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  • Fakten zum Einschlafen – Das Universum

    Warum sind Sternbilder wie Kassiopeia nur eine perspektivische Täuschung? - Kassiopeia und die wahre Tiefe des W-Musters | Fakten zum Einschlafen - Das Universum

    Wenn wir an einem klaren Herbstabend nach oben schauen, erkennen wir es sofort: das markante W der Kassiopeia, das unaufhörlich um den Polarstern kreist. Jahrtausendelang schien völlig klar, dass diese fünf hellen Sterne eine feste, verbundene Struktur am Himmel bilden. Doch das Muster trügt. Die scheinbare Kompaktheit des W verbirgt eine gewaltige Raumtiefe von über fünfhundert Lichtjahren. Diese Episode verfolgt, wie sich unser Verständnis des vertrauten W-Musters von einer flachen Himmelskugel zu einer dreidimensionalen Sternkarte gewandelt hat. Wir betrachten die historischen Beobachtungen von Ptolemäus bis Tycho Brahe, die bahnbrechende Parallaxenmessung durch Friedrich Bessel im 19. Jahrhundert und die präzisen modernen Satellitenmissionen Hipparcos und Gaia. Die Daten offenbaren, dass die fünf Hauptsterne völlig unterschiedliche Entfernungen, Massen und Entwicklungszustände aufweisen. Sie sind nicht gravitativ aneinander gebunden, sondern erscheinen nur von unserem speziellen Standpunkt in der Galaxie aus als zusammenhängendes Symbol. Bei der Arbeit an dieser Episode kehrte ich immer wieder zu einer faszinierenden Erkenntnis zurück: Die Astronomie nimmt uns nichts von der Schönheit des Himmels, sondern erweitert unseren Blick. Das W der Kassiopeia ist nach wie vor eine zuverlässige Orientierungshilfe für die Navigation. Zu wissen, dass es sich um einen zufälligen Projektionseffekt handelt, macht das vertraute Muster nicht weniger wirklich, sondern klärt, was für ein Merkmal es am Nachthimmel tatsächlich ist.

    Today · 32 min
  • Cool Worlds

    The Great American Eclipse 2017

    Get ready! On August 21st 2017, Americans will be treated to a rare total Solar eclipse. From coast to coast, everyone in the US should be able to see at least a partial eclipse and be within a day's drive of catching the total eclipse. Here's a quick rundown of what to expect, where to go and how to plan your trip. ::More about this Video:: ► The web app you can use to plan your trip (as shown in the video) is available at www.GreatAmericanEclipse.com ► NASA's page on the upcoming eclipse: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html ► Where to buy your glasses from: https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/store/ and http://www.eclipse2017.org/glasses_order.htm ► Outro music by Taylor Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl9kI1yQKZk ::Playlists For Channel:: Latest Cool Worlds Videos ► http://bit.ly/NewCoolWorlds Cool Worlds Research ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsResearch Guest Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsGuests Q&A Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsQA Science of TV/Film ► http://bit.ly/ScienceMovies ::Follow us:: SUBSCRIBE to the channel http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsSubscribe Cool Worlds Lab http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu Twitter https://twitter.com/david_kipping Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cool.worlds THANKS FOR WATCHING!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Today · 5 min
  • Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

    Kyle Orton: Muslims before Islam

    Today Razib talks to Kyle Orton. Orton is a freelance researcher, writer, and editor specializing in security and foreign policy, with a particular focus on the Middle East, the Syrian war, regional geopolitics, and terrorist movements including the Islamic State (ISIS), Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). His work also ranges widely across history, including early Christianity, Islam and its relationship with the West, intelligence and espionage, the Reformation, the English Civil War, Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, the First World War, Communism and the Cold War, and pre-Revolutionary Iran. Orton writes the newsletter It Can Always Get Worse, where he covers contemporary security issues alongside history, religion, intelligence, books, and occasional film reviews. His writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, UnHerd, Newsweek, The Independent, The New Arab, and International Business Times. Orton and Razib's conversation begins with his post, The Sojourn of Arculf: An Eyewitness to "Early Islamic" Jerusalem - A Frankish bishop sheds some light on a historical dark age. Their discussion continues with probing the possibility that Islam as we know it truly did not exist any recognizable form before the 690s AD, and that the early "Saracens" as their Christian enemies referred to them were in fact a schismatic group of monotheists whose beliefs were adjacent to that of the Jews. Orton also discusses the role of Muhammad, or rather, the lack of the role of Muhammad, in the early years of the Islamic Caliphate. They also explore the possibility that later commentators largely attributed the negative reputation of Islam's first dynastic Caliphate, the Umayyads, to the reality that they would not recognize them as Muslims. Finally, Orton talks about the reality that some of the layers of text within the Koran seem far older than the time of Muhammad, perhaps by a century or so.

    Today · 51 min
  • Cool Worlds

    A Real Tractor Beam

    NYU Professor of Physics, David Grier, dropped in to tell us about his team's amazing work building the world's first real life tractor beam. Just like Star Trek, he explains how their light beam pulls things toward it, how it works and how it could soon be used by NASA. ::More about this Video:: ► Prof David Grier's homepage: http://physics.nyu.edu/grierlab/ ► "Building Star Trek", Smithsonian Channel: http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/building-star-trek/0/3436402 ► Outro music by Taylor Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl9kI1yQKZk ::Playlists For Channel:: Latest Cool Worlds Videos ► http://bit.ly/NewCoolWorlds Cool Worlds Research ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsResearch Guest Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsGuests Q&A Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsQA Science of TV/Film ► http://bit.ly/ScienceMovies ::Follow us:: SUBSCRIBE to the channel http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsSubscribe Cool Worlds Lab http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu Twitter https://twitter.com/david_kipping Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cool.worlds THANKS FOR WATCHING!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Today · 7 min

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