X-Ray Sky
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A brief tour of the X-Ray sky and a look at sources of high energy X-Rays Credits Curtis Wong, MSR
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Seven Top Galaxies
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Amateur astronomers love to observe galaxies. Although you need a dark site, you can spot some galaxies even through small telescopes. This tour shows you seven of the sky's finest galaxies. Credits Michael Bakich, Astronomy Magazine
Search for Extra-Solar Planets
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Explains how astronomers are able to detect extrasolar planets and some findings from the TrES project and the promise of the Kepler telescope. Narrated and produced by Sanjana Sharma. This tour has a nice animation sequence that shows how an orbiting...
Over the Rainbow
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A tour of Sloan Digital Sky Survey objects, highlighting features in their spectra. Credits Mark SubbaRao, Adler Planetarium
Eta Carina Nebula
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A brief tour of the Eta Carina Nebula from the Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys. Credits Curtis Wong, MSR
Center of the Milky Way
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Tour of the radio wavelength view of the inner Galaxy. We start by reviewing all-sky views in various wavelenghts and then zoom into a radio view of Sagittarius A and finally into Sagittarius A*, the location of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic...
Astronomy for Everyone
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A six-minute introduction to Astronomy. This Tour gives a broad overview of many important topics for budding astronomers to explore. Credits Alyssa Goodman, Curtis Wong, Lisa Dettloff, Megan Watzke, Sanjana Sharma