, 2008 at 7:20 am
We wish we had you back at NASA, perhaps we could put you on a Hubble road tour for 2009! Great job with the video.
December 6th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
That was great Phil. Really nice compilation with most of my favorite shots in there.
I must say however, that my all time favorite Hubble images are the ‘deep field’ ones. Einstein rings and the obvious warping of space and quasars and such, and basically the feeling of how small we are in this vast and extremely old universe give me chills every time.
December 6th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
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December 8th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Phil – Will you be signing your book at the museum on the 11th? I hope so…